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Number three today. Heres what i know about my bff Jacki Schechner. Shes always perfect in every way. Melissa fitzgerald and jacki and i have a thing. You send me ambien texts. It is a thing. Melissas are all misspelled. Jacki sent one yesterday spelled with perfect grammar. What does it take to get you to loosen up, Jacki Schechner . I think youve seen me loosen up from time to time. I think jim and chris have seen it too. Oh, yeah, youre fun when youre loosened up. Stephanie lets just go with fun [ laughter ] here she is. Perfectly compose and coifed, Jacki Schechner. Time magazine has named president obama its person of the year. Time points out the president has weathered four of the most challenging years in our nations history and he still has the opportunity to leave office in four years with an enviable legacy. Also in consideration for that honor were molalla the teenage girl who spoke out against the taliban in pakistan. Apple ceo tim cook. Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi and gee natty who coordinates one of the worlds biggest science experiments the search for the particle. Also Time Magazines particle of the year. We first mentioned this yesterday. Today president obama is officially announcing the administrations coordinated effort to put forth new policies in the wake of fridays tragedy at sandy hook Elementary School. Vice President Biden is going to be in charge. At the same time, the Administration Says it is now fully supportive of senator Dianne Feinsteins plans to sponsor legislation that would ban certain assault weapons and is also open to getting behind policies that would limit highcapacity magazines and also close gun show loopholes. Meanwhile, the National Rifle association which has been silent since friday says it is going to hold a Major Press Conference this coming friday. It released its first statement yesterday saying that it was shocked, sadden and heartbroken by the murders in newtown and says it has been laying low out of respect for the families. And as a matter of common decency. The gun lobby is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to make sure this kind of tragedy doesnt happen again. We dont know yet what that means. Were back with more steph after the break. Stay with us. Jennifer its these talking points that the right have about the heavy hand of government. I want to have that conversation. Really you know, id like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. [ singing Christmas Carols in background ] aunt sallys singing again. Its a tradition honey. [ singing Christmas Carols ] mmmm. [ female announcer ] make new traditions with pillsbury grands cinnamon rolls. [ female announcer ] holiday cookies are a big job. Everything has to be just right. Perfection is in the details. Get to holiday fun faster with pillsbury cookie dough. She gets the comedians laughing. Thats hilarious . And the thinkers thinking. Okay, so theres wiggleroom in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me. Shes joy behar. And current will let me say anything. Only on current tv. [ theme music ] announcer ladies and gentlemen, its the Stephanie Miller show. [ theme music ] im walkin on sunshine im walkin on sunshine and its time to feel good hey, all right now and its time to feel good uhoh. Stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. Chris gets automatically nervous when i come in and say im in a foul mood. Six minutes after the hour. For once, no. Do i need to prepare a statement . Stephanie you might want to. Six minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number. Stephaniemiller. Com the web site. You can email us all there executive producer chris lavoie, voice deity jim ward. Jim had too much liquor on tuesday night. What else do you do on a tuesday night . Stephanie i should have switched to brown liquor last night. It sounds awful. Stephanie it is in my world. Sexy liberal hal sparks in hour number three. Yesterday i came in and said i hate everyone except you two. And your new puppy. Stephanie thats why i hate everyone even more today. Okay. I was saying this is the third time i live right next to a big park and i hike there every day with my dogs. People tend to dump their dogs there. Third one ive had to rescue from the park. You know when they dont have the collar. You can see his ribs. He wasnt fixed. You knew somebody had dumped him. So i rescued him. Two days ago. Right. Stephanie he followed max and fred and i on the hike. I brought him home. I told the story. Handsome romantic. Snuggled with him. I went to work yesterday morning. Right. I live in a big enclosed, gated with max and fred. I bought him a collar like my dogs have. I bought little baby hot dogs so baby hot dogs to gain a little weight back on. I came home and he was gone. Pool guy left the gate open. So i went to the park three times looking for him. Hes gone. Jesus. Stephanie i know. Im sorry. Stephanie fired him. Hes fired anyway so left the gate open . Just wide open . Stephanie when he was there working. Max and fred are still there. Stephanie yes. Anyway, so yeah, then i went on the shelter near me, you go to the web site to see if anyone has turned in it is immersing yourself in a Sara Mclaughlin commercial. By christmas ill empty the shelves. Ill take them all. You cant look online. It is horrible. All right. So thats why im in a foul mood and you had nothing to do with it for once in your life. [ applause ] my job is still safe. [ laughter ] unless i leave your gate open. Stephanie you remember the clintons dog got killed because the repairman left the gate open. Oh anyway i keep now im like hallucinating. I thought i saw him this morning. I go running out. Okay. Im losing it. Oh. Im sorry. He might come back. Stephanie there are a lot of coyotes that live in the park. If he got some love from you you know, i think hell remember that. Stephanie in the meantime for some reason, coincidentally, two different friends send pictures of great pyrenees that need a home. Literally, it will be like whoever house sits, for me over christmas will be i thought you had two dogs. What happened . Theres like 17 now what happened . Theres a woman trying to another kitten on us. Stephanie how many do you have . We have four. We did have five. Stephanie oh, boy. Right before christmas. All right. So all right we have a lot to get to. Annie borowitz tweet the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one. Thank you [ applause ] the nra poked their little head out. They were shocked. Stephanie who could ever have seen this coming except everyone . Yeah they although i dont know. You have to hope this is hopeful. Joe manchin the senator yesterday i hope that they will have a place at the table. Who knows whether this means anything given their history. But they said they promised to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again. Well see. Stephanie well have a News Conference on friday. To answer questions. All right. That being said, our sexy liberal cause for the washington, d. C. Show, the 19th is the brady center because again, i was looking at the numbers of how the degree to which theyre outspent by the nra. And thats what usually drives the debate in washington, right . This is good news. The president [ world news tonight ] is actively supportive of the assault weapons ban. I was saying this yesterday, a lot of people are using the terms Tipping Point and i really hope so. Actually, that should be a minimum. That should be a minimum. The assault weapons ban. You know. Youve got to get to all of it, dont you . The gun show loophole, the magazines. Anyway, all right. So i think at a bare minimum the assault weapons ban. Even the New York Post, did you see that . Up Rupert Murdochs New York Post. Stephanie whats going on . There is a disconnect between murdoch and fox news. Even though oreilly said we may need to look at some sensible gun control. Stephanie maybe. Hannity didnt think so but oreilly did. Stephanie yeah. This is a question weve been asking. The New York Post says has technology rendered the Second Amendment to the u. S. Constitution obsolete . In the wake of the new shooting to reform gun laws. The application of modern laws. The post offered an answer, yes. Weapons designed expressly to kill human beings and modified wink wing to meet the federal machine gun ban have no legitimate place in american society. Echoing Rupert Murdoch. They said time to get rid of them. After the shooting, murdoch tweeted when will politicians find the courage to ban automatic weapons. Again, seems like thank god is there really a minimum a place that were starting at least . And again like whats to dispense with the arguments . No, youre not. Make it easier. We can move toward it. Does anybody not agree that mentally ill people should not have assault weapons like that combination . I was looking, you know, yesterday, when you were looking at coverage, you look at the picture of Jared Loughner or the redhaired guy and the latest, youre like really . Does anyone think that guy looks responsible. Sure have another gun stephanie on the other side, the more guns everybody was talking about this story yesterday and you go is this sixth grader brings a gun to school. Says parents told him to carry it for protection. After newtown shooting, things that you think you know, there were some of those pictures like with kids with automatic weapons as like not a joke but is this where were going. Youve seen those not cartoons but and im going and this is and now its coming true . Really . Hes 11. A sixth grader in utah told classmates his parents encouraged him to bring a gun to school in wake of the sandy hook tragedy. His teachers apprehended him. He was found with a 22 caliber gun. He took it out of his backpack to show classmates. Isabel a fellow student said he pointed the gun at her head and said he was going to kill her. Wow. Stephanie you know, thats the thing i believe that children are the future stephanie am i just so on one side of the spectrum or arent there reasonable people. Im looking at whether it is tennessee or rick perry this more guns lobby im going do you really practically think this is a good idea . [ world news tonight ] tennessee considers training an army of schoolteachers to protect against shootings. Thats not what their job is for stephanie it is almost like the federal air marshal thing, this idea. Tennessee has emerged as the center of the answer is more guns in schools. A member of the republican theres a shock. Republicancontrolled Legislature Plans to introduce a bill that would allow the state to pay for secret amid all of the cutbacks for everything. This is taxpayer money. To pay for secretlyarmed teachers in classrooms so potential shooters wont know who has a gun and who