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. Announcer Stephanie Miller. Im on the right track baby i was born this way im on the right track baby i was born this way, born this way stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show, twentythree minutes after the hour. Lots of people thinking of the futures that they had that they teachers they had that they wouldnt to have armed. Sheila in virginia. Hi, sheila. Caller good morning, steph. This is a dear pleasure to get to talk to you. Stephanie thank you. You too. Caller im try not to be too long. I admit im a democrat independent. Stephanie right. Caller i have a couple one for protection, one for hunting. Stephanie right . Caller okay. And i guess the other point is this whole couple of years none of us have been able to talk to each other. Stephanie right . Caller and i used to watch eds show on another channel. Stephanie right. Right. Caller why do we have to keep calling each other names. I listen to other shows just so i get the other point right . Stephanie right. Caller it reminds me why i want to be a good person to my fellow human being. Stephanie yeah, thats why i think the white house is being very reasoned about this debate dont you . The gun lobbyists are the only ones that are saying you cant talk about anything. Caller it comes down to the human being, and each of us knowing the difference between right and wrong. Stephanie right. Caller and the guy that killed his mom. There has got to be something more to that. It hurts me just as much as it does anybody else. Stephanie yeah, i agree. Any decent people i think were affected by that caller so sad. Stephanie right. Caller i try to look at both sides of the issue, and its like [ sighs ] caller i am one that has hold 18. Stephanie you have a clip. Caller and its only for fun. Stephanie yeah. Caller its just for target. I would never hurt anybody. Ever. Unless they come in to my home to hurt me. Stephanie yeah, i hear ya. There are reasonable people on both sides of the debate. Remember the feral pig hunter that called yesterday said he needed a 30round clip because myriading pigs rush him. And somebody said there are no animals that run toward gunfire. I dont know wild pigs are pretty terrifying. And if you were rushed by 40 that would be stephanie would that happen though . Well, i dont know it could happen. Stephanie and maybe one of them has a bag of vipers. The pigs that are taking over lincoln park. Stephanie right. Myriading feral pigs in lincoln park. Some of them right even have bags of glass. Who can say . Bags of glass. Bags of vipers. Bags of pigs. Stephanie bags of sauceage. Right. Stephanie hi jim, you are on the Stephanie Miller show. Caller guten morgan everybody. I sure miss mudcat on thursday. Stephanie yes. Caller i just wanted to give you one more little retort if you will to the gun nuts when they say it takes a good man with a gun to stop a bad man with a gun. If thats so ask them to please explain what happened to our president s kennedy, and their favorite president reagan and poor jim brady and even president ford. They were surrounded by secret service stephanie good guys with guns. Thats a good point. Caller and yet what happened . One crazy with a gun that had enough range and velocity and whamo we know the story and ask jim brady to see if he would be willing to expand the name of his bill and call it the jim brady and Ronald Reagan antiautomatic weapon stephanie yeah there you go. Put reagan on anything and the republicans cant vote against it. Lets put him on the trillion dollars coin. Caller yeah. Stephanie and how do you stop a bad man with a gun lobby, right . Caller yeah. Stephanie dean in madison you are on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi, dean. Caller hey, steph just wanted to talk to you about the whole gun show loophole thing. Ill a liberal and a gun owner. Im personally not a fan of the nra and i am in favor of universal background tracks. I have sold guns privately myself where i wished i could do a background check on the person because i want to be 100 safe. Stephanie right. Caller but i just wanted to let you guys know that most as in like 99 of the people who sell guns and gun shows are firearms dealers, so they have to run a background check anyway. And any website that you buy a firearm from or whether its a dealer website or like an auction website, where i can go and list a firearm for sale. When that firearm gets shipped out, it has to get shipped to a licensed gun dealer stephanie hang on. After the break right back on the Stephanie Miller show. vo as marijuana gains social and legal acceptance, a new pioneer is emerging from the backwoods. Im basically like a farmer. Instead of corn, youve got dope. vo but what is legal and what is criminal . This is, no matter what you do, a violation of federal law. vo follow real farmers staking their claim on a new frontier. Lots of terrible things happen to people growing marijuana. This crop to me is my livelihood. I have everything invested in this. Only on current tv. Rogaine . Well, ill admit it. I was skeptical at first. But after awhile even my girlfriend noticed a difference. [ male announcer ] rogaine is proven to help stop hair loss. And for 85 of guys, it regrew hair. Save up to 42 now at rogaine. Com. Announcer Stephanie Miller. Im not just the typical little girl. I like dancing and ponies and friday nights. Stephanie yay. Happy friday everyone. Thirtyfour minutes after the hour. 1800steph12. We were talking to dean from madison before the break. So you did you dont think the gun show loophole is a big deal because most of the people there are licensed firearm dealers. Caller right. Im not saying we shouldnt close it. Ill just saying it is not the big deal it is made out to be. Stephanie but some are. And that is the whole controversy by the gun show loophole. As long as its a private sale they dont have to process any paperwork. Caller right. And like i said im in favor of having some sort of system set up if im selling a firearm to you, ill not opposed to there being some way i can get information from you call in check to make sure that it is okay for you to have a firearm. Currently all that i can do as a private citizen is you know my state whichvy wisconsin does a thing where you with look up the background online stephanie but the gun show loophole should be an easy thing. Obviously if you dont have to do any background check dont you think thats where lunatics know where to go buy guns. Caller stephanie im saying i agree. But its not as big of an issue that people think it is. I read something yesterday that said Something Like 40 of gun sales dont go through background checks because they are private sales. And thats not the case. It is more like 2 . Stephanie wait a minute. You think they just made that statistic up . What im saying stephanie but if you are challenging it, where are you getting your information that it is only 2 . Caller um. I honestly dont remember. Im not in front of the computer right now. Stephanie all right. You call me back then. Okay. Chris, im not saying he is not well meaning but when we get into these debates there do tend to be who get paid to call shows and start out with im a liberal, but, but but and it puts out confusion. Trade organizations estimate the percentage of guns sold at shows by licensed dealers are about 50 . Stephanie right. Our sexy liberal cause in d. C. Is the brady i would find it very hard to believe that a Reputable Organization like that would go out with a number that is fabricated. Im going to get it is where in the gun lobby where he got that information. Yes, you cant just throw out a statistic. Where did you get that from . My ass. Stephanie and i want an actual group of feral pigs my rodding you. Stephanie if we have shark attacks do you get a submarine . No a laser beam. I have one request and that is to have sharks to have freakinlaser beams attached to their heads. Stephanie right. Tim in illinois. Caller good morning, steph. I too author i just got a website gun owner info to try to get involved in this debate. Because i am a gun owner. Im from california so i have always kind of lived around fairly restrictive gun regulations in gun ownership. I dont own an [ inaudible ] ak. I just dont like either one of those platforms. But i was just thinking as now an author and the person being read now on this thing, im terrified of coming out of the crowd, but im writing to try to say this [ inaudible ] machine is not fair to the vast majority of us gun owners, to call us gun nuts and all this stuff stephanie i dont think people when you say gun nuts, you are referring to people on the lunatic fringe. Caller but it sounds like you are stephanie what . Caller you used gun nuts several times this morning stephanie you dont think that alex jones or ted nugent are gun nuts . Caller i think ted nugent is selling his own productings. I have watched his shows stephanie okay. All of the people comparing obama to hitler thats not somebody who is a hysterical gun nut. Caller thats absolutely disgusting to say that. But if you look at the history of europe and australia, when they have