1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:26,755 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:26,875 --> 00:00:32,235 Speaker 1: gun cults in this country, the fascist right has metaphorically 3 00:00:32,395 --> 00:00:37,195 Speaker 1: shot on the dead children of Nashville. Be very clear 4 00:00:37,755 --> 00:00:40,515 Speaker 1: what the far right, led by Fox News and the 5 00:00:40,595 --> 00:00:45,195 Speaker 1: right wing media hatred factory, is already doing is doing 6 00:00:45,275 --> 00:00:49,915 Speaker 1: right now, largely out of sight of mainstream America, in 7 00:00:50,075 --> 00:00:54,835 Speaker 1: full flower and with total rage. It has finally found 8 00:00:54,915 --> 00:01:00,635 Speaker 1: someone to be both the scapegoat and the excuse. To them. 9 00:01:00,715 --> 00:01:04,155 Speaker 1: America's crisis of mass gun murder is no longer something 10 00:01:04,155 --> 00:01:08,115 Speaker 1: they have to rationalize or be defensive about. It has 11 00:01:08,155 --> 00:01:14,395 Speaker 1: this week after Nashville become their weapon. After decades of 12 00:01:14,435 --> 00:01:17,035 Speaker 1: trying to blame anything and everything but guns for the 13 00:01:17,115 --> 00:01:22,635 Speaker 1: uniquely American disaster that is ritualized mass gun slaughter, the 14 00:01:22,715 --> 00:01:26,675 Speaker 1: far right has finally found the real cause the right 15 00:01:26,755 --> 00:01:33,675 Speaker 1: people to blame trans people. These right wing creatures are 16 00:01:33,675 --> 00:01:37,355 Speaker 1: simultaneously positioning the tragedy at the Covenant School as a 17 00:01:37,475 --> 00:01:42,155 Speaker 1: hate crime, as an attack on Christianity, a literal religious 18 00:01:42,195 --> 00:01:47,355 Speaker 1: war against them by trans people, while also insisting that 19 00:01:47,395 --> 00:01:49,915 Speaker 1: the tragedy at the Covenant School is a reminder that 20 00:01:49,995 --> 00:01:55,595 Speaker 1: their right to own murder machines is inalienable, and the 21 00:01:55,675 --> 00:01:59,155 Speaker 1: Second Amendment is the equivalent of the Christ child. And 22 00:01:59,315 --> 00:02:04,235 Speaker 1: any attempt to stop the ritual sacrifice of children, their children, 23 00:02:04,235 --> 00:02:08,155 Speaker 1: our chidren America's children, that that is another hate crime 24 00:02:08,195 --> 00:02:11,675 Speaker 1: against them, because they have decided that guns are more 25 00:02:11,795 --> 00:02:16,315 Speaker 1: needed than ever, because as the filth Tucker Carlson said, quote, 26 00:02:16,755 --> 00:02:24,155 Speaker 1: the trans movement is targeting Christians. Kill nine year old 27 00:02:24,355 --> 00:02:29,195 Speaker 1: Christian kids in a school. You're a monster, a religious bigot, 28 00:02:29,275 --> 00:02:32,195 Speaker 1: a hate criminal. Trying to prevent the killing of all 29 00:02:32,395 --> 00:02:36,075 Speaker 1: nine year old kids in schools. You're a monster, a 30 00:02:36,195 --> 00:02:41,115 Speaker 1: religious bigot, hate criminal. In doing this, the right has 31 00:02:41,155 --> 00:02:45,195 Speaker 1: revealed itself is something far worse than we knew, far 32 00:02:45,315 --> 00:02:48,475 Speaker 1: worse even than we suspected, far worse than we could 33 00:02:48,515 --> 00:02:52,955 Speaker 1: have imagined in our worst nightmares. They do not want 34 00:02:53,595 --> 00:02:58,835 Speaker 1: quote their unquote children killed in quote their unquote schools. 35 00:02:59,875 --> 00:03:03,995 Speaker 1: They do not care if your children are killed in 36 00:03:04,035 --> 00:03:07,195 Speaker 1: your school, if their kids die. It is what the 37 00:03:07,235 --> 00:03:10,595 Speaker 1: twenty twenty Republican Senate nominee from Delaware just called a 38 00:03:10,795 --> 00:03:15,715 Speaker 1: war on Christians because they want us dead. Unte If 39 00:03:15,795 --> 00:03:18,595 Speaker 1: your kids die, it is just collateral damage to their 40 00:03:18,675 --> 00:03:23,715 Speaker 1: Second Amendment rights and horrifyingly, there turns out to be 41 00:03:23,795 --> 00:03:28,035 Speaker 1: one further circle of hell that shooting in Nashville is 42 00:03:28,035 --> 00:03:30,795 Speaker 1: now the only excuse they need to ramp up their 43 00:03:30,835 --> 00:03:35,395 Speaker 1: persecution of transpeople, and of drag Queen's story time, and 44 00:03:35,555 --> 00:03:41,595 Speaker 1: of gay people, and of LGBTQ people and allies. Human beings. 45 00:03:42,555 --> 00:03:47,995 Speaker 1: See children, their bodies exploded by the AR fifteen murder machine, 46 00:03:48,635 --> 00:03:51,715 Speaker 1: and they mourn and they recoil, and they seek to 47 00:03:51,755 --> 00:03:56,395 Speaker 1: find a way to make it stop, to save all children, 48 00:03:56,715 --> 00:04:02,355 Speaker 1: to save all Americans, to somehow end the torturing reality 49 00:04:02,675 --> 00:04:07,995 Speaker 1: that this nation, every day, every hour, every second lives 50 00:04:08,115 --> 00:04:12,275 Speaker 1: as slaves to the gun lobby and its perverted interpretation 51 00:04:12,315 --> 00:04:15,555 Speaker 1: of the Second Amendment. But the far right sees all 52 00:04:15,555 --> 00:04:19,915 Speaker 1: this as an opportunity to blame and scapegoat and gaslight 53 00:04:19,995 --> 00:04:24,675 Speaker 1: and purge. And just as the death cult in this 54 00:04:24,755 --> 00:04:29,195 Speaker 1: country was latching onto this fantasy of martyrdom, an idiot 55 00:04:29,395 --> 00:04:33,275 Speaker 1: named Joscelyn Berry, who was the press secretary to the 56 00:04:33,275 --> 00:04:36,875 Speaker 1: Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, decided that nine hours after the 57 00:04:36,995 --> 00:04:40,755 Speaker 1: nightmare in Nashville was the perfect time to tweet us 58 00:04:40,795 --> 00:04:44,435 Speaker 1: when we see transphobes Above a clip from the nineteen 59 00:04:44,515 --> 00:04:48,195 Speaker 1: eighty movie Gloria, with the actress General Olins holding two 60 00:04:48,235 --> 00:04:53,715 Speaker 1: handguns and Governor Hobbs's office waited thirty six hours before 61 00:04:53,755 --> 00:04:57,235 Speaker 1: saying anything before Jocelyn Barry resigned or was made too, 62 00:04:57,315 --> 00:05:01,235 Speaker 1: because yes, transphobes are a deadly threat in this society, 63 00:05:01,275 --> 00:05:05,435 Speaker 1: and yes, a tweet that gives transphobes fodder for their 64 00:05:05,475 --> 00:05:09,755 Speaker 1: newfound Christian martyrdom is as deadly a threat in this society. 65 00:05:12,435 --> 00:05:15,795 Speaker 1: The point is, we shouldn't permit mass shootings at Christian schools, 66 00:05:16,555 --> 00:05:20,755 Speaker 1: and we shouldn't permit mass shootings at LGBTQ clubs that 67 00:05:20,835 --> 00:05:24,795 Speaker 1: held drag shows in Colorado. And we shouldn't permit mass 68 00:05:24,835 --> 00:05:29,395 Speaker 1: shootings by trans people or by straight people, or by Christians, 69 00:05:29,475 --> 00:05:32,275 Speaker 1: or by atheists, or by Fox News viewers, or by 70 00:05:32,395 --> 00:05:36,275 Speaker 1: MSNBC viewers, or by crazy people, or by saying people, 71 00:05:36,515 --> 00:05:39,595 Speaker 1: or by the grandson of a Maga California State assemblyman 72 00:05:39,875 --> 00:05:44,555 Speaker 1: who compared January sixth to Lexington and conquered We shouldn't 73 00:05:45,035 --> 00:05:53,315 Speaker 1: permit mass shootings. We have spent the money to train 74 00:05:53,435 --> 00:05:55,915 Speaker 1: the cops. We have spent the money to give the 75 00:05:55,955 --> 00:06:00,155 Speaker 1: cops the weapons. We have pushed for more good guys 76 00:06:00,155 --> 00:06:05,435 Speaker 1: with guns. We have trained in active shooter drills everybody, 77 00:06:05,475 --> 00:06:10,675 Speaker 1: from kindergarteners to stadium ushers. We have made up excuses 78 00:06:10,715 --> 00:06:14,315 Speaker 1: for the shooter drills, telling the little three year olds 79 00:06:14,315 --> 00:06:16,795 Speaker 1: that they have to hide in case there is an 80 00:06:16,915 --> 00:06:22,595 Speaker 1: escaped animal. And it didn't stop Colorado Springs or the 81 00:06:22,675 --> 00:06:30,235 Speaker 1: University of Virginia, or Buffalo or Vivaldi or Nashville. In 82 00:06:30,275 --> 00:06:34,755 Speaker 1: desperately trying to process and understand this spiraling national disaster, 83 00:06:34,875 --> 00:06:38,915 Speaker 1: which gets exponentially worse with every passing week, we always 84 00:06:38,995 --> 00:06:41,715 Speaker 1: leave out one component without which these things could not 85 00:06:41,835 --> 00:06:45,035 Speaker 1: possibly happen. We always leave it out because it is 86 00:06:45,075 --> 00:06:48,515 Speaker 1: more horrible to contemplate than being in the club, or 87 00:06:48,555 --> 00:06:51,475 Speaker 1: being in the bus, or being in the supermarket or 88 00:06:51,515 --> 00:06:55,035 Speaker 1: in the school. It is this. There are people in 89 00:06:55,115 --> 00:06:59,395 Speaker 1: this country who want this to keep happening. We live 90 00:06:59,515 --> 00:07:03,355 Speaker 1: in a hell where more children die by gunfire in 91 00:07:03,395 --> 00:07:08,035 Speaker 1: a year than from any other cause, and more than 92 00:07:08,395 --> 00:07:13,915 Speaker 1: on duty police officers and active military members. The rights 93 00:07:14,675 --> 00:07:19,755 Speaker 1: cannibalistic obsession is not merely to own a gun. It 94 00:07:19,955 --> 00:07:24,035 Speaker 1: is to own a gun so that someday they can 95 00:07:24,315 --> 00:07:30,715 Speaker 1: shoot someone who is without a gun. The victims are 96 00:07:30,755 --> 00:07:34,755 Speaker 1: always unarmed, whether it is a psychopath shooting you in 97 00:07:34,795 --> 00:07:38,835 Speaker 1: a classroom, or cops shooting some black kid, or some 98 00:07:38,955 --> 00:07:43,515 Speaker 1: hobophobe shooting up another LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs. It's 99 00:07:43,515 --> 00:07:47,715 Speaker 1: not the fight that they lust after. It's the unfair fight. 