WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 061122 The Real Issue is Guns and Gun Control (Part 2) 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:00.920 And now. 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:05.040 Go my my back. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:06.080 You're like that. 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:13.920 We can strike waters from headquarters behind him and. 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:15.760 You're just tuned in the civic cipher. I'm your host, 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.880 ramsays Jack. I go by the name q Ward most 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.599 of the time. Yes, indeed, and we want you to 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:23.280 stick around. We've got a lot more show coming your way. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.200 We are still going to be talking about guns, and 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:32.800 specifically how everyone tends to focus on everything except the 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:38.040 real issue. So we're going to shed some light on 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:42.919 some of the more forgive me Asa nine things that 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:48.239 have been suggested instead of actually dealing with, you know, 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.440 the reality of the situation here in this country. We're 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:56.040 also going to spend some time talking about uh, a 0:00:56.080 --> 0:01:04.960 young lady named Latasha Harris and how important she was 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:06.720 to Tubac. I don't want to tell her story before 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.920 we get there, but you might know the name. He 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:12.560 mentioned her in a lot of his music, so we're 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.960 going to dedicate our way black history factor her. But 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.919 first and foremost, we're going to discuss how to become 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:25.039 a better ally bah bah. So if you are a 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:30.400 NFL boss, you should probably turn up your radio right now. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.479 I got some real game for you. If only they 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:39.480 cared to listen all right. This one comes from Sports Illustrated. 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:43.440 The NBA has fifteen black head coaches for the first time. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:50.600 I will read with the lakers hiring of Darvin him 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.840 that was official. As of Friday, June third, fifteen of 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:56.920 the NBA's thirty teams will have a black head coach 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.920 for the first time in league history. The NBA Commissioner 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:05.200 Adam Silver said at the NBA Finals quote, this isn't 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.840 unique to the NBA, and I've learned this from other businesses. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.160 You have to talk about these issues all the time. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.280 If you care about diversity and inclusion in your workplace, 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.680 you've got to look at the data. You've got to 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:20.440 constantly present it to your colleagues, to your department heads, 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.160 to your teams, and it has to become a focusing quote. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.359 Silver discussed his hope for a day when the color 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.560 of a person's skin is no longer newsworthy, when they 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.079 are hired to a prominent role going on to stay. Quote. 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.639 At the same time, while I'm particularly proud of these 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.360 numbers and that roughly fifty percent of our head coaches 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.800 are black, now, the goal is that's not newsworthy, is 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.799 that that's not newsworthy, and that when people are hired, 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.880 their first reaction isn't the color of their skin. I 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.000 don't want to be naive either, though, because I know 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.119 that what we do in this league is important symbolically, 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.079 not just for sports, but for other industries, and people 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:01.760 watch us all around the world. Now, sometimes we give 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.040 you advice, sometimes we give you examples. That very much 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:12.600 is an example diversity at its best, and I think 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.360 that the NBA is better for it. I certainly have 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.760 noticed a lot of people engaged this go round. Indeed, 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:25.680 now back to the lecture at hand, that was a 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.639 Snoop Dogg reference for those not old enough, very very 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.519 hard not to continue with those lyrics. So forgive that 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:38.400 pregnant pauls. Why is everyone focusing on everything but the 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.720 real issue, which is guns and the real answer, which 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:48.280 is gun control? So ms Maggie aka Maggie be. No 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.040 one points out to us that the main issues are 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.600 that whoever wants a gun can have a gun. The 0:03:53.680 --> 0:04:01.840 lack of community and conflict resolution skills means that anyone 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.160 with a gun can use the gun to solve problems 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:08.520 that shouldn't be solved with a gun. Of course, the 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.840 NRA suggests that there should be more funding for police 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:17.720 and security, and police and schools, which we both wholly reject. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:22.120 School security. Not mad at that school police. That's different. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.480 Maybe a conversation for another day, maybe a conversation today. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:30.640 We'll see how I feel. And for those that want 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.960 to do a little bit more research on that topic, 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.920 you can check out this show. One of our first episodes, 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.240 we had a woman up named Janelle Wood who came 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.960 up to discuss the school to prison pipeline, and she 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:49.000 is much more able to articulate how troubling the data 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:57.080 is from schools that hire police officers and what the 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:02.120 implications are when that happens. Also, I saw recently John 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.840 Oliver do a segment on school police as well, and 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:10.280 he did it masterfully. We appreciate it's another ally, yes, 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.520 So it's not just me, it's not just this show. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.520 These are people who have compiled data on their own. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.839 But perhaps we'll circle back to it. The other thing 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.880 that Maggie b no One wants us to make sure 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.640 to mention is that right wing and gun supporters suggest 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:38.760 the following nan traps, new doors, fewer doors, trip wires, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.200 God and religion. I mean, I've been there have been 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:48.080 lots of thoughts and prayers so far. So for him 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.680 to say that we need God and religion, I don't 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.000 know what the basis of that is. Not knocking God, 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:54.919 not knocking religion. That's not my way. But you know, 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:56.960 we need to do more. We need to take responsibility. 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.520 We can't put the responsibility squarely in God's lap. If 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.040 we have the tools among ourselves to fix the problem, 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:09.640 that's what I mean. Investments in classroom should include colorful 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:15.000 ballistic blankets. That's another idea suggested by the right, and 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.040 of course. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.800 Suggested by an elected official, someone who's already in office, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.680 not someone who is trying to get your attention. This 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.080 is someone who's salaries paid by your tax dollars, and 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:31.039 their job is to create meaningful legislation for you and 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:39.560 your children. Her suggestion colorful ballistic blankets. Let us not 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:47.599 forget the granddaddy of all of these arming teachers in 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.120 the classrooms. So these are some of the ideas that 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.520 have been suggested by the right, And. 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:07.200 I guess To's point is she has noticed that nationally 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.520 we're focusing on everything. I'm not picking on the right, 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.880 We all of us are focusing on everything but the 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:12.840 real issue guns. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.760 I'm picking on the right. If you hear my voice, 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.240 I'm because the voices that are focusing on all these 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:21.360 wrong things. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:32.720 All come from the right. That's fair. Now. The thing 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:39.640 about this is that when we're talking about gun violence, 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.400 when we're talking about these devices that are used to 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:53.920 end lives, you know, and that's the only purpose people. 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:57.760 I think we said it best at the beginning. It's 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.200 like a part of their identity, not necessarily a part 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:04.640 of their reality. We need to keep our guns because 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.720 it's my right. They don't live in war zones, they don't, 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.880 you know what I mean. Like death is not around 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.600 the corner for these folks, you know what I mean, 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:17.200 to the degree that would justify them having AR fifteen 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.200 style rifles. You know, they're not soldiers on the front 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:27.360 line of the battlefield, right. But that identity is something 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.640 that keeps a lot of folks supporting these very vocal 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:37.559 talking heads on the right, keeping them elected, keeping them 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.760 holding office. And that identity now has to coexist with 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:46.640 an identity of we are a nation that will move 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:53.520 forward past multiple school shootings Sandy Hook, Parkland, we had 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.520 there was one that we talked about in in Michigan 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.520 not too long ago, you know, of course, while they 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.920 is more recent, but not just school shootings, not just 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.439 school shootings. And I don't want people to get that 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:14.680 narrative and think that that we're really addressing the problem, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.239 because school shootings are just some of the mass casualty 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:19.319 events that happen. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.960 It's one of the many categories. Now you have to 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.160 categorize our mass shootings. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.319 And we can't lump grocery or supermarkets into that, even 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.679 though there's a good number of those shootings, or church 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.440 or church or movie theaters talk to or shopping malls. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.760 Go ahead, you want to get to concerts, talk to 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.959 your music festivals, say that? Or concerts? Right? So what 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:44.120 do they all have in common that ballistic blankets don't address? 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.840 And man traps? You know you said festivals? How do 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.280 man traps affect festivals? You know what I mean? 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.840 Or grocery harden doors like your former president suggested. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:57.240 Right, But what does what conversation at least does start 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:01.080 us toward making all of those plays is a bit safer. 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.480 Maybe it either being more difficult to get a gun, 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.800 or there being some way to license, train, and regulate 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:10.920 the people that own them. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.360 Hold on one second, you're going to hear this. That 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.840 was a mic drop, all right, you can pick that 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.800 back up. Sorry, I don't mean it. I think that 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:25.320 was necessary. Yeah, And we realize that we're two men 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:31.360 and our producer a woman, making a show and sharing 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.560 it with you. Obviously, we have some support staff here 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:39.520 as well, but we realize that we're a handful of 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:45.200 folks making this show. But I think that we feel 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.720 like by having these conversations in a manner that's they're 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.320 very plain, very approachable. You know, these are the conversations 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.480 that you and I have all the time. We're actually friends, 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.439 you know, we hang out all the time. So this 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.680 is a thing that we are doing together because we 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.760 decide to do it. But we've been friends long before 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.640 the show, way long before the show, decades before the show. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.040 But you know, having these conversations, and because we have 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:17.559 access to this information and some microphones and some transmitters 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.240 and some signals in a couple of cities of a 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.440 good number of cities around the country, we feel like 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:27.880 that by having these conversations, we can empower our listeners 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.960 to have conversations in their communities as well that are 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:36.760 based on plane, everyday language. They're not tied up in 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.760 some extremist identity, even if that extremist identity is an 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:45.480 American identity. No matter what, I'm an American, right, I'll 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.840 say it before anyone else, Unlike other people. I have 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.280 a couple of solid claims that I can make about 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.960 how much I love this country. I've been to all 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.559 the states. Got proof. You can check me out on 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.280 Instagram at Rams's job. Look for the flag. It's all there. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:12.880 Got the flag. Got the flag player. But this identity 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.800 that is keeping us kind of locked into this holding pattern, 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.120 this identity of you know, the Second Amendment, is it's 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:24.320 all right to you know, tout the gun in the Bible. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:33.880 You know, it's toxic. It's very, very toxic, you know. 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.080 And I know that there's been lots of conversations about 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.840 mental health. Obviously the pandemic. We saw some things happen 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.439 as a result of the pandemic. My belief, my estimation personally, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:49.840 is that people got afraid fear cells in this country, 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.640 you know, And then the media says sells fear, not us. 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.040 We don't do that, you know, perhaps why we're not 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.480 a bigger show. But you know, we're not here to 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.440 be a big show. Hopefully we're here to be a 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.680 smaller and smaller show because the necessity of the show 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:15.600 will eventually dissipate. We'll see. But people got afraid at 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:19.040 the beginning of the pandemic. They purchased more guns, thinking 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.360 that people were going to start robbing each other. And 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:26.160 then when you have more guns, guns attract gun energy. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.440 People think you can solve problems with guns, you know, 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.200 and guns tend to be a permanent solution to a 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:49.640 temporary problem. And you can't undo a child missing her head. Now, 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:53.320 I'm not necessarily talking about the Valde shootings because absolutely 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.880 mentioned there's handgun violence, which makes up a good number 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.240 of the shootings in this country. There's suicides, there's you know, 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:05.839 inner city crimes that are based on what is statistically 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:10.400 proven to be or rather data has shown to be 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:16.440 largely based on economic inequality. So again, addressing economic inequality 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.080 and stricter gun laws might be the combination that we 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.040 might need to really see our country become what it 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:29.960 can become and reach its fullest potential. I digress back 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:34.080 to identity. These are the things that we need to 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.120 learn to let go now, far be it from me 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.680 to say that nobody should have a gun, even though 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.120 that's really how I feel. I really feel that way, 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.080 if I'm honest, but I wouldn't say that. I mean, 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:49.040 there's no way that the world wouldn't be safer if 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.840 that were the case. Absolutely, And that's not up for 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.840 debate or argument. That's just a very very simple and 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.360 easy truth. The logic is all there. Yeah, you don't 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.440 even need to like run the numbers there. But I 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.240 realized that for some people, some of our listeners, you know, 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.760 I talked to a man earlier in the week named 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.960 Ed Shelby. Ed Shelby is a He's the man that 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:15.880 went viral for standing outside of his son's school where 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:20.120 his wife works as the nurse in Colleen, Texas. He 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.560 went viral for standing out there. I believe it was 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.720 the day after the shooting in Uvalde. He is an 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:33.400 ex military obviously a family man who decided that he 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.640 was going to do something and he provides security. That's 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:43.520 what he does since leaving the military. So he knows security, 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.120 how to implement, you know, how to strategize that sort 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.040 of stuff. And he's been working with schools and other 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.360 you know, groups around the country to try to put 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:55.640 together plans to help us all out. He's not doing 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.000 nothing right. So I talked to this man on the 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.440 daily PODCAS cast that I do called the Black Information 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:05.720 Network Daily Podcast check it out on the iHeartRadio app. 