doesnt. Shoot them all then. Great. Teachers are hired to teach. Theyre not hired to be marksmen. Stephanie this guy, the republican he echoed this thing, ive heard everywhere, you know in the rightwing world this week. Look at it this way. You never see one of the wacko shooters go to a gun show and start shooting. They dont go to a Police Station and start shooting. They go to places we advertise as gunfree. I have two words for you. Fort hood. Wouldnt be anyone there with weapons training . I believe there was an entire armory there. Stephanie yeah. Asked if the guns for the trained teachers would be part of taxpayer expense, he laughed. He said well, thats a minor detail in tennessee. We hope the teachers would have them already. We dont go into the details. Details shmetails. We should let tennessee secede. See if the germans have any bricks left from the berlin wall. Stephanie oh, jim [ buzzer ] theyve all been turned into souvenirs. Concrete that claims to have been part of the wall. Stephanie governor oops from texas. Encouraging more guns. [ world news tonight ] let teaches carry concealed weapons. Rick perry tells a tea party meeting. He is for allowing teachers and administrators to carry concealed handguns. And the nurses should so they can fix them up after the shooting. Stephanie local School Districts should decide their own policy but if somebody has a concealed carry license, you should be able to carry a gun anywhere. Perry says he believed lawmakers should consider Mental Health issues as ways to make schools safer. He repeated his opposition to establishing Health Insurance exchange. Hes not going to help in any way. No. Were not going to pay them. Stephanie overhealthcare backed by president obama. Hes not going to, of course, literally, we ought to look into whats going on with this Mental Health situation. Oh pay somebody. Stephanie im not doing that oops god stephanie i cant remember two of the three brain cells i have left, what theyre called never mind. Oops. This stuff drives me insane sometimes. I forget, oops. Stephanie so theres that. All right. Wow. Thats a lot to open with. 17 minutes after the hour. We roll along on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer sweet lady gaga, that is good. Announcer its the Stephanie Miller show. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ music ] announcer Stephanie Miller. Were going to rock down to Stephanie Miller avenue and then well take it higher we have to rock down to Stephanie Miller and then well take it higher oi Stephanie Best of christmas being canceled. Times are tough right now. 22 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. You know one thing that makes me happy. John yarmuth of the great state of kentucky. I love him. Hes one of our personal favorites. He said i just, you know, god bless him. [ world news tonight ] he said he wouldnt regret losing his seat over tighter regulations on guns and invited the nra to spend money to oppose his reelection. Thats the kind of courage we need. He told the washington post, the power of the nra was greatly overstated. He asked the gun lobby to please spend money to oppose him because it would be wasted. Guns are more likely to be used to harm the innocent than protect them. I was reading all of the statistics. Melissa fitzgerald was here yesterday. You keep going online whether it is the brady center or wherever. I cant remember the incidents of when a gun is used to protect or stop this is like nil compared to the times people have been accidentally or purposely killed. He said i think it was the Tipping Point and it was the last straw. After aurora, columbine after all of the incidents you say okay, we have to keep up the drumbeat because it is when the drumbeat stops that we lose our opportunity to make changes. Chase in the chat room has a good point. Dems can and should run against them now. Great point. Stephanie i saw a lot of people you know, had been protesting and all of that. And the nra thats why theyre scared. They know this is you know, i think one of the moms was saying these are babies now. Now it is choosing between guns or kids, you know. Somebody tweeted repatriot act passed 54 days. Senate needs to move now. The whole nation. We cant do it. They wont really pass it. We cant do it this time. I think we can. Melissa says it is on us now. Call write your congress penn. Lets go to carol in pennsylvania. Caller hi, how are you . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller congress is only going to answer to the special interest people such as the Koch Brothers who have done nothing and will continue to do nothing but evil. And this shooting will probably go unanswered. I dont know what we can do about the Koch Brothers but somebody has to stop them and i dont know who that might be because stephanie carol, this is becoming less and less partisan if you listen to the Joe Scarboroughs and the people on both sides at this point saying weve got to have again it is reasonable gun laws. Thats all were talking about. Jay carney yesterday at the white house. Hes actively supportive of, for example senator feinsteins stated intent to revive a piece of legislation that would reinstate the assault weapons ban. Stephanie see. Becoming more and more my Favorite Movie the american president. Im sending the assault weapons ban to the floor. Watch the movie okay. Then he also talked about the loophole. He supports and would support legislation that addresses the problem of the socalled gun show loophole. And there are other elements of gun law legislation Gun Legislation that he could support. Stephanie james in pennsylvania. Hi james. Caller hi, stephanie. Stephanie hi. Caller im calling just about im getting fed up about how sick this country is. This country you get people like glenn beck on tv. Now theyre going to lay low for awhile and then theyll start talking. But this country is sick. It is sick to be able to allow this thing to go on forever and ever. Stephanie you know james it is interesting and again im not trying to pass a finger this way or that way weve talked about the mom here. A lot of the stuff she believed in is stuff glenn beck talks about. Sometimes there is a price to be paid for selling fear and paranoia. You have to stockpile weapons because the end is coming and all of that stuff right . Caller dont you think she was a little sick like im trying to say. I know shes a victim, too. Stephanie yes, she is. By the way chris did you hear this . I heard somewhere yesterday on the radio about she was going to have him committed or he found that out or that may have been part of the motive. I didnt hear that. Stephanie i dont know if it is true. There gets to be a lot of speculation. She also seemed, again like someone that was not a bad person. She was overwhelmed. I dont know if thats true. Ill look it up during the break. Stephanie who knows. But shes not here to defend herself. Stephanie there was a story we did yesterday about her telling people actively, im losing him. Hes getting worse. Hes trying to burn himself. She was an overwhelmed mother, thats for sure. Stephanie lets go to lauren in new jersey. Hi lauren, welcome. Hello, lauren. Caller hi, steph, how are you . Im sorry about your bad day. Stephanie its all right. Go ahead. Caller im from new jersey and my husband is a policeman so we obviously have guns in our home. Weve had guns in our home for 25 years. New jersey and new york citys gun laws are some of the strictest in the country. I actually wrote congress and senate and governor christie and the president with the assault ban the assault weapon ban coming up and i said that if it is going to go federal, we should incorporate a lot of the laws that new jersey and new york city has. I was watching your show a couple of days ago and you had said when you want to adopt a puppy, they have to come and inspect your home. They should be allowed to come and inspect your home. If you have guns, your police chief should know it and be able to knock on your door on a tuesday afternoon and say maam i would like to check and see what you have in your home. If theyre not locked up, you should be fined. Stephanie lauren, you raise a good point. Thats why bloomberg makes good sense there. Is cause and effect. There is a reason there is less gun violence in a huge city like new york city. Right . Caller exactly. Stephanie you cant say oh, you cant ever stop it. Yes, it does matter there is direct cause and effect. Lining weve been saying. Like weve been saying. Assault with assault weapons tripled when the ironically named assault weapons ban expired. It does help there is something we can do. We cant throw up our arms and say theres nothing we can do. 29 minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Every day presents another exciting issue. From financial regulation, iran getting a nuclear bomb, civil war in syria, fraud on wall street, destruction of medicare and medicaid. There are real issues here. Having been a governor, i know that tradeoffs are tough. Things everyday exploding around the world that leave no shortage for exciting conversations. I want our viewer to understand why things have happened. At the end of the show, you know what has happened, why its happened and more importantly, whats going to happen tomorrow. [ music ] announcer Stephanie Miller. Relax. This is just temporary. Like lesbianism at womens announcer Stephanie Miller. Now you come to elf practice and learn how to wiggle your ears and go hee hee and ho ho and important stuff like that. Stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. 34 minutes after the hour. We were talking about the price of selling paranoia and fear and end of the world. Is the world ending friday . Whats happening . It is the mayan calendar right . I hope not. I have an Ugly Sweater Party to go to. Ive got a band performance to do on friday night. Stephanie that would suck. You know why . Because we didnt take vacation until next week. Were going to work until the end of the world . Ill bet randi rhodes got a tipoff because she took this week off too. [ dramatic ] she has her own personal mayan calendar. Did the guy next door. [ dramatic ] we didnt think this thing through, did we . Stephanie sucks to be us. Lets go to david in milwaukee. Welcome. Caller hello. Stephanie hi, go ahead. Caller hi, ive got a great idea how the Stephanie Miller show could make a difference in this terrible situation we have. We all lose sight that the carnage hasnt stopped stephanie. Since sandy hook, over 150 people have died but no one is aware of that. Stephanie no. 80 people a day are killed by guns. Caller if you had, on the wall of your studio, a digital counter just like the republicans want to show how the debt goes up, if you had a digital counter that said gun deaths since sandy hook. You would get National Exposure and this would be a constant reminder to people. I mean here in milwaukee we have the oak creek slaying three months ago. Where six or seven people were killed. But what people dont realize, a month later, we had a shooting in a salon in brookfield, wisconsin where women were just having their hair done and three women were killed. Stephanie that happened out here, as well. David, you make a really good point that what kind of country do we live in where unless its 26yearold where unless its 20 6yearolds shot at pointblank range i think the most important thing you could do would be to have a visual reminder on the wall showing the number of people that are dying since sandy hook. Stephanie were on a budget. It might need to be with crayon. Caller estimate it too. Stephanie david, it is a great idea. Im giving. 