1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Buck Sexon and you're listening to the 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: Tunor Dixon Podcast, part of the Clay Drivers and Buck 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: Sexton podcast Network. Hello and welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. 4 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: I'm Tutor Dixon, and I'm excited to have you joined 5 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: me today. Today I get to have somebody actually here 6 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: with me. My guest has been breaking a lot of 7 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: news in Michigan and he's currently following the Senate campaign 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: of Alyssa Slotkin, which is why I wanted to have 9 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: him here today because I have a lot to say 10 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: about this. I'm sort of fired up anyway. Kyle Olson, 11 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: the founder of The Midwesterner, right here with me. Thanks 12 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: for being on. Thanks for having me absolutely so. The 13 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: reason I'm fired up about this is because we've gone 14 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: through two school shootings now, just in the past few weeks. 15 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 1: We've had the one in Nashville, the one at Michigan State. 16 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: Alyssa Slotkin is using this as her campaign mechanism. Now 17 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: she's running on really she's running on the deaths of 18 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,639 Speaker 1: our children, and I think it's disgusting. I think that 19 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: this is not a political issue. I think nothing is 20 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: done about it because there are two different political sides 21 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: to this issue when there's really an answer down the 22 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: middle that we're not even looking at because politicians get 23 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: in the way, quite frankly, and not in a good way. 24 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: So tell us what Elissa's doing now. Yeah, it's really 25 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: interesting to see how Elissa Slotkin has really sort of 26 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 1: been pushed to the front. I noticed this when I 27 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: have been working on the site and posting stories. I 28 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 1: noticed this first when remember when the balloon was shot 29 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: down over Michigan. Well, she's a military expert. I don't 30 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: know if you know, yes, and so she is all 31 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: of a sudden was in front of the cameras talking 32 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: about her CIA experience and all of that, and I thought, oh, 33 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: that's that's kind of a strange thing because it's not 34 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,839 Speaker 1: her district. She's not. It just didn't make any sense. 35 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: So then when the MSU shooting happened, she immediately again 36 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: was right out front. And what was interesting to me was, 37 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: again as I was posting these stories, there was a 38 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: story last week about how she basically is trying to 39 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: make gun control a centerpiece of her campaign, and she's 40 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 1: campaigning on this whole idea of creating more gun laws, 41 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 1: and so there was a Detroit News story from March 42 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: twenty March twenty first, and it started like this. Elyssa 43 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: a US representative, Elyssa Slotkin was leaving an event in 44 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: Oakland County last month when the Lansing Democrat got word 45 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: of an active shooter on the campus of Michigan State University. 46 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 1: She put her foot on the gas and drove ninety 47 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 1: miles an hour on Interstate sixty nine to East Lansing 48 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: set up setting up a mobile office of sorts in 49 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: the basement of the police department, where the mayor was 50 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: also stationed a mobile campaign office. I mean, let's be 51 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,119 Speaker 1: honest about this. This is what she did. She drove there, 52 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: and she says, I'm gonna I'm gonna fight this. But 53 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 1: the bizarre thing about this is that one of these 54 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: bills that she's going to be introducing is exactly what's 55 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: on the books here in Michigan. Had it been followed 56 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: in Michigan, this likely would not have happened at MSU. 57 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: So it's all just bologna. They can say, your thoughts 58 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: and prayers mean nothing, your fake bills mean nothing else. 59 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: So that's interesting because there was just last week on Wednesday, 60 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: she did a press conference, of course, because that's what 61 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: politicians love to do, where she introduced a couple of 62 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: different bills where she claims this is going to help 63 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: solve the problem. And so what she is basically proposing 64 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: a couple of things. She's proposing the No Crime Left 65 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: Behind Act, which would prohibit transfer of a gun for 66 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: three years to someone after they were convicted of a 67 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: misdemeanor during which they carried or possessed a gun. So 68 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: you think about that and what I mean, what as 69 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: you have looked at these other stories, what difference do 70 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: you think that is going to make? But only it 71 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: only makes a difference, first of all, if it is 72 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: actually enforced. That was the law here. So this guy 73 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: that goes on MSU's campus, he was convicted of a 74 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: crime with a gun. It was he got to plead 75 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: down to a misdemeanor. So if they had actually prosecuted 76 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: this crime, he would not have been able to buy 77 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: a gun, which he did buy a gun and then 78 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: he went on the MSU campus. So they come out 79 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: with these bologny laws that they say are going to 80 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,919 Speaker 1: do something when laws like this are already on the books. 81 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: But the funny thing about democrats is then they don't 82 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: want to enforce those laws because that would be what 83 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: I don't know, bias in some way if you enforce 84 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: these laws. Well, well that's a whole an other subject 85 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: where they are trying to, you know, fiddle with statistics 86 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: and the way to do that to show that, to 87 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: make the argument that there is not bias in policing, well, 88 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 1: they just arrest fewer certain types of people to fiddle 89 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: with the numbers. But then another one that she's introducing 90 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: is the Pause for Safety Act, which would require a 91 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: one week waiting period before a buyer can receive a gun. 92 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: So you talk about the natural situation. It seems to 93 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: me like that person had very clear intent. They wrote 94 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 1: the manifesto, she targeted. It appears that she targeted certain people. 95 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,919 Speaker 1: Is a one week waiting period going to stop someone 96 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 1: like that? That's what I think is. It's this is 97 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: the disingenuous part about these laws. It's just to put 98 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: it out there. It's a campaign. It's just a campaign slogan, 99 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to be tough on guns when this wouldn't 100 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: have done anything to stop but what happened in Nashville, 101 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: This wouldn't have done anything to stop what happened at MSU. 102 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 1: Maybe there are crimes of passion that this would slow down, 103 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 1: But worked she's coming out here and she has campaigning 104 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: on the fact that she's going to keep kids safe. 105 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 1: That has been her thing over and over again. I'm 106 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: going to keep kids safe. But we look at Nashville 107 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: and I'm mad about this because this is just too 108 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: close to home for every parent in the country. You 109 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: see the story of the nine year old who went 110 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: to pull the fire alarm because she's so desperate to 111 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:05,599 Speaker 1: save her classmates and she gets shot. It's enough enough 112 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: with the Bologny gun violence is a problem. We've got 113 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 1: a violence problem in this country. This is a violence 114 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: problem that has been egged on by politicians like Alyssa 115 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: Slotkin who have said, you know, weak on crime. Come on, 116 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: keep this soft on crime politicians out there and these 117 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: prosecutors and let's continue to you know, fall at the 118 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 1: feet of the soft on crime prosecutors. Meanwhile, our kids 119 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,119 Speaker 1: are in these schools with zero protection whatsoever, and nobody 120 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: wants to talk about protecting the kids in the school 121 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: because we'd rather say, well, we can put money into theories, 122 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: we can make sure that we have moral laws on 123 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: the books. We can attack our political enemy, which is 124 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 1: guns and Republicans, But at the end of the day, 125 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: this is not doing anything when you've had all these 126 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 1: companies come forward and say, we've got the technology to 127 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: make sure we have the doors lock to make sure 128 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: that we stop the bullets from flying. And I hate 129 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 1: to say that, but we have got to get serious 130 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: about making sure that once somebody is in that school, 131 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: they are secluded from those kids and the kids are protected. 132 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: And we never talk about that, and it makes me sick. Well. 133 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: And maybe the most ridiculous aspect of what she is 134 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: coming up with is she wants to give two hundred 135 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars to the CDC to research ending 136 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: gun violence. So think about this. Instead of saying, maybe 137 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: we should harden our schools, maybe we should make sure 138 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: kids are actually safe because we know, maybe we don't 139 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: know what the mental problems are what drives someone to 140 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: shoot nine year olds, maybe we don't understand that, but 141 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,679 Speaker 1: we know what they're doing and we know simple steps 142 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: to stop that from happening, and that is to protect 143 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: the school. So instead of spending money that way she 144 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: wants to spend, she wants to give two hundred and 145 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: fifty million dollars to the CDC. And when I read 146 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: this sort of thing, I think, you know, this is 147 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: a perfect way to explain that they are. All they 148 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: want to do is just perpetuate the administrative state, and 149 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: so they're not interested in actually fixing the problem. She 150 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: wants to introduce bills like this, she wants to go 151 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: out and have a press conference, get a news story 152 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: like this, and nothing changes. Hire a bunch of people 153 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: to research something that we've been dealing with for years. 