Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy CENTRALOW.
Speaker 2: Hey there, this is Jordan Klepper and you're about to
Speaker 2: hear my special from a few years back, Jordan Klepper
Speaker 2: Solves Guns. Spoiler alerts. I did not solve guns. It
Speaker 2: was a hyperbolic comedic premiss meant to highlight the uniquely
Speaker 2: American problem of gun violence. It's a no hour long
Speaker 2: documentary special inspired by some of my Daily Show field pieces,
Speaker 2: where I attempt to get at the heart of the
Speaker 2: gun controlled debate in America by talking with people on
Speaker 2: both sides, including Senator Corey Booker and my dad's cousin Pete.
Speaker 2: You can watch the full video version on Comedy Central's YouTube,
Speaker 2: and be sure to catch me hosting The Daily Show
Speaker 2: all next week at eleven ten pm Central. On Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: I mentioned a warzone. I'm going to embed in a
Speaker 2: country with over three hundred million guns, a country where
Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen, thirty three thousand people died due to
Speaker 2: gun violence, A country whose citizens are twenty five times
Speaker 2: more likely to be murdered by a gun than any
Speaker 2: other civilized nation, to America. You ever shot it back up, back, back, back,
Speaker 2: back back, good the country I'm talking about. Is America
Speaker 2: good go? We don't have a permit ship gun turs
Speaker 2: American as apple pie and short changing female workers. We
Speaker 2: buy them in bulk, tattoo them over our abdomens, and
Speaker 2: use them to kill more people than any other developed country.
Speaker 3: All out panic Sunday morning after a gunman opens fire.
Speaker 2: It was a pretty nasty fight that preceded the deadly shooting.
Speaker 2: Besides that, gun ranges are rare in our area. But
Speaker 2: it has happened before, and America is only getting gun
Speaker 2: here after electing the most pro Second Amendment and least
Speaker 2: First Amendment president in recent memory.
Speaker 4: The NRA has led the fight time and time again
Speaker 4: to protect our fundamental.
Speaker 2: Freedoms, leading the charge the National Rifle Association by supporting
Speaker 2: Trump's campaign with thirty million dollars, the big liest amount
Speaker 2: spent by any outside group, and they don't mind bragging
Speaker 2: about it in one of their classic green screen rams.
Speaker 4: Gun owners made this election happen. You were the special
Speaker 4: courses that swung this election and send Donald Trump and
Speaker 4: Mike Pence to the White House.
Speaker 2: With the twenty sixteen campaign behind them. The NRA has
Speaker 2: set its sights on a homegrown enemy the anti Second
Speaker 2: Amendment political and media elites, the government elite, bureaucratic elites.
Speaker 2: But who are these mysterious elites who want nothing less
Speaker 2: than to rip guns away from hard working Americans?
Speaker 5: Me?
Speaker 2: Woe am I? I'm Jordan Klepper, I'm enlightened, I'm progressive,
Speaker 2: and I feel like I was put on this earth
Speaker 2: to enact righteous change. AKA. I'm a twenty seventeen comedian.
Speaker 2: I have four brown rice cooker, twelve gay friends, and
Speaker 2: five podcasts. I tweet blogs, mean think pieces and tumble
Speaker 2: gifts powerful thought provoking gifts. Follow me on Instagram. As
Speaker 2: a television personality, I've repeatedly recorded on america obsession with guns.
Speaker 2: Despite my incredible efforts, guns are still a problem. Apparently
Speaker 2: five minute segments aren't enough to solve America's gun crisis. Thankfully,
Speaker 2: Comedy Central has given me an hour long special. But
Speaker 2: today I don't just report on America's gun crisis. I
Speaker 2: solve the motherfucker. It's time somebody solved guns. Ie stopped
Speaker 2: the thirty three thousand gun deaths that happen in America
Speaker 2: every year. But first I need to define the problem guns.
Speaker 2: What is a gun? If you ask an NRA lobbyist.
Speaker 6: He might say the gun is a symbol in American
Speaker 6: politics as much as it's a real thing. It's also
Speaker 6: a symbol.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the gun is a symbol of a dick. If
Speaker 2: you got a little one, you go and get a gun.
Speaker 2: It's like the corvette for paranoid people. But how does
Speaker 2: that symbol impact a mother from the South side of Chicago.
Speaker 7: I'm seeing gun violence and homes. I'm seeing gun violence
Speaker 7: in school. It's not a suburban problem or a city problem.
Speaker 7: It's an American problem.
Speaker 8: Na one More.
Speaker 2: America is clearly divided.
Speaker 9: The most violent places in this country have the strictest
Speaker 9: gun controls.
Speaker 2: But the pain of gun violence is being felt across
Speaker 2: the country. In twenty sixteen, my hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan,
Speaker 2: once known mainly for its booming cellery industry, micro breweries,
Speaker 2: and the country's first outdoor pedestrian mall, came to prominence
Speaker 2: for something much more horrific.
Speaker 4: A prosecutor says, uber driver Jason Bryan Dalton gun down
Speaker 4: and killed six people Saturday in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Speaker 8: We are a.
Speaker 10: Community that is much more than this episode of violence.
Speaker 2: My family is from Kalamazoo. It's where I learned to
Speaker 2: wear a tie in shorts. This just got personal. Our
Speaker 2: country has three hundred million guns, or technically speaking, a
Speaker 2: shitload of guns in the hands of one hundred and
Speaker 2: ten million gun owners. My goal get those guns out
Speaker 2: of those trigger happy hands. I needed someone in power
Speaker 2: who shared my outrage when hearing that ninety two people
Speaker 2: die every day from gun violence.
Speaker 5: There is enough blood, there is enough death.
Speaker 8: Enough killing going on.
Speaker 5: We have all the evidence we need that we need
Speaker 5: to do more. Doing nothing is unacceptable.
Speaker 2: That was my guy. Senator Corey Booker has fought to
Speaker 2: keep guns off the streets of Newark and battled Congress
Speaker 2: to pass common sense gun reform. We'd figure out how
Speaker 2: to get rid of guns over international pancakes. Let's say
Speaker 2: this plate is America. Something on this plate will kill you.
Speaker 2: Bacon slash guns. Right, Americans love bacon slash guns, but
Speaker 2: too many Americans die because of bacon slash guns. So
Speaker 2: how do we stop dumb people from eating bacon?
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, as you are ridiculously condemning when
Speaker 5: you call people dumb and you insult their intelligence. All right, Dad,
Speaker 5: I don't want to take away their bacon or their guns.