national gun registries, then complete gun bans have happened. Thats historical fact. If you want me to send you an email i would be more than happy to. There was a massive buyback of guns in australia stephanie yeah, it was a massive shooting there and it has cut gun deaths to practically zilch. Caller you cant own a firearm in australia without tremendous regulations. So they did do a gun registry nationwide, and they said all of these guys on the registry come and sell your guns to us. Stephanie you would rather live in a country with 10,000 gun deaths . Caller no, i think you are on the right path. I like what what biden is doing. What i dont like is the fact that people are not putting their cards on the table. I mean biden is an anti gun type of guy. He is more restrictive than permissive, and he has been put in charge of the ban house so to speak stephanie the gun lobby has gotten so powerful in this country, that we have gotten so far to one end of this country that anything is unreasonable. Caller yes. Stephanie they have shut down debate for so long in this country, nobody even talks about it. Caller but stephanie my friend died of a drug overdose. And now theres legalized marijuana use. And thats the drug my son started on it doesnt kill people. Caller no, but its a drug culture. Stephanie yeah Chris Kennedy said its a gateway drug. And marijuana as jim pointed out is not designed to kill people. Guns are designed to kill people only. Caller thats not true. Illinois used to consider my daughter and i shoot in the fireplace stephanie you shoot notice . Caller yeah, its an air gun a pellet gun were not talking about pellet guns. Were talking about assault weapons. Stephanie what are you shooting in the fireplace, jim . Soft targets. Pets . Stephanie what are soft targets in your fireplace . Were just really curious now. The targets made with old tshirts and jeans, and stop instantaneously stephanie so you say to your daughter what if you miss . Stephanie right. Caller its across the room. Stephanie we dont mean to judge, but you just call your daughter and say hey honey, do you want to shoot and tshirts in the living room . Were talking about assault rifles with 30 stephanie they are like homemade targets is what you are saying . Caller let me finish. We shoot pellets that weigh as much as a bobby pin, and they classified them as firearms in this state. So if you want a dialogue and i dearly want a dialogue stephanie listen, i dont want to take away your right to shoot at tshirts in your living room an air gun isnt technically a firearm. Stephanie right. The state of illinois probably overreached a little bit there. Stephanie perhaps, but again air guns are classified with bags of vipers in the state of illinois. Yeah. Stephanie i missed how old his daughter was nine, i think. Stephanie because if she was a teenager. She would be like, oh, dad, god, really . You are going to shoot tshirts again in the living room. I want to play angry birds. Stephanie what teenage girl would stop texting long enough to do anything. Theres that. Stephanie i dont mean toe be judgy, jim, but if that is your familys fun, god bless. [ applause ] stephanie i wouldnt be traipsing through their fireplace any time soon. Because i tend to wear tshirts i think its a balled up tshirt right. But you could miss and yeah, ill be around the block. You take precaution you wear goggles stephanie i would wear goggles if i went to his house for dinner and a helmet. What you guys what to do after dinner . Lets go shoot something in the house. Stephanie want some more wine . What could go wrong. Fortysix minutes after the hour. Give me a Sporting Chance start running. Fortysix minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer she is your human antidepressant. Its the Stephanie Miller show. Argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. From silver screens. To flat screens. Twizzlerize your entertainment everyday with twizzlers the twist you cant resist. 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. I dont know what you have done to me but i know this much is true announcer Stephanie Miller. I want to do bad things with you okay stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. Fifty minutes after the hour. Im driving tbone crazy. You are. Stephanie im on a printing frenzy. [ laughter ] stephanie a lot of people did have thoughts on the myriad myriading band of pigs. Steph, regarding the arkansas gentlemen oh thank you, mr. Broadcast news. Slam. We just killed an entire blue forest. Stephanie who needs his 30round clip to shoot a bunch of pigs. Those pigs charging at the animal would not stop when he shot a shotgun at them . Doubt it. [ applause ] again i have no evidence that they you know that if they got the herd mentality and they are charging blindly ahead, i dont know. Wild bores are potentially dangerous. Stephanie kali writes in, first of all the bore is the one that has tusks and can hurt him, and there are never 40 males in a pack. Second when you make a loud noise wild animals will all ass. [ applause ] all right. Stephanie yeah i think they know us City Slickers are not equipped for an argument like that. We have the occasional coyote here in los angeles. Stephanie our friend from South Carolina farm person. So she understand so its a much of females, what are they going to do gum you to death . They can kick the hell out of ya. Stephanie right. I suppose. Hi, lynn. Caller good morning, steph. I have been a gun owner since i was 12. Got my first single shot 22 from my dad for my birthday. I have bought guns from gun shows and i have never been asked for a single piece of id. Stephanie thank you. There wouldnt be as much of an outcry over the gun show loophole if there were not a gun show loophole. Caller exactly. And that pellet gun is a 177 caliber pellet. And it will kill small animals stephanie and tshirts. Caller yeah. Everybody is beating their chests about their gun rights. Nobody is talk about solutions, and you have got to admit that all of these people that do these mass murders are crazy. Stephanie right. Caller and since i believe its 2009 congress has withheld 1. 6 billion for states for Mental Health services. Stephanie thank you, lynn i just heard someone making this point yesterday. These are the same republicans cutting Mental Health, and then they scheme about it being Mental Health and not guns and it is clearly both. Caller right. My solution is to have a special tax for all gun and ammunition manufacturers that would be paid directly to the state where the product is sold earmarked just for Mental Health services. Stephanie thats a great idea. Thats what i mean solutions. Joe biden yesterday. There is a surprising so far a surprising recurrence of suggests that we have universal background checks not just close the gun show loophole, but total universal background checks including private sales. And he is saying he has never seen it the number of people and senator coming up to him that are saying this time is different, and here is what i think we should do. Yet despite fresh opposition from the nra. Yeah, they walked out of the discussions yesterday. Did you see that. They said theyre not going to deal with the white house anymore. Stephanie yeah. The nra one of the groups that met with biden rejected the efforts and dug in to their opposition. That made it explicitly clear that the president already made up his mind. And we made it clear that we disagree with him. Bidens proposal also recommendings to address Mental Health. The issues have wide support from gun Rights Groups and progun lawmakers. Thats the problem right there. Everybody else is willing to come to the table except right. As the meeting took place, a student was shot and killed in california. Oh, one person . I guess that is not one big deal. Just kills one guy. What . Was he killed . Stephanie actually i dont know. Oh, god. Stephanie lets check. Yeah. Mike in illinois you are on the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome, mike. Hello, mike. Caller stephanie . Stephanie yes, go ahead. Caller high wanted to make a couple of quick points walking into work here. Just want im glad you guys brought up australia when they everybody got paid to turn in their guns. I read an article it was on facebook im sorry i dont have the facts i know you guys just said a couple of minutes ago knew rule, yes. Caller you are going to want to provide where you got the percentages stephanie yeah i read it on the internet somewhere is not sufficient but go ahead. Caller they did pay everybody and i know they are not talking about taking away our guns in illinois. It said once the guns were turned in, the crime rate went up by 40 and they targeted the elderly you are throwing out statistics stephanie you cant throw stuff out the gun deaths are 200something a year yeah and what like 10,000 here . Stephanie yeah. Of course we have a greater population, so you are going to have to account for stephanie right. Yeah. That sounds a little what is the word, chris unscientific to me. Little bit. Crime went up 200 and it all against old people. Stephanie if you are an old australian, give me a call