154 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: I remember, so I was in college when Columbine happened. 155 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: It was a shock. It seemed like that was a 156 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: one time thing, like, how could this ever happen? How 157 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: could kids ever decide to go up and shoot up 158 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: their school. And honestly, I was talking to one of 159 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: my family members last night and I said, it's so 160 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: shocking to me because it's something we never had to 161 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: think about as kids. And this week has been interesting 162 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: with my girls because I had one of my girls, 163 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: she's eleven, and I was putting her to bed the 164 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: other night and she went through this. I've never seen 165 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: my kids to go through this before, but she went 166 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: through this like crying fit, and she was like, I 167 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: don't want to lose you. I don't want to lose you. 168 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: And I kept saying, wow, you're not going to lose me, 169 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: and she said, but I don't want to die. And 170 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: I think just what these kids have to go through 171 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 1: wondering if somebody is going to come in their classroom 172 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 1: and shoot them. It makes me sick because we did 173 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: we talk about the mental health issues, but this is 174 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:29,319 Speaker 1: something we truly as kids, never even thought about. And 175 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: then you think about it. I mean, I'm forty five. 176 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: Probably shouldn't say that because now now you know. But 177 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: I'm forty five. This happened when I was in college. 178 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 1: So you think about the number of years that this 179 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: has gone by with Columbine. Say, even if Columbine, okay, 180 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: if we thought that was going to be a one 181 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: off Sandy Hook, how long ago was that twelve years 182 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: ago that Sandy Hook happened. And we've seen this time 183 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: and time again, and you have the Democrats saying this 184 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: is uniquely American, and you have the Republicans out there saying, well, 185 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,959 Speaker 1: we've got to protect the Second Amendment rights. Forget about 186 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: how what is used. Can't you can't figure out who's 187 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 1: going to do this. I mean there are times when 188 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: we say, gosh, it was so obvious, but hindsight is 189 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I mean even this one. There was even 190 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,319 Speaker 1: the Nashville shooter send a message to someone on Instagram. 191 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: She sent, she followed them, went to the police station, 192 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: called it an emergency hotline, said I got this DM 193 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: that I think is pretty suspicious, and they still couldn't 194 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: get there in time to stop this person from doing this. 195 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 1: So mental health is a real issue. Are we going 196 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:34,719 Speaker 1: to be able to stop everyone? No, there's going to 197 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: be people that are going to do bad things and 198 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: try to get into a school where they know there's 199 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: nothing that will be used against them, there's no weapon. 200 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: There was a story that I heard a couple of 201 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: days ago where they're saying now that they think the 202 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 1: reason she chose the Christian school may have been because 203 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: there was no security, and maybe that's a way of 204 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: making all it was an anti Christian, but it was 205 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,200 Speaker 1: no security. But regardless, if you know that they're there's 206 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 1: nothing to protect the children there, that's going to be 207 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: a target. You are a soft target. And I am 208 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: sick and tired of my kids going into school every 209 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: day and me worrying about what's going to happen when 210 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: I know that The point of me saying this happened 211 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: so many years ago is that I know tech companies 212 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: have been working on this. I know Dad's like Andrew 213 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 1: Pollock have been working on this, and they've come up 214 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: with all of these technologies that can be used to 215 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: identify a gunshot, to sound an alarm, to lock the doors, 216 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: to make sure our schools are safe. And we're talking 217 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: about putting two hundred and fifty million dollars into more research, 218 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: just more eggheads to sit around and talk about gun violence. 