Speaker 2: You're a Democrat, right, I am a Democrat, a liberal.
Speaker 5: I am a guy that could be considered a liberal
Speaker 5: in my views.
Speaker 2: Okay, so much so between you and me. Yes, getting
Speaker 2: rid of the Second Amendments.
Speaker 5: Well, we're not going to get rid of the Second Amendment.
Speaker 5: It's something that we don't.
Speaker 2: Want to do because you can't do it.
Speaker 5: No, in order to make people safe, we don't need
Speaker 5: to throw out one of our constitutional amendments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean, come on, how many constitutional amendments
Speaker 2: do we have?
Speaker 5: Well, we've thrown out some of the past, which I'm
Speaker 5: really happy we did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to update these things, and this is
Speaker 2: maybe the second oldest one. You think I'm walking around
Speaker 2: here with an iPhone two.
Speaker 5: That's the fear tactics that often people want you to
Speaker 5: believe that somebody's going to try to get rid of
Speaker 5: all the guns and somebody's coming after their guns. That
Speaker 5: is not a necessary thing.
Speaker 2: Lord bacon slash guns placed. Booker, like many other Democrats,
Speaker 2: felt like his hands were tied. Last June, in response
Speaker 2: to the Pulse nightclub shooting, Senators filibuster to expand background
Speaker 2: checks and prevent gun sales to peace people on the
Speaker 2: terrorist watch list, while House Democrats staged to sit in
Speaker 2: which resulted in shit. All efforts to pass any meaningful
Speaker 2: regulations continue to get shot down by Republicans and the
Speaker 2: gun lobby, insisting these liberal elites are coming for your guns.
Speaker 5: The tactic has been, not only are we going to
Speaker 5: not pass background check laws or close the terrorist loophole,
Speaker 5: but we're also going to take those agencies that could
Speaker 5: be helping us, the CDC ATF, and we're going to
Speaker 5: cripple them.
Speaker 2: One agency that's being crippled is the ATF's National Tracing Center.
Speaker 2: Police nationwide use the Tracing Center to track firearms, solve
Speaker 2: violent crimes, and catch criminals before these weapons can be
Speaker 2: used again. I met with former ATF agent David Chipman
Speaker 2: to see the front line of America's war on gun crime.
Speaker 11: Why are we here, Well, we're here because we're in
Speaker 11: a location that's vastly superior technology wise than ATF's Tracing Center.
Speaker 2: This is the forefront of our battle against guns. This
Speaker 2: place with a guy masturbating over there at that computer.
Speaker 11: The technology at the Tracing Center is like this library
Speaker 11: thirty or forty years ago.
Speaker 2: So like the Library and the first Ghostbusters. Please tell
Speaker 2: me the Tracing Center at least now has women in it.
Speaker 11: There are women at the Tracing Center. The reality is
Speaker 11: because they don't have computers, because they have.
Speaker 2: Just they what they don't have computers.
Speaker 11: It's against the law to have computers that house a
Speaker 11: searchable database that might be construed as a registry of guns.
Speaker 2: In America, that's right. The country's only federal facility that
Speaker 2: helps police officers trace and solve gun crimes is literally
Speaker 2: forbidden to use computers to search gun records. Thanks to
Speaker 2: the lobby and power of the NRA. A nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: six federal law made it illegal for the Tracing Center
Speaker 2: to use searchable databases of any kind, in what legal
Speaker 2: scholars have called one of the most just plain dickish
Speaker 2: laws in history. So instead of solving murders using base
Speaker 2: computing tools, the Tracing Centers roughly fifty employees process over
Speaker 2: three hundred and seventy thousand requests a year, scrambling through
Speaker 2: walls of boxes and going blind scanning microfiche machines from
Speaker 2: the seventies in twenty seventeen. Oh yeah, they also have
Speaker 2: so many boxes they fear their floor could cave in.
Speaker 2: They keep records in steal storage spaces outside and they
Speaker 2: receive about two million new gun records a month, and
Speaker 2: you better hope they aren't in an Excel spreadsheet.
Speaker 11: So if ATF receives any information from a gun dealer
Speaker 11: in an Excel spreadsheet which is searchable, they have to
Speaker 11: go through a complicated process of dumbing that information down.
Speaker 2: Do you guys actually have to make it harder for yourselves?
Speaker 11: Yes, a law enforcement agency needs to spend tax dollars
Speaker 11: making a document dumber.
Speaker 2: Why do Americans make it so hard on ourselves to
Speaker 2: fix this gun problem?
Speaker 11: The NRA raises a lot of money based on fear.
Speaker 11: They can make people scared that the big bad government
Speaker 11: agents like me fly in black helicopters, that if we
Speaker 11: had computerized gun records, then the government would take the guns.
Speaker 2: We are so fucked. As I dramatically portrayed moving through
Speaker 2: this children's library with an ease and grace unknown to
Speaker 2: ATF agents, it became all too clear. Because of the
Speaker 2: gun lobby in America today, it's easier to find gun
Speaker 2: the book than gun the gun. And that's satire, right,
Speaker 2: and that's irony, and that's coincidence? Is it metaphor?
Speaker 5: Problems is when it comes to getting legislation passed, there's
Speaker 5: a lot of people out there that are just pressured
Speaker 5: by the NRA not to take a step out and
Speaker 5: do what most Americans want them to do.
Speaker 2: So what can we do a guy like me, just
Speaker 2: a regular guy who's a celebrity on TV with millions
Speaker 2: of followers. What can a little me do?
Speaker 5: Go for and seek the truth and then tell people
Speaker 5: about it.
Speaker 2: Maybe if we get the Tracing Center some computers, that's
Speaker 2: at least a step in the right direction.
Speaker 5: It is a not a step that would be a
Speaker 5: leap into the twenty first century. That's necessary.
Speaker 2: I love me a good leap.
Speaker 8: Down down.
Speaker 2: In a window list cargo van packed full of progress,
Speaker 2: I made my way into West Virginia hoping to solve something.
Speaker 2: I can see you, but I have no idea.
Speaker 1: What are you're even doing here?
Speaker 2: Drop it off some computers here for the Tracing Center,
Speaker 2: just to try to upgrade some of their technology. Can
Speaker 2: I just leave it here there? Somebody? It's some good stuff, okay,
Speaker 2: right out? So we're not going to ban guns, and apparently,
Speaker 2: when it comes to using technology to help deal with
Speaker 2: gun crime. The bureaucracy was thicker than I thought. The
Speaker 2: government was beholden to the NRA, and the NRA's power
Speaker 2: stemmed from one off, debated sentence written at a time
Speaker 2: when guns were muskets and lightning was witchcraft. The Second Amendment.
