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Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt, Monday, May sixteenth edition of the program. Back
Speaker 1: from Chicago and an actual day off. My voice may
Speaker 1: sound a little funny because I'm at the mid or
Speaker 1: latter part of a cold, but we have a lot
Speaker 1: of news to talk about today. First off, the horrific
Speaker 1: shooting in Buffalo and the immediate politicization of this. A
Speaker 1: mass murder by a white supremacist lunatic. What can we
Speaker 1: take from this as it pertains to law enforcement, as
Speaker 1: it pertains to how this kind of atrocity could be
Speaker 1: prevented in the future. Also, a mass shooting in a
Speaker 1: church near Laguna Beach, California. It was stopped by parishioners,
Speaker 1: mostly Asian church and an Asian man in his sixties
Speaker 1: Asian American Manasin Custody will discuss that. Plus what I
Speaker 1: saw myself in Chicago that was distressing. As much as
Speaker 1: there's a lot of great stuff about that city, that
Speaker 1: city is in trouble in a lot of ways. But
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Speaker 1: get into actually the tomb the two mass shootings, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you something about Chicago. So I had gone there
Speaker 1: and a lot of you had said to me on
Speaker 1: social media on Twitter, you know, be careful, and my
Speaker 1: thought process on this was, Look, there are two and
Speaker 1: a half million people who live in Chicago. It's America's
Speaker 1: third most populous city, but it's really la doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like a city the way New York in Chicago do.
Speaker 1: It's very different kind of city. And I thought to myself, well,
Speaker 1: look i've never been. I'm gonna go, and went with Carrie,
Speaker 1: who is my significant other. You may have seen some
Speaker 1: photos on that of her over the weekend, so now
Speaker 1: that's that's out there in public, and I thought to myself, look,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna see what it's like. But
Speaker 1: a lot of you were saying to me at the time,
Speaker 1: it's really dangerous, watch out. And I know something about
Speaker 1: crime in major cities, having grown up in New York
Speaker 1: during its most violent period. A lot of people think
Speaker 1: it was the seventies. That's not true. There might have
Speaker 1: been more decay and financial trouble in the city in
Speaker 1: the seventies, but New York was at it's most violent
Speaker 1: in the early nineteen nineties. So I grew up in
Speaker 1: a city with over two thousand murders a year, and
Speaker 1: that was clearly very concerning for all it was horrific.
Speaker 1: And so when I was being told by people, well,
Speaker 1: Chicago is dangerous, I thought, well, I'm sure I understand
Speaker 1: how this goes. Surely there are areas of Chicago that
Speaker 1: are dangerous, but it will be fine in the area
Speaker 1: where I was. I was staying right on the river,
Speaker 1: on the Chicago River, within easy walk of the of
Speaker 1: Lake Michigan, in the most crowded, most touristy, most downtown
Speaker 1: part of the entire city. So it felt like, well,
Speaker 1: that has to be that has to be a safe place,
Speaker 1: right in a safe area. And there was some some racket,
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of downtown disorder the friday
Speaker 1: I got there, or there was some kind of a
Speaker 1: flash party that was thrown hundreds one hundreds of kids,
Speaker 1: but that he looked as a party. It didn't seem
Speaker 1: like a you know, a big deal. But over the
Speaker 1: course the weekend, I went to the Bean, which I
Speaker 1: had never been to before, which is this metallic it
Speaker 1: kind of looks like a coffee bean. I don't know
Speaker 1: what else to say, but it's this metallic structure. It's
Speaker 1: one of the most famous. It's in Millennium Park. It's
Speaker 1: one of the most famous tourist sites of all of Chicago.
Speaker 1: And I bring this up because it was a glorious
Speaker 1: weekend in terms of weather, and people were just stopping
Speaker 1: to say, oh, my gosh, isn't so beautiful. And everyone
Speaker 1: that I met who found out that I was my
Speaker 1: first time in Chicago, they said, well, your timing is perfect,
Speaker 1: because the weather has been pretty terrible all year. It
Speaker 1: just got good like that was the first good weekend
Speaker 1: of weather they had in Chicago the whole year, so
Speaker 1: where it wasn't raining and really warm, where it wasn't
Speaker 1: super cold, which is most of the time, as we knew.