100 00:07:49,315 --> 00:07:52,515 Speaker 1: They don't want guns. They don't want gunfights. They want 101 00:07:52,555 --> 00:07:57,795 Speaker 1: to hunt people they do not like. They want blacks shot, 102 00:07:57,875 --> 00:08:00,795 Speaker 1: they want kids shot, they want gays shot, they want 103 00:08:00,795 --> 00:08:05,315 Speaker 1: Asians shot, they want Jews shot, they want liberals, and 104 00:08:05,435 --> 00:08:09,075 Speaker 1: now they want people who have declared war on Christians 105 00:08:09,115 --> 00:08:11,515 Speaker 1: when there has never been war on Christians in this 106 00:08:11,635 --> 00:08:17,475 Speaker 1: country shot. This happens not because the country fails to act. 107 00:08:17,475 --> 00:08:20,995 Speaker 1: It acts. This happens not because the Congress fails to act. 108 00:08:21,035 --> 00:08:24,835 Speaker 1: It acts. This happens not because the president fails to act. 109 00:08:24,915 --> 00:08:28,795 Speaker 1: He acts. This happens not because mental health professionals fail 110 00:08:28,835 --> 00:08:32,195 Speaker 1: to act. They act. This happens not because the filibuster 111 00:08:32,355 --> 00:08:34,915 Speaker 1: is in the way. The filibuster is a wall of paper. 112 00:08:35,835 --> 00:08:38,115 Speaker 1: This happens not because the gun lobby is in the way. 113 00:08:38,675 --> 00:08:41,595 Speaker 1: The gun lobby is a wall of paper. This happens 114 00:08:41,675 --> 00:08:44,435 Speaker 1: not because the Red States are in the way. The 115 00:08:44,515 --> 00:08:48,755 Speaker 1: Red States are a wall of paper. This happens because 116 00:08:49,355 --> 00:08:56,355 Speaker 1: the Republicans let it happen. Republicans equal gun massacres, gun 117 00:08:56,395 --> 00:09:04,355 Speaker 1: massacres equal Republicans. Without one entire political party prostituting itself, 118 00:09:04,795 --> 00:09:10,155 Speaker 1: the gun lobby would lose all its power. Congress would 119 00:09:10,195 --> 00:09:13,715 Speaker 1: be able to rout the death cult. The President would 120 00:09:13,715 --> 00:09:17,075 Speaker 1: be able to enforce the laws and issue executive orders. 121 00:09:17,275 --> 00:09:20,555 Speaker 1: The filibuster would be irrelevant. The Red States would fall 122 00:09:20,715 --> 00:09:23,595 Speaker 1: one after the other, and the will of the people 123 00:09:23,835 --> 00:09:27,275 Speaker 1: and sixty one percent of us want a new assault 124 00:09:27,315 --> 00:09:32,715 Speaker 1: weapon ban would prevail, and we would no longer be 125 00:09:32,875 --> 00:09:37,355 Speaker 1: slaves to the gun. But there is a political party 126 00:09:37,675 --> 00:09:42,075 Speaker 1: prostituting itself, and that party is the Republican Party. And 127 00:09:42,195 --> 00:09:43,875 Speaker 1: there may or may not be anything we can do 128 00:09:43,995 --> 00:09:47,555 Speaker 1: quickly enough to stop these ritualized sacrifices of our children 129 00:09:47,795 --> 00:09:51,675 Speaker 1: and our innocent citizens to a non existent quote constitutional 130 00:09:51,755 --> 00:09:55,835 Speaker 1: right unquote this year or next. But the sooner, Democrats 131 00:09:55,915 --> 00:10:00,315 Speaker 1: tell the truth with rage and with revenge in their words. 132 00:10:00,315 --> 00:10:05,315 Speaker 1: The sooner they say, those kids are dead because Republicans 133 00:10:05,355 --> 00:10:11,275 Speaker 1: got rid of the assault ban and Republicans stopped gun control. 134 00:10:12,235 --> 00:10:15,195 Speaker 1: The sooner we will be able to make some impact. 135 00:10:17,795 --> 00:10:21,155 Speaker 1: The Second Amendment argument is a complete lie, and I 136 00:10:21,195 --> 00:10:23,835 Speaker 1: will go into that in depth in the second segment. 137 00:10:24,515 --> 00:10:27,875 Speaker 1: The word own does not appear in the Second Amendment. 138 00:10:28,515 --> 00:10:31,235 Speaker 1: There are no other words that mean own in the 139 00:10:31,275 --> 00:10:34,075 Speaker 1: Second Amendment, even though the Constitution and the Bill of 140 00:10:34,195 --> 00:10:40,555 Speaker 1: Rights are largely a property document. If they had meant own, 141 00:10:40,995 --> 00:10:46,595 Speaker 1: they would have said own. So to adapt what was 142 00:10:46,675 --> 00:10:51,435 Speaker 1: said after an antislavery publisher was assassinated in eighteen thirty seven, 143 00:10:51,835 --> 00:10:55,035 Speaker 1: is America free or are we slaves to the mob 144 00:10:55,155 --> 00:10:59,755 Speaker 1: rule of gun owners? Because the Republicans who are at 145 00:10:59,755 --> 00:11:03,315 Speaker 1: fault for gun massacres managed to fool not only their 146 00:11:03,315 --> 00:11:07,555 Speaker 1: own cultists, but many normal people too. In the Red 147 00:11:07,635 --> 00:11:11,875 Speaker 1: States under Republican control, the party line is gun violence 148 00:11:12,035 --> 00:11:16,235 Speaker 1: is a problem only in the Blue States, in the cities. 149 00:11:17,395 --> 00:11:19,355 Speaker 1: In fact, your chance of dying by a gun in 150 00:11:19,435 --> 00:11:22,475 Speaker 1: Texas is nearly three times more than it is in 151 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:24,915 Speaker 1: New York. Your chance of dying by a gun in 152 00:11:25,035 --> 00:11:28,555 Speaker 1: Louisiana and Mississippi and Wyoming is nearly twice as much 153 00:11:28,595 --> 00:11:31,435 Speaker 1: as it is in Illinois. Your chance of dying by 154 00:11:31,435 --> 00:11:34,875 Speaker 1: a gun in Idaho and Kansas and Nevada and Indiana 155 00:11:35,075 --> 00:11:37,795 Speaker 1: and half a dozen other Red states is twice as 156 00:11:37,875 --> 00:11:43,635 Speaker 1: much as it is in California. There are small actions 157 00:11:43,675 --> 00:11:46,035 Speaker 1: you and I could take to push back against this nightmare. 158 00:11:46,155 --> 00:11:50,195 Speaker 1: We could encourage and support the boycotts by students who 159 00:11:50,275 --> 00:11:53,795 Speaker 1: have done more than any other group of Americans. We 160 00:11:53,875 --> 00:11:57,795 Speaker 1: could demand credit card companies refuse to let customers use 161 00:11:58,115 --> 00:12:02,075 Speaker 1: their credit card services to buy at least the worst 162 00:12:02,195 --> 00:12:05,555 Speaker 1: of the guns and the ammunition. We could demand news 163 00:12:05,675 --> 00:12:09,835 Speaker 1: organizations to show, where possible, the images of what one 164 00:12:09,875 --> 00:12:13,315 Speaker 1: of these guns actually does to the human body, the 165 00:12:13,395 --> 00:12:15,995 Speaker 1: way we showed the images of the Nazi death camps 166 00:12:16,035 --> 00:12:18,355 Speaker 1: after World War Two, when so many said it was 167 00:12:18,395 --> 00:12:24,155 Speaker 1: too graphic. Because that is the point, it is too graphic. 168 00:12:24,475 --> 00:12:27,675 Speaker 1: It is too graphic to be shown, and therefore it 169 00:12:27,795 --> 00:12:32,355 Speaker 1: is too graphic to happen. Yet after each one of 170 00:12:32,395 --> 00:12:36,395 Speaker 1: these after each one, Republicans immediately try to turn the 171 00:12:36,435 --> 00:12:41,755 Speaker 1: subject to the quote mental health crisis. Though many Democrats 172 00:12:41,795 --> 00:12:43,915 Speaker 1: buy into this line and whole or in part, there 173 00:12:43,995 --> 00:12:46,555 Speaker 1: is no mental health crisis. Fewer than five percent of 174 00:12:46,555 --> 00:12:50,755 Speaker 1: the shooters have any identifiable mental illness. What one hundred 175 00:12:50,795 --> 00:12:54,675 Speaker 1: percent of the shooters have guns? The only mental health 176 00:12:54,715 --> 00:12:58,395 Speaker 1: crisis in this country about this subject is insisting that 177 00:12:58,475 --> 00:13:01,075 Speaker 1: the weekly mass murders have nothing to do with guns. 178 00:13:02,915 --> 00:13:10,075 Speaker 1: More Republicans, more deaths, more Republicans, more mass shootings, more Republicans, 179 00:13:11,715 --> 00:13:15,835 Speaker 1: more dead. Second graders and first graders and kindergarteners and 180 00:13:16,155 --> 00:13:23,835 Speaker 1: LGBTQ people and minorities and Christians say it. This is 181 00:13:23,875 --> 00:13:29,075 Speaker 1: the Republican business enabling the gun lobby to sell more 182 00:13:29,115 --> 00:13:33,595 Speaker 1: guns to kill more children. Republicans did this, and especially 183 00:13:34,555 --> 00:13:38,595 Speaker 1: two Democrats listening. Stop invoking God every time this happens. 184 00:13:38,595 --> 00:13:40,755 Speaker 1: If you want to pray for the Republicans victims or 185 00:13:40,755 --> 00:13:45,755 Speaker 1: their loved ones, go ahead, and they're all Republicans victims, 186 00:13:45,795 --> 00:13:49,555 Speaker 1: but do it in private. Do it at the end 187 00:13:49,595 --> 00:13:53,915 Speaker 1: of your speech. The night of the Texas shooting last May, 188 00:13:54,155 --> 00:13:59,395 Speaker 1: Joe Biden made nine references to God. Mister president, Whether 189 00:13:59,435 --> 00:14:04,075 Speaker 1: you believe there is a God or you don't, it's irrelevant. 190 00:14:04,755 --> 00:14:08,195 Speaker 1: Faithful and the atheist would have to agree. If there 191 00:14:08,315 --> 00:14:12,595 Speaker 1: is one. God has clearly left this crisis for us 192 00:14:12,635 --> 00:14:18,115 Speaker 1: to solve, and the President is, as Lincoln once said, 193 00:14:18,195 --> 00:14:23,235 Speaker 1: clothed in immense powers. Use them already. We need executive 194 00:14:23,315 --> 00:14:25,315 Speaker 1: orders to ban these weapons and we do not need 195 00:14:25,355 --> 00:14:28,355 Speaker 1: you saying you have exhausted your executive order. Supply make 196 00:14:28,435 --> 00:14:32,235 Speaker 1: more orders. And if a court blocks those orders, mister President, 197 00:14:32,315 --> 00:14:36,115 Speaker 1: issue more orders than that. Issue twenty of them, Issue 198 00:14:36,155 --> 00:14:39,515 Speaker 1: two thousand of them, Issue two million of them. I 199 00:14:39,595 --> 00:14:42,755 Speaker 1: want the corrupt Republican judges and the Republican gun lobby 200 00:14:42,835 --> 00:14:46,395 Speaker 1: waiting knee deep in executive orders. I want them suing 201 00:14:46,515 --> 00:14:49,075 Speaker 1: so many times that it will take the year thirty 202 00:14:49,115 --> 00:14:54,515 Speaker 1: three thousand before it's all sorted out. Just do it. 203 00:14:56,675 --> 00:14:59,755 Speaker 1: The Senator Elizabeth Warren has noted executive orders alone could 204 00:14:59,755 --> 00:15:03,315 Speaker 1: broaden the requirement for background checks for virtually every gun buyer, 205 00:15:04,195 --> 00:15:08,915 Speaker 1: and to report multiple gun purchases, and to raise the 206 00:15:08,915 --> 00:15:12,795 Speaker 1: minimum age to buy a gun, and to increase prosecution 207 00:15:12,835 --> 00:15:16,635 Speaker 1: for gun trafficking across the Texas border, and to revoke 208 00:15:16,715 --> 00:15:19,475 Speaker 1: the license of gun dealers who break the laws, and 209 00:15:19,755 --> 00:15:24,155 Speaker 1: to investigate and prosecute the NRA, and to keep guns 210 00:15:24,235 --> 00:15:27,275 Speaker 1: out of the hands of any domestic abuser. That's just 211 00:15:27,475 --> 00:15:30,955 Speaker 1: what any president could do today. President Biden, you have 212 00:15:31,075 --> 00:15:35,515 Speaker 1: not run out of executive orders. And if that is 213 00:15:35,555 --> 00:15:38,755 Speaker 1: still not enough, mister President, if the Congressman Tim Burchett 214 00:15:38,795 --> 00:15:41,595 Speaker 1: of Tennessee admits about this nightmare quote, We're not going 215 00:15:41,675 --> 00:15:44,835 Speaker 1: to fix it. Criminals are going to be criminals, and 216 00:15:44,955 --> 00:15:47,755 Speaker 1: Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota says, I think the 217 00:15:47,835 --> 00:15:50,155 Speaker 1: things that have already been done have gone about as 218 00:15:50,155 --> 00:15:53,635 Speaker 1: far as we're going to with gun control. If these 219 00:15:53,675 --> 00:15:57,995 Speaker 1: men representing these states admit they cannot enforce the gun laws, 220 00:15:58,795 --> 00:16:01,355 Speaker 1: you have to do what Eisenhower and Kennedy and Lyndon 221 00:16:01,475 --> 00:16:05,875 Speaker 1: Johnson did when other state attorneys general and governors and 222 00:16:05,955 --> 00:16:12,555 Speaker 1: senators and congressmen confessed they couldn't or wouldn't enforce integration laws. 223 00:16:12,555 --> 00:16:17,155 Speaker 1: Send in troops to enforce these laws, mister President, or 224 00:16:17,235 --> 00:16:20,155 Speaker 1: just wait wait for whatever and whoever is to be 225 00:16:20,275 --> 00:16:24,875 Speaker 1: hunted next. Police arrested two men in Pennstation in New 226 00:16:24,955 --> 00:16:27,435 Speaker 1: York in November with weapons. They had plans to shoot 227 00:16:27,475 --> 00:16:30,395 Speaker 1: up a synagogue. Two nights later, they closed the campus 228 00:16:30,395 --> 00:16:32,395 Speaker 1: at the University of New Orleans over a threat from 229 00:16:32,395 --> 00:16:35,435 Speaker 1: a former student. Hours after, five died at Club Q. 230 00:16:35,915 --> 00:16:40,875 Speaker 1: The libs of TikTok Twitter account that filth invoked drag 231 00:16:40,915 --> 00:16:47,595 Speaker 1: shows again and targeted two more Colorado state representatives. Where 232 00:16:47,595 --> 00:16:50,315 Speaker 1: do you want to see the next tragedy happen, mister President, 233 00:16:55,715 --> 00:16:59,995 Speaker 1: on first and foremost, President Biden, stopped dancing around the truth. 234 00:17:00,915 --> 00:17:04,235 Speaker 1: These children in Tennessee and Texas, and the grocery shoppers 235 00:17:04,235 --> 00:17:06,955 Speaker 1: in Buffalo, and the people just out for a Saturday 236 00:17:07,035 --> 00:17:09,675 Speaker 1: night in a place they considered their haven in Colorado, 237 00:17:09,915 --> 00:17:14,315 Speaker 1: they were killed by Republicans directly or stochastically, say this, 238 00:17:15,395 --> 00:17:20,595 Speaker 1: use your immense powers to clothe these truths with legitimacy 239 00:17:21,195 --> 00:17:25,835 Speaker 1: and with acceptability. When Republicans come out as they are 240 00:17:25,875 --> 00:17:29,795 Speaker 1: still removing the dismembered bodies of the kids the Republicans 241 00:17:29,835 --> 00:17:33,595 Speaker 1: have decided are suitable to be hunted, and when Republicans 242 00:17:33,635 --> 00:17:38,395 Speaker 1: vomit nonsensical excuses claiming that this happened because it's transpeople 243 00:17:38,555 --> 00:17:42,515 Speaker 1: declaring war on Christians, or that the school didn't have 244 00:17:42,595 --> 00:17:45,475 Speaker 1: high enough fences, or a door was opened, or because 245 00:17:45,475 --> 00:17:48,715 Speaker 1: the targets weren't hard enough, or they outright lie and say, 246 00:17:48,755 --> 00:17:50,875 Speaker 1: if only there have been a cop in the school 247 00:17:50,875 --> 00:17:53,995 Speaker 1: in Texas, when as we found out, the cops stood 248 00:17:54,035 --> 00:17:56,475 Speaker 1: and watched, or an outright line say well, only there'd 249 00:17:56,475 --> 00:17:58,395 Speaker 1: be a good guy with a gun in the tops 250 00:17:58,435 --> 00:18:00,915 Speaker 1: market in Buffalo when there was a retired cop with 251 00:18:00,955 --> 00:18:03,195 Speaker 1: a gun inside and he's dead too. Or when they 252 00:18:03,195 --> 00:18:05,795 Speaker 1: outright line say only they're been a cop in club 253 00:18:05,875 --> 00:18:08,395 Speaker 1: que in Colorado Springs, when in fact the shooter was 254 00:18:08,395 --> 00:18:11,475 Speaker 1: stopped when an unarmed man grabbed that gun from his 255 00:18:11,515 --> 00:18:14,155 Speaker 1: hand and hit him with it. Come out and say it, 256 00:18:14,195 --> 00:18:18,955 Speaker 1: President Biden, the Republicans killed those kids in Nashville. Say 257 00:18:18,995 --> 00:18:22,035 Speaker 1: it the way Congressman Jared Moskowitz said to Marjorie Taylor 258 00:18:22,115 --> 00:18:25,155 Speaker 1: Green when she snorted out the buzzwords she could remember, 259 00:18:25,235 --> 00:18:29,635 Speaker 1: like Christian and trans and good guys with guns. Okay, 260 00:18:29,835 --> 00:18:32,955 Speaker 1: I'll yield, Thank you, mister chairman. You know there are 261 00:18:32,995 --> 00:18:36,235 Speaker 1: six people that are dead in that school, including three children, 262 00:18:36,275 --> 00:18:38,635 Speaker 1: because you guys got rid of the assault weapons ban. 263 00:18:39,075 --> 00:18:42,755 Speaker 1: Say it. Say it the way the Congressman Jamal Bowman, 264 00:18:42,955 --> 00:18:47,315 Speaker 1: the former school principal who now represents the town I 265 00:18:47,395 --> 00:18:50,235 Speaker 1: grew up in. Send it to the media and to 266 00:18:50,315 --> 00:18:55,195 Speaker 1: the pro death Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey last night in 267 00:18:55,355 --> 00:19:08,755 Speaker 1: public as loudly as cowards pray for such fun to 268 00:19:08,875 --> 00:19:11,635 Speaker 1: the question, why the hell will you do anything to 269 00:19:11,675 --> 00:19:15,435 Speaker 1: say about the children, And let don't slay that. Oh well, 270 00:19:15,515 --> 00:19:20,115 Speaker 1: until let's stay tuns four. Let then is slaying all 271 00:19:20,115 --> 00:19:22,755 Speaker 1: the way up to lunching day or train from four. 272 00:19:22,995 --> 00:19:27,115 Speaker 1: They're freaking cowards, they're gutless. We're not here talking about 273 00:19:27,115 --> 00:19:29,915 Speaker 1: I'm talking about gun violence. You know, there's never been. 274 00:19:29,955 --> 00:19:33,155 Speaker 1: I'm talking about you like lane. It's more that allows 275 00:19:33,275 --> 00:19:37,515 Speaker 1: teachers to carry carry guns. Good thing, more gus because 276 00:19:37,675 --> 00:19:41,955 Speaker 1: more done, more guns me to more duncause look at 277 00:19:42,035 --> 00:19:45,235 Speaker 1: the data. You're not looking at any data. You're young. 278 00:19:45,475 --> 00:19:48,315 Speaker 1: You're carrying the water for the gun lobby. No, no, 279 00:19:48,435 --> 00:19:51,315 Speaker 1: hook at the data. More guns, even more death. But 280 00:19:51,475 --> 00:19:54,875 Speaker 1: the good states that have open kyrie laws have more 281 00:19:55,035 --> 00:19:58,555 Speaker 1: death in every school day with stay home hoping kyrie 282 00:19:58,755 --> 00:20:01,995 Speaker 1: laws and have more doth its never been a sho 283 00:20:02,435 --> 00:20:04,955 Speaker 1: you listen to what I'm saying. That's what and what 284 00:20:05,115 --> 00:20:09,555 Speaker 1: called that children and daying nine year old children? Friends, 285 00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:12,955 Speaker 1: lucis that armed teachers? Have you ever worked in the school? 