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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. We've gone through this many
Speaker 1: times before now, and it feels unfortunately far too familiar,
Speaker 1: both the atrocity a mass shooting that occurs, and then
Speaker 1: afterwards the immediate politicization of it. We're not allowed to
Speaker 1: have a conversation. We're not allowed to have a discussion
Speaker 1: meant in good faith to look at what happened here.
Speaker 1: We certainly can't wait for all the facts to come in.
Speaker 1: We have to take action right away. That's what they
Speaker 1: tell us, before you know what you're even doing. You've
Speaker 1: got to do something before you're aware of what's going on.
Speaker 1: And they're also using maximum pressure. That's a part of
Speaker 1: this too. They're trying to use a pressure campaign to
Speaker 1: get people to comply and to just bend the knee
Speaker 1: and say, sure, we'll do whatever gun control, gun violence
Speaker 1: control measures, whatever they're calling it. You want, well, we'll
Speaker 1: get into more of this. And just the way that
Speaker 1: they're trying to leverage this now, they're going after companies,
Speaker 1: They're going businesses that are favorable to the second Amendment.
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Speaker 1: another minute, let alone an hour to take common sense
Speaker 1: steps I'll save the lives in the future, and to
Speaker 1: urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act
Speaker 1: we can ban assaul weapons and high capacity magazines in
Speaker 1: this country once again. I got that done when I
Speaker 1: was a Senator. It passed, it was a law for
Speaker 1: the longest time, and it brought down these mass killings.
Speaker 1: We should do it again. We did it before. That's true,
Speaker 1: and all of the data, including study study by the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice that was released in two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: showed that there was no correlations. However, they could prove
Speaker 1: between less shootings, less gun violence, and the assault weapons ban.
Speaker 1: More people are killed every year with knives, more people
Speaker 1: are killed every year with blunt objects in this country
Speaker 1: than with assault rifles. But as we know, this is
Speaker 1: the same back and forth that we have every time
Speaker 1: there is a mass shooting, and the focus immediately shifted
Speaker 1: to gun control almost one hundred percent as soon as
Speaker 1: we found out who this individual was and what the
Speaker 1: likely motivations were and were not. I understand that they're
Speaker 1: trying to claim that there is some connection to white
Speaker 1: supremacy still when a Syrian Muslim American shoots up a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of people in a grocery store and we
Speaker 1: have no reason to believe there's any tide of white supremacy,
Speaker 1: but they're still making that case somehow, because that's how
Speaker 1: their brains have just become rotted, unfortunately with this group think.
Speaker 1: But then they move to gun control. When that doesn't
Speaker 1: work and it's increasingly going to look like it's absurd,
Speaker 1: they move on to the gun control issue and they
Speaker 1: tell us, all, well, there's no reason you shouldn't do
Speaker 1: the following things. And there are a lot of reasons
Speaker 1: that we should not allow for the forced buy back
Speaker 1: or confiscation of R fifteens. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: reasons why we should not allow people to decide for
Speaker 1: you what you are able to defend your home with,
Speaker 1: what you're allowed to defend your home with. And there's
Speaker 1: a viciousness now too. I'm somebody who feels very strongly
Speaker 1: that we have to start to confront the possibility here
Speaker 1: that there is a mass psychological pandemic going on alongside
Speaker 1: the viral pandemic that we have right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: the amount of psychological damage to this country that it
Speaker 1: has done to itself as a result of lockdowns and
Speaker 1: COVID panic propaganda is incalculable. But if you spend a
Speaker 1: few minutes on this app, you get a pretty good
Speaker 1: sense of how angry and crazy the mass hysteria crowd
Speaker 1: has become. It's a big problem. That's what I wrote
Speaker 1: last night on Twitter. I think it's very true. You
Speaker 1: see this not just on social media platforms. You see
Speaker 1: this in general discussions of what's going on right now
Speaker 1: in the media, that there's a nastiness, there's a viciousness.
Speaker 1: They want to go after people who disagree with them.
Speaker 1: They want they want to find ways to look at
Speaker 1: our look at their fellow Americans and say you're immoral,
Speaker 1: you don't care. You see my position when we talk
Speaker 1: about gun control, when we discuss these issues, My position
Speaker 1: is that their ideas don't work and infringe on liberties.
Speaker 1: Their position tends to be reduced to you're a bad
Speaker 1: person if you don't agree with me, and you should
Speaker 1: do exactly what I say, or else you're a monster.
Speaker 1: And if you want examples of it, I could sit
Speaker 1: here and We could spend the whole day talking about this.
Speaker 1: We could just go through all the different people who
Speaker 1: are claiming that if you don't agree with their gun
Speaker 1: control measures, you're a bad person. Here's Sonny Houston, for example,
Speaker 1: who's a TV host, and here's what she says about
Speaker 1: owning an assault rifle. Play eleven. I don't think we
Speaker 1: can any longer equate freedom with the unfettered right to
Speaker 1: own assault rifles. That is not freedom, because I feel
Speaker 1: like a hostage right now. I feel like a hostage
Speaker 1: to the selfish people that insist on owning these types
Speaker 1: of weapons. That is not freedom in this country. You
Speaker 1: are not a patriot because you think you have the
Speaker 1: right to own these types of weapons. You are not
Speaker 1: a patriot. You should be taking care of your fellow Americans.
Speaker 1: See how bizarre this is. You're not a patriot if
Speaker 1: you own an assault rifle. There are millions of people
Speaker 1: who own assault rifles and are completely law abiding and
Speaker 1: quite patriotic, and yet because one person makes the monstrous
Speaker 1: and evil decision to go and shoot a bunch of
Speaker 1: innocent people in a grocery store, now you're a bad
Speaker 1: person if you won't give up your rifle. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of damage can be done with knives. I
Speaker 1: have a number of knives, including some more combat style knives.
Speaker 1: They don't threaten anyone. That's not a problem for anyone,
Speaker 1: because I'm a moral, law abiding person. So no, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to give up my knives because someone in
Speaker 1: New York recently was stabbed to death outside of a
Speaker 1: housing project. That has nothing to do with me. I mean,
Speaker 1: the logic here is actually quite simple. Law abiding, good
Speaker 1: people in possession of weapons are a threat to no one.
