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March 24, 2024 - Lionel Nation
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Red Flag Law and the Destruction of the Second Amendment
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Good day, dear friends.
Let me explain to you something that you must consider, you must think of, you must be aware of for reasons.
That are kind of obvious.
And this has nothing to do with whether you like guns or not.
Okay, that's very important.
We don't care whether you like guns.
That's not the story.
The issue was something called red flag laws.
And red flag laws basically is this new, it's been around for a while, and now it's going to be on the federal level.
That basically says, if someone around you, a loved one, The caretaker, the police, somebody who says, I don't think they're okay there.
Let's take them away for a while.
Make sure he or she's okay.
And then we'll return them later on.
What do you say?
Everything will be groovy.
No problem.
Let's just return them.
After a period of time, and you can petition, and we'll make sure you say, okay, Mr. Lancaster, are you okay now?
I'm feeling much better.
Okay, give the man back his guns.
You just suspended his Second Amendment rights.
Why?
Because you thought, well, he's not up to speed.
One day, I think it'd be a good idea to say, Mr. Lancaster, while we're at it, we've noticed.
By virtue of watching your social media program, you tend to be saying a lot of crazy stuff.
A lot of stuff that may be hate-filled.
That might be, well, inappropriate.
We see that you're a vaccine denier and you don't trust the science.
And you say terrible things about Israel or Russia or for Israel or for Russia or against Russia.
Whatever we think this week.
That's inappropriate.
And I'll tell you what we're going to do, Mr. Lancaster.
We're going to suspend your First Amendment rights, just like we did your Second Amendment, because you know what?
Until you prove to yourself that you're going to watch your tongue, we don't want you out there saying things that, well, could spread bad and evil things.
That's what we want to do.
Do you understand that, Mr. Lancaster?
Nothing personal, mind you.
We just want to make sure you don't say anything that's crazy.
You can understand that.
Do you see what's happening with this?
The suspension of a constitutional right based upon somebody's observation of what?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Let's talk about this.
Even Born to Raise Hogs says, what Jadrool said, take the guns first, go through due process second.
An excellent question, Mr. Hogs.
An excellent question.
We'll be going through these thoughts and these comments tonight as I invite you to weigh in.
We have other things as well.
And just remember, it's not about guns per se.
What it is, is about the suspension.
The interruption, the derailing of constitutional rights for your own good.
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My friends, as you know, we are constitutionalists.
This is the blueprint of our country.
This is it.
The Second Amendment under Heller basically says that you have the right to possess firearms and to bear arms, as it were, and to arm bears.
Pursue it to some kind of a militia, but because of the case of Heller against DC.
So what are these new laws?
What are these newfangled laws?
Well, I'm glad you asked, Sparky.
I'm glad you asked.
You see, red flag laws are also called ERPOs, Extreme Risk Protection Orders.
And they're designed to temporarily remove firearms from individuals deemed to be, well, a danger to themselves or others.
Sound familiar?
Well, guess what?
There's more.
And here are the key points.
Number one, the primary goal of the Red Flag Law is to prevent tragedies.
Tragedies from happening before they occur by allowing the temporary removal of firearms from individuals, showing signs of, well, Dangerous behavior.
And what is dangerous behavior?
I mean, he's got a gun, doesn't he?
Shall I say more?
Next, typically, family members, law enforcement in some states, medical professionals or educators, can petition a court to order the temporary removal of firearms from an individual they believe possesses a, or poses rather, a significant risk.
Duration.
If the court agrees that the individual poses a risk, it can issue an order prohibiting them from purchasing or possessing firearms for a specific period, usually up to a year, although the duration can vary from state to state.
Now, the individual in question must be given an opportunity to appear in court and respond to the allegations.
If an order is issued, they can appeal it.
And as of now, red flag laws have been enacted in several U.S. states, but now they're going federal.
But there is a significant variation in how these laws are implemented and enforcement from one stage to another, hence the desire for uniformity.
The red flag laws are subject to debate.
Proponents, of course, argue that they're essential for preventing gun violence.
Particularly suicides and mass shootings.
Critics, however, contend that they can infringe upon, obviously, the Second Amendment rights and the like.
And studies and statistics regarding the effectiveness of red flag laws in preventing violence are still evolving.
Early evidence from some states suggests that they may be effective in preventing certain types of gun violence.
Now, what's interesting about this is that they can prevent Gun violence, but because, well, they took away your guns, but they do not prevent you being able to prevent gun violence against you because they've taken away your guns.
You see?
And in the Heller case, it's a pretty simple case.
You've got this right.
There's nothing in here that says You can't.
There is a, you have, this is a Second Amendment right.
This isn't a privilege.
It's not like driving.
Driving, you know, you can lose your license, you have a drunk driving case, or maybe your eyesight's bad, or, you know, whatever.
That's a privilege.
Driving is a privilege.
Second Amendment is a right.
You can't suspend your Fourth Amendment because, well, you're drunk.
You're crazy.
Do you see where this is going?
And nobody's going to say anything.
And it sounds good, doesn't it?
Well, I mean, after all, you don't need a gun.
I mean, what do you need this gun for anyway?
There's nothing in the Second Amendment that talks about hunting or deer hunting.
You don't need an M16, a Mac-10.
You don't need an M60.
You don't need a howitzer to hunt ducks.
How many times have you heard this?
And you're crazy.
You're crazy if you have a gun.
You're crazy.
You're nuts.
Penis envy and you're sexually deranged.
You've heard that before.
For the love of God, it's such garbage.
I mean, it's such absolute garbage.
I mean, truly, it's unbelievable.
And what's also interesting to note is that throughout this entire exercise, throughout this...
Sheer and unmitigated lunacy.
Nobody is going to be fighting.
There's no more NRA.
They pretty much ran that out of business.
Who's out there?