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:13.440 And he is a proud gun owner, right. So I 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.320 couldn't in good conscious say you know, no guns, right 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.960 knowing that a man like him from based on what 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.840 I can tell, is a good guy with a gun. 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.880 My very own co host q Ward is a gun owner. 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.000 I believe him to be a good guy with a gun. 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.520 I'll even take it this far. Some people are gonna 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.880 get mad at me for saying it, but I do 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:40.560 believe that some police officers are good guys and women 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:48.440 with guns. Right. If bad turned worse, one number I 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:48.920 would call. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.800 And no one should be upset with you for saying 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:57.480 that because we don't argue against police officers on this show. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:58.400 Yeah we don't. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:03.200 It's the system talk of policing in the country. The 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.000 people are people just like us. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:06.679 We give them. 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.840 There are people that do our job that are awful people. 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.480 It's not the job. It's not the people I'm meant. Rather, 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.840 it's the job. There are some awesome people that do 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.480 this job as well. There are some awesome police officers, 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.879 the people we know some I'm sure I'm related to 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:30.840 some retired police officers. Okay, but that system we want hart. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.360 But I thought that was important to point you. Thank 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.240 you if I don't think people would be upset, because 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:41.159 our struggle is not with individual people, it's with a 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.439 system that was that does exactly what it was designed 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:49.320 to do, and that design is flawed, tragic, especially for us, 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:51.440 especially for people that look like us. 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.160 So again, rethinking safety, rethinking what safety looks like, rethinking 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:01.960 what policing could look like. Now, the point I'm making 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:10.200 is that this identity that we have, I can't say, okay, 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.399 let's get rid of all the guns because there are 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:18.440 people that I know yourself and again Ed and Eddie Shelby. 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.280 You could, though, because if you said it and enough 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.200 people agree with it, and some legislation was passed, I'd 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.000 be first. I spend the night the night before so 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.040 that I could be first to give give your gun back, 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:30.480 to give all of mine back. 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:34.280 Yeah. Now, I do recognize that some people don't want 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:39.400 to do that, and so where we are is, Yes, 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.239 there is the right to bear arms written into the 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:47.600 Constitution of this country, and it's to the constitution added 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:51.679 thank you, as an amendment. And it's sort of like 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:57.080 the uh. I don't want to use the word, but 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:01.080 the blank in the punch bowl, the poop and the 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:05.640 punch bowl. We'll call it that way from where I sit, 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.560 because I don't accept that as a part of my 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.600 American identity. Me Ramsys, who does love this country and 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:16.920 who was born in the eighties. Yeah. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:21.480 Absolutely, Like when that amendment was added, I think it 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:26.480 had a righteous purpose, right, the idea of tyranny and 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:30.080 the idea at that time of militia, right, and those 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.359 being people who might be corrupted by money and power, 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:37.720 like you know, the politicians of today being the only 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:43.560 ones allowed to bear arms could have been a very 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.960 scary position for a citizen to be in. However, I 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.920 don't care how many guns you have today, folks, If 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:57.000 our government became a tyranny and they decided to turn 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.440 their weapons on us, you don't have enough to defend 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:04.800 yourself against our nations military or our nation's police, right, 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.640 And when our nations police turn their guns on us, 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.240 we march in solidarity with them. And when I say we, 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.760 I mean the Second Amendment, people, you can't have it 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:14.399 both ways. 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:20.159 Let me add to that. So there are restrictions on 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.840 the types of weapons that people can have right now, 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.280 and what a lot of people are asking for and 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:31.480 calling for is to increase those restrictions. Right. So, obviously 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:37.480 it is illegal to possess a bazuka in this country, right. 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:40.959 It is illegal to possess a nuclear weapon in this country. 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.280 It is illegal to possess a tank in this country. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.720 But guess who has bazukahs and nuclear weapons and tanks. Well, 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:49.840 that's the government right and the military right. So we're 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:51.960 supposed to have a second Amendment to rise up against 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:55.800 the tyrannical government. To your point view, Now, if we 0:20:55.920 --> 0:21:01.920 have AR fifteen's right, and we know that their military 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:05.440 style weapons, then we have to assume that the military 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:09.600 is going to come with something bigger than an AR fifteen, 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:12.680 if the government was going to turn against us, right, 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.679 So we're losing that battle every time. At no point 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.280 is the government going to say, you know what, everybody 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:22.159 can get every weapon, it's fine, right, because of the 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:29.080 potential for us to become destroyed by just some wacko 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:31.520 I mean, for the same reasons that they shouldn't be 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:33.320 able to have an area fifteen today. 