286 00:20:13,395 --> 00:20:16,235 Speaker 1: Have you ever worked in the school? And every how 287 00:20:16,355 --> 00:20:19,115 Speaker 1: you ever work in the school? How do you ever 288 00:20:19,155 --> 00:20:21,995 Speaker 1: work in the schools? He guessing the pus have you 289 00:20:21,995 --> 00:20:24,715 Speaker 1: ever worked in the school? You will not answer my question. 290 00:20:24,915 --> 00:20:27,715 Speaker 1: Don't stop and talk to the room. Okay, I'll bring 291 00:20:27,755 --> 00:20:29,915 Speaker 1: it down to not have you ever worked in the 292 00:20:29,995 --> 00:20:34,755 Speaker 1: school Granville, I haven't worked in the school. You're twenty years? 293 00:20:35,275 --> 00:20:42,635 Speaker 1: I was, I was right, I work for years. How 294 00:20:42,675 --> 00:20:48,195 Speaker 1: are you twenty years? I was serious as I was 295 00:20:48,475 --> 00:20:57,275 Speaker 1: in the school. Every time he can't even answer yes 296 00:20:57,355 --> 00:21:00,955 Speaker 1: to no question? Answer why don't they in the slash 297 00:21:01,515 --> 00:21:11,675 Speaker 1: why question? A fake? You back with the real meaning 298 00:21:11,715 --> 00:21:21,595 Speaker 1: of the Second Amendment after this? Did you know there 299 00:21:21,595 --> 00:21:26,715 Speaker 1: are two references in our Constitution to dollar amounts, I 300 00:21:26,755 --> 00:21:31,795 Speaker 1: mean literally dollar figures. Section nine discusses attacks or duty 301 00:21:31,835 --> 00:21:35,795 Speaker 1: of quote ten dollars, and the seventh Amendment protects your 302 00:21:35,875 --> 00:21:39,315 Speaker 1: right to a jury trial where the value in controversy 303 00:21:39,315 --> 00:21:45,315 Speaker 1: shall exceed twenty dollars. The Constitution, with all its amendments, 304 00:21:45,555 --> 00:21:49,355 Speaker 1: is a patriotic seven thousand, six hundred and seventy six 305 00:21:49,395 --> 00:21:54,395 Speaker 1: words long, seventy six seventy six and two clauses mentioned 306 00:21:54,475 --> 00:21:57,875 Speaker 1: an exact value in cash and merchandise or when the 307 00:21:57,915 --> 00:22:02,915 Speaker 1: word money appears six times. In those seven thousand, six 308 00:22:02,995 --> 00:22:06,835 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six words. The word coin piers five times. 309 00:22:07,275 --> 00:22:10,835 Speaker 1: There are ten references to taxes eight times. You read 310 00:22:10,955 --> 00:22:15,555 Speaker 1: duty or duties. The word debt pierce seven times. There 311 00:22:15,555 --> 00:22:20,075 Speaker 1: are four uses of the word compensation to imports, to exports, 312 00:22:20,115 --> 00:22:24,275 Speaker 1: and the rest of it, the non ownership parts stripped away. 313 00:22:24,315 --> 00:22:39,755 Speaker 1: The rest of the United States Constitution and its amendments reads, profit, paid, treasury, emoluments, revenue, imposts, excises, imposts, excises, credit, commerce, bankruptcy, securities, 314 00:22:39,955 --> 00:22:48,995 Speaker 1: exclusive right purchased, capitation, commerce, revenue, treasury, appropriations, receipts, expenditures, profit, emolument, credit, gold, silver, 315 00:22:49,115 --> 00:22:54,035 Speaker 1: tender payment, imposts, impost, treasury, profit emolument, bribery, lands, grants 316 00:22:54,075 --> 00:23:02,395 Speaker 1: forfeit your fines, equity payment, pensions, bounties, pay obligation, obligations, incomes, manufacture, sale, 317 00:23:02,515 --> 00:23:09,515 Speaker 1: pay value, owner, property, property, private property. The Constitution is 318 00:23:09,555 --> 00:23:16,755 Speaker 1: a property document. Our Constitution is about ownership. Those references 319 00:23:16,875 --> 00:23:19,715 Speaker 1: just to dollars and money in coin and taxes and 320 00:23:19,835 --> 00:23:22,875 Speaker 1: duties and debt and compensation and other ownership. There's one 321 00:23:22,915 --> 00:23:26,635 Speaker 1: hundred and three of them all told in the Constitution. 322 00:23:27,355 --> 00:23:32,195 Speaker 1: The word vote, votes, and voting appear a total of 323 00:23:32,275 --> 00:23:36,395 Speaker 1: thirty seven times, the word rights and right fifteen times money, 324 00:23:36,395 --> 00:23:41,955 Speaker 1: and ownership one hundred and three times. Our Constitution is 325 00:23:42,035 --> 00:23:46,355 Speaker 1: first and foremost a property contract. What the government can 326 00:23:46,395 --> 00:23:48,675 Speaker 1: own and must own and pay for, and what the 327 00:23:48,715 --> 00:23:52,635 Speaker 1: people can own and must own and pay for. It 328 00:23:52,835 --> 00:23:56,155 Speaker 1: is noble, and most of it has held up flawlessly 329 00:23:56,195 --> 00:23:59,355 Speaker 1: since seventeen eighty seven, and in some places it is 330 00:23:59,875 --> 00:24:04,115 Speaker 1: almost sublime. But it does not read like the Declaration 331 00:24:04,155 --> 00:24:07,715 Speaker 1: of independent Its closest relative is the contract you sign 332 00:24:08,115 --> 00:24:12,995 Speaker 1: when you buy a car. So isn't it funny? Then? 333 00:24:13,075 --> 00:24:15,675 Speaker 1: In the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United 334 00:24:15,715 --> 00:24:18,795 Speaker 1: States of America, the second of all of them ever passed, 335 00:24:19,155 --> 00:24:23,635 Speaker 1: the one about guns, it does not say anything about 336 00:24:23,635 --> 00:24:31,515 Speaker 1: owning guns, dollars, money, coined, taxes, duties, debt, compensation, import 337 00:24:31,555 --> 00:24:35,915 Speaker 1: export pay value, owner, property, property, private property. A constitution 338 00:24:35,955 --> 00:24:39,355 Speaker 1: with more fine print in it than a mortgage, a 339 00:24:39,395 --> 00:24:43,115 Speaker 1: constitution that mentions ten dollars and twenty dollars. And yet 340 00:24:43,155 --> 00:24:46,715 Speaker 1: there isn't one of those ownership or property or value 341 00:24:46,755 --> 00:24:51,915 Speaker 1: words in the little part about guns. A well regulated 342 00:24:51,995 --> 00:24:56,315 Speaker 1: militia being necessary to the security of a free state, 343 00:24:56,395 --> 00:24:59,075 Speaker 1: the right of the people to keep and bear arms 344 00:24:59,435 --> 00:25:04,195 Speaker 1: shall not be infringed, which one of those words means own, 345 00:25:06,395 --> 00:25:10,555 Speaker 1: None of them do, which words in the part stating 346 00:25:10,595 --> 00:25:13,595 Speaker 1: that the Second Amendment is about the well regulated militia 347 00:25:13,635 --> 00:25:18,795 Speaker 1: in a free state are unclear. None of them is. 348 00:25:19,955 --> 00:25:23,275 Speaker 1: The Second Amendment prevents the government from making it illegal 349 00:25:23,635 --> 00:25:28,275 Speaker 1: for individual states to have their own state militias. It 350 00:25:28,315 --> 00:25:31,315 Speaker 1: does this by making it illegal for private citizens to 351 00:25:31,515 --> 00:25:39,315 Speaker 1: bear arms, so that is made sacrosanct. Private citizens may 352 00:25:39,475 --> 00:25:43,675 Speaker 1: bear arms for a state militia, bear arms for use 353 00:25:43,715 --> 00:25:47,435 Speaker 1: in a militia. The Second Amendment guarantees the right to 354 00:25:47,515 --> 00:25:52,075 Speaker 1: your state national guard. Unfortunately, it also guaranteed the right 355 00:25:52,115 --> 00:25:55,195 Speaker 1: for a state to rebel against the federal government. Thus 356 00:25:55,195 --> 00:25:59,715 Speaker 1: it guaranteed the right to civil war. But no matter 357 00:25:59,755 --> 00:26:03,675 Speaker 1: how awful that is, it still doesn't say anything in 358 00:26:03,715 --> 00:26:11,995 Speaker 1: here about prohibiting gun control. The Second Amendment is gun control. 359 00:26:13,275 --> 00:26:17,035 Speaker 1: It may say you can bear one. It may even 360 00:26:17,075 --> 00:26:21,035 Speaker 1: say you can keep one in your own home if 361 00:26:21,035 --> 00:26:24,075 Speaker 1: you're using it as part of a well regulated militia. 362 00:26:24,195 --> 00:26:27,355 Speaker 1: It does not say you can own one. And if 363 00:26:27,435 --> 00:26:30,395 Speaker 1: you don't own that gun you are keeping and bearing, 364 00:26:30,955 --> 00:26:34,515 Speaker 1: somebody else does own that gun. And that somebody has 365 00:26:34,555 --> 00:26:37,275 Speaker 1: got to be the government. And therefore we start with 366 00:26:37,315 --> 00:26:40,955 Speaker 1: the idea that it says in the Constitution that the 367 00:26:40,995 --> 00:26:47,035 Speaker 1: government controls the guns, all the guns, and just for 368 00:26:47,115 --> 00:26:50,075 Speaker 1: the record, the arms mentioned in the Second Amendment. Those 369 00:26:50,075 --> 00:26:54,995 Speaker 1: are muskets, not repeating rifles, not machine guns, not automatic 370 00:26:55,115 --> 00:27:00,475 Speaker 1: murder machines. We have a history of government gun control 371 00:27:00,475 --> 00:27:02,755 Speaker 1: that stretches back to the nineteenth century, back to when 372 00:27:02,755 --> 00:27:05,515 Speaker 1: the musket began the process of evolving into an oozy 373 00:27:06,675 --> 00:27:09,515 Speaker 1: take one of the seminal moments of American cultural history, 374 00:27:09,515 --> 00:27:12,395 Speaker 1: this symbolic essence of our expansion to the west. The 375 00:27:12,595 --> 00:27:16,515 Speaker 1: gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, on October 376 00:27:16,555 --> 00:27:20,355 Speaker 1: twenty six, eighteen eighty one. The OK Corral was a 377 00:27:20,435 --> 00:27:27,035 Speaker 1: gun fight about gun control to prevent gun terrorism. It 378 00:27:27,115 --> 00:27:30,635 Speaker 1: was illegal to carry a gun in Tombstone, Arizona in 379 00:27:30,675 --> 00:27:33,875 Speaker 1: eighteen eighty one, and the Clantons and the mcclaris were 380 00:27:33,915 --> 00:27:37,555 Speaker 1: ignoring it, and the town marshals the Earp brothers were 381 00:27:37,675 --> 00:27:43,115 Speaker 1: enforcing gun control. Gun control in Tombstone, Arizona in eighteen 382 00:27:43,155 --> 00:27:46,395 Speaker 1: eighty one, and it was tougher than it is now 383 00:27:46,635 --> 00:27:48,675 Speaker 1: in all but a handful of places in the America 384 00:27:48,715 --> 00:27:53,475 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three. But of course, what does that matter. 385 00:27:53,995 --> 00:27:56,675 Speaker 1: This is settled law. The Supreme Court ruled in the 386 00:27:56,715 --> 00:27:58,915 Speaker 1: Heller case in two thousand and eight. The highest court 387 00:27:58,915 --> 00:28:01,475 Speaker 1: in the land essentially heard the lead phrase of an 388 00:28:01,475 --> 00:28:05,155 Speaker 1: amendment indicating that is it about a well regulated militia 389 00:28:05,395 --> 00:28:08,555 Speaker 1: for an individual state government. Then it stuck its fingers 390 00:28:08,555 --> 00:28:11,155 Speaker 1: in its ears and pretended that in a property document 391 00:28:11,195 --> 00:28:14,715 Speaker 1: filled with dollars and money and coin in taxes and imports, exports, 392 00:28:14,715 --> 00:28:18,115 Speaker 1: pay value, owner property, property and private property. Doesn't matter 393 00:28:18,195 --> 00:28:21,355 Speaker 1: if the words used are keep and bear arms rather 394 00:28:21,395 --> 00:28:24,755 Speaker 1: than keep and own arms. Our own and bear arms. 395 00:28:26,715 --> 00:28:29,155 Speaker 1: But it's the Supreme Court. How could some knitwit with 396 00:28:29,235 --> 00:28:32,155 Speaker 1: a podcast have a better understanding of the Second Amendment 397 00:28:32,235 --> 00:28:36,515 Speaker 1: than the justices on the United States? Well, you know 398 00:28:36,555 --> 00:28:39,515 Speaker 1: what they say about the Supreme Court quote. The gun 399 00:28:39,555 --> 00:28:42,315 Speaker 1: lobby's interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the 400 00:28:42,355 --> 00:28:46,035 Speaker 1: greatest pieces of fraud. I repeat the word fraud on 401 00:28:46,075 --> 00:28:48,595 Speaker 1: the American people by special interest groups that I have 402 00:28:48,675 --> 00:28:52,315 Speaker 1: ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the 403 00:28:52,355 --> 00:28:55,395 Speaker 1: Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies the militia, 404 00:28:55,755 --> 00:28:58,715 Speaker 1: would be maintained for the defense of the state. The 405 00:28:58,795 --> 00:29:02,115 Speaker 1: very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that 406 00:29:02,155 --> 00:29:05,715 Speaker 1: it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right 407 00:29:05,755 --> 00:29:09,315 Speaker 1: to any kind of weapon he or she desires. The 408 00:29:09,395 --> 00:29:13,275 Speaker 1: speaker added, quote, the Second Amendment doesn't guarantee the right 409 00:29:13,315 --> 00:29:20,435 Speaker 1: to have firearms at all. Who said that? Warrenburger, Chief 410 00:29:20,515 --> 00:29:23,075 Speaker 1: Justice of the United States or nineteen sixty nine until 411 00:29:23,155 --> 00:29:27,715 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, appointed by Richard Nixon. He believed homosexual 412 00:29:27,755 --> 00:29:30,835 Speaker 1: behavior could be prohibited by law. He thought that sending 413 00:29:30,835 --> 00:29:32,915 Speaker 1: a man to prison for life or writing a bad 414 00:29:32,915 --> 00:29:36,435 Speaker 1: one hundred dollar check was just fine. He believed in 415 00:29:36,475 --> 00:29:40,315 Speaker 1: a strict constructionist reading of the Constitution, just like the 416 00:29:40,315 --> 00:29:48,435 Speaker 1: Tea Party did. The Second Amendment, Warrenburger said, doesn't guarantee 417 00:29:48,435 --> 00:29:53,315 Speaker 1: the right to have firearms at all. So if we 418 00:29:53,395 --> 00:29:56,315 Speaker 1: have dispensed with the idea that in a property document, 419 00:29:56,355 --> 00:29:58,915 Speaker 1: an amendment about each state being able to have its 420 00:29:58,915 --> 00:30:02,635 Speaker 1: own citizens bearing arms in a well regulated militia that 421 00:30:02,755 --> 00:30:06,155 Speaker 1: doesn't include one single word about ownership actually means no. 422 00:30:06,395 --> 00:30:09,915 Speaker 1: Terrorists have an inalienable right to own and keep a 423 00:30:09,955 --> 00:30:12,515 Speaker 1: million guns apiece, and they can kill an average of 424 00:30:12,555 --> 00:30:14,635 Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteen people a day in this country. 425 00:30:15,435 --> 00:30:16,995 Speaker 1: And if we have dispensed with the idea that the 426 00:30:17,035 --> 00:30:20,395 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, which upheld this preposterous interpretation, could not have 427 00:30:20,435 --> 00:30:23,315 Speaker 1: made a mistake and endangered the lives of every citizen, 428 00:30:23,835 --> 00:30:26,315 Speaker 1: and I'd like to thank Chief Justice Burgher for doing that. 429 00:30:26,595 --> 00:30:29,155 Speaker 1: Then we come to the three most popular excuses for 430 00:30:29,235 --> 00:30:34,035 Speaker 1: why we should have gun laws so loose, so protective 431 00:30:34,035 --> 00:30:37,555 Speaker 1: of mass murderers and terrorists at the cost of the 432 00:30:37,595 --> 00:30:41,595 Speaker 1: lives of school children, that if transported from eighteen eighty 433 00:30:41,635 --> 00:30:45,435 Speaker 1: one to now, the residence of Tombstone, Arizona, would have 434 00:30:45,475 --> 00:30:50,835 Speaker 1: called all of us butchers. The excuses are hunting, protection 435 00:30:50,875 --> 00:30:55,155 Speaker 1: against governmental tyranny, and the rights of the responsible gun owner. 436 00:30:56,235 --> 00:31:00,835 Speaker 1: About hunting, bluntly, if you need an AAR fifteen, or 437 00:31:00,875 --> 00:31:04,195 Speaker 1: you need thirteen guns or any automatic weapon of some 438 00:31:04,315 --> 00:31:07,235 Speaker 1: kind to kill any animals smaller than a kraken, you 439 00:31:07,235 --> 00:31:11,115 Speaker 1: are no good at hunting. Take up another pastime. And 440 00:31:11,275 --> 00:31:15,995 Speaker 1: about protection against governmental tyranny, Okay, we've had every kind 441 00:31:16,035 --> 00:31:18,395 Speaker 1: of president now, and we've had two world wars, and 442 00:31:18,475 --> 00:31:22,915 Speaker 1: a day of terrorist attacks, and a civil war during 443 00:31:22,915 --> 00:31:25,355 Speaker 1: which we still managed to hold a presidential election which 444 00:31:25,355 --> 00:31:28,115 Speaker 1: the Democratic nominee wanted to cut a deal with the 445 00:31:28,155 --> 00:31:33,075 Speaker 1: traitor estates, and we had an attempted insurrection two years ago, 446 00:31:33,115 --> 00:31:36,035 Speaker 1: and we still haven't had one national government decide to 447 00:31:36,075 --> 00:31:39,315 Speaker 1: invade your home and haul you off because you were 448 00:31:39,755 --> 00:31:42,715 Speaker 1: for abortion or against abortion, or because you were a 449 00:31:42,755 --> 00:31:46,275 Speaker 1: Democrat or a Republican or a fascist or a Republican fascist, 450 00:31:47,555 --> 00:31:50,275 Speaker 1: and before the next dim bull running for the Republican 451 00:31:50,315 --> 00:31:53,275 Speaker 1: nomination for something explains that we wouldn't have had gun 452 00:31:53,435 --> 00:31:56,395 Speaker 1: terrorism if only more good guys had guns, or that 453 00:31:56,435 --> 00:31:58,715 Speaker 1: the Holocaust wouldn't have happened if the victims had all 454 00:31:58,755 --> 00:32:01,275 Speaker 1: had guns, or that Jesus would have been fine if 455 00:32:01,275 --> 00:32:04,275 Speaker 1: he'd had an aar fifteen. Remember the last time this 456 00:32:04,315 --> 00:32:06,755 Speaker 1: country actually did go into the homes of some of 457 00:32:06,755 --> 00:32:10,435 Speaker 1: its citizens and seize them and drag them off against 458 00:32:10,515 --> 00:32:13,475 Speaker 1: their will to detention camps where they did not know 459 00:32:13,515 --> 00:32:17,395 Speaker 1: if they were going to be fed or shot. You 460 00:32:17,475 --> 00:32:22,155 Speaker 1: forgot about that. The internment of one hundred and twenty 461 00:32:22,195 --> 00:32:26,435 Speaker 1: thousand Americans during the Second World War. The Japanese Americans 462 00:32:27,555 --> 00:32:32,915 Speaker 1: property sees, liberty erased, habeas corpus, suspended, illegally, imprisoned without 463 00:32:32,955 --> 00:32:37,795 Speaker 1: any due process, some for more than four years. They 464 00:32:37,795 --> 00:32:41,755 Speaker 1: didn't have access to guns. None of them. Their neighbors 465 00:32:41,755 --> 00:32:45,635 Speaker 1: didn't have access to guns. That actual example of the 466 00:32:45,715 --> 00:32:48,275 Speaker 1: US government invading your home and hauling you off was 467 00:32:48,315 --> 00:32:50,755 Speaker 1: affected by the freedom to have a gun and the 468 00:32:50,795 --> 00:32:55,715 Speaker 1: Second Amendment. How exactly how did the Second Amendment protect 469 00:32:55,795 --> 00:33:01,275 Speaker 1: those people against the government. Well, right, it didn't. All 470 00:33:01,355 --> 00:33:03,755 Speaker 1: the guns the citizens were bearing and keeping, and nobody 471 00:33:03,795 --> 00:33:07,155 Speaker 1: as much as clean one in an attempt to defend 472 00:33:07,195 --> 00:33:09,955 Speaker 1: these Americans being rounded up and sent off in box 473 00:33:09,995 --> 00:33:16,835 Speaker 1: cars to concentration camps. And bluntly, again, at this point 474 00:33:16,955 --> 00:33:20,155 Speaker 1: in our history, if the government did decide to round 475 00:33:20,835 --> 00:33:23,835 Speaker 1: you up or round up your group or some group, 476 00:33:24,115 --> 00:33:27,795 Speaker 1: your thirteen guns would not stop them. Your thirteen thousand 477 00:33:27,835 --> 00:33:30,875 Speaker 1: guns would not stop them. While you were worried about 478 00:33:30,955 --> 00:33:34,515 Speaker 1: your gun, the government was busy taking away nearly all 479 00:33:34,555 --> 00:33:38,595 Speaker 1: of the privacy of your communications. The government can follow 480 00:33:38,635 --> 00:33:44,035 Speaker 1: you from space. Not only do you carry a tracking device, 481 00:33:45,835 --> 00:33:49,075 Speaker 1: you paid hundreds of dollars for it, and you buy 482 00:33:49,115 --> 00:33:51,635 Speaker 1: a new one when they updated. It's called a smart phone. 