Who represents the gun owner?
Not the gun manufacturer, but the gun owner.
Ladies and gentlemen, I say to you, my dear friends, the issue is simply not, it is not this about, how do I say this?
It is not about This behavior.
See, there's this thing.
Good behavior is not...
Constitutional rights or good behavior is not required for freedom.
What's the expression?
That's what they do in jail.
That's what they do in jail.
I'm butchering this.
Good behavior.
Jill, what is this?
Good behavior, a reward.
What is this expression?
There's this wonderful piece.
Oh, forget it.
You know what I'm talking about.
It's a wonderful expression, and I'm botching it terribly.
Now, I want you to be aware of this.
This is what they're doing.
This is what they're doing.
Ronald says, I am an expert marksman in multiple small arms, but I don't need a gun, and you shouldn't have one if you don't want.
But the Second Amendment says this is your right.
Heller against D.C., this is your right.
We don't care whether you have a gun, with all due respect.
We don't care whether you like guns.
We don't care whether you think they're warranted.
You don't think, we don't really care.
You're entitled to your opinion.
Please, please, think whatever you want.
We don't care.
Second Amendment.
This is a guaranteed right.
And Heller deals with the issue of whether it deals only for militias and that sort of thing.
See, that's my thing.
What do you need a gun for?
I didn't ask you.
What do you need a car for?
What do you need a flat screen TV?
I don't care whether you agree with it.
I don't care.
Guns are dangerous.
They better be.
Or else they're called a stick.
Guns kill people.
Damn right.
That's the idea.
Now, do I think they can cause some problems?
Absolutely!
Guard dogs can cause problems.
A lot of things can cause problems.
So what?
Listen to me.
Come here.
You know what really causes problems?
Victimization from criminals.
People who come into your home.
Have you seen what's happening right now?
Are you paying attention?
Are you seeing what's happening regarding squatters?
This is this new form of kind of like a de facto burglary.
Do you know what's happening?
Have you been watching this right now?
There are people out there who have no respect for you and your family and your home.
They will come in and they will stay there.
Do you understand that?
Ladies and gentlemen, Dick Dickerson says the Second Amendment gives me the right to own anything the military has, period.
Well, not really.
Not really.
It's never been enunciated.
But thank you, by the way, Dick.
It's never been enunciated as such.
It specifically deals with and the idea.
Of the Second Amendment.
Is that if you were to ever decide to defend yourself against a rogue government.
Do you hear what I'm saying?
Against a rogue government.
A rogue regime.
Hordes of groups, passels, cartels.
People who have...
Who are organized, who have very powerful weapons.
Not necessarily the 82nd Airborne Gone Rogue, but the Kali Cartel, the Zetas, the whoever.
The fentanyl crews, the people coming over, the Venezuelans, the MS-13ers, the ones who are...
I don't have to ask permission.
I want to have something that is able to handle that.
High velocity, high capacity magazine, military style.
Something that I decide will be useful in, I guess, using a weapon as one would do almost militaristically.
And I don't need your permission.
And I'm not asking your permission.
I'm not asking.
And if you don't bother me, I'm not going to carry you down the street.
I'm not a big fan of...
Open carry is a real...
I'm not crazy about open carry.
I can't limit it.
Nothing in there that says you can't open carry.
Sorry.
I don't particularly care for it.
I think it makes people uneasy.
No.
But let me ask you something.
Do you believe there is any form of weapon that the drafters of the Constitution ever, ever imagine being prohibited?
Do you?
Let me ask you a question.
Do you believe that there is any type of gun?
Let me see.
I've got a good one for you.
This is kind of a trick question.
Do you believe this?
Do you believe this?
Let me see.
I'm going to do a little research.
Ah, yes.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Okay, let me ask.
Let me go back to where I was going.
Anybody think?
Wild West.
Dick Dickerson, ladies and gentlemen, says, open carry is stupid.
I have a CCW and anyone with a handgun should as well.
Uh, yeah.
I think it's a lot better.
It's a lot better.
Unless you want to carry a rifle for some reason.
There's responsibility to this.
You know, just because I have a right to a...
I mean, I drive an automobile doesn't mean I can rev it up in the middle of the night and wake people up and scare the hell out of me.
It doesn't work like that.
It doesn't work like that.
No spring gun.
Who said that?
Hogs?
How did you know about spring guns?
Spring guns are my favorite.
Do you know what that is?
Anybody hear of that?
This is what you learn in law school, especially torts.
Torts are civil offenses versus crimes.
Crimes are an act and an allegation.
What am I trying to say?
What am I trying to say?
It is a...
A crime is an act that is punishable between the state and or the government and an individual.
State of New York versus a crime, and it seeks justice and incarceration and that sort of thing.
That's a crime.
A tort is a civil wrong between two people, between a company and a person, and it seeks other, it doesn't seek incarceration.
And tort is from the Latin word tortius, meaning twisted.
Contorted.
And that sort of thing.
And in torch law, you always learn about spring guns.
And it works like this.
You have a device at your home where if anybody comes in, a spring is tripped and this gun goes off and, wow, you get an arrow into you or something like that.
That is considered violative.
And do you know why, Hogs?
Do you know why?
Why do you think?
Why do you think?
Why?
Why is that?
Why?
Why, dear friend?
Why do you think?
Why do you think that is true?
Tell me.
Why do you think you can't?
Why is that prohibited?
It's a booby trap.
Thank you, Mark.
Why isn't a booby trap illegal?
It's dangerous.
Guns are dangerous.
Why?
Those are classified as booby traps.
What's wrong with a booby trap?
I've got to go into your house to trip the booby trap.
It doesn't allow for self-defense.
What's a guard dog?
What's a guard dog?
It's in there waiting.
You open the door.
It's a booby dog.
You don't go in the house, you don't get the dog.
