Ask Charlie Anything 106: Do You Defend 2A After Uvalde? Red Flag Laws? What About Waiting Periods? Is it Wrong to Criticize Police? And MORE
Charlie takes the questions you email him at Freedom@CharlieKirk.com including: If you're not a big fan of guns, what is the best explanation and defense of the 2nd Amendment? Is it really about hunting and personal freedom or is there something more fundamental behind Charlie's impassioned defense of 2A? How do you reconcile a defense of the 2nd Amendment in the face of all of these mass shooting tragedies? What does Charlie think about Red Flag Laws? Would these have saved the Children in Uvalde? Does Charlie support waiting periods before buying a firearm? Is it okay to criticize the police in Uvalde or anywhere for that matter during an era where they are under intense and constant assault from the left? What is the best response to the left's constant retort that this is NOT about mental illness? And MORE...Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aaron says, Charlie, I love liberty.
Gun Ownership Debate Shifts00:14:59
I hated the lockdowns, but I'm not really a fan of guns.
I don't understand why we need all of these weapons of war on our streets.
Please help me understand.
Love the show.
So we touched on this a little bit in a previous episode, but I really want to zero in on this and reinforce this point.
I understand if you're not a fan of guns.
I happen to be.
I enjoy guns, and I think that responsible gun ownership is just awesome.
It's fun.
And responsible being the operative term, because there are some lunatics with guns that shoot themselves accidentally and shoot other people, and it's not right.
So if you do own a gun, please make sure you take the classes.
Do not be an imbecile with it.
Treat every gun like it's loaded.
And if you are around people that are joking or drinking with firearms, leave that completely, leave that situation immediately and don't put up with it.
A firearm is a tool, but the downside of not using that tool correctly is a lot different than not using a guitar correctly or whatever.
The downside could be catastrophic.
But I happen to be a fan of guns.
I know a lot of our listeners are as well.
But to the specific question, why should I care about the Second Amendment?
Why do we have these quote-unquote weapons of war?
So as we've explained, the purpose of the Second Amendment is to give citizens an equilibrium with their government.
The government needs to be by the people.
Therefore, the people need to be able to have an ability to protect themselves if that government becomes usurpatious, tyrannical, authoritarian, which we know that is the pattern of government.
Most governments go in the trajectory in the direction of diminishing freedom and liberty, of destroying citizen self-government.
And it is an armed population that keeps people free and is the check and the balance on the state.
Cut 116, history lesson of the day.
Who also loved gun control?
This is a very good argument.
In fact, this is the argument.
And so to answer your question, Aaron, I understand.
I sympathize with kind of your gun skittishness.
I was not raised with guns.
In fact, my first exposure to guns, I was kind of nervous.
I'll be very honest.
I get it.
I grew up in suburban Chicago, and we didn't really know many people that owned guns, and I wasn't really a fan of guns.
It was kind of freaked out by them.
I was actually, it was not in a negative way.
It's just kind of the culture I grew up in.
Some of you could totally understand that.
And some of you think, Charlie, come on, I grew up on a farm.
I was shooting at four years old.
Well, you had a different upbringing than I did.
I've grown into loving guns and grown into appreciating and respecting them.
This is the argument, though, that regardless of your opinion of firearms as a tool and your comfortability with them, you must understand to not take for granted your liberty and freedom.
Why do you even have the limited liberty and freedom that you're able to enjoy today?
One of the few things that keeps this whole project together is the Second Amendment Play Cut 116.
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Edi Amin, Castro, Paul Pott, all these monsters began by confiscating private arms, then literally soaking the earth with the blood of tens and tens of millions of their people.
Ah, the joys of gun control.
Now, this is an old clip.
I'm not even sure who that is.
We got the name from the National Press Club, but I just thought the way he presented that.
Is it?
Is that right?
Oh, it's Charlton Heston?
Okay, I'm sorry.
I was just hearing the audio of it, so I didn't.
It's Charlton Heston, who ran the National Rifle Association for quite some time.
Now, what's interesting, though, is that when I grew up, I, and public polling reflects this, America has actually become more pro-gun in the last 20 years.
Gun laws have actually become more relaxed.
And now, I don't mean to become insensitive to anyone listening to this right now.
And you might say, Charlie, how dare you say something like this?
I actually think we have to make it easier to own guns in certain states.
I think that gun laws are too restrictive in certain states, especially in downtown Chicago with some of the strictest gun laws in America.