Speaker 2: For over two hundred years, it's been consistently upheld by
Speaker 2: elected officials, and in two thousand and eight, the Supreme
Speaker 2: courtdinarily ruled that it's still granted all citizens the right
Speaker 2: to have guns a well regulated militia being necessary to
Speaker 2: the security of a free state, the right of the
Speaker 2: people to keep in bare arms shall not be infringed
Speaker 2: twenty seven words, and come a placement so strange it
Speaker 2: may be responsible for thousands of deaths a year. Militias
Speaker 2: may have been in vogue in seventeen ninety one, but
Speaker 2: are they actually relevant today. The Southern Poverty Law Center,
Speaker 2: which tracks extremist groups, estimates there were two hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy six active militias last year from forty two in
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight. Okay, so militias are booming, and
Speaker 2: they're clearly among the biggest proponents of the Second Amendment.
Speaker 2: I found one of those militias in the deep red South,
Speaker 2: the Georgia Security Force. We the people are bloodthirsty. We
Speaker 2: the people will have no mercy. We are the predators,
Speaker 2: you the prey. Where the government failed, I would triumph.
Speaker 2: I would infiltrate the dark heart of the gun debate
Speaker 2: and convince militias to give up their guns. If I
Speaker 2: could do that, then the rest of the gun owners
Speaker 2: would surely follow, and once and for all, gun would
Speaker 2: be Saul Jordan. The Georgia State Militia is led by
Speaker 2: Chris hill Or, as he prefers to be called General
Speaker 2: Blood Agent. Yes, sir, what would it take for me
Speaker 2: to convince you that you don't need a gun anymore?
Speaker 12: You probably have to check my polts.
Speaker 2: So the only way I'm gonna get your gun is
Speaker 2: to pry it out of your cold dead hands.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, or after I run out of AMMO. Yeah, you
Speaker 12: want to come and take it? Sure would disarm one
Speaker 12: bullet at a time.
Speaker 2: Fine, My master plan of asking nicely had failed our hands.
Speaker 8: Well, this group of.
Speaker 2: Forty odd members who met once a month, we're serious
Speaker 2: about one thing, training and keep saking their training two things.
Speaker 2: I need to earn their trust. So what is behind
Speaker 2: this need to have giant firearms.
Speaker 12: We are going to stand up for the second member right.
Speaker 12: We are not going to yield one iota. I personally
Speaker 12: feel like the government has breached its contract with the
Speaker 12: people the House. They constantly put bills on the floor
Speaker 12: limiting the type of firearm you can have, or limiting
Speaker 12: the magazine capacity of these weapons, or creating gun free zones.
Speaker 2: Do you really feel like the government is limiting your
Speaker 2: access to guns? And I think I tripped over four
Speaker 2: on the way here.
Speaker 12: If I want an automatic weapon, fully automatic, I should
Speaker 12: have a fully automatic weapon.
Speaker 2: Should you.
Speaker 12: It's to protect myself from harm and more importantly, to
Speaker 12: protect our country from tyranny. I feel safe knowing that
Speaker 12: there's people like us that if there's a gunman and
Speaker 12: it's not in a gun free zone, there may be
Speaker 12: somebody there that can kill the individual that's attempting to
Speaker 12: harm other people.
Speaker 2: That sounds great, but it's been shown that a good
Speaker 2: guy with a gun does not stop a bad guy
Speaker 2: with the gun. You're not hanging out in those malls,
Speaker 2: You guys are out here in the fucking middle of nowhere.
Speaker 12: What I guess that depends on what demographic you're looking
Speaker 12: at because some people talk about it and some people
Speaker 12: are going to be about it.
Speaker 2: We're going to defer to ban kiss Well. I'm more
Speaker 2: confused than ever. I need to understand the methods of
Speaker 2: these man scouts, so I took in an intense lecture
Speaker 2: by Blood Agent.
Speaker 12: He has got the unit, Russian Infant Regulars equipment AK
Speaker 12: forty seven's RPGs, things of that nature. Not fed the cow,
Speaker 12: but shit like that.
Speaker 2: As the group prepares to go on a top secret
Speaker 2: reconnaissance mission, I realized they were never going to give
Speaker 2: up their guns to some buttoned up East Coast liberal.
Speaker 2: I have to make an effort to fit in, to
Speaker 2: become one of them. Does everybody here get a cool nickname?
Speaker 9: Yes, sir?
Speaker 12: If you don't have one, will help give one for you.
Speaker 2: Could I be a cold brew or if that's taken
Speaker 2: a French press.
Speaker 12: Colbrew works better?
Speaker 2: I think you like that? Yes, sir, feels very bold
Speaker 2: yet smooth finish. Oh yeah, definitely, I have my name.
Speaker 2: Time to gear up, right, I'll change Yeah?
Speaker 8: Okay, hey guys.
Speaker 12: Oh my god, he's got a camouflage.
Speaker 11: Time.
Speaker 2: I got the hints. No Blood Agent, they though I
Speaker 2: have adopted their wardrobe choices, it still feels like openly
Speaker 2: carrying a weapon is less about safety and more about intimidation.
Speaker 10: Is threatening you in any way right now?
Speaker 2: Yes, you're wearing a rifle? Do you not think this
Speaker 2: is an all threatening.
Speaker 1: No, it's not being banished.
Speaker 2: You're freaking Santa clausing it right out at me right now,
Speaker 2: so that you're pointing it at me by wearing a rifle.
Speaker 10: So a law enforcement points surf weapons that you ever
Speaker 10: you see them.
Speaker 2: But they're also wearing badges that are like, we are
Speaker 2: law enforcement. I'm trying to see these guns. It's something
Speaker 2: other than weapons of war, but it's tough since they
Speaker 2: are trapped to combative men in full dress camo. Is
Speaker 2: that like the new Town gun or that the Aurora gun?
Speaker 2: Is it the Orlando gun?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: No, similar? This is Tanner Wite, Hanna White. Yes, what
Speaker 2: are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna blow the hog's head Jordan's.
Speaker 5: Cards. Look out for the gun.
Speaker 2: All right now. They have the severed head of a
Speaker 2: pig that they're prying open with a knife so they
Speaker 2: can fill it with explosives to shoot it with a gun.