Speaker 1: Evil people getting these guns and using them is something
Speaker 1: that does occur, and there are plenty of laws that
Speaker 1: are already in place to try to make it harder.
Speaker 1: But there is no perfect security. We're going through in
Speaker 1: so many different ways, and it's part I think of
Speaker 1: the leftist and increasingly it does feel like they're they're Bolsheviks.
Speaker 1: I mean, it feels like the Democrat left in this country.
Speaker 1: They're not close yet to getting a communist a communist state.
Speaker 1: I understand that, but their mentality of absolutism and my
Speaker 1: way or else and whatever I have to do, whoever
Speaker 1: I have to destroy it starts to feel a bit
Speaker 1: closer to the more extreme Marxists of the past. It
Speaker 1: feels like they're willing to just say it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what our rules, traditions, and expectations are for each other.
Speaker 1: If I need to crush you, I will even over
Speaker 1: something that's rooted largely in hysteria and fear and not
Speaker 1: reason and fairness. You know, the the selfishness of people
Speaker 1: owning assault rifles. So this is an absurd statement, but
Speaker 1: this is what you can expect from Sunny Hasten and
Speaker 1: many many others. She is not herself somebody who stands
Speaker 1: on a national stage in front of everyone and claims
Speaker 1: to be a victim or related to a victim. And
Speaker 1: that's another that's another series of conversations that will be
Speaker 1: happening now. There'll be people who because they suffered a
Speaker 1: personal tragedy or because they were they lost someone they
Speaker 1: loved in a shooting. We have to listen to the
Speaker 1: policy dictates that they give us. And if you disagree
Speaker 1: with the policy dictate, what's the point. Is it that
Speaker 1: they've made such a compelling argument, or is it that
Speaker 1: you're a bad person? Is it that you're somebody who
Speaker 1: doesn't care about dead children? This is what they said
Speaker 1: during Sandy Hook, if you didn't agree with the nationwide
Speaker 1: assault weapons band that a Barack Obama wanted very much,
Speaker 1: and universal background checks and all these other things, magazine limitations,
Speaker 1: which this is for anybody who understands firearms, which many
Speaker 1: of the loudest voices in opposition to firearms, many of
Speaker 1: the loudest voices calling for guns to be banned or
Speaker 1: calling for the laws to be changed. No very little
Speaker 1: about them. That's a common thing. That's that's quite common, actually,
Speaker 1: But they don't really care. They almost show off their
Speaker 1: ignorance of guns and are happy about the fact that
Speaker 1: they can use emotion over reason to try to push
Speaker 1: people to taking actions on gun control measures. Or notice,
Speaker 1: they say gun violence. They're trying to stop gun violence.
Speaker 1: Why can't they just say that they want to take
Speaker 1: guns from people, they want to control guns. They don't
Speaker 1: like that term, they want to stop gun violence. They say, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: this is so much about propaganda and not about what
Speaker 1: will actually work. I don't want anyone to be harmed
Speaker 1: in this country. I don't want anyone getting shot. You
Speaker 1: don't want anyone getting shot, no innocent people getting shot.
Speaker 1: And yet when we look at this and we see
Speaker 1: that there are so many laws, there's so many regulations
Speaker 1: already in place and are insufficient to stop all shootings. Obviously,
Speaker 1: what do they decide There have to be more laws,
Speaker 1: and there should be more state control, and if and
Speaker 1: if you're not okay with that, they'll put forward someone
Speaker 1: like Parkland Dad Fred Guttenberg, who is now appearing publicly
Speaker 1: as he's now an advocate for a policy in the
Speaker 1: public sphere. Here's what he says. Played twelve states and
Speaker 1: cities across this country since Parkland have done amazing work
Speaker 1: to pass gun safety measures to protect the people through
Speaker 1: our communities across this country. And every time that's happened,
Speaker 1: the nr RATE has been their filing lawsuits to make
Speaker 1: us less safe. They are a terror organization that is
Speaker 1: making us less safe. You can't make up these things.
Speaker 1: I did. Literally six days ago, the n RATE achieved
Speaker 1: its goal and they called it victories for Colorado. That's
Speaker 1: what they called it. And here we are. Ten people did,
Speaker 1: including a police officer, because of what they believe was
Speaker 1: victory for Colorado. It is time to break the hold
Speaker 1: that that terror organization has on our legislators and on
Speaker 1: legislation it is time to focus on this public health epidemic.
Speaker 1: It is time to work together to save lives. That
Speaker 1: is all that true matter right now, public health epidemic.
Speaker 1: You caught that right. Notice the connection that they make
Speaker 1: between what's going on right now where you have no
Speaker 1: choice you must obey because of COVID nineteen and with
Speaker 1: gun control now because gun violence is a public health epidemic.
Speaker 1: You see, so is climate change that affects public health,
Speaker 1: that affects our lives. It's existential and existential threat. There's
Speaker 1: no discussion about these things. As far as they're concerned.
Speaker 1: You will do what you are told. You will do
Speaker 1: what they tell you to do, or else, or else,
Speaker 1: they'll call you a terrorist organization. They'll go after your funding,
Speaker 1: they'll ruin you. They'll make it possible for you to
Speaker 1: pay your mortgage, feed your kids, go about your life.
Speaker 1: They'll destroy you and maybe they'll lock you up to
Speaker 1: they change these gun laws. They say that you can't
Speaker 1: have a magazine with more than ten rounds. That usually
Speaker 1: comes with a kind of prohibition where they'll put you
Speaker 1: in a cell. They're going to lock you up because
Speaker 1: you have a ten round magazine. Is that they think
Speaker 1: that's fair, that's just it's absurd. But these are the
Speaker 1: kinds of laws they like to push. And if they're
Speaker 1: not willing to enforce those laws, then what's the point.
Speaker 1: You have to ask that question too. If there's no penalty,
Speaker 1: it's not really a law. So they are willing to
Speaker 1: take a law abiding person who's done nothing wrong, who
Speaker 1: refuses to hand over his semi automatic rifle. They're willing
Speaker 1: to take that person and take away their freedom, make
Speaker 1: them a convicted felon, ruin their lines because they think, oh,
Speaker 1: we'll do this to millions and millions of people. Maybe
Speaker 1: it stops one shooting. It really does start to sound
Speaker 1: like a lot of the COVID policy that we've we've
Speaker 1: been through. Sure it's not very effective. Sure there's all
Speaker 1: kinds of loopholes and lockdowns, and there's essential workers, and
Speaker 1: there's all these other stuff. You know, this mask up
Speaker 1: between bites, all this stuff. But there's no amount of
Speaker 1: irritation frustration that we can put you through that's too much.
Speaker 1: If it saves just one life, that's what they'll tell you.
Speaker 1: If it saves just one life, that's all that is
Speaker 1: necessary to justify whatever infringement on your freedom. And it's
Speaker 1: not that it has saved or will save if it could.
Speaker 1: If it could save one life, that's enough for a
Speaker 1: leftist in America today to justify any infringement upon your
Speaker 1: freedom they desire. And this is one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why I've been so concerned about how COVID policy and
Speaker 1: the mentality around it is going to bleed into the
Speaker 1: rest of society is going to spread well beyond the
Speaker 1: area of public health. And I believe that it is possible,
Speaker 1: it has to be possible, that people agree that these
Speaker 1: slaughters have to stop. And this is again, reject the
Speaker 1: false choice and stop pushing it for stop pushing the
Speaker 1: false choice that this means everybody's trying to come after
Speaker 1: your guns. That is not what we're talking about. No, no,
Speaker 1: they have no interest in doing that. They don't speak
Speaker 1: longingly and with great affection about Australia's mandatory buyback program.
Speaker 1: That they don't point to places like Japan where individual
Speaker 1: ownership of guns is almost impossible and basically doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: They don't point to those places and say, look how
Speaker 1: much better that would be. Why don't we do that here? No, No, no,
Speaker 1: of course not No, it's not like they've been taking
Speaker 1: an incremental approach to this for a very long time.
Speaker 1: And it's not like they even will take a step
Speaker 1: back and admit and recognize that there are many, many
Speaker 1: laws on the books already about all these things. It's
Speaker 1: not like we have some society where, despite what they're
Speaker 1: telling you about how it's easier to buy a gun
Speaker 1: than to vote in all this, that's a lie. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of laws, a lot of regular lations
Speaker 1: around gun purchases. I mean, I live in New York City,
Speaker 1: which is a place where they've effectively made gun ownership
Speaker 1: so onerous and so complicated as to be effectively banned.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, sure, you can get your premise permit,
Speaker 1: which will allow you to have a handgun in your
Speaker 1: home after you go through a six month long period.
Speaker 1: Now I believe the weight is more like eighteen months
Speaker 1: to two years because of you know, the bureaucratic log
Speaker 1: jam over as a result of all the COVID stuff.
Speaker 1: But you have to pay hundreds of dollars, you have
Speaker 1: to keep renewing it every two years, and you have
Speaker 1: to keep it in a lockbox with a trigger guard
Speaker 1: on it and separate ammunition in a different lockbox. I mean,
Speaker 1: the ammunition in a different lockbox, and you can't necessarily
Speaker 1: even take it out of the city. You can take
Speaker 1: it too and from ranges. That's what they tell you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds like my Second Amendment rights. That sounds like
Speaker 1: I'm really able to protect myself and be an armed citizen.
Speaker 1: So you know, I see how they do this, and
Speaker 1: that's their preferred outcome. And of course you would look
Speaker 1: at this and say, hold on a second. There are
Speaker 1: still a lot of shootings in New York. Not as
Speaker 1: many as per capita as Chicago and some other places,
Speaker 1: but there are shootings that happened here. Haven't those people
Speaker 1: read the laws about how they have to go through
Speaker 1: a permitting process, and don't they know about the lock
Speaker 1: on the trigger guard. Don't they know that they're breaking
Speaker 1: all kinds of rules and regulations and they could face
Speaker 1: prison time. I doubt they think about that before they
Speaker 1: fire off, you know, ten rounds into a crowded, crowded
Speaker 1: park area because they're having a drug dispute and they
Speaker 1: you know, they hit a child. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: considering the latest legislation from the New York State Assembly
Speaker 1: at about guns and how they say it's going to
Speaker 1: protect lives. I think they don't care. I think we
Speaker 1: all know they don't care. And so here we are
Speaker 1: still being told that if only there were more laws,
Speaker 1: this would go away. There's a dishonesty here. There's a
Speaker 1: dishonesty because we had gun control in the nineties. We
Speaker 1: had the assault rifle, the so called assault rifle band,
Speaker 1: and there are still millions of assault rifles that are
Speaker 1: in circulation to this day. They're very rarely used in
Speaker 1: day to day crimes, and they're used mostly in these
Speaker 1: high profile mass shooting incidents. And they banned them, so
Speaker 1: to speak, in the nineties, and Joe Biden was a
Speaker 1: part of that, and it didn't result in the drop
Speaker 1: in violence that they said it when it didn't result
Speaker 1: in people being safer. There are plenty of mass shootings
Speaker 1: that don't involve long guns. As you know, the Ford
Speaker 1: Hood shooter, Nidal Hassan, those were two pistols with extended clips.
Speaker 1: By the way, the Virginia Tech shooter was using a
Speaker 1: semi automatic pistols. I think one of them was like
Speaker 1: a Tech nine type gun, but you know, he was
Speaker 1: not using a long gun. There have been plenty of
Speaker 1: mass shootings that did not involve long guns. So what
Speaker 1: do you what is really accomplished here? If somebody wants
Speaker 1: to go on a shooting spree and you say that
Speaker 1: they can't have a semi automatic rifle on, they could
Speaker 1: still achieve it, possibly illegally, in two a pistol or
Speaker 1: two will accomplish the exact same task. And what's what's
Speaker 1: really done? What? What does this really serve as a purpose? Well,
Speaker 1: it makes democrats who are in a panic. It makes
Speaker 1: those democrats who are in a panic and who also
Speaker 1: want to control people feel like they're doing something. And
Speaker 1: that feeling of just doing something is very intoxicating to
Speaker 1: people who believe that the government, believe that the state
Speaker 1: is on there. The state is a tool for bringing
Speaker 1: about a utopian society. If only we give the state
Speaker 1: more powerful, only we give the state more authority, we
Speaker 1: will be in a place where we don't have to
Speaker 1: worry anymore because they will protect us. That's been the
Speaker 1: thought about COVID the whole time too. That's been the
Speaker 1: thought about all of this that's been going on around us,
Speaker 1: with the lockdowns, and it's wrong. That's actually not how
Speaker 1: governments work. That's not how society works, That's not what
Speaker 1: his street tells us. But this is a very deeply
Speaker 1: ingrained belief in people. They want to think that there
Speaker 1: is some higher power of the state, not of God,
Speaker 1: that is protecting them. And that's what we have to
Speaker 1: grapple with now when we're talking about what's going on
Speaker 1: with this gun control effort. It has been remarkable to
Speaker 1: see the shift in tone after the identity and some
Speaker 1: of the background information about this shooter came out. Initially,
Speaker 1: it was all about white supremacy. They told us. This
Speaker 1: was in the media. This was people who have prominent platforms.
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't everyone, but they were ready to
Speaker 1: report on this, and there certainly was that CNN clip
Speaker 1: from the initial hours afterwards where they wanted to establish
Speaker 1: very much the shooter was white, and there are all
Speaker 1: these people who were saying on social media, oh, another
Speaker 1: another white guy engaged in a mass shooting. This is
Speaker 1: what always happens, which of course is not true. It
Speaker 1: turns out that mass shootings are in general pretty dispersed
Speaker 1: among the general population in terms of ethnicities. There are
Speaker 1: plenty of mass shooters who are of different ethnic backgrounds.
Speaker 1: If you go back and look at the real data,
Speaker 1: and especially when you start to add in a shooting
Speaker 1: that involves three or four or more people as victims,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, it becomes a very diverse
Speaker 1: group of perpetrators. But they initially wanted this to fit
Speaker 1: into a narrative because people are very they're very angry
Speaker 1: in this country right now. There are a lot of
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Speaker 1: how about that? I mean, how onerous would it be
Speaker 1: to have a gunshop owner just say, by the way,
Speaker 1: are you hearing voices? Do you ever hear anybody? Do
Speaker 1: you think people are chasing you? Do you think everybody's
Speaker 1: watching you? I mean that it would have weeded out
Speaker 1: possibly this guy Well, Alison, I completely agree with the
Speaker 1: concerns that you're mentioning, But based on the law, even
Speaker 1: asking those questions wouldn't wouldn't allow a buyer to prevent
Speaker 1: the purchase, at least under federal law. I mean, how
Speaker 1: much dummer is the national conversation from the Democrat media
Speaker 1: going to get here? Here? You have an anchor on
Speaker 1: TV saying how onerous would it be to have a
Speaker 1: gunshop owner just say, by the way, are you hearing voices?
Speaker 1: Do you think people are chasing you? Basically, why don't
Speaker 1: we have gunshop owners ask everybody who buys a gun,
Speaker 1: are you crazy? Now? Even for people who have mental illness,
Speaker 1: even for people who are who have made the choice
Speaker 1: to be evil. And I think that is a choice
Speaker 1: that people can make. I think it is a choice
Speaker 1: that many people have made. They're generally sly enough that
Speaker 1: when they're going through that process of purchasing a weapon,
Speaker 1: they're not going to say, I see pink elephants flying
Speaker 1: in the sky, and that's why I want to buy
Speaker 1: this rifle so I can shoot them. They generally will
Speaker 1: not do that, even in the one or a million
Speaker 1: circumstance of somebody who's trying to legally purchase a firearm
Speaker 1: to use it for this kind of awful purpose of murder,
Speaker 1: of mass murder. They're not actually going to say, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm crazy, but sell me the gun. Anyway, this may
Speaker 1: come as a shock to a Miss Camarado over seeing that.
Speaker 1: And again, I don't I don't like to be mean
Speaker 1: about any of this stuff. When people are saying these
Speaker 1: dumb things, I say they're dumb just because I think
Speaker 1: it's necessary that we understand what the truth is. I
Speaker 1: say that these are bad ideas because I think it's
Speaker 1: harmful and I think it's it's not good for us,
Speaker 1: and these are just unintelligent positions are that are being
Speaker 1: taken by people who don't know very much about these issues.
Speaker 1: But this is about the emotion in these moments and
Speaker 1: the politics around them. I mean, here's Kamala Harris saying
Speaker 1: that the point here is, well, you know what she's
Speaker 1: going to say, You just got to do something. Play three.
Speaker 1: Congress needs to act, and on the House side they did.
Speaker 1: There are two bills which the President is prepared to sign,
Speaker 1: and so we need the Senate to act. And this
Speaker 1: is going to be about your viewers, and all of
Speaker 1: us pleading to the reason, pleading to the hearts and
Speaker 1: minds of the people in the United States Senate to say,
Speaker 1: enough with the partisanship, enough with the ideological perspective on this.
Speaker 1: Let's just be practical and agree. People who have been
Speaker 1: found to be a danger to themselves and others should
Speaker 1: not be able to purchase. So what will the administration do.
Speaker 1: We keep hearing about executive action. What does that mean,
Speaker 1: Madam Vice President. What it means is that we need
Speaker 1: to take action. But Gail, let's be clear about this.
Speaker 1: There is the piece about executive action. But if we
Speaker 1: pass legislation, it's permanent. If the Congress acts, then it
Speaker 1: becomes law. And that is what we have lacked. That
Speaker 1: is what has been missing. We need universal background checks.
Speaker 1: You know, various states have done it, but there's no
Speaker 1: universal approach to this, and so what ends up happening.
