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June 3, 2022 - Sebastian Gorka

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Jim Hanson LIVE: An Ode to Weapons of War

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	�� He's Jim Hansen, former Green Beret.
	A man who knows how to win civil wars without firing a shot.
	Or if you have to, that as well.
	Hey folks, I am Jim Hansen.
	Good to be with you.
	Dr. G is doing family stuff.
	The best of all things.
	The reason we do everything else we do is so you can have time with your family.
	I, as some of you may know, was a former Special Forces Weapons NCO.
	We are right now having a national conversation about guns.
	And the problem I have with that conversation is most of it is stupid.
	Most of it is people talking about this topic who know absolutely nothing about what they're saying.
	They're parroting MSNBC left-wing status talking points.
	They don't understand the Constitution.
	They don't understand the Second Amendment.
	And they don't know anything useful about guns.
	Someone who exemplifies all of that stupidity is Senator Chris Murphy.
	And he's one of the people echoing a talking point that I want to open the show by debunking and by crushing.
	So if we could play the clip from Senator Chris Murphy.
	So, listen, I think there's a difference between what we should be doing and what is reasonable to expect from this Congress.
	What we should be doing is taking these weapons of war out of the hands of civilians.
	Wrong.
	Let me tell you what the Second Amendment actually protects.
	It protects weapons of war for civilians.
	So Murphy and the rest of the left and the rest of these people who have these gun control ideas and these idiotic assault weapon ideas are actually going counter to what the founders put the Second Amendment in play for.
	And let's have a little bit of a chat about that to start with.
	A weapon of war, in this case, is what a private citizen, such as myself now, I am no longer a member of the military, or the National Guard, or any organized government-sponsored military organization.
	But when Justice Scalia wrote the controlling opinion in D.C.
	v. Heller, which explains what the Second Amendment means, both historically, both in the minds of the founders when they wrote it,
	and both in legal terms it protects the right of an individual citizen disconnected from any government militia but part of what is known as the well-regulated militia or better yet just the militia which is able-bodied citizens acting of their own volition and it protects their right to own any weapon in common use And suitable for service in that militia.
	Now, that is actually something that is codified in U.S.
	law.
	It's not something we made up.
	The left loves to play with that term, well-regulated militia, as if that means the National Guard or some other form of government-related service.
	Now, in the U.S.
	Code, where the militia is actually written, it does include the National Guard, but it also includes unorganized militias separate from any government control.
	Why is that?
	Because the founders knew that if they did not make that a foundation of our God-given rights codified in the Constitution so that the government couldn't take them away, the government would take them away.
	So they made sure they couldn't.
	They gave each of us the right to own a weapon of war.
	Now why is it a weapon of war that we're allowed to own?
	Because the purpose of the Second Amendment is not, per Joe Biden, to go hunting deer wearing Kevlar vests or any other idea of target practice or any other ridiculous idea.
	Although you can do that if you happen to find a deer wearing a Kevlar vest.
	The purpose of the amendment is to ensure we have a weapon in case, and God willing this day never comes, But in case the government becomes so tyrannical and intolerable that the Constitution no longer serves its appointed purpose and we the people have to rise up and overthrow that government.
	Why did the Founders put that in there?
	Because they just did exactly that.
	They had just finished a revolution to overthrow a tyrannical government, and the only reason they were able to do it is because they didn't give up their weapons when the King of England tried to start confiscating them.
	So don't be in any doubt whatsoever that the Constitution in the Second Amendment guarantees each individual the right to own a weapon of war.
	And guess what?
	We're going to.
	We do.
	And you can't have them.
	Moulin la bae if you get froggy.
	Now, I think the idea that this has become the talking point on the left is because they think it's effective.
	And let's be clear, it is.
	Which is why we have to take it head on.
	We can't afford to say, oh, well, it's not a weapon of war.
	You know, these are just weapons for self-defense or they're for other reasons.
	No, they're not.
	And we don't gain anything by ignoring that.
	We need to take it on straight forward and say, yes, I have a weapon of war.
	I hope not to use it for that purpose.
	I hope I never do anything more dangerous than shooting a deer in a Kevlar vest if that's my choice.
	But I have to have that right, both because there is the possibility sometime in the future that things become so bad that we need to overthrow the government.
	But more importantly, the government needs to know that we have that right so that they can watch what they do.
	They don't seem to think there are any limits on their power or their ability to abuse state power against their political enemies right now.
	And I think the idea that we are willing to stand our ground and say, no, we actually are the ones you work for and you're not going to use the powers that you're granted by us to govern to abuse us, the governed.
	And our last resort in that is what it always has been and always will be the right to have a weapon of war and be able to band together in that hopefully never come to fruition necessity.
	Now, I think this is an argument that's going to be difficult for some people to stomach, but I don't think, again, I don't think we gain anything by not bringing it out.
	It is the truth.
	It is a fact.
	It is established in law.
	It's in the Constitution.
	It's in DC vs. Heller, and we need to make sure that it is well understood that we will not accept any lessened right.
	There is no compromise that takes away our ability to protect ourselves and to have that weapon of war at our disposal.
	For any legal purpose we want to use it for during normal times and in the hopefully never to happen worst of times to be part of the militia and let's again we have to add it in because they they abuse that term.
	Well-regulated in the time of the founders meant well-provisioned and well-trained.
	It did not mean under the thumb of the government because that would have defeated the whole purpose of the Second Amendment.
	It was so that the government could not take our weapons.
	And that's something everybody needs to remember, that this is not any kind of well-regulated government militia.
	This is the citizens of the United States of America banding together, whether it's to repel a Canadian invasion, whether it's the zombie apocalypse, whatever purpose we feel the need to use those weapons for, we will use those weapons for.
	I think the other thing we need to talk about, and we'll get to this in the next segment, is what are the actual things we can do to go ahead and at least make sure that as they attempt to encroach and infringe on our Second Amendment right, what can we do to fight back?
	We're going to be talking to Representative or Assemblyman Nick Freitas of the Great Commonwealth of Virginia here coming up in the next segment.
	We're going to find out what's going on in my home commonwealth, Freedow, of blue state rule.
	This is Jim Hanson sitting in for Seb.
	We're going to be all guns all the way through America First Radio.
	Strap in.
	So the prison fellowship one, I just start with as we head into the weekend.
	That's right.
	I can't hear Jeff.
	You have a clock in there, right?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	All our comms are on.
	Yep.
	Yeah, it's underneath the camera.
	So when I want to do the Prison Fellowship one, though, I just hit the – I just start with as we head in, and then you play the clip in the middle of that?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	I'm sure I can pull that off.
	Are you doing it here, or...?
	Nah, let's go.
	Did Nick say he could stay for two segments?
	Let me see.
	Let me ask him.
	I'm sure he can.
	How's it going, Rumblers?
	All 300 of you guys, welcome.
	Welcome to the stream.
	And hey, if you want to bring up a topic, if you're on there, bring up a topic, drop it in there, and I'll hear about it.
	I'll keep an eye on the chat.
	There you go.
	I saw someone commented that Moana Abe is Greek, not froggy, he says.
	Did I say something?
	I didn't say it was French or something, did I?
	You said froggy.
	He said Moana Abe if you want to get froggy.
	Oh, well... Which I assume you meant... Yeah, like, if you're feeling froggy, jump.
	Not French, so...
	I thought you were going all ghillied up or something on Modern Warfare 2 or something.
	That was my assumption.
	Well, now we got so many ways to interpret my calls to not insurrection or anything. - I feel like I need like a five minute qualifier here.
	If you use any of these quotes out of context, because what I'm saying just happens to be a fact.
	Look at that.
	Nick, that's a nice backdrop, man.
	I expect a deer in a Kevlar vest to be walking through.
	Just let him in the mic.
	Yeah.
	Can we do that?
	Can we time that?
	We should work that out in Photoshop or something, so a deer in a Kevlar vest comes bopping around behind you, and you turn around and take him out with an AK.
	Oh, the Kevlar's not gonna save him, man.
	No, man!
	We got armor-piercing rounds.
	The mics are currently live on our video stream at this time.
	Sounds good.
	This is where we tell all the secret stuff that the FCC would ban, because they can't.
	Well, hey man, good to see you.
	Did we meet at, were you at Joe Kent's fundraiser at Army Navy Club or?
	No, no, I wasn't able to make it for that.
	We actually had him on our podcast a couple of weeks ago.
	I'm turning him up.
	I am.
	He's a fun guy.
	Oh yeah.
	I went up, I hadn't met him.
	I talked to him before and I walk up, I shake his hand.
	He goes, you're Jim Hansen.
	You're the guy who wrote that 18 Bravo A team in support of the special forces weapon Sergeant, right?
	I'm like, yeah.
	He's like, we had that on our team room wall.
	I'm like, of course you did, man.
	You know what, he was just shocked that an 18 Bravo could write a book that wasn't a coloring book.
	Oh boy, you know.
	I'm gonna have to stand firm.
	Hey, I was the Bravo.
	Yeah, that's true.
	But I was like the 18 Bravo who pretended we were educated.
	Because I'm not actually educated.
	I've never been to college or anything.
	But I know a couple big words.
	And so consequently, like all weapons guys, you know, I can spin that.
	So like an 18 Fox?
	There you get the one who decided that he didn't want to work anymore.
	You know?
	Yeah, yeah.
	That was me.
	That was me.
	Yeah.
	Oh, you went Foxtrot?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Why not?
	I would have, but I ended up taking the early out and the money.
	Alright, 20 seconds.
	Go, Mike.
	I actually got paid to get out as a...
	I actually got paid to get out as a...
	And we're doing America First Radio.
	And the theme of today's show is an ode to weapons of war.
	And I think in the perfect way to do that, I mentioned before that I was a Special Forces Weapons Sergeant.
	We now have a guest who also had that great distinction of being the most important person on a Special Forces A-Team, Nick Freitas, who represents the area around Culpeper, Virginia, in the State Assembly.
	Good to have you on, Nick.
	Hey, great to be on.
	Good to see you, Jim.
	Yeah, and you also, as I was, were a member of 1st Group, 3rd Battalion, 1st Group.
	And I think we've got another of our compatriots, Pete Crittenden is going to be on later, who was both 1st and 2nd Battalion.
	The greatest of all groups, the greatest of all MOSs in the military was 18 Bravo.
	But I actually want to pick your brain a little bit.
	We are under assault right now.
	The assault leftists are attacking the Second Amendment, and they're doing so stupidly and in many ways that are unconstitutional.
	Is there anything, though, in Virginia happening that we need to know about?
	Are there any particular efforts underway, or do we have that kind of under control because the Commonwealth is now a free state?
	Well, I'll tell you what, a lot changed.
	One of the things that was fascinating was two years ago, when the Republicans were still in control, but Democrats had quit the House, they ran on this campaign of nobody wants to take your gun.
	We just want common sense gun control.
	And then they got into power and lo and behold, they went for straight up confiscation.
	Although they would say it wasn't confiscation because they weren't going to actually come to your home and take your guns.
	They were just going to criminalize you for owning them.
	Right.
	And they were doing this not just with AR-15s, they were doing with, you know, if you had a magazine that carried more than 12 rounds, you could have been a felon under the original drafting of the bill.
	So that was the sort of thing that they were trying to do.
	A lot of backlash because of that, because of educationalist school choice issues in Virginia.
	So we got a Republican governor, Republican lieutenant governor, Republican attorney general, and the House of Delegates returned to the Republicans.
	And now I'm the subcommittee chairman for Public Safety Committee Gun Sub 1, right?
	So that's the subcommittee where all of the gun legislation goes to.
	I'm the subcommittee chairman for that one, and so we pride ourselves on doing everything we can to keep people safe, while at the same time protecting our Second Amendment rights.
	So instead of grabbing our guns, you just, like, go around issuing them to people, right?
	If I'm going to pay taxes in Virginia, I would be willing to subsidize guns for people who should have them, who can't afford them, you know?
	That might be one of those charitable things I could work out.
	Maybe we'll start a non-profit to do that.
	The Swiss model.
	There you go.
	I mean, come on, everybody should have skin in the game.
	And I think that's a good thing.
	We found out with Uvalde that you cannot rely on law enforcement in every case.
	And I don't mean to dog the cops.
	They have a job I took the chance to not do because I don't think I have what it takes to do it.
	But I think that also shows why the Second Amendment is an important Because you're on your own, even if you've got police support, until they get there.
	And I think that's something we need to do some kind of evangelizing for among the people, don't you think?
	Well, yeah, I think it's ridiculous that every time the government fails to protect you at a facility they manage, the Democrats' first response is, well, let's make it harder for people to protect themselves.
	That makes no sense.
	But there it is.
	Well, and we can rely on them for that, though.
	They will always come up with a solution that is not a solution to the problem.
	It is a way to enact the agenda they want.
	And they hate guns.
	They hate the Second Amendment.
	The whole thing drives them crazy.
	So they're willing to use any tragedy to go ahead and capitalize on that.
	And we're watching it now.
	And obviously, we've seen the President's speech last night.
	Heard them talk about weapons of war.
	I don't know if you saw General Eaton's rant on Twitter, where he was former commander at Fort Benning, and he's now a Vote Vets leftist.
	And he's talking about how, okay, the AR-15 and everything are weapons of war, and civilians shouldn't have them.
	And I'm sorry, just in the opening segment, I explained weapons of war are what the Second Amendment expected us to have.
	Is that another place we're gonna have to do some more evangelizing?
	I think so.
	I think one of the biggest problems that we have is trying to educate people.
	And look, I've even had people come from the right saying, why are you even acknowledging their argument?
	Because I want a voting public to understand why we have the Second Amendment, and it's not for hunting.
	And it's not ridiculous for those of us who value the Second Amendment and why it was put into the Constitution in the first place to be able to go out there and educate people that really what this is about is two things.
	One, it's the founders recognizing that the only way that you could protect a free state was if free people have the ability to actually gather together and protect it.
	But the other reason why they enshrined an individual right to be able to own firearms is because you have an inherent right to be able to defend yourself, your family, your property, and any government that's seeking to drastically reduce or take that away from you.
	That's a government that they're not interested in representing citizens.
	They want to rule over subject.
	We're not subject.
	And so it's not happening.
	But we need to make sure that people understand that actually the compassionate view is the one that says, I want someone that wouldn't otherwise be able to physically defend themselves to be able to have the means to protect themselves against a stronger attack.
	And I think you made the point that the left is not interested in strong-willed, free people making decisions for themselves because they don't like the decisions we make.
	And consequently, they're looking for a statist, top-down power model that says, we'll tell you what to do.
	Don't worry.
	You know, you don't have to think for yourself.
	You don't have to do for yourself.
	We will provide you with what you need and what you should have and no more or no less.
	And the idea that you should accept that rather than take responsibility for yourself is, I think, one of the main differences between the right and the left.
	We start from individual liberty.
	They start from state control.
	And I think they're showing their cards now in trying to take away the one right in the Constitution that protects all the rest.
	No, no, I think that I think that's accurate.
	I mean, when when Alexis Tocqueville first came over to the United States, and I think it was the 1830s, what he really recognized what he was impressed with was not just our system of government.
	It was the idea that we had this combination of rugged individualism, with a strong sense of family and community.
	So it wasn't that we didn't think there was ever times for people to come together and work together to solve problems.
	We just find that the that always starts with the first person responsible for you is you.
	And the first person responsible for your family is you and your family.
	And so empowering people to be able to make their own decisions, to work together in voluntary cooperation in order to solve problems, and to otherwise leave each other alone when we disagree, that's a hallmark of what it means to be an American and what it means to be free.
	I can't stand it when the left confuses democracy with freedom.
	You know, democratic processes may be very important to freedom, but it's not synonymous with freedom.
	You getting to live your life the way you want, free from government intervention or some political elite constantly trying to interfere, provided that you're not infringing on the liberties of somebody else, that's what it means to be free.
	Not getting to elect our political leaders every two to four years.
	And I think that is something that in our evangelizing, and I think we have that responsibility because the schools no longer do it.
	You know, they have stopped teaching civics, they've stopped teaching all these things, and now it's incumbent on those of us who were taught, you know, and I think Generation X may be the last generation that was actually taught in school what our country was founded on, what those things meant, and How that is something that you were given the greatest gift.
	We were born on second base by being born in the United States of America as US citizens.
	And that comes with not an obligated cost, but an implied cost.
	You owe something to the world and community for that.
	Hey, we're talking with Nick Freitas, who is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and a former SF weapons guy.
	And after the break, I want to talk a little bit about the militia.
	Because we've dealt with militias in other places and I want to talk about what it means here in the United States.
	This is Jim Hansen sitting in for Dr. G doing America First Radio.
	Wait, there we go.
	The mic's cut out for like 10 seconds after...
	I know, it always happens.
	I'm not blaming you, Jeff.
	So I got to wait like six or seven.
	I know it's, it always happens.
	I'm not blaming you, Jeff.
	Oh, it is me.
	Yeah.
	I got to do it for like 70 seconds.
	All right.
	All right.
	Right on.
	So the, I mean, there's so many, and I feel maybe, maybe this is just the educational piece of it because I feel like there are people on the left who are willing to ignore the truth and know the truth, but they don't like it.
	So they ignore it and pretend it's not what they want.
	But I also think there's just such a large segment of the populace right now that doesn't know what the facts are, and they're not going to hear them on the media.
	You know, you may hear him on Fox, you may hear him on talk radio, but that's that's kind of now incumbent on us to say, OK, let's give you a few facts.
	Hey, there actually are facts about this.
	There are plenty of opinions, you know, but there are some facts that we need to all at least have in play.
	And then from there, you can agree, disagree on what you want to do about that.
	But let's not let's not start from false assumptions.
	And I think that's that's where we are all too often.
	No, I'll tell you one of the things that's amazing to me is the left is not liberal.
	I think that's the first thing we need to acknowledge at this point is that the new left is not liberal.
	There was actually liberals I could get along with and work with and the whole deal.
	The new left is authoritarian.
	And, and so it's not as simple as they have a better way to do something than they'd like you to voluntarily join.
	It's, we want to do it this way.
	And if you don't, we'll punish you.
	Like, well, dang, I don't make any, I don't make any similar requirement of you or your time or your property.
	Why are you doing it to me?
	So that distinction has to be made.
	And I think it's well, I mean, for them, it's a secular religion, you know, whatever it is, leftism, whatever flavor of leftism you want to call it.
	But it's a religion that replaces actual religion, which they largely dislike, and gives that feeling of community, you know, gives that feeling of there is good and evil, and also gives them that right in their mind and almost a call to arms to go and make it better.
	You know, you have to fix these people.
	I think you nailed it.
	I think that's what it comes down to.
	If you remove God from the sphere, you have a vacuum now.
	Something's going to replace it.
	And like you said, it's a secular religion.
	If there is no God, if there is no objective truth, if there is no objective morality, then government's the next best thing, I guess.
	Good thing my phone went off during the break, man.
	Wow.
	One of them Kevlar deer hit him.
	45 seconds.
	So Culpepper, man, I got to tell you, I had a buddy who was in one of the airborne units in Alaska back in the day, and he had a commander who was Captain Culpepper.
	He was an old-school black dude, and I cannot hear that word now without pronouncing it like that.
	It drives my wife nuts.
	She's like, can we go down and see the antique places?
	I'm like, in Culpepper?
	You want to go to Cole Peppel, Virginia?
	Yeah.
	I'm going to go to Cole Peppel.
	you Welcome back to America First with our very special guest, Uncle Jimbo!
	It's Jim Hanson.
	Hey, good to be back.
	We are back again with Nick Freitas, who is a member of the House of Delegates here in my Commonwealth of Virginia, which I now own, and also a former SF weapons guy.
	One thing we've both dealt with is irregular military forces and civilians with guns protecting their own world.
	And it can be kind of sketchy.
	I can tell you one of the first places I went on a deployment was the Philippines, and we were teaching the Philippine police constabulary, which is kind of a military police hybrid.
	And I'm teaching them, OK, well, when you go to arrest, you know, insurgents in your village, in a village, how do you do it?
	I said, well, first we sighted the machine guns and we set up an L-shaped ambush and we fired everything and then we go count the bodies and we release a press release of how many terrorists we killed.
	I'm like, OK, now, you know, allow me to offer an alternative.
	Right?
	And we're dealing with, you know, some very different ways to do it.
	But even here in the United States, we have what should better be called the militia.
	It is known in the Second Amendment, it is referred to as the well-regulated militia, which is a source of much consternation for the left because they want that to mean government-controlled, when it actually means well-trained and well-provisioned.
	But the militia is encoded in law.
	It is actually able-bodied citizens who could by themselves organize to act or who could be called by the government to help in an emergency.
	Is that such a horrible thing?
	I think it's been turned into a caricature of itself because of, you know, some of these groups that have come up, they call themselves militias that, you know, I don't know if they really meet the criteria.
	But if you look at Article 1, Section 13 of the Virginia Constitution, we actually specifically lay out what the militia is.
	And like you said, it's able-bodied citizens between certain ages.
	And again, the whole purpose was to be able to come together to protect their own community and to be able to be called up for state action.
	And so I think when you look at it from that lens, no, I mean, there's nothing wrong with that.
	In fact, if you want to look at why the founders put into the Second Amendment a well-regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state, it was because many of them had a real problem with the concept of a standing army and what that could potentially mean for tyranny or getting involved in wars that really were not in our best interest.
	And so the whole purpose of that sort of citizen service, that citizen militia force, was not only to be able to protect our community, protect our borders, but it was also, in some ways, to be able to push back against what they feared would be a standing army that could eventually be used against the American populace.
	That was their concern.
	And the reason the Second Amendment gives us the individual right to have a weapon suitable for that is so that weapon's not under the control of a state entity or agency in any way for that very reason.
	Whether it was so a standing army, if they decided that they wanted to go ahead and roll up the Bill of Rights, you know, and that whole free speech thing is encroaching on the bad feels of people and, you know, people are saying mean things, so we're going to take that away.
	Well, if you don't have guns to deter them, there's nothing to stop them.
	You know, at that point, they've decided that they have the power and the ability to shut down our rights.
	And the Second Amendment was to ensure, no, hold on.
	There is a last resort, and that is the individual citizen, the source of all governing power, is a grant from the citizen to the government.
	And the only way to enforce that was for us, we the people, to maintain that right.
	Well, it's fascinating to me that the left now wants to rely exclusively, really not just on the government, more specifically the federal government, as the guarantor of rights and the defender of civil liberties.
	And I want to look at it and be like, wait a second, aren't you guys the ones that are constantly telling us to remember hard history?
	Okay, here's some hard history.
	It wasn't that long ago in the Jim Crow, Democratic-controlled South, where black families, the only mechanism that they had to be able to defend themselves, not just against the Klan, but against sometimes their own sheriff's departments, Was the Second Amendment, was their individual ability to be able to defend themselves and their families.
	So this idea that we have, we have surpassed this time where the Second Amendment was necessary, or the ability of citizens to be able to defend themselves is necessary because we're just so much more enlightened now.
	What a joke!
	The vast majority of atrocities that have been perpetrated against innocent people in world history took place within the last hundred years, and they were perpetrated by government.
	So, look, I love the United States.
	I love our Constitution.
	I think as governments go, we got one of the best in world history.
	But I also think it's necessary, and in part because we have citizens that take their own rights very seriously and possess the means to be able to defend them and their rights.
	Amen to that.
	And I think, again, in our new role that I have assigned you and myself and everyone else I'm going to deputize during the next couple hours, let's explain that.
	Let's give everybody an idea why that is.
	Great talking to you, Nick Freitas, House of Delegates of Virginia, Cole Pepa in particular, and also a former First Group Special Forces guy.
	Great talking to you, and keep up the fight, and don't let them—start giving out them free guns, man.
	You too, Jim.
	Thanks.
	All right.
	This is Jim Hanson, sitting in for Seb, doing America First Radio.
	We'll be back after the break.
	Hey, hey, thanks again.
	Appreciate it.
	Dude, that was fun.
	I was just sitting here jealous.
	I wanted to be sitting in your backyard with you, man.
	We'll make that happen.
	We'll work it out.
	We'll work it out.
	All right.
	Well, cool, dude.
	Great to make your acquaintance.
	We'll sit down and we'll talk about who we knew and who was good, bad, and indifferent.
	I have a list.
	Yeah, sounds good.
	All right, brother.
	Talk to you soon.
	All right.
	Bye.
	All right.
	Good stuff.
	Yeah, so I think I should open with that prison fellowship thing.
	That's fine.
	We can do that.
	Next segment.
	So one comment here from the Rumble chat.
	Higgins B says, Are American Republicans in your debt?
	Outstanding monologue and interview with Nick.
	Wow, gee.
	I love me too.
	I love you, Jim.
	Me too.
	I hate to think that bad things have to happen for good things to happen.
	But in the same way, all of the horrible things the Biden mob has been doing that have driven the country have made it so no one can ignore this anymore.
	You know, you've got a choice.
	Yeah, you got a choice.
	It's statism or freedom.
	And we've seen what the result of statist leftism is, and it sucks!
	And so I think we're in the same boat, you know, and I think the nice thing is they've gone so far overboard that it actually is legitimate now to talk about the parts of the Second Amendment that were ignored for so long.
	You know, I would have laughed at you if five years ago, six, seven years ago, you had told me I'd write a book about winning the Second Civil War.
	I would have called you crazy because that was absurd.
	Let alone the idea that I would be talking about the fact that this is something we have to contemplate in order to deter it, but we have to contemplate it.
	And I'm pissed about that, but yet in the same way, I'm still kind of happy.
	You know, because it's a chance to fix it.
	Exactly.
	I was saying to Seth the other day that if we're looking at the grand scheme of things, the bigger picture, this might have actually been the ideal situation that Trump, quote unquote, lost 2020 if it gives him a chance to come back in 2024.
	I'd rather him serve two non-consecutive terms than serve two terms back-to-back, and then you get whoever in in 28, whether it's Cuomo or whoever, and it would make it ten times worse.
	We'd have gotten eight years.
	I mean, if we got four more years of Trump, he'd have been under attack the whole time.
	Yep.
	You know, and then we would have gotten probably eight years of Democrats, and we couldn't have dealt with that.
	Exactly, yeah.
	And plus, we didn't get a choice.
	Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We'll see.
	I'm kind of pumped about the election.
	I can't wait, yeah.
	The midterms are definitely going to be.
	I think if we can just win those governor's races in the Rust Belt, because if those legislatures stay red like they already are, and you just get some governors in there like Mastriano or whoever, then... Oh, jeez.
	That guy is... He would make Ron DeSantis look like a rhino.
	He's interesting.
	Alright, I haven't read all the stuff about him, but yeah, he's a lively one.
	And I'm fine with that.
	I mean, come on.
	It's a laboratory of democracy.
	That's why we have a federal republic.
	Let the states do some stuff.
	Do you want me to open the phones now, or do you want to throw out the number and do...?
	You can open the phones.
	Where is the number?
	The number is 833-334-6752.
	833-33-GORKA.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	3-3-GORKA.
	Oh, 3-3-GORKA.
	Okay, I was like, the math on that doesn't work.
	Alright, kill mics.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	3-3 Gorka.
	Oh, 3-3 Gorka.
	Okay.
	I was like, the math on that doesn't work.
	All right, kill mics.
	Eight seconds, yeah.
	America First.
	Can you believe it?
	They are saying that they don't agree with America First.
	How do you say that?
	Magnificent.
	How'd we get Gloria from Laura Branigan?
	All right, I'm gonna have to... Next break, I'm gonna put out my request for the bumper music.
	Listen, as we head into the weekend, would you please do a personal favor and visit Seb's website, sebgorka.com, and click on the Breaking the Cycle of Crime banner.
	It'll take you to a special page outlining the incredible, godly work being done by the Prison Fellowship Academy in correctional facilities all over America.
	In Oklahoma, Tammy Franklin serves as Vice President of Programs for the Prison Fellowship after serving 18 years in prison herself.
	So now when I go into the prisons and I stand before the classrooms and I tell them, I know how you feel, it just brings a certain amount of hope because they see someone who's been there just like they are and has put that piece of their life behind them.
	and moving on to a productive member of society.
	There's so much more to learn about Prison Fellowship Academy, so please go to SebGorka.com and just click on the Breaking the Cycle of Crime banner.
	And thank you!
	Listen, we are in the midst of the Ode to Weapons of War show here today on America First Radio.
	And I want to open up the phone lines, because this is a we the people kind of thing.
	You know, I have my opinions, as is well known.
	But I want to hear what you guys think.
	And I want to argue a little bit about, is there anything we can do?
	Because the left's bound and determined that we have to do something.
	And every idea I've heard from them is basically unconstitutional.
	So if you have ideas or just thoughts on this overall, 833-334-6752, 833-33-GORKA.
	Give us a holler and let's have some fun.