Speaker 2: Can tannerite, it's not explosives. It's like the founding fathers
Speaker 2: did it.
Speaker 5: No, they used that powder and cannon balls. Right, So.
Speaker 2: I'm failing to connect, and the line between training and
Speaker 2: camping is getting blurrier by the second. Somebody poured gas
Speaker 2: lead on the fire, right, Yeah, that's a that's a
Speaker 2: that's a bad move. I am desperate to plant the
Speaker 2: seed of sanity by any means necessary. You want to
Speaker 2: hear a scary story, Yes, there's a babysitter, but the
Speaker 2: child she was babysitting to bed. It was a quiet night.
Speaker 2: Suddenly the phone rings unexpectedly and she picks it up.
Speaker 2: On the other end of the phone, somebody tells her
Speaker 2: that most gun accidents happen inside the house. Okay, that
Speaker 2: if you have a gun inside the house, you're more
Speaker 2: prone to be open to an accident inside the house.
Speaker 2: This is hopeless. All they want to do is shoot
Speaker 2: stupid guns at a stupid pig's head. This idea that
Speaker 2: good guys with guns would make our country safer proved
Speaker 2: questionable when, after a full day of training, a dozen
Speaker 2: Georgia good guys struggled to blow up a pig's head
Speaker 2: with over two hundred rounds of ammo spirits are a
Speaker 2: little bit down. Then we're gonna re prop the pig
Speaker 2: back up because it fell down, and they're gonna try
Speaker 2: to shoot it again. Three types of truck, the fourth,
Speaker 2: fourth time, fourth time, the truck. These Second Amendment purists
Speaker 2: won't give up their guns even a little. I have failed.
Speaker 2: Looks like I'm in for a long night. Spending the
Speaker 2: night with the militia is a heroine experience. It's open
Speaker 2: and one I hope to never have is that the
Speaker 2: flowerless chocolate cake put it on the bed. One of
Speaker 2: them call themselves kill zone. You want to hang uh nohing,
Speaker 2: So the tracing center won't accept my tax to duct solution.
Speaker 2: This is all I can afford, to be honest. It's
Speaker 2: just from the eighties, and the militia refuses to be
Speaker 2: swayed by my Shelley esque tails. You heard the scary
Speaker 2: story of the gun show loophool no reading one of
Speaker 2: my favorite liberal fact blogs. I hit this, if just
Speaker 2: one in every one hundred voters shifted from Trump to Clinton,
Speaker 2: Hillary would have been president. And that's from Nate Silver,
Speaker 2: who statistically has never ever been wrong. Bingo changing one
Speaker 2: person's mind could be just as effective as swaying millions.
Speaker 2: And that's not a lowering of expectations. It's just being smart.
Speaker 2: I don't need to change all gun owners' minds. I
Speaker 2: just need to change one. I need a place with
Speaker 2: minds that could be easily swayed. And then it hit me.
Speaker 2: I was from there, Michigan, a blue state gone red.
Speaker 2: It is time to head home, surver it discover.
Speaker 8: How are you, sir? Welcome home? So here we are.
Speaker 8: We're here Kalamazoo.
Speaker 2: Bobby, tell me this, what is the gun debate like
Speaker 2: here in Kalamazoo.
Speaker 5: We've had a tragedy in our community.
Speaker 10: What we're trying to do in Kalamazoo is figure out
Speaker 10: how you move forward.
Speaker 1: This tragedy will not define us, it will not divide us,
Speaker 1: and it will not defeat us.
Speaker 2: Even in the months following the mass shooting in Kalamazoo,
Speaker 2: the community and legislators were having difficulty addressing gun violence.
Speaker 13: Right now, a lot of the legislators are worried about
Speaker 13: what the NRA is going to say about that type
Speaker 13: of legislation, even though the vast majority of voters support it.
Speaker 2: Is the NA that much of a boogeyman here.
Speaker 13: The TERA spends a lot of money on elections, and
Speaker 13: they don't just do that in the federal level, they
Speaker 13: do it at the state level too.
Speaker 2: Michigan ed Helms was right. The gun debate tends to
Speaker 2: focus on national policy, but many battles are being fought
Speaker 2: more on the local level. In places like Michigan, state
Speaker 2: legislators need to raise between fifty to one hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollars in campaign contributions every couple of years just to
Speaker 2: stay competitive. One big donation can make or break a
Speaker 2: small race, giving well funded national groups more power to
Speaker 2: influence local politicians than their constituents. I've been trying to
Speaker 2: get people to get rid of guns. Is that gonna
Speaker 2: happen here in Kalamazoo?
Speaker 13: Now people use guns in their daily lives Here in Michigan.
Speaker 13: I think you're really missing where the real conversation is.
Speaker 13: It happens in the middle.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if I was going to find this middle,
Speaker 2: where would that be?
Speaker 13: Go talk to some gun owners, say what they think.
Speaker 2: I came up with the idea all by myself to
Speaker 2: talk to some Michigan gun owners. From everything I've seen
Speaker 2: on television, I expected gun owners to act like this.
Speaker 13: Seventeen seventy six, will convince.
Speaker 2: Again if you'd try to take our firearms. Do you understand?
Speaker 2: Instead they acted like this kind of normal. But where
Speaker 2: is that malleable mind I could convince to give up
Speaker 2: their gun. I need a fool proof structure that boils
Speaker 2: down the stories of Middle Americans and makes them sparkle.
Speaker 2: Seven moderate gun owners.
Speaker 5: My name is Sheila Gary.
Speaker 2: I'm a gun owner.
Speaker 9: I own three shotguns.
Speaker 3: I own three pistols. My hobbies are listening to music, mottle,
Speaker 3: rail roading.
Speaker 2: I will choose one and change their mind about guns.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the moderate. It's like our first guest is
Speaker 2: coming on up. It's a beautiful Anderson Castle. It's a
Speaker 2: falling six degrees. I'm looking for someone to fall in
Speaker 2: love with my ideas. Gary, thanks to be true. Thanks
Speaker 2: for pulling the trigger and coming on up.
Speaker 14: Very good.
Speaker 2: David, thanks to be too. Thanks just going on just
Speaker 2: every just everybody, just just it's a fucking called get great,
Speaker 2: Get in there.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Historic Henderson Castle and Historic Kalamazoo. Excited about
Speaker 2: you guys, one on one, get to know you. We're
Speaker 2: gonna talk about life, love, guns, mostly guns, mostly be
Speaker 2: talking about guns. Hi, tell me who is David the
Speaker 2: gun Owner.