What's wrong with a booby trap?
You can't place blame.
Nonsense!
Of course you can place blame on the homeowner.
Is this your home here?
Did you leave the booby trap?
I certainly did.
Ta-da!
There's the blame.
A guard dog is selective.
Not necessarily.
The dog knows anybody who comes in, he attacks you.
It's that simple.
It's premeditated.
So?
So what?
Premeditated?
Not if you come in.
If you don't come into my house...
That's it.
You're getting close.
When I tell you the answer, it's pretty simple.
Well, you caught a booby.
There you go.
It's a great question.
It's one of those things where this is just like law school, where you ask the question, like, I don't know.
I'm not really sure.
What is the difference?
And I'm being the Socratic professor.
I'm saying, well, what about this?
What about that?
What about a guard dog?
Could you have anything that has any kind of a thing where when you come in, the door is slammed shut and you're trapped inside?
What's that?
Always triggered, Brian.
So is your guard dog.
The guard dog is there and you have teams of them.
Teams!
And what if you have a sign that says, warning!
Booby trap!
Kind of defeats the purpose, but you wouldn't want to tell people that.
Could you do that?
You could say, beware of the dog.
Well, the answer is very simple.
Here's the question.
Can you, at home, sit there with a gun, with a rifle, and ready, ready, the door opens up, and whoever opens the door comes in, bang, you just shoot him.
Can you do that?
Can you do that?
It's my question.
You're at home, you sit there by yourself, In the dark, waiting.
You hear footsteps.
Ah, here they come.
Ah, here we go.
And you hear somebody like looking.
You go, oh, they're going to come in.
And you're behind the door.
And you're waiting.
And whoever opens the door, bang!
You shoot them.
Can you do that?
Can you shoot that?
No.
No.
You cannot do that.
And the answer is that you cannot do away from your home.
What you can't do when you're home.
You can't just shoot people just because they come to the door.
Now, here's a very, very interesting question.
There was a while back, there was a case a while back in Miami or Miami.
And there was a fellow, I think Ellis Rubin represented him.
I liked Ellis Rubin a lot.
I think it was Ellis Rubin.
Don't get me wrong.
And this poor guy was burglarized all the time.
They kept coming to his door, coming to his place.
Over and over.
He got sick and tired of it.
And he just couldn't take it.
And they kept coming through this one area.
And he tried to patch it up and they'd break through it again.
And they tried to patch it up and they'd break through it again.
So he put this grating and electrified it.
So he had to come through the roof.
Through the roof.
Not the front door.
He had to come through the roof.
And he came in one morning, opened it up, and he looked and he saw a leg.
Uh-oh!
And he electrocuted, fried somebody.
And they were going to charge him.
He did a manslaughter in all kinds of civil cases.
And I believe, don't hold me to it, it might have been either they dismissed it or it might have been just nullification.
The jury said, ah, the hell with it.
But I'm thinking to myself, you know, I, uh, I don't know about that.
What if I took all of the supports away on the roof and I put papier-mâché, papier-mâché on the tops of the roof and there's no support.
Looks like a roof, looks like they can support you, but you can't.
And when they climbed across, they fell through.
And inside there might have been dogs or maybe...
I don't know, spikes or something that I happened to leave out because I was polishing them.
Yeah, that's it.
I was polishing all these spikes.
Yeah, that's what I do.
It's a hobby of mine.
I collect spikes.
And I was polishing them the night before and I figured, well, I'll knock off early and I left them there so I could finish polishing my spikes the next day.
And the spikes happened to be above where they fell through.
Is there a law that says they have to have a real roof?
I don't know.
Who walks on a roof?
Doors are one thing, roofs are another.
Oh, I had so much fun with this, and I'm thinking, what about this?
Because that's what lawyers do.
What about this?
What about that?
What about this?
What about if...
Now, I can talk later on, if you want some other time, about why you really should...
Think about having a gun in the first place.
Let me tell you this story.
I had a friend of mine who said, yeah, I'm going to go get a shotgun.
I said, a shotgun?
Okay.
For what?
For home?
Yeah.
Okay, that's good.
Do you know anything about shotguns?
No, but I'm going to go learn.
You're going to go learn.
Okay, what are you going to learn?
How to shoot it?
What are you going to learn?
How to clean it?
You're not going to be cleaning it a lot because you're not going to be shooting it a lot.
And shotguns are pretty, you know, you know what kind of a gauge you're going to have?
I don't know, but I'm going to get one.
Ladies and gentlemen, Dick Dickerson weighs in, owning a gun requires responsibility, proper training, and a crystal clear understanding of the laws in your area.
If you can't do those simple things, you shouldn't own one.
Oh, absolutely.
Oh, absolutely.
You know, Dick, and I mean that, Some people are George's, other people are Harry's, but you're a dick, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart, my friend, and thank you.
Years ago, Flauda was the first state to have the concealed firearm permit.
We went to this class.
It was wonderful.
And they had this great recording.
It was this great recording.
Oh, well, it was three cases.
One was a person who successfully defended themselves because of whatever it was.
Number two, somebody who...
But the one that was the worst was somehow this was recorded.
I don't know how they recorded this.
I have no idea what recording device was available.
But this was a woman who was attacked in her home.
And you can hear her being...
Killed or whatever, and the bad guy takes her gun from her that she had and uses it against her because she didn't know what she was doing.
She didn't know what she was doing.
So I'm talking to my friend, and he's, I'm going to get a shotgun.
Okay.
I said, let me ask you something.
Does a shotgun, that's good because it won't go through walls necessarily.
Now, Shotgun, are you able to...
Where are you going to keep your shotgun?
Let's say you're hearing noise.
You're going to go get it?
You're not going to have it under the bed, are you?
No, because the first thing they're going to do when they come in is they're going to go under your bed or next to your nightstand and look for the gun.