now. Fiftyeight minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. [ theme music ] stephanie happy friday everybody, sexy liberal John Fugelsang coming up for fridays with fugelsang. Jacki, mail bag for you. Oh goodness. Stephanie somebody called to criticize your fashion choiced yesterday. Terry writes steph i want to call out that woman who called out jacki. Where do you get off criticizing jackis fashion choices when you are sitting around in tshirts and sweats. Is jacki being held to a different standard because she is young beautiful and smart. As far as im concerned if jacki showed up with a roker in her pants oh. As in al roker. That was very sweet, but i deserved a little bit of ribbing for yesterdays outfit. I take full responsibility for that 3 00 am decision. Stephanie and humility on top of it all. Good morning, everybody, Vice President biden is going to sit in on the meetings that president obama is having can hamid karzai this afternoon. And hell be meeting with members of the video industry. The nra meeting yet didnt go so well. The nra left displeased at best. They said it was more about demonizing the Second Amendment than keeping kids safe. So what did the nra want to talk about . Not guns just like they did right after the shooting at nowtown the lobby wanted to talk about school safety, Mental Health, the collapse of our legal system anything but guns. Vice president bidens meeting with the Entertainment Administration went better. They discussed the ways in which they already police themselves and give parents the tools to protect children from inappropriate or too violent content. There is nothing in place where they intend to trample on anyones First Amendment rights. Politico pointed out the internet has changed the way kids can access content. A kid may not be able to see a trailer that is inappropriate, but they have access on the internet. Again, here is where parents probably come into play. Were back after the break. Stay with us. Those types are coming on to me all the time now. She gets the comedians laughing. Thats hilarious . And the thinkers thinking. Okay, so theres wiggleroom in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me. 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Hey, momma, i made a an al robinger in my pants when i watched the heard of hearing darth vader video. And from jill in new york city steph the unintended consequences of that unnamed cable system has brought me to the steph app. With your lacy blouse. Now i can move around my appointment without sitting in front of the tv. This is so cool. I can still get stuff done. Thank you. [ applause ] its a good app. Stephanie well, thank you, i worked so hard on it. Stephanie ah yeah. Stephanie steph i listen to you on my droid this is tech talk. Will you please have an droid version made. Chris . Am i working on that . The elves are working on it. Stephanie right. Right. Okay. Are they feral elves. Yes. Stephanie steven in South Chicago says steph lets not be too hastery about rejecting this proposal of Arming School teachers. I think whenever teacher has a gun we might see a restoration of their bargaining rights. [ applause ] stephanie gun owners cannot be sued. Its disgusting that they have special immunity that no other manufacturer had. Well, yeah if a car kills people because it catches fire or something, they are liable but guns are supposed to kill people, so what is the problem. Stephanie hey. Hey [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie the nra has gained 14 Million People in the last few days. We have got to stop being scared of any part of this issue. And they left in a huff did they yesterday from the white house. Joe biden yesterday. In all of my years involved in these issues there is nothing that has gone to the heart of the matter more than the visual image people have of little six year old kids riddled not shot with a stray bullet riddle riddled with bullet holes in their classroom. Stephanie yeah, have you seen the picture of the president when he first heard about what happened at sandy hook. Some of the details, its the reality of stuff there was another detail i heard from the Aurora Shooting that the 911 dispatcher couldnt hear because there were so many gunshots. Bill clinton yesterday. I grew up in a hunting culture, but this is nuts. Stephanie he says why does anyone need a 30round clip for a gun. Half of all of the mass killings in the u. S. Have occurred since the assault weapon ban expired. Half in all of the history of the country. So i hope Gabby Giffords and other people who stepped up after the newtown tragedy. Half of all mass killings in the u. S. Have occurred since the assault weapons ban expired. How do you explain that. Feral elves. Stephanie yes, feral pigs clearly. The nra president yesterday after the meeting. The administration was able to check the box and say they talked to the representativives of firearm owners, and now they wanted to proceed with what they wanted to do. Great. Stephanie anything they are talking about has nothing to do with effective or we repeeling the Second Amendment. Piers morgan by the way gets to stay. The white house responded wednesday to a petition that sought to deport piers morgan. The white house said lets not let arguments over the constitutions Second Amendment violate the spirit of its first. It also enshrines the freedom of press and speech. No one should be punished by the government simply because he or she expressed an opinion. Morgan tweeted, thanks for keeping me mr. President. [ applause ] stephanie he needs to wear a split shield the next time he has alex jones on. Sneeze guard. Stephanie right. Lawrence in chicago. You are on the Stephanie Miller show. Caller hi, awesome show. Stephanie thank you. Caller yes, i my issue is the president is constantly being attacked by the rightwing and they are saying they have been saying for a long time that he wants to take away your guns. Talking to all of the gun owners, and he is steadily trying to defend that. And i think the problem is that he is having is we the rightwing i mean the president does want to take away the guns but only from the crazy people, and thats the only way that all of those democratic congressmen or senator around the count friday will be able to survive, you know, by making a clear definition of who needs the guns taken away and who can keep the guns. You cannot win if everybody believes you are trying to take guns from everyone. So my the reason for me calling is that you stephanie as a comedian and very brilliant person [ bell chimes ] caller to frame the definition of who is crazy and who is not. Because others feel offended when you say gun nuts. So we need to go online and say these people over here are the crazy people. They need to lose their guns and everybody is okay. Stephanie well, thank you. But the president is not talking about taking away guns from anybody. Its preventing people from getting them that should not have them. Caller well its the same thing. Every couple of years these people pop up and they go crazy. Stephanie yeah. Theres all kinds of that stuff where you could do better checks of who has them the nra is trying to say the proof that obama is trying to take your guns is that he hasnt done it yet in his first term. Stephanie right. Exactly. Martha in illinois. Hi, go ahead. Caller yeah, a person can go crazy any time. I could snap at anytime. Give me a break. Stephanie all right. Martha thanks for the warning. [ laughter ] caller come on. Its just ridiculous. Stephanie yeah. Caller i just think people need to be educated more and we need to have like Public Service ads reminding parents who own guns to look them up because people are so stupid. Stephanie right. Caller you know, its just come on. And maybe if we legalize drugs well get rid of gangs and drugs. Stephanie there are so many aspects of this. Michael moore was talking about how many times we kill women in this country, and how many times it is an ex and a gun involved. If there is a gun around it makes it a lot easier to kill somebody or, quote unquote, resolve some issue that is tragic. And if you lock up your guns to protect your family then if there is an intruder you dont have the time to get the gun. Stephanie right. And thats the thing with teacher, literally they would have to be rambo they would have to have a military assault weapon on their person at all times, right . Seriously there was controversy of teachers hugging or not no, to bulky. Stephanie no, nobody hugging. Seventeen minutes after the hour. Back with rightwing world and more next on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer you keep listening, shell make more. Its the Stephanie Miller show. I want the people who watch our show, to be able to come away armed with the facts, and the arguments to feel confident in their positions. I want them to have the data and i want them to have the passion. Announcer Stephanie Miller. I dont need to do it in the raw stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. Twentyone minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Oh, how exciting. [ world news tonight theme ] Stephanie Donald rumsfeld