Speaker 3: David the gun Owner is a kid that grew up
Speaker 3: in a household that had literally a firearm in every corner.
Speaker 2: Did you grow up in Mogadishu, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. Wellsboro, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 2: very rural.
Speaker 3: Built my first firearm with my grandfather.
Speaker 2: I built a savings account with my grandpa, so similar.
Speaker 2: Let's trying to find some common ground on things that
Speaker 2: don't involve killing something.
Speaker 3: I like comedy.
Speaker 2: Great, you see any style I have?
Speaker 5: Not, even though you're all over YouTube.
Speaker 3: Biden didn't even sit and watch any of that. I
Speaker 3: did look up your bio to know that you are
Speaker 3: from Kalamazoo.
Speaker 2: Great, but you didn't see any of the videos. No Ah,
Speaker 2: none of my videos.
Speaker 3: I thought it went very well. I'd love to talk
Speaker 3: to him more about this.
Speaker 2: Bye.
Speaker 8: Rick.
Speaker 2: Hi, Hi, I'm Rick.
Speaker 14: I'm from Detroit, Michigan, and I run a blog called
Speaker 14: Legally Armed in Detroiter. My relationship with firearms started approximately
Speaker 14: eleven twelve years ago. I was surprised by two nineteen
Speaker 14: twenty year olds who were armed with the gun. I
Speaker 14: went and I purchased a firearm. Then I made a
Speaker 14: decision to become a firearms instructor.
Speaker 2: Definite vibe going on with Rick. Maybe we'll get a
Speaker 2: chance to talk a little bit later. There are a
Speaker 2: lot of fully loaded minds here that I could see
Speaker 2: myself going to the range with.
Speaker 15: Literally, I've taught thousands of women how to shoot. The
Speaker 15: self confidence that they get out of learning something new
Speaker 15: doesn't necessarily have to be a firearm too.
Speaker 2: Men get self confidence after sure, absolutely they do. I
Speaker 2: hit it off better with some than others. I don't
Speaker 2: like the words a salt weapon. Every weapons are assault weapon.
Speaker 14: If I wanted to take your life bad enough, that.
Speaker 15: Is a weapon.
Speaker 2: There is one mind here I know I'm going to
Speaker 2: relate to because I'm literally related to him. That Pete,
Speaker 2: What up? Pete's a great guy. I've noted my entire life.
Speaker 2: How's the houseboat?
Speaker 9: The duck boat is very good. You don't have a houseboat, Nelson.
Speaker 9: He has not been around the family much lately. His
Speaker 9: whole career has taken him away from the area, and
Speaker 9: so he's kind of out of touch.
Speaker 2: I know Pete the cousin. They're about Pete the gun owner.
Speaker 9: I have three guns they're all shotguns, and I strictly
Speaker 9: use them for hunting.
Speaker 2: Pete listens, which is great because I like to talk
Speaker 2: to and at people. I think you consider yourself open
Speaker 2: minded when it comes to guns.
Speaker 9: I would be willing to discuss.
Speaker 2: That's almost a yes, it's group day time. I really
Speaker 2: need them to show me why they deserve to have
Speaker 2: their minds changed.
Speaker 16: Entery is.
Speaker 15: It's a great program. They're the ones that are going
Speaker 15: to go and fight for our rights.
Speaker 2: If you don't know.
Speaker 5: How a gun works, you're scared of it, or whatever,
Speaker 5: let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: I brought three copies of the Constitution, just in case
Speaker 2: I don't know what we were going to encounter today.
Speaker 5: The simple truth is we have to take care of
Speaker 5: the drug drink.
Speaker 11: More people die from heroin overdoses than they do from
Speaker 11: gunshots in this country.
Speaker 2: It's like machine gun fire out there. This is perfectly quiet.
Speaker 10: Your wife wouldn't even know you were shooting upstairs.
Speaker 2: I live in New York. There's no upstairs. Do you
Speaker 2: want to take a little walk outside?
Speaker 1: We can't.
Speaker 2: I had a chance to talk with Jordan.
Speaker 14: If there was some give and take back and forth,
Speaker 14: some good exchanges. I'm armed unless I have a reason
Speaker 14: not to be. Fundamental safety is the responsibility of each
Speaker 14: individual and not law enforcements. If he was willing to
Speaker 14: share where he's coming from and see where that conversation goes,
Speaker 14: I'd be open to it.
Speaker 2: This is really hard. Unfortunately some of you have to
Speaker 2: go home tonight. I think Ian you have a heart
Speaker 2: out at seven for a parent teacher conference. Yes, either way,
Speaker 2: it's goodbye. And that was the time where I have
Speaker 2: to choose one of you whose mind I will change,
Speaker 2: and I choose Pete. Pete, will you be my moderate?
Speaker 9: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Why do I choose Pete? He seems moderate and open
Speaker 2: to discussion, but I try to change that. Doma yours?
Speaker 2: Good luck with that. Great Now he's my cousin and
Speaker 2: I'm less likely to get shot by a family member. Really,
Speaker 2: is the pencil guy still here? Everybody else? Thank you?
Speaker 8: Pete?
Speaker 2: Come just yuck?
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 2: I had my moderate pace up. Now I need a
Speaker 2: surefire tactic to repair his pro gun opinion. Luckily, I
Speaker 2: have to look no further than the one organization that
Speaker 2: consistently holds sway over many gun owning brains, the NRA.
Speaker 2: The New York Times has labeled them the most effective
Speaker 2: civil rights group in the US today, which is a
Speaker 2: real fuck you to everyone at the Human Rights Campaign.
Speaker 2: Their tactics highly localized political pressure, a buttload of fear Americana,
Speaker 2: and patriotic manipulation delivered in front of a green screen
Speaker 2: by a man in a suit.
Speaker 4: The ultimate check and balance in this country is the
Speaker 4: American people.
Speaker 2: But perhaps the NRA's biggest asset. They're intense year round lobbying.
Speaker 6: Everyone says, oh, they run a grassroots lobby, There really
Speaker 6: aren't very many of those. Not the real deal. The
Speaker 6: NRA is the real deal.
Speaker 2: What are their tactics?
Speaker 6: You use everything you can. Lobbyist is someone that is
Speaker 6: hired by someone else to represent their interests. There was
Speaker 6: a lot of people who feel like the systems against them,
Speaker 6: and they're hiring the NRA and me as a lobbyist
Speaker 6: to represent their interests and play the game for them.
Speaker 2: What do you do after being a NRA lobbyist cosby apologist?
