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Defending The 2nd Amendment - June 23rd, Hour 3
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, so we talked about the Supreme Court ruling today, expanding your Second Amendment rights, major expansion, 6-3 decision.
And the ruling comes as Congress is now working towards new gun legislation.
Justice Clarence Thomas writing for the majority, 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.
In order to get a license to carry in New York State, Governor Hochl having a bit of a meltdown about it, listen.
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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 the 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 with it, but I guess we're just going to 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 it's neither here nor there.
The court ruled and couldn't be any more clear.
There was no ambiguity at all whatsoever.
We are also waiting on the Roe decision.
Could come as early as tomorrow, perhaps next week.
I think we have 11 more decisions that we're waiting on.
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Anyway, he's a perfectly timed book.
He's written the book, Saving Nine, the fight against the left's audacious plan to pack the Supreme Court and destroy American liberty.
This would take away America's liberty.
Criminals have no problem in New York getting guns, and they commit lots of crimes with those guns.
What about law-abiding citizens?
I had once an exchange with former Mayor de Blasio.
He comes into my studio in New York on TV, 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 right.
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 and 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.
People like Ed Markey and Keith Oberman and Brian Fallon tweeting 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 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 case today, this New York State Rifle and Pistol Association kits.
I was thrilled with the ruling there.
Justice Thomas wrote a masterful opinion in that case, and it acknowledges that the Second Amendment's a real thing.
You can't just give the discretion to decide whether you get to exercise your Second Amendment rights any more than that government could do that with regard to the First Amendment right.
You know, the irony of all of this is, and again, we want Supreme Court justices that believe in the Constitution and don't enumerate rights that are not there.
That would be covered under the 10th 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 in the United States, and the states would decide what restrictions they may or may not have.
Some states won't have any restrictions.
They'll probably allow abortion right up until the moment of birth.
Liberal states like California and New York, for example.
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 180 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 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 right exists 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 500 years of Anglo-American legal tradition and precedent, to say nothing of the text in the Constitution.
And yet they're furious about that one actually having meaning.
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 going to try to overthrow the court and threaten and harass the justices.
That's very wrong.
You know, it's beyond the pale to me.
In New York, you have to, it is a very difficult, arduous process.
I've had a 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.
But the process is so arduous and so difficult that 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 shouldn'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?
Yes.
Well, they will do so.
They will try to do so.
I believe that they will ultimately fail in that regard because the correct is the court is correct in pointing out that a state cannot violate the constitutional rights of an American citizen by requiring that he or she prove 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 being able to protect themselves.
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, especially when you have kids involved, young kids in particular.
And that's just the world that we live in as a public person.
Unfortunately, it goes with the territory.
I wish I could say it differently.
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 are 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 in light of the summer before 574 riots and, of course, tensions being high in the country.
That police chief was denied every single time.
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, I doubt January 6th would have ever happened.
Now, in light of this pending ruling that we anticipate is going to 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.
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 facilities, et cetera, et cetera.
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 Jane's Revenge, seem to be openly calling for violence.
And so that leads to the conclusion that we really should be preparing more than ever for this to make sure that it doesn't happen.
Now, look, the Supreme Court has its own police force, but its police force is limited.
I think they need backup.
And I think they're going to probably need troops.
They're certainly going to need the assistance of other law enforcement agencies.
And I hope and expect that 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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His book couldn't be any more timely, Saving Nine, The Fight Against the Left's Audacious Plan to Pack the Supreme Court and destroy American Liberty, Amazon.com, bookstores everywhere, Hannity.com.
Can you explain to me the issue of why the FDA, when you look at the article on Juul, for example, which is pretty amazing, you just, you know, scan it.
There's no evidence whatsoever.
They even acknowledge that the FDA has found, I'll find the exact wording of it, that it harms people.
Now, this is the same government that makes about $12 billion a year on taxes on cigarettes.
Cigarettes have not been banned, but Juul has been banned.
And, you know, other health officials have weighed in, et cetera, et cetera, but none have come up with any definitive harm or risk to anybody.
And I just can't believe that like a city like Portland or cities in Oregon that allow, legalize people to take heroin and meth and cocaine, that's all legal there.
Cigarettes are legal, which are far worse than any vaping product.
Maybe you want to have a 21-year-old, you have to be 21 years or older to do it.
You have to be an adult.
Prohibition against Juul?
What are your thoughts on that?
It seems potentially arbitrary and capricious to me.
Anytime 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.
Their laws unto themselves.
They own a piece of authority, real estate, so to speak, that is ordinarily reserved for despots.
And that's a real problem.
The FDA, by the way, is also the reason why we've got this massive baby formula shortage.
There's no other country on planet Earth, Sean, that is dealing with a baby formula shortage like we are.
And yet we are 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 is lagging behind.
By the way, on that point, just moments ago, I passed on the Senate floor some very significant legislation that will ease the formula crisis by allowing for the importation without excessive tariff barriers of European formula that can be sold safely here in the United States.
So that can be done.
Well, I'm glad you're doing that.
The way I'm not very happy with about 14 or 15 of your colleagues that are going along with a gun bill that will do absolutely nothing to stop gun violence, but that's for another day.
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Eric is in New York.
Eric, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
How are you doing, Sean?
First time.
Big day for New York if you believe in the Second Amendment.
Not only you don't have to apply for your Second Amendment rights, you're now guaranteed those rights under the Second Amendment.
Anyway, glