WEBVTT - Is Education the Answer to Breaking Government Control? | Maj Toure 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.640 There is a concentrated effort to make sure that most 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:06.840 Americans look at firearms as evil and anyone that owns 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.440 utilizes is in support of the Second Amendment. Those people 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.920 are not patriots or red blooded Americans. Those people are 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.160 like the racists that absolutely need to be put off 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:18.079 the face of the planet. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.120 The solutionary life, yeah, because we should be talking about 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:22.840 solutions and the problems all the time. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:24.799 When our lifestyle should be solutionary. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:26.120 Yeah, this is the problem. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:28.800 Let's throw different things that could solve this at it. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.960 Get that actual solution. Hey, guys, we don't ever have 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.880 to talk about this again. If we are still talking 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.159 about the importance of the Second Amendment and then we 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.560 already have a blueprint, we are having a problem. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.159 We're revolving around this conversation, right, you know. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.920 And so that is that overall thing of you know 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.280 what a solutionary is. We see that problem, get them solutions. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.839 Let's move forward, and you want to be an example 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.000 for the So it's like more influence, Yeah, not power. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:55.400 I can't run your life. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.800 I mean I could coach you in certain areas, like 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.480 you're trying and get ripped, bro, Like you want to 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.800 change your diath. I like, there's too many X factors 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:04.240 in your life that I'm not aware of. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:04.960 Of that context. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.600 I've experienced that most of the people that don't have 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:09.800 no discipline don't never have no freedom. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.319 Freedom comes from the discipline, right, Yeah. You know, do 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.680 you think if you educated more around that, then it 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.000 sort of again takes that curiosity away, teaches people to 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:19.119 respect them more and. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.759 Things like that. The education always beats the legislation having 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:28.480 firearms and informing them the thought process of demystifying this firearm, 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.880 because now I want her brain to understand it. Like 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.600 a cell phone, it's the same, it's a tool. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:38.920 Yeah. Yeah, Kobe, Kobe was a beast. I referenced him 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.120 a bunch. My daughter started playing tennis, and you know, 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.240 trying to get her to go put the work in 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.040 and practice. She thinks she's working so hard. I'm working 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.280 harder than the other kids. And I said, but they've 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.640 been playing longer than you, Like you're trying to close 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.520 the gap. But like Kobe would talk about how he 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.640 would play, you know what, three four hours earlier every 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.040 day before. But he did that so he could get 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.400 better than everybody. But then he didn't stop, right, because 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.040 he had to stay ahead of everybody. He was a beast. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:10.800 So using that sort of advice from Kobe sort of 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.120 like not win or lose, Like it's just I'm focused 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.280 on playing the game in the flow state, Like how 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.519 would do you take that? You personally take that to that? 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.960 How do you use that? And what game are you playing? 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.720 Initially I thought I was playing a firearms and Second 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.640 Amendment game. But you know, you want to make God laugh, 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.600 tell him your plans type of thing, right, It's really 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:36.440 more about this overall concept of this thing that we've 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.040 called the solutionary lifestyle. We have a community center in 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.440 Philly right where we obviously we do firearms training free 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.079 to everybody, voluntary donations. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.400 We do it, blah blah blah blah blah. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.120 But then it just leads you to different paths. So 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.400 you'll go, Okay, I can teach him. 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.079 Part of the transcendence, right right, Yeah, and you. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.679 Go, all right, I told this person how to put 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.440 holes in bad people. Cool, there is a chance that 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:02.239 the hole may be in a good person. Now we 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.200 got to teach them how to stop the bleed. Now 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:09.079 we're talking about blood, we're talking about heart rate, we're 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.640 talking about tying a tourniquet. Now we're talking about firearms, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.639 we're talking about avoiding conflict. You're talking about all of 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.440 these different things that you thought you were coming into 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.680 this from a Second Amendment and firearms perspective. 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:24.840 We're all now at like, hey, are you in shape? 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.560 Can you run away from a scenario so you don't 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.919 have to put holes in people or plug upholes? So 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:37.640 now it's turning into this other thing where that you 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.200 think you're doing this, but it's leaning you in a 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.280 direction of this, and I'm just like kind of let 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.600 go like fundraising, Like our model initially was fundraising, right, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.520 we raised the money, we give it away. We raised 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:52.119 about seven hundred thousand dollars to do these classes for free. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:53.960 We raise it, we give it away, we get the content, 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.480 We do all these different things. We obviously created the 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.440 T shirt component after that to have you know. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.840 Because it's voluntarily, but the shirts shirts. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:06.160 Point being is during the fundraising phase, especially after you've 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:10.640 had some success, there's a different level of plateau. It's like, well, 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.640 you're on shows, people know you, you probably don't need 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.680 our support, and then you go, this is difficult. And 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.960 when that difficulty happens. Then you turn around and go, 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.080 all right, why am I stressing about this? I'm doing 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.279 good work, I'm doing this, I'm doing that. But that 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.640 problem then becomes an answer within it. Well, it's because 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.479 you're not expanding and going in this direction. So for me, 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.280 it just became like letting go and going we have 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.680 to have a holistic approach to the issues that are 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.039 in our communities, mostly urban because that's where I do 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.200 most of our work. We got to have this holistic 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.719 approach that's not just firearms related, not saying that the 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.520 firearm and a Second Amendment component is not important or 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.000 we're anti at this point, it's just what are the 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.440 other things that add value in that list of human 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.839 those areas of human activity. And I've noticed over the 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:59.680 last year or two, like I've been learning how to 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:01.800 grow food. I moved to Miami for like two months 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.599 and I was just on my homies farm and just 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.039 growing food because okay, cool, you can defend stuff, you 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.320 can patch people up. Can you feed like literally feed 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.919 yourself from the ground, And so that part of me 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.159 just letting go and accepting. I know that there's tyranny, 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.440 but I also know that all historically all tyrants have fallen, 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.440 like all of them. May take a while, yeah, but 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.960 sometimes too long, sometimes too long, but it just becomes like, yo, 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.320 are you being the most well rounded and holistic version 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.400 of this being to be able to be an example 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.839 for other people that whichever lane they are drawn to 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:43.080 you by. Oh you minda like your gym content? Alright, cool, 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.120 that's gym content. But what's your heart rate? Like? 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.880 What did you eat today? How much water did you drink? 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.560 You know, And so just letting everybody, just letting go 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.400 whatever way that this personal group of people shows up 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.120 in your life, taking them on the other parts of 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.720 the journey. But that means you have to be as 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.880 equally well rounded and inconsistent with that well rounded approach. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.719 And that's really where I'm at with this solutionary lifestyle 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.600 brand because black guns matter. You know, it's been super helpful. 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.280 I mean we're cited in the Bruin decision, you know 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:14.680 what I mean. 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:16.839 So that's one area. 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.400 But just letting go and not making your identity only 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.480 be this thing that because you are way more well 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:25.280 rounded than the. 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.719 One thing that you're initially known for, yeah, you should 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.279 be eventually, And that's the transcendence part, right, and instant 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.840 to your point, it's not that guns aren't important. They 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.599 don't matter, but you realize that it's one small piece 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.240 of a much bigger puzzle at the end of the day. Right, 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.080 So it's like, okay, work on that, but then let's 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.839 go take care of these other things. Right. So the 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.640 solutionary life, Yeah, that's your thing. I want to find 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.479 out more about that. I like the name of it, yeah, 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.640 because we should be talking about solutions and the problems 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:53.120 all the time. 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.960 When we started it, the fund part of me for 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.600 cutting you. Everybody was saying, what you're doing is so 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.200 revel solutionary, and I got an etymological dictionary. I'm not 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:07.760 revolve just means we're just doing this and I don't 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.840 you know. And on a physical component, revolutions, you know, 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.480 oh man, it's like the Panthers. It's like the Founding 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.120 Fathers is kind of like that, and it's like your 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.360 revolutions can get bloody. So I don't want to initially 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.320 associated with that, not just because I'm not. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.200 Capable of prepared, but it's like, yo, I get you, 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:28.040 but our interest is not to revolve around this same issue. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.520 That's the problem. Most people just revolve around the problem. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.360 So we were like, yo, we want to our lifestyle 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.760 should be solutionary. This is the problem. Let's throw different 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.679 things that could solve this at it. Get that actual solution. Hey, guys, 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.120 we don't ever have to talk about this again if 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.280 we are still talking about the importance of the Second Amendment. 