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Defending The 2nd Amendment - June 23rd, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, so we talked about the Supreme Court ruling today, expanding uh your second amendment rights, major expansion, six three decision.
Um the ruling comes as Congress is now working towards new gun legislation.
Uh Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority, uh stating the obvious that the Constitution protects an individual's right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside of their home, striking down a New York law requiring that people must demonstrate a need for carrying a gun.
In other words, you know, you need their permission.
Well, the permission is explicit in the second amendment.
That's the point.
Uh, in order to get a license to carry in uh New York State, uh Governor Hochel uh having a bit of a meltdown about it.
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They were supposed to go back to what was in place since 1788 when the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified.
And I would like to point out to the Supreme Court justices that the only weapons at that time were muskets.
I'm prepared to go back to muskets.
I don't think they envision the high capacity assault weapon magazines intended for battlefields as being covered from it, but I guess we're just gonna have to disagree.
Well, that's not what this is about.
We're talking about the right to carry concealed carry pistol.
They're not talking about muskets and they're not talking, and they had pistols back in the era, too, but uh it's neither here nor there.
The court ruled and couldn't be any more clear.
There was no ambiguity at all whatsoever.
Uh we are also waiting on the road decision.
Could come as early as tomorrow, perhaps next week.
I think we have 11 more decisions uh that we're waiting on.
Uh Senator Mike Lee is with us.
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Anyway, he's a perfectly timed book.
He's written the book, Saving Nine, the fight against the left's uh audacious plan to pack the Supreme Court and destroy American liberty.
Uh this would take away America's liberty.
Um criminals have no problem in New York getting guns, and uh they commit lots of crimes with those guns.
What about law abiding citizens?
I hadn't I had once an exchange with former mayor de Blasio.
He comes into my studio in New York on TV and and there he is with four NYPD officers all armed with firearms.
So I said, should every New Yorker have the right to protect themselves the way you are protected.
Every New Yorker has the right to be safe.
I didn't ask that.
Does every New Yorker have the right to have a weapon like you have to protect them against a lot of crime that takes place in your city?
Every American has the r every New Yorker has the right to be safe.
Wouldn't answer.
Anyway, Senator Mike Lee is with us.
Senator, welcome back.
I think you're right in your summation in your book, and the premise of it is very clear.
This is why the Democrats have been fighting so hard to pack the U.S. Supreme Court.
That's exactly right, Sean.
In fact, you can see all sorts of traffic on Twitter right now.
Uh people like Ed Markey and Keith Oberman and Brian Fallon twitting out things that are horrible about the court.
They can be read as either encouraging more protests, implicit threats of violence in front of the homes of Supreme Court justices, and some of them outright call for packing the Supreme Court.
And so here again, they're trying to delegitimize the Supreme Court of the United States when it doesn't do their bidding.
When it disagrees with them, then they will delegitimize it and and try to really do something that would offset the stability of our constitutional system as a whole.
This isn't just about the court, it's about all of our rights.
And as we see in this this case today, this uh New York State rifle and pistol association case.
Uh I I was thrilled with the ruling there.
Justice Thomas wrote a masterful opinion in that case, and it it acknowledges that the second amendment's a real thing.
You can't just give the discretion to decide whether you get to uh exercise your second amendment rights any more than uh any more than that government could do that with regard to the first amendment right.
You know, the the irony of all of this is a and again, we want Supreme Court justices that believe in the Constitution and don't uh enumerate rights that are not there, that would be covered under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.
You're a far greater scholar on this than I am.
And how interesting is it that the left wants this road decision not overturned, even though abortion would remain legal uh in the United States and and the states would decide what restrictions they may or may not have.
Some states won't pr have any restrictions.
They'll probably allow abortion right up until the moment of birth.
Uh liberal states like California and New York, for example.
Um, but then the states will decide this, which is to me very interesting.
You're exactly right, Sean.
And this shows that the left is a hundred and eighty degrees wrong on this stuff.
With Roe, the court invented a fictional right that doesn't exist.
It's mentioned nowhere in the Constitution, and that's incompatible with the not only the text, but the structure, the history, the tradition of the Constitution.
And they're furious that the court is about to acknowledge the fact that no such rights i exist in the Constitution.
With the second amendment, they're also dead wrong because their right is there, it's in plain English.
It's backed up by nearly five hundred years of Anglo American legal tradition and precedent, just to say nothing of the text in the Constitution.
And if they're furious about that one actually having meaning.
They're they're wrong on both points.
And not only are they wrong on both of those points, but they're concluding that because the Supreme Court isn't willing to do their bidding, they're gonna try to overthrow the court and threaten and harass the justices.
That's very wrong.