	I think we're ascendant on this issue.
	Regardless of the horrible things that are happening, our constitutional rights are something that we're going to fight for.
	And there's no way.
	We're not going to lose.
	We have the law, we have the Constitution, and we have the weapons to back them up.
	And that, I think, is a vital thing.
	Jeff, as soon as you got somebody who's got something, I'm open.
	I can kind of see the call board, but hit me with whoever you think's got a lively take.
	I saw Jeff running back to the call board.
	Now we're going to take line one.
	Hello?
	Yeah, hi.
	Who we got?
	It's Tom in Atlanta.
	How are you?
	I am well.
	What's going on in Hotlanta?
	Well, is it your birthday today or is that somebody else?
	Oh, no, it's not me.
	I wish.
	All right.
	Well, anyway, so great work by the Prison Fellowship.
	Thank you for giving a shout out and encouraging us to look into it and donate and all that stuff.
	But we got to think about prevention, too.
	And what we have is guns without God.
	Guns without God equals America 2022.
	That's where we are, sir.
	And your other guest that came on a minute ago, he was talking about, you know, they take away our ability to defend ourselves, and then they reduce the ability of the cops to help us out.
	Now, does anyone spot the defect in this plan?
	I think I spot their plan.
	And the idea is they don't want us to take responsibility for ourselves.
	They want us to look to the state.
	And I think you make a point that Nick Freitas and I were talking about in the break, which was that for the left, they don't have God in the same way that most of us on the right do.
	You know, they don't have religion.
	So for them, their politics is a secular religion.
	And I think that's part of why they don't trust people with guns and they don't want people to have that control because they don't have a guiding, a deep guiding philosophy and faith that many of us do on the right.
	I know that there's a higher power than me.
	that watches over us but expects us to do our part.
	And I think that's something the left wants, that higher power to be the state.
	And I want it to be God.
	And I think that's something that, given a choice between the two, I'll take God over government any day of the week.
	Thanks, Tom.
	How about Judy on line two?
	What's Judy got going on?
	Hi.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Great clarity and explanation.
	I love it.
	But I've got to ask you a question.
	Please, could you address this?
	Because I hear a lot of people say this.
	Specifically, this latest school shooting, okay?
	This 18-year-old was able to purchase the guns and the rifles, whatever he purchased, very easily.
	Could you please address this for me, please?
	And what do you think?
	What's your take on that whole thing?
	Yeah, that's a tough one.
	I remember being an 18 year old male and that is a dangerous entity.
	I'm not the only one.
	I think overall, young males are a difficulty for society because we weren't quite civilized well yet.
	And I think the problem we have now is when I was 18, I knew who was in charge.
	My dad was in charge, alright?
	My mom too.
	But I had parents who were steadfastly instilling in me a difference between what is right and wrong, what is good and evil, and all of those things.
	And I think the problem we have now, and it's similar to the previous caller's idea about Guns Without God, there is no family structure for far too many people in this country right now.
	And so when you look at an 18 year old from a broken home, and if you look at almost all of the mass shooters who were young males, they came from broken homes.
	And I'm sorry, civilizing a young testosterone-filled male animal is a challenge.
	That's not a simple thing.
	And it may not take a village like Hillary Clinton like to say, but it takes a lot of people working together.
	And most importantly, it takes parents at home, not the teachers at school teaching them to explore their non-binary fairy elf sexuality.
	It takes people telling them this is right, this is wrong, this is good, this is evil, and keeping them in line.
	And whether we need to change rules about who can buy guns and when and how easy.
	To avoid that I'm skeptical about because I don't trust the government.
	But I think it's worth looking at what we can do to make sure that the 18 to 21 year old males who currently can buy guns are not wild animals who are going to do horrible things with them.
	And that's that's something we can all work on.
	Jim Hansen sitting in for Seb.
	This is America First Radio.
	We'll be back.
	Thank you.
	And I am talking about weapons of war.
	And I want to keep taking some calls because I think it's important that this is a national conversation on weapons.
	So we're going to talk to Mike in California.
	What you got Mike?
	Hi, Jim, this is Mike.
	I just want to point out something you'll never hear from the fake mainstream news media, and that is that the most complete and accurate scientific research shows that gun control increases violent crime, it never reduces crime, and it costs us thousands of lives every year here in America.
	And it really harms everyone, including people who never even intend to own a firearm.
	And there's several reasons for that.
	There's actually 21 reasons for that.
	One of them is that gun control destroys the crime control effect and also the return effect that armed citizens have against criminals.
	So the Democrats, every time they make more restrictive gun control laws, the crime rates never go down unless they're already were on a decreasing trend.
	They never go down relative to the previous trend they were on.
	They either stay the same or oftentimes crime increases.
	Now, in Orlando, Florida, they passed a law many years ago that, actually not a law, it was a program where they trained 2,500 women to use self-defense handguns for self-protection, and they widely publicized that program, and guess what happened to rape?
	It went down 88% within six months, and there was no similar rape rate reduction in Florida or anywhere else in the country.
	Who knew that allowing women who are smaller and mostly less dangerous, although we've talked about my wife a little bit more here, she defies the trend and is very dangerous in a small package.
	But I take your point.
	There is a deterrent factor for criminals.
	They like to cull the weakest member of the herd.
	And if you can identify that with no fear, you know, you can pick a smaller or older or maybe a woman rather than a man or a smaller person rather than a bigger person with some reasonable degree of certainty that that is the least dangerous person to you, the criminal.
	But if that person has a gun, the great equalizer per Samuel Cole, you know, I think you have completely changed the equation and it changes the equation in their mind.
	Criminals aren't necessarily stupid.
	They are evil in many cases or they're driven by bad instances.
	What they are is smart enough not to want to damage themselves or take themselves out of play.
	So you don't want to go after a hard target and guess what?
	Anybody with the strength to to get five pounds of trigger pull in play All of a sudden can take down the biggest, baddest criminal in the world, especially if they've got a nine millimeter, because I have been reliably informed by our idiot in chief that that'll blow your lung right out.
	So, um, great question.
	Great comment.
	I want to keep doing this.
	We're going to talk next hour a little bit about gun control.
	Because it's coming by way of the Democrats, if they can manage to get it through the Senate.
	And I don't think it's something any of us want.
	This is Jim Hansen sitting in for Dr. G.
	We're doing America First Radio.
	I got this big screen with Jeff on it, and it's just fun watching him jump through his ass because he normally doesn't have to do this.
	He normally can chill during the show and he's like, oh, I'm going to sit over here and be very producer-like.
	And now there's a great close-up shot of him and he's jumping and he's putting headphones on and off.
	It's like a fish eye lens.
	It is.
	It's got that bend in it.
	Oh my goodness.
	It's all good.
	It's all good, man.
	All right, so I want to further, if they can hear in rumble chat, has anybody got a gun control measure that they have heard proposed by the left That is not unconstitutional or an incredibly bad idea that we should consider.
	And the reason I'm asking that is because politically, always being the ones who say no, no, no to everything, and there can be no changes to the status quo, is going to cost us votes, which can cost us judges, which could cost us Supreme Court seats.
	So, I think I want to find out if, on our team, there is something we can say, okay, maybe this, but no, and hell no, and absolutely not, to the incredibly bad ideas they have, like assault weapon bans, and red flag laws, and all that.
	So, if anybody's got an idea, pop it up and let's talk about it, because I have a couple, and I also have a twist.
	So, I'm gonna...
	Give my twist on what I think we should do to derail the Democrats' plans for gun control.
	As all of my ideas are, it's brilliant.
	Someone in the chat says, I propose that Democrats should be refused gun ownership.
	Homicides have dropped by over 90 percent.
	Yeah, most of the Democrats killing people or leftists are criminals anyhow.
	So, you know, we could we could stop them from getting guns only by, well, again, if we had more cops willing to shoot them.
	Oh, yeah.
	Kevin Liberal.
	We got a call from Kevin Liberal.
	Oh yeah, we take note of whenever Liberal calls in.
	It's been a while since we had a Liberal call in, actually.
	We might need to do that.
	Yeah, you want to go to one first?
	Because they don't hold very long.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Can you see?
	I know it's kind of far away on the screen.
	Can you see?
	I can see just the top two lines.
	I can tell you in your ear.
	Five's got a good point.
	They're all pretty decent, to be honest with you.
	Four might be decent.
	I'd go to one first.
	Let's go to one.
	Let's have a liberal on to tell me how awful I am.
	Do you want me to tell you in your ear like the other calls?
	Because I know it's kind of far away.
	How long is this next segment?
	This is 11 minutes.
	So this is a good long one.
	The problem is I'm not going to be able to screen other calls in this.
	I can just put them on hold because I've got to run over there and I can't bring people up and down.
	Okay, well then, save it for now.
	Let's do Kevin Liberal and then I'm going to unveil my cunning plan.
	Alright, good.
	And then people can tell me because it's going to get me shot at.
	Figuratively.
	Metaphorically, there.
	Yeah, figuratively.
	As Seb would say, rhetorically, media matters rhetorically.
	Lil' Zaky-poo.
	Zaky-poo.
	Do your transcript, Zaky-poo.
	Oh, God.
	I still can't believe his voice sounds the way it sounds.
	I've never heard him.
	His voice?
	Oh, how do I describe it?
	Like you sucked on helium.
	Okay.
	Like a scratchy throat, like a smoker who sucked on helium.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	It's, it's, I couldn't believe, I'm like, is this a joke?
	What's his last name?
	Uh, Patrizio.
	Oh, that's, it's, I saw him at CPAC, didn't I?
	I think I did.
	Like, former college Republican, so, you know, allegedly was once a conservative, but now he writes hit pieces for the left, you know, like a Jared Holt wannabe.
	They're all weasels.
	They really are insufferable.
	People get paid to write hit pieces like that, like the SPLC, the ADL.
	Those are like the worst people in the country, I think.
	They are vermin.
	But hey, I like now that they, again, they've all gone so far overboard that they no longer are reasonable enough for normal people to, you know, to listen to.
	And so I find it helpful.
	That's why I keep saying Bill Maher is fun to listen to, and you listen to the latest stuff he says.
	Like, you hear what he said about transgenderism the other day?
	He said, like, you know, the whims of 8-year-old kids are very fleeting.
	Like, if every 8-year-old kid in the country today set out to be what they want to be right now, we'd have a lot more pirates than cowboys in America.
	I wanted to be a pirate when I was a kid.
	I'm glad no one signed me up for eye patch removal or peg leg surgery.
	If a kid's depressed, if there are better solutions, then hand me the dick saw.
	Oh my god.
	He's good.
	No, he's good.
	And I don't mind that he attacks the right because there are stupid people on our team too.
	You know, I mean, and sometimes it's a cheap shot, but so what?
	I still remember one of my favorite moments ever from him was like way back in like the mid to early 2000s.
	There was a heckler in a studio.
	See, now that's fun.
	about shouting how Bush did 9-11.
	And Marr was like, you know I don't like Bush, but even I wouldn't go that far.
	And he kept shutting him down, but the protesters wouldn't leave.
	And finally, he just stands and is like, hey, do we have some effing security around here?
	I gotta do this myself.
	And he walks up into the stand and helps throw the guy out of the studio.
	See, now that's fun.
	Elon Musk is cutting headcount at Tesla.
	Oh yeah, over the work at home thing?
	Well, it's brand new layoff.
	He said the recession is coming or something.
	Oh, yeah.
	Economies.
	Wow.
	Game of Thrones style.
	The recession is coming.
	All right.
	So this segment's 11 minutes and the clock's correct.
	Yes.
	OK.
	Hmm.
	I got to show off my celebrate diversity T-shirt, too, right?
	That's awesome.
	Haha.
	Celebrate diversity.
	I love it.
	Cultural appropriation is the most important part of our arsenal of democracy.
	I've got a sign in my yard that says, Tolerate Political Diversity.
	Isn't that frickin' awesome?
	That's two of their buzzwords in one sign, and the sign is green and white.
	Wait for the 8 second mark.
	Oh, did you hear about the latest merchandise in Seb's store?
	The Seb Gorman store?
	No.
	It's Pride Month LGBTQ.
	Let's get Biden to quit.
	All right, go mics.
	Oh.
	Oh.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
	This is America First.
	And I'm delighted to welcome our special guest host, Jim Hansen.
	Great to be here, Seb.
	Glad you're hanging out with your family, doing good stuff.
	We are having a celebration of weapons of war, and for those of you on the radio, you won't be able to see it, but I'll describe my t-shirt.
	It is Celebrate Diversity, and it has the diversity of all the black rifles and pistols and everything, and it's cultural appropriation of the first order.
	We have a caller waiting, Kevin from North Hollywood, and I want to hear what Kevin has to say about the celebration of weapons of war.
	Yes, yes, hi.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	And I am so not a liberal, by the way.
	I wrote something called Why I Left the Left, actually, in City Watch LA.
	But with the gun issue, I suppose, I have a very important question.
	Yes, we know that the 18-year-old boys, like you were saying, 19-year-old kids, males, you know, are very, you know, wild and untamed creatures.
	And we have a breakdown of the family, which is really bad.
	So, do we basically continue to let mass shootings happen until the family gets put back together?
	How long is that going to take?
	No, that's a good question because that's not a simple problem.
	I think, you know, when you talk about the pathologies in our culture that are causing a large number of the difficulties, the breakdown of the family unit is probably the biggest one.
	And if you look at who shoots people, who commits homicides in the United States, the vast, overwhelming majority are young males with no two-parent household.
	So I think that's a major concern.
	Yeah, I mean, that really is.
	See, I don't see it getting better anytime soon.
	So basically, it's kind of like, are we saying, well, until the fathers come back home, Well, I think that's a fair point that we have to have some kind of plan in the interim.
	mass shootings.
	That's not an option either. - Well, I think that's a fair point that we have to have some kind of plan in the interim.
	I'm not willing to go to some of the extremes that I think have major downsides.
	And so what I wanna do now is I wanna kinda segue.
	I have an idea that I want to put out into the airwaves and and pixels online and get some conversation going about.
	The left is hell-bent on doing some sort of gun control.
	They want to do something.
	They say it every time.
	If there's a mass shooting they say we've tried doing nothing we have to do something.
	The problem is almost every idea they have is either unconstitutional, won't change anything, or is going to actually be counterproductive to our individual liberties.
	So it's difficult for me on the right to sit here and say, OK, I would like to do something to stop school shootings or to stop mass shootings or anything like that.
	But I'm not willing to give up my God-given rights guaranteed by the Constitution to do so.
