away gun rights. i get that. that s an old debate. but we had the fbi and local authorities and the school itself refusing to act on the obvious for a lot of different reasons. and maybe it was malfeasance. maybe it was a mistake or an oversight. but those three factors alone combine together to allow this kid to get these weapons. it wasn t the nra who missed the red flag. the fbi were told the kid s going to shoot up the school and they don t stop them, and suddenly it s the nra s problem. you ve got to be kidding me. that s a lame argument. we ve had guns in our society since our founding. and kids weren t picking up guns and shooting other kids in schools. what s happened that s caused this phenomenon to take place? fatherless homes, violence that
kevin, it sounds like a unique idea. hey, turn in your gun and you will get some groceries in exchange, will something like this work? to be surpassed only by hug athug, pete. do you remember that? pete: yeah. they did hug a thug in philadelphia or some other liberal utopia. st. louis is going to have the fattest criminals in the land they can brag about that with the chamber of commerce. what an a asinine idea. when you look at the demographic of this where have you these young black men ages 20 to 29 are the biggest victims of these crimes, and the unsafe neighborhood that have been created by mayors like lied da and in the case of st. louis, mayor slay before her. you know, these ideas that these i call them leftist busch with a cocktail sippers want to try as opposed to addressing the real issues of fatherless homes and, you know, the
the latest murderer who grew up in a fatherless home. it s difficult to deal with that societal crisis of how most people in prison, most people have severe problems grow up in fatherless homes. this something people could work on that would pay dividends. bret: this is the president talking about the las vegas gunmen today. i can tell you it s a very sick man. he was a very demented person. we haven t seen that yet, but you will know very soon if we find something. we are looking very, very hard. bret: he was pressed about it by the pool before he got on marine one. he said it s going to come out soon. kind of foreshadowing whatever the police are learning. stick with the bickley the typically the president would get a briefing. he might know something. i think it s clear already if it was terrorism we all would have known it.
of these women are not, they are having babies on their own. they are not in a committed relationship. a lot of babies are coming out of committed relationships with people who live together. those dissolve faster than marriages. i think people are realizing while marriage provides legal and social protections, it doesn t automatically mean people are good parents. what i think we are seeing is a shift in the definition of morality in america. people are asking is morality really just a blanket an enforcement of old rules or is a moral society one that works together to nonjudgmentally and open-mindedly solve our most intractable problems. i think people are catching on to the fact marriage and morality doesn t equal healthy, happy families as evidenced by the duggars, there was incest and abuse going on. people think about this study, fatherless homes. back to your point, if you are
my heart is in these communities. i spent my early years as a lawyer in these communities to do something. when president obama became a lawyer i thought he would do it. it s getting worse in these communities, not better. he did talk about fatherless homes in the african-american community. in the beginning. in the beginning. he got blow back and he never went back. i do recall when he ran for re-election, he did not go and campaign in the big cities with african-american high population because the economy was so bad and unemployment was so bad for african-americans he stayed away. you know, gretchen, when he talked about the responsibility of fathers in the urban areas, lots of places in this nation i thought, finally. finally someone s speaking to this important problem. finally. but then we haven t heard about it in a number of years, at least i don t remember. maybe it s spoke other times.