will offer of rules in a new book entitled rumsfields rules. Stars and crackers. Stephanie do you think he will do the book on tape . It will offer a candid take on failure and crisis and moving up in the business world. He spent a little more time in crisis and failure, didnt he . Yeah. Stephanie my stars. Okay. Richard in tennessee you are on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi, richard. Caller hello. Stephanie hello. Go ahead. Caller let me tell you up front that im an nra member. Im also generally a conservative. And i dont want to come on your show to bash or argue with you just some facts. Okay, and you are going to use citations of where you got these facts, correct. Caller its openly pretty much public. Stephanie oh go ahead, then. Caller has anybody taken a look at canada . Stephanie yes. Caller i notice the president is interested in a nationwide database. They tried this in canada. This this went on for approximately ten years and i think last year or the year before the parliament finally tabled the entire law. It was set up and estimated to cost just a little over a Million Dollars a year and wound up costing thimbles. Stephanie richard they have a lot of guns in canada but have barely any gun deaths, why is that, do you think . Caller i would say they do background checks, which im not opposed to. The only way you are ever going to curtail these violent deaths like this, is to get the guns out of these peoples hands that dont need guns. Stephanie so how do we do that . The nra is opposed to that. Caller no, they are definitely not opposed to people with mental problems having guns. Stephanie but they dont seem any one elses solution on how to do that, they are against. They say they are for that. But they dont offer a solution. Caller i dont know if anybody has a solution. Stephanie yes, we do. Caller how do you do that . Stephanie background checks and closing the gun show loophole caller the 1964 gun act clearly states that the act does not prohibit the occasion sale between individuals. So you have that law to contend with. Yes, i think we need to repeal that law. Caller thats fine. The nra say we shouldnt repeal that law. Caller im not here to represent the nra. Im just here to ask you some questions stephanie but so far we agree. I think if you were interested in cooperation, you would burn your nra card on the air right now. Caller no, they teach more safety classes than anybody in the country. Stephanie thats nice. Caller how do you go about enforcing a law like that where you have people who live in the country, and one wants to sell a gun to a neighbor down the road . How do you enforce that . Stephanie i think the major thing that people are talking about are these huge gun shows where anybody can buy a gun. Caller but thats from an individual, not a gun dealer. Stephanie right, but 40 of the people that get runs gets them from no background checks. Caller where do you get these facts from . From the gun owners association. Its also widely available on the internet. Everybody knows if cletus wants to sell a gun to Buford Stephanie you are being a snooty city slicker now. What benefits do you get by joining the nra . Stephanie i dont know. Yeah, i dont understand why you want to say if you dont believe in any of those rules, you dont practice them. You get free bullets with your popcorn. S at popeyes. Stephanie careful. Yeah, ouch. Stephanie bob in wisconsin. Hello, bob. Caller good morning. I had a question now i think i got two, but first off we got elected officials that are willing to go over the fiscal cliff; that dont seem to care too much about the deficit stephanie right. Caller the one that is coming up how can we trust these people to intelligently regulate guns. Stephanie well, good point. You cant. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie here is a headline, Business Leaders back obama not the republicans on the debt ceiling. They always say were good for business and the job creators no they are not. The Financial Services round table which represents nearly a hundred of the largest Financial Service firms in the country is set to increase the pressure on the republicans. You are going to have the full force of the financial industry come down on you, so stop bluffing. Lets go to chris in illinois. Hi chris, welcome. Hi, chris. Caller hi. Stephanie hi, go ahead. Caller i hope the nra is watching fox this morning, because they had a news clip from portland, oregon tea partiers with their dont tread on my tshirts have assault rifles strapped to their back, and a couple of ladies called 911. They had kids out on the sidewalks and nra is inciting violence just like fox is . I hope they know that. And this morning Stewart Barney was talking how he thinks the nra is afraid of the public. They better be afraid of the public. That man call that called before sounded nice enough. They are scaring old people. I dont have an assault rifle, and the first thing they have to do is put marijuana in vending machines everywhere, because all of the drug dealers all over america carry guns. [ scoobydoos huh . ] stephanie okay. Wow, how did we get there all of a sudden. Twenty nine minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Im basically like a farmer. Instead of corn, youve got dope. vo but what is legal and what is criminal . This is, no matter what you do, a violation of federal law. vo follow real farmers staking their claim on a new frontier. Lots of terrible things happen to people growing marijuana. This crop to me is my livelihood. I have everything invested in this. Only on current tv. Break the ice with breathfreshening cooling crystals. Ice breakers. Rogaine . Well, ill admit it. I was skeptical at first. But after awhile even my girlfriend noticed a difference. [ male announcer ] rogaine is proven to help stop hair loss. And for 85 of guys, it regrew hair. Save up to 42 now at rogaine. Com. Announcer Stephanie Miller. Wow, i would expeer men with that girl. Too small. Thats me for two weeks in college. [ laughter ] two weeks huh . Stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Thirtyfour minutes after the hour. Kenny pick in cleveland is in a hissy. Caller that was fast. Sorry, you caught me eating a snap pea. Stephanie wow. That was weird. Go ahead. Caller the guy that called in that said ted nugent was not a gun nut. What about all of the sexual things he said on stage with his gun. Stephanie thats right. Caller and the wild pig hunter that needed the machine gun to kill off of the pigs. He is the first person to ever kill any kind of animal like that. Stephanie right. You are employing sarcasm respect you, kenny pick . Caller yeah, a little bit. Look at you. Caller sorry the snow pea threw me all offer. Stephanie love you. Caller happy within sweetheart. Stephanie dick army [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie he revealed all sorts of interesting tidbits like the practice of charging activists to at tend free events. He didnt know he was talking to media matters. He thought he was talking to media research. [ laughter ] stephanie the leftwing media matters, the daily caller found out he thought he was chatting with brent brazill. And he said who is the guy with the red beard that always does the show that points out how bias the press is. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] thats the guy that looks like he smells like cigarettes. Stephanie he added he is probably overly chatters with media matters. Yeah, i saw that. Stephanie he is a dummy. Okay. Oh, dick. Lets dive into the rightwing world weird. Sean hannity and rudy giuliani. If they have to only central areas of government will get funded. They will shut it down until the president everyone agrees a except the most radical left wingers that the spending is out of hand. So lets address that cut spending, in a way that actually balances the budget. And that means getting rid of Social Security and medicare. Stephanie right. Only the most radially leftwingers. All right rudy. Eric bowling on the five. President obama has pushed for legalizing drugs, jumping the border and pushed for making the gun i used to protect my family and property [ inaudible ]. Stephanie what . First of all the president has been cracking down on you know what do you call it the marijuana that has been a controversy. Right. Oh, god. Stephanie he was still enforcing the federal policy. Uhhuh. Stephanie do they just start from every premise that is a lie. Yes. Stephanie [ inaudible ] barns. Alex jones, i was rolling in the floor. You know, you give the guy a raise. That was the best moment in television of the year so far. Ill be honest with you, i think pat buchanan and mr. Jones are absolutely right. If they try to confiscate our guns, i think there will be a revolution. I cant think of anything else that americans would do. Who wants to confiscate stephanie again, they start with a premise that is just incorrect and then dare you to have an argument with them. If atlantis rises from the sea again yeah and ass hats only go on radio shows like that so they dont get crap stephanie if atlantis rises, then were going to need submarines. Stephanie