You know, it's it's beyond the the pale to me.
Um in New York, you have to, it is it is a very difficult, arduous process.
I've had a uh carry concealed carry permit almost my entire adult life.
I had it when I lived in Rhode Island, I had it in California when I lived out there.
I had it in Alabama, I've had it in Georgia, and I've had it in New York.
Uh, but the process uh is so arduous and so difficult that you I I have to prove to them why I need to have my rights that are enumerated in the Constitution.
That shouldn't be like that.
It can't be that way.
It's not that way.
And that makes it rather unlike a right.
Well, it has been that way.
I mean, now it's not going to be that way, at least for now, but I have no doubt that there are going to be states like New York and California that probably try to legislate around it and probably will do so successfully, don't you think?
Yes.
Well, they will they will do so.
They will try to do so.
I I I believe that uh they will ultimately fail in that regard because the correct is the court is correct in pointing out that um uh a state cannot violate it uh the constitutional rights of uh an American citizen by requiring that he or she prove uh an an exceptional need to exercise that right.
Now the left would call this an expansion in this case of the second amendment.
But if anything, it's just a restoration of the second amendment, especially for the citizens of New York.
The whole point of having rights that are enumerated and protected in the Constitution is that we've already had that debate, that discussion, that negotiation.
We don't have to prove a need to the government because the right exists.
And New York's law has prevented countless law-abiding citizens, including you, Sean, from from being able to protect themselves.
And and I'm somebody that unfortunately, being a public figure, has had many threats, numerous threats over the years.
I'm sure you probably have had them too.
It's not fun, uh, especially when you have kids and involved, young kins in particular.
And um that's just the world that we live in as as a public person, unfortunately goes with the territory.
I wish I could say differently.
Um now we have direct threats.
There's this one particular group, and we discussed it the other night on television, that is literally telegraphing people that if Roe comes back like it did in the draft decision and it's overturned, that they're calling for people to riot.
Now, one of the things that the January 6th committee, I know they have sworn testimony under the threat of perjury under oath, that in fact Donald Trump authorized up to 20,000 troops as required by law.
From that point forward, it is no longer his jurisdiction, but it becomes the jurisdiction of Nancy Pelosi, who is in charge of protecting the Capitol, and Muriel Bowser, D.C., she's the mayor.
She in writing rejected the offer for National Guard troops.
We know that three days prior to January 6th, based on new intelligence that the Capitol Police Chief started requesting, and he requested numerous times guard assistance, uh in light of the summer before 574 riots and and of course tensions being high in the country, uh that police chief was denied every single time.
Uh none of these people, none of this has been brought out during these hearings.
And certainly if we had 20,000 troops there that day, as authorized by Donald Trump, the person that they're claiming wanted this to happen, uh, I doubt January 6th would have ever happened.
Now, in light of this pending ruling that we anticipate it's gonna overturn Roe and threats of violence, is there anything any of these big cities are doing to prepare to protect the people in the cities?
Because we saw dozens of Americans dead in the summer of 2020, thousands of injured cops, and billions in property damage.
So I would say now would be the time to be preparing, uh, God forbid that these groups are serious about it.
We've had 49 instances of pro-life groups being attacked.
In some cases, Molotov cocktails, firebombing of their their facilities, etc., etc.
Direct threats to them.
Now that's exactly right.
And it's one of the reasons why, first of all, we have to remember these were not mostly peaceful protests, as we were told repeatedly throughout 2020.
They were not that.
Secondly, we have to remember that those people who are calling for these protests, groups like Change Revenge, are are uh seem to be openly calling for violence.
And so that leads to the conclusion that we we really should be preparing more than ever uh uh for this to make sure that it doesn't happen.
Now, look, the Supreme Court has its own police force, but it's police force is limited.
I think they need backup.
And uh I think they're gonna probably need troops.
They're certainly gonna need the assistance of other law enforcement agencies, and I hope and expect that uh President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland will lend their full support to enforcing the law and protecting the court.
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Can you explain to me the issue of why the FDA, when you look at the article on Joule, for example, which is pretty amazing, you just, you know, scan.
There's no evidence whatsoever.
They even acknowledge that the FDA is found.
I'll find the exact wording of it, that it it harms people.
Now, this is the same government that makes about twelve billion dollars a year on taxes on cigarettes.
Cigarettes have not been banned, but Jewel has been banned.
And, you know, other health officials have weighed in, etc., etc., but none have come up with any definitive uh harm or risk uh to anybody.
And I I just can't believe that like a city like Portland or or cities in Oregon that allow legalized people to take heroin and and meth and cocaine.
That's all legal there.
Cigarettes are legal, which are far worse than than any vaping product.
