* Trying to “Bring it All Down, Man”: Bob’s guest host Doug McBurney explains Bob’s mysterious absence these past few days… turns out Bob’s been busy hemorrhaging money responding to a trademark lawsuit filed in Manhattan against Bob & Fred Williams, claiming “Real Science Radio” is infringing the trademark held by National Public Radio syndicat
* More Lessons from the Aurora Murders: Bob Enyart continues the discussion of the distracting cliches, and talks about the actual causes, and the solutions to America's murder epidemic addressing that the claim that this the the price we pay for living in a "free society."
You Can't Stop Every Crime, But You CAN End an Epidemic
* First Dismiss the Distracting Cliches
- Gun Distraction: Guns were more accessible to Colorado young people 100 years ago, and they weren't killing each other
- The "Free Society" Distraction: This lament is a just a cliche that distracts from the lack of substance someone has to offer because murders occur in both free and not-free societies, including under dictators and tyrants. Distractors in Chief:
Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper on CNN: "I'm not sure there is any way in a free society to be able" to stop this..."
LA Daily News Columnist: "What's a free society supposed to do..."
Wall Street Journal Headline: "How does a free society protect itself"
RealClearPolitics Headline: "How does a free society protect itself"
- Bias Distraction: If the murderer can be connected to conservatives (or even if not) that's the media spin (like the Norway killer, Gabriel Gifford's shooter, etc.)
- Deterrence Doesn't Work Distraction: Even this particular murderer did not want to die and may have been deterred if he expected return fire from law-abiding concealed-carry movie goers
- Mental Illness Distraction: Schools and other special interests will call for more focus on mental health, yet many of the school shooters have been on psychiatric drugs. Regarding this particular murderer, he knew the consequences of his actions, for he shot unarmed kids and families, but not the police who would have shot back and killed him. And defense attorneys claim temporary insanity, 99.9% of the time, for murder, but not for lesser crimes like shoplifting or failure to come to a complete stop. What? When people go temporarily insane they only commit felonies and not misdemeanors?
* Identify the Causes of America's Crime Epidemic
- Education, entertainment, government, all deny the existence of absolute right and wrong and that absolutes flow from God
- Moral relativism is promoted; what's right for you isn't necessarily right for me
- It's no longer a justice system, now it's just a system
- If it feels good, do it
- Rejection of God's criminal justice system
- Christian leaders don't even give God the courtesy of knowing what He says on criminal matters (like, for example, perjury)
- Public schools teach kids that they're animals, so no one should be shocked when they act like animals
- Incarceration is time-out for adults where all the worst elements gather to drag each other downward
- Criminals and many young people have no fear, even in court before a judge
- Excessive violence from Hollywood and video games, including for young people, destroys innocence, as does hard and "soft" porn
- Society is drugged and drunk, like this murderer, on pot and other drugs
- Killing the innocent today is promoted as a valid solution to problems, as with euthanasia (like Children's Hospital euthanizing a 4-year-old handicapped boy), suicide, and abortion
* Analyzing What Matters: While the whole country is analyzing the wrong news stories, Bob Enyart looks at two stories about prisoners that demonstrate what's wrong with our criminal justice system, and then he considers what the Bible says as a correction.
Anyone "tormented by the guilt of murder will be a fugitive till death; let no one support him." Or her. Proverbs 28:17
* Well, Not Really: But Bob Enyart and Doug McBurney have fun talking about:
- criminal justice
- the 5,000-watt confession
- Doug copping to trumped up charges
- two idiots getting a lecture
- the courts interest in conflict of interest
- a plea to end the bargaining, and
- the most successful U.S. racer in World Cup history Tebowing.
* Dave from Littleton on Stunning Fossil Footprints: So, we've got soft-tissue from a T. rex, carbon-14 everywhere it's not supposed to be, and human footprints with dinosaur footprints!
"What Would You Do If I Killed You?" A Colorado law enforcement officer talks to Bob in studio about work and faith. A criminal who was being transported to jail asked Officer Danny, "What would you do if I got out of these cuffs and killed you?" Of course, the most direct answer is, "Die." But Danny went on to bring this criminal to his knees. Not literally of course, but in reality.
* Attorney General Lies to Congress: What's up with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder lying to Congress about what he knew and when he knew it of the thousands of guns the Justice Department gave to Mexican criminal gangs? Seems the law enforcement branch of the government doesn't know right from wrong.