100 pro flowers gift code. Caller how do i get it . Stephanie youll hang on and give your info to travis. Caller i was raised, actually in burbank california. Stephanie well Merry Christmas from burbank. Caller that was in the 50s. Stephanie Merry Christmas honey. It has changed a little since then. Stephanie for the perfect holiday gift, go to proflowers. Com and type in stephanie. Obviously like this story was so horrible in so many ways but david brings up a good point. [ world news tonight ] yesterday, colorado man it is just an everyday occurrence now. Colorado man had just been released from jail on Domestic Violence charges and killed three people including his exgirlfriend who was on the phone with 911 when she was shot. Can you imagine the person on the other end of the 911. Then he shot and killed himself. Victims includinged the exgirlfriends sister and her husband. She reported shots fired. They heard her cry no, no, no followed by a gunshot then a guy takes the phone and tells the dispatcher i just killed three people. Dispatcher hears a single shot followed by violence. Murder suicide, do the suicide part first please. Take yourself out. Do us all a favor. Stephanie nancy pelosi yesterday. How does it happen because a person with impaired judgment had access to firepower that should be outlawed. Theres no reason why these assault magazines and thats what they are. Weve got to call them what they are. Assault magazines. You arent even allowed to have that on a hunting gun in california anyway. Stephanie you know, a lot of when you listen to this weve done all of the statistics all week. Sheer size of the carnage in this country. I heard one of the gun guys, i dont know which one it is anymore. I think it was on cnn. These scenarios the hypotheticals, you need assault weapons because what if, you know, youre attacked by more than one person and you cant its like really . You watch too many movies, first of all. Some listener said stop talking about shooting down the b52 with your gun because when they come for you, theyre going to come on land. Oh, come on, really . Yeah. Stephanie all right. Rocky believe in the hip okay lipt cal fantasy land. Stephanie rocky in new jersey. Hi rocky. Caller hi, guys, number one fan out here in new jersey. Im one of your retired teachers. We had talked before. You dont want me to shoot a gun. You really dont. Im in there. Im there to teach kids. And you know what . If i heard one more time about a kid finding a gun and shooting himself, you know how many weve had in our school from that . People ought to show them the pictures. This is what youre supporting. Show them the poor babies with bulletridden bodies. You know why the gun was not illegal . Because it didnt have a grenade launcher. Stephanie yeah. Are we out of our minds . Are we losing our minds here . Stephanie rocky i have to say, it particularly galls me after all of the teachers i talked to and all of this Union Bashing and cutbacks and teacher bashing that the republicans have done in state after state and you know, they want cutbacks and they want this and they want that. Really . They want you to be they want to pay a taxpayer money to arm you and train you . It is incredible. Were not trying to say they dont i put myself in the way of a knife. I put myself between thats what we do. Were not i think everyone would do it to save kids. Were there. You put your kids in our charge and well do anything to keep them safe and protect them. God bless those teachers up there. I mean you dont really know the lengths that we would go to protect your children and think about that the next time you have to approve a budget. Stephanie thank you. Thanks rocky. Yeah. Oh boy. Yeah. It is like i was saying over the weekend, you just like somehow you cant watch it you cant stop watching even though did you see this . There are all of these memorials funerals. Stephanie a little boy wrote a letter. To his best friend that he lost. There are pictures of the two of them together. John lost his best pal jack pinto in last weeks shooting. Usa today. They photographed the note and it just says jack, you are my best friend. We had fun together. I will talk to you in my prayers. I love you jack. Love john. He was the new york giants fan that was laid to rest, number 80 jersey. His favorite player. You know, thats whats going on all this week. Funerals of 6yearolds, you know. Six more today. Stephanie are there . Uhoh. I made you cry. Sorry. Normally i keep it to myself. Sorry. I cant i dont cry too easily. You did it this time. Stephanie you knew not to make eye contact when i said i lost my puppy yesterday. Lets go to larry in minneapolis. Youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi larry. Caller hi, how are you . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller this weekend, i went to get my conceal and carry commit just out of morbid curiosity. Im 22 years military special forces guy. I know everything there is to know go guns and literally the people in the class had no idea which end of the gun to point and now they are certified to carry a weapon anywhere in annapolis. You can carry a handgun but you cant carry a machete you will be arrested for that. Stephanie yeah. Exactly. Oi. Dicks Sporting Goods has said it has removed all guns from its store nearest to newtown connecticut and is banning sale from its chains of semiautomatic weapons. For how long . [ world news tonight ] stephanie good for them but lets exactly, out of respect for the victims and the families last week. It was unclear how long. Bring them back. Stephanie by the way theyre known as modern sporting rifles. Modern sporting. What sport do you use them for . Stephanie i think we know. Yeah. Again, it comes after reports about whether that adam lanza tried to buy a gun from dicks. You know. Thats exactly right. Like whether it is the nra or whoever, how long . Is this just going to be something they Pay Lip Service because they have to look indecent and then they dont actually or are they going to work up to their name. I think most republicans are willing to have a serious conversation about what this means and theyre taking a second look at what the Second Amendment means in the 21st century. Stephanie well good. Exactly. What the New York Post was saying as i read earlier. The nra finally did a radio statement. From all of us here at nra news. Com, our hearts go out to the people of newtown connecticut. And the folks who are grieving tonight after the horrendous murders at the sandy hook elementary. Stephanie okay. So they will hold a press Conference Friday to see if there is anything that will back that up. Theyre doing it on friday when nobodys watching the news. It is a friday afternoon. Stephanie andrew in california. Hi andrew. Caller how are you doing . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller actually, i have comments on two of the things you had mentioned earlier. First one, in texas they want to let people carry guns into classrooms. I think thats what you were saying earlier. Stephanie rick perry yes supports having teachers have guns yeah. Caller texas is great because theyll let you carry guns into amusement parks and into churches and now theyre going to add schools to that list. The one place they dont let you carry guns into is when the state assembly is meeting. Nobody in the gallery can have a gun. Or if you go tour the governors mansion, you cant have a gun with you. Kind of ironic, i think. You know what though . Amusement parks that is ultimately private property. How can the government tell the owner of that private property what patrons can and cant bring on to their property . I dont get that. Caller yeah. Exactly. The other point i wanted to make is you know, between Elementary School, high school, college four years in graduate school, in 20 years of education of going to school, i have never had one single teacher i would have felt comfortable with knowing if i had a gun. Stephanie im going back over my high schoolteachers. Second grade teacher miss french no, i would not want her carrying a gun. Mr. Fobb, he was a head case. He was talking about a jet flew overhead. Noise pollution. Went right on back to talking about it. Stephanie oh boy. Great, a teacher with an overstartled response. Nice. I think dr. Hunsaker might have been packing heat every day. I think she was. Is that who you are . Stephanie im picturing mrs. Thornton who had glasses the thickest and her eyes were looking different ways. Little googly eyed. Stephanie you couldnt tell who she was looking at in class. That might have been a little disturbing. Yeah. Ooh. Then there was the one priest with the really bad anger management problem. Now that im looking back, oh, boy. 46 minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer its like a mensa meeting with fart jokes. Its the Stephanie Miller show. [ boy 1 ] hey thats the last crescent. Oh, did you want it . Yea well split it. [ female announcer ] made fresh, so light buttery and flakey. Thats half thats not half guys, i have more thanks mom [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents. Let the making begin the saying easy as pie . I get it now. Just unroll it fill, top, bake, and present. That must have taken you forever it was really tough. [ female announcer ] pillsbury pie crust. Let the making begin vo youve heard stephanies views, no bs, authentic, the real thing. vo now lets hear yours. Direct line to Stephanie Miller. Current. Com stephaniemiller the only thing that can save america now, current television. [ music ] im riding in your car you turn on Stephanie Miller. I say i dont like Stephanie Miller. Because you know im a liar fire stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 51 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Paul hi, marlene. Caller hi. Greetings from liberal portland. Yes, ive been a teacher for 25 years. 