219 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 1: What we need is people to actually go there and 220 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: do something about these schools well. And at what point 221 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 1: our school leaders, especially private schools where they have more 222 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: decision making power as opposed to a school board. But 223 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 1: at what point is our private school is going to 224 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 1: say this, We're going to use this as a selling 225 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 1: point where we believe in school safety and this is 226 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: what we're doing to secure our school. We're locking the 227 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: doors where you know, we have armed personnel, all of 228 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: these sorts of things, and used it as an asset 229 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: because there are so many school districts that absolutely refuse 230 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: to do this, and I think what they're really doing 231 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: is caving to the teachers union because they are anti gunner. 232 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: And at one point are schools finally going to say, 233 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: here's what we're doing. Come to our school because we 234 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: are going to keep your kids safe. Now, I think 235 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: that that is a terrible indictment of society and where 236 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:40,959 Speaker 1: we are today. But at what point are they going 237 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: to do that? Well? I think that's the problem. When 238 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,079 Speaker 1: you're in the political world, you have to be on 239 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: one side or the other and you can't really have 240 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 1: the human discussion of the sucks. I mean it sucks. 241 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 1: I hate it. I hate the fact that there are 242 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: people that go into our schools. I don't know what 243 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: kind of a psycho, disgusting human being decides to go 244 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: and shoot children. To kill anyone, but to kill children 245 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: is the most vile thing I can imagine, and I 246 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: think it's just devastating for you devastate so many lives. 247 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: Then you have this community of people that are against 248 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 1: anybody that was related to the person who went in 249 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: and did it. I mean, the whole thing is just 250 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: a breakdown, and yeah, where we are? Where are we 251 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: in society that this is happening. And honestly, I think 252 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: all of us are asking right now, where are we 253 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: in society that we have accepted violence to the level 254 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,199 Speaker 1: that we have. And so when I hear politicians who 255 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,319 Speaker 1: come out like Alyssa Slakin who is clearly just focused 256 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: on her Senate campaign and wanting to win that Senate 257 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: campaign and using the blood of our children to get there, 258 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: which I think is disgusting. But also I mean, look 259 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: at Kamala Harris going out there and saying keep fighting, 260 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: keep going out on the streets, keep raging against the machine. 261 00:13:55,280 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: You know, they have called on for violence multiple times 262 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,560 Speaker 1: and then they go why is there violence? But see 263 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: they separate it from violence and gun violence, because if 264 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: you're a Democrat and you can say gun violence is 265 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: the problem, then you can take the human element out 266 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 1: of it, and you can continue to keep people in 267 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: a situation where they're anxious, where they have mental issues, 268 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: where they have financial issues, and all of those things 269 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: lead to a violent society. And then you tell them 270 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: rage against all of these things that are wrong with you, 271 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: and what a shock. Guns are used well, and let's 272 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: talk about how politicians weaponize these sorts of attacks. One 273 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 1: of the things that I've been doing on the website 274 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: is I like to highlight highlight politics, obviously, things going 275 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 1: on in culture, things going on in schools, and crime, 276 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: because some crimes that you know, you read about are 277 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: just so bizarre. I mean, there was one I linked 278 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: to one last week about how these two bank robbers 279 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: wrote their note on the back of a past dub 280 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: with all of their information on it. That's an interesting 281 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: individual that doesn't realize that went award. But one of 282 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: the things that I just find so bizarre is there 283 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: are terrible crimes that occur basically every single day in 284 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: the city of Detroit. Kids being killed, multiple people being 285 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: killed at the same time, you know, drive buys, whatever 286 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: it is, and Alyssa Slotkin says nothing. Let's take a 287 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: quick commercial break. We'll continue next on a Tutor Dixon podcast. 288 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: If you're wondering whether Alyssa Slotkin cares about kids and 289 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: cares about guns and cares about violence, and if this 290 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: is really at her core a problem for her, then 291 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: you would see her come out and talk about this. 292 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: When you for folks outside of Michigan, you all obviously 293 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 1: saw the Michigan State University school shooting where the guy 294 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: came on campus and shot people. And this is just 295 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: you're aware this is in the seventeenth most violent city 296 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: in the country. So a lot of people don't understand. 