Speaker 1: People can move from one state to another depending on
Speaker 1: what the law is. We need to have a federal
Speaker 1: standard and that is going to be accomplished by the
Speaker 1: way we have structured our democracy. When the United States
Speaker 1: Congress acts, the House is acted. Now it's in the
Speaker 1: hands of the Senate. Does anyone really think universal background
Speaker 1: checks are going to save laws. Really, they believe that
Speaker 1: they don't understand. The Democrats don't understand that what's going
Speaker 1: on here is essentially the repeat of a conversation we've
Speaker 1: had many times before, and they want it to sound
Speaker 1: as reasonable as possible. This is why they'll say common
Speaker 1: sense gun control. If it's so common sense, you don't
Speaker 1: need to call it common sense. Yeah, it's like what
Speaker 1: that you're set about being a lady, if you have
Speaker 1: to say you are when you're not. You know, if
Speaker 1: gun control measures are so obvious, yes, I think it's
Speaker 1: I think it is fair to say that, you know,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be able to buy a backpack, you know,
Speaker 1: thermonuclear device, right. I think it's fair to say that
Speaker 1: you shouldn't you know, you shouldn't be selling military grade
Speaker 1: CE four at the corner drug store. I get it.
Speaker 1: There are some things where people would say it's not
Speaker 1: in common usage. It's not necessary for the defense of yourself,
Speaker 1: your home, and to be able to defend yourself in
Speaker 1: some meaningful capacity, right, I mean this is what the
Speaker 1: Heller decision in the Supreme Court took up some years ago.
Speaker 1: Now addressed that even at the American found Even at
Speaker 1: the American Founding, when you know, people were allowed to
Speaker 1: have muskets, and we always get in this conversation what
Speaker 1: was acceptable. Then Scalia wrote something about how walking around
Speaker 1: with a headsman's axe is weird and maybe that's not okay,
Speaker 1: and maybe that's a regulation we can have. You don't
Speaker 1: have to have that. That's a little b dangerous. You know,
Speaker 1: having a flamethrower, I think, is yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker 1: You don't need a flamethrower to defend your home. Although
Speaker 1: some of you, I know we're saying, Buck, I've I've
Speaker 1: already got a flamethrower, But in general, I don't think
Speaker 1: you need these things. And I know that then they'll say, well, Buck,
Speaker 1: they say you don't need an air fifteen. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: when they when you actually get into it. A firearm
Speaker 1: is you know, firearms that are in common usage, that
Speaker 1: are are are basically a part now of what American
Speaker 1: gunners across the country have and depend on. And and honestly,
Speaker 1: this is just the musket of today. That's what the
Speaker 1: expectation is. You know, it's not that everybody gets to
Speaker 1: have a stinger missile. And I know that they'll say, well,
Speaker 1: you don't need an air fifteen. Yeah, but an Air
Speaker 1: fifteen is really very There's very little difference between that
Speaker 1: and a standard hunting rifle. It's just a function of
Speaker 1: the cosmetics and perhaps enfolding stock a few it depends
Speaker 1: we're talking. There's a lot of different guns out there.
Speaker 1: But what we see is this desire to take action.
Speaker 1: What we see is this decision that they have to
Speaker 1: do something irrespective of whether it will actually have a
Speaker 1: positive impact, irrespective of whether it will actually achieve the goal.
Speaker 1: And this is a government that I do not believe
Speaker 1: has should have any leeway to infringe upon rights because
Speaker 1: they say, oh, we promise this time, will will be
Speaker 1: more fair in how we do this. We promise this
Speaker 1: time we're not going to abuse the power. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've had the government now in different states shutting down
Speaker 1: people's ability to open their businesses, to go to work,
Speaker 1: to go to church. There have been extreme infringements upon
Speaker 1: liberty and upon freedom that have come from all of this.
Speaker 1: So I do think it's necessary. I do think it's
Speaker 1: important to understand that we've been conditioned now, our country,
Speaker 1: our society has been conditioned. Many people have at least
Speaker 1: to just accept whatever the state says as though it's gospel,
Speaker 1: as though there's no reason to push back. There should
Speaker 1: be no need for debate. They have your best interests
Speaker 1: at heart, and if you disagree with this, they'll tell
Speaker 1: you that you're a as you know, a bad person.
Speaker 1: Just a quick note for all of you. If I
Speaker 1: sound a little bit a little bit off today, I apologize.
Speaker 1: I am quite sick, but I wanted to do the
Speaker 1: show today and get through it. So don't think I'll
Speaker 1: be all right. But I'm not feeling well, and so
Speaker 1: I'm doing the show at home. It's just me and
Speaker 1: Tallulah here the French Bulldog. But I wanted to all
Speaker 1: to know that sounds different today, or if I sounded
Speaker 1: all foggy to you, it's because I'm pushing through. But
Speaker 1: you should know that you're not getting the You're not
Speaker 1: getting a healthy buck right now. You're getting kind of
Speaker 1: buck trying to do his best to just keep it
Speaker 1: all going. My voice is pretty shot, my throat's pretty
Speaker 1: messed up, but I'll keep I'll keep it going. And
Speaker 1: that means looking at some more of the debates and
Speaker 1: some more of the pushback that we have from people
Speaker 1: on the Democrat side of this now because they're they're
Speaker 1: wanting to take action, and I think there's a chance
Speaker 1: they may do something that even the Obama administration would
Speaker 1: have been unwilling to go for. They would have been
Speaker 1: unwilling to push as far. Well, it's kind of two parts.