Now, you might say, Charlie, how do you reconcile that with the tragedies?
Well, a couple things.
First of all, we'll talk about school safety and kind of single-point entry and what could we do to actually secure and hard and fasten schools.
But I believe that in a time when tyranny is on the march, relaxing gun laws actually is a check on that tyranny.
I think it actually keeps us closer to peace and away from conflict.
So some people say, oh, Charlie, are you calling for conflict?
No, the opposite.
I actually think it's an act of deterrence.
In fact, I pray and I hope and I insist for us to remain peaceful.
But I'm also not naive and you aren't either.
I never want to get to a situation or a set of circumstances where only the bad guys have the guns and the citizens have no leverage.
And so as we explore this topic and we think about it and we talk about gun laws in America, some people call for red flag laws.
I am not a fan of red flag laws at all.
Largely because I've seen them abused against veterans.
I've seen them abused against people that have faulty domestic abuse complaints filed against them.
Now, under the current laws on the books, there's supposed to be background checks that are done in certain states.
It's a messy operation, I'll be very honest.
The Brady bill was passed.
There's supposed to be background checks.
And I want to be very clear.
There are some people that have no business owning a firearm.
This lunatic, obviously, in Uvalde and the other one in Buffalo are two examples of people that had no business owning a firearm.
And so if there was a way to convince me, and I'm awfully skeptical because I don't trust the government, especially when it comes to guns, to be able to restrict people like that from owning a gun, I'll sign up for that enthusiastically.
Where I'm going to push back, though, is a wide-reaching quote-unquote solution in search of a problem that goes after regular everyday citizens that need to own firearms and that should own firearms.
You see, when it comes to gun control, it's one of the few situations and one of the few issues where the law-abiding and the lawful actually have to all of a sudden pay the price for the lawless.
And that's not something that I think we should tolerate.
It's not something that we should entertain.
But if there was a, and I'm open to any solution, again, red flag law is not a fan.
But I'm not going to be unreasonable and no one should be unreasonable where that lunatic in Uvalde shouldn't have been able to get his hands on a firearm.
Now, how you calibrate those laws, that's a mystery to me.
Because how are you able to calibrate those laws where actually the people that are enforcing them and implementing them can be done ethically and transparently and not penalizing veterans and not, and what do I mean by the veterans thing?
Some veterans are unable to own firearms with red flag laws due to PTSD records and many other things, and also faulty and fake domestic abuse records that are posted against people.
So also another argument people make, and I think this argument by a lot of patriots that listen to our program is made in good faith.
I really do.
I think that this is good intentions, where people say, Charlie, there should be a waiting period.
Okay, so the intention behind the waiting period is that if someone wants to do imminent or immediate harm, that there should be a cooling off period.
Now, the problem with this argument is that if you have a woman who is under, let's say, imminent harm or danger from an ex-husband or from somebody in their so- or she's being stalked or followed or crime is going up, you're trying to tell me that there needs to be a 30-day waiting period before that woman should be able to get a piece of technology or a tool to be able to protect herself.
That's just flat out silly.
In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I read this story years ago.
I don't know if I'll be able to find it.
There was a woman that was actually killed while she applied for a firearm years ago by the person that she was trying to get the gun to protect herself from.
I got to find the story while we're in the break.
I'm going to find it.
But I don't want to attack people's good intentions.
I think there's a lot of great patriots that listen to this program that say, Charlie, isn't, can't we do something?
Well, I want to go through what the laws actually are on the books because I think it might actually surprise you what gun control laws we already have in the books that are not being properly enforced, law enforcement not doing their jobs.
But I just want to reinforce this.
Expanded red flag laws would open up people to political retribution.
For example, oh, you're a terrorist because you showed up at a school board meeting.
You shouldn't be able to own a firearm.
You're a Trumper.
You shouldn't be able to own a firearm.
January 6th supporter shouldn't own a firearm.
You're a xenophobe.
They've expanded the definitions.
And so you should be very wary of increased gun control with the language of how imprecise the language has become with this current regime.
And I understand the intentions.
I really do.
I sympathize with that.
But I'm going to remain in the very skeptical, cynical category when it comes to new gun control.
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I want to just kind of reinforce the point here, which is gun control is the preferred method of weakening a citizenry by a tyrant.
It's done all across the world.
And one of the reasons why I believe this gun control debate is going to fizzle out by the left is we have a million new gun owners in America in the last year.
Connor, can you get the latest numbers of gun ownership?
It's skyrocketed in the last couple years.
