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Speaker 1: Freedom Hut. Tuesday, July fifth edition of the program. A
Speaker 1: mass shooting in Highland Park in Illinois with people killed
Speaker 1: by another maniacal lunatic shooter, and the calls for gun
Speaker 1: control and the political maneuvering of people trying to score
Speaker 1: points here already underway. We'll discuss that, plus seven killed
Speaker 1: twenty nine others shot over the weekend just in Chicago alone.
Speaker 1: The violence continued to spiral out of control in that city.
Speaker 1: Ohio police officers released a body camera footage of a
Speaker 1: twenty five year old black man who was shot by
Speaker 1: eight officers. Will discuss that situation. Plus Gavin Newsom launches
Speaker 1: ads urging Floridians to leave for California, and Buck gets
Speaker 1: more attention than he bargained for with a tweet in Asheville,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, or perhaps more than I anticipated. I can
Speaker 1: always bargain for whatever the crazy commis throw at me.
Speaker 1: We will get into all of that, my friends. That
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Speaker 1: the weekend. We're all hoping we could just have a
Speaker 1: holiday weekend where the American people get to celebrate and
Speaker 1: be together, and tragedy tragedy hits. You have this mass shooter,
Speaker 1: who I do agree with the calls for not naming,
Speaker 1: a not publicizing widely or unnecessarily these mass shooters. I mean,
Speaker 1: this individual quite frankly, you look at him, you look
Speaker 1: at a photo of him, and you say, this person's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, it looks like a person who is deeply
Speaker 1: mentally ill. And that's before you see his rap videos
Speaker 1: and everything else. I mean, this is someone who is
Speaker 1: just deranged, honestly, and there are people who unfortunately, in
Speaker 1: a world of over seven billion of us, there are
Speaker 1: going to be deranged individuals out there. Now, we can't
Speaker 1: just discuss that. No, Instead, what happens here is a
Speaker 1: conversation that occurs around gun control, and immediately, immediately they
Speaker 1: launch into telling us that this means there needs to
Speaker 1: be more gun control. Now, some of us will recall
Speaker 1: that we just had a gun control debate after mass shooting,
Speaker 1: and some Republican senators decided to go along with this,
Speaker 1: and the rest of us are saying that won't stop
Speaker 1: any shootings, and it won't even stop the Democrats from
Speaker 1: demanding more of these gun control laws. We were just
Speaker 1: saying this. I mean, it feels like it was a
Speaker 1: week ago. We're having them maybe two weeks agore having
Speaker 1: this conversation, and here we are and now they are
Speaker 1: demanding more gun control. Now, let's just take a moment
Speaker 1: and think you have a host of laws in the
Speaker 1: state of Illinois, including red flag laws, already in place.
Speaker 1: This shooter was twenty two, He legally purchased his firearm,
Speaker 1: and nothing that was recently done in the so called
Speaker 1: bipartisan gun control package would have stopped this individual. Unless
Speaker 1: you are going to rely on the state to be
Speaker 1: much more efficient and much more accurate in assessing dangerous
Speaker 1: mental health cases. That is the only thing that I
Speaker 1: can see here that or confiscate guns from seventy million Americans, right,
Speaker 1: which is not going to happen. And the Libs need
Speaker 1: to just stop living in this crazy, the fantasy land
Speaker 1: of one day We're just going to take all of
Speaker 1: the guns. You're not going to get them lives. It's
Speaker 1: not going to happen. So we have to work within
Speaker 1: the existing society that we have. You have somebody who
Speaker 1: is clearly insane, he was on the radar of law enforcement.
Speaker 1: Now let's have a conversation. Let's say, do we want
Speaker 1: to make it easier for this state to involuntarily commit
Speaker 1: people like this individual? Now that's going to mean men
Speaker 1: and women with guns show up in the name of
Speaker 1: this state and arrest this person effectively for mental health
Speaker 1: reasons and lock him away. How long do we lock
Speaker 1: this person away? How does he prove if he is
Speaker 1: no longer a threat, is in a life imprisonment because
Speaker 1: he was clearly deranged at twenty two? What are the rules?