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:35.280 That's the point I'm going to make. So why someone 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.200 might be irresponsible with such a weapon, and it's way 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:39.679 more harm than they should be able to do. 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:42.560 So watch what I'm going to tell you. We move 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.800 that line a little bit closer, right, a little bit 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:50.760 further away from machine guns, a little bit closer to Okay, 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:54.400 you need to protect yourself and your family from reasonable 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:59.080 a reasonable percentage of threats. Right, someone breaks into your 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:01.480 house and you're not a good fighter and you can't 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:03.520 swing a bat, you might want to have a gun. 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.320 Handgun might work great, shotgun. That's about it. Right for 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:11.199 you to have a machine gun to mow down tons 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:14.800 of people on a battlefield. The ready assumption there is 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:18.240 that your house is going to be under attack by zombies. 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:21.199 I don't know, you know whatever, you know, whatever it is. 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:23.560 I don't mean to laugh, but yeah, I. 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:26.560 Can't understand why anybody would spend that money and have 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:29.320 that gun. I get that some people think that's cool. 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:31.920 That's a little if I'm honest, just me, I'm not 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:34.040 knocking you if you're listening, but that's a little gross. 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:36.480 To me, because all it can do is end lives. 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:40.000 And if you think that's cool to me, that like 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:43.880 makes my stomach turn that that that's what you find cool. Right. 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:45.679 I still love you and I will still love you, 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:48.200 and I hope that you find your way, But that's 0:22:48.240 --> 0:22:51.080 not cool to me. I will never celebrate the loss 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:54.679 of life. It doesn't even if you hunt animals, you 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:56.720 know what I mean, if you hunt animals in that way, 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:59.440 that's particularly unsettling. 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:02.720 And about people that hunt animals for sport, not for me, 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:05.439 not because they're hungry, you know what I mean, but 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:09.040 so they can essentially brag about it, and they wear 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:14.159 this type of gun culture like a masculinity cape to 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:16.920 kind of fortify some things that aren't there in my opinion. 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:20.280 Now, before we move on, I want to take a 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:25.080 moment because I'm feeling froggy. I want to share a 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:28.160 headline with you. This one comes from the ASLU cops 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:31.760 and no counselors. Lack of school mental health staff is 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:36.000 harming students. Okay, I'll just read briefly. Our findings indicate 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:38.600 that too many schools are more likely to employ school 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:41.480 police than mental health providers. There are more than fourteen 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:47.240 million students in schools with police but no counselor nurse, psychologists, 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:51.640 or social worker. I think that that's very telling because 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:55.600 any number of those other people's could work to help 0:23:55.680 --> 0:23:59.359 prevent crimes from happening in the first place. And as 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:02.720 we've seen, police oftentimes do not make any difference. 0:24:02.880 --> 0:24:05.399 We won't even say could we know that they would. 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:08.080 And with regards to police, some follow up to a 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:10.960 conversation we had last week not to be labor this topic, 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:14.679 I went back to where the incident happened with my 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:18.320 son to see if they had cameras, and I think 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:20.640 I remember I told you when we filed the police report, 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:22.520 They're like, yeah, if this happens again, at least we 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:27.160 have your information, but no investigation. They did not have cameras, 0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:31.080 but the same people came back and tried to take 0:24:31.160 --> 0:24:34.560 someone else's kid. I never even had to describe him. 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:38.359 They described him, her and him and the card they 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:41.080 were in without me saying a word. So these exact 0:24:41.200 --> 0:24:44.160 people have been back to try it again and are 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:47.320 still that large because nobody even cares to look into it. 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:49.480 If you don't know the story that he's talking about, 0:24:49.520 --> 0:24:53.840 please listen to last week's episode where Q explains the 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:56.280 situation where someone tried to kidnap his son in front 0:24:56.320 --> 0:25:00.520 of a grocery store and the police fell short on 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:03.600 what he was expecting of them. I don't think they 0:25:03.600 --> 0:25:05.040 fell short. I think they did exactly what you were 0:25:05.040 --> 0:25:07.879 expecting them. But anyway, unfortunately, all right, time for the 0:25:07.880 --> 0:25:10.040 Way Black History of Fact. We're moving into this a 0:25:10.040 --> 0:25:13.920 bit late, but let's talk about it. So we're gonna 0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:16.840 This one comes from MTV News sponsored by Hip Hop 0:25:16.840 --> 0:25:23.080 Weekly magazine. Latasha Harris an American girl. Sasha Harlan's Harlan. 0:25:23.160 --> 0:25:28.480 Sorry about that. Natasha Harlan's from South Central and they 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:31.080 remember the fifteen year old girl killed thirteen days after 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:36.320 Rodney King was beaten. So I'll read. This is not television, 0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:38.679 this is not the movies, This is real life. This 0:25:38.840 --> 0:25:41.960 was how Deputy District Attorney Roxane carve Hall cautioned a 0:25:42.000 --> 0:25:44.600 jury before showing them the last seconds of Latasha Harlan's 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:47.240