	The problem becomes when we say that, we can be portrayed as the party of no.
	Oh, well, Republicans don't care about kids being killed.
	They don't care about any of these things.
	And even though that's not true, it resonates with people.
	We need to vote our way.
	So I want to defuse that ability for the left to say that we never come up with any suggestions for what we could do to change things.
	Because like the caller just said, we're not going to change the makeup of the American family in the short term.
	So are there any things we can do?
	And here is where my cunning plan becomes cunning and brilliant.
	I'm not willing to make any compromise, nor should any Republican governing official with the left, unless they do one thing.
	I want them to codify DC v. Heller, the opinion by Justice Scalia that says the Second Amendment is an individual right for any citizen to own a weapon in common use.
	and suitable for service in the militia.
	I want that language in any bill with any gun control measure in it.
	And here's why.
	The same way right now the left wants to put Roe versus Wade into law and pass a law that says that abortion on demand is the law of the land is because just having an opinion and a ruling in the Supreme Court
	is not as good as having the most democratic of our branches of government, Congress, pass a law and then have the president, a second branch of government, sign the law and then having the courts adjudicate the law and determine that it's constitutional.
	That is an almost bulletproof way to make sure that our Second Amendment right, as Justice Scalia properly interpreted it, is then the law of the land, not just the SCOTUS ruling of the land.
	So I want that.
	I think it's a great idea.
	Now, they want to do something, and I just did scare quotes around do something so bad.
	I think we can bait them into giving us that if we can find some measure of gun control that is not offensive to the Constitution or our rights.
	I'll start with things that I absolutely will not do.
	There will be no assault weapons ban.
	A high-capacity magazine ban of 30 rounds or less is part of the in common use.
	An AR-15's common use magazine is 30 rounds, so you can't have that.
	Red flag laws are an absolute no, not because I don't think there's a possibility they might help stop someone bad from getting a gun, but because this government and the security entities of this government have shown they will abuse that power against political opponents, which in this case is us.
	So I'm sorry, you can't have a red flag law until you show you're grown up enough as the permanent bureaucracy and deep state and state security organs to not use that power against us.
	So you can't have a red flag law either.
	Here's a couple things I'm willing to consider.
	One is background checks.
	They're done on almost every gun sale, but you've got some places where they're not, and I think if we can find a way to have a 30 minute or less online way to check for the right of a person you're going to sell the gun to, to be able to buy a gun, then I think that's reasonable.
	Of course there'd be an exemption for families.
	I don't need to check on my kids to see if they're okay.
	But if you can check that, and here's the second caveat on that, it will not include the details of the sale.
	So we're not going to let them use it to build a database of guns.
	It's a simple check.
	I, Jim Hansen, want to sell Seb Gorka a gun.
	All right, even though I trust Seb, I check.
	I look in the system, it says Seb's good to go.
	I don't then have to say I'm selling Seb an AR-15.
	I just get a little certificate that proves I did the check, and then if later on down the line Seb ever uses that gun illegally, I can show I did the check beforehand.
	So that's one place I'd go.
	Here's one some people may not like, but I'm willing to go ahead and have.
	I don't think a 100 round drum magazine for an AR-15 is a piece of common use material.
	I think they're fun toys and silly and on range day you can blow 100 rounds downrange and have fun with it.
	I think at some level There is a reason to say there's no reason to ban something in that situation.
	But if you show up, if we call the militia to service and you show up and you get a hundred round drum magazine hanging from your AR-15 and I'm your platoon sergeant, I'm going to slap you upside the head and tell you to put a regular magazine in that because that drum magazine thing is going to malfunction when you need it the most.
	So I'd give them 50 round and up magazines as a ban, because I don't think they actually matter.
	If you can't deal with it with 30 round magazines, then you need to practice more.
	One more, and this may be controversial too.
	I could care less about bump stocks and crank triggers.
	I don't like the National Firearms Act.
	I think that may be unconstitutional, but it's the law.
	And in DC vs. Heller, Scalia specifically upholds that as legitimate.
	So we either have to pass something repealing that, but if we don't repeal that, then automatic weapons are controlled.
	And anything that is seeking to circumvent that, like a bump stock, like a trigger crank, or anything like that, I don't think we need.
	And I'm willing to give it up, okay?
	I don't want to, but I'm willing to give those up.
	The only reason I'm willing to give any of that up is because I think it would be such a massive win to get the Second Amendment interpretation that it's an individual right and that it's weapons of in common use for a militia, i.e.
	the AR-15.
	Written into law that would be a huge victory and I think worth going ahead and and losing some things that I consider ancillary To the core right to have that weapon of war for whatever use we need it for so that's that's my opening salvo in the fight against the left gun control measures and I'd like to hear what everybody else thinks about that because I I think we've got a
	A complicated situation and we're going to talk to an expert about that in the next segment from Gun Owners of America, Eric Pratt.
	This is Jim Hansen.
	We're doing America First Radio celebrating the weapons of war.
	This next segment, right? .
	Oh, well.
	Okay, I'll go.
	Okay, well, yeah.
	Don't do that.
	Rile some people up.
	Let's get some of the rumble comments I grabbed here.
	So, one of them, from a user with the username BuckFightin, says, Jim, I'd be okay with being able to check, but I would require that the reason for a denial would be stated clearly.
	Fair enough.
	Really?
	Montgomery 308 says, I think in reference to your comment on background checks, no background checks are registration.
	1986 Hughes Amendment, which closed the machine gun registry.
	And then that was followed up.
	Someone responded to that comment named Batten 19 New Chattel, not entirely sure how to pronounce it, but he's a regular, says, oh, yeah, I agree with you on that one, Jab.
	Also ban on import of assault rifles.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	I mean, just made in America?
	I could see that.
	I don't know.
	I mean, it's interesting.
	I mean, it's, it's tariff-y and protectionist-y, but if our gun manufacturer, that's something I need to talk about too.
	And I think I'll do that next is the liability release.
	Cause that's what, that's another trick they're trying to pull is pull light, you know, the liability protection for people who illegally use handguns and be able to sue the manufacturers.
	That's a stealth way to ban guns by stopping their manufacture.
	Right.
	I expected a comment like this one at some point.
	Roundhammer117 says, "Gun control, correct sight picture, proper body position, measured breathing, and controlled trigger squeeze." I knew someone was gonna say that at some point.
	My idea of gun control is fire with both hands.
	And I wholeheartedly agree.
	What I'm doing is I'm playing a political game so that we win elections and so we can appoint more judges who agree with us.
	And I want to, you know, take away an arguing point for them, a talking point for them.
	And I want that in law.
	It is so powerful if we get that in law that, I mean, it's worth some actual pain in the Like I said, you know, the toy area of—because bump stocks are garbage.
	You know, you can't fire a bump stock-enabled rifle and hit what you're aiming at.
	Exactly.
	I have friends who are whining and complaining after the Vegas shooting when Trump agreed to ban bump stocks.
	They're like, Trump's a failure!
	He's a traitor!
	He betrayed us!
	I'm like, really?
	Name me anybody you know who had a bump stock as an accessory on Ironically.
	It's a toy to mimic automatic fire.
	And, okay, if you want to have fun, great, I get it.
	But we're playing a bigger game now.
	And, you know, again, I'll make the trade.
	I want a law that says Heller is the law of the land.
	People are saying that the Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on the New York concealed carry law could be the biggest Second Amendment ruling since Heller.
	I wonder how far they're going to go.
	This is the carry part.
	This is the keepin' bare.
	Bearing arms matters.
	Bearing and shall issue for permits as opposed to may or will or whatever.
	You have to have a damn good reason to tell me I can't carry.
	I hate living right here.
	I'm in Virginia and I carry.
	No, I don't carry the 9mm Lung Exploder, right?
	I carry the puny little 357 Magnum.
	20 seconds.
	This is a nine-minute segment and nine minutes.
	Okay.
	Whoever we got with gun control for a call.
	Hey, folks. folks.
	Jim Hansen back sitting in for Dr. G talking weapons of war on America First Radio.
	Now, last segment I came up with my ideas for gun control, not because I think gun control beyond a good sight picture and a solid trigger squeeze and all that is a good idea, but because I want the DC vs. Heller A ruling codified into law.
	And I want to trick the Democrats in their desire to do gun control by throwing them some things that don't really matter and getting them to put that language in the U.S.
	code.
	And I want Biden to sign it.
	Oh, that would be bliss.
	All right, for that I was willing to give up a few little ground on background checks and some super high capacity magazines, bump stocks, and trigger cranks.
	We got a caller on line one.
	You got thoughts on gun control?
	Am I crazy?
	I'm sorry, I didn't hear what you just said.
	The last thing you said?
	I was just, I got some, you got thoughts on gun control?
	Am I crazy for even considering this, Michael?
	Crazy for considering that the Heller decision says, most importantly, that the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.
	The Heller decision specifically limits itself to home defense and the use of a handgun for home defense.
	The first rule that should be put in place is that you have to demonstrate that you can use a firearm safely and effectively.
	Nothing but HP munitions should ever be allowed even outside of the home, let alone inside of the home, because people on the right never talk about the fact that even the most and best trained officers get their target one out of five times, that because people on the right never talk about the fact that even the most and best trained officers get their target
	And at the very least, HP munitions should always be required, because after all, you were completely wrong in talking about ARs.
	Excuse me.
	The Heller decision does not, does not authorize guns that are in, quote, common use.
	It authorizes guns that are in common use for lawful purposes, The only lawful purpose for possessing an AR is to defend against others with ARs, and therefore the obvious constitutional solution is simply to ban them all.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Hold on.
	I gotta, I gotta jump in because, um, I think pretty much everything you said is wrong.
	All right.
	And I, I don't, I don't mean to be rude, but that's just a fact.
	Heller does discuss carry outside the home and does not limit it to handguns.
	That I'm certain of.
	And Scalia does not take a profound decision saying that you can bear arms anywhere but he says one saying that because the second amendment says keep and bear to ignore the fact that bearing arms means carrying them outside of your home for other purposes would be to ignore half of the amendment so that was not correct um as far as hollow point ammunition i carry hollow point ammunition because it's
	The fact that it penetrates less and is less likely to cause collateral damage by going through a wall or something and hitting someone else is a bonus, but the main reason I carry 125 grain semi-jacketed hollow point .357 rounds is because they kill bugs dead.
	And if I ever pull the trigger, that's what I want to happen.
	So I think that's the case.
	As far as what Heller says about AR-15s, it is in common use for any legal purpose, you're correct.
	That is not the only legal purpose is defending against other ARs.
	Another legal purpose, which is specifically mentioned, is overthrowing the government.
	So I guess if you consider going up against, you know, whatever of the government forces... Wait a minute.
	It's in there.
	It's not that long a decision.
	You need to take another look at it.
	I've read it many times and I will guarantee you that the words overthrowing the government has a purpose for this.
	Okay, that's a euphemized version of tyranny.
	You know, they mentioned the fact that governments become tyrannous to the people and the people must retain the right to go ahead and throw off those chains.
	It's done in the same verbiage that is similar to what was used in the Declaration, etc.
	So I'll go back and find it.
	But it is contemplated in there.
	It may not say, I'm sure it doesn't say, for overthrowing the government.
	That was my euphemizing Scalia's legal language.
	But it does contemplate that the reason that civilians must retain control of those weapons is so the state can't take them away, and if the state becomes too oppressive for civilians to bear.
	So I think all of those things combined point towards a great reason that we'd rather have that in law, and let's clarify that.
	If anybody has any questions about it, let's take care of the well-regulated militia.
	Let's go ahead and write a law that says the well-regulated militia is the same as the unorganized militia, which is the part in the U.S.
	Code that is not the National Guard, and it consists of all citizens from 18 to 80, And they are authorized to carry weapons for whatever reason they think is important.
	And here's another thing about the militia that I think people need to understand.
	The militia is regulated by all the laws that apply to any private citizen using a gun.
	Just because you say, I am now a member of the well-regulated or the unorganized militia or just the militia, you're not exempt from the laws of the city, county, state, and federal government related to anything you use that gun to do.
	If you shoot somebody, you are liable for any law you broke that occurred in the course of that.
	Now the thing that you have in your favor is if you do it for a good reason, and the perfect example here is Kyle Rittenhouse, he acted as a member of the unorganized militia because the police had left the playing field.
	They were called off.
	The criminals were running wild.
	And Kyle Rittenhouse took an AR-15 and defended a community that he was a part of.
	He was liable for the laws relating to killing human beings.
	He was also found not guilty by a jury of his peers.
	That's the thing about the unorganized militia or the militia.
	is you can you can activate yourself you can say the police have gone they've left us there are riots going on you know there are people being killed you know beaten horrible things are happening i'm going to defend my community you then are are subject to all those laws and could be arrested and then tried and you rely on the fact that your actions to a jury of your peers were proper and something that they want
	At which point you should be found, if you did things that were for the common good and the common defense, you should be found not guilty like Kyle was.
	Hopefully you live in a jurisdiction unlike Kenosha, Wisconsin, where you're not persecuted by left-wing buttheads who go ahead and impose their views that guns are evil and people shouldn't use their rights under the Second Amendment to protect the people.
	Because for some reason Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists have a right to burn our cities down, loot, steal, and beat people because they're angry.
	They don't have that right.
	The person who has the right was the person like Kyle Rittenhouse who goes with good intentions to protect their community.
	He just has to be wary of the local authorities, the judicial system, and hope for a jury of his peers to do the right thing, as they did in his case, and send him on his way to go to college and live the rest of his life.
	We're talking weapons of war, the celebration of weapons of war here on America First Radio.
	I'm Jim Hanson.
	We'll be back after the break.
	All right.
	Halfway done.
	Yeah.
	I don't think your mic is on, Jeff.
	Hey, this is going to be six minutes, the segment.
	So you're out is going to be like a minute ten.
	I should have a read or something, but what do I got to do?
	We'll do it here.
	Is that car?
	No.
	Oh, car.
	That's right.
	Quick car one.
	Just not the full read, just where you do the ID at the bottom of it.
	Just do that coming in.
	Roger.
	America First hole, please.
	Chat likes how you handled that call, Jim.
	We have Buckfighting again says, if Seb had taken this call, we'd all be drunk right now.
	He says the word cretin because Seb likes to use that word a lot.
	Couple more comments here.
	Roundhammer 117 again says, a quote from George Mason, quote, I ask, sir, what is the Militia?
	It is the whole people except for a few public officials." Nice.
	Interesting one here from Squire.
	30 mass shootings each year from 2017 to 2019.
