RUSH EXCERPT:
WILLIAMS: "They’re kind of saying it with cars, if 30 people are killed each day by drunk drivers in our country, so what do you want to do? You want to have car control? Or turns out that rifles kill roughly — rifles and shotguns are used to kill about 550 people each year, according to the FBI statistics, but in terms of knives, knives and people are — knives are responsible for about 1500 deaths a year. So what do you want? Knife control? If you use the same reasoning that people use about guns to cars and knives, you have background checks in order for you to go buy a knife, or background check to buy a car. I think what we fail to realize is that what has happened to our society in terms of morality, and keep in mind, that today it’s more difficult to get a gun or rifle than it has ever been in our country. That is, if you look in the sears and roebuck catalog of I think it’s 1908, there are 35 pages of sales of guns, and what do you with the sears catalog, you send your money and they sent you a gun. Or walk in a hardware store and buy a gun. Or for a long time, a birthday present for a 12-year-old or 14-year-old from his father was a .22 rifle. Schools had gun shooting clubs, and so you say, well, you might say, well, what has happened to guns between now — between 1920 and today? What are guns doing differently? Well, guns aren’t doing anything differently. You have to ask the question, what has happened to people since the 1920s? And what there’s been, there’s been a decline in morality, so this is what you find happening all over our country, and to have — to say we want gun control in order to protect our kids in their schools, that’s plain nonsense."