297 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: Michigan has become much more progressive. We have a lot 298 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: of sorrows funded prosecutors. These folks are letting people off. 299 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: We have four of the twenty most dangerous or most 300 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: violent cities in the country. So where is the lista 301 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: Slotkin when these shootings happen two blocks over from Michigan 302 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: State And why the outrage and shock when you know 303 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: that you have allowed this city to become the seventeenth 304 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: most violent city in the country, and you've allowed these 305 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: prosecutors to say, we're not actually going to prosecute crimes, 306 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: We're just going to keep letting people out. I just 307 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: heard a story a couple days ago about the US 308 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: Attorney and DC just not even prosecuting murders anymore, not 309 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: even prosecuting murders anymore. What and then they go vote 310 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: for me because I'm going to protect you from violence, 311 00:16:55,960 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: the violence that I'm actually promoting by not prosecuting the 312 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: people that are committing violence. I mean, at what point 313 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:04,919 Speaker 1: will Americans rise up and say we're done with this, 314 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: we want safety. Right. Well, I will say she is 315 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: rolling up her sleeves to take care of this. That's 316 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,719 Speaker 1: a reference to her campaign launch video. She was at 317 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 1: a restaurant and she got a sandwich and she said 318 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: she had to roll up her sleeves to eat the sandwiches. 319 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: It was sort of strange, roll up. Where do you 320 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: think these politicians are coming from? And why do you 321 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: think because during the campaign you had I thought they 322 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: were sensible ideas about, you know, trying to end this, 323 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 1: protecting schools, protecting students. But it doesn't seem like the 324 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:47,360 Speaker 1: people in office want to actually do anything about that. 325 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 1: So do you think this may be a very cynical 326 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: sort of take on it, But do you think that 327 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: they just simply they don't want to fix the problem 328 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: because it can just be something that they continue to campaign. 329 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: Of course, because they can shame the other side. They 330 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: have effectively shamed the other side and it becomes a 331 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: great campaign issue. Look, when DeMar Hamlin had the problem 332 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 1: on the basketball court, everybody tweeted out, I'm praying for 333 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: him the football field. Sorry, when dear, let's do that 334 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,719 Speaker 1: over and we'll cut that out Look, when DeMar Hamlin 335 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: had the problem on the football field and he went 336 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: into cardiac arrest, you saw endless clubs come out there 337 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,199 Speaker 1: and say we're praying for him. We saw celebrities come 338 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,680 Speaker 1: out and say we're praying for him. This was totally 339 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:44,239 Speaker 1: acceptable to say we're praying. I had. We had a 340 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: legislator in Michigan after the shooting that said, F your 341 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers posted that came out. If you say 342 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers, screw you. You you're the problem. So 343 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,400 Speaker 1: your faith is meaningless to us. You're actually the problem 344 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 1: because you're saying this. You know what, F your fake bills. 345 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 1: I mean, give me a break. The fact that you 346 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: think that you can go out and just campaign on 347 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: all of this that you have perpetuated. And look, like 348 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: I said, both of us said, we don't like the 349 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:17,400 Speaker 1: way society has gone and where society is right now. 350 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: This is obviously a problem. But at the end of 351 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: the day, somehow we don't have our banks robbed of 352 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 1: all the money. Somehow the jewelry stores don't end up 353 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: completely empty. I mean, I guess unless you're in San 354 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: Francisco or someplace where they've allowed this. But they've started 355 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: to allow people to run into our stores, and people 356 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: are now outraged. Right, so now you see people saying, 357 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 1: we're leaving Portland, we're leaving San Francisco, We're not going 358 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: to keep our headquarters in Seattle anymore because they've started 359 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: to let people charge in and rip you off. But 360 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 1: for years, for over twenty years now, we've sat by, 361 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 1: we're people charge into our schools and we haven't said, 362 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: where are the prosecutors that are stopping this from happening? 