	Coronavirus hits in 2020, goes up to 40, then skyrockets to 232 this year.
	Thanks, China.
	2020 goes up to 40, then skyrockets to 232 this year.
	Thanks, China.
	Dirty commie bastards.
	We got to get back.
	I mean, commies, man, they're the actual enemy.
	Domestic and foreign versions.
	Anarcho-communists.
	That's literally by definition what Antifa is.
	Narco-communists?
	Anarcho-communists.
	Oh, anarcho-communists.
	Did they do drugs?
	I'm sure they do drugs.
	I'm sure they do drugs, yeah, but no.
	Anarcho-communists.
	I always say, they're anarcho-communists and Black Lives Matter is just a black nationalist organization.
	There you go.
	Anarcho-syndicalist commune.
	Where's that from?
	We need car firearms, man.
	Let's see if somebody in chat gets it before you.
	Crap.
	Let's see.
	Yeah, I'll let chat try to answer that one.
	Narco.
	Oh, my goodness.
	We should.
	We need car firearms, man.
	I don't like.
	I feel like I should have one and wave it around.
	Just be like Congressman Greg Stubbe who had his gun.
	He was on Zoom and he was waving the gun around.
	And the chairman was like, oh, I hope that gun isn't loaded, sir.
	And he's like, it's my home.
	I can do whatever I want.
	Right.
	I mean, come on.
	Oh, someone in chat, RoundHammer117 says Monty Python is Score for Roundhammer!
	That's the peasant in the filth.
	They're in a narco-syndicalist commune.
	They all take turns being a sort of quasi-official.
	I knew this crowd would get it.
	That's when you know you're in the right places, when people get the deep Monty Python references.
	Oh my goodness, yes.
	Oh, so good.
	What's up?
	Oh, that's a much more job.
	Can you see the calls?
	I can see the calls.
	Four.
	Disagree with you about the Scalia thing.
	Okay.
	No, let's get a disagree.
	I'll go to four.
	I'll do the car reading and then we'll go to four.
	Okay.
	35 seconds.
	America first.
	Hold please.
	And again, Jim, don't be shy.
	Feel free to mention your book every now and then.
	We can put the picture on the screen.
	I should.
	I'll get to that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Alright, get ready here, guy.
	Yep, go ahead.
	Thank you.
	He's Jim Hansen, former Green Beret.
	A man who knows how to win civil wars without firing a shot.
	Or if you have to, that as well.
	Hey folks, it is Jim Hansen, and I do have a book, we'll see how quick he is with the graphic, called Winning the Second Civil War Without Firing a Shot, because that's the goal.
	But we need to remind those in power, which is what we're doing today, that that is backed with the threat of violence.
	Not that we want to, it's up to them.
	Don't be tyrannous, don't repeal the Bill of Rights, we won't have a problem.
	Leave us our powers.
	Portions of this show, America First Radio, are brought to you in part by Carr Firearms, which is perfectly apt for a day like today, where we're doing weapons of war.
	We want to go now to Josephine Allais, who is going to take the bold position of telling me I might be wrong about Scalia.
	Hi, Jim.
	Yeah, how you doing?
	Good.
	How are you?
	All right.
	Okay, so I called in originally because I think like a lot of people, I have a real emotional response to this topic and it's not always based in logic.
	Like, last night when Biden was on, like, I think they must have given him an extra pudding before he went out because he sounded a lot better than normal to me.
	And I found myself saying, yeah, oh my god, this is, I feel the same.
	But, uh, the one thing that I want to mention about Scalia and about, um, what I want to get your opinion on is what about the safe, uh, safe lock or locking?
	I forget what they call it.
	The, uh, like, you know, safe storage.
	Yeah.
	What do you think about that?
	And then I could get into the Scalia thing, but I was just thinking safe storage seems like a really common sense solution to a lot of these issues.
	And then liability on the gun owner who may Um, bail there if somebody takes their weapon and uses it for this purpose.
	It's, it's tempting.
	I mean, it sounds like who wouldn't want to have guns secure in a way that first of all, kids can't get to them.
	You know, if you, if you, if you don't have your guns secured and you have kids in your home, uh, shame on you.
	All right.
	When I had kids, I, I would keep my guns locked away and unloaded unless they were on my person.
	Or once the kids went to bed, I would load one and put it in the bedside table before I went to bed.
	But other than that, there was no way any kid, mine or other, was going to get anywhere near a gun.
	Or if they did, it was going to be an inert piece of metal more suitable as a club.
	So I think there's some logic there.
	Again, I don't like the idea of government mandates for things like that.
	But I'd at least be willing to discuss how to do it in a way that's not telling me I have to have some kind of, you know, electronic safe that's going to fail when I want my gun to shoot a home invader.
	Right.
	Ultimately, I think they can't get into any situation in which they start removing guns from people in any scenario, because that image is so damning to the government that does it.
	Um, just regarding the Scalia thing and what I first called in about, there's a part in the Heller decision about Miller, the case that it originally was discussing, where Scalia says that requiring a gun owner to register a sawed-off shotgun Did not violate the Second Amendment because such weapons don't have a reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia.
	So that was something that a gun owner would have to register.
	Though I think registration of firearms might be taking this a bit too far, too.
	I don't know.
	I just have an emotional response to this thing and I want, like I guess anybody, something to be done.
	I mean, I just have no idea what they can do without Yeah, without shredding our rights.
	And I think that's it.
	I want something to be done, too.
	But I also want to be willing to stand firm and say, if there is nothing that can be done that does not fundamentally shred our constitutional rights, then nothing is the right thing to do.
	That's why I wanted to come up with a reason to do something and get the Heller decision codified into law in return for as little as we can give them.
	And then if they blow that up and say, we're not willing to do that, then it's back on them anyhow.
	Regarding the concept of Miller, does a sawed-off shotgun have a purpose suitable for service to the militia?
	It was a pragmatic decision saying, you know, that a sawed-off shotgun is not a military suitable weapon.
	And I think that's fair.
	You know, I could see in covert ops, you know, there are times where that might be a useful tool, but that's not what we're talking about.
	This has to be the broadest use, and I think the smartest way for us to defend it, and by it I mean our right to own weapons of war, is for it to be the weapon of the common foot soldier, the individual soldier, not a crew served weapon.
	Obviously, you know, we're not getting Stinger missiles, much to my chagrin.
	You know, I can't have an armed drone, although I'd really kind of like one.
	But the very thing that if you have to be one foot soldier in the military, that's what we want to defend and fight for.
	This is Jim Hansen.
	We are doing a little bit more America First Radio and celebrating weapons of war.
	So next I do the long car read.
	So next I do the long car read.
	Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right?
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I hate to give him any credit in the argument.
	There's a huge difference in the damage that a 5.56 round does within 20 feet of the barrel and then out further.
	over.
	You know, I mean, it is a deadly thing.
	We had our captain, we were in a kill house at Bragg, and our captain got shot from behind, right in the forearm.
	And it blew most of the meat from his forearm onto the ground.
	Yeah.
	And I mean, that's, up close, it's not good for you.
	It's the velocity.
	You know, I mean, when you do the equation, the velocity matters more than the mass.
	But once you step out a bit, You know, the whole concept turns different, but that's just it.
	In most of these mass shootings, you're talking about pretty close range.
	Hey, Eric's on now if you want to talk to him before.
	Just let him know the mics are on rumble.
	Okay.
	He's on phone.
	Yep.
	He's up.
	Eric, it's Jim Hanson.
	How you doing?
	Real good.
	How are you?
	I am well.
	It's the show's theme today is the celebration of weapons of war.
	I don't like to go halfway.
	You know, we discussed why weapons of war are what the Second Amendment is about, and we've done a lot of that.
	I'm curious, I'd like to dig into, I had a proposal to maybe give some ground on background checks and 50 plus round magazines and higher in exchange for the language from Heller, individual right in common use and suitable for service in the militia, to be put into the law.
	So I'd like to just to give you a heads up.
	I want to ask you about that and see if if that is as helpful to the cause as I think it might be and worth doing so.
	All right.
	All right, Jim, same thing.
	You're out here is gonna be like a minute ten just to remember.
	OK.
	And are we doing one or two with Eric?
	This is like nine minutes, eight minute segment.
	OK.
	The next one short.
	OK.
	All right.
	All right.
	All right, kill mics.
	All right.
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	Hey folks, it's Jim Hanson.
	I'm back, and I have, during the break, discussed with the crew here, and Seb Gorka and I are going to have to go car firearms a shooting.
	So we'll get some video of that, and we'll show you what these guns can do in action.
	But I'm joined now by someone who does this every day, is one of the leaders in the fight for our Second Amendment rights, and a member, one of the leaders of the Gun Owners of America, Eric Pratt.
	Welcome to the show, Eric.
	Hey, thank you so much.
	It is great to be with you, Jim.
	Well, it is a time for your organization's raison d'etre.
	They are coming for pretty much everything they can.
	They've got a whole raft full of mostly really bad, unconstitutional ideas.
	Is this something you think is going to make it, you know, I think it's coming out of the House, but is it going to make it through the Senate and, you know, try to actually turn itself into some kind of law?
	We are working especially hard to make sure that senators don't jump on board any compromise.
	I mean, obviously, I mean, I know people can get a little bit dispirited when they see all the media, they see the lies, they see the push, they see what Congress is doing.
	But remember, as long as that filibuster is there, and it is, the anti-gun left has a really, really high hurdle to get over.
	And right now they don't have that.
	As we're talking right now, they don't have that.
	They don't have the 60 votes.
	So anyway, we're working hard to make sure that that's the way things stay so that we're quite honestly, I don't believe even Biden thinks he can overcome that.
	All this is just political theater for them.
	I hope you're right.
	And I think that matters.
	I think in the realm of political theater, there is a possible danger for we on the right.
	We can be right.
	We can be constitutionally correct.
	We can be fundamentally security-based correct.
	But this could cost us votes.
	It could cost us elections.
	I think that's why you get the Lindsey Graham's and the people on our side, you know, quavering a little bit about potentially caving in.
	I want to ask you a question, though.
	I had a discussion earlier.
	about an idea to get the most important element of the DC versus Heller opinion, which codifies or rules that there is an individual right to own a weapon, that that can be any weapon in common use, and that that weapon should also be suitable for service in the militia.
	If we could get that added to some sort of gun control bill that did not have, you know, obviously an assault weapons ban, didn't have red flag, didn't have any of the, you know, the ridiculous ideas, maybe some additional background checks or something, you know, throw them some sort of bone, but nothing that matters.
	Would that be worth getting that in law through Congress signed by the president so that all three branches of government then have stamped our individual right to own guns?
	Well, Jim, I'm sure you and I are probably going to agree on almost 100 percent of things, but I actually don't agree with your premise, which is that we have to throw some bones, that we have to compromise in order to kill this.
	In fact, that's one of the things that Gun Owners of America has done so successfully, You might remember right after the Sandy Hook shooting, we were then where we are now.
	Where the entire media establishment, the entire Democrat establishment, but I repeat myself, they were all saying, now is the time, finally something has to pass.
	And there were a lot of Republicans who were, you know, shaking in their boots.
	And they were a member of the Manchin-Toomey.
	compromise.
	There was a lot of Republicans who were supporting expanded background checks, which was what Manchin-Toomey was.
	And in the end, the New York Times and the Washington Post both credited gun owners of America with killing the legislation.
	And it wasn't through our persuasive words.
	It was because we rallied the grassroots.
	They contacted their legislators, and they heard from enough, especially the Republicans, heard from enough grassroots that they said, we can't support this.
	And every bit of legislation died.
	And I would just encourage people right now, whoever is listening, it is really important.
	You go to our website at gunowners.org.
	We have alerts there.
	Uh, email your senators.
	Pick up the phone and call your senator.
	202-224-3121.
	Both senators.
	It is really important that they hear from people right now, because let's face it, inside the Beltway, yeah, the media, the mainstream media has a very loud echo chamber effect going.
	But we can defeat this.
	We've done this before.
	And I, you know, honestly, we have the law on our side already.
	We have a Second Amendment, which says shall not be infringed.
	I mean, that's the toughest law that you could ever imagine.
	And that's what we're going to hold their feet to the fire for.
	And I applaud you and commend you for it.
	And I guess I'm not of the mind at all that we have to agree, you know, that something should be done, because I don't think there is ever a situation where doing something to be doing something is a good idea, especially when we're dealing with a fundamental right like this.
	So I think you guys have been leading the charge, and I would tell everybody in the audience, I hope you took down the numbers.
	If not, go to Gun Owners America website.
	And get them, contact your representatives, tell them that this is what you want, and do not let the left in any way take away the one right that protects all the rest in the Bill of Rights.
	Thanks very much, Eric Pratt, Gun Owners of America, for the great work you guys do.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	The End
	The End - Jeff and Coms.
	I don't know.
	You type stuff in and it tells you.
	couple more comments here um sunny g2 wants to know where did you get that awesome t-shirt the internets man i don't know the internets you know you type stuff in and it tells you every time i see a phrase or something like that and i just throw it in the googler and it pops up i don't remember i remember do you remember this one thing it's not really popular anymore but it used to be big back in the day called american af remember Oh, yeah, yeah.
	I got the, you know, they had that image of Trump on a tank with like, I literally got that as a tank top and I wore that in college.
	I was wearing it on election night.
	I'm not sure the tank top thing, I don't... I usually don't, but I love that design so much.
	I mean, you're kind of fluorescent white like me, you know, I'm not sure that's something the world should be seeing that much of you, man.
	I go to school in Santa Barbara.
	Oh, so you actually change color?
	It depends what you mean by color.
	Yeah, I turn kind of red is about all I do.
	I get a brighter pink.
	Because I'm somewhere between peaches and pinkish is my flavor of Caucasianness.
	I am like ghost white and then if I go outside without the aid of suntan I just turn lobster red.
	I get nothing out of it every time.
	Hey Jeff, let's do Ken in Arizona.
	He's talking about InstaCheck.
	All right.
	Go on, Mike.
	Thanks.
	America First.
	Can you believe it?
	They are saying that they don't agree with America First.
	How do you say that?
	Magnificent.
	You can't say that.
	America is first, and anybody who says differently is a scumbag commie.
	Hey, it's Jim Hanson back.
	We're having some fun on America First.
	It is an ode to the weapons of war.
	I want to go to Ken in Arizona, though, who's going to tell us about the instant check they have there for backgrounds.
	What you got, Ken?
	Hi, Jim.
	First of all, 21 years retired military, ex-police.
	Small arms instructor and an anti-terrorist trainer.