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.240 I think we're two hundred and forty eight. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.320 Years in in America and then we already have a blueprint. 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:52.560 We are having a problem. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:56.200 We're revolving around this conversation, you know, and so that 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.320 is that overall thing of you know what a solutionary is. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.360 We see that, get them solutions. 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:05.320 Let's move forward. Yeah, the one thing back to revolutions, 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.679 they're they're bloody, and that's not good. And I think, 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:11.880 I mean, this may be going off track a little bit, 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:16.520 but like it's almost and maybe this is part of 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.600 what a conservative would be would be like if we 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.120 could just conserve that constitution. So it's not we don't 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:26.000 want to revolt against that. Almost you would say the 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.360 lefts are trying to have a revolution against that. We 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.880 would want to preserve that, not have a revolution against that. 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:32.920 With every way you look. 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.520 At it they yes, And the why is, you know, 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.200 more so sometimes than what the why do they think 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:43.120 that they need to revolt against this constitutional thing? I've 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:49.199 noticed most of the people public servants allegedly right, they've 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:54.640 never read the Constitution. They've never understood why at the 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:59.760 articles of this? Why then the convening in Philadelphia twice? 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.160 Why these things? 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:06.040 So they don't understand context that makes them go, oh, well, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:07.920 this isn't that important again. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.000 Me in high school, I used to skip school. 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.520 And go down to Independence Hall and take tours. I 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.680 would listen to, you know, all of the tour guys 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:23.760 have conversations about like Ben Franklin's print. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:24.439 Shop is there? 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:25.440 Right? 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.200 This all of this history in Philadelphia. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:29.920 And I would go back to my neighborhood or even 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.920 my teachers and be like, Yo, what are we not 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.280 going to talk about this? This in the social studies class? 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.240 And you know, the teachers used to be like, where 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.880 are you getting this from? And that always stuck with me. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:41.600 Why do you know that? 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.800 Right? Right? And I'm just like, man, this is kind 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.200 of like a concentrated effort to make sure that you know, 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.760 remember that movie to Truman show, Yeah, well he just 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.920 started to recognize like, is this are y'all like fucking 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:55.240 with me? 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:55.960 Yeah? 0:09:56.040 --> 0:10:01.200 And so I've recognized through that the initial high school 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.280 era of me going to go study different things and 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:09.439 I'm not supposed to. They didn't know. My teachers didn't 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:13.680 know they had a degree in a school that was like, hey, 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.280 just go teach in this area and we'll give you, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.360 you know, we'll cut some off for your student loans. 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.760 They weren't passionate about the thing that they were teaching. 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.400 To translate it to me, and I'm just nerd out 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.400 because i done sold all of my out whatever and 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.680 I'm going down to downtown and Yo, this's Liberty bell 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.679 have y'all from the movie The Rocky Thing, The Steps. Yo, 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.120 this is like stuff. And you know, people take for 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.360 granted those things. So my point saying that is they 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.360 rebel against it or revolt against it because they never 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.840 understood it. They didn't get the why and the what 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.040 behind it, so that context was totally missing. And then 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.160 when you look at the thing that is highlighted, America 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.560 has a complicated history. I'm a black dude. I know 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.000 that there's been complicated history in its layer. I do 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.520 think that most Americans are trying to aspire to go 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.960 in a different but narratives in media are very powerful. 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.400 So if we don't know this context here, we don't 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.679 know the why and the what was actually going on, 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.000 then media goes yo, it's because everything one percent all 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:12.640 the time. 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.120 Was racist and there is no great area. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.680 It's easy for them to say, hey, maybe we should 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.920 revolt against this if I don't look at it objectively 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.959 from their perspective to understand like, oh, you're kind of 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.600 like a dumb baby, you don't know right, Not saying 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.600 that I'm gonna acquiesce to their dumb babiness. I'm just 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.840 gonna go, oh, you just don't get it. It actually 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.120 gives me a better tool to engage that community because 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:41.320 I know that that's an education and application issue. You 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.960 don't know, so you can't apply it. So then I 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.800 just show up and just start teaching people stuff. So 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.240 with black guns Matter, I'm gonna I know, y'all vote 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:50.600 this way? 