#1018 - Alonzo Bodden

Joe Rogan (0:00)

And let's get it.

Boom, ladies and gentlemen. And we're live, Alonzo Bodden. How are you, man?

Alonzo Bodden (0:10)

What is up, Joe? I'm great, man.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Somber times. These are the weirdest fucking times ever. RIP to Tom Petty.

I guess we have to say that, too.

Alonzo Bodden (0:18)

Yeah, yeah. Obviously. It's a ridiculous time, and like everyone's been saying, again. You know what I mean? It's like, here we go again.

Another mass shooting, and I think the most disturbing graphic to me was the scorecard. Like they showed, like, this guy got 58, and then the guy in Orlando got, what, 40 something. And so because it's like, okay, you just encouraged the next psycho to try to set the record. You know what I mean? Like it shouldn't be, there has to be another way to say it without giving publicity to, he killed more than anybody else, you know?

Joe Rogan (1:00)

Well, for everybody who's listening in the future, this is taking place, we're recording this on Tuesday. The massacre happened in Las Vegas on Sunday. So it's just a couple days ago. And we were just going over all the details of it. I'm reading online here, he killed 59 people, injured 527, which is just fucking completely insane.

I mean, 527 people shot, is that right? Or does that count people trampled?

Alonzo Bodden (1:30)

I think it includes people trampled and injured otherwise. But there were a hell of a lot of people shot. I mean, he opened up with automatic weapons into a crowd of thousands of people to where probably, you know, did any bullet hit the ground? Like there were so many people at this thing that every bullet probably hit somebody. Yeah, probably. Or more than one person, depending on, I don't know the power or the ballistics of the weapon, but you know, it definitely, like bullets could have went through one guy into the next person and so on.

Joe Rogan (2:01)

I'm sure they did, a hundred percent.

This guy, first of all, there's, you know, everybody's, this becomes a big gun control argument, which it should be, right? But one thing that we gotta really take into consideration is he had illegal guns. These guns were illegal, I think, for 25 years. So this isn't, I don't know how much of this could have been helped by making it more illegal.

Alonzo Bodden (2:25)

Yeah, it, you know, that's always a debate. First, the first problem is what was going on yesterday when they say this is not the time to talk about guns.

Joe Rogan (2:34)

Of course it is.

Alonzo Bodden (2:35)

And it, yeah, of course, it's the exact time to talk about guns. And I'm not a gun guy in the sense that I'm not a gun owner, but I get it with guys who are into guns. I always compare it to my love of cars and bikes or anything mechanical or whatever. I understand it, but the people, most of the people I talk to who love guns don't have a problem with registration, certainly don't have a problem with education and what I call common sense gun ownership. And there are some guns that I get it.

There are some guns that, and again, I'm not speaking with any expertise, but from the layman's point of view, it's like, why do you need this semi-automatic military style weapon in a, don't tell me you have it for hunting or anything else. Like if there's a reason you wanna collect it, just like if there's a reason you wanna own a race car, and somebody says, why do you need a car that does 200 miles an hour? Well, you may have a reason you want that race car, but you don't use it on the street. You can't take it onto the streets.

And I think that should be, that there should be some kind of rule with that kind of weapon that if you-

Joe Rogan (3:46)

But here's the thing, it doesn't matter if there's a rule. There were plenty of rules.

This guy violated all the rules.

Alonzo Bodden (3:51)

This guy did, but I'm just talking about the general attitude towards sales. Just the idea that you can walk into a store and buy these weapons.

It should somehow be more difficult to, and again, this is my opinion, right? But I think it should be more difficult to buy a weapon of that type.

Joe Rogan (4:11)

Yeah, well, these are all illegal weapons. This guy shot people with illegal...

Alonzo Bodden (4:15)

Yeah, he converted them to fully automatic, and fully automatic's illegal everywhere, right?