Speaker 2: What what better way to change as stubborn family member's
Speaker 2: mind than hiring a real life lobbyist to do it?
Speaker 2: So the next day I flew in Mark Anderson, a
Speaker 2: Florida based certified lobbyist with over fifteen years experience to
Speaker 2: convince Pete to give up his guns. That's a nice soon,
Speaker 2: thank you. Pete has opinions I need him to lose,
Speaker 2: and Mark has a case I need him to make.
Speaker 2: Heading to Great Lake Shipping Company steakhouse where Kalamazoo's deal makers,
Speaker 2: big wigs and little league teams rub elbows up with
Speaker 2: these cameras up on these tripods and I'm gonna let
Speaker 2: you guys b I gave Mark some facts about Pete
Speaker 2: and I told him to try to get Pete to
Speaker 2: give up his guns through whatever it is lobbyists too.
Speaker 16: Well, Pete, it's nice to meet you. I'd like to
Speaker 16: get to know you a little bit more and just personally.
Speaker 16: Can you tell me a little more about yourself? Why
Speaker 16: do you have a gun?
Speaker 9: I have guns for Dug Conning.
Speaker 2: Enough with the chit chat. It's time for the big guns. Statistics.
Speaker 16: Guns are designed for one thing, and that's to kill.
Speaker 16: A woman's risk of being murdered increases five hundred percent
Speaker 16: if a gun is in the home. When you look
Speaker 16: at the states and the cities and even some of
Speaker 16: the countries that have gone through this by making them
Speaker 16: less available. They have seen a significant decline in the
Speaker 16: number of gun deaths in their country.
Speaker 9: Statistics are great, but sometimes you need a little more information.
Speaker 2: I recognize these glazed overlooks from every family get together.
Speaker 2: Pete isn't buying it.
Speaker 9: Well, Mark, there's one thing that I don't know if
Speaker 9: you know. It's yes, guns are designed to kill things,
Speaker 9: but they're also fun. My daughter and son in law
Speaker 9: duck hunt with me. We have lots of memories of that.
Speaker 2: Well. The good thing is that we're going to start that.
Speaker 16: We're talking to each other, right, I'm not going to
Speaker 16: get you to believe that guns are bad.
Speaker 2: Twitter, We gotta spice this up. You can't just throw
Speaker 2: in the towel like that. Mark's blah blah blah approach
Speaker 2: had failed. Now it's on me to make Pete give
Speaker 2: up his guns. I'll have to bump up the game
Speaker 2: to lobbying two point zero. Pete needs to literally face facts.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to take those stats and put them
Speaker 2: on something no gun supporter can take their eyes off of.
Speaker 2: A god damn race car. Guns aren't bad. The writing
Speaker 2: isn't just on the wall, it's also on two sides.
Speaker 2: The hood and the roof of the past car of fruit.
Speaker 2: Pete should have no problem seeing that I was the
Speaker 2: Dave Earnhardt Junior of Reezon good old number thirty three thousand,
Speaker 2: five hundred and ninety nine gone deaths per year, nine people.
Speaker 16: There's a stat on the other side.
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 16: I actually haven't been able to see it.
Speaker 2: Good violence kis more Americans?
Speaker 8: The terrorism p t percent of fire arms that.
Speaker 16: You had when I left Florida it was seventy seven degrees, Pete.
Speaker 2: What the heck it changed your mind?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 2: What don't you like?
Speaker 8: Dask Gunner?
Speaker 2: No, sir, seriously, no Nascar shit?
Speaker 8: Any ready? How much does it cost?
Speaker 2: Fuck? He wasn't open to negotiation. Hopefully the folks at
Speaker 2: the Rentel car agency were. Apparently. In today's America, it
Speaker 2: is a herculean task to get anyone to shift their opinions,
Speaker 2: even your own flesh and blood. As every third op
Speaker 2: ed will tell you, we are a fractured country. More
Speaker 2: than eight and ten Americans say the nation is divided.
Speaker 2: But how difficult is it for the average American to
Speaker 2: legitimately change what their brain thinks? To find out, I
Speaker 2: went to Emory University to meet with doctor Stephen Hammond,
Speaker 2: a psychology professor who specializes in functional brain imaging. Let's say, hypothetically,
Speaker 2: I have a cousin named and I'm trying to change
Speaker 2: his mind, but it won't change, even though it should
Speaker 2: because I have all of the facts and I'm on TV,
Speaker 2: for God's sakes.
Speaker 10: It's actually very, very difficult to change someone's mind, especially
Speaker 10: if you're trying to do it on a short term basis.
Speaker 10: Because people developed their beliefs over almost a lifetime.
Speaker 2: What about within like an hour special.
Speaker 10: Well, you probably don't want to give them charts and
Speaker 10: figures and those sorts of things.
Speaker 2: As a liberal, those are my weapons of choice. I
Speaker 2: come with a gun loaded with Malcolm Gladwell tidbits and
Speaker 2: a New Yorker think basis.
Speaker 10: When people are confronted with information that doesn't match their beliefs,
Speaker 10: their political beliefs, the first response is an automatic threat response.
Speaker 10: So unfortunately, that tends to shut down rational thought.
Speaker 2: Even if that informations on a snazzy Nascar I don't
Speaker 2: think that makes too much of a difference. Okay, so
Speaker 2: that's a thousand dollars and you just never get back
Speaker 2: shit with selfless bravery usually shown only by astronauts and
Speaker 2: radiation scientists in disaster movies. I shall sacrifice my body
Speaker 2: for the betterment of our country. It's time to get
Speaker 2: a good look at my thinking machine.
Speaker 10: How are you doing there, Jordan, great, We're just about
Speaker 10: ready to start.
Speaker 2: Doctor Hammond showed me a series of images that gauged
Speaker 2: my response to both pro and anti gun sentiment. It's
Speaker 2: like watching only the boring parts of a clockwork orange
Speaker 2: So what is this?
Speaker 10: These are visual areas, So these would be lighting up
Speaker 10: when you're looking at visual things like pictures.
Speaker 2: What are these?
Speaker 1: Those are eyes?
Speaker 2: Eyes? Okay, I'm just still getting used to what I'm
Speaker 2: looking at, but yeah, I knew that. Oh, I see it.
Speaker 10: One thing that's interesting for you, though, is when you
Speaker 10: were looking at the pro gun people, there's not a
Speaker 10: whole lot of activity. It's almost like you're not engaging.