Uh maybe you want to have a 21-year, uh 21-year-old, you have to be 21 years or older to do it.
you have to be an adult.
Um prohibition against Jewel.
What are your thoughts on that?
It seems potentially arbitrary and capricious to me.
In any time you have government acting and acting in a way that's not backed up by evidence, you've got a problem.
And of course, the cake was baked into this many decades ago when we gave as much discretionary authority to the FDA as we did.
We've made them de facto lawmakers, law enforcers, and law adjudicators.
They're laws under themselves.
They own a a piece of uh authority real estate, so to speak, that is ordinarily reserved for despots.
And that's it a real problem.
The FDA, by the way, is also the reason why we've got this massive baby formula shortage.
Uh there's no other country on planet Earth, Sean.
Because of FDA.
Okay, they shut down a plant, even though the plant wasn't itself the culprit for the infections that they were investigating.
That plant has been unable to resume full capacity production as of yet, and the whole country's lagging behind.
By the way, on that point, just moments ago I passed on the Senate floor uh some very significant legislation that will ease the formula crisis by allowing for the importation without excessive uh uh tariff barriers of European formula that uh it uh can be sold safely here in the United States.
So that can be well glad you're doing that.
By the way, I'm I'm not very happy with about 14 or 15 of your colleagues that are going along with an uh with a gun bill that will do absolutely nothing to stop gun violence, but that's for another day.
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Let's get right to our phones here.
Eric is in New York.
Eric, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
How are you doing, Sean?
First time.
Big big day for New York, if you believe in the second amendment, uh, not only you you don't have to apply for your second amendment rights, uh, you're now guaranteed those rights under the second amendment.
Uh anyway, glad you called.
Uh I got two issues the bail reform and the electric car problem.
Okay, I'm listening.
Well, I have an auto repair shop.
I'm 53 years old.
I've been doing I've had my own place for 18 years, and I just recently have had some vandalism done.
And my insurance company only covers inside the building, doesn't cover outside the building because it's not a fence law.
Well, I've got the guy caught on tape.
He did over twelve thousand dollars worth of damage to my car.
I see him daily drive walk by here, walk by here.
And I've called the police several times.
They've picked them up, they let them go.
They pick them up, they let them go.
I've got them on tape on three different occasions, and all they do is they arrest them and they let them go.
How much damage?
Over twelve thousand dollars.
I I mean, I just feel for you.
I don't know any of other way to say it.
Are you well what part of New York do you live in if you've if you care to share that?
Well, I live in West Norton, but my shop is actually in Connecticut in New York.
Okay, so you're up in Albany, it's not like you're in New York City.
I would think that you have more reasonable people and in and around that area.
So that's a little surprising to me, but I guess New York state law is what it is, and that's no bail.
That is a state law.
Yeah, no, I'm West Milton's different.
So you got the guy on tape, and the guy's causing all this damage, costing you a fortune, and the police arrest him and nothing happens.
Boy, that's a great country to live in, isn't it?
That's that's really you know what about your right to your safety and the property of your business.
I mean that's the insanity of all this.
I mean, yesterday we reported on Hannity, and it was, you know, I can't even believe I'm making these reports that police now are no longer allowed to chase somebody who runs away from them.
You can't chase them.
So you know if they if they're wondering why we're getting record high incidences of violence and homicides in cities like Chicago and New York and out in California.
It's not that complicated to figure out.
No bail laws, defund, dismantle the police.
It all comes together, doesn't it?
And they're responsible for it.
And that meet that makes us all less safe and less less secure and less free.
I haven't seen it the police walk driving up to the car and a guy getting out running and then just watching them.
Well that's that was for Chicago.
That surprises me where you live in upstate New York but unbelievable.
Eric, I wish I could help you.
I can't this is probably reason you know 1 million five hundred thousand and twenty-two to get the hell out of New York.
Appreciate the call though.
I hope people are listening.
Let's say hi to Shannon is in Tennessee, the great state of Tennessee, a lot of people moving in Tennessee.
What's going on?
Sean uh constitutionalist martial artist ditto you sir.
Well thank you my friend uh Marshall what martial art do you specialize in or do you do an eclective blend of arts like I do it's it's uh it's called Watoroo.
They do uh Okinawa karate and Jiu Jitsu combination kind of stuff.
I just do it to stay in shape.
I do it to stay in shape also to protect myself and I've gotten stronger than I've ever been in my life.
It includes a lot of core, a lot of hitting the heavy bag, a lot of boxing, and even lifting a lot, and more than I ever thought I could.
Yeah, that's awesome, Sean.
One of the reasons why I called is, you know, they're talking about, you know, the Senate passing this 14 rhinos that went over and going along with this law, new gun law.