	So, in California, my nephew is a parole officer and they use software to check for online predators and pedophiles.
	I don't see why the software can't be written that scans somebody's social media and if they have anything about killing kids or light schools up or committing murder, They don't get their permit, and the next thing they know, there's a knock on their door going, what do you want a gun for?
	And they're denied.
	That's interesting.
	I'm not sure I can go that far, because I think on the free speech side, the Second Amendment guarantees all the rest.
	But the reason is, I love running my cake hole.
	And I say some things, if you gave that power to a government like the Biden administration, I'm pretty sure they'd be at my house or they'd be stopping the next time I wanted to buy a gun because my social media is lively.
	So I see your point and it goes back to in my mind the red flag law concept.
	If I trusted our government... Go ahead, go ahead.
	Jim, most of these shooters have in common that they were on social media telling us exactly what they were going to do before they did it.
	That's the common updated 20 You know, and you're absolutely right, and I think we need to figure out a way to use that against them.
	I'm not sure, though, that I'm willing to grant any government agency the right to say, I can't, you know, preemptively, I can't exercise my right, and administratively, they can pull that back.
	Just based on things I said on social media.
	Because like I said, I guarantee you could cherry pick my social media even though I now self-censor so that I don't get, you know, shut down on Twitter.
	I'm concerned about how that would work out.
	I do, though, think you're right that we need to have a way to make sure that when people are saying those things, that that gets acted on so that we can stop the shootings.
	And I think that may be a different kind of administrative function.
	That may be, you know, that may be the therapists that they want to send, instead of the cops, defund the cops, we'll send therapists your way.
	So we'll find about that.
	But I think it's a great idea.
	Thanks for your call.
	Portions of America First Radio are brought to you in part by Carr Firearms, and soon you'll have video of me and Sev shooting those guns.
	This is Jim Hansen.
	We're going to be back after the break with some more America First Radio.
	See, that's something Facebook should be doing that's something Facebook should be doing on their own.
	That kid says, I'm going to shoot my grandmother, then shoots a school, they should alert people.
	Yeah, they should be able to do that themselves.
	I mean, that's ridiculous.
	If I put election fraud, I'm done in 10 seconds, right?
	No, they obviously can.
	Oh, exactly.
	With everything they could do.
	Yeah.
	And again, I, If you go to the government, it's going to go to a thousand different things.
	But here's the problem.
	Then the credit card companies won't let us pay.
	I mean, there's a surveillance state concern that I have about all of this, that even though we have the capability to do this, do I trust them to do it?
	I can't.
	I mean, look at the January 6th people.
	Look at everything that went down around that.
	And all of it points to using those things to criminalize dissent.
	And I am a dissenter against the deep state of the first order.
	Yeah, no, I think that's a great idea.
	And the fact that they're already doing it, you know, I'm kind of torn, though, because part of the reason I want Elon to buy Twitter is so they'll stop doing that stuff.
	And, you know, now, is there a line?
	You know, can we agree that there's a line?
	And the problem is, it's the decider.
	Who's the decider?
	You know, and I don't trust, you know, unless they all quit.
	You know, if Elon buys Twitter and all the leftists quit, right?
	And we go in and replace them with America First Patriots, I'd be a lot more comfortable with it.
	But I know that right now, that would go against us.
	I think you can put our comms up a little bit, Jeff.
	It's a little too quiet, they say, for the video stream.
	All right.
	OK, I think that should, yeah, that should be better.
	Yeah, cause I mean, cause Facebook has time to implement a feature of like, oh, you can mark yourself safe during a shooting or a, you know, natural weather storm.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	That's the thing on Facebook.
	Yeah.
	Like if a shooting happens, you can mark yourself safe.
	So your friends all know you weren't shot.
	Exactly.
	Oh yeah, exactly.
	Aye, aye, aye.
	Four and a half minutes.
	We are 66% of the way done with the show.
	Wow.
	All right.
	I guess I should be able to handle that.
	I'm always of the mind that when I'm trying to do something complicated like this, which for me is a bit of a balancing act, like, there will be no math.
	Right.
	Like, no, you can't expect me to do math and think at the same time.
	My apologies.
	No, you do great.
	Like, because we, of course, we've had lots of guest hosts on the show.
	And then there are some people who just, you know, aren't familiar with doing a three-hour radio show or even a one-hour thing, let alone three hours.
	But then you handle it really well.
	For as few guests as you have, because we have some guest hosts who fill the whole show up, like every segment will have a guest, so they don't have to carry it themselves.
	It was funny, when Seb asked me to do this, he texted me, he says, can you do the show Friday?
	I'm like, you know dude, I was just thinking, I had a lot of things I want to say, you know?
	And my wife's sick of listening to me, so yeah, I'll do that.
	Trade out an audience of one for an audience of two.
	Hey, you know, there are things that I think I've been working on for a long time.
	You know, I've been honing what I think are the best arguments that are the most effective for our side on this.
	And that's kind of, I mean, you know, I mean, my company and Security Studies Group and American Matters both work in information operations.
	So it's a question of if you want to convince people, if you want to change the narrative, What is the most effective argument to each segment of people that you want to convince?
	What's the argument?
	What's the mode to present it in?
	What's the style?
	What's the content?
	And how do you present it in a way that's going to spur them to action?
	And we need that right now.
	Yeah, it's interesting, too, that you talk about how, like, simply not being the party of no, because I get what you're saying, but at the same time, I couldn't help thinking, and this is what we've talked about with Seb, is that between this and abortion, like, the Dems doubling down ahead of the midterms on possibly the two most unpopular stances they have, because gun control, I mean, yeah, these shootings happen, and yeah, they tug at the emotional heartstrings, but you look at polls of, like, independents, overwhelmingly, who still do not support gun control, even when something like this happens.
	Right.
	And, of course, abortion is on its way out.
	Everyone knows it.
	Yeah.
	That's gonna be fun.
	I can't wait.
	Unless that leak was a lie.
	That would drive people crazy.
	Roberts said it was real.
	Roberts confirmed it.
	Oh, that's right.
	It was real.
	Yeah, it was 100% real.
	I can't wait.
	I just hope that they drop it sooner rather than later.
	I want the salt mines to commence.
	Well, I think that's a big one.
	And I think the nice thing is, again, like I said, the left is so unhinged now that they're making the arguments they were smart enough not to make before.
	Of course, yes, we want abortion up until the second after birth.
	If that little sucker snuck by the forceps and managed to squeeze out of the birth canal, smash him with a hammer like a whack-a-mole.
	They're at the point where, when we have these arguments, even if they could have won people over, they're not capable of arguing in a reasonable manner anymore.
	So I just want to bait them into saying the dumbest things they can.
	Make them mad.
	Goad them.
	You know, and let them show their true colors.
	Because their true colors are commie, dirty, nasty red.
	We need to switch that back, too.
	I still am not comfortable with us being red.
	That's what Seb always says.
	Everybody's on it.
	Any old school military war, you know, wargaming thing, the commies were red and we were blue.
	And the commies will always be red.
	So it doesn't make any sense.
	I think a thing, too, is that after they successfully stole 2020, they got so confident.
	They're like, oh, that's it.
	We'll have the levers of power forever now.
	They were so sure.
	Immigration and all that stuff.
	Like they were going to have their super majority for the next 200 years and they could do this stuff now.
	They do that every time they get in power.
	They're like, this is it.
	The world has changed.
	The demographic world, you know, now they don't want to admit that they were, oh, demographics is destiny.
	Huh?
	Who said that?
	It wasn't us.
	It was not our side said demographics.
	And the problem they have now is if demographics are destiny, Latinos are going to solidify the right.
	So, so good.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Alright, this is 11 minutes, the clock's right.
	You've got 1, 3, and 4 left from what I sent you.
	You got one, three, and four left from what I sent you.
	Line one, three, and four.
	Okay.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
	This is America First, and I'm delighted to welcome our special guest host, Jim Hansen.
	Amen.
	Hey folks, I am Jim Hanson, and we're having a great show here doing an ode to the weapons of war.
	I want to take another call now, and I want to take one from Mike in Detroit on Line 1, because we need Detroit represented.
	I've been talking to people in California, and Detroit's a real city that is under Democrat rule, and I want to hear what you've got to say, Mike, about not giving in to the left, not giving them an inch.
	Thank you, Jim.
	Yeah, you can't do that.
	They never bargain in good faith, and they find every trick in the book to get their foot in the door when it comes to the Second Amendment.
	But you know what?
	They're keeping this in the headlines, and I believe there's reasons for this, because they've exploited so many school shootings.
	It's a repeating pattern, you know?
	But I think they're trying to distract from their incredible failed policies, which are unprecedented in the history of our country.
	And also, it's kind of like a triple header for them because, you know, the police made a mistake.
	They hesitated in going in.
	And it was done with an AR-15.
	They hate AR-15s.
	And also, well, they hate the police also.
	But it happened in Texas, so it's like a triple-header.
	They hate Texas, too.
	And I think they're going to run with this as far as they can, you know, for those specific reasons.
	Well, no, I think you're absolutely right.
	And I agree that every time we try to bargain in good faith with the left, they cheat the system.
	They game it.
	They never, they're always going to screw us on the back end.
	They did it like when Reagan did immigration reform back in the day.
	He's like, yeah, we'll have, you know, an amnesty and we'll have enforcement.
	And all he got was an amnesty.
	He never got any enforcement.
	So I think I don't for a second ever assume that we are in a fair negotiation with people who will act honorably because we're talking about the left, and they don't do that.
	So going into that, when I make the suggestion that maybe we can get something we want, While giving them things that don't matter that much to us, but that we can let them claim that they want in their we-must-do-something mentality, we can throw them things that I don't think matter.
	All right.
	Other people, you know, can feel free to disagree.
	First Amendment says, well, the government is not going to stop that.
	But free speech concept, which I believe in as strongly as I believe in the First Amendment, is that you can disagree.
	So I'm throwing out an idea, not because I trust the left to play fair, but because I know they won't, but I think we can bait them into doing something that is so much more advantageous to us than what we would give up, that I'm willing to do that.
	And that again, just to say it in clear words, if we get in law, not just a SCOTUS ruling, If we get in law that there is an individual right to own any weapon in common use suitable for service in the militia, then we win a massive victory.
	And if we can get Biden to sign that, you know, honestly, he'll go down in infamy on the left as the one who did something because they had to do something that ended up giving away the game.
	Because it is so much harder To overturn anything.
	It's hard to overturn a Supreme Court ruling, especially one properly decided like Heller.
	But to overturn one at all, let alone one that has a law that says, yes, the Supreme Court ruling is right, that's written in the Constitution, which the ruling says the Constitution's right.
	The law says the ruling and the Constitution are right.
	And we, the people's direct representatives, directly elected representatives of all the people, Say that this is the law.
	And then you get the president to sign that into law.
	Then you can test that.
	Have somebody, you know, let's run a Supreme Court case up and get the Supreme Court to stamp it again and say, hell yeah, that's the law.
	Then you've got the trifecta.
	And I think that to me is worth bump stocks and crank triggers and 50 and 100 round drum magazines and maybe some sort of instant background check.
	And not much more, and maybe not even that.
	And again, there's a decent chance that that'll be a poison pill for the left, and they won't even do it.
	Which is still okay, because then we win the communications war for saying we offered, in good faith, a proposal.
	There's a Supreme Court ruling.
	All we want to do is agree with the Supreme Court ruling, and we'll give you gun control.
	Here's some gun control for you.
	You know, I think that's a viable idea, at least worth discussing.
	We'll see.
	You know, it's hard to get anything smart done in DC, so I don't hold out hope that anyone will be doing that.
	So I want to bring up one more topic that I think came up in Biden's speech, which was the idea of removing liability protection from weapons manufacturers.
	This is a real stealth, sneaky way to try and not ban weapons, but remove them.
	And here's the reason why.
	If right now, if someone buys a gun and uses it to commit a mass killing, if they remove this liability protection, then everybody can sue the gun manufacturer for what was a use of their gun that manufacturer never contemplated or expected.
	So under the same thing, if someone buys a car and mows down a crowd of people, do you sue Chevy?
	You know, you can't do that.
	And especially, this is the part that I think got missed in all the commentary on this in Biden's speech.
	There is only one product manufactured in the United States of America, or anywhere, that is protected by name in the Constitution.
	And that is an arm.
	A weapon.
	A shooting rifle, pistol, shotgun, whatever.
	A weapon of war.
	It's mentioned in the Constitution.
	It is protected.
	So the idea that you would take the use of that, and you can't have if it's protected, if you don't have someone who can manufacture them, you You don't have a right!
	Where's your right?
	If they can take it away, well, we'll just make it, you know, so that it's no longer a viable business proposition to make guns.
	And don't think for a second that's not where they're going with that.
	That's exactly why that came up.
	So I don't want anyone to miss that in the midst of all the stupidity, bad ideas, unconstitutional garbage, and everything else that they said.
	They're trying to sneak that one in.
	As if somehow, oh, that doesn't matter.
	You know, what's the danger of that?
	Well, it is probably more dangerous than the rest because it wouldn't technically be, I don't know, constitutional.
	I'm not going to go too deep down that this is or isn't constitutional law that hasn't been adjudicated.
	But in this case, the straight up result of that would be to destroy the firearms manufacturing industry.
	Now, I know my buddy Chuck just said, so what?
	We got 3D printers.
	We'll make our own.
	Um, yeah.
	But I think overall we need a firearms industry.
	And because that one product, that singular thing, is mentioned and protected.
	If it said, you know, the right to of the people to own and drive real fast in Corvettes shall not be infringed, then maybe I'd be saying the same thing for Chevrolet.
	But there ain't no clause there in the Constitution saying anything like that.
	There is for weapons.
	We need that.
	It is the most important provision in the Constitution.
	If we do not have that Second Amendment protection, the Constitution's just a dusty old piece of parchment locked up in the archives that nobody's looking at.
	So we need to make sure that we can't let one of their little stealth moves, like trying to remove the liability protections or the rest of it.
	Now, I think somehow, you know, they're going to get something.
	And I'm glad Eric Pratt and the Gun Owners of America are doing everything they can to kill this.
	And honestly, my idea is it's dangerous, okay?
	It's a risk-reward thing.
	I think the risk of giving some sort of win to the gun control crowd is worth the reward of getting the individual right to essentially an AR-15 and I would have even add let's let's add in there semi-automatic detachable box magazine and as you know time progresses whatever the equivalent arm of a foot soldier in the military is
	You know, and let's just take their whole argument.