That's where you keep the gun, next to the bed.
So you're going to pull this gun, like a Mossberg or something, and you're going to...
That sound is worth everything.
You're getting ready to go?
You're going to what?
You go down with the shotgun?
What if it's dark?
You have a light?
What are you going to do?
What are you going to say?
You're going to say something?
What do you do when you go down?
Alright, I'm armed!
Who's down there?
What do you say?
Or do you creep up?
What if it's your wife?
What if it's somebody else?
What if it's some kid?
What if it's Sparky?
Sparky says in the 1960s, a friend of dad's was verbally threatened with death.
And the guy showed up at the door.
Dad's friend shot through the door and killed him.
Dad's friend was found not guilty in court.
Well, consider him lucky.
Guy showed up at his door.
Dad's friend shot through the door.
Threatened with death.
You know, again, I...
Thank you, Sparky.
That's a very good thing.
I can't tell you what a jury's going to do.
I cannot.
Remember that CBS?
One of the best ones, there was this bully of the county.
Go...
It was Harry Reasoner or...
I think it was Harry Reasoner.
Or Morley Safer.
I don't know.
But anyway, there was this town.
And there was this bully.
And they hate...
You must have seen this.
Please Google it.
They hated this guy.
He was horrible.
He made...
Everyone's life a living hell.
They hated this guy.
I don't know if he hurt people or women.
They just hated him.
But one day he's at a bar or something and they shot him up in his truck.
I mean shot him up, killed him.
And there were all these people there and not one person saw it.
Not one.
It's almost like a Sicilian town.
Nobody saw it.
Nobody saw it.
Nobody to charge, but had somebody been caught, they would have probably been found not guilty.
I don't know.
It depends upon the jury.
It depends upon the facts of the case.
Self-defense, give me the situation.
I don't know.
It depends.
Somebody threatened them.
It's not normally those cases that are going to...
But here's the thing, Sparky, and this is also Dick Dickerson.
The law says you can only use the same degree of force that is shown against you.
So here's a question.
As I asked my friend, I said, if somebody's in your home, can you kill them?
Now, I've got another friend.
They live in a townhouse.
And one time I said, excuse me, if I went to the car, it's a Yugo, by the way.
It's a stretch.
So you can tell I'm making sure it's okay.
So I went out to the Yugo and came back.
And you know how townhouses look alike?
I swear to God, I walked in and I looked down and said, I don't remember this guy having a, you don't have to have like a little mud, not a mud room, but they put their boots and I don't remember all these.
And I hear, can I help you?
I said, oh, I'm sorry.
I turned around and walked out.
Now I'm in his home.
It was a house next door.
Just walked in.
Could he have shot me?
Now I'm in his home.
But I think he might have a hard time with that.
Daytime, leaves the door open, people walking around.
A jury, a jury listening could have said, you know, I don't know if stand your ground would even apply.
That's a tough one.
Stand your ground is another one too.
That's a real tough one.
So make a long story short.
I'm talking to my friend.
I said, so you're going to have a shotgun?
Yeah.
So when you shoot him, where are you going to shoot him?
Can you aim center of mass?
You know, here.
Here.
And boom!
That may be...
Boom!
Kill him.
Not wing him.
Kill him.
Can you kill somebody?
Well, if I want to kill him, then don't get the gun.
You're not going to be Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill.
I'm going to wing him.
Any of you friends?
And I'm a pistol guy.
I don't like long barrel and all that stuff.
One time, I'll never forget this, a friend of mine had a gun range.
Wait a minute.
Hold it.
Sparky says, the man repeatedly threatened to kill him in front of witnesses and had a pistol in his head.
Oh, when he showed up.
Oh, there you go.
Now, now you're talking.
That's a different story.
Deadly force?
Deadly force.
You just, oh yeah.
A pistol?
Oh yeah.
That's a different story.
But if you came up, come on, you son of a bitch!
Come on, put him up!
Now, jury could say, let's say you're in a wheelchair.
You're 80 years old.
Somebody says, come on, old man.
If I hit the old man once really hard in the chest, I'll kill him.
So maybe deadly force for an older person might not be the same deadly force for you or me.
But that gun, Sparky, that changes it.
I think that's your ticket to acquittal right there.
But in this case, you're going to shoot somebody?
You're going to kill them?
During the day?
Can you do this?
Can you do this?
You can kill somebody?
Yeah, if you have the slightest doubt, you've got to go through this in your head.
You've got to ask yourself, if you're 3 o 'clock now, 3 o 'clock in the morning, there's somebody downstairs.
Different story.
So what are you going to do?
Are you going to get your rifle?
Are you going to get your shotgun?
Where is it?
It's in the garage.
It's in the closet.
Mmm.
That's not good.
And they're going to go there.
Well, I got something on top of it.
They're going to go right to the closet and look.
They're going to go look for the closet and look next to the bed.
By the way, there's some great stuff.
If you ever go to a gun show, they have these beautiful, it looks like a headboard.
And this thing pulls down and there's all your arsenal.
And it goes back up.
You'll never guess anything's in there.
You also have things next to the bed.
It looks like a humidor and a three-button thing.
No, whatever.
Different means of you grabbing it.
Because if you can't get to it, it's a different story.
And if you live in a townhouse apartment or something like that with kids and wind and door, I mean thin walls, and you have bullets, they have these rounds.
They're very expensive.
They call them mall round, but they have little BBs inside.
The actual round itself has these BBs so that they go in.
And by the way, what I had was I had alternating rounds.
Full metal jacket, hollow point.
So each one was different.
I had a Beretta.380, which is wonderful.
The most accurate gun in the world.
Had a cold pocket light, like.380s.
You shoot it one time and that's it.
It just melts.
But it's very light, very good for close.
And by the way, you don't have to go to target practice.