And I was thinking, you know, how many gun laws do we have on the books now that get broken every time?
And I thought, you know, you've got a crack crew there.
Of constitutionalists and these lawyers and things, if they could list the top ten crimes that they've committed already – And another law, you know, they're breaking laws anyway.
You know, I mean, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that, you know, these people that are going to shoot schools, they've already broken two laws already.
You know, they're taking a gun into school and they're killing people.
So another law, how's that going to stop it?
I mean, there's no rational thought.
To me, it just appears to be just, you know, it appears to be nothing but emotion.
I think a lot of it is based on emotion.
Look, I would protect our kids in school the way we protect our politicians, the way Hollywood stars protect themselves.
they can afford it they make all these millions of dollars and that's with armed security and you it's not complicated if you want to protect a president we know how to protect our presidents we know how to protect our elected officials.
You know the saddest thing about the January 6th committee is that they're not even looking into the reasons why there was a security lapse especially in light of sworn testimony that that committee received that informed them Donald Trump had signed off and authorized as required by law up to calling up to 20,000 National Guard troops the people that then had the jurisdiction decided not to do it.
And they're not asking the question why they're not asking the question of why the Capitol police chiefs requests were denied.
They're not asking why the mayor of DC in writing rejected the troops they're not asking Nancy Pelosi a thing and she's in charge of security at the Capitol you know now we have these lunatic fringe groups out there that are threatening violence and more if if Roe is overturned and and I don't see any states preparing uh for potential rioting.
So what we go back to the summer of 2020 where's that committee investigating five hundred and seventy four riots thousands of injured cops dozens of dead Americans and billions of property damage.
I know I'm a broken record but they can't bludgeon Trump with that one.
So why bother?
You know I guess they only care about security when it impacts them.
That's a pretty sad state of affairs in my view.
Anyway, stay uh safe we appreciate it eight hundred nine four one Sean.
Our number Marty is in Baltimore, WCBM.
What's up, Marty?
How are you?
Hey, nothing much.
Uh, just uh living in the Twilight Zone.
Every day it's a new episode.
Uh basically That's one way to look at it.
Yeah, yeah.
The the this whole thing with the um the New Green Deal.
Uh I remember uh a few years ago, I think before Biden uh became president.
AOC was uh outlining the plans for the uh new green deal.
And one of the things, people that can't afford electric cars, well, they'll have public transportation.
Uh and and I've did a lot of research on it, and basically they want to put a maglev train from New York, uh, going south all the way and then through the south to California.
Uh but you know, forgetting that a lot of cities, well, a lot of cities have horrible mass transit, uh, crime ridden.
But a lot of parts of the country have no uh uh public transportation at all.
What are what are those people supposed to do?
Walk?
There is no good answer.
Their answer to you is by an electric car, and I went through how much petroleum is actually needed for that car in terms of parts, how much mining is involved in in creating the batteries, uh, where the actual electric charge comes from.
Uh only 12% is quote from renewable energies, it's fossil fuel related.
So, I mean, and and you're not gonna save the money that they're proclaiming you're gonna save.
You know, over the summer.
Well, we're gonna have a tax holiday on um on gasoline, eighteen cents a gallon.
Okay, the average family's gonna save around twenty, twenty-five.
If you have a Ward F-150, you're gonna save thirty-five bucks over the summer.
Great, thanks a lot.
Now I'll take it.
I'll take any tax cut.
But it's a gimmick, and it's only an election year gimmick, and right after election day, they'll they'll pull back from it, and they don't care after that point how high gas prices go.
The very things that they should be doing are reversing the policies.
You know, Joe's mad.
He's actually out there saying, these Republicans saying I'm responsible for high gas prices and inflation.
They're just lying to you.
Okay, well, no, Joe, you're you say you you're doing everything humanly possible to bring down prices.
No, he's not.
Because you know, he can create more supply with new drilling permits.
He could finish the Keystone XL pipeline.
900,000 barrels of Canadian oil will flow through that every day.
He can lift the ban on exploration in Anwar.
The reserves there are massive.
You know, we can allow more drilling, I'm sorry, more fracking in Ohio and Pennsylvania and other places.
Um, you know, you can get our refineries back online.
He's uh this they don't want a solution.
He's doing what he promised he would do.
Oh I'm gonna eliminate it.
I'm gonna get us off fossil fuels forever.
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We'll get into the Supreme Court decision today on the second amendment, six to three, favorable.
New York City, gun laws, unconstitutional.
Anyway, Alan Derschwitz, Greg Jarrett, Dan Bongino, Geraldo, Pete Heggsath, Pam Bondy, Leo 2.0, Torrell, Senator Josh Hawley, and Charlie Hurt, all coming up.
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