Speaker 1: I mean, one, I do think we need to rediscover
Speaker 1: in our K through twelve system, the founding of the country,
Speaker 1: what makes the country unique, our constitution, our founding fathers,
Speaker 1: some of the great figures throughout our history, whether it's
Speaker 1: a link In or an MLK or a Reagan winning
Speaker 1: the Cold War. But when you do that, it's got
Speaker 1: to be true and solid and factual, and you can't
Speaker 1: let it become infected with left wing ideology like critical
Speaker 1: race theory. Critical race theory is basically teaching people to
Speaker 1: hate our country, hate each other. It's divisive, and it's
Speaker 1: basically an identity politics version of Marxism. So I don't
Speaker 1: think it has any place in the classroom. Certainly shouldn't
Speaker 1: be funded by tax dollars. So as we're doing this
Speaker 1: bold civics initiative, which is important, I think people like that,
Speaker 1: but I think a lot of people look at and say, well, Okay,
Speaker 1: they better be teaching the right stuff. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a deep politicized curriculum. We're not going to let
Speaker 1: that stuff in there. And I think that that's going
Speaker 1: to serve students well in the state of Florida for
Speaker 1: years to come. Governor Ron De Santis giving an excellent
Speaker 1: explanation for what's going on here, and this is he's
Speaker 1: the most important Republican officeholder in the country right now
Speaker 1: in terms of the message, in terms of the results
Speaker 1: he's had from the COVID lockdowns. He more than anyone else,
Speaker 1: has really been able to hold the line and to
Speaker 1: speak actual truth to power against the consensus with so
Speaker 1: many of these things. I know, he's the governor, but
Speaker 1: he has he has to take on the Democrat machinery.
Speaker 1: He has to take on the mainstream media coming after
Speaker 1: him with everything that they've got. And I think eventually
Speaker 1: people realize that, you know this, this is what we need.
Speaker 1: We actually need Republicans who can make and who are
Speaker 1: making the case because the things are going to get
Speaker 1: things are gonna get worse in this regard. I mean,
Speaker 1: the the issues that you're seeing coming up now where
Speaker 1: when there's a mass shooting, all of a sudden, there's
Speaker 1: this impulse on the left to blame white males, blame
Speaker 1: white men, They're the problem. That's that should be really
Speaker 1: disconcerting to everybody that now, the very first thing that
Speaker 1: happens when there's a mass shooting like this is that
Speaker 1: a portion of America wants to point the point a
Speaker 1: finger at at basically another very large portion of America
Speaker 1: and make this somehow their fault, their responsibility, without any
Speaker 1: facts and evidence, without knowing anything. And this is the
Speaker 1: focus of this Biden administration. And it's amazing, is if
Speaker 1: the Biden administration is all about we hear all about
Speaker 1: racial justice and things along this line social justice. When
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is the oldest whitest guy you could ever
Speaker 1: find anywhere, right, I mean, Joe Biden is this is
Speaker 1: a guy who's almost eighty, who loves playing golf at
Speaker 1: the country club, who's from Delaware. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: not a guy who anybody would think of as some
Speaker 1: kind of racial justice warrior at all. But nonetheless, that's
Speaker 1: what the administration seems to be taking on as as
Speaker 1: as an important part of their agenda. Democrats like Senators
Speaker 1: Tammy Duckworth of Illinois Maizie Herono of Hawaii have said things,
Speaker 1: even going as far as that all Biden nominees who
Speaker 1: are not racial minority. They said this just yesterday will
Speaker 1: not get through that Biden can't nominate senior government to
Speaker 1: senior government positions people who are not racial minorities. They said,
Speaker 1: they'll only vote for a white nominee if the nominee
Speaker 1: is LGBTQ. So if you're not a racial minority or
Speaker 1: a member of the LGBTQ community. Here you have two
Speaker 1: senators who were saying they will not vote for you.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's racists, right, we understand this like that's
Speaker 1: we've gone to that point now where we're actually punishing
Speaker 1: people who are white for their skin color. And that's
Speaker 1: what they were. These are United States senators. Now they've
Speaker 1: since backed off of that, they've they've changed their position,
Speaker 1: but the fact that they would even feel comfortable saying
Speaker 1: that at all is stunning, honestly. But that's where we've
Speaker 1: gone now as a society. That's what we find ourselves
Speaker 1: dealing with. That's what we are in the midst of
Speaker 1: and we need to call it out and say why
Speaker 1: it's problematic. We need to tell everybody what what the
Speaker 1: issues are with dividing us by race in this way.
Speaker 1: I know I said I'd said before guys that I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not really feeling well. I'll tell you I'm fading
Speaker 1: a little bit, and uh, it's it's not not easy
Speaker 1: to get through today. So again I apologize so much
Speaker 1: for those of you who are listening. We are wondering
Speaker 1: why I don't sound like the normal buckets because I am.
Speaker 1: I am not well right now, and I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to investigate, you know, what I can do to try
Speaker 1: to get better as soon as possible. But we do
Speaker 1: have Governor Scott Walker here, former Governor Scott Walker of
Speaker 1: Wisconsin coming up to talk to us about a plan
Speaker 1: that he has to push back against some of this
Speaker 1: left wing madness, So stick around for that. It is
Speaker 1: amazing how much the left controls the institutions of communication
Speaker 1: of culture in this country and the way that they've
Speaker 1: been able to seize through their dominance of Silicon Valley sees.
Speaker 1: Control the Internet is one of those things that this
Speaker 1: is going to take a long time for us to
Speaker 1: fight back against. I mean, people are talking about antitrust
Speaker 1: law and breaking them up as monopolies. I think that's
Speaker 1: a good start, but that's just that's just the beginning
Speaker 1: of what's going to have to be a much longer
Speaker 1: term challenge here because they're they're not ever going back
Speaker 1: now that they've told us who they are. Now that
Speaker 1: these social media companies and these internet these Internet giants
Speaker 1: have shown us what their politics really are, There's there's
Speaker 1: no way they're going to say, you know what, you're right.
Speaker 1: And also, even if they told us they're willing to
Speaker 1: play fair and be monitored, they're not going to do that.
Speaker 1: They're not actually going to say, you know what, we're
Speaker 1: We're going to do it and then you can trust them.
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Speaker 1: We often talk to you about the problems on this
Speaker 1: show that the country face is from cancel culture and
Speaker 1: from the leftist domination of institutions. Let's start to talk
Speaker 1: about how we can fix things. Let's actually talk about
Speaker 1: solutions as well, and to that end, we're joined by
Speaker 1: the former governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker. He is with
Speaker 1: us now to talk about a program I think you
Speaker 1: want to hear about called The Long Game. Governor Walker
Speaker 1: great to have you, sir, Thanks for calling in. Hey,
Speaker 1: my pleasure. Glad to be with you as well. We're excited.