11 years at a high school. This is the home of the Clackamas Mall shooting. And just afterwards, there were two gun incidents where i teach across the river in vancouver washington with students bringing guns to school and another one with a threat. And i have never ever been afraid of my students. And my students are so afraid right now. The last two days, this is the first day of my vacation. The last two days, they have been afraid. Some of them have stayed home. And i dont want a gun. Im sorry. Teachers should not be armed. Absolutely correct. This is the stupidest idea i have ever heard. I have faith in young people when they passed gay marriage and the Marijuana Legalization in washington states. My students were so proud. They were like look what we did. Were young people. Theyre 18. Theyre out. 16yearolds of mine were out working for obama. I have so much faith in young people and it just makes me sick that this is happening in our schools. Stephanie i know. Caller republicans cant figure out hello we dont need guns. We need fewer people in the classroom. We need Mental Health professionals. We have a nurse in our school three days instead of five. Psychologists that are in two or three days instead of five. We need support we need help stephanie absolutely. By the way chris you said you did confirm that there is a report that he keep forgetting his name which is good. Lanza had become aware that his mom was going to have him committed. Because you know, she knew it was getting worse. The whole thing is just tragic. By the way speaking of [ world news tonight ] she was just talking about marriage equality. Our good friend, mr. Todd akin, mr. Legitimate rape. Guess what hes working on before he goes. Hes the one that said this thing about legitimate rape, a woman has a way to women in missouri had a way to shut down that whole electoral process to put you in office. [ applause ] he has one last task before leaving the house to try to undercut dont ask dont tell. In may, the house approved a version of the National Defense authorization act that includes religious conscience clause by akin. Under akins proposal, a Service Member could cite his or her religious believes on homosexual for refusing to serve alongside gay colleagues or treating them differently. A Service Member could object to being housed in the same facility as someone who is gay. Akin says it is necessary to prevent Service Members from being persecuted for their views. Okay. Stephanie language could allow the persecution of Service Members on the basis of their sexual orientation. It carves out a set of special rights for those who who want to discriminate. Did he cite one example of any christians being persecuted . Stephanie no. It might take the gay out of them. Stephanie the white house released a statement noting akins provision and another measure banning the use of a ceremony for same sex unions could be harmful. Breathing gay air makes you guy. Stephanie the two main republican negotiators are behind want akins conscience clause to remain in the bill, john mccain and ann mckeon. John mccain who still thinks it is not the policy. It is not the policy. John mccain is very, very old his generation wont be around much longer. Stephanie both the Defense Department and outside studies have found little evidence that any dont ask dont tell has had any negative response at all it turns out it is the republicans in congress are the real threat. How is that not going to undermine unit cohesion if you give people the right to say im not going to serve dont ask dont tell. You give certain people the act to be i dont want to serve with or what a ridiculous idea. When is he gone . How much longer do we have . I think january 3rd is when everyone is sworn in. Stephanie tara in california. Caller hi, stephanie. I called about the flowers actually. No. Stephanie too late for you. Caller i have to tell you though, in my personal opinion this is about way more than guns at this point. This is about do nothing congress. This is about people selling fear and paranoia and wanting to turn us all into chicken littles. And giving us the impression that we cant do something about this. We can. Im a 60yearold aging hippie. We did it before and we can do it again. I love the woman who talked about her students in class. I do have a lot of faith in the young people. Because they do understand that we do have a role here. This is not a spectator sport. Our government is our responsibility. And when we, the people, stand up, were going to get some action. But we have to quit standing around and kowtowing to the special interest people. The Koch Brothers are absolutely evil and horrible and we have to do something about them and the whole do nothing congress. Todd akin first. Stephanie exactly. Thats what i said. Do something. Call your senator your congressperson. Dave in phoenix. Hi dave. Caller hi. Stephanie hi, go ahead. Caller you know, i hate to be first time caller. Please be gentle. Stephanie all right. Caller you guys catch the piers morgan interview . I saw a clip of it. Stephanie with who . Gun owners of america guy. Caller frankly this guy scares the bejesus out of me more than the nra. At the end of the interview piers morgan called him crazy nuts. He called piers morgan chamberlain. He was like trying to say that oh, if you take away the ar15s, the south koreans who something about the l. A. Riots. This isnt red dawn. We arent going to take out the chinese. Communists in helicopters. Come on. Stephanie 58 minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Stephanie thank you. We collided. Stephanie okay. Forgot to turn my microphone on. Hello. This close to vacation. Okay. Jacki schechner. Yes . Stephanie in the current news center. What are you hearing about the fiscal cliff . I cant keep track. [ world news tonight ] it seems like boehner has a plan b now which is not even a feasible plan. It is sort of strange theyre calling it plan b considering how much they hate contraception. Stephanie right, i know it. Hes offered up a plan now just in case he and the president cant come to a deal which would allow tax cuts to expire for people making more than a Million Dollars a year. Thats the latest. But it doesnt mean hes not negotiating with the president anymore. It is just his alternative to coming to a deal because he doesnt want to look bad if the tax cuts expire for everyone. Republicans will get blamed if that happens. Stephanie thank you for that waste of everybodys time, boehner. Here she is in the current news center, Jacki Schechner. Good morning, everyone. An independent panel researching what happened in benghazi on september 11th is out with its report. And its findings lay heavy blame on the state department. It cites systemic failures and deficiencies in leadership and management. The report calls benghazi security efforts grossly inadequate. No one person is singled out in a report for having ignored or violated his or her responsibilities. But before it does hone in on chastising two departments within the state department, that would be the bureau of Diplomatic Security and the bureau of affairs. They lacked coordination and communication to protect our mission in benghazi. The report didnt find out anything new about the attack itself. We did find out that there was no protest that sparked the ambush as we know. This was all of the work of terrorists. The report makes 29 recommendations and secretary of state clinton says she will accept them all. She says there are already some recommendations in the plan. Theyve started implementing those. One would be using more marine guards to protect our Diplomatic Missions abroad. Hawaii senator Daniel Inouye who passed away on monday at the age of 88 will lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda tomorrow. It is an honor reserved for a president and Civic Leaders of the highest rank. And also on news this morning that former solicitor general and Controversial Supreme Court nominee robert borke has died. President reagan nominated borke to the Supreme Court back in 1987 but the senate rejected him. He died of heart complications in a virginia hospital this morning. He was 84 years old. Were back with more steph after the break. Stay with us. Kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials . Those type. Those types are coming on to me all the time now. She gets the comedians laughing. That hilarious. And the thinkers thinking. Joy okay so. Theres wiggle room in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me . Shes joy behar. Joy and the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . Only on current tv. Brought to you by geico 15 minutes can save you 15 or more on car insurance. Visit geico dot com for a free rate quote. [ theme music ] announcer ladies and gentlemen, its the Stephanie Miller show. Im walkin on sunshine im walkin on sunshine and its time to feel good hey, all right now and its time to feel good stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. Six minutes after the hour. 1800steph12. Sexy liberal hal sparks joins us next hour. For hump days with hal sparks. By the way tickets really, really, really going fast for january 19th, washington, d. C. , sexy liberal palooza, the brady center cause to prevent gun violence. Trust me, kids, it is getting close. Theres not that many tickets left. I would go. All four sexy liberals, hal sparks me, aisha tyler, john fuglesang, chris and jim opening the show. Do it. Were getting a private white house tour. Were so excited. I cant wait Stephanie Jim once again dont cause a situation in the situation room not many people get to go in there. Thats the place for a situation. Stephanie are we having a situation here . Oh, my god. [ laughter ] stephanie okay. Were two days from vacation. Were running on fumes. Okay. Is that where the situation lives . Stephanie right. Exactly. Is there a snooki room . Stephanie can i be j wow . Lets dive into the rightwing world. [ circus ] here we go on bill oreilly on handguns. It is interesting to see the far left calling for a ban of all handguns. Thats clearly unconstitutional. The answer to that . Well, the constitution is outmoded. Well, yeah. Stephanie thats what the New York Post says. The far left should be pushing that point of view for years. The truth is they dont like the constitution. Because they want the federal government to have far more power than it already has. And they use appalling crimes like newtown to push that agenda. That horrible agenda. Maybe first graders shouldnt be shot to death. Stephanie he didnt get the memo from his boss, Rupert Murdoch about the New York Post editorial about how the Second Amendment needs to be revisited in the wake of assault weapons. Bill, youre fired stephanie who is he talking about that said lets ban owl handguns . Not a Single Person. The far left wants to ban all handguns and hammers because those could be used to kill