483 00:33:52,955 --> 00:33:54,955 Speaker 1: You have a microphone in your house that could be 484 00:33:54,995 --> 00:33:57,995 Speaker 1: broadcasting everything going on in your house to god knows 485 00:33:58,035 --> 00:34:02,075 Speaker 1: who or where, and you call it Alexa like it 486 00:34:02,115 --> 00:34:07,635 Speaker 1: was your goddamned cousin from Philadelphia. Hell I can pay 487 00:34:07,635 --> 00:34:12,155 Speaker 1: a small fee get your address, look it up on 488 00:34:12,315 --> 00:34:15,395 Speaker 1: Google Earth, find a one hundred and eighty degree view 489 00:34:15,395 --> 00:34:17,315 Speaker 1: of your home and figure out the easiest way to 490 00:34:17,355 --> 00:34:19,115 Speaker 1: break into your home. And I can do it on 491 00:34:19,155 --> 00:34:21,875 Speaker 1: my phone. How are you going to stop the government 492 00:34:22,275 --> 00:34:28,635 Speaker 1: with a gun? Speaking of guns and governments, nearly ten 493 00:34:28,675 --> 00:34:30,595 Speaker 1: percent of all the presidents in the history of the 494 00:34:30,675 --> 00:34:35,755 Speaker 1: United States have been assassinated with guns. A fifth was wounded, 495 00:34:35,795 --> 00:34:38,635 Speaker 1: a sixth was wounded while running for reelection, and seven 496 00:34:38,715 --> 00:34:44,875 Speaker 1: others survived significant assassination attempts by guns. That's thirteen out 497 00:34:44,875 --> 00:34:51,875 Speaker 1: of forty five presidents. There are no longer any excuses 498 00:34:51,875 --> 00:34:55,275 Speaker 1: for the governmental protection of gun rights, and there are 499 00:34:55,435 --> 00:34:58,995 Speaker 1: all kinds of regulations and waiting periods and controls that 500 00:34:59,035 --> 00:35:01,595 Speaker 1: can make an immediate impact on how often the gun 501 00:35:01,715 --> 00:35:04,595 Speaker 1: terrorists who've killed our children, who had a phantom constant 502 00:35:05,075 --> 00:35:07,675 Speaker 1: protection to own the guns with which they killed our children, 503 00:35:07,795 --> 00:35:12,235 Speaker 1: can get those guns. Those regulations and waiting periods on 504 00:35:12,315 --> 00:35:15,035 Speaker 1: both the state and federal level are of value and 505 00:35:15,115 --> 00:35:17,635 Speaker 1: should be enacted and enforced, And the first of them 506 00:35:17,635 --> 00:35:20,275 Speaker 1: clearly should be designed to close the so called gun 507 00:35:20,355 --> 00:35:24,915 Speaker 1: show loophole. But these are half measures, and every one 508 00:35:24,915 --> 00:35:27,115 Speaker 1: of them we might pass. The NRA and the death 509 00:35:27,115 --> 00:35:30,115 Speaker 1: lobby and everybody else who profits from gun terrorism can 510 00:35:30,195 --> 00:35:33,275 Speaker 1: fight and sue over and bribe politicians and roll back, 511 00:35:33,555 --> 00:35:35,675 Speaker 1: and the half measures can no longer be the goal. 512 00:35:36,835 --> 00:35:41,875 Speaker 1: And yes, the process will inevitably and in no small irony, 513 00:35:42,195 --> 00:35:45,955 Speaker 1: lead to many of us who advocate for it being shot. 514 00:35:46,395 --> 00:35:48,755 Speaker 1: And yes, in a bigger irony, still, it will inevitably 515 00:35:48,835 --> 00:35:52,195 Speaker 1: lead to public protests and mass demonstrations that will require 516 00:35:52,235 --> 00:35:56,355 Speaker 1: those of us moving towards banning guns totally will have 517 00:35:56,395 --> 00:35:58,595 Speaker 1: to be protected by countless numbers of men and women 518 00:35:58,675 --> 00:36:03,475 Speaker 1: bearing guns. But the time of our crisis has come. 519 00:36:04,275 --> 00:36:09,475 Speaker 1: To our phrase Professor Lawrence B. Hiccock of Western Reserve College, 520 00:36:09,915 --> 00:36:13,595 Speaker 1: the question now before the American citizens is no longer 521 00:36:13,675 --> 00:36:16,675 Speaker 1: alone can the schools and public places be made free 522 00:36:16,715 --> 00:36:19,035 Speaker 1: of the risk of gun massacres? But are we free? 523 00:36:19,435 --> 00:36:25,235 Speaker 1: Or are we slaves under gun mob law? So, if 524 00:36:25,275 --> 00:36:27,955 Speaker 1: you'd like to continue killing thousands of our citizens and 525 00:36:28,075 --> 00:36:31,395 Speaker 1: terrorizing the rest of them each year, treating a misinterpreted 526 00:36:31,435 --> 00:36:36,475 Speaker 1: constitutional amendment protecting your local state national Guard as if 527 00:36:36,515 --> 00:36:39,755 Speaker 1: it were the revealed word, sacrificing our children on the 528 00:36:39,755 --> 00:36:42,155 Speaker 1: altar of gun rights for psychopaths like we were the 529 00:36:42,195 --> 00:36:45,395 Speaker 1: Canaanites throwing them into the fire to appease the god Moloch. 530 00:36:45,515 --> 00:36:48,555 Speaker 1: Go right ahead, I'm done with it. You know that 531 00:36:48,675 --> 00:36:50,915 Speaker 1: third rail of American politics. They're going to take your 532 00:36:50,915 --> 00:36:54,555 Speaker 1: guns away. It should be the avowed policy of every 533 00:36:54,595 --> 00:36:57,635 Speaker 1: Democrat in this country. We are going to take your 534 00:36:57,675 --> 00:37:04,115 Speaker 1: guns away, my promise. Who's this We liberals and conservatives 535 00:37:04,195 --> 00:37:08,395 Speaker 1: and gun haters and gun lovers and everybody everybody who 536 00:37:08,515 --> 00:37:14,915 Speaker 1: values a human life more than a goddamned gun. Which 537 00:37:14,995 --> 00:37:18,995 Speaker 1: side are you on? You pick the gun over the life? 538 00:37:20,275 --> 00:37:24,435 Speaker 1: To hell with you. You support terrorism, We are going 539 00:37:24,475 --> 00:37:32,315 Speaker 1: to take away your terrorist weapons guns confiscation. By the 540 00:37:32,355 --> 00:37:35,755 Speaker 1: way to do it, I'm afraid we're going to have 541 00:37:35,795 --> 00:37:48,315 Speaker 1: to use a well regulated militia. What follows I first 542 00:37:48,355 --> 00:38:04,115 Speaker 1: presented on February fifteenth of this year. One of the 543 00:38:04,195 --> 00:38:08,355 Speaker 1: students survivors at Michigan State was a student survivor of 544 00:38:08,515 --> 00:38:13,355 Speaker 1: Sandy Hook, and at least three of the student survivors 545 00:38:13,355 --> 00:38:18,075 Speaker 1: of Michigan State. We're student survivors at Michigan Oxford High 546 00:38:18,115 --> 00:38:21,275 Speaker 1: School fifteen months earlier, and we can say with all 547 00:38:21,315 --> 00:38:24,675 Speaker 1: too much certainty that some of them we'll also become 548 00:38:24,715 --> 00:38:31,595 Speaker 1: survivors of Toledo twenty nine, Dallas twenty thirty three, your 549 00:38:31,755 --> 00:38:34,795 Speaker 1: city twenty thirty five, My city twenty thirty seven. Because 550 00:38:34,875 --> 00:38:41,635 Speaker 1: mass gun murders are profit centers. Why does this supposedly 551 00:38:41,715 --> 00:38:46,715 Speaker 1: sophisticated nation abide the ritual sacrifice of our children and 552 00:38:46,835 --> 00:38:50,555 Speaker 1: our brothers and sisters and parents to the moloch of 553 00:38:50,755 --> 00:38:56,675 Speaker 1: insane gun owners like Lauren Bobert or Thomas Massey or whoever, 554 00:38:57,355 --> 00:39:00,795 Speaker 1: the ones who get some kind of sexual gratification from 555 00:39:00,795 --> 00:39:06,115 Speaker 1: owning and displaying and stroking and firing weapons because it 556 00:39:06,155 --> 00:39:12,835 Speaker 1: makes other people millions of dollars. That's why we are 557 00:39:12,915 --> 00:39:19,395 Speaker 1: owned by guns. And so we go on calculating the 558 00:39:19,435 --> 00:39:22,835 Speaker 1: averages and deciding if by age five it is already 559 00:39:22,875 --> 00:39:25,355 Speaker 1: too late to teach kids how to play dead in 560 00:39:25,395 --> 00:39:30,875 Speaker 1: their classrooms, and we go on listening to fascist asshole 561 00:39:30,995 --> 00:39:34,715 Speaker 1: madmen like Ron de Santis talk about fortifying schools and 562 00:39:34,915 --> 00:39:39,035 Speaker 1: fortifying movie theaters and fortifying churches, and we go on 563 00:39:39,155 --> 00:39:43,275 Speaker 1: listening to messianic buttonheads like Eric Adams talk about giving 564 00:39:43,315 --> 00:39:47,075 Speaker 1: more guns to more police, when police often turn out 565 00:39:47,115 --> 00:39:50,635 Speaker 1: either to be the murderers or the cowards who idle 566 00:39:50,715 --> 00:39:53,795 Speaker 1: in the hallways as the children of Uvalde are executed 567 00:39:53,835 --> 00:39:56,795 Speaker 1: one by one, and we go on listening to the 568 00:39:56,795 --> 00:40:00,395 Speaker 1: fatuous idiots like the Missouri House where the police said, 569 00:40:00,395 --> 00:40:03,315 Speaker 1: we need laws to stop fourteen year olds from walking 570 00:40:03,355 --> 00:40:06,315 Speaker 1: down the streets of St. Loui is carrying ar fifteens, 571 00:40:06,595 --> 00:40:08,635 Speaker 1: and the House voted one hundred and four to thirty 572 00:40:08,715 --> 00:40:13,155 Speaker 1: nine to keep open carry legal in Missouri for kids. 573 00:40:14,675 --> 00:40:17,155 Speaker 1: And we go on listening to a moral monsters like 574 00:40:17,235 --> 00:40:21,315 Speaker 1: Donald Trump talk about arming teachers and bringing back firing squads, 575 00:40:21,315 --> 00:40:24,915 Speaker 1: and we listened to these paid scum Republicans bribed by 576 00:40:24,915 --> 00:40:28,235 Speaker 1: the gun manufacturers and the gun organizations, recite what they 577 00:40:28,275 --> 00:40:32,275 Speaker 1: have been paid to say about responsible gun owners, when 578 00:40:32,675 --> 00:40:35,995 Speaker 1: after half a million gun deaths in this country in 579 00:40:36,035 --> 00:40:38,955 Speaker 1: the last ten or twelve years, it is no longer 580 00:40:39,035 --> 00:40:43,355 Speaker 1: in doubt there are no longer any responsible gun owners. 