Crime is up and all that.
Please, it's really, really amazing.
While he does that, though, I want to tell you the story.
This is why I'm against waiting lists or waiting periods.
Carol Bown, known best for defending herself from a violent ex, was a gun.
Knew her best shot, I'm sorry, I misread this.
Knew her best shot at defending herself from a violent ex was a gun and not a piece of paper.
And it was paperwork that left her unprotected when Michael Eitel showed up at her New Jersey home last week and stabbed her to death.
She was on a wait list application, a firearm application, and they're supposed to rulan within 30 days.
So they have waiting lists in New Jersey.
Brown, 39, had a restraining order against EITEL when he killed her in the driveway last Wednesday.
He didn't listen to the restraining order.
Tragically, she had gone to the local police department two days before her death to check on the status of her languishing application.
And another indication of her fear of EITEL, Brown had recently installed surveillance cameras around her home, and the equipment recorded the 45-year-old ex-con attacking her as she arrived home and got out of the car.
So she told the police, can I please get the gun?
Can I please get the gun?
And he stabbed her to death.
That's my problem with waiting lists.
Now, would she still be living today if she had a gun?
I don't know.
She'd have to use it, defend herself, but it certainly wouldn't have hurt.
And so waiting lists, you have to be, I mean, waiting periods, you got to be very, very careful with.
Gun ownership has skyrocketed.
Nationwide surveys show that 25% of blacks owned guns in 2021, up from 14% just six years ago.
Gun ownership across ages, demographics, and with females is skyrocketing.
This is one of the reasons why I think that this gun control debate is going to take a pivot.
And mind you, you know, many people are upset.
Not many people.
Some people are upset at me and emailing me, Charlie, how dare you criticize the police for not going in.
And again, I love police, but I love a lot of things.
If things I like sometimes or I appreciate don't do the right job, I'm going to say something.
But this conversation is actually less about gun control right now, and it's a lot more about police.
The gun control part of this, I think, is going to evaporate.
There was an 85% increase in gun control from March 2019, in gun ownership from March 2019 to March 2020.
85% increase.
So we have more gun owners in America than any other time that I've been alive in recent history.
Gun ownership is going up everywhere, especially in key metropolitan areas and key cities.
Why crime was going up and is going up?
The BLM riots.
People went and go to buy guns and they've been buying some pretty serious weapons the last couple years.
And so once you are a gun owner and you appreciate that piece of technology and you understand what it could do for you, understand how it could protect your family, it becomes a lot harder to convince the gun owners to take those guns away.
And I know a lot of people that own shotguns and pistols, and they don't own more sophisticated pieces of technology, and they have no patience even for AR-15 confiscation arguments and so on and so forth.
And just for the record, just so you know, AR-15 is not an automatic weapon.
You can illegally reconfigure it to become an automatic weapon.
That's a separate issue.
But an AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle with anywhere between 30 to 45 rounds, depending on how you configure it and how you play around with it.
But a semi-automatic weapon from a technological perspective, Armalite Rifle 15, is the same firing pace, if you will, as a pistol or a handgun.
Obviously, much different than a shotgun.
Five million more Americans became gun owners during the pandemic.
Five million more Americans.
Now, Connor, Connor might remember this.
You know, I have that gun control book I wrote like eight years ago.
I wrote that during Sandy Hook, way back when.
Ideology of Hatred and Violence00:15:03
It's the fight for America's Future.
We got to find that, actually.
I'm sure it's around here somewhere.
And people say, well, AR-15 is a weapon of war.
No, that's not true.
You would not go into a combat theater with an AR-15.
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Someone sent us this story: disturbing reports of sexual assaults in the metaverse.
Nicholas from New York sent this, has a question about a long question about the metaverse.
I'm not going to get into it, but it says: one 21-year-old woman says she was raped within one hour of being in the metaverse.
A new report from some of us that she was virtually gang raped.
This is terrible.
And so I just look at these screen grabs, though, from the metaverse.
It looks like a poor man's Sims.
Do you guys remember Sims?
Sims growing up was a big deal.
There were a couple games growing up that really were kind of the big thing.
There was Sims, Roller Coaster Tycoon.
Does anyone remember that?
And then there was this online one.
No, there's Age of Empires, but these were kind of like the pseudo-computer games before video game live streaming or like video game multiplayer.
What's the correct technical term?
It's been like a decade and a half since I've done this.
Yeah, I suppose that's right.