You're going to probably shoot somebody from your bedroom to the door.
That far.
So you don't need to worry about weaver grip and trying to hit 25 yards.
If you're hitting somebody 25 yards away, something is wrong here.
Because this is in your home.
Why are you shooting somebody 25 yards away?
No, no, no, no.
Ladies and gentlemen, Ronald Joseph Weech joins us.
Ronald Joseph says, Take a knee.
My only friend is a fly trapped within the circumference of a circle template.
But when I astray my thoughts and look again, it's gone as you were.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you for that.
My only friend is a fly trapped within the circumference of a circle template.
That's beautiful.
Thank you for that.
I'm going to look that up.
Please cite that one for me.
Now, one time, my friend had a range, and he said, look at these.
They had 40 calibers were big.
40!
FBI was going to use them.
Remember they had 10 millimeters?
Why are they doing this?
This was a 40 caliber semi-automatic.
40. Okay.
So help me, God.
I, 25 yards, took it out, and these were brand new, so he wasn't selling them, he said, they wouldn't, you know, he said, but they're not, each one is, I mean, they're good, but you get the wrong one.
Anyway, to make a long story short, and that was good, you know, shot.
Paper, do it.
First one, bang!
Nothing!
I mean, it was like, what is happening here?
So I'm looking at the slide and sometimes the slide is inside the thing and I'm thinking, is this okay?
Bang!
And then I went like this, bang, and as I target here, I'm over here like this, to the right.
Now we're kind of on the paper.
So, okay, imagine I'm looking at you and you're the target.
I'm like this.
Here's the gun.
Over here.
Bang!
Now I'm getting close.
And I said, what is going on here?
I don't know what happened.
I don't know where to go.
This is a dog.
This was out of the box.
It was a beautiful gun.
It was terrific.
But there's something wrong with it.
It was really, really wrong.
I don't know.
Now, had I not noticed, now my Beretta was perfect.
The only problem is, a little heavy.
A little heavy.
That's it.
But, you know, semi-automatic, they were heavy.
That being said, that being said, I had in my mind a million times, a million, a million times I thought of myself, this is what I'm doing.
I am going to get out of the way.
I'm going to leave.
I am not going to, you don't bring them into bars.
This is a concealed firearm.
Don't go into bars.
If you go to a bar and a restaurant, it's got to serve more food.
In the old days, couldn't bring them to church, couldn't bring them here, couldn't bring them there.
Very, very strict.
But...
Now the issue becomes as well, here's the best story of them all, and I'm going to tell you the funniest story that I know you're going to get right.
This is what everybody hears and everybody knows.
It is not so much urban myth as much as it is an absolute reality and a truth.
But first...
But first, this critical word about emergency food.
Forget the guns.
Forget all this stuff.
Forget Second Amendment.
If you're not eating, you've got a big problem.
Listen carefully.
Let's talk about a very serious subject.
Emergency food.
That's right.
Emergency food.
Now, I know at first blush it's difficult for most people to think about something that they just take for granted.
Ever-reaching, you know, emergency status.
We're used to stores always being open.
Deliveries always made.
No supply chain disasters.
No ransomware catastrophes.
You know, shutting down gas stations.
No trucking strikes.
No war.
No protests from farmers.
No mysterious Chinese weather balloons.
Nothing.
Nothing catastrophic in terms of weather.
Well, that can't happen to us, right?
And I understand it's a defense mechanism that we have because the idea of ever not being able to eat or locate food is seemingly incomprehensible to most people.
But think about this.
It's not.
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Be honest.
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I don't think so.
I'm not talking about having stuff in your cabinet.
I'm not talking about banana chips and jerky.
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Now, my friends, let me bring up a couple of things, too, which is very, very important.
Before I forget, how people...
how people you Use words.
It's a very difficult thing.
How people use words are very, very, very critical.
It's very, very critical how people use words and how they will bend truth and words and the like.
Mrs. L did an incredibly important video, which I want you to see.
I'm going to give you the link right now.
And this is not on topic of this, but this will Enrage you.
This is a new one she did tonight.
New video.
Where they are talking about traffic kids, kids who are basically made to do despicable acts and the like.
They're referring to them as underage sex workers.
They're using the power of the euphemism.
The power of the euphemism To bring about this horror.
There's no such thing as a sex worker who's a minor.
It doesn't exist.
What are you talking about?
It's demented.
So that's the link.
Please watch it and please follow her.
But let me ask you this question.
I'm going to tell you this, and you're going to answer the question for me, and we're going to laugh, but it's a God's honest truth.
And you know what I'm talking about.
And you know what I'm saying is true.
And I know you're going to laugh.
You're going to think, oh, that's ridiculous.
But if you have been around this world, like I have, and like you have, you have heard this before many, many times, okay?
Let me set it up.
Let me give it to you normally in the context of the way I would hear it from somebody from Central Florida.
Somebody named like Buddy Strickland, who would say something to you like, You know, I got a friend of mine who's been a cop for a long time.
And he told me something.
He said, now here's what you gotta do.
And he told me this because he's a police officer for 25, 30 years, 40, and the story gets longer and longer.
And he told me this, and I'll never forget it.
I'm gonna tell you right now.
He told me, and I want you to finish this line.
If you shoot somebody outside your house, What do you do?
Let me try this again.
If you shoot somebody outside your house, what do you do?
Now think about this.
Come on.
What do you do?
What do you do?
Come on.
You've heard it before.
What do you do?
Let's see who gets it right.
Let's see who gets it first.
Come on.
What do you do?
You shoot him outside.
What do you do?
From a cop now.
Rich Mountain says, drag him in.
Dan Phillips, drag him in.
You've heard this.
One of my favorites.
Drag him in.
Aim.
I like that.
Drag it back in.
I think we see it.