581 00:40:46,755 --> 00:40:51,035 Speaker 1: On this nightmare so familiar, so routine, and so constant 582 00:40:51,195 --> 00:40:56,235 Speaker 1: that we no longer remember the details or the location 583 00:40:56,795 --> 00:40:59,835 Speaker 1: or the motive were the sequence of them, And now 584 00:40:59,835 --> 00:41:02,795 Speaker 1: we are no longer even remembering that there was a 585 00:41:02,955 --> 00:41:06,195 Speaker 1: nightmare last night where the night before, and we're now 586 00:41:06,635 --> 00:41:10,155 Speaker 1: marbling them into other things in American life, as if 587 00:41:10,155 --> 00:41:14,555 Speaker 1: they were snowstorms or flight delays, and a hockey podcaster 588 00:41:14,755 --> 00:41:17,355 Speaker 1: begins by saying, well, it's tough to do this after 589 00:41:17,395 --> 00:41:20,435 Speaker 1: the Michigan State news, but let's talk about the Carolina 590 00:41:20,515 --> 00:41:24,035 Speaker 1: hurricanes needs at the deadline, and the New York Times 591 00:41:24,035 --> 00:41:27,915 Speaker 1: can run a sidebar that the shooting, well, it upended 592 00:41:27,955 --> 00:41:31,195 Speaker 1: the lives of thousands, but it also put the school 593 00:41:31,195 --> 00:41:34,915 Speaker 1: back in an uncomfortable spotlight, what with the sexual assault scandal. 594 00:41:34,995 --> 00:41:40,155 Speaker 1: There we go on in an unacceptable world in which 595 00:41:40,275 --> 00:41:46,755 Speaker 1: we are owned by guns. We go on to borrow 596 00:41:46,755 --> 00:41:52,235 Speaker 1: from Churchill, in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, 597 00:41:52,835 --> 00:42:00,195 Speaker 1: resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, 598 00:42:01,235 --> 00:42:08,675 Speaker 1: all powerful to be impotent. The dead of Michigan State, 599 00:42:09,555 --> 00:42:13,915 Speaker 1: the dead of Las Vegas, the dead at the Pulse, 600 00:42:14,755 --> 00:42:19,595 Speaker 1: the dead at Well. Why do we bother with individual 601 00:42:19,715 --> 00:42:25,115 Speaker 1: place names anymore? The dead of the killing field, the 602 00:42:25,235 --> 00:42:29,395 Speaker 1: dead of the transcendent national shooting range that is the 603 00:42:29,475 --> 00:42:34,875 Speaker 1: United States of America. They are dead because somebody is 604 00:42:34,915 --> 00:42:40,515 Speaker 1: making money off them, and because Ted Cruz is making 605 00:42:40,595 --> 00:42:45,195 Speaker 1: money off them, and Marjorie Taylor Green is making money 606 00:42:45,235 --> 00:42:49,555 Speaker 1: off them, and every horror politician is making money off 607 00:42:49,595 --> 00:42:53,235 Speaker 1: them and rarely even bothering anymore to wash the money 608 00:42:53,235 --> 00:42:58,075 Speaker 1: through seepack or save America this or shoot America, that 609 00:43:00,035 --> 00:43:03,195 Speaker 1: the donations come straight and unhidden. And whether it's Trump 610 00:43:03,275 --> 00:43:07,075 Speaker 1: or DeSantis, or who are soon to be very very surprised, 611 00:43:07,155 --> 00:43:11,595 Speaker 1: Nicki Haley, or just some other idiot free from morality 612 00:43:11,675 --> 00:43:15,355 Speaker 1: or conscience, whom the moneyed interests select, it is fair 613 00:43:15,355 --> 00:43:18,115 Speaker 1: to say that the Republican nominee for president in twenty 614 00:43:18,155 --> 00:43:21,275 Speaker 1: twenty four, whoever that is, will be underwritten by the 615 00:43:21,315 --> 00:43:25,195 Speaker 1: gun manufacturers and the gun lobby and their masters, the 616 00:43:25,395 --> 00:43:29,675 Speaker 1: death lobby, who pay good money to bad people to 617 00:43:29,835 --> 00:43:33,595 Speaker 1: maintain not just our culture of guns and shooting and 618 00:43:33,875 --> 00:43:38,755 Speaker 1: dead children and thoughts and prayers, but also maintain the 619 00:43:38,795 --> 00:43:42,195 Speaker 1: world's culture of continuing to poison the atmosphere and kill 620 00:43:42,235 --> 00:43:45,835 Speaker 1: off the species one by one because the one billion, 621 00:43:46,035 --> 00:43:49,835 Speaker 1: nine hundred and sixty three million dollars in profit made 622 00:43:49,915 --> 00:43:54,715 Speaker 1: last year by big Oil just isn't enough. Because they 623 00:43:54,755 --> 00:43:57,635 Speaker 1: stay up at night anguished by the thought that there 624 00:43:57,675 --> 00:44:03,235 Speaker 1: remains somewhere one dollar not yet stolen from a child 625 00:44:03,675 --> 00:44:07,235 Speaker 1: dying next to the earthquake rubble in Syria, or Turkey 626 00:44:07,515 --> 00:44:11,355 Speaker 1: one dollar yet to be pocketed by Darren Woods, the 627 00:44:11,475 --> 00:44:20,035 Speaker 1: CEO of Exxonmobile Away God intended it. It is economics, 628 00:44:21,035 --> 00:44:28,955 Speaker 1: and thus the only solution can also be economics, because 629 00:44:28,955 --> 00:44:31,195 Speaker 1: we will not defeat them in the states that are 630 00:44:31,235 --> 00:44:35,195 Speaker 1: already lost to the control of the death lobby. And 631 00:44:35,315 --> 00:44:38,595 Speaker 1: even if President Biden said tomorrow we are not owned 632 00:44:38,675 --> 00:44:41,315 Speaker 1: by guns, and I don't give a damn. If I'm 633 00:44:41,355 --> 00:44:44,595 Speaker 1: reelected or even renominated, I'm going to issue four hundred 634 00:44:44,595 --> 00:44:48,235 Speaker 1: and fifty executive orders and take every damn gun I 635 00:44:48,355 --> 00:44:50,835 Speaker 1: can get off the streets. And if the House and 636 00:44:50,915 --> 00:44:53,755 Speaker 1: send it won't reinstate the assault weapons man, I will 637 00:44:53,795 --> 00:44:56,635 Speaker 1: do so unilaterally and come and get me in the courts. 638 00:44:58,475 --> 00:45:04,475 Speaker 1: Even if Biden did that, we the anti death people, 639 00:45:05,395 --> 00:45:10,395 Speaker 1: we would lose in the Supreme Court because Clarence Thomas 640 00:45:10,475 --> 00:45:14,075 Speaker 1: the whore is on the Supreme Court because of and 641 00:45:14,195 --> 00:45:17,595 Speaker 1: bought and paid for by the death lobby, and Samuel 642 00:45:17,635 --> 00:45:20,755 Speaker 1: Alito the whore is, and John Roberts the whore is, 643 00:45:21,235 --> 00:45:25,315 Speaker 1: and Neil Gorsich and drunken Brett Kavanaugh and Bible paralegal 644 00:45:25,395 --> 00:45:31,555 Speaker 1: Amy Coney Barrett. And so we must ask ourselves what 645 00:45:31,755 --> 00:45:36,475 Speaker 1: economically can we do to the gun lobby, to the 646 00:45:36,555 --> 00:45:41,075 Speaker 1: oil lobby, to the death lobby, and to their minions 647 00:45:41,195 --> 00:45:44,195 Speaker 1: in the Senate and the House, and all the Senates 648 00:45:44,195 --> 00:45:48,875 Speaker 1: and all the houses in all the states in America 649 00:45:49,835 --> 00:45:52,035 Speaker 1: and in this country. There are only a couple of 650 00:45:52,035 --> 00:45:55,875 Speaker 1: measures that might possibly work, and might possibly work fast 651 00:45:55,995 --> 00:45:59,675 Speaker 1: enough so that enough of us won't be killed in 652 00:45:59,795 --> 00:46:04,475 Speaker 1: next year's three hundred gun massacres or the next decades 653 00:46:04,915 --> 00:46:09,755 Speaker 1: three hundred climate crises. And that one thing is to 654 00:46:09,795 --> 00:46:12,995 Speaker 1: spare you the kind words, the soft words. That one 655 00:46:13,035 --> 00:46:18,395 Speaker 1: thing is economic civil war. It can start simply, buy 656 00:46:18,555 --> 00:46:24,435 Speaker 1: nothing from Texas, do not go to Florida, do not 657 00:46:24,635 --> 00:46:30,795 Speaker 1: patronize Missouri. We can start there, and then we can 658 00:46:30,835 --> 00:46:35,715 Speaker 1: get serious. It is a simple mathematical fact that, with 659 00:46:35,875 --> 00:46:38,875 Speaker 1: some exceptions, and a little more nuanced than time permits 660 00:46:38,875 --> 00:46:42,395 Speaker 1: me here, it is a simple mathematical fact that the 661 00:46:42,395 --> 00:46:45,115 Speaker 1: blue states of this country keep the Red states of 662 00:46:45,155 --> 00:46:49,875 Speaker 1: this country from going bankrupt. It is a simple mathematical 663 00:46:49,875 --> 00:46:53,195 Speaker 1: fact that the Blue states pay in more to the 664 00:46:53,235 --> 00:46:56,595 Speaker 1: federal government than they ever get back in services or infrastructure, 665 00:46:56,795 --> 00:47:01,675 Speaker 1: or certainly in per capita representation. New York pays a 666 00:47:01,755 --> 00:47:05,675 Speaker 1: net