Speaker 10: But when you're looking at anti gun messages, we found
Speaker 10: there's a lot of activation here when people are having
Speaker 10: positive and also when they're thinking about their own group.
Speaker 2: So what do you do when you confront somebody who
Speaker 2: is wrong with information that is obviously right?
Speaker 10: I think the first step would be to empathize with
Speaker 10: someone else. What if I weren't a liberal, What if
Speaker 10: I were a conservative? What kind of things would be
Speaker 10: important to me?
Speaker 2: Probably be really into guns. I want to have a
Speaker 2: gun in my home, Probably want to sleep with the gun.
Speaker 2: I probably would go to church every now and then.
Speaker 2: I'd have a bald eagle. Can you own bald eagles?
Speaker 2: I don't know. So what I'm understanding here is it's
Speaker 2: important for me to see this issue from the other side,
Speaker 2: to take don't don't know, Okay, I get to talk
Speaker 2: to the camera. That's my audience. I need to see
Speaker 2: this issue from another side, the conservative point of view.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to get gun as far.
Speaker 8: That's it.
Speaker 2: The only way to solve guns is to change my
Speaker 2: own mind. I must learn not to fear the old steel,
Speaker 2: but to love it. I need to find a gun sherpa,
Speaker 2: someone who's sheer gunness will pass through and obliterate my
Speaker 2: preconceived notions like a hollow point ar something or other.
Speaker 2: Does someone exactly like this?
Speaker 12: All right?
Speaker 2: Time for blaize ops, simple mechanics.
Speaker 1: Drill today to MAGSI five rightful to MAGSI five pistol.
Speaker 2: This is Pat McNamara, retired US Army Special Ops Turn
Speaker 2: tactical marksmanship instructor some of that, with a YouTube following
Speaker 2: almost as impressive as mine. If anyone could make soft
Speaker 2: liberal me gun as fuck, this is the dude.
Speaker 1: Fucking rule, burn it down.
Speaker 2: I look at that like a lion. You gonna help
Speaker 2: me get my blaze up?
Speaker 1: Yep, that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna gas it
Speaker 1: up and burn it down.
Speaker 2: Okay, what does that mean. It's just it's a slang term,
Speaker 2: gash it up and burn it down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you'll catch on.
Speaker 2: That's uh shoot some guns all right.
Speaker 1: Hey, real quick fundamentals. Yeah, we need to make sure
Speaker 1: that we're gripping this correctly.
Speaker 2: So Pat took me through the basics of gun safety. Well, yep,
Speaker 2: all emphasis on.
Speaker 1: That guy right there.
Speaker 2: He was like my own personal red State don Quixote.
Speaker 1: Let's put some eyes and ears on and go get
Speaker 1: our blaze on.
Speaker 2: Let's get our get our blazer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right on, rock and roll, blaze on.
Speaker 2: It's intense right now, we'll get a rock and we'll
Speaker 2: get a roll. There's some sort of blaze. Ops that's
Speaker 2: about to happen.
Speaker 1: Gun slinger, that's right, just because you have a gun
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're armed. It's a responsibility in conjunction with
Speaker 1: buying that firearm to get training so you know safe
Speaker 1: operation of it, and you could apply the fundamentals you
Speaker 1: go to press out nice and slow at the trigger.
Speaker 1: A typical course of mine is twenty folks, everything from
Speaker 1: top level l EO's law enforcement officers to the assistant
Speaker 1: manager of the botanical gardens librarians, to a lot of
Speaker 1: it guys.
Speaker 2: Could you make me a man? Pat Mac?
Speaker 1: I could probably turn you around. Yeah, yeah, I had
Speaker 1: to take a little work, just a little bit. I
Speaker 1: am all right ready for that.
Speaker 2: I can't help but have second thoughts, no doubt. Pat
Speaker 2: Mac is a cool guy who I totally want to
Speaker 2: make my best team. But am I seriously trying to
Speaker 2: become one with a semi automatic? Professor Hammond's thesis about
Speaker 2: empathizing with the other side is foolish. I hate guns
Speaker 2: and that's a rock hard fat Oh my god, what
Speaker 2: is this feeling?
Speaker 8: Miss?
Speaker 1: Miss?
Speaker 2: You don't have to keep saying, miss.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get the heart thumping a little bit. We'll
Speaker 1: get a boogie on over to that fast rope climb
Speaker 1: it come back, load up, the rifle. Five hits on
Speaker 1: the forest deel, set it down, Load up the pistol,
Speaker 1: five hits on the close steel. I'll demo it real.
Speaker 8: Quick for you.
Speaker 2: Oh you ready, I'll come along a right, stand by
Speaker 2: right With my heart plumping in more ways than one,
Speaker 2: I could feel the Second Amendment taking hold of me.
Speaker 2: Is this what all the hype is about? Our gun's fun?
Speaker 2: My blue liberal brain is flooded with hot, red blood,
Speaker 2: and I can't help but feel conflicted. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: feel it. Burn it down?
Speaker 8: Yeah up.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to handle this new feeling that
Speaker 2: I have. I shot a gun and I enjoyed it.
Speaker 8: You liked it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a feeling of power, it really is.
Speaker 2: Do I need to feel guilty for liking that? I
Speaker 2: don't think.
Speaker 8: So.
Speaker 2: Three thousand people die every year because of gun violence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's horrible.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of deaths.
Speaker 5: Yep, not as many as cars.
Speaker 2: Well, we regulate cars.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What do you think of universal background checks?
Speaker 1: I don't see any issue with it.
Speaker 2: What about like a waiting period? Is that a too
Speaker 2: long to have a three day waiting period?
Speaker 5: Nope, it's not.
Speaker 2: No shit. I don't know how we can close this
Speaker 2: divide between the left side of the country who supports
Speaker 2: universal background checks on the other side of the country.
Speaker 1: That supports universal background checks.
Speaker 2: I felt an incredible wave of realization. Have I not
Speaker 2: been listening? Was there agreement? What about a background check?
Speaker 12: Yeah, if it's been adjudicated and a person is seen unfit,
Speaker 12: then yes, I would agree to that now.
Speaker 2: And I know there are issues with the Tracing Center.
Speaker 2: Do you promote making it easier for ATF to get
Speaker 2: the job done?
Speaker 15: What if they have to do the fix the system?
Speaker 15: What good is it going to do if the right
Speaker 15: information isn't in it.
Speaker 3: I'm a lifelong member of the NRA, but I'm not
Speaker 3: sure that everything they do is in the best interest
Speaker 3: of everybody at hand.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, there was common ground on both sides.