Claim you were in fear for your life.
Close.
But they always say, drag him inside.
Look at this.
Drag your house outside.
That's even better.
Cop told my dad that, you've heard it, just drag them inside.
That's what you do.
You drag them inside.
Cop told me that too.
Daddy's buddy told me that he used to.
Mr. Barnwell Ledbetter.
I heard a name, Barnwell Gerst.
I love that Barnwell.
Isn't it a beautiful name?
Barnwell.
Now, that might be one of the most stupid things anybody's ever done.
Anybody suggested, as far as I'm concerned.
Drag them inside.
What?
Drag them inside.
Drag them inside.
Now, imagine this, okay?
Imagine this.
There's a...
Imagine there is a police officer.
Police officer, come to your house.
He goes, yes, ma 'am.
Officer, yeah, there's a guy here trying to break in.
This man?
Yes, sir.
Could you drag him inside?
What?
Did you drag him inside?
Well, what makes you say that, officer?
Well, I'll tell you what makes me say that.
First of all, he's covered in leaves.
It looks like he's got dirt on him, like somebody dragged him inside a house.
Second of all, you see where his feet are?
There's like rut lines where you dragged him in.
See that?
Plus there's blood that's dragged in.
It looks like, unless he came inside and was bleeding before he came in.
I don't think that happened.
And there's blood up here.
You dragged him inside, didn't you?
Did you talk to somebody?
Did you talk to a policeman?
That's the dumbest damn thing I've ever heard in my life.
First of all, why would you shoot somebody outside your house?
He's not inside.
Well, I knew he was up to no good.
You knew it?
Well, I could just tell.
I could just tell because, you know, he's got that, you know, they got that look in their eye.
All right.
And you shot it?
Well, you know, I didn't seem to do it at the time, but you know, whatever.
I did it.
Now, when I told people this, and I used to talk about this, I used to give classes and do this stuff, I said, now, here's what I would do.
But I said it as a joke.
As a joke.
I didn't really mean this.
But kind of as a joke, I sort of, you know, maybe said it, but I kind of, maybe, you know.
I said, well, a couple of things there.
First, this is important.
I said, I said a couple of things.
Number one, I said the best thing to do, probably, probably, I think probably, is to just not say anything and just wait.
Just wait.
You shot him outside.
I don't know why you did, but you just wait.
Just wait.
Somebody's going to come to the door and say, Mr. Johnson?
Yes, sir?
Can I talk to you for a minute?
You certainly can.
What is it, officer?
Well, there's a dead man in your front lawn.
What?
There's a dead man.
Are you shitting me?
Myrtle, come here.
There's a dead man in our lawn.
What the hell is he doing there?
I don't know.
Well, get rid of him.
This looks horrible.
What do the neighbors think?
Did you shoot him?
Did I what?
Shoot him outside?
What, you think I talked to a cop?
Hell no.
Who is he?
I don't know.
Well, get rid of him.
This looks terrible.
I'm sorry, sir.
Come on, what are people going to think?
Did you shoot him?
I did not.
Why would I shoot somebody outside my house?
I don't even know who he is.
Alright, thank you.
Well, thank you.
Now, I'm not.
Please.
For the love of God.
I'm not suggesting that you do that.
It's a joke.
Kinda.
Sorta.
Maybe.
Maybe sorta kinda.
Maybe as a joke.
Maybe sorta.
But there's something to be said for that.
There's something, believe it or not, to be said for this.
And it's something which goes to show you most people don't have any idea of what they're going to do.
They have no idea of what they're going to do.
None.
They don't think about it.
By the way, Ronald Joseph Weach, new member, thank you.
Now, the thing you've got to do is, number one, if you're ever interested, make sure you understand the laws.
Make sure you understand your city, your county, whatever it is.
Make sure you understand and the police are real good because they're the ones who are going to arrest you for doing this.
Can I keep a house?
Florida had the best one.
Florida.
You can keep a gun in your house.
You can keep it in your car.
You can keep it in your business.
But they never talked about how you're supposed to get it from your car to your house to your business, but whatever it is.
Then people would make up all these rules.
They said, it can only be within three moves.
Have you heard that one?
I said, what the hell is a move?
I understand you can keep a gun, it's got to be three moves away.
What's a move?
You know, I don't know what the hell a move is.
What is a move?
I don't know, but you've got to put it three moves away.
Then you can keep it in.
Florida, chapter 790, you keep it in your glove box?
Glove box?
Nah.
You put it in the glove box when the car pulls you over.
Keep it next to you.
Then you move it.
They're telling you where to put it.
So one time this guy called me up and he said, can you tell me where I can keep my...
I'm coming from Michigan and I have a gun.
Can you tell me where I can keep my gun that's absolutely, positively, 100% within the laws?
Oh, simple.
Have it in a locked case with the bullets removed in the trunk of your car.
He said, what good does that do me?
I said, well, you ask me.
Where you could put it, that would guarantee absolutely.
You will have nothing to worry about if you do that.
It won't be effective, but you have nothing to worry about.
So again, talking to my friend, oh, I've got a shotgun.
You're going to shoot it?
And when are you going to?
He had no idea.
It's not how to fire it.
Are you going through this?
And are you ready?
To take all of your life savings and hire a lawyer because the family is going to sue you.
Because this guy was a crazed vet.
He was whatever it was.
And you shot him.
And they're going to say, well, but that's crazy.
You got a homeowner's policy?
Yeah, that's what they're looking at.
It's the funny thing about insurance.
The best way not to get sued?
Don't have insurance.
Nobody wants you.
I'm not suggesting that, but it is kind of ironic.
Then, what if you're arrested?
What?
What if you're arrested?
You piss somebody off.
They don't like it.
This guy's running for re-election.
I don't know.
Some fact you don't know.
You're arrested.
Now you've got two cases.