Speaker 1: Tell us about the long game. This twelve point action
Speaker 1: plan to fight back against an intolerant liberal agenda sounds
Speaker 1: good to me. Yeah, you know, the left has been
Speaker 1: at this for decades. Sometimes we look at this chaos
Speaker 1: or the last year not only on college campuses, but
Speaker 1: in culture and increasingly into communications with the censorship from
Speaker 1: big tech, and think, well, how do we get here? Well,
Speaker 1: this started by the left back decades ago, you know,
Speaker 1: saw Lensky in the sixties. They've moved their way, they've
Speaker 1: accelerated it, and so what we're proposing is not only
Speaker 1: to be engaged in the battles of the day, but
Speaker 1: to have really to win the war for the heart
Speaker 1: and soul of our republic and really require there's unbelievable action.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a good example. Young America's Foundation why
Speaker 1: f where I'm at right now, just starting as a
Speaker 1: new leader, has been involved historically, been involved all across
Speaker 1: the country. But we support students in about two thousand
Speaker 1: campuses across the nation. That's great, that's one of the
Speaker 1: largest reaches of any conservative organization out there, but it's
Speaker 1: not enough. There are four thousand plus colleges and universities
Speaker 1: across America. Our long game plan says we're going to
Speaker 1: be on all of them, and we're not just going
Speaker 1: to be on undergraduate programs. We're going to be in
Speaker 1: community and technical colleges where people are getting two year
Speaker 1: associate degrees. We're not just going to be in college.
Speaker 1: We're going to be in high school and junior high
Speaker 1: and we're needed. We're even going to provide materials for
Speaker 1: students and families even in the later elements of elementary school. Why,
Speaker 1: because the Left is there, they're engaging earlier, they're trying
Speaker 1: to engage in indoctrination of our young people. We've got
Speaker 1: to counter it. And the reason they're trying to cancel
Speaker 1: us now more than ever, it's because our ideas work
Speaker 1: and we need to get it to more young people
Speaker 1: to show that it works and get them on the
Speaker 1: right track. So the twelve point action plan take me
Speaker 1: through some of the some of the specific steps. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: in addition to getting on every campus, we've got, for example,
Speaker 1: we've got the largest speakers Conservative Speakers a group in
Speaker 1: the country and college campus is we're going to dramatically
Speaker 1: increase that. We're not only going to increase that in
Speaker 1: a person, but we found this past year during the
Speaker 1: pandemic that actually students came in robes to our YouTube site, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, you wouldn't pick this up for most
Speaker 1: of the media, but that YouTube is the number one
Speaker 1: place that young people get their information, not Twitter, not Facebook,
Speaker 1: done Instagram, overwhelming me by YouTube. And so we want
Speaker 1: to have five million subscribers to our what's called yaff TV,
Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, and have one billion, that's a billion
Speaker 1: with a b one billion views of the programs we provide.
Speaker 1: And what students we found really a positive finding for us,
Speaker 1: is that they crave con They don't just want you know,
Speaker 1: flash in the pan. They don't want bumper stickers or
Speaker 1: memes in their case. They want to hear from speakers.
Speaker 1: But particularly they want to hear speakers who are on campus,
Speaker 1: in out in culture of the society, taking tough questions
Speaker 1: from liberals and responding to it in kind. I think
Speaker 1: not only these students want that, I think all the
Speaker 1: rest of us want more examples of that because the
Speaker 1: left is trying to make us feel isolated. They trying
Speaker 1: to make us feel alone, and so for us to
Speaker 1: have a presence on every campus, they have more speakers,
Speaker 1: more programs, more conferences, more ways to bring people to truth,
Speaker 1: and then once they hear it, to bring them together
Speaker 1: the show that they're not alone, that there's so many
Speaker 1: more people that think like they do than they ever
Speaker 1: dreamed or imagine. We have to do that, and another
Speaker 1: big element of the long game is we got to
Speaker 1: do that sooner. Ronald Reagan when he ran for president
Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty I was twelve years old. I know
Speaker 1: what an influence he was on me, not just as
Speaker 1: a conservative, but as an optimist. We need to reach
Speaker 1: people that age or younger. And we definitely have to
Speaker 1: offset the nonsense like the sixteen nineteen project and all
Speaker 1: to talk even in elementary school, about teaching our students
Speaker 1: to hate America, to hate our founders. We need to
Speaker 1: counter that with part of our long game plan is
Speaker 1: one element is it to actually go and provide not
Speaker 1: only students but parents the information materials they need to
Speaker 1: counter that, to talk about the greatness of our founding principles,
Speaker 1: how iconic our founders were in to reinforce the value
Speaker 1: Judeo Christian values that our country is founded on. We
Speaker 1: can do all this and more, but we need to engage.
Speaker 1: That's why people who want a free copy of it
Speaker 1: go to YAF dot org slash long Game. We'll get
Speaker 1: your free copy. We'll get you engaged in these efforts,
Speaker 1: and please help us recruit young people to be a
Speaker 1: part of our programs, to come to our conferences, to
Speaker 1: get engaged. Now more than ever, it's important. We're speaking
Speaker 1: to former Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker, and Scott, I
Speaker 1: want to know what you think of what we've seen
Speaker 1: from the Biden administration so far, because it seems to
Speaker 1: many of us I would certainly put myself in this
Speaker 1: category that we were told that Joe Biden would be
Speaker 1: something of a moderate, that Joe Biden would be a
Speaker 1: guy who would rein in some of the more radical
Speaker 1: impulses of the left within the Democrat Party. That doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be what we've seen so far, and especially
Speaker 1: with the border crisis unfolding now as it has, I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are feeling like there was
Speaker 1: a switch made of some kind here, that there was
Speaker 1: a there was a head fake involved. What do you
Speaker 1: see going on with the Biden administration thus far. Well.