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm not suggesting these are unanswerable questions.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are people that do have suggestions and
Speaker 1: answers for them. What I'm saying is, this is the
Speaker 1: real conversation if you want to try to avoid these situations.
Speaker 1: I also think, and this is just a sense that
Speaker 1: I have. This is my assessment, but I believe strongly
Speaker 1: in it, so I will share it with you. I
Speaker 1: think that the madness of the pandemic and the amplification
Speaker 1: of fear, anxiety, panic, and despair through social media for
Speaker 1: the purposes of political control, has made mental health deteriorate
Speaker 1: on a massive scale, the likes of which we haven't
Speaker 1: seen in our lifetimes. And I think that for a
Speaker 1: lot of people, obviously, what that means is there may
Speaker 1: be a little more depressed, a little you know, they
Speaker 1: have to spend a little more time working on there,
Speaker 1: because we're all we're all dealing with ups and downs
Speaker 1: of mental health. There's no such thing. No one's in
Speaker 1: a stable state of the exact same mental health or
Speaker 1: emotional health feelings all the time. That's just not how
Speaker 1: human beings are. The point is, you know, if ten
Speaker 1: is the happiest you've ever been in your life and
Speaker 1: one is you know, deeply suicidal and or a danger
Speaker 1: to other people, you know, we want to keep everybody
Speaker 1: at like a you know, six to a nine is
Speaker 1: seven to a nine. You know, you want to keep
Speaker 1: people generally population feeling pretty good, feeling pretty stable secure.
Speaker 1: That's the goal, right Well. I think for people who
Speaker 1: are already very low on the scale of mental health, durability,
Speaker 1: and emotional stability, I think the pandemic has really damaged them.
Speaker 1: I think the separation from other human beings, I think
Speaker 1: the constant we're all gonna die, We're all gonna die
Speaker 1: unless we obey all these dictates of the state. And
Speaker 1: by the way, those dictates of the state did nothing
Speaker 1: to protect us, nothing, but they did it anyway. And
Speaker 1: I think that people who were close to the edge,
Speaker 1: a lot of them have been pushed over. I cannot
Speaker 1: prove this to you. This is my assessment. This is
Speaker 1: my analysis. But if someone's asking me, why does it
Speaker 1: seem like this is getting worse? Why have we seen
Speaker 1: so many of these kinds of shootings in the last year,
Speaker 1: the last eighteen months particularly, I would offer that as
Speaker 1: a that is a hypothesis. It is a hypothesis. I
Speaker 1: cannot prove it, but I would argue that that may
Speaker 1: be true. Something else that I would argue is definitely
Speaker 1: true is that the Libs are running around using this
Speaker 1: to score cheap political points right away, and all the
Speaker 1: things that they say, all the arguments they raise about
Speaker 1: gun control aren't actually going to do anything. Here is
Speaker 1: the governor of Illinois, Pritzker, saying, no, let's politicize this
Speaker 1: right away. Play. If you're angry today, I'm here to
Speaker 1: tell you be angry. I'm furious. I'm furious that yet
Speaker 1: more innocent lives were taken by gun violence. I'm furious
Speaker 1: that their loved ones are forever broken by what took
Speaker 1: place today. I'm furious that children and their families have
Speaker 1: been traumatized. I'm furious that this is happening in communities
Speaker 1: all across Illinois and America. I'm because it does not
Speaker 1: have to be this way, and yet we as a nation, well,
Speaker 1: we continue to allow this to happen. Chicago, by the way,
Speaker 1: I have updated numbers here. This is this is the
Speaker 1: primary city and the Democrats stronghold in the state of Illinois.
