have been anywhere. could have been the event that happened in the school in california today. what they were waiting for was one of these events, and whoever is orchestrating it has done an effective job. it hasn t this intended consequences, however. the nra today has nearly 6 million members. we ve been around since 1780 excuse me 1871. it s late. 1871. oldest civil rights organization in america. it s here to teach marksmanship. safe handling of weapons. we go on ranges and training for law enforcement, for military guys. it s been done for literally since 1871. so i know that the estimates are there are more than 100 million americas who own guns. so only 6 million in the nra, your job is now to try to boost memberships mips. why do you think they have chosen not to partake? i don t know. we ve had several marines at the head. the last one was joe floss, medal of honor recipient and
i think he said to himself, if i try and public this through one of the military publications, it will never see print. it will be watered down to nothing. i was glad he did it. he took a lot of guff. in july, general mccrystal was replaced by general david petraeus, who brings in his own staff, including a director of intelligence. suddenly, michael flynn is no longer the top intelligence officer in afghanistan. when he was working for stan mccrystal, he had someone above him who appreciated his unconventionality or protected him against himself. i remember thinking, what s going to happen to flynn? what job is he going to get? coming up lock her up. that s right. that s right. lock her up. it was unseemly and it made all of us in uniform extremely uncomfortable. military guys don t do that. t.
military guys who are democrats to me, that is the formula. that is the anti-republican. let me ask you about the president turning on the guy before he loses. you talk about being one of the things that stands between donald trump and normalizing this behavior. he s out campaigning for him. there is a report in axios he s trashing him before he even loses. he turns on people before they have a chance to make him look bad, betsy. he doesn t like losers. i m not sure how to make sense of this to be candid. there are a lot of people who were cited in that reporting and my guess would be that we wouldn t have stories like that filtering out if the president weren t comfortable with people knowing that even though he tried to help out this rick saccone guy, he wasn t that he hedged his bet. i want to talk about betsy devos who had indisputably disastrous
officers. plenty of trained professionals. plenty of trained military guys. they can conceal their weapons. but their very presence also with the strategy, strategic plan, that is properly implemented will bring about a profound change. now, i know there are probably detractors out there say but, sean, park land, florida high school they had an armed security guard. here s the thing. the school has 3,000 students. it s one of the biggest campuses in florida. you re gonna need more than one person to properly assess and deter any potential threat at a facility that large. we need enough people to protect every single building, every point of entry. and the entire perimeter. now, some of you will argue, okay, this is going to cost money. you re right. my answer is, yes. but is it not worth every penny so that we never ever have to turn on our tvs like yesterday and see this unfold ever again like what happened in parkland. now, here is another point about the plan. now, we already know i
emmanuel macron who has a big parade. he wasn t sitting there with jim jong-un. the french don t do everything right. the spirit of the idea, right? but this president keeps military leaders close around him. and while this might be his idea, and one that he has had for some time, i would have to assume that he is going to listen to the advice of the military leaders by his side. and no, i m not going to speculate on that. we ve heard things already. can i say one thing about the military leaders. there are tkinds, one by kissin the right you know what, and the others that rise up because they re heros on the battlefield. he has surrounded himself by the second kind of military guys. they re the ones i respect most and i m with you 100%. if they say it is a go, i am okay with it. if they say no, i m okay with that. maybe it isn t the parade that you re all cooking up in your head. maybe it is different.