You could play Xbox Live, I suppose, suppose the right way to put it.
I never actually had that, thankfully.
And so it just kind of looks similar to that.
I don't quite understand.
There was one other one online that was this huge deal.
There was World of Warcraft, obviously, but there was another online game.
I'll think of it.
And it was free.
And you had to.
Oh, boy, I'll think of it.
Anyway, I don't understand the point of the metaverse.
It's kind of weird, and obviously, he's attracting really awful and terrible, bad, and sick people.
Mother opens up about being virtually gang raped in metaverse.
I wonder if you could press charges for that.
Okay, I want to get back to this question here.
Mark from Tennessee, Carlton from Virginia, a lot of different questions here, all about kind of gun control, kind of the flavor of that.
Charlie, where do you see this going next?
How is the left reacting to it?
Let's go to cut 111 here.
Joy Reed about how Republicans are just trying to put themselves into a pretzel.
You think how stupid you have to be to say this?
She says, as far as we know, there is no mental health issue with the shooter.
Play cut 111.
Good evening, everyone.
We begin the readout tonight with Republicans just tying themselves into pretzels to point the finger at every single thing but the problem, the gun.
As far as we know, there was no mental health issue with the individual who stole the futures of 19 children in Uvalde, Texas.
Now, what she means by this, and I'm not going to go out of my way to defend Joy Reed, is that we don't know if he was on benzodiazepans or if he was getting mental health treatment.
Obviously, he was sick, Joy Reed.
You should be a little more precise in your teleprompter reading.
No mental health issue?
Then why did he do that, Joy Reed?
AOC, the scholar of the left, the archbishop of all things, socialist in the Democrat Party, she has saying, let's dispense of the myth of mental illness.
Play cut 110.
Let us dispense with this myth of mental illness.
Mental illnesses that are less presenting to mental illnesses that are more presenting.
This is not about that.
This is about a trained, cohesive ideology of hatred and violence.
Whether it is explicit white supremacy that we saw in Buffalo, or whether it was just simply the silos that young men radicalize themselves in online for whatever reason.
I mean, it's just so hard to take what she says.
She's a lawmaker.
She has power.
It's hard to believe.
So it's not about mental illness.
What is it then, AOC, that would compel someone to do something so sadistic and demonic?
If you want to talk about like demonic possession, then I'm open-minded to it.
I mean, if there was ever an opportunity to say that someone had a demon in them, that's when you go and kill 19 people.
I even think that a secular atheist would say, look, if there was ever an argument to make for the demonic in the dark, it would be going into a school and shooting 19 children.
But AOC doesn't want to talk about mental health.
She says that's a completely different thing.
I'm not exactly sure why.
What she's trying to get at, though, is what we have to do is take the guns away.
Aha, that's the old book.
Here it is.
This actually is not available.
If you could find this anywhere, good for you.
It's the fight for America's Future, Defending the Second Amendment.
I go through all the myths around the Second Amendment.
It's actually, I think, pretty well written.
I spent a lot of time on this.
And what was the founder's intent for the Second Amendment?
Why do we have the Second Amendment?
I wrote this right after Sandy Hook in 2012, 2013.
It was a partnership with the Conklin Foundation.
We rewrote it and republished it in 2018.
We actually might want to do a special run of this at Turning Point.
We could re-edit it.
It actually might be helpful.
We'll see how spirited the gun control debate gets in the next couple weeks.
Actually, it might not be a bad idea.
It definitely needs to be updated.
Like five common myths about guns in the Second Amendment on here that people have.
And the Second Amendment is outdated is one of them.
The Constitution hasn't been written for the Times written saying the test of time.
More gun control means lower crime.
We debunk that one.
Guns are tools of murder.
We debunk that one.
We have too many guns in America.
We debunk that one.
And the police and government can protect you in times of trouble.
We actually might just want to put this online for people to read.
So I was so passionate about that post, Sandy Hook, that we got back into it.
So the shooter's mother has spoken out.
Look, I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt here.
Think she really meant to say this, but boy, is it a terrible quote?
She has come out and she has said, Forgive my son, forgive me, forgive my son.
I know he had his reasons.
I don't think you really meant to say that.
I'll be honest.
I'm going to give you a little bit of understandable forgiveness here, just because I don't think you meant to say that.
So, play cut 113.
I have no words.
I have no words to say.
I don't know what he was thinking.
He had his reasons for doing what he did, and please don't judge him.
I only want the innocent children who died to forgive me.