	Oh, you know, you can have a flintlock musket, just like the founders wanted.
	Yeah, and you can have a quill and a parchment to write your stupid tweets arguing with me, jerk off.
	But the bottom line is, we need that or we, we would win that more, I think, than the reward and danger or the risk and danger of actually giving them a gun control win.
	And whether they see that at the time or not, I don't care.
	You know, if they see it, they'd be smart to see it as the wipeout move it is.
	Because once we've got all three branches of government in agreement, that is the established and almost unbeatable law of the land.
	And again, that's why they're trying to do the same with Roe v. Wade.
	They're going to fail because Roe v. Wade was an invented right that never existed, the emanation of a penumbra of the right of privacy.
	Shut up.
	There's no right to kill babies.
	There is a right to keep and bear arms.
	They shall not infringe it.
	We should enshrine it in law.
	So let it be written.
	So let it be done.
	That was pretty good, huh?
	I need Seb's voice for that.
	Anyhow, this is Jim Hansen.
	Got some more America First Radio.
	More Special Forces guys coming on.
	Another Green Beret coming up next.
	We'll be back after the break.
	Nice.
	It's Friday.
	It's Friday.
	I'm looking at your floor in the studio here.
	It's kind of similar to my garage.
	It's got one of the nice epoxy ones.
	Nice.
	Yeah.
	We still have JCN in Israel if you want to knock out.
	Oh yeah.
	I should do that.
	When is, uh, Crittenden?
	He's next segment, so... Oh, okay.
	Got it.
	Just remember, we got four segments left, but just remember that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, but, uh... America, first hole, please.
	We've got the cover of his book, Survival Mindset.
	Rock the Woke.
	Rockthewoke.com, yeah.
	Jesus.
	Yeah!
	Why not?
	I think they're mocking Rock the Vote, right?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	I mean, that's good.
	Anytime we're mocking them, we're doing our job correctly.
	Oh, I don't remember.
	I kind of maybe don't remember.
	I mean, the funny thing is, it is a popularity contest.
	president in 2008 that was one of the dumbest things I'd ever seen.
	Oh I don't remember.
	I kind of maybe don't remember.
	Popularity contest.
	I remember.
	I mean I was a kid during that.
	Well that's I mean the funny thing is it is a popularity contest.
	Let's not pretend that we have you know any kind of legitimate election based on qualifications.
	Unless you vote by mail then it's not popularity.
	Yeah then it's then it's who can harvest and stuff the most ballots.
	I've just seen clips of it, but it's...
	It's a couple things.
	Number one, it's devastating because it happened.
	Number two, it's not usable except for future events.
	Everybody who wants to re-adjudicate the last election, you can't, especially using that.
	But you can look at it and say, we can't ever let that happen again.
	That's garbage.
	And that's why I think it's vitally important.
	So all the people who want to pretend they've debunked it, you haven't debunked anything.
	We know what we saw.
	And whatever reason any of those people have for stuffing those ballots in those ballot boxes, I don't care.
	It's wrong and you don't get to do it again.
	It's the ultimate form of gaslighting.
	You can see these suspicious Extremely suspicious.
	Oh, too long in the morning, dumbing off a bunch of ballots.
	Oh no, people do that all the time.
	What are you talking about?
	Yeah, I had insomnia.
	I thought I would go collect ballots from all my old relatives and... Shut up.
	It's one of my favorite clips from the trailers with Taxis just saying, don't we all vote at one o'clock in the morning?
	I love Taxis so much.
	Alright, 90 seconds.
	We have him, but his video's not on.
	We have him, but no videos.
	Let me put him up on audio and see.
	Yeah, we'll be able to talk to him.
	No, tracking shot.
	Yeah, tracking shot.
	You can do it.
	Alright, he should be on Skype now.
	Peter, you there?
	Yes, I'm here.
	Can you hear me?
	Very loudly.
	Is it Jeff trying to run the soundboard?
	I had the last guess way up.
	Krit, how you doing, brother?
	Is that better?
	I had the speaker on.
	No, you're good.
	Do we have video yet?
	We do not appear to have video.
	His audio is good.
	We just don't have video.
	I have a still image of him we can use if need be.
	Can you turn on your video?
	Let me see what I've got to do.
	The Salem thing.
	Uh, there it is.
	Bingo.
	Hey, hey, hey, Crit, there.
	See, now we got the Duke in the background and guns and hats and all.
	I know.
	Hey, man, I couldn't remember.
	Savoy 2-Niner, is that his call sign or was that the patrol base's call sign?
	Was he Savoy 6?
	I think he was Bulldog, wasn't he?
	He was Bulldog.
	See, now I gotta watch the movie.
	I know.
	I haven't seen it.
	See, it's been a couple years, so now I obviously have to watch the movie because if I have to ask that question, I'm already wrong.
	All right, kill next.
	Bye.
	Hey, folks, it is Jim it is Jim Hansen.
	We are back doing America First Radio and today we are celebrating the weapons of war.
	And what better way to do that than to bring on another guy who I know from First Special Forces Group back in the Okinawa days, Pete Crittenden.
	How you doing, brother?
	I'm doing fine.
	Are we on the air?
	We are live at this point.
	Then I'd like to send a little message out to some certain friends and colleagues of mine.
	Do it.
	John has a long mustache.
	The chair is against the wall.
	You know, you remember, you used to be called Crit Bowlin after Mac Bowlin.
	Remember?
	There was a series of books, the Mac Bowlin books, because you were such a spy type guy.
	Everybody was convinced you were doing some kind of secret squirrel stuff.
	So whatever message you just sent out, I hope the mission is effective.
	Well, hey, you also have a book that I want to commend to people that is called Survival Mindset.
	And I think I want to start talking with you about that because this is a book, you've got a lot of bushcraft knowledge, you've got a lot of the ability to stay alive.
	I was more, you know, kind of a hotel room, full per diem, kind of urban cowboy.
	guy, you know, I could get lost in a shopping mall.
	But you've actually got a book that talks about the virtues of knowing these survival skills in order to focus your life.
	Give me kind of your one over the world for survival mindset.
	Well, first of all, you're quite right.
	My unofficial motto out there in Southeast Asia was go native early and often.
	You were out there doing the Malaysian, you know, the scout survival, the tracking school, all that stuff.
	Oh, yeah.
	I used to fade into the woodwork very easily over there because I grew up in Southeast Asia, of course.
	The premise of the book, it's about not only survival techniques.
	It's not just a field guide.
	But I start with the premise that we as human beings are still wild animals.
	But because of technology and modern life, we've gotten away from, we've gotten out of touch with our natural environment.
	And so what I what I suggest is, by getting back in touch with our natural side, the primitive side, it can help attune our instincts, our hunter gatherer instincts.
	And you can apply this in the modern world, you know, for situational awareness, personal security, and It's essentially the way, the pathway, I believe, towards that, to developing that, is go out into the woods and learn how to live off the land.
	You know, there used to be, well, there used to be a concept of manliness that, and I don't mean to, obviously, I've talked to my wife, she's a former paratrooper, but there was an element of self-efficiency, self-sufficiency that was expected
	That if you didn't know how to change a tire, you didn't know how to chop firewood, start a fire, catch a fish, you know, shoot a deer in a Kevlar vest with a nine millimeter and blow its lung out the other side, you know, all of those things, you should know those because a, you may at some point need that knowledge.
	But even if you don't need that specific knowledge, it focuses your mind and gives you a, a more what what the the modern term I believe is based is a more based lifestyle where you use your own capabilities first before you rely on on the community or the culture or the government or anybody else?
	Well, ultimately, the only person you can depend upon is yourself and perhaps your immediate family.
	It's anytime like Outside forces come to help you out?
	That's icing on the cake, but don't be counting on that.
	I throw in another premise when I talk about man in the primitive state.
	And think about this for a moment.
	In nature, man in nature lived in hunter-gatherer groups of about 30 or 40, about the size of an infantry platoon.
	More than that, there's not enough resources to live off.
	You'll start starving out.
	Fewer than that, it's very difficult to live off the land, to do all your hunting and gathering.
	So, you live amongst this group of 30 or 40, roughly half male, half female, half adult, half juvenile.
	Adult is about the age of 12 to, they die of old age, between 25 and 35.
	And about once or twice a year, maybe three times a year, they get together with other groups They have a powwow, or like they call it in Australia, a corroboree.
	They cross-pollinate, and then they go back on their way.
	And all your life, you're living amongst the same 30 or 40 people you've seen all your life.
	Okay, now think of us in the modern world.
	I live out in the country.
	I can go days, weeks without seeing anybody, unless I take a hike and go see my neighbor.
	But Up the road, less than half an hour is a little shopping center.
	It's got a supermarket.
	It's got some cafes, some shops.
	I can go there every day of the week and never see the same person.
	I think about a guy who lives in a large American city or any city in the world.
	You can go up and down the street and not see the same person.
	You know, it's remarkable if you run into somebody, you know.
	Okay, so you're surrounded by a whole sea of strangers.
	But we're still hardwired, like the primitive man.
	The anthropologists and the biologists, they estimate that it takes about 25,000 to 35,000 years for an evolutionary trait to manifest itself.
	But we've only been away from the hunter-gatherer mode for about 12,000 years, about half that time.
	So we're still hardwired.
	as we were in our natural state.
	But we're surrounded by this sea of strangers.
	And so is it any wonder that people are going nuts?
	That's interesting.
	We were talking earlier with with, you know, the breakdown of the family structure and some of the reasons we end up with mass shooters, you know, they don't have that continual starting with a family and intact family, but then a larger family group to provide that sort of structure on a continual basis as you try to socialize young males and females into a culture.
	We've lost that, and you're pointing out that that's a deeper thing than just the breakup of the American family.
	It's a sociological and biological thing.
	It's a tribal identity.
	Go ahead.
	I'm sorry.
	You and I are from a very powerful tribe.
	We're from the warrior class, okay?
	But there are other tribes.
	There's, you know, the Pittsburgh Steelers fans.
	There's, you know, all these different groups that we have.
	Classes and groups.
	Guys who are in the Boy Scouts.
	Church groups.
	We can just go on forever and classify the groups of our society.
	And it is breaking down.
	People are growing up isolated, and yet they're still surrounded by tons of people that they do not associate with.
	Okay, well, that's enough for my sociological book.
	No, but I think you're on to something important, and I want to dig a little more into that after the break.
	This is Jim Hanson.
	We are talking to Pete Crittenden, author of Survival Mindset and former member of First Special Forces Group, the coolest of all Special Forces groups.
	We'll be back after the break.
	We back?
	Yes, we are.
	Dude, that's all right.
	Now that's fun.
	And let's go back there and talk about COVID and the other things that are now, we're almost dehumanizing.
	Between screen time and other things, we have lost our cultural interaction in any meaningful way.
	I don't think we're the same even as we were two years ago, let alone 12,000.
	You're quite right.
	We're losing it to a great extent.
	And those distinct traits, you call them tribal or class or what have you, there are elements there on the left that are doing as hard as they can to break them down.
	And I'll give you an example.
	Just think of how our part of the army has changed in an extremely weird way just in the past two or three years.
	Yeah.
	No, and I think it's—let's do that.
	I want to go down that path with you on the goal of the left in de-culturing what was the American culture of self-reliance, of a survival mindset, into a, you know, more of a—not victim, I'm thinking, you know, where you need the government, where you sop off the government.
	I'm missing the word.
	Dependent.
	There you go.
	Yeah.
	Into a dependence mindset.
	Cause that's what they want.
	That's what they're doing.
	They want, they want sheep, you know?
	And so they're doing a lot of things to give us that mentality.
	And I think that's a conscious thing for them.
	COVID was a perfect example.
	It was social engineering.
	Well, they absolutely exploited it.
	We're not sure whether COVID, you know, came from.
	A guy eating a half-cooked bat in a Chinese wet market, or it came out of, you know, the bioweapons virus lab that happened to be right next to the wet market.
	Weird.
	Maybe the bat flew out of the weapons lab, right?
	And just landed in the wet market, right?
	Just by chance.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Either way, it doesn't matter where it came from.
	The minute it came out, it was exploited.
	The Chinese exploited it.
	By totally isolating and quarantining Wuhan domestically, but continuing international flights and exporting that stuff.
	Right.
	The left exploited it in a couple of different ways.
	At first, they were claiming, well, if we go ahead and quarantine and deny these people entry, then we're racist.
	And they were having street parties in Chinatown in San Francisco and New York.
	The mayor of Corona, Italy, was hugging a Chinese man, you know, saying, hey, look, this is OK.
	Well, then, blam, everybody got started getting sick.
	OK, then they went the other way around and they fully exploited it to crash the economy.
	Right.
	They did that intentionally.
	And we have never done that before.
	Real quick, Mr. Crittenden, would you mind maybe adjusting your shot slightly so that perhaps there's a little less headroom, like maybe so that you're a little further away from the camera?
	Okay, I thought that was on your end, you were doing that.
	I don't know how I can adjust all that.
	Can you slide your chair back?
	Yeah, I can do that.
	Show the split screen again, guy.
	More better?
	Yeah, that looks good.
	Alright, kill the mics.
	All right.
	I'm going to lead us right down the survival versus dependence.
	News and talk radio is still really popular, even in the Internet age.
	What you are about to hear them say is mind-boggling.
	Here's looking at you, Snowflake.
	America first.
	Hey folks, Jim Hansen back.
	We're doing America First.
	We're doing the Ode to Weapons of War, and we're talking to one of my compatriots from First Group, Pete Crittenden, who is the author of Survival Mindset.
	Now, during the break, Pete and I were talking a little bit about how the left is maneuvering us away from a survival mindset where you are responsible.
	You are the one you rely on.
	You have to be self-sufficient.
	You have to be capable.
	to a dependence mindset where you look to others you look to primarily the state to take care of you to do what you need to do and it's it's social engineering you know they don't like the outcomes when we the people use our freedoms Like the Second Amendment, but the first is the one that really scares them.
	The Second Amendment only scares them because we use it to guarantee our right to use the first.
	But Pete, you know, what are your thoughts on the idea that the antidote to the dependence mindset is your very concept?
	You have to have a survival mindset.
	Well, absolutely.
	And like I said before, I was talking about primitive humans, man in the primitive state, If you think the government's going to take care of you, look at the plight of the American Indian.
	Yeah.
	Look at any place that the Democrats in the state have been in charge for any length of time.
	Look at any of our major cities where they have put their ideas into practice and made the American, you know, the people living in those cities dependents of the government, and they turn into crapholes.