You've got the civil lawsuit.
And then you got the criminal lawsuit.
You'll probably be acquitted, but that's going to be down the road.
Oh, and then you're going to find out that this guy was a veteran.
He was all skitzed out.
And he left a wife and two kids.
And you made the wife a widow.
And the kids are an orphan or semi-orphan.
But I did the right thing.
Well, you might have done the right thing, but are you ready to do that?
Can you handle that?
See, nobody ever thinks about this.
You're going to take out a human being.
What if the guy's lost?
What if he was demented?
What if he was drunk?
What if he didn't know what he was doing?
Well, I'm in the ride.
You might be in the ride.
Remember that?
You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride.
See, these are things nobody talks about.
So if you have the slightest, the slightest, the slightest thought about this.
Think about it.
Here in New York, they talk about you'll get a carry permit.
Let me ask you something.
Look around you.
You want a pistol out here?
Are you kidding me?
Are you kidding me?
Well, I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6. Uh-huh.
Yeah, what if you hit some kid?
Let me tell you something.
Anybody who's shot, anybody who's shot, you know and I know.
This is one of those things that's very, very important.
And let me explain this to you.
If you are one little, one little tiny, tiny, tiny incremental, just a millimeter off here, that equates into 10 feet, you know, down the block.
So you can be the best shot in the world.
But when that bullet continues and you've missed, which invariably you will, you don't know what you're going to hit.
You ready for that?
Are you ready for that?
They don't tell you about this.
Because remember, the people that you're going to go to are gun shops.
What do guns want to sell you?
Guns.
That's right.
And they're not in the position.
They're not in the position of basically dissuading you from having one.
You better really know what you're...
I mean, you really, really know.
I have thought about this and have been living...
I've lived with this for so long.
I will know intuitively.
The first thing...
I'll tell you one story that happened.
I was in a suicide in crisis and I was maybe 20, I guess.
And this woman...
I'll never forget this.
She told me...
This story.
And I love when people tell me a story because they have the details are so good.
She says she was in a wheelchair.
You know those Everest and Jennings, those E&J, those kind of wheelchairs of metal, those old metal types?
She had her son's.45.
Beautiful gun.
1911.
Beautiful.
Love that.
Still think it's one of the best firearms ever.
Just superb.
And she had it in the actual 45, the leather.
By the way, be careful of keeping in leather because it pits in pockets.
If you holster is leather, keep an eye on that.
Anyway, she had it and she bolted it to the side of the wheelchair like bolts with this leather.
I think it says US.
It's beautiful.
She's telling me.
And I know what she's saying because I've seen it.
So she has the...
She knew how to do it, apparently.
Anyway, she's in her home, or wherever it was, and she hears this noise, and the guy's jiggling at the door.
She goes, I guess maybe he saw her case the joint, because nothing seemed to dissuade this guy.
So she said, I'm armed!
She hears the door jiggle.
Go away!
Go away!
I'm armed!
He's not listening.
And he's...
And then she sees what appears to be either a crowbar or some prying device between the door frame and the door.
All of a sudden, this thing comes in.
He's trying to jiggle, and he's probably looking at the door.
And she's inside.
I'm serious!
I'm not kidding!
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, lady.
So state of mind was very good.
She thought, well, I'm inside.
I don't know if it was an apartment or a home.
I have no idea.
She says, well...
I don't want to shoot through the door, so I'll put a round right up there, and I can kind of hide and patch it up, and it won't affect.
She's thinking all this.
She's telling me she was really thinking about this.
You know, the roof is there, and I'll get the eave.
Okay, she racks one.
Bang!
And it's loud enough, and all she heard was the crowbar, or whatever it was, drop, and the guy was gone.
And she said, I don't know what he wanted.
I don't know what he was going to do.
I don't know if he meant any harm.
But I do know one thing.
He's gone.
Now, had she not had that, I don't know.
Gary Cluck, John Lott, writes a wonderful book.
Gary Cluck, years ago, Florida State University, said in one particular year, they had 600 and...
Oh, I don't know the number.
How many people, they never ever kept track of how many people successfully averted crimes by either using a firearm, threatening to use a firearm, displaying a firearm.
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows.
It's just one of those things.
So, you have the Constitution provides this?
Absolutely.
But if you think that somehow, somehow, like, you know, that there is smooth sailing, and I've seen so many people who are so cocksure about, well, I got one thing here, and I'll tell you what to do, and they're...
Sometimes people have scared me.
If ever you go to somebody's house and they say, want to see my gun?
Leave.
You don't show them like a guitar.
It doesn't work like that.
This is the best story ever.
Kids.
What do you do with kids?
There was a place years ago, a friend of mine owned a gun range.
And he had parents.
And the kids thought, I wonder if they really know what a gun is, because the kids weren't allowed in the range, and they see things on TV, and they think you could just get up.
So he had this thing, and I think I may have told you this.
He had this one range that was indoor, and he had, it's almost like Ray Donovan or something.
They had a shower curtain spread out.
Parents signed, and they did this thing where they had a, they started off very, very nice.
They had a little, um, they had a little, uh, like a, a, a stuffed, you know, you know, I found a gun.
What do I do?
You run, you know, and it was nice.
And the kids were like, this is boring as shit.
She said, okay, kids, let's go.
And the parents signed the waiver.
And they brought the kids in this alley.
They said, okay.
And they had a watermelon, the old proverbial watermelon, really nice one, at the end of the alley on a stool or something.
And they brought the kids in.
And they said, all right, kids, take off your, what?
Take off your ears.
Okay.
You know, the ear protection.
Put on the glasses.
That at least she did.
Okay.
Now he had, I don't know what he had.
I have no idea what it was.
But he, his gunsmith, the guy who did the reloads, he had like black powder and fire.
I mean, this was like the worst round.