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:51.000 Cool? 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.240 All right, this is an educational opportunity when I show you, hey, 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.960 the Second Amendment. You know, if you if media said 0:11:57.960 --> 0:11:59.839 everything is racist, that they tell you that gun control 0:11:59.920 --> 0:12:02.440 was a nigga, what I'm like, Yeah, yeah. It was 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:07.040 the first federal gun grab, the massacre at Wounded Knee. Hey, 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.360 you know Plymouth for Virginia, those colonies were like, absolutely not. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.400 No black people can have guns, absolutely not. And this 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.640 predates the constitution that we're. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:17.000 Now and now. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.880 And so when you give that information, I'll go, yeah, man. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.719 So if you don't like the system, I get it. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.080 I'm not going to argue with you. But would you 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:27.720 want only that system that made rules and regulations that 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.559 you or the people that you say you're fighting for. 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.040 You're an ally whatever you call yourself. 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.160 Right, would you want the people that you say you're 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:38.560 fighting for to be victimized by the government because they're 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.319 not exercising their constitutional rights? 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:41.600 Does that really make you an ally? 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:46.760 And so that educational component, from a non adversarial perspective 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.559 is how we were able to be very, very successful. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.520 Because I'm bro, you don't want a gun, cool, I'm 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.640 not tripping, just like I'm gonna respect your rights to 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:58.080 not have one. Yo, we both Americans. If you want 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.440 one later, I'm here for you. We'll give you a class, 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.559 but please respect my right to be like, nah, I 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.600 kind of just want one. And so the empathy component 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.720 based on knowing that they don't know, and then going 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.559 like a cool, they not my adversary. There's always an 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:16.520 unseen hand, you know, the money, like what people think 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:17.080 is money. 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.800 Yeah, you know what I'm saying, It is money, yeah, right, 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.520 you know, so I and now it's so much bigger 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.640 than that. So the guns piece was a small piece, 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:26.880 and so I want to get to the bigger piece. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.559 Obviously your shirt right there. Freedom above everything, I'm guessing 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.199 that's what that means. Freedom over every freedom over everything. 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.600 But but just sticking on the guns for a second. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:36.920 I grew up in Texas. My grandfather was a big 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:38.680 hunter and my uncle was a hunter, and so I 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.640 grew up as a young kid shooting guns. Yeah. And 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:43.360 you know, I would hear even when I was a 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.280 kid that you know, we didn't have mass shootings back then, 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.520 we didn't have There was no such thing as school shootings. 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.120 And in Texas, like people drove to school guns in 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.040 their car. They took guns to school, right, and we 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.080 didn't have them. And that's a whole other conversation. But 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.560 I uh, but there were like accidental shootings. Yeah, And 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.240 so like kids would be curious and they'd go play 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.320 with their parents' guns and accidentally shoot themselves. And I 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.120 just thought that me growing up around them, there was 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.559 no curiosity. I knew exactly what they were. I was 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.320 trained to handle them properly. I was trained to respect 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.280 them probably, and so there's never any curiosity like, oh, 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.320 let me go check it out with let me and 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.520 I can remember specifically being at a friend's house and 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:20.800 they did want to pull the gun out, and I 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.520 was like new enough to be like not be around 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.920 right anyway. So I'm just curious to your point of 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.840 wanting to kind of bring that education, is it? Is 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.360 it maybe part of that? I mean, obviously guns are 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.320 a problem across, you know, everywhere, and now to the 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.120 point shootings are getting more and more. Do you think 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.920 if you educated more around that, then it sort of 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.840 again takes that curiosity away, teaches people to respect them more, 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:42.520 and things like that. 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.400 The education always beats to legislation all the time. In 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.280 the nineties, we had problems with teen pregnancy. Tupop Branda's 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.280 got a baby, right. They didn't go, hey, if we 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.360 catch you young kids having sex, we're gonna put you 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:55.800 in jail. 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.200 Legislators write it up. That's not what they did. 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.480 They were like, hey, we we have this sex education, 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.240 like actual education, not like this weird shit that's going 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:09.680 on right now. That's another job, right But they just said, hey, parents, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.800 do you want to sign off on this and. 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.960 We'll teach you about the reproductive system? And da da 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:14.280 da da. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.160 Da, And almost like within a couple of years, like 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:22.000 the teen pregnancy conversation didn't exist anymore. There was no legislation. 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.560 It was just we're going to inform people to your point. Yes, 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.000 as we continue to inform more people about the safe. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.600 My daughter she's eight, she has a firearm in her 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.960 room in a safe that we. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:37.560 Is my beep vaultech. 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:42.000 But the process of what this is and having firearms 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:47.400 and informing them to the thought process of demystifying this 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.320 firearm because now I want her brain to understand it 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.160 like a cell phone, it's the same. It's a tool. 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.560 And so the problem is there has been a concentrated 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.360 effort to make sure that demographics across America, even if 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.479 it initially started in black communities, there is a concentrated 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.680 effort to make sure that most Americans look at firearms 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.040 as evil, look at them as this tool is going 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.560 to turn you into a mass shooter, and anyone that 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.440 owns utilizes is in support of the Second Amendment. Those 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.960 people are not patriots or red blooded Americans. Those people 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.240 are like the racists that absolutely need to be put 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.880 off the face of the planet. That what they're doing 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.520 is a good villain move. Like if I was a 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.680 super villain, I would do it too, because they know 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:36.680 how to educate through propaganda. We don't use the propaganda 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.520 that we have on the side of right and righteousness 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:44.200 and justice and constitutionality and human rights. We just don't 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.440 play the media game the way that the left does. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.360 I mean they got good at it. Talk about Kobe Bryant. 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:52.360 They have to put the reps in because they don't 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.640 have substance, so they have to be I gotta consistently 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.480 lie to you, and I get better at lying to you. 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:03.600 So understand it that the key is to inform the 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.240 people not only about the safe and responsible firearms handling, 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.000 but also inform the people about this is the propaganda 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.119 machine and this is why they're trying to trick you, 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.200 you know. And that part is I'm a point guard 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.919 and I'm a translator. I can make very complicated things 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.960 seem very very simple, and there's still complex, but you 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.399 can explain them simply, and when we can effectively do that, 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.640 then we get some progress. As hands down, the reason 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.679 why we had so much successful Black Lives Matter, I 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.240 just was in those areas, explained it simply challenged their ideas, 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.520 respected them as humans, and said, yo, we're not enemies. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:44.680 You know. Yeah, I'm curious your take on this, because again, 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.760 freedom over everything, and you think about the Second Amendment. 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.480 You talked about people not understanding what the Constitution was about, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:55.199 et cetera. And then they're referencing they are the leaders 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.000 the left, whatever you call them, right, I guess that's 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:57.720 what you're referring to. 0:17:59.280 --> 0:17:59.800 I see that. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.120 Yes, I agree they're lying their gas lighting, et cetera. 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:03.359 And a lot of what they do is they change 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.879 definitions and they change definitions and so like we're actually 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:08.880 talking about two different things, but we think we're talking 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.320 about the same thing. And sometimes I feel like they 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.040 change the definitions because then they can win that argument. 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:16.960 And so back to the Second Amendment. Right now, you've 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.199 referenced so many times about being able to protect yourself, 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.760 protect yourself, protect yourself, and I feel that's one way 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:23.760 that they're trying to change the definition because they could 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.960 win that. So the second Amendment, I don't believe was 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:32.399 about self defense. It was about protecting against tearing. And 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:36.640 so they if they say, well, you don't, you don't need, 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:38.959 you don't need, you don't need self defense if nobody 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.359 has guns, then you don't need to defend yourself and 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.600 the police have guns and the police will have your back, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:45.960 you don't, And then they could win that argument. But 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:47.760 how do they win an argument that says no, we 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.640 need it for tiering. And so I'm curious your takes. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.280 So both both arguments. So I get hit with both, 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.280 and I have an answer for each side when the 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.440 person because again my job is to try to change 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.520 their thought process a little bit. I can't, but I 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.639 can at least destroy your arguments with logic, So I 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:05.840 usually hit them with a socratic method when it goes there. 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:10.800 So if that person is more left leaning, and they 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.080 if I know that, they're like the entire system is racist, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.720 and I go, okay, cool, I'm not going to argue 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.480 against you. I'll go cool, I just didn't know that 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:23.000