Forgive me, forgive my son.
I know he had his reasons.
What reasons could he have had to get closer to those children instead of paying attention to the other bad things?
I have no words.
I don't know.
Now, I think she's going through a translator, so maybe there's that might be the ultimate lost in translation example to get closer to those kids.
I don't really know what that means, but okay.
Yeah, so that's the school.
That's the school shooter's mother.
She's obviously in pain.
She's trying to have some sort of rationale.
She's never going to find any rationale.
Her son was as close to the manifestation of absolute evil a human being could get to.
There's no reconciling it.
Her life is ruined for the foreseeable future.
And look, I'll be very honest.
I don't forgive her yet.
I don't.
I don't forgive him yet.
I'm not there.
I don't offer forgiveness unless I mean it.
I struggle with the issue of forgiveness.
And anyone who just offers blanket forgiveness immediately, I question that.
I really do.
I'm a Christian.
I believe that we're all forgiven by Jesus Christ, but I'm also human.
And I think to myself, your son bought $2,000 worth of rifles and 2,000 plus rounds of ammunition.
And you're asking us to forgive your son?
Yeah, not going to happen.
At least for me right now.
I got to do more praying.
Sabbath is coming up.
Now I'm just a bystander.
I'm just a spectator.
I didn't have anyone that I knew or anyone even remotely close that I knew that died or was harmed in this.
But this is exactly the same reason where someone says, well, Charlie, do you forgive Hitler?
No, I don't.
Of course not.
And people said, well, Jesus, well, Jesus is divine.
I'm not.
I struggle with it.
I'm being very honest with you.
Not something that comes easy to me to all of a sudden.
Say, you know what?
We got to issue an immediate forgiveness.
That's when the Amish, they came out and they forgave the shooter that came out and killed a bunch of Amish people.
They did it immediately.
I was like, they're better people than I am.
No, I'm struggle with the tension between justice and forgiveness.
I think any rational, reasonable person does as well.
You go in and kill 19 kids and two teachers.
It's going to take more than a couple days for me all of a sudden to say, you know what?
You're forgiven.
Because forgiveness for me is not a light topic, right?
Forgiveness means, according to the biblical paradigm, what forgiveness is.
It's I'll never mention it again.
I'll never hold it against you.
And that it's as if the slate is wiped clean.
Nope.
I'm not there.
Not at all.
Not even close.
Okay, I want to go to another piece of tape here.
Actually, let's go to another question.
So someone asked a question here about kind of domestic terrorism and how the left is going to try to use this for gun confiscation.
Let's go to cut 91 here.
AOC talking about how the leading driver of domestic terrorism is white supremacy.
Play cut 91.
FBI statistics, which underreport hate crimes.
Police statistics, which also underreport.
Even all the institutions that underreport hate crimes still has white supremacist groups as by far, by far, the leading driving, the leading driver of domestic terrorism in the United States.
AOC is rapidly becoming like that weird cat person that hoards their stuff in Midtown Manhattan and like they do a documentary on her.
Like, it's just happening really quickly.
It's just, she just, she's just becoming out of control.
Look, what is the leading, if you want to, if you want to actually talk about domestic terrorism, it depends how you define terrorism, which is a loose definition at times.
Why don't we ever talk about urban crime?
Urban crime is the leading cause of gun death in America.
Just in Chicago in May, 43 shot and killed, 244 shot and wounded, 287 total shot, 46 total homicides.
This week, four shot and killed, 41 shot and wounded, 45 total shot, six total homicides.
Now, so just in May, 43 people have been shot and killed in Chicago.
Now, I am not then all of a sudden minimizing what happened in Uvalde because it's a totally different type of crime.
And this is one of my big complaints by some conservatives who kind of do a little bit of this whataboutism when we see some of these tragedies.
But they say, well, Charlie, you know, why even talk about the Uvalde thing?
Because it's a very different type of evil.
Let me be very clear.
Doing a drive-by shooting while you're high on cocaine to try to go take back gang territory between two irrelevant groups at 2 a.m. and you think you're some tough guy is a lot different than walking into an elementary school and methodically killing 19 children.
They're both evil, by the way.
But there's something that you can't even grasp, the darkness.
You can't even get close.
And you know what's even more sick about the whole thing that is harder for people to grasp?
The person in Uvalde had no connection to this school.
Sometimes the school shootings, you're like, okay, they were wronged by that school.
They were bullied by somebody.
And it's an act of revenge.