uhhuh. Any more thoughts on that . No. Rush limbaugh and a caller. Probably some threats among those, what should the publisher of the journal news do . As described in the new york times, she hired armed guards. Of course. They are permitted. They will never use guns to kid their kids. They use abortion to kill their kids. Stephanie wow. Okay. Thats the first time i have ever heard good people used as an insult. Stephanie yes, exactly. They keep dragging all of these other issues into it in order to muddy the waters. Right. Look if all of the gun ill say enthusists to be nice decided to ban together to fight the government they would lose. We have the biggest military on the planet by a huge factor. Its just a fantasy. Stephanie lets say it like that, jim, people with gun enthusiasms. Enthusiasms. Me i got enthusiasms with baseball bats. Right. Its not unreasonable for you to hire an armed guard if you feel threatened. Right. They are trained to do that sort of thing. Stephanie right. Okay. Yeah, thats like what i mean. Barbara boxer thinks we should use National Guard. Exactly. Stephanie yesterday i think bill clinton was saying in high crime areas where they may want to hire but im going thats the whole problem, newtown isnt a highcrime area. Right. Stephanie mark levin on the radio. There is a pathetic troll prancing around as a conservative. He goes by the name of joe scarborough. I have assigned him a name. The morning smoe. I hear he has a tv program in the morning on mslsd. I wouldnt be surprised. You have a whole line up of freaks on that show. Including Stephanie Miller show Stephanie Miller show. Stephanie morning smoe. Thats hilarious. Msclds ha. Ha. Stephanie miller show one of the most popular and liberal radio hosts in the country. Stephanie thank you, mark. Perhaps you missed my sarcasm. Sweatshops for emerging economies are for workers with no skills, and then over time the country moves away from it. We should go back to slavery. Slavery built america. Yeah stephanie and it was cheap it was the cheapest labor there is. Lets go back to that. What an idiot. Stephanie wow. Wow. [ applause ] my head hurts. Its an emerging economy of course they should have slaves and die in their workplace. Stephanie i want to be down now with rightwing world. Were there. Are we done . Stephanie yeah. Oh good. [ applause ] remember the days in the show when rightwing world would sometimes run into the next hour . Stephanie yeah, less is good. Troy in buffalo, you are on the Stephanie Miller show. Caller yes. This is troy. Stephanie go ahead. Caller in buffalo, reading from the bpdny werent org website, the 2011 press star buffalos mayor had a forced city gun buyback. This is may of 2011 so they had one already just recently in 2012, but since four gun buybacks not including 2012 they have collected 2951 guns in the city of buffalo. Stephanie okay. Caller i just i watch all of the news, i watch you all day, i watch stephanie or rachel maddow, and i have heard all of the conversation about gun buybacks. No one has ever mentioned buffalo. Stephanie yeah, thats to me thats a fair amount of guns in a city that size. Caller yeah, thats quite a bit. And we have seen the difference on the streets. Stephanie yeah. Well, hello. Listen the gun laws have had an effect in new york city. There is provable evidence in a lot of places. I dont even understand why the gun lobby has a problem with that. Its volunteer. Someone in the gun lobby said they shouldnt be allowed to destroy the guns. They should sell them. Thats what the state of arizona is proposing. Stephanie you are missing the point entirely. Yes, but they are being forced to make it voluntary see how that works . Stephanie i see. Fortyfive opinions after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer free speech . What a concept. Its Stephanie Miller show. Out for us. 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Wow, thats a lot of shrimp. Im ryon stewart im the ultimate shrimp lover, and i sea food differently. 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. Announcer Stephanie Miller. We hear it from the people they call us gypsies, tramps and thieves, but every night the men would come around and lay their money down and lay their trillion dollars coins down. Stephanie who wrote that . Fox news. Stephanie the trillion dollars coin would weigh as much as 89 blue whales or as much as a submarine. And eric bowling things algebra algebra algebra is a conspiracy theory. Ermahgurd. Stephanie what does fox news add to our national debate. They had nothing. You get nothing good day sir i feel bad for the researcher that had to research how much 89 blue whiles weigh. Stephanie he is like thats the most insanely what you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things i ever hear. At no point were you even close to anything that could be rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to you. Stephanie all right pant of my soul just died. Clacky clacky 89 blue whales weighs as much there goes a bikini whale stephanie [ inaudible ] writes about the archie bunker defense of gun. I remember an argument between archie and meat head. Ah geez stephanie hijacking planes was becoming a problem, and archies solution was to arm all passengers. [ applause ] stephanie if he really loved me he would send that audio along. Do you think this guy is contributing to the gun debate jim . Looks fine to me. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie unhinged Tactical Response threatens to start killing people over obamas gun control. He is threatening to start killing people if obama moves forward with guncontrol issues. He went ballistic over reports that the president could take executive action. He said joe biden is asking the president to bypass congress and use executive privilege to impose stricter gun control. [ censor bleep ] that. Ill telling you that is going to inspire a civil war. I need all of you patriots to start thinking about what you are going to do. Be prepared to fight. Im not [ censor bleep ] putting up with this. Im not letting my country be controlled by a dictator. If it goes one inch further, im going to start killing people. Great. [ applause ] stephanie that guy with the goatee and a shaved head well that wasnt mean you are going to shoot everybody [ dramatic music ] Stephanie Chris lavoie has a goatee goatee. No this is a fullon beard. Stephanie close enough. Andy in massachusetts. Watch people with the weird hair. Oh, sure. Stephanie hi andy. Caller i have an idea. Take the approach that a lot of Police Departments took with street racing; in that they are having People Killed because people are racing in the streets, so the police organized drag races. What if Police Academies or National Guard armories open themselves up for people to come and learn and fire at east atrocious weapons, but do it in a safe, you know, environment, and the most important thing that would start a buy log between the gun owners and the First Responders or the people that actually have been in combat, and the big thing about that, i think it will alleviate a big problem, which is the mistrust of these gun owners of law enforcement. So you put them together stephanie yeah. Caller they will see that the cops arent nazis coming to get their guns but they will start a buy log stephanie maybe they can have a dialogue about what it looks like to walk into a grade school and see what they have to see caller exactly. Thats what i mean. Its like you can go and i i dont hunt, but i like skeet shooting. I have been to, you know firing ranges. But if you put them together you lower the paranoia you lower the rhetoric. You lower the insane debate. Stephanie yeah thats what i dont get. Rightwingers are all law and order until the police have a thought. But you are assuming everyone on that side is logical. And the nra was saying that the proof that obama is going to take your guns away is that he hasnt done it yet. Stephanie yes. Man gets law and order and fires shotgun at another car in mcdonalds for receiving the wrong order. They fried to cut in front of another week in the drive through an altercation ensued. The woman through a crowbar at the other vehicle, and her male passenger exited his vehicle with a shotgun and fired a shot in her door. Lets go to janna in kentucky. Caller hi. Stephanie hi go ahead. Caller we can regulation this militia were supposed to have by people going to the courthouse or getting online with the courthouse and registering their gun. And just like winger 18 you sign up and say you have guns or you want to be in the wellregulated militia, and if you shoot a deer from the highway, you will lose your gun and your truck and you will go to jail and youll get fined, and if you grow pot on your land, they will take land. So take a test show what you are doing, and then you get your ownership card and that way everybody will be happy, and ps pigs will kill you. I have a pig. Stephanie oh caller when they bite you, you lose something. If a pig a mean they will bite you stephanie listen i have seen pulp fiction or whatever movie that is with the pigs pulp fiction . Stephanie no, the other one. You know what i