Speaker 11: I carried a gun for twenty five years every day,
Speaker 11: and I believe it helped me make the public safe
Speaker 11: and help keep me safe.
Speaker 13: Most people agree on most of the issues. It's just
Speaker 13: when it gets to Lansing or DC somehow it all
Speaker 13: falls apart.
Speaker 5: We have much more in common than we do that
Speaker 5: divides us. Really, I profoundly believe that.
Speaker 2: Shit, there is one person I need to see again.
Speaker 2: Hey Pete, Hey Jordon cousin. Pete had been the subject
Speaker 2: of my attempt to change a gun owner's mind. Now
Speaker 2: I want to know if we too share more than
Speaker 2: just partial DNA. If you had to break down what
Speaker 2: I'm not hearing you say, what am I missing?
Speaker 9: Most of the legal gun owner have no issue with
Speaker 9: background checks, waiting periods, and regulating gun shows.
Speaker 2: We're not that different, correct, Maybe we actually aren't that divided.
Speaker 2: Why had I been blaming these gun owners because I
Speaker 2: was listening to the loudest person on the block who
Speaker 2: represents like half of America.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 6: Technically, it's five percent of the gun owners in this
Speaker 6: country are members of NRA, that's all. But in a democracy,
Speaker 6: five percent of activists can be a very powerful number
Speaker 6: of people.
Speaker 2: So out of one hundred and ten million gun owning Americans,
Speaker 2: only four million actually belonged to the NRA. A lot
Speaker 2: of Americans agree on common sense gun regulations, but the
Speaker 2: NRA and gun manufacturers distort the debate to make people
Speaker 2: feel like they disagree more than they actually do. In fact,
Speaker 2: much like the non gun owners, eighty seven percent of
Speaker 2: gun owners and seventy four percent of NRA members support
Speaker 2: criminal background checks for anyone buying a gun. So who
Speaker 2: does the NRA actually represents? You See, if the NRA
Speaker 2: was a dick, it'd be a very small dick that
Speaker 2: talks about how big their dick is but never whips
Speaker 2: it out because it's a small dick. Today, I'm prepared
Speaker 2: to come face to face with that tiny penis. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm looking for the National Rifle Association. You are who
Speaker 2: you looking for? I'm television's Jordan Klepper. Your television is
Speaker 2: Cloye who. I've been traveling across the country talking to
Speaker 2: a lot of different Americans, and uh, it turns out
Speaker 2: the NRA doesn't seem to represent a lot of their
Speaker 2: own ideals. So I just wanted to have a meaning,
Speaker 2: a little chin with some NRA folks. Okay, well you have.
Speaker 5: To I don't.
Speaker 2: Well that didn't work either did tweeting or emailing or
Speaker 2: even voicemails. So screw up. If you can't beat them,
Speaker 2: steal from them. A small group that affects big change.
Speaker 2: Their strength is the devotion of their members aka people
Speaker 2: giving a shit. I finally know how to solve guns.
Speaker 2: Make you solve guns totally counts doing nothing means thirty
Speaker 2: three thousand people died to gun violence next year. Imagine
Speaker 2: lowering that by just three percent or one thousand lives.
Speaker 2: Imagine the impact that would have on the families and
Speaker 2: the communities. Do you know what I'm saying, America? If
Speaker 2: we pull together, really work hard, really fucking work hard,
Speaker 2: next year, we could kill thirty two thousand people. So
Speaker 2: here's an idea forget less guns, think more people. Saving
Speaker 2: lives doesn't mean becausin he can't go hunting with his
Speaker 2: daughter in Michigan, or that Pat Mac can't go shooting
Speaker 2: ars while deadlifting kettlebells in North Carolina, or blood agent
Speaker 2: can't shoot at a pig. He's gonna miss. Saving lives
Speaker 2: starts right here, No, not here, maybe hopefully here. This
Speaker 2: is tomorrow. A mother from Chicago who.
Speaker 7: Got tired of seeing violence in my neighborhood. So I
Speaker 7: decided to end it, even if I had to do
Speaker 7: it myself. So I got a lawn chair, got some
Speaker 7: hot dogs, got a few friends. I went out to
Speaker 7: the corner. I started feeding people when giving out hugs,
Speaker 7: and it's almost stopped gun violence in my neighborhood.
Speaker 2: I work for those hugs.
Speaker 7: They're absolutely free.
Speaker 2: Give me one of those.
Speaker 8: I'm on here.
Speaker 2: You're leaving good money on the table. Tomorrow is just
Speaker 2: one American. One person. Is this percent of the population.
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure how to say that number, but
Speaker 2: it's a pretty small percentage for the impact she's having,
Speaker 2: and Tomorrow is not alone and working to save lives.
Speaker 2: Lad Heads Up a group that was created in response
Speaker 2: to the Orlando mad shooting.
Speaker 11: One Pulse for America is a Facebook group that posts
Speaker 11: daily action alerts to pressure lawmakers to enact life saving
Speaker 11: gun reform.
Speaker 2: Follow them on Facebook. Community outreach is important, and so
Speaker 2: is education. This is Chante and Nancy from Lipstick.
Speaker 14: If you want to educate and empower women and girls
Speaker 14: to refuse to be used to take.
Speaker 2: A life, I'm gonna keep running. There's the National Network
Speaker 2: to End Domestic Violence.
Speaker 8: This is KIM.
Speaker 11: Three women every day are murdered in domestic violence, overwhelmingly
Speaker 11: with a gun. It's our job to reduce that number.
Speaker 2: Across America. There are tons of organizations that are actively
Speaker 2: working to lower gun violence. Whether you're a gun owner
Speaker 2: or not, there are things you can do to affect change.
Speaker 2: Do lazy to google it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Thought so. That's why I created Jordan kleppersolves dot com
Speaker 2: to hold your hand through the process of contacting organizations
Speaker 2: making a difference in your area. Saving Americans is something
Speaker 2: we can all get behind, but maybe it's more easily
Speaker 2: digestible with green and a cartoonishly patriotic message delivered. Buy
Speaker 2: some guy in a suit. What makes America America? Americans do?
Speaker 2: And since more Americans make America more American, thirty three
Speaker 2: thousand dead means less America. Let's make more America. Let's
Speaker 2: keep America more America. Let's keep fighting in America, preferably
Speaker 2: with something other than guns. So go online and do something.
Speaker 2: And while you're there, maybe check out my YouTube videos.
Speaker 2: Do your thing.
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