people, too. There isnt a Single Person that said ban all handguns. Stephanie it is the far left straw men. Some say. It is like no. Nobody has said that. Bernard on oreilly. There should be a reasonable period of time when we simply mourn. Television is our national cathedral. It is where we all go when theres an american tragedy. We go there to grieve together and to witness whats going on together. And there should be no politics. What did bill just do . They start in on their agenda. Oreilly in his talking points memo opened the show politicizing Stephanie Mike huckabee going on fox and blaming the lack of god in the classroom and Victoria Jackson going on fox and blaming abortion. This preacher and that preacher blaming the gays. We shouldnt politicize this thing but the far left, with their lefty leftness. Stephanie right. The left saying gee i wonder if guns had anything to do with this. Maybe we should look at that okay. Guns and Mental Health were in any way involved in this. Okay. See, there i go exploiting again. Mike huckabee, oh, there he is. On friday. Neil cavuto asked me where was god . I said it for 50 years. Weve systemically attempted to have god removed from our schools, our public activities but then the moment we have a calamity we wonder where he was. The predictable left lit up the airwaves with a violent and vicious reaction and jumped to the conclusion that i said if we had prayer in school, the shooting wouldnt have happened. I said nothing of the sort. No, thats what you said. Thats what you said. We played it. [ battle hymn of republic ] stephanie did you see this . A letter to Mike Huckabee. I would like to think it was overwhelming sadness that we systemically remove god interest Public Schools. I would like to think shock was the reason for your misguided remarks. Cynicism leads me to believe you made such statements for political posturing or to keep up with the conservative radio shock jocks. I want to suggest you visit your local Public School before passing such judgment in the future. If you visited a neighborhood Elementary School like sandy hook or any Public School, you would see gods presence in the teaching of jesus christ are well represent by the works of people in those buildings. Now perhaps it isnt seen in the way you want. There arent readings from the bible. The Ten Commandments arent posted in the classroom nor are the pillars of islam but his presence and teaching are demonstrated and felt. You see, mr. Huck berks if you visited the schools you denounce for removing symbols of god, you would see his work takes place every day. [ applause ] teaches diving in front of bullets for their kids, thats not christlike . It is gods will, apparently. Stephanie okay. They were punished for not being godly enough. Stephanie okay. Supreme Court Justice antone scalia. Isnt he supposed to be in court instead of on fox news . This was earlier this year but it has relevance to whats been going on. Yes, there are some limitations that can be imposed. What they are will depend on what the society understood were reasonable limitations. The amendment does not apply to arms that cannot be hand carried. It is to keep and bear so it doesnt apply to canons. I suppose there are handheld rocket launchers that can bring down airplanes that will have to be it will have to be decided. It will have to be decided. Stephanie by sadly you i guess. Were not sure if people can have rocketpropelled launchers. Stephanie if you can bear it, it is not that heavy. Carry a stinger missile, you should have one. I dont like the look of that triple 7 up there. It looks kind of communist cal. How is that relevant to a wellregulated militia . Tell me. Has scalia mentioned that part of the Second Amendment . Stephanie no. Okay. It says unregulated whack jobs. Oh, i see. Stephanie Rush Limbaugh. Why is it that the antigun people never use violence in urban neighborhoods as an example of why we have to get rid of guns . A gun is a gun. People die when one is used. Philadelphia detroit same thing. Oakland, california. Exactly right. Look at the gun violence took place in oakland against the cops and so forth. The antiSecond Amendment crowd never gins up, do they . Stephanie racial something there . Or nothing. Yeah. Stephanie okay. Left is often talked about left has often talked about banning gun violence everywhere. But the blacks stephanie okay. Let me say it again. Blacks stephanie okay. All right. Racial animosity there. All right. Sean hannity on the fiscal cliff. The problem that i and other true conservatives have with boehners plan b is it punishes the very people responsible for creating jobs in the country. Oh, shut up. Speaker is following directly into the president s class warfare trap. Instead of fighting for the principles that handed his party to the majority. He was sent to washington like all republicans to reduce the size of government and cut taxes. Not the opposite. As a result, i think it is time we go back to the drawing board and draft up a conservative solution to the socalled fiscal stephanie because you just won the election. Oh no, you didnt. Obama just gave. Huge gift. Two of them actually. Stephanie all right. [ applause ] im waiting until hal gets here. I need reinforcements. Stop it [ buzzer ] okay. Lets go to okay. Hi sean. Caller hi, stephanie. Caller i was just wondering weve had high schools stephanie yes, sir . Everybody clear. Okay, go ahead. Caller weve had School Resource officers, Police Officers in high schools and junior high schools i guess they call it middle schools somewhere for at least the 20 years since i went to high school. Stephanie right. Caller so i was doing some research and apparently it is the policy most places that they float one resource officer between three to five Elementary Schools. Wouldnt the most effective like immediate thing that we could do be to get a School Resource officer into each of the Elementary Schools . Hes listening to himself. Thats why im talking so slowly. Oh, boy. Because i am listening to the words that i am saying. Stephanie im not with the more guns crowd. Okay. Lets go to where are we . Susan in knoxville tennessee. Hi. Caller hi, stephanie. Stephanie hi. Caller listen, i just want to put this out there. Part of the responsible gun laws includes the responsibility of the gun owners. And i know its not popular and you dont want to talk about the mother but stephanie she didnt choose to just buy a handgun for protection. She chose to buy the most powerful gun out there that would do the most damage in the shortest amount of time. Stephanie right. Caller she chose to take her mentally unstable child out teach him how to use it and she chose to keep the weapon in her home. Stephanie weve talked about this. Caller weve got to be we have to stress the responsibility of the gun owners and to say she well, shes gone and she did everything she could to help him. No she did not stephanie weve talked about that, susan. It was a particularly toxic mix of stuff unfortunately. She was a survivalist. She was preparing for armageddon. She found it. Stephanie 17 minutes after the hour. We continue, more on the fiscal cliff. Hal sparks joins us in just a bit as we continue on the Stephanie Miller show. That happened and we all let it happen. Its the Stephanie Miller show. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. Stephanie miller ive got your number i need to make you mine Stephanie Miller. Dont change your number stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. 22 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12. Dont call the other one. All right. This letter is so great. The open letter from the pta mom to Mike Huckabee. [ battle hymn of republic ] it is incredible to me. Like clockwork it is the left politicizing and exploiting this. There is Mike Huckabee saying it is because we took god out of classrooms. Because we have separation of church and state. Great stuff. She says for many students at Public School, it is their only normalcy. Like educators across the nation, my husband and his staff work daily with Homeless Children broken children, they feet their bodies, characters and minds and souls. They do it for little pay and lousy benefits. They do it despite the disrespect from parents and the public. They do it in the face of disdain from politicos who claim theyre policing taxpayer money. They do it even as theyre called union thugs. Educators are gods workers. No other reason to think a person would endure so much to receive so little. Christlike, really . Is huckabees point god killed those kids because he felt he wasnt being mentioned stuff in school . Is that your point . What exactly stephanie how is that not politicizing a tragedy. I have to read a tiny bit more. By kimberly burkett. Perhaps your efforts would be better spent not trying to bring your particular brand of religion into a classroom but instead supporting Public Schools and the work he does through them. Education budgets have been slashed nationwide. Students learn in overcrowded classrooms with outdated technology. Our teachers are being pushed out of the profession by unrealistic accountability systems and to change classroom into testing factories. Gods work but your concern is reciting scripture in the classroom, really . Mr. Huckabee, why are you and other sanctimonious detractors more concerned that educators dont lead children in prayer . Why are you saddened children arent taught biblical parables instead of the miracles that occur every day. If you dont see god in educators, youre not looking. Schools dont need to preach the gospel to bring god into the classroom. He never left. Good stuff pta moms letter to Mike Huckabee. [ applause ] stephanie lets go to marie in florida. Hi marie. Hey, marie. Caller yes. Stephanie go ahead. Caller steph, theres one thing that youll have to excuse me. Ive been crying for weeks. Stephanie im sorry. Caller the six beautiful teachers that face this young man, im talking slow because im so upset. Had more than the men that we elected to go to washington. They run and hide. They dont have the begin ards to stand up against the Rifle Association and that letter you just read was beautiful. Beautiful. Stephanie marie, thank you. Thank you, honey. I know. Listen everybody i know has been you know crying in bits you just cried this morning. You made me. Stephanie only when i drop something heavy on you have i seen you do that before. By accident, of course, you remember. Of course. Sure. Stephanie lets go to keith in milwaukee. Youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi keith. Caller hi, guys, how is it going . Stephanie good. To start off amongst the grief just want to give you glad tidings of joy. Time magazine named barack obama the man of the year. Stephanie thats right. We reported that earlier. It is a