mean. Caller i dont watch movies. But pigs are super strong animals. If you get in their yard they will run you down hunt you down, and then bite chunks out of you. That will help me not feel bad when i ate bacon. Stephanie its a Quentin Tarantino movie, im pretty sure. Im telling you i will be right and you will be wrong its hannibal. Stephanie no its quentin tern tino. [ theme music ] stephanie all right Jacki Schechner hal sparks knower of everything texted the movie is snatch. He does know everything. Stephanie yes. By guy richie not what do you call it. He said he cant believe that i couldnt remember the name of that film. [ buzzer ] given the name of it, yeah. But there was a scene in hannibal, where pigs eat a guy. Apparently its obscure movie friday. Stephanie exactly. Of all of the things we have to worry about in l. A. Marauding pigs is not one of them. I saw a sunk once. Stephanie oh, my god. How did you survive. Good morning, everybody. West virginia senator Ray Rockefeller is holding a press conference this morning to announce that he will not be seeking reelection next year. The fiveterm democrat is 75 years old and plans to retire. He served as governor for eight years before before winning his senate seat. Planned parent of texas will be in federal court today fighting for a right to be a part of the states new Womens Health program. Texas wanted federal money for its health and Wellness Program for lowincome women but it wanted to not include organizations that also provided abortion. Rick perry and republican lawmakers decided that they wanted to make the program entirely state funded. Stade planned parenthood is asking the court for a temporary injunction, pointing out it provides basically health care to some 50,000 texans if you are now getting emails from the president obama inauguration thats because the former campaign is holding a conference inauguration weekend to figure out to organize structure, staff and fund its future activities. Were back with more show after the break. Stick with us. vo as marijuana gains social and legal acceptance, a new pioneer is emerging from the backwoods. Im basically like a farmer. Instead of corn, youve got dope. vo but what is legal and what is criminal . This is, no matter what you do, a violation of federal law. vo follow real farmers staking their claim on a new frontier. Lots of terrible things happen to people growing marijuana. This crop to me is my livelihood. I have everything invested in this. Only on current tv. [ voice of dennis ] allstate. With accident forgiveness, they guarantee your rates wont go up just because of an accident. Smart kid. [ voice of dennis ] indeed. Are you in good hands . The chill of peppermint. The rich dark chocolate. York peppermint pattie get the sensation. [ theme music ] announcer ladies and gentlemen its the Stephanie Miller show im walking on sunshine woe ho im walking on sunshine woe ho its time to feel good hey all right now its time to feel good stephanie i am suing you for emotional distress. I did not need to see that seen from hannibal. I think im going to barf so it happens in two movies. Stephanie yes. Like hal sparks said he cant believe i couldnt remember the name of that show. Yes. In hallibal they feed a guy in a wheelchair to pigs. Stephanie elizabeth writes lord of the flies [ buzzer ] no stephanie no rory writes he was killed by a rock. By iraq . Stephanie oh my god. Really. When that guy said he needed an assault weapon to protect himself from wild pigs. The ones in Northern California run away from us. [ applause ] stephanie i dont know. Linda is in minneapolis, she says i was born and raised in monimini. There is another monomini on the eastern side of wisconsin. Its like john boner is in wisconsin. Stephanie its just fun to say. And cant wisconsin [ inaudible ] abaud baud abaud baud stephanie katy also in indianapolis, the official volleyball coach and caffeine addict of the Stephanie Miller show [ bell chimes ] Stephanie Steph im not only listen to you in am 950 on my android app, but i recently found out the android app called tune in plays all sorts of radio shows across the country. Love the ear candy, appreciate the current tv eye candy. Uhhuh. Stephanie speaking of eye canada, its friday of course he would be ear candy, because stephanie he is ear and eye candy. Fugelsang is just all right with me good morning, children. Stephanie good morning, John Fugelsang in the new york bureau. Greetings from a very uneventful week here at current. You have been hosting viewpoint all week long. Yes, and will continue to do so for the nearby future. Stephanie and you have been fantastic. I will see you live next saturday night. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] Stephanie Jan 19th inauguration weekend for sexy liberal in dc. It is going to be a huge show. And theres a special guest that no one is allowed to talk about. Stephanie two. Uhhuh. Stephanie so John Fugelsang this gun debate its good that were having it but then theres these people that go right to obama is hitler. Exactly. We had Richard Feldman who is a gun lobbyist on the show last night. He was at the meeting with Vice President biden yesterday. And it was all of the same crap. And i pointed out the statistics, frank luntz who gave a poll to the nra members last summer, 87 of the members agree that they should try to keep the guns out of the hands of criminals. Stephanie john thats the way it seems thus far is of course as usual, everybody is coming to the table except the gun lobby. Because they only represent gun manufacturers and the only thank they want out of gun owners and is their money and donations. So you are getting so many emails hustling you for nickels, when in reality they are working against their own membership. Stephanie thats right. Good morning. Caller hi, i have been just absolutely livid. I am a news junky, and were missing an opportunity to really use this issue to point out, not only the rank hypocrisy of the rightwing, and i want somebody to ask them why is the Second Amendment sang row sang when they have no problem with steve king trying to pass a law to change the 14th amendment, redefine it regarding the citizenship. They have no problem passing antiabortion laws when the supremes have deemed that women have that right. They pick and choose the constitution just like they pick and choose the bible. Stephanie yeah and they spending how much time and taxpayer money trying to repeal the Affordable Care act. Caller exactly. Not once when they bring up their precious Second Amendment and im a gun owner. I got my first gun at 12. Nobody challenges why is your amendment and your part of the constitution more senkrosck what about the right to pursue life and happiness . Stephanie yeah. Somebody put it that way, pat. Where does your right to own a gun supersede my right to not get shot. Caller exactly. I grew up in a family of alcoholics and domestic abuse, and if we had guns around we would all be dead. And i throw things at the tv and my dog runs away screaming, but if we would justcoless around every time they bring it up raise the hypocrisy. We do it periodly when they do something stupid, but bring it all together to point out every one of those people using leviticus are eating shrimp and [ inaudible ]. Hey, when did obama write wellregulated into my Second Amendment . I want that out of there too stephanie speaking of which my personal comedy jesus [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie new york mayor, cory booker wrote a column in college about overcoming his disgust and latent hostility that he once felt toward gay people. Uhhuh. I grew up in like the homophobia capitol of the east coast, and i was horribly homophobic. And my heart grew. Stephanie like the grinch . How many sizes . My heart grew three sizes. But its hate and ignorance. Thats why no children hate until they are taught to. Stephanie right. Booker wrote that he hated gays though he was able to feign acceptance of gay people until a counselor opened his eyes. A lot of people were saying about when it becomes personal. This is back in 1992. I still remember how my bra would unconsciously furl. He said he wanted to argue and debate with a counselor during her first debate, inste he quickly disarmed me with his testimony, he said it was chilling to find so much of his testimony was similar to with what my grandparents told me about growing up black. He describes it now as his teenage struggle for integrity. And thats what it is all about. Which is why i was so proud that they said they are going to Start Performing samesex marriages in washington, d. C. And our homophobes started to flip out despite the fact that jesus never said anything about gay people. They just want to have something to blame hurricanes on. Stephanie yeah, the referendum in new jersey he said we should not be putting civil rights to a popular vote. So boy, i hope this all gets resolved at the supreme court. If we had you still wouldnt have been able to eat at the same table as black people. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie the headline Chris Christie is able to fill the void. [ laughter ] stephanie looks like he is positioning himself for 2016 president ial run. Although he said it would be crazy for anyone to try to plan four years from now. [ cuckoo clock chimes ] stephanie a new poll shows christie crushing [ laughter ]. Thats awful. We need acceptance. Stephanie yes, stop putting in immature sound effects. So you are saying Chris Christie wants to run. Thats all we can do. Stephanie he was born to run. [ laughter ] stephanie seventeen minutes after the hour back with more fridays with fugelsang on the Stephanie Miller show. Very interesting but stupid. Announcer its the Stephanie Miller show. [ ryon ] eating shrimp at red lobster is a fantastic experience. 30 shrimp for 11. 99. I cant imagine anything better. Youre getting a ton of shrimp and it tastes really good [ male announcer ] hurry in to red lobsters 30 shrimp for just 11. 99 choose any two of five savory shrimp selections like mango jalapeno shrimp and parmesan crunch shrimp. Two delicious shrimp selections on one plate all with salad and unlimited cheddar bay biscuits. 30 shrimp, just 11. 99 for a limited time. Wow, thats a lot of shrimp. Im ryon stewart im the ultimate shrimp lover, and i sea food differently. Um, hello. These ugly stains are ruining my good looks and style. And good luck using that cleaner. Excuse me, miss . Hes right. Those are tough hard water stains, and that cleaners not gonna cut it. Truth is, 85 of us have hard water and many dont even know it. You need limeaway. Limeaway is specially formulated to conquer hard water stains. Its 4 times more effective at removing lime scale than the leading bathroom cleaner. See the limeaway difference or your money back. 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. Announcer Stephanie Miller. Hoping i could learn a bit about how to give and take but since i came here felt the joy of love here founding myself making every possible mistake stephanie yep. Yep. Yep. All of them. Every single one. Twentytwo minutes after the hour. Fridays with fugelsang in the new york bureau. There was another shooting out here in california and there is somebody that was critically injured but not he was shot in the chest and he was 16 years old, and the teacher who took shrapnel in her body talked him out of it. Stephanie yeah, he was targeting two classmates because he felt he had been bullied. You know, and its interesting, john in the debate about military assault weapons, i mean again, this is a tragedy and we hope the kid recovers but you go there is not the same kind of carnage. In these other cases, its just horrific listening to the details its really true. And with frank luntz survey last year, 79 of nra members support background checks. The argument i had last night on viewpoint from the gun lobbyist at the meeting yesterday, was that i should be able to sell a gun to my friends if i want. And i pointed out thats what gang members do. And i said if it saves one childs life isnt it worthed it . And he said what if it costs one childs life. And he said well if im worried about my daughters life and i want to give her a gun on saturday, i cant have the background check happen until monday. And i said have your kid stay home for the weekend. Yeah. But these are the arguments im up against, and im afraid we are going to see the white house cave on assault weapons, but they will proceed on background checks and highammunition clips. Stephanie yeah i got to say listen john im the biggest gun grabber liberal there is but i agree with what you just said even if we can save one life, and if we can do it in steps, thats better than nothing. The gun show loophole anything we can agree on maybe rather than one big piece of legislation. We have to start somewhere. No one in the administration has ever suggested taking anyones guns away from them ever. But what if the soviet union reassembles itself overnight, and im stuck with my glock stephanie yeah. And you know what they say first off when they say i need to protect myself from the government. You say who are you going to shoot . Policemen . Are you shooting american soldiers . Or are you shooting federal agents . Furthermore the government they have got drones trainings stephanie im sure they will be really scared about your assault weapon right before you vaporize. Its a paranoid male fantasy. And its about their entertainment. Its about their penis expension. Stephanie oh chris lavoie just because men like things that go off in their hands doesnt mean you can make that joke. Thousands of people walk around new york city with guns in their pants and they are completely secure in their penis size. Stephanie john from texas caller i was going to tell you it was Hannibal Stephanie and snatch. Caller and also true blood. But anyway what is yawls definition of assault rifle. Stephanie well, i have the fun facts right here in front of me. [ funfacts music ] stephanie sometimes semi automatic [ inaudible ]. Standard Service Rifles in most modern armies. Caller so that would already be inlegal. It is a fully auto rifle. Stephanie right. Okay. Let me go back. It should be distinguished from the u. S. Legal term assault weapons. Its the standard rifles in most armies. When general mccrystal said these are not the kinds of guns that should be on the streets. Absolutely. Caller and what confuses me is that an ar15 rifle does not fit that definition. Well, it is able to be automatic or semi automatic civilians should not be able to carry weapons designed to kill people in a very short period of time. But it does not have fully auto and thats the gun used in the batman theater. Do you defend his right to have access to that gun for his personal entertainment. No. Caller he had no criminal record. My point is when the nra can invent a gun that stops men from snapping yall can have all of the guns you want. Stephanie thats a good point. Dont you think it might be helpful to not have the level of artillery we have currently . Wouldnt that be part of the solution. Caller i was just trying to get the definition straight. But assault rifles are meant to kill as many people as possible in a short amount of time. Stephanie right a military guy was saying because they dont have enough time to train armies uhhuh. Being a sniper is a very specific skill. Stephanie right. Twentynine minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Going to do the young turks. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. 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. Boy im really looking forward to this i really need some announcer Stephanie Miller. After the week i have hood. Stephanie whoa doesnt. Oh, john [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie look at this. One of our pave rate play things michele bachmann. She still hasnt paid president ial campaign staffers. I kept up with these people because you are bastard people. I just hate you, and i hate your ass face stephanie five iowa staffers have refused to sign a gag order, i dont know if marcus oh, dear. He should have signed one before he ate that corn dog. Marcus can take it to the base. [ laughter ] stephanie you people are just too immature. Were too immature to be on the Stephanie Miller show. Stephanie thats right. [ farting sounds ] [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie oh, [ inaudible ] one of our great play things. He says the antiisrael pro iran mind set. Oh, geez. Stephanie santorum recently lead a fight to convincing several republicans well be announcing his campaign what in six months . Stephanie colin powell will be on mete the press to express his support. Hello, don . Caller steph. Thank you my wife very much appreciated the pro flowers. [ bell chimes ] stephanie thank you, john. See the wonders of typing stephanie in your box. Caller yes. I want to talk about the word need need. Stephanie right. Caller when we talk about civil rights and stuff like that, the word need ever came into effect. I think you guys would go nuts if i started talking about some common sense restrictions on abortion. Or why does a woman need to have an abortion. Or she already had three abortions, she doesnt need another abortion but yet were hah happy to throw that word around when were talking about the Second Amendment. If you have a problem with the law, change the damn law. Stephanie thats what were talking about. Adam lanzo wasnt breaking the law until december. Caller right. I dont need an assault rifle, using your terminology. I dont need one. But i have one. I like it. I like to go shoot it. Yeah, its entertainment. Right. Its a toy. Stephanie but don were talking about reasonable gun laws. You dont need an abrams tank but you should be able to have one if you want one. But you cant. Caller no, im talking about the whole issue of a right stephanie but a military assault weapon is a military weapon. That was general mccrystals point. Civilians shouldnt have either is his point. Caller well, outlaw them then. Some of us believe in that. And you can keep yourselves even when others are not being sold. Caller well, i can register mine if i have to. But i dont understand the word need. Stephanie people want to keep inserting their personal issue. This guy at