Speaker 1: And so I thought, oh, I'm so lucky. And I'm
Speaker 1: walking with Carrie by the bean and I turned and
Speaker 1: I said, you know, maybe maybe we conservatives think that
Speaker 1: the situation in Chicago, it's clearly very bad based on
Speaker 1: the numbers, but maybe the disorder hasn't spread quite as
Speaker 1: far across the city. I was just trying to be
Speaker 1: contrarian and keep myself honest with this, but I said,
Speaker 1: to us, it seems pretty safe around here. I don't
Speaker 1: really sense. And then we went to dinner, and while
Speaker 1: we were at dinner, she got a notice on a
Speaker 1: news notice on her phone. She also works in news
Speaker 1: saying that there had been a shooting. Not only was
Speaker 1: there shooting in Chicago, there was a shooting at the
Speaker 1: Bean in Millennium Park, a fatal one. A sixteen year
Speaker 1: old was murdered just someone got into some kind of dispute,
Speaker 1: pulled out, have gone shot him to death right there.
Speaker 1: I think there might have been one or two others
Speaker 1: who were also wounded, and they made two arrests. The situation.
Speaker 1: But if there's den for a city like Chicago on
Speaker 1: its most beautiful day of the year weatherwise, in its
Speaker 1: most well known and trafficked park at perhaps it's after
Speaker 1: some of its skyscrapers, most famous tourist attraction, to have
Speaker 1: a shooting right there over over the weekend on a
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon, Saturday early evening is an indicator of something.
Speaker 1: A fatal shooting at that is an indicator of something.
Speaker 1: And as you know, you read about this over the weekend,
Speaker 1: you'll hear, you know, twenty shot in Chicago, seven fatally,
Speaker 1: you know, thirty shot in Chicago eight fatally. It's just
Speaker 1: it's appalling what's going on there. And you have Democrats
Speaker 1: in charge of these major cities, and they're doing a
Speaker 1: terrible job, and they're ruining major cities. I mean that
Speaker 1: that is always going to leave. I was somebody who
Speaker 1: went to a went to the city of Chica. I'm
Speaker 1: in New Yorker, went with an open mind, and there
Speaker 1: is fantastic food, in great people, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: to recommend Chicago, there's no question about that. But I
Speaker 1: will always remember saying, maybe it's not that bad here,
Speaker 1: and then someone was murdered right where I said that
Speaker 1: a couple hours later, in a very crowded, safe part,
Speaker 1: supposedly safe part of the city. And that's not something
Speaker 1: that you easily will shake off in terms of your
Speaker 1: perceptions of a city and how safe it may be.
Speaker 1: And Democrats are ruining these places, and they're ruining them
Speaker 1: because ideologically they're opposed to doing the very obvious, taking
Speaker 1: the very obvious steps that one would do if ending
Speaker 1: crime was really the purpose of their policies, if they
Speaker 1: took social justice and writing historical wrongs and an anti
Speaker 1: police attitude all these things that they removed all of
Speaker 1: that and they just did what was necessary. And people say, well,
Speaker 1: what do you think it is? It's very straightforward, Actually,
Speaker 1: you allow police to do their jobs, you back them
Speaker 1: up as long as they're doing their jobs law and
Speaker 1: in good faith. You take violent or serious criminals off
Speaker 1: the streets for long periods of time, and then you
Speaker 1: see where you are. But you have to. I mean,
Speaker 1: society is at war right now in these cities with
Speaker 1: the criminal element, and they're praying upon disproportionately on minorities,
Speaker 1: and in fact, the victims, by the numbers of these
Speaker 1: shootings are disproportionately young black men. So the same Democrats
Speaker 1: who are often pushing the narratives about criminal justice saying
Speaker 1: that they're trying to do they're trying to be more
Speaker 1: fair to minority communities, that's actually not the end outcome
Speaker 1: of their policies. The policies are that they make communities,
Speaker 1: all communities worse off and make things more dangerous. And
Speaker 1: so that was my sense of Chicago over the weekend.