363 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,360 Speaker 1: Where is the protection? Where are the doors that lock? 364 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: Where are the single issues where we can say, okay, 365 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 1: we can pinpoint what keeps kids safe, but no, we're 366 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: going to research it for five years. I mean, how 367 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,399 Speaker 1: sick is this a lista slot can? You don't have kids, 368 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: so maybe you don't get it. But in five years, 369 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: some of my kids aren't in school anymore. So you're 370 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: not really doing me any favors with your BS five 371 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:25,880 Speaker 1: year study of gun violence when we've had this violence 372 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,199 Speaker 1: problem for years and years that is perpetuated by your side, 373 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: and then you tell us to shut up. Don't you 374 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: dare talk about your faith when something happens like this, 375 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: Don't you dare try to make these families feel better 376 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: about the fact that our stupid policies allowed their kids 377 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: to die. So during the campaign, this was especially after Oxford, 378 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: this was an issue that you were really focusing on. 379 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: And I don't know you were talking about it, but 380 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 1: you I know you were talking more behind the scenes 381 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: about it. So talk a little bit about some of 382 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: the solutions that you found that you thought you thought 383 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: would be interesting to try and implement. Well, I think 384 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: now Kyle's interviewing me switching. I think what people don't 385 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 1: understand is that when this happened at Parkland, the entire 386 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 1: state of Florida gathered around and said what can we do? 387 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 1: And they have implemented a lot at Parkland in Florida, 388 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,640 Speaker 1: at the schools in Florida, they have a safe Schools director. 389 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: They've really focused on this in the state. So then 390 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 1: this happens in Oxford. This happened in Oxford into Michigan, 391 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: and this was two years after the state Police came 392 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 1: out with a safe schools plan. To me, this is 393 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: significant because the state Police put together a very long 394 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:51,199 Speaker 1: and lengthy, comprehensive plan to keep our school safe before Oxford. 395 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 1: But as a reaction to Parkland, then Oxford happens, and 396 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,119 Speaker 1: nobody says, because you know, the media is in the 397 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 1: bag Forggretson. And that's just the truth. This is why, 398 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: really you've created the Midwesterner to try to show what's 399 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 1: truly happening in the state of Michigan. So the news 400 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: doesn't say, you know, man, if Gretchen Widmer had taken 401 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: Oxford seriously that or are taken Parkland seriously, then Oxford 402 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 1: may not have happened because she had the tools. And 403 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 1: so we campaigned on the fact that we were going 404 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,199 Speaker 1: to go through the safe School's plan, make sure we 405 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 1: implement the hardening n of schools, make sure we have 406 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: protection on campus. Forget about this idea that we're going 407 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,919 Speaker 1: to have our kids in a gun free zone, sitting 408 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: dock zone as I call it, because we can have 409 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: protection on our school campuses like most campuses do in 410 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,639 Speaker 1: Florida now, but not in Michigan. And so when I 411 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: hear folks like Alissa Slotkinny and Gretchen Witmer get up 412 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 1: at oh, you know, I'm so heartbroken over this. You're 413 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 1: part of the problem. You knew this was happening. They 414 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: didn't do anything. She didn't do anything after Oxford. She 415 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: didn't do anything after our campaign. When I hold her 416 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: out for not doing anything after Oxford and then she 417 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: comes out and blames Republicans from Michigan State, I mean, 418 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: give me a break. On top of that, not only 419 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: are we in a situation where they're not doing anything, 420 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,679 Speaker 1: they're using this to their advantage to continue to hold 421 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 1: on to power. And notice that they actually know it 422 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you talk about shootings in Detroit. It 423 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you talk about shootings in Flint, it 424 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you talk about shootings in Lancing unless 425 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: they can identify with the people who died, Which is 426 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 1: pretty twisted because that should tell you everything you need 427 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:44,199 Speaker 1: to know about these Democrat politicians who when the crisis 428 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: is something that ida the majority of the country can 429 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: identify with, they care. That's when they care. It's sick 430 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,479 Speaker 1: and it again I go back to it seems to me, 431 00:23:54,800 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: I come out of the school choice movement and all 432 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: you know, so I have experience with all kinds of 433 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,399 Speaker 1: different school choice options, but it seems to me like 434 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 1: there's a major selling point that private schools can create 435 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 1: by saying, give us your child and we will keep 436 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,120 Speaker 1: them safe because these are the things that we're going 437 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: to do. The government school is not going to do that. 438 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: The teachers union runs the show and they hate guns, 439 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: and they would prefer to have kids sitting in sitting 440 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: duck zones than actually keeping them safe. And so it 441 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: seems to me like schools, this should be the direction 442 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: that schools should be going. And again it's an indictment 443 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: on society, but it's a reality that sick people are targeting. 