Speaker 1: Seventy one people were shot and eight were killed in
Speaker 1: fourth of July weekend violence. That's separate from the Highland
Speaker 1: Park massacre. As far as these numbers are being tabulated,
Speaker 1: and I will correct this for some reason, I am
Speaker 1: I am incorrect here. No, it was across the city
Speaker 1: of Chicago. Seventy one people were shot. They weren't shot
Speaker 1: by maniacal social media posting wanta be rapper tattooed on
Speaker 1: the face blue haired maniacs? That guy was that that
Speaker 1: was the Highland Park mass murderer. No, they were shot
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly by gang members, disproportionately, both the perpetrator and the
Speaker 1: targets are African American residents of the city of Chicago's
Speaker 1: people being shot or disproportionately black. They're people doing the
Speaker 1: shooting in Chicago are disproportionately black. And so is there
Speaker 1: the sense of media urgency to deal with this problem? Now, Now,
Speaker 1: what would banning assault rifles do? All the shootings that
Speaker 1: happened in the city of Chicago involve handguns. And now
Speaker 1: they say, well, we need to make stricter background checks.
Speaker 1: Legal concealed carry permit holders are by the numbers more
Speaker 1: law abiding, not only than your average American, they are
Speaker 1: more law abiding than law enforcement. But they think if
Speaker 1: they make it a little more annoying, a little harder
Speaker 1: for people to conceal carry legally, that then they're going
Speaker 1: to somehow protect us. The bad guys have the guns.
Speaker 1: This is what the libs need need to get through
Speaker 1: their heads. The bad guys have them because they get
Speaker 1: them illegally, They break the law to get the gun,
Speaker 1: and then they use the gun against defenseless people, law
Speaker 1: abiding people within the population. So we're not going to
Speaker 1: play this game where they get to say, oh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna We're just gonna make it harder and harder for
Speaker 1: you to illegally get a gun. Illegally getting guns is
Speaker 1: not difficult. Clearly, Clearly, people who are willing to break
Speaker 1: the law are going to keep breaking the law. Why
Speaker 1: is it? I mean, ask yourself this question. City of
Speaker 1: Chicago has much worse violence than the cities of Houston
Speaker 1: and Dallas, which are in Texas, which have far more,
Speaker 1: far more Second Amendment supportive laws. Why is Chicago so
Speaker 1: much worse? The problem with Chicago is not other states
Speaker 1: having lacks gun laws. The problem with gun violence in
Speaker 1: Chicago is there are too many criminals in Chicago who
Speaker 1: get away with this stuff, who are treated softly by
Speaker 1: the prosecutors. There are too many criminals on the streets.
Speaker 1: That is the problem with Chicago. We all know it, Okay,
Speaker 1: there are plenty of other places there. Getting a gun
Speaker 1: in Nevada is really easy. Why aren't there the same
Speaker 1: levels of murders in San Francisco or in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: right next door to Nevada. They keep saying, Oh, it's
Speaker 1: about permissive gun laws under the states. No, it's about
Speaker 1: criminals in the state run by Democrats. That's the problem
Speaker 1: with the city shootings in Chicago, And that's something that
Speaker 1: we need to address here. I'm gonna I'm gonna hold
Speaker 1: off on until we get more details. I want to
Speaker 1: note that there was a body camera footage of an
Speaker 1: individual running from police who police claim had already shot
Speaker 1: at them and did have a gun, but he dropped
Speaker 1: the gun. He's running in the dark, and he turned
Speaker 1: and they opened fire, and there were marches about this.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we're going to return to the story. Just
Speaker 1: want to note that that happened over the weekend. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna watch that video closely this week. I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: at all of the eyewitness and police reporting because I
Speaker 1: think this is another time where they're gonna tell us, Oh,
Speaker 1: it was someone gunned down for no reason, and that's
Speaker 1: just not true. That's just not true. Police are being
Speaker 1: asked to make split second decisions, and if someone has
Speaker 1: a gun and has already fired at police and it's nighttime,
Speaker 1: they don't know that that person may have tossed the
Speaker 1: gun when they're running away, So we need to look
Speaker 1: closely at that. Gavin Newsom has launched a bunch of
Speaker 1: ads in Florida trying to get them to move to California,
Speaker 1: and I'll just say this is not gonna work because
Speaker 1: people like Florida, well run state. It's doing fine, it's
Speaker 1: got great weather. So it's interesting though he's running, folks,
Speaker 1: he thinks he's gonna run. He's gonna step in to
Speaker 1: be the the savior of the Democrat Party when Biden fine,
Speaker 1: he admits that he's too old, can't run. But I
Speaker 1: think it's interesting that he, Gavin Newsom, wants to be
Speaker 1: the descantists of the Democrats. Clearly wants to be the
Speaker 1: lead governor who is the guy for his side. Problem is,
Speaker 1: California is a mess and it's falling apart, and everyone
Speaker 1: knows it. It's the opposite of Florida. So it's great.