Speaker 1: I warned last summer going into the DNC convention, which
Speaker 1: was supposed to be in Milwaukee, in my backyard, I
Speaker 1: warned that I felt that once Joe Biden put Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris on the ticket, he had effectively outsourced his agenda
Speaker 1: to the radical left. Remember, as pleasant as nice as
Speaker 1: she appears to many in the public, her voting record,
Speaker 1: according to news Week, is actually more liberal, more radical
Speaker 1: than even Bernie Sanders. Are hard to believe a running
Speaker 1: mate on any major ticket would be that far to
Speaker 1: the left, but she was. And I think you see
Speaker 1: that reflected in the people he's surrounded with and the
Speaker 1: policies he put in place over the last two months.
Speaker 1: It is about as far away as you can get
Speaker 1: from from modern or mainstream than anyone ever dreamed of.
Speaker 1: And that's because he's just he's not in charge. He's
Speaker 1: and I'm not even commenting on his mental status. It's
Speaker 1: just this is Joe Biden, a guy who ran three
Speaker 1: times to be president. He will do and say anything
Speaker 1: to be in office. And so what he's effectively done
Speaker 1: is given the agenda to Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: and AOC and the borders a classic example of that.
Speaker 1: Not only is it bad public policy, it's tragic what's
Speaker 1: happening to these children, the idea that these kids are
Speaker 1: are their families are sending him here. The leader of
Speaker 1: Mexico just yesterday pointed out that this is because of
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's policies. This is not you know, you or
Speaker 1: me or anybody else in the right in America saying it.
Speaker 1: The president of Mexico is saying this is why. Because
Speaker 1: the reality is, of course, when you tell people you're
Speaker 1: reversing the policies as the prior administration, when you're basically
Speaker 1: all about giving up a signal for open borders, we
Speaker 1: have chaos there and it's only going to get worse
Speaker 1: because it's not just a border crisis. This is only
Speaker 1: going to get worse as they push more of these
Speaker 1: individuals into our society without any regard for where they're
Speaker 1: coming from. And I don't mean people from Mexico. I've
Speaker 1: been down at the border before with Governor Greg Abbott
Speaker 1: in Texas and with others in Arizona and California in
Speaker 1: the past. The biggest concern I have is not for
Speaker 1: people coming over to want to work here. The biggest
Speaker 1: concern is the terrorists that want to come in through
Speaker 1: our southern border, the people involved in trafficking of humans,
Speaker 1: of trafficking and drugs, of trafficing and firearms. This is
Speaker 1: a public safety and national security risk, and this president
Speaker 1: is completely boggled it up. And it's a good ample
Speaker 1: why we've got to be engaged, not just in today's battle,
Speaker 1: but we got to be thinking ahead so we don't
Speaker 1: continue to make those mistakes in the future, which again
Speaker 1: is why we're involved along Game and Governor Walker. One
Speaker 1: more thing before they should go the You came to
Speaker 1: a national prominence when you were the governor Wisconsin for
Speaker 1: taking on public sector unions. What do you see and
Speaker 1: what do you think about when when these public public
Speaker 1: sector unions with the teachers unions are coming up with
Speaker 1: evermore creative ways to explain why they are essential workers,
Speaker 1: but who should not actually have to go into the
Speaker 1: classroom and do their jobs even after vaccinate vaccinations in
Speaker 1: some cases, Yeah, you're not an essential worker if you
Speaker 1: can't show up when it's essential. In Fairfax County, Virginia,
Speaker 1: the teachers and administrators, they're literally jumped the line and
Speaker 1: ahead of people who might have had higher risk, jumped
Speaker 1: the line and then turned around and said Nope, we're
Speaker 1: not going to go to school anyway. This is absolutely outrageous.
Speaker 1: I would say it's the union bosses and the political
Speaker 1: powers that be. It is not the everyday teacher. Two
Speaker 1: of my wife's best friends are teachers. They are sick
Speaker 1: and tired of being on zoom. They want to be
Speaker 1: with their kids. They know their kids are suffering. They're
Speaker 1: not only suffering academically, they are personally suffering. Overwhelmingly. For
Speaker 1: all this talk in the last year about science, the
Speaker 1: science shows that students and staff can safely be in
Speaker 1: our schools, and that the science increasingly tragically showing that
Speaker 1: our students are facing high levels of depression and in
Speaker 1: many cases even to the verge of suicide rates going up.
Speaker 1: We've got to get back in the school. We've got it.
Speaker 1: That's a key part of reopening economy. And the last
Speaker 1: thing I'll just say with that is I think it
Speaker 1: ties into again to this long game plan. There's a
Speaker 1: huge divide in America. It's not right and left. It's
Speaker 1: not even PROTMP Randy Trump. It is blue collar and
Speaker 1: white collar. So many people in white collar jobs who
Speaker 1: could zoom the work and their kids could be in
Speaker 1: the next room, just bought into all this oppressive pushback
Speaker 1: on locking down our states and cities. The people in
Speaker 1: blue collar jobs, the people who have to show up
Speaker 1: for work every day or they don't get paid and
Speaker 1: they don't make the mortgage. They and their children, and
Speaker 1: those are the children we need to reach out who
Speaker 1: are in college, in high school, and younger ages. We
Speaker 1: need to tell them that we conservatives were the ones
Speaker 1: who stood with their families about getting them back on
Speaker 1: their feet again and working again and getting them back
Speaker 1: to school. The radicals on the left who want to
Speaker 1: concentrate power and who buy into the union bosses, the
Speaker 1: teachers union, they were the ones who kept things shut down.
Speaker 1: We need to stand with the working men and women
Speaker 1: of America and their children, and that I think is
Speaker 1: a key part of the long game as well. Former
Speaker 1: Governor Wisconsin, Scott Walker. Everybody, Scott, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for your time, sir. I hope you come back. Thank
Speaker 1: you be well, and keep fighting for freedom. Ey teen
Speaker 1: Buckets producer Mark sorry to be the bearer of bad
Speaker 1: news here, but buck will not be able to continue
Speaker 1: today's show. As you could hear, he is quite ill.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about him. His health is going to be okay.
Speaker 1: He just needs some rest. But that's going to do
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