twenty four billion a year, California pays in and 667 00:47:05,755 --> 00:47:08,915 Speaker 1: at fourteen billion, and most of that goes to keeping 668 00:47:09,035 --> 00:47:16,075 Speaker 1: Florida and Texas from starving. Florida gets thirty six billion 669 00:47:16,155 --> 00:47:21,035 Speaker 1: a year more than it pays in Texas nearly that much. 670 00:47:22,475 --> 00:47:27,155 Speaker 1: It is state to state socialism, and we all know 671 00:47:27,235 --> 00:47:31,395 Speaker 1: that we can't have socialism. And it is a simple 672 00:47:31,475 --> 00:47:35,635 Speaker 1: fact that the Blue States restrict and regulate guns, and 673 00:47:35,715 --> 00:47:40,875 Speaker 1: the Red States sell guns and sell guns and sell 674 00:47:41,075 --> 00:47:46,955 Speaker 1: guns and profit off dead children. And when the political 675 00:47:46,995 --> 00:47:52,955 Speaker 1: whores like Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson and Rupert Murdoch 676 00:47:54,035 --> 00:47:57,835 Speaker 1: point to the gun carnage of Chicago, they are actually 677 00:47:57,875 --> 00:48:01,395 Speaker 1: pointing to the gun carnage of weapons smuggled in from 678 00:48:01,435 --> 00:48:06,755 Speaker 1: Indiana to Chicago. And it is also a simple fact 679 00:48:06,755 --> 00:48:09,275 Speaker 1: that we can dance around for decades yet to come 680 00:48:09,515 --> 00:48:13,435 Speaker 1: about how to stop the gun massacres of February twenty 681 00:48:13,475 --> 00:48:17,835 Speaker 1: forty seven and the chemical disasters of June twenty sixty 682 00:48:17,875 --> 00:48:21,235 Speaker 1: one so bad they reminded old timers of where was 683 00:48:21,275 --> 00:48:25,475 Speaker 1: that East Palestine, Ohio? Or we can cut to the 684 00:48:25,595 --> 00:48:27,915 Speaker 1: chase and put it this way, if the Red States 685 00:48:27,995 --> 00:48:32,595 Speaker 1: do not agree to strict and enforced gun regulation and 686 00:48:32,755 --> 00:48:37,235 Speaker 1: the removal and the outlawing of gun manufacture, and a 687 00:48:37,355 --> 00:48:39,915 Speaker 1: revision of the Second Amendment so that the vagueness that 688 00:48:40,075 --> 00:48:42,955 Speaker 1: isn't actually there but the death lobby has sped a 689 00:48:43,035 --> 00:48:46,675 Speaker 1: century convincing millions, is there, that all doubt about the 690 00:48:46,715 --> 00:48:49,155 Speaker 1: Second Amendment be erased and replaced by the simple statement 691 00:48:49,195 --> 00:48:53,035 Speaker 1: that private gun ownership is illegal without a series of 692 00:48:53,115 --> 00:48:56,275 Speaker 1: licenses and mental health tests, and that the owner is 693 00:48:56,315 --> 00:48:58,435 Speaker 1: liable for whatever is done with his gun, and if 694 00:48:58,475 --> 00:49:01,675 Speaker 1: that includes murder, then the owner is liable for life imprisonment, 695 00:49:01,675 --> 00:49:03,955 Speaker 1: whether he fired the gun or not. If the Red 696 00:49:04,035 --> 00:49:06,595 Speaker 1: States do not agree to that, and by the way, 697 00:49:06,635 --> 00:49:10,115 Speaker 1: to reapportioned representation in the House and the Senate so 698 00:49:10,155 --> 00:49:13,195 Speaker 1: that Idaho does not have as many senators as a 699 00:49:13,355 --> 00:49:18,515 Speaker 1: real state and not a welfare state like Idaho, And 700 00:49:18,555 --> 00:49:20,715 Speaker 1: if they do not agree to the resignations of Chief 701 00:49:20,755 --> 00:49:25,075 Speaker 1: Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Barrett, gorsych Kavanaugh, and Thomas. 702 00:49:25,155 --> 00:49:27,595 Speaker 1: If the Red States do not agree to that, then 703 00:49:27,635 --> 00:49:32,835 Speaker 1: the Blue States will simply stop paying money into the 704 00:49:32,955 --> 00:49:36,075 Speaker 1: federal government, and the Blue States will simply spend that 705 00:49:36,155 --> 00:49:41,155 Speaker 1: money directly on their own citizens. And if the leaders 706 00:49:41,675 --> 00:49:43,995 Speaker 1: of our blue states who will not comply with this, 707 00:49:44,515 --> 00:49:47,635 Speaker 1: then the only solution we have, Since the murders at 708 00:49:47,675 --> 00:49:50,555 Speaker 1: Michigan State Monday night and the murders at your town 709 00:49:50,875 --> 00:49:55,515 Speaker 1: name here next week are profit streams for many people, 710 00:49:55,795 --> 00:49:59,955 Speaker 1: the only solution we have is to then stop paying 711 00:49:59,995 --> 00:50:03,635 Speaker 1: our federal taxes until our state leaders recognize that the 712 00:50:03,715 --> 00:50:06,595 Speaker 1: only way out of this nightmare is to threaten the 713 00:50:06,635 --> 00:50:11,115 Speaker 1: red states, and thus threatened the gun lobby, and thus 714 00:50:11,275 --> 00:50:14,315 Speaker 1: threatened the oil lobby, and thus threatened the death lobby 715 00:50:14,315 --> 00:50:22,275 Speaker 1: with economic strangulation, economic civil war, to save the country, 716 00:50:23,235 --> 00:50:28,595 Speaker 1: To save the next six hundred thousand Americans who will 717 00:50:28,675 --> 00:50:33,035 Speaker 1: die by gun violence almost certainly by the year twenty 718 00:50:33,075 --> 00:50:36,355 Speaker 1: thirty five, if it does not get worse before then 719 00:50:36,955 --> 00:50:41,675 Speaker 1: six hundred thousand, the same number who were killed in 720 00:50:41,715 --> 00:50:46,555 Speaker 1: the actual Civil War. And if you ask yourself, or 721 00:50:46,555 --> 00:50:51,035 Speaker 1: you are asked by what right we could threaten economic 722 00:50:51,115 --> 00:50:56,355 Speaker 1: civil war, just say this is constitutional under the Second 723 00:50:56,355 --> 00:51:02,755 Speaker 1: Amendment quote a well regulated militia being necessary to the 724 00:51:02,835 --> 00:51:06,235 Speaker 1: security of a free state. Eight. The right of the 725 00:51:06,235 --> 00:51:09,155 Speaker 1: people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed. 726 00:51:09,515 --> 00:51:13,075 Speaker 1: Our rights to the security of a free state have 727 00:51:13,235 --> 00:51:17,275 Speaker 1: been infringed upon by the gun lobby and the death lobby, 728 00:51:18,075 --> 00:51:21,155 Speaker 1: which has convinced generations of gun fetishists that an amendment 729 00:51:21,195 --> 00:51:24,635 Speaker 1: that does not contain the word own nor any synonym 730 00:51:24,715 --> 00:51:29,675 Speaker 1: for own, does contain it. The Constitution is a property document. 731 00:51:29,715 --> 00:51:33,355 Speaker 1: It mentions rights only fifteen times. It mentions voting only 732 00:51:33,395 --> 00:51:36,275 Speaker 1: thirty seven times. This is out of nearly eight thousand words, 733 00:51:36,315 --> 00:51:39,235 Speaker 1: but it mentions money and ownership one hundred and three times. 734 00:51:40,635 --> 00:51:45,155 Speaker 1: The Second Amendment is about making sure nothing interferes with 735 00:51:45,235 --> 00:51:50,595 Speaker 1: a well regulated militia, well regulated militia that is there 736 00:51:50,795 --> 00:51:54,555 Speaker 1: protecting our rights as citizens to have, as it says 737 00:51:54,595 --> 00:51:57,955 Speaker 1: in the Second Amendment, the security of a free state. 738 00:51:59,075 --> 00:52:02,715 Speaker 1: Our Second Amendment rights have been trampled on by Donald 739 00:52:02,715 --> 00:52:08,515 Speaker 1: Trump and the Republican the anti Second Amendment Republicans. We 740 00:52:08,595 --> 00:52:15,515 Speaker 1: need to start enforcing the Second Amendment. We need an 741 00:52:15,515 --> 00:52:17,795 Speaker 1: economic civil war against the gun lobby and the death 742 00:52:17,795 --> 00:52:20,595 Speaker 1: lobby and those corrupted and financially insolvent red states that 743 00:52:20,635 --> 00:52:22,635 Speaker 1: stand in the way of peace and security in this 744 00:52:22,675 --> 00:52:32,315 Speaker 1: country because we are owned by guns. But God damn it, 745 00:52:33,515 --> 00:52:38,035 Speaker 1: we are not going to be owned by guns any longer. 746 00:52:46,315 --> 00:52:49,595 Speaker 1: Before we go We're not going to solve this in 747 00:52:49,675 --> 00:52:51,835 Speaker 1: one day. We might be able to solve something for 748 00:52:51,875 --> 00:52:54,995 Speaker 1: a dog named Junior. Every dog has its day. Junior 749 00:52:55,075 --> 00:52:58,555 Speaker 1: has been at the New York Pound since November fifth. 750 00:52:59,035 --> 00:53:04,195 Speaker 1: He's a sixteen month old puppy, young dog, beloved of 751 00:53:04,235 --> 00:53:08,155 Speaker 1: the staff there, playful child and dog friendly, and now 752 00:53:08,195 --> 00:53:11,355 Speaker 1: they have put out a euthanasia order on him. He 753 00:53:11,475 --> 00:53:14,835 Speaker 1: needs our help. Anyone can adopt him, he is ready 754 00:53:14,875 --> 00:53:18,595 Speaker 1: to go, He's that easy to deal with, or our 755 00:53:18,675 --> 00:53:21,915 Speaker 1: pledges to help defray the costs of a rescue to 756 00:53:21,995 --> 00:53:25,635 Speaker 1: pull him and save his life. You can see Junior's 757 00:53:25,715 --> 00:53:30,275 Speaker 1: video and read about him on my Twitter feeds and 758 00:53:30,475 --> 00:53:33,715 Speaker 1: pledge to help, or if you are so moved, get 759 00:53:33,755 --> 00:53:36,195 Speaker 1: to New York and adopt him. The details are there. 760 00:53:36,995 --> 00:54:05,675 Speaker 1: I thank you, and Junior thanks you. Cowntown with Keith 761 00:54:05,715 --> 00:54:10,795 Speaker 1: Alerman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 762 00:54:10,955 --> 00:54:14,955 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 763 00:54:14,995 --> 00:54:15,915 Speaker 1: your podcasts.