	You know, they kill initiative, they kill self-sufficiency, they kill the ability of people to rely on themselves and to fend for themselves.
	So I think if we let's instill that.
	That's another thing I've been talking about evangelizing for the Second Amendment.
	Let's evangelize for a based survival mindset and make ourselves responsible again.
	Well, absolutely.
	My neighbors are Amish all around my place.
	are Amish farms, and you just have to look at them and see what self-sufficient looks like.
	It's not easy, but they are very successful.
	And that doesn't mean you have to live an Amish life, so nothing wrong with it.
	You know, I have some really nice felling axe that I bought from Amish people because they build quality things that you can use, but it doesn't mean you can't enjoy the fruits of modern society But if you have to start with the idea that those fruits exist, not because they magically appeared from some government gift, you know, the government didn't send a check and create these things.
	What they did was productive people took the initiative, built good things and made the world a better place for us.
	And if we want that to continue, we need more people to be doing that.
	Well, absolutely.
	This country, this great country started out as a bunch of self-sufficient doers, pioneers, those sorts of people.
	And for the first 100, 150 years of our history, we excelled, we prospered, we became the most powerful nation on Earth.
	When the government stepped in and started taking care of us and handing out all this great socialism stuff, you'd think that those cities that you mentioned would be socialist utopias.
	Didn't quite work out that way, did it?
	That's quite right.
	Well, and I think that's a place where we can obviously differentiate ourselves.
	And the nice thing is they had control long enough to prove their ideas don't work.
	You know, it's not like you can't look at Detroit and San Francisco and all these other places where there are enclaves of rich liberals protected by assault weapons and their private security, and the rest of the people are living in squalor.
	Crime and no jobs and crappy conditions because they trusted the government.
	And I think that's a place where I think, you know, the change in mentality to, as your book says, a survival mindset can save us from them.
	Well, I was at a dinner party one time and the discussion turned political, as it often does, and the lady next to me blurted out, From each according to his means to each according to their needs, which is pure Karl Marx, of course.
	And of course, my comment was, well, right, that's great.
	Have you seen anywhere where that actually works?
	Yeah, that's one of those things.
	And again, now here's the interesting thing.
	When you first talked about the small hunter-gatherer groups, I almost just to be, because I'm that guy, I said, those sound kind of like communes.
	Yeah, the funny thing about communes is it works at that scale.
	You know, it doesn't work above that scale.
	You have to have a tie to the people that is so tight that you need it there.
	Well, hey, Pete, we got to go.
	Great having you on.
	Pete Crittenden, former First Special Forces group, the coolest of all groups.
	Author of Survival Mindset, which I think everyone should buy and read and take to heart and start learning.
	If you don't know how to kill a deer wearing a Kevlar vest using a 9mm to blow the lungs out, read the book and find out.
	This is Jim Hanson.
	We will be back after the break.
	We will be back after the break.
	Hey, Pete, I forgot.
	They got this thing with the clock now where some of the segments, they ended a minute.
	And so I was I thought we had another minute to talk.
	So that's why I jumped off.
	All of a sudden, I'm like, we got to get off here.
	Dude, that was fun and great.
	Thanks for being on.
	I hope we sold some books.
	I hope for a lot of reasons.
	First of all, I want your book to sell.
	Second, I think people should read it.
	You know, so Ross, and we tied it into modern politics of all things.
	You know, that's the magic of being us.
	That's the joy of being the A-Team Bravo.
	So, you know what I need to do?
	I need to rewrite the A-Team in support of the Special Forces Weapons Sergeant again as some sort of a pamphlet and expand on it, because it's funny how many people I've run into.
	Have you heard of Joe Kent?
	He's running for Congress out in Washington.
	He actually had that thing that I wrote on his team room wall like in the past few years.
	Come on dude, I wrote that in like 89 on a C-130 going to the PI on a steno pad.
	I think I remember seeing it taped on the wall in your team room.
	Yeah, dude, and then it went viral by fax machine.
	And then what happened was when Black 5, when the blog started, I posted it there and it went out again and it went out digital this time and went viral.
	And he's like, you're the guy who wrote that?
	I'm like, yeah, that's me.
	I'm famous.
	I was Charlie, of course, and during the Q course, during the academic phase, we were looking at each other.
	Of course, everybody knows that Charlie's really run the team.
	Yeah, you know, no one really believed that.
	You guys didn't even believe that yourselves.
	As I recall, you were the pack mules under my system.
	You were there to carry the heavy shit that I didn't want to carry.
	Well, hey, brother, I'm going to jump.
	Fantastic talking to you.
	We need to set up a range day or something, so let's figure it out.
	We'll roast some animals and shoot some guns.
	About 40 minutes north of me is a range in Lancaster.
	I'm a member, and it's got a 300-meter rifle range.
	All right.
	All right.
	We'll work something out.
	It's got some steel targets out there, too.
	Because you need steel.
	I was like, what am I going to do, look through a spotting scope to see if I hit something?
	I got time for that.
	All right.
	Good talking to you, Pete.
	I'll see you.
	All right, brother.
	Good stuff.
	All right.
	All right, so I got to do Israel, and then I'm going to rock the woke.
	Rock the woke.
	And we'll close with the trip to Israel.
	All right, this is the same thing.
	This segment's going to be eight minutes, not nine.
	So your out's going to be like a minute ten.
	OK.
	We still got calls?
	Oh, we got Cleveland!
	Dude, they fly by.
	I'm not used to sitting still this long.
	My neck hurts.
	See, look at that.
	Those three hours pretty much flew by.
	Dude, they fly by.
	It's too much fun, especially on a Friday.
	I'm not used to sitting still this long.
	My neck hurts.
	I know.
	Life is hard.
	I'm a whiny.
	I'm a whiny.
	First world problems, we love to have them.
	Yeah, oh I have them.
	Especially this week too, again having Monday off and then today being a guest host day, it feels almost like a three and a half day week at this point basically.
	Not another holiday until July 4th, which is a Monday this year.
	Thank God for that.
	July 4th is... Ooh, that works out well.
	That is so beautiful, yeah.
	Love to see it, folks.
	I don't know what I'm gonna do.
	We always went to my parents for the 4th, because they lived in Knoxville, or south of Knoxville, on a lake.
	So they had a dock, and in Tennessee you can buy pretty much any kind of cannon-style fireworks you wanted.
	Roman candles?
	Yeah.
	Can't handle the truth?
	Is reality just too much?
	There's always NPR.
	I hear they have tote bags.
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	Hey folks, it's Jim Hanson.
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	rock the woke i like that and it's cultural appropriation they stole from rock the vote which is a leftist thing it's beautiful anytime i love when our team alinsky's them make them play by their rules steal their stuff flip it on them it's good um today's show theme has been The ode to weapons of war.
	And I think that's another place.
	That was pure cultural appropriation.
	They tried to use the phrase weapons of war to evoke the idea that an AR-15 or a weapon of war is something no civilian has any right or reason to have.
	No need for.
	Well, first of all, I don't have to prove a need for a constitutional right.
	I can do it just because I want to.
	You know, I don't have to show a need to flap my gums and exercise my right to free speech.
	That's part of the game.
	That right is assumed.
	You can't take it away.
	So I think the idea that they wanted to create this Invent kind of a horror feeling to the idea that the exact type of weapon contemplated by the founders when they wrote the Second Amendment was somehow beyond the pale.
	You know, and then in the midst of all the other dumb things they're saying, you know, the Deering Kevlars, the 9mm lung blowers, all of the 5.56 round, you know, that yaws and churns and flips and spins and turns into a buzz saw to decapitate anyone who is within 100 yards of it when it's fired.
	They're trying to create a scare tactic.
	You know, it's just that simple.
	It's propaganda designed to scare people so that they can enact a gun grabbing agenda.
	I mean, there's never been any question.
	Their goal is to either eliminate the Second Amendment or render it useless, which is why I talked previously about if you remove liability protection from gun manufacturers, You can make gun production unproductive, and consequently no one will make guns.
	So they could shut down the Second Amendment simply by making it impossible for any company to be able to make guns.
	And I think that is, along with the rest of their scare tactics, designed to go up against the one simple fact that is kicking their butts in this whole issue.
	We do have the right to keep and bear arms and it shall not be infringed.
	And they're they're stuck.
	They have massive infringement envy and they can't do it.
	So I think and they want to do the First Amendment, too.
	You know, again, I say that the Second Amendment is the most important one because it protects the others.
	The one it protects the most is the First Amendment.
	That's really what they want.
	All right.
	Guns are not really what they're scared of.
	I take that back.
	They are.
	And they legitimately should be at some level.
	They like to joke that we could never, oh, you knuckle-dragging troglodyte right-wingers with your AR-15s, oh, they'll just drone you, or what are you going to do against a tank or any of that?
	Ask the Taliban what they're going to do with Firear sidearms and regular semi-automatic rifles against the most modern military in the world.
	And if you want to go right back to it, We beat the most powerful army the world had ever seen, or the military, and the British Army and Navy, for our own freedom.
	And that was when, right after we had done that, the founders said, you know what?
	We got to make sure.
	King George was trying to take our guns, and we hit him.
	And we kept them, and we won.
	We beat the tyrants.
	They want to make sure that we can't do that if they ever manage to pack the court or do something like that.
	And that's the kind of thing.
	I have talked today about the possibility of having to overthrow our government by force because it became too tyrannical.
	Trust me when I say I do not want that to happen and I will do almost anything to avoid it.
	I wrote a book, Winning the Second Civil War, without firing a shot because I think it's important for us to stay within the bounds of our system and win the game like that.
	But part of being able to win the game like that is the implied threat that if they ever go too far, we'll go farther.
	And I mean too far.
	Too far, repealing the Bill of Rights, essentially, is where my line is.
	Grabbing guns, if they start confiscating weapons, that may be the line.
	I'm not claiming that if that happens I will start an insurrection.
	I am saying I will do everything in my power to avoid that, and anyone who uses anything I said out of context will have me to deal with for that.
	I'm saying in order to avoid that, we have to rigorously assert our rights under the Second Amendment, under the First Amendment, under the rest of the amendments, most of which I don't know what they are, you know, and maybe I should read them.
	It's funny, I know probably, I don't know how many there are.
	How about that?
	But I do know that the ones that matter are under assault the most.
	I'm not real concerned about anybody trying to quarter soldiers at my house.
	I'm a little bit more concerned that the government is going to declare hate speech to be an exemption from the First Amendment right to free speech, because heaven forbid someone get their feelings hurt.
	And they're going to go ahead and say, well, you now are liable for that.
	And if they pack the Supreme Court, we're in a situation where they might actually get away with that.
	So our rights matter.
	We're going to stand up for them.
	That's why we need our weapons of war.
	We've got one more segment coming up, and we're going to finish strong here in the America First Ode to the Weapons of War.
	I can't believe I just admitted I don't know how many amendments there are.
	I think there's 24.
	See, you think there's 25?
	I don't have any idea.
	I would have guessed around two dozen.
	I would have guessed, but I don't know for sure.
	And I know for certain that I could probably comfortably name the contents of eight or ten tops.
	There's 27 ratified.
	See?
	Neither one of them.
	See, neither one of them.
	27?
	27?
	Yeah, the last one was ratified in 1992.
	Completed ratification in 1992.
	That was an amendment?
	That was an amendment If conservatives were as malevolent as leftists, there would be no leftists within six months.
	And they seem to think that that's just not true.
	You know, that's what I think is so comical is the idea that somehow we couldn't do it.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know, I mean, I'm sorry.
	All the people who know how to do that.
	are on our team.
	You know, they're my friends, for God's sakes.
	And like you said, yeah, the Taliban pulled it off pretty, not just against us, but against the Soviet Union.
	They beat two of the, they beat the two greatest militaries of the modern age.
	I mean, what, are you going to tell me that we can't run a guerrilla war in the United States and prevail?
	I'm pretty sure we could.
	That's kind of how our country was founded, so I would imagine.
	I mean, yeah, it's going to be harder with, you know, the surveillance state and everything.
	It's not going to be a cakewalk.
	It never is.
	It's a two-way street, though.
	Yeah, they can use that against us.
	We also have those capabilities and we have people on the inside.
	We would have provocateurs and people doing sabotage and all of that.
	It's... someone should write a book series about that.
	Oh wait, Schlichter did.
	There are civil wars cancelling everybody in the financial system, that's what... Right, they want to do it administratively and use state power without actually having to fight us because they know fighting us would be painful and they don't know how.
	Make it so we literally can't live our lives, basically.
	Which is brutal in its own way.
	The clock's gonna be right here.
	You gotta make Israel read quick, too.
	There's two callers and there's a line too.
	I just sent you what he wants.
	I'm like, I got time to read.
	Oh shit.
	I wish I was faster.
	I wish I was faster.
	He's Jim Hansen, former Green Beret.
	A man who knows how to win civil wars without firing a shot.
	Or if you have to, that as well.
	Which we were just talking about before and during the break.
	Folks, it is Jim Hanson.
	We are on the final segment of this America First Ode to the Weapons of War.
	And I'd like to thank all the folks who have contributed to this.
	It's been a wonderful chance to talk about why our constitutional rights not just matter, but require maintenance.
	You know, they shouldn't, but we have a pretty pervasive enemy.
	You know, when I talk about winning the second civil war, it's this war against statists.
	The left is comprised of a collection of statists who believe that they have a right to tell us how to live our lives, and they're willing to do whatever they can.
	They don't want to fight us in a hot civil war.
	Because they know that that's what our team knows how to do.
	We're the ones who are the warrior class.
	We are the ones who are military veterans and hunters and all of that.
	And they don't even know how to change a tire on their own vehicle, let alone fight a guerrilla war Against an enemy that knows this country as well or better than they do when all they know is the inside of an uber Going to their starbucks to get a double whip no fat frapperappuccino so I think All of this is part of that battle.
	Every time they pop their heads up, just keep in mind that they're trying to subjugate you.
	That's all you have to remember.
	The left lives for the simple goal of making you a vassal to their great state.
	The problem is, Their state ain't that great.
	Every place they get power they turn into a crap hole and I'm not willing to do that.
	I will live near or around those places if I have to.
	I will deal with it but I want to live among people of my tribe.
	And my tribe is people who are doers, people who are self-sufficient, people who can take care of themselves, people who can protect themselves, people who can protect others if a school shooting starts.
	All of the things that are ingrained in people of the right as the cost of liberty, I want to live around people who do that.
	So thanks.
	I'm going to read us out with a chance to take a great trip now.
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	Alright, we lived!

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