Speaker 1: I hope he does become the guy for the Democrats
Speaker 1: so we can talk. I'll talk about what's happened in
Speaker 1: San Francisco and Los Angeles and other places across what
Speaker 1: was a great and formerly Republican stronghold state of California.
Speaker 1: Another weekend I was in Asheville. I'd just say, well,
Speaker 1: I'll spend more time on this this week. It's it's
Speaker 1: a it's a hippie town. I get that it's not
Speaker 1: really hippies. It's a leftist. It's a leftist town, very
Speaker 1: very much Bernie Bernie voters who you know, like granola
Speaker 1: and going for walks on trails and that's fine. By
Speaker 1: the way, they have some good food. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of nice stuff about it. I'm not hating on the
Speaker 1: city Asheville at all. I thought Ashville is actually a
Speaker 1: really pleasant place for a vision it. But I've never
Speaker 1: seen in months so many people wearing n ninety five
Speaker 1: masks indoors, not even cloth masks mostly and ninety fives.
Speaker 1: And there were stores where masks are required required for entry,
Speaker 1: and I took photos. I always love us. I can
Speaker 1: never tell with the libs. They either yell that I'm
Speaker 1: lying and they don't require masks, or in the same
Speaker 1: thread they'll be saying, oh, masks keep us safe, so
Speaker 1: it's a good thing they're doing that. And you know,
Speaker 1: people claiming to live in Ashville, we don't do that.
Speaker 1: We do that, and it's amazing. Well, which one is it? Libs,
Speaker 1: can you at least figure out which side you're arguing? No,
Speaker 1: they can't because it's just this area all the time.
Speaker 1: Now they say, oh, it's just people want to be safe. Okay,
Speaker 1: Well it doesn't keep them safe. Do they go to
Speaker 1: bars and restaurants and keep the mask on the whole time?
Speaker 1: If the answer is no, what they're doing as a joke.
Speaker 1: If the answer is no, it's absurd. And then you
Speaker 1: look at the kids, the little children running around with
Speaker 1: the ninety five's on. Now it's child abuse. So I
Speaker 1: was just observing that this far left enclave of burning voting,
Speaker 1: denial of reality maniacs who happened to congregate mostly in
Speaker 1: downtown Ashville, need to stop being crazy. That's all I'm
Speaker 1: trying to help them. I want to free them. They
Speaker 1: need to stop being crazy. And there are also employees
Speaker 1: of these businesses, by the way, who are forced to
Speaker 1: wear masks. I assure you not all of them want
Speaker 1: to wear an end ninety five all day. That wasn't
Speaker 1: all the people on the streets. I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: in the businesses though. In Asheville you had almost all
Speaker 1: businesses that I saw indoors, not including bars and restaurants,
Speaker 1: but stores, you know, places that are selling beads and
Speaker 1: wind chimes and all the stuff that they sell in Asheville,
Speaker 1: and ninety five masks and all the staff handing out
Speaker 1: masks at the door, saying mask preferred. That was most
Speaker 1: of the stores. Some said masks required. It's July of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Libs get a clue, read a book
Speaker 1: or a newspaper, were both. All right, that's it for today. Team,
Speaker 1: talk you tomorrow. She'll tie