Speaker 1: I was glad I went. I had a very good
Speaker 1: weekend as a visitor, But the crime situation is serious
Speaker 1: and is something that needs to be taken out of
Speaker 1: the hands of woke Democrats and handed to people who
Speaker 1: are serious about handling it and now onto. I also
Speaker 1: saw the news over the weekend, of course of the
Speaker 1: horrific shooting in Buffalo, and it's this always plays out
Speaker 1: in the immediate aftermath in the media narrative in a
Speaker 1: way that is highly predictable. Let's just start with that
Speaker 1: shooter in Buffalo is a sick maniac who should spend
Speaker 1: the rest of his life in prison, if not be
Speaker 1: executed for what he did, whether you believe in capital
Speaker 1: punishment or not. If you believe in capital punishment, then
Speaker 1: he should end his days with a bag over his
Speaker 1: head and a needle in his arm. Let's be very
Speaker 1: clear about that. So this shooter is a monster, and
Speaker 1: there are monsters among us, people that latch on to
Speaker 1: hateful ideologies and their brains become polluted with vicious And
Speaker 1: let's also be clear that the choice is made to
Speaker 1: be evil, and this is an instance of pure evil.
Speaker 1: It's heartbreaking that these uh, these ten people African Americans
Speaker 1: were murdered in this supermarket in Buffalo. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a it's a very difficult day for the whole country.
Speaker 1: It's horrific. Now, there was also a shooting, another mass
Speaker 1: shooting in a church, as I mentioned, in near Laguna
Speaker 1: Beach in California, but only one person fortunately was killed there.
Speaker 1: A few other were shot, but the parishioners in the
Speaker 1: church were able to stop that mass shooter. In the
Speaker 1: case of Buffalo, there was a brave retired police officer
Speaker 1: who was a security guard who did open fire and
Speaker 1: he stood in. He stood in the way, He put
Speaker 1: his life on the line. He lost his life defending
Speaker 1: people because the shooter had him outgunned with well, mostly
Speaker 1: because he had body armor on and so the rounds
Speaker 1: didn't penetrate and the security guard wasn't able to stop
Speaker 1: the threat. It's it's a shame. I mean, all of
Speaker 1: us sit here and say, God, why couldn't Why couldn't
Speaker 1: just one of those rounds have gone a little bit
Speaker 1: higher and hit this piece of disgusting, evil waste right
Speaker 1: between the eyes and ended the threat. It wouldn't have
Speaker 1: saved every life, obviously that there were others who were
Speaker 1: shot outside, but it would have saved lives inside. Tragically,
Speaker 1: that didn't end up being the way the situation unfolded.
Speaker 1: And now you have this individual and custody, and I'll
Speaker 1: just say, there is evil in the world. We need
Speaker 1: to confront it. We need to be aware of it.
Speaker 1: But these things that the politicians rushed to right away,
Speaker 1: or they say, oh, if only we could have more
Speaker 1: gun control laws than that would have stopped this, Well
Speaker 1: that's not true. I wish we couldn't stop this. I
Speaker 1: wish we could. There's anything we could do to stop this,
Speaker 1: and I'm opened to any real ideas, but gun control
Speaker 1: measures will not stop it. Blaming Twitch, the live streaming platform,
Speaker 1: because this sick maniac put it on Twitch as he
Speaker 1: was engaged in this active mass murder. Twitch is a
Speaker 1: streaming platform. I believe they took it down within two
Speaker 1: minutes as soon as anybody flagged this for violent content.
Speaker 1: I believe they acted relatively with relative speed on this issue.
Speaker 1: But as long as you're going to have people who
Speaker 1: can live stream, live stream horrific content, there will be
Speaker 1: mass shooters, seems, who were able to, at least for
Speaker 1: a period of time, do this. And then the blaming
Speaker 1: of conservatives for this. That's just in bad faith and
Speaker 1: that's not surprising. But they want to pin the evil
Speaker 1: on those on the right that they don't like, even
Speaker 1: though there's no connection whatsoever. The Bernie Sanders supporter who
Speaker 1: tried to murder a dozen members of Congress were all Conservatives.
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders is not responsible for that, you know, Biden
Speaker 1: in the Democrats are not responsible for the subway shooter
Speaker 1: in New York City. I mean this is you look
Speaker 1: at the way people try to connect these things. We shouldn't.
Speaker 1: We can't let them get away with it. And obviously
Speaker 1: we don't do that because we don't try to make
Speaker 1: those connections because it's all done in bad faith. Switching
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