444 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: Mean in a blue state, what does that mean in 445 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: a state like ours? Because there's no school choice. They've 446 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 1: made it clear there's never going to be school choice 447 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: as long as they have powers. So you're going to 448 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: end up with families that can afford private school in 449 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: these sitting duck zones. And we know that we've heard 450 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: that these are researched. The waiting period is bs because 451 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: this is researched. She had maps, she had a manifesto. 452 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,880 Speaker 1: This person knew what she was doing, she had a plan. 453 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: The waiting period didn't matter. The researching this, I mean, 454 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 1: we're going to wait another five years to research this. 455 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 1: How many more kids have to die for Alyssa Slotkin 456 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 1: to put money into protecting kids actually, instead of it 457 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,919 Speaker 1: put money into the bureaucracy and the legislative state and 458 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: creating more committees. I mean, give me a break. Again. 459 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: When a parent goes up and talks about this, maybe 460 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: they'll understand. But Alyssa Slotkin is simply trying to get 461 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,679 Speaker 1: your vote. So don't be deceived by the BS. We're 462 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: going to take five years and suddenly put fifty million 463 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: dollars into people's lives. It just makes me crazy because 464 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 1: I cannot stand the thought of my kids growing up 465 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: in a world where we're so busy fighting over who's 466 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: going to get elected that we continue to let this 467 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: slaughter happen. And that school's safety, keeping kids safe has 468 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 1: turned into such a political issue. And I get, it's 469 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 1: a government school. So you've got a school board which 470 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,400 Speaker 1: is elected, and you know those are politicians, and you've 471 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,639 Speaker 1: got the state involved and the FEDS involved, And I 472 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: think a lot of times people don't fully appreciate the 473 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:26,120 Speaker 1: fact that that is a government entity. It's a political body. 474 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 1: But this has really turned into a political issue. And 475 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 1: as you said earlier, we keep banks safe, we keep 476 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: other institutions safe, but yet we refuse, we refuse to 477 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: make schools safe, and we refuse to not have them 478 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: be gun free zones. And to be fair, I'm mad 479 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: about this with Alissa Slatkin because I think that this 480 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 1: is a campaign issue. But on the flip side, Republicans 481 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: aren't coming up and saying, you know what, let's put 482 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: the money into keeping schools safe. They're just not doing this. 483 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: This is total bologny because on both sides you've got 484 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:08,360 Speaker 1: Democrats using this to get elected. You've got Republicans saying, oh, 485 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 1: we've got to defend guns, and so we're not going 486 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: to talk about protecting kids. Take guns out of this 487 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,640 Speaker 1: equation and figure out how to protect kids. We've got 488 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: to stop looking at this as there's only one answer here. 489 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: It's got to be surrounding the weapon. There's children, protect 490 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: the children. Think of that issue. Let's start looking at 491 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: it that way. That's my thoughts on this. Thank you 492 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: so much for coming on and letting me complain about this, 493 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,679 Speaker 1: and thank you all for listening, because I know I'm 494 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: very passionate about this. I've got two nine year olds 495 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 1: at home. This past shooting it in Nashville is devastating 496 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,400 Speaker 1: to me, and I am at the point now where 497 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm just going to keep saying it. 498 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:51,160 Speaker 1: When are you going to protect our kids? So thank 499 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: you for listening to me rant about this issue today. 500 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us on the Tutor Dixon podcast 501 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: for this episode and others. Go to Tutor Dickson podcast 502 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: dot com and you can subscribe right there. Make sure 503 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: you join us next time on the Tutor Dickson and Podcast. 504 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: We'll probably have you back because you're pretty close by. 505 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: So thanks for joining us. 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