least admitted it is a toy and he likes his toy. Stephanie yep. Gail in new york. Caller hi stephanie. You know, at the beginning of the program when you were talking about the teachers, you know, having these weapons . Stephanie right. Caller i group up in the time, you know where Corporal Punishment was the thing. And i remember i was picking up my sister in first grade and what not, and this teacher through me up against the wall just because i was helping her put her boots on. Could you imagine if that teacher would have been allowed to have a gun . Stephanie yeah. We have been talking all morning about specific teachers of ours that shouldnt have a gun. And everyone who thinks that more guns makes us safer needs to look at europe japan or australia. Stephanie exactly. Lets go to josh in seattle. Caller hey, how are you. Stephanie good go ahead. Caller sorry you just caught me off guard. Anyway, so i just wanted to share how i dealt with the gun issue with my kids we treated the [ inaudible ] pretty much as more or less important as any other [ inaudible ] and basically we wanted to try to create an environment where guns and pretty much anything was not a taboo subject, and we were totally willing to because your strategy was to combat those types of things with education as opposed to trying to hide it or lock it away and so on and so forth [ inaudible ] as soon as my son stephanie im sorry yeah. Didnt get that sorry. Stephanie ho was calling from atlantis. You were right earlier. I support his right to own plutonium in his house. Stephanie too me. Patrick in maryland. Hello, patrick . Caller hello. Im here to talk about the Second Amendment. Go ahead. Morning. Caller i think people should be able to have ar15s since its a constitutional right. For a well regulated militia. Are you a member of a well regulated militia, sir . Caller no. Well then it doesnt belong to you. Its to have a well regulated militia. Stephanie they were referring to muskets and i support your right to have as many muskets as you would like. Do you support james holmess right to have an ar14. They are not for hunting. I know. But do you support james holmess right to have an ar14 . Caller no. But it doesnt mean you have the right to take away guns no one is saying that. Its going to go downhill after the ar14s. Then little be rifles no. Stephanie you cant use the slippery slope argument. To have obama is going to take your guns its crazy. Sir, if it saves one childs life stephanie let him talk john. Go ahead. Patrick. Caller do you actually trust obama that he is only going to ban assault rifles. I dont at all. Im not even sure he is going to do that. Caller he is a liar. Stephanie he is a liar . Caller yes. How do you know this . He reads off of a telegram stephanie teleprompter. Like every president has done. That guy was a teenager who thought he could trap us. He had no reasoning skills because he only had talking points stephanie his tea party boss that pays him to call radio shows i toll you teleprompter you moron all right. Jay carney addressing usually the president too black. Now he is appointing way too many whites. I think it would be useful to wait and make judgments after this issue after the president has made the totally of appointments that he will make. Stephanie see, now hes being racist against black people. Republicans saying the obama cabinet is too white is like [ inaudible ]. You dont get to do that. Fox news mike huckabee, these guys they dont get to complain about that. And george w. Bush had 24 women appointees, and president obama has 35. Stephanie thank you. George go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. Are you aware of how many people in the United States save themselves from great bodily harm or injury in a year by having stephanie not as many are likely to shoot a friendor caller i just asked a question because you have been discussing how many people have been killed stephanie right. Not nearly as many times. Right. And were not talking about handguns at all. Stephanie you are three times more likely to shoot a Family Member or acquaintance. And were not talking about handguns. And handguns are overwhelmingly used in more crimes than assault rifles. So again if we asked the caller how many of those people saved their lives usen an ar14. Stephanie exactly. Ermahgerd telegrams stephanie all right. Well be right back with the remaining moments of the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer your grade school nones would like to slap her silly. Its the Stephanie Miller show. 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Right because we are living in a Material World and i am a Material Girl you know that we are living in a Material World, and i am a Material Girl she always had a fake english accent even back then. Stephanie youre interest detroit please madonna. Fridays with fugelsang in the new york bureau. Lindsay lohan has been accused of stealing 250 of furniture 250,000 of furniture. Stephanie right. If you are coked up enough you could she may have [ overlapping speakers ] ermahgerd. Stephanie think of all of the stuff winona ryder wow that was an 80s reference. Stephanie boy, sharon stone has kept a few frocks but 250,000 worth of furniture. We know she didnt keep the underwear from that one movie. Stephanie no. [ world news tonight theme ] Stephanie Lance armstrong has agreed to an interview with oprah. What do you think . Will he come clean . If he comes clean look whatever he did and it seems clear that he did what he is accused of what he has doing, it doesnt take away from what he has done for cancer research. He has enough money and the best karma would be if he found out all of that time cheryl crow was faking it too. Stephanie i dope on my bike trips now. But you dope with chardonnay. But he took his blood out oxygen at itted and then put it back in his body. And this was the first week no one was inducted in the hall of fame because of the steroid scandal. We just need the dope league. Stephanie someone was saying it was an even playing field. And if a dirty field he is still the best. But then it goes stephanie you let oprah handle the details. Roy in nashville. Caller theres no mention in the media about the medical cost of treating gunshot injuries. All of this talk about deaths which is a figure hard to find out. Go try to find anything on the intro nut you get lead down a rabbit hole with misinformation. Stephanie yeah. They have prevented us even from doing research on gun violence. Its incredible the power they have had. And it effects communities financially. Thats a good point. Stephanie yep. Andrew in california. You are on with john. Hi, andrew. Caller hi how are you doing steph . Stephanie good go ahead. Caller im home sick today, so i thought i would call in. I want to give a History Lesson about the Second Amendment if i could. Stephanie okay. Please. The Second Amendment is there because it would prevent the government from taking control are doing two really bad things. One they are misinterpreting history, because they say we were able to overthrow the british because we had muskets. Well the muskets didnt do very well against the british. And the second misinterpretation that they are coming with is you are allowed to have your weapon because the Second Amendment says you have the right to bare arms. When our Founding Fathers tried to set up our country and we were thinking about how to protect ourselves from foreign invaders. They were copying on the british model of how to organize an army. And they had county militias, and also to act as fillins for replacements and get already trained men to fight. And the army needed a quick replenishment of our army. So our Founding Fathers said thats a great idea, so were going to do the same thing. Well have a well regulated militia that well train to use in times of war. Stephanie the National Guard, right . Caller right. Thats why we have the National Guard. The interpretation that somehow we won the war against the british because the people who lived here had birdhunting muskets is absurd. And to think the Second Amendment was written that we were protecting ourselves from a tyrannical government is absurd. Stephanie good point. [ bell chimes ] also the government already takes over every day already. Stephanie right. Right. I love the idea of muskets myself, john, because american were such an instant gratification society. If we have to wait for anything well i have to tamp it down. Stephanie you know what football is on. [ laughter ] stephanie John Fugelsang anything else to plug . Viewpoint is now hosted by me on current tv. Yeah yesterday was the 23rd anniversary of timewarner. Its too bad so many people couldnt hear that announcement. We had some great guests. We just had a panel with a christian, muslim jew, and an atheist that looked like jesus. Wow did they walk into a bar . Yes. And well do everything we can, folks to get Stephanie Miller to be a guest. Stephanie im on it. And sexy liberal jan 19th. Dont miss the party. Well see you there. Have a great weekend, John Fugelsang. Love you guys. See ya john. Stephanie see you monday on the Stephanie Miller show