You would never use this, but it's loud and it smells and it's fire.
No, no, no.
But this is what we have for this.
She said, okay, kids, we're going to fire.
Okay, now stand behind me.
Okay.
I'll hold my hand right here.
And they grabbed him right at the elbow.
You got that?
Okay.
You ready?
Let's count to three.
Okay, Mr. Johnson.
Great.
Ready?
One, two, boom!
And the fire and the smell and the motion and their ears.
I mean, they probably had that ringing for like a week and a half.
They were screaming.
The parents said, thank you.
Because they had this idea that guns weren't because people never shot a round in your car.
Most people are shooting the noise.
It's enough for you.
You're disoriented.
These are things, especially my friend with a shotgun, never thought about, I assure you.
Sparky says, in 1964, Granddad's right-hand man, J-Bo, This is a good story already.
In central Alabama, shot a couple of guys dead in his yard.
He had Granddad call the sheriff 35 miles away.
Sheriff said, tell J-Bo not to worry about it.
That's all it was.
Don't worry.
Well, I told you, we also had a thing called misdemeanor murder.
Misdemeanor murder is when some people get killed and they...
They just don't file any kind of thing.
Now, I think the best thing to do is to find out.
The best thing is just go away.
Avoid this like the plague.
And also, let me tell you something.
Stand your ground sounds terrific.
Remember this case of this fellow in Tampa?
A friend of mine represented him.
Retired TBD, Tampa Police Department.
Guys at a movie theater.
Matinee.
I mean, I know all the facts.
This person in front of him was texting on a phone.
He said, would you mind putting that away because of the light?
And the words were exchanged.
One thing led to another.
This fellow seemed threatened.
The retired fellow pulled out a gun.
Pow!
Got him right there.
Nailed him.
Killed him.
Jerry acquitted him.
Under Florida's Stand Your Ground.
Probably spent every penny he had.
But he was acquitted.
Now I'm thinking to myself, you did what?
You did, you pulled a gun out in a theater?
What did you think this guy was going to do to you?
In a theater?
Forget yelling fire in a crowded theater.
You fired in a theater?
Now, I don't know about you, but I am absolutely, 100%, I am so good at not involving myself with people.
I don't want to get, I have no problem with that.
Lions, right, the king of the beast, will run from you.
They figure, I don't want to get involved in this stuff.
One time, Mrs. L and I were walking on 8th Avenue.
Never forget this.
And behind me, I hear this, You motherfuckers, Shut up, bitch!
You MFN, bitch!
So I said, oh God, and the voice is getting louder.
So I said, here, you walk.
You stand kind of towards the street.
Let me stand here.
I don't know what I'm going to do, but let me protect you.
As this guy walks by, you know, we're very good at these New Yorkers.
We don't look at them.
We don't talk to them.
Nothing.
We were at an AFTRA viewing party for the...
SAG-AFTRA Awards.
Everybody had this big theater.
And this guy shows up.
He's an actor.
Crazy!
Didn't say anything.
Nobody said, hey, keep it down.
Nothing.
Don't do that.
So anyway, this guy's coming up.
He's going to pass.
He's going to be okay.
And he walks by.
He walked up and he turns to his wife and he says, hey, I watch you on TV.
Great!
And then he kept going.
Like nothing.
Don't get involved.
Don't say anything.
Don't be a smartass.
Don't engage people.
And have no problem walking away.
Especially when you're armed.
It makes you feel like, I just saved your life, pal.
You don't even know it.
Just go.
But a lot of people can't do it.
Especially after a couple of drinks.
Stand your ground doesn't mean you have to stand your ground.
Leave.
Go ahead.
You know what?
Your pride might be, but you don't have to go to jail.
You're not sued.
You don't hurt anybody.
But, when the line is crossed, and when you realize, uh-oh, he's brandishing a weapon.
He's got a knife.
Now it's another story.
And I hope to God it never happens.
Because as much as we talk about it, and as much as men love to romance about it, oh, I'll tell you whatever, you do not want to be in that situation.
I never want to be.
I'm not interested in that.
I have no problem saying thank you.
Let's go.
Keep on going.
But, remember, bad guys watch the news as well.
Sparky says, Sheriff sent someone to pick up the bodies and that's the last granddaughter J-Bo heard about it.
You know what I love about your stories?
Sparky and I thank you.
He tells a great story.
And you wait.
Then the next chapter comes in.
J-Bo later went on to be the senator.
Wait.
J-Bo in his dying days.
It's like the sequel.
I hope we get to the end of this.
You told one story one night about what was it?
Nothing arcane, but it was about some historical fact.
And that's why the Filipino magistrates wear their hats backwards.
I didn't know that.
It was like just wonderful.
So anyway, so thank you for that.
I love learning.
All right, dear friends.
Sparky, thank you immensely.
Ronald Joseph Weach, incredible.
Thank you as well.
Dick Dickerson, everybody.
Give it up for Mr. Dick Dickerson.
Born to raise hogs.
Thank you so much.
Now, as I said to you before, and I say it again, please, Mrs. L, watch this video about how they're renaming trafficking of children underage sex workers.
This is...
Kids cannot be sex workers.
This is ridiculous.
This is...
I never thought I'd ever hear this.
So please follow her at LinzWarriors.
Do me a favor.
It means a lot to us.
LinzWarriors on YouTube.
LinzWarriors, L-Y-N-N-S, Warriors, or on X or Twitter.
I can't do that.
X business.
Linz, L-Y-N-N-S, underscore Warriors.
So that is that.
All right, dear friends.
All right, friends.
Thank you so, so very much.
Have a great and a glorious and a grand evening.
It is a pleasure being with you.
I give you an hour and 11 minutes of my life, and I thank you for your time.
See you tomorrow at 8 a.m.
But don't forget, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue you.
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