This is pure unadulterated evil for the sake of evil.
So I'm not going to stop talking about it, at least for the foreseeable future.
We're going to keep mentioning.
We're talking about other things, obviously.
Rick says, Jesus offers forgiveness to those who ask, not to everyone.
That's true.
It's well said.
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Joseph says, will you please take a moment to call out Cornyn for negotiating with the Democrats more gun control?
I mean, this is just ridiculous.
What is John Cornyn doing, representing one of the most pro-gun states in the country, negotiating with Democrats on gun control?
We shouldn't even meet on gun control till we have a robust package and plan passed for school hardening.
This is not hard, everybody.
It's not.
You don't have to overthink it.
Single point entry, badge swipe in access, 24-7-hour cameras, school resource officers, and arming teachers.
It's not hard.
We do have a clip.
This is now the perfect time to play that clip, Connor.
We have it that we wanted to play earlier.
Which one was it?
Hardening Our Schools00:04:29
It was 100-something.
It's a great way.
You have it ready?
So, this is a clip.
It's an amazing clip of a school where the teachers are armed.
And you could tell, by the way, when they take out their handguns, they know exactly how to hold the handgun.
Their posture, or I should say, their form and their handling of the firearm is perfect.
Listen to this.
School in New Mexico, many of the teachers carry guns, just in case.
Show me your weapons and tell me what they are.
45, sir.
45.
I'm assistant pastor.
This is a 45.
Yes, Director of Security.
45.
The pastor carries a 45 in a case that looks like a Bible.
The principal is also armed with a 38 semi-automatic pistol.
How many of you feel safer knowing that your teacher has a gun?
All of you.
Every hand goes up.
That's in New Mexico.
I need to find the name of that school.
That clip looks a little old, but boy, we got to circulate that clip.
We're going to put it on all of our social media.
And every teacher has it.
And the word I was looking for is technique.
Thank you.
Sorry.
Form is not the right word.
Their technique was perfect.
Their handling of the firearm was excellent.
And we got to do something.
So people say, we got to act.
We got to act.
Okay, let's act first on treating our schools like banks.
What is more valuable?
Your children or your money?
Not even a question.
But here's what we know about what happened in Uvalde.
The school resource officer wasn't there as he should have been.
The door was propped open and it shouldn't have been, and 19 cops did not charge.
The sad truth is a lot of mistakes were made.
So what is your school district doing about this?
Now, this is a great opportunity now to use the parents' party that might have been previously pressuring for critical race theory against critical race theory, pressuring against masks, show up at school board meetings and say, we're not here to talk about guns.
What are you doing to harden our schools to protect our children?
That clip was Larry Allen is the pistol pack and pastor from New Life Baptist Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, near my friend Steve Smotherman.
Allen is a Brooklyn-bred former cop who actually trains his students to fight back against a psychopathic shooter, New Life Baptist Academy in New Mexico.
Let me ask you a question for those parents out there.
Would you feel safer sending your child to a school that has an armed guard present or does not have an armed guard present?
Single point entry.
What is single point entry?
That means during school, there's only one way to get into the school, one way to get out.
Now, there's multiple exits in case of fire or other places.
Single point entry, not single point exit.
Big difference.
Now, I went to a high school, Wheeling High School.
I have to give them credit.
They were very good with this.
There were only two ways to get into that school, and they hawked it.
You could get in very serious trouble when I went to high school.
If you were ever to let somebody in, open a door.
And looking back, we used to make fun of it.
It used to kind of be a running joke, like, why do they care so much if we go out the side door and all this?
And they were hawkish on it.
Looking back, they knew better than I did.
Looking back, the parents and the security at the school knew that you have to control the flow of who's able to come in and for what reason and what purposes.
We have to harden our schools.
And maybe instead of sending $40 billion to Ukraine, why don't we spend a little bit of money to harden the most valuable thing we have, which is our children and the next generation?
And I laugh.
I mean, if Nancy Pelosi thought guns were so bad, why is she sending a bunch of guns out to Zelensky to go defend themselves against the Russians?
Oh, so it's guns for Ukrainians, but less guns for Americans?
Got it.
The gun control debate is going to intensify.
I think it's going to plateau and fizzle out.
I could be wrong.
I've been wrong about this before, but I think we're going to win this.
But the most important thing for me and should be for you, are we going to allow another tragedy to pass without making the proper choices and precautions to be implemented to protect our schools the way we protect our stadiums and our banks?
Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thank you so much for listening.
God bless.
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