very well placed. Caller indeed. Im look forward to the future. Anyhow republicans always seem to be concerned about business and cost benefit and all of this. Yesterday Time Magazine came out with some figures about the Economic Impact of guns. And one of the things that they mentioned is that the gun industry makes Something Like 6 billion a year in revenue. You know. Kind of some of the blood money in the first place. We look at all of the other associated costs with firearms in this country. I would bet these costs way exceed the revenue brought in by guns. Stephanie yeah well, boy thats an amazing figure what they make on guns. I was saying that again, i probably know the least about guns of anybody. I hate them. There are some things i have heard now like this fingerprint i. D. It is one piece of technology that again i think you should be looking at anything that might help. If it means it has to be the gun owner. It wont fire unless it is your fingerprints or whatever. It seems like gun owners stephanie right. Im just saying that your gun being used against you or someone taking it that shouldnt have one. Lets go to angie in virginia. Hi angie. Caller hi. Sorry. Stephanie thats okay. Caller sorry. Long time caller, first time listener. What i wanted to say is exactly what you were talking about. Since were never going to make a smarter human isnt it time we start thinking about and demanding by law that manufacturers start making smarter guns with the magnetic Ring Technology or biometric safety features on every weapon created. You want it, you register it to you and youre the only one who can ever use it. Stephanie thats what i was saying to me, you look at anything that would help. Would sensible gun laws help . Yes. Would better Mental Health in this country help . Yes. A lot of things would help. Would less violent movies and video games help . Yeah. Jim, you were talking about Discovery Channel canceled american guns. Again, it is nobodys trying to squelch peoples first amendment. It is voluntary. But you know, a lot of people think it glamorizes guns. They made a decision. Lets go to lets see. E. J. In lansing. Hi, e. J. Caller hi, how are you . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller i just wanted to say i listen to your show earlier and you were talking you played the clip with Rush Limbaugh where he says that nobody really pays attention to the media doesnt Pay Attention to gun deaths that occur in places like philadelphia, detroit, atlanta and so on. Urban cities. As much as i dont like the pillsbury doughboy, i would have to agree with him on this. It takes an instance such as something that happened at columbine or the incident that happened the other day in connecticut. Stephanie e. J. , i disagree. Philadelphia 20 6yearolds had been shot and killed, im sure there would be the exact same coverage, dont you think . I think thats just rush trying to gin up some sort of racial element to this. 29 minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer Stephanie Miller. They sit around in their underwear and fornicating in the stairwell. Sounds like fun to me. Stephanie boston was fun. 34 minutes past the hour. The Wilbur Theatre stairwell this is a lot liability first christmas. Except we did get a room. None of us are virgins and instead of the baby jesus, we have a plate of cheeses. Stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 34 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Oh, there are Little Christmas gifts if you look. Are there . Stephanie rick snyders popularity plummets. One of the most unpop lash governors in the country. Only 38 of voters approve. Hes dropped 28 points from the last poll not much the righttowork law and his other actions by the Republican Legislature that are driving the precipitous drop in his popularity. [ applause ] i think buhbye rick snyder and scott walker. It is relevant, jim. This conversation weve heard from a lot of teachers this morning. It is these republican governors that have been doing all of this teacher bashing and union bhashing and cutbacks and you know, now they want them to be navy seals on top of teaching i guess. Taxpayer money for that. Less money and more responsibility. And theyre already buying supplies for their students because the schools dont have the budget for that, i guess. Thanks to people like rick scott. Stephanie we talked about these six teachers, made the ultimate sacrifice for the kids. Okay. Another Silver Lining we were saying. [ world news tonight ] again, we cant get rid of the first amendment. We cant get rid of the Second Amendment. However, there are things that might help. This is voluntary Discovery Channel. American guns canceled. As hollywood wrestles with links to gun violence. Part of what weve been talking about. We all have to put our sacred cows on the table and look at them. Discovery channels popular thats, by the way canceling a hit show . That takes that you dont have to hear about. It is about a family of gunmakers, american guns came under intense scrutiny in the wake of the massacre in connecticut. People who were flooding the shows Facebook Page calling for its cancellation. Melissa was saying yesterday this is on us now. We can do this. Clearly, a lot of republicans other people are having changes of heart on guns in the wake of all of this. People are letting i think i heard that. White house petition has gotten more signatures than anything ever in terms of assault weapons ban. Thats what i heard. Stephanie a lot of people were putting on the Facebook Page it makes buying guns seem glamorous, fun and normal. Another tweeted it is not appropriate showing the Program American guns now. The critics were hurt. It is not currently broadcasting. New episodes will be canceled and will not return for a third season. Jim, again, there are all of these different this one, the firearm coalition, i dont know which one they are. They responded, it doesnt surprise me discovery may be lowering the profile of gun coverage. Nonetheless, this tragedy has as much to do about lawful use of carss has the lawful use of cars have to do with a car bombing. [ scoobydoos huh . ] the cars arent designed to kill people. Thats the sole purpose of the guns is to kill people. Lousy analogy. Stephanie actor jamie foxx told the Associated Press the Entertainment Industry needs to start bearing some responsibility for the violent content it produces. Quentin tarantino doesnt agree. We cannot turn our back and say the violence that does have some sort of influence. It does. And as jim just mentioned director quentin tarantino, of course disagrees. Hes tired of having to defend his movies saying tragedies happen. The tarantino movie, by the way i dont know which the new one is. Djang unchained. Stephanie it was described as so violent, they had to leave the theatre midway through. It is set for release christmas day. They wonder if producer Harvey Weinstein who has called for a movie sum lit look to delay its release. Given the current anyway, i think it is good that at least people are talking about every part of it. Guns Mental Health and this. Audiences are also questioning the upcoming sean penn film, gangster squad. I guess a lot of the ads are violent. They were airing during the nfl games. A lot of people were watching with their kids. Several studies pointed out connection between television and reallife aggression. Again, we had my friend, dr. Wanda on who said there are studies on the violent video games because theyre interactive and anyway, interesting. One executive at lions gate said hollywood is an easy target to point the finger of blame at. No one can say there isnt too much violence but these images you made this point chris. The images are available in virtually every civilized nation in the world yet no country has the death by firearms epidemic that exists in america. Our violent video games are seen everywhere yet you dont see this level of violence in other countries. Thats why, to me, the larger chunk of this is automatic weapons. But you know, i think it is all has something to do with it. Lets go to bob in north carolina. Caller hi, stephanie. How are you . I love you guys so much. I wish i could see you in d. C. My daughter is going to get me the previous cd for christmas. Stephanie oh yeah. Caller listen, im so curious as to why we havent seen the faces of john mccain and Lindsey Graham and their outrage over loss of american lives that he with saw for the last three months. They have been conspicuously an scent from absent from tv. Stephanie you mean the connecticut tragedy . Yes. Theyve not said a word about these 26 wonderful people that lost their lives. Stephanie meet the press said they asked 31 pro gun legislators to appear and no one would come on. Theyre all hiding. For huckabee and the other gentleman you spoke of that said if god was a gentleman every profile of the kids and their families had any say about they were all very active in their churches. They did have god in their lives and i cant understand why they think their excuse from his protection just because they were in school that day. Stephanie absolutely. Good point. Lets go to scott in pasadena. Caller hi, there. A quick question for you that why is it that gun owners arent willing to consider this a second. You have to get a drivers license and take a test. You have to stephanie cant be drunk. You have to wear a seat belt. You cant use an assault weapon. Why is it that the gun this is a compromise. I would really rather there not be any or at least you know, but politics is the art of compromise. Why cant we talk to them and say listen, register just registering a gun because i think if everything was registered the bullets are then traceable. Youve got think of it as and an albetween cars and guns. If everyone has to pass a test to even own one, let alone to shoot one wouldnt that obviously make it a lot more difficult for the average person just to go you just cant go and walk in and buy one. Stephanie scott, i was saying it is interesting, a lot of the analogies that were made. We were talking about anyone thats in the dog rescue area like i am. I mean it is amazing what you have to go through to rescue a dog. Theres background checks. They go to your house. Caller yeah. And it is just all of the things that we have to go through with the dmv. Think about that. If they had that ability this is, like i said, this is compromise. This is that whole thing that boehner and obama are trying to do right now is compromise. This is a compromise. I dont love it. I would like it if there were none at all or at least only for hunting purposes, personally because hey im on the stephanie me too. But at the same time, wouldnt that at least then put everything sort of above board . And what is the argument if i try to play devils advocate, what is the argument from the far right. You cant do that, you cant do that but they have no problem with the fact that we register cars and we register dogs. See where im going . Stephanie absolutely. Honestly, jim, i dont even get i cant speak to i dont get the pleasure of saying i was telling you i shot a gun for one of the first times like last year. You freaked out. Stephanie yes, i started crying. It was horrible. It is loud. I cant im sorry die understand hunting. I dont see how thats fun to watch anything die. I dont mean to be a hypocrite. I do eat meat. As a sport. It is something that people say it is fun. I dont get why its fun. Thats all im saying. Teddy roosevelt was sort of he created the National Parks and was a friend of nature but he also enjoyed killing the animals in nature. Stephanie yeah. I get that im a hypocrite. I eat meat. But im saying i dont understand why people say it is a hobby or fun. And i dont get you know, teaching your 9yearold it would be a sport if they could shoot back. Theres that. It would be sporting. Stephanie ray in texas. Youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi ray. Caller hey, stephanie. Calling from fort worth. Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller im a little concerned, december 21st is around the corner. We have a lot of survivalist you mentioned the Discovery Channel. I hear theyre heavily armed. Heavily armed element with large arsenals of weapons. Myself, im not going to drive around on the 21st here in texas. [ laughter ] stephanie by the way out here in california, my psychic friends actually says it is just going to be a shift to the positive. [ circus ] [ hypnotic ] not the end of the world. It is a cosmic shift on the 21st. It is passing through the galaxy, the milky way i understand. Stephanie my numerologist says thats bull [ bleep ] just kidding. I dont know. It actually is something that they predicted. Stephanie really . All right. Well see. I like your analogy about it would only be sport if the animals could shoot back. If we could even the odds a little bit. They kind of need opposable thumbs for that. Stephanie thats why i never got when they called horseback riding for exercise. What is it that its exercise for you . Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. It is a combination of low selfesteem, low blood sugar and mixing red wine with my dogs painkillers. Announcer its the Stephanie Miller show. Talking points that the right have about the heavy hand of government. I want to have that conversation. Lets talk about it. Really. Really that youre gonna lay people off because now the governments going to help you fund your health care. Really . I wanna be able to have those conversations. Not just to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying. And you know, id like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. She gets the comedians laughing. Thats hilarious . And the thinkers thinking. Okay, so theres wiggleroom in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me. Shes joy behar. And current will let me say anything. Only on current tv. [ music ] [ music ] announcer Stephanie Miller. All right. Take it easy baby make it last all night Stephanie Miller. An American Girl stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. 50 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12. Toll free from anywhere. Weve all become statistics geeks but i gotta say because we keep were debating now president obama [ world news tonight ] supports senator feinsteins legislation banning assault weapons and other potential gun measures. The white house said yesterday there is cause and effect. People just i cant stand these talking points anymore. Theres really nothing we can do. Bad person wants to do bad things. Blah, blah blah. Whatever. No country in the world has more guns per capita. Some 300 million firearms here in the united states. One for nearly every adult. Seems a little excessive. Stephanie i love this line. Experts from the Harvard School of Public Health using data from 26 developed countries have shown that wherever there are more firearms,er, there are more homicides. I dont think you need to be from harvard to come to that conclusion. The murder rate is 15 times that of other wealthy countries which have much tougher laws. There is another coincidence . Stephanie another important difference between this country and the rest of the world, other nations have suffered similar rampages and guess what theyve done something about it. Australia, for example. Stephanie jim i say it. Oh, lord. [ world news tonight ] it. Stephanie he already ignores me and we dont have sex. Australia is an excellent example, jim. It actually says jim in here which is weird. That is bizarre. Stephanie it is an example, jim. New zealand. Close enough. Stephanie in 1996, a lone gunman killed 35 people from a semiautomatic weapon. Within weeks, the Australian Government was working to ban assault weapons. Tightened licensing had gun amnesty and buyback programs. Guess what. The laws have worked. Firearm homicides in australia quite coincidentally have dropped 59 between 1995 and 2006. In the years before, there were 13 gun massacres resulting in 102 deaths with none in that category since. That would be none zero. Zilch stephanie okay. 16 children and their teacher were killed by a gunman in scotland in 1996. The British Government banned all private ownership of automatic weapons and virtually all handguns. Guess what. The result has been a decline in murders involving firearms. Imagine that [ cuckoo clock chimes ] stephanie how does that okay. In japan which has very strict laws only 11 People Killed with guns in 2008 compared with 12,000 deaths by firearms that year alone in the united states. Huge disparity obviously. Mayor bloomberg said were the only industrialized country that has this problem in the whole world. The only one. Were number one. Stephanie america. American exceptionalism. Great. Stephanie okay. Ryan in illinois. Youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi ryan. Hello, ryan. Max in arkansas. This is max. I was going to make a comment about these assault rifles. You know, even in the military, they dont give you an m16 when you get there. Youre observed and when they do give you one, you dont get any bullets. And when they do give you bullets, theyre blanks. Now the tax taxpayers spend billions training soldiers in that manner. You should be able to buy that across the counter. Stephanie very good point. Katherine in madison. Hello. Caller hello. Stephanie hello, katherine, go ahead. Caller hi, ive been glad to hear you say you wanted to look at the big picture and not just talking points. I really appreciated it. Someone mentioned on the radio the other day one of the talk show hosts about the greatest disparity in treating Violent Crimes so i googled. There is a lot written about it even with the world bank. I think when you take that disparity and you put profits before people, it is a big part of whats going on. Stephanie mmhmm. Good point. Paula in utah, youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi paula. Caller hi, stephanie. I discovered current tv this year and i feel like ive been more informed than i ever have been in my life. Stephanie aw, thank you. Caller youre welcome. Quick story before i get to my point. I worked Factory Production job right to work for less state. And i work 12 hours a day monday through friday, 10 hours on saturday. 8 hours on sunday. After about six months, went to our boss and told him that we were getting worn out. We didnt know how much longer we could do it. He said he didnt care. When we couldnt do it anymore they would find somebody else to do it. Stephanie nice. Nice. Caller anyway, the main reason i called was because i heard this morning that president obama has put it on the table to social security. Stephanie were going to talk about that. Hal is going to be in a few minutes and were going to talk about the latest on the fiscal cliff. Caller i feel totally betrayed. I know. Stephanie he hasnt done it yet. Were still in negotiating. Happy clappy. It is still part of the negotiations. Stephanie well get to the panic buttons what liberals should and shouldnt freak out about. Im going to get the meg if a gone out. The megaphone out. Clint in florida. Hello, clint. Caller yes maam. This is the first time ive watched the show. And ill also throw in that im a member of the nra and ive been a gun owner exmilitary. But that doesnt necessarily mean that i agree with every piece of you know, antigun ban im not against it, you know. It seems like whenever i listen to Wayne Lapierrre talk or i watch something on current tv, it is a really polarizing issue all the time. And all the people that i know that own guns, we go to the range. We shoot. We have fun. We hunt birds. I know thats not really something that you would see the fun in. Stephanie right. It makes me cry personally. But thats thats just me. But anyway, i know. What do you feel is polarizing that youve heard on this show . Caller well, mainly, its just kind of snide little comments about this politician or that politician or like rick perry maybe . Is that who youre talking about . Caller thats one. Dont get me wrong. Stephanie dont i have a right to say i think thats a dumb idea to talk about teaches having concealed weapons in the classroom . Caller well thats not what theyre there for. Theyre not there for security. Caller what are not teaches arent there for security. Plus, they caller they are. Theyre there to teach. Theyre there for the security of the children. I live in south florida. And i come from a long line of teachers and believe me, that is their supposed to be what theyre there for but most of the time it ends up stephanie theyre there to be rambo. Really . Huh. Thats new. Theyre complaining about teaches getting too much money. They need to be paid for training. Stephanie we were all thinking of our specific teachers in our childhood none of whom i would want to be armed. Dr. Hunsaker packed heat. Im sure of it. Stephanie 58 minutes after the hour. n [ theme music ] all right, Jacki Schechner, whats your moms name . Jacki schechner are you there . Stephanie thank you somebody for my box of wine ornament. Jacki, you were talking about what ann curry is doing. One of my friends on twitter pointed this out that ann curry started something new called hash tag 26 acts and shes encouraging people to do random acts of kindness for strangers. It is really nice. Some of the stuff is like someone paid for the ten cars behind them on the expressway. Someone else said they bought a 90yearold, a recent widower a new microwave. One person says some kind person cleaned our porch. They were a recipient of the act of kindness. It is really nice. So much bad news the past week. It is really nice to see somebody turning this into a positive. Stephanie awesome. That is awesome. In the spirit of that, im going to give you my boxed wine tree ornament. I was going to give you an actual box of wine. We could hang it and finish it. Stephanie you are helping Jacki Schechner. Here she is in the current news center. If House Speaker John Boehners plan b for the fiscal cliff actually makes it to the white house thats the plan to let the bush tax cuts keep going for people who make less than a Million Dollars a year, the president is going to veto it. That according to white house spokesman, Communications Director dan pfeiffer who says it doesnt meet the test of balance. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has vetoed a bill that would have allowed people to carry concealed weapon into a formerly gunfree zones like churches and schools. The Michigan State Legislature Passed the law on thursday. But in the wake of fridays tragedy in newtown Governor Snyder has called for a more thorough review of the law. We need more thorough review of gun violencerelated issues. He says the concealed carry bill needs to be looked at in a more comprehensive context. Now this particular move is welcome news. However, the Huffington Post points out that snyder did find two other laws, one streamlines the process for buying handguns and the other gets rid of restrictions for rifle and shot gunn transactions between people in michigan and neighboring states. And Florida Governor rick scott insists though he complied with the law hes now going to look into the problems the state had during the past election. Including the number of voting days being restricted. By the way hes the one who restricted those. The excessive link of the ballot and inadequate size of polling locations. This news comes at the same time a new quinnipiac poll shows that 52 of voters in florida dont think scott deserves a second term and 53 of republicans want him to see a primary challenge. Were back with more steph after the break. 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[ theme music ] announcer ladies and gentlemen, its the Stephanie Miller show. Im walkin on sunshine im walkin on sunshine and its time to feel good stephanie sexy liberal hal sparks caught in traffic on his way. He will be here momentarily. I have his megaphone out to Council People off the ledge. Liberals freaking out over the fiscal cliff. Stephaniemiller. Com the web site. You can email us all there. Chris lavoie, jim ward. Me, Stephanie Miller. Get great swag for christmas. Get tickets to d. C. Chris, jim jacki opening for us. All four sexy liberals. Two huge surprise celebrity guests on panel. If you get one of the cd, you can wrap them up, youre done. This is what you want for christmas. Bacon flavored shaving cream. Who wants to smell like bacon . Stephanie the enventor says theres nothing more powerful than the smell of bacon. I can think of like a thermonuclear bomb. Stephanie like a quadruple bypass. Have you been rolling in bacon grease . Stephanie what is that . For those who love bacon to death, quoteunquote, hes created a thousand dollar bacon wrap coffin. What . No. I think i stop at the bacon salt. When that guy invented bacon salt . That sounds good. Bacon shaving cream no. Computer says no. Stephanie we were saying were just barely crawling to the finish line for vacation friday. And if the world ends then, were going to be pissed. Just in time for vacation. I want it faux if randi rhodes took this week off. If she moved to another planet, that would be a sign. Stephanie officials are so confident the world will not end this friday what do they know . Stephanie allegedly predicted by the mayan calendar. Theyre keeping the observatory past midnight on that date. You know what that means . Really sucky traffic near high house. Large number of visitors expected. Stephanie lot of people dump their dogs in the park near my house. I rescued one two days ago. He had no collar. He wasnt fixed. Anyway, and so i brought him home. I have to say i have the greatest friends in the world. Jacki schechner had a friend with a rescue and they were getting ready to find a home. My friend trish had somebody who was interested. I had the vet lined up yesterday to check him out. I bought him a little collar like max and freds and some baby hot dogs. And then my pool guy left the gate open and hes gone. Merry christmas. Okay. I went to the park three times looking for him. He got a lot of love from you. Stephanie there are a lot of coyotes from i did fire the pool guy. Not the guy that owns the company but the guy that he sent. I said i dont want that guy here again because this dog is probably dead now. It doesnt have to do with you why im in a foul mood. When you said you were in a foul mood, oh, my god shes going to fire me at christmas. Stephanie someone got fired but it wasnt you. Stephanie for some reason in the meantime, two of my friends sent me two great pyrenees that need homes. By new years, ill have 17 dogs because now im in a state. Im like okay, fine. You will be like cruella de vil. Stephanie except i love dogs. Youll have to clean your own pool from now on. No one is going to want to clean that backyard. Stephanie ill need someone who works for the circus. Stephanie mary in West Virginia youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Caller i wanted to call just to follow up on the what you were talking about australia and how successful they were in getting the guns. Yes. I was living in australia at the time and when that happened, now, you gotta know that at least at the time, i dont know if it is still that way. It was mandatory to vote. You got fined if you did not vote. In elections. Stephanie right. After this shooting happened, they put a referendum on the National Ballot to take the guns they didnt just take them. They bought them back from people. Stephanie why cant every idea on on the table here . Were not going to come and get your guns but what about that . What percentage could we get off the streets if we bought them back . I dont know. Thats the justification for having all of the guns. Theyre coming to take my guns. Jim agnes writes to me and says you know who he had guns . Hitler. [ buzzer ] one thing. We have the thing you have to do before you get a gun. It takes like six months and every gun you buy gets loaded on there. They always know that this is your gun. And it is nobody elses. You would have a u. S. A. Wide card where every piece of ammo you know what you buy and everybody is aware of what you have. Stephanie thats what we were saying. The fingerprint recognition technology. Lets thank our lucky stars john bolton wont be secretary of state. The state department blasted him for his information and claiming every picture on this crying on benghazi. Hes ridiculous. Hes irresponsible is what he is. Stephanie a diplomatic illness. When you dont want to go to a meetingor conference, you have a diplomatic illness. A concussion is a diplomatic illness. Stephanie shes obviously going to testify at some point. Oh, my god. Stephanie he serves no useful purpose. He wasnt even confirmed to go to the u. N. I think they should take the top ten stories off of him and see if anyone notices. It would at least get rid of that heinous mustache. Stephanie mike in virginia, youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi mike. Caller greetings from transvaginal virginia. [ laughter ] stephanie i hope you arent going to ask any probing questions. [ circus ] okay, go ahead. Caller every time i hear all of these selfappointed american patriots talk about how responsible they are as gun owners and everything, i thought you guys would appreciate this. The first thing that pops in my mind every time i hear that is dick cheney. Stephanie yeah. Exactly. Thats a responsible gun owner right . Yeah. Still never got investigated. You know he had beers at lunch and shoots his friend in the face. Then he apologized for getting in the way. His friend apologized to dick cheney for getting in the way. Stephanie that was rude. Okay. Very rude of you to get in the way. Stephanie danny from colorado springs. Caller how you doing stephanie . How is it going . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller a quick deal with this gun control stuff. Im down here in colorado springs. I went to a gun show. Why is it these independent contractors dont have to do background checks . We watched a gentleman at the age of 21 years old walked in, buy four assault rifles, not one deal did he do with a background check but the guy right next to him, i dont know what he did but he did background checks on them. You can get the assault rifles any day of the week. I ran the Drug Awareness Program trying to get the kids off the streets and these kids can get guns quicker than we can. They can do it in texas california florida, you can go to any gun show that one is the nobrainer. Thats ridiculous. Stephanie they say huge majority of nra members think there should be background checks for anybody who thinks anybody should be able to get a gun . Okay. They should be able to set up one booth at every gun show where you go and get your background checked. That should be really easy. I think the people who want to have a lot of assault rifles are precisely the people who shouldnt be allowed to have them. Stephanie vanessa in california. Thats the only question, do you want one . You can have one. Vanessa in california. Hi vanessa. Caller i was trying to think of a clever intro like the transvaginal virginia. Im a vegetarian from california. Stephanie what is eating you this morning . We cant stop. Caller nice. I love it. My stepfather was a hunter. I heard your caller earlier hes a hunter. He goes out. Shoots a couple of birds. The problem with that is that you know you dont need a 30clip magazine to go shoot a bird. You dont need a 30clip magazine to go hunt a deer. You need precision. You need accuracy. My father used snares and a rifle that only shot two rounds then he had another one that shot six. You dont need to have all of that ammunition. So i dont see a lot of that a couple of longterm gun rights supporters going the other way and saying okay, we need something. But i dont see a lot of the compromises. But if they dont want to take away the guns, people are freaking out why dont you hear more about the compromises . You can have a rifle. You cant shoot 30 rounds from your assault rifle. You cant shoot you cant have a magazine that can shoot 100 rounds. There is no need for any any citizen, i dont care if you think youre the next Border Patrol agent you dont need even a 30, 100 clip round to kill an illegal immigrant either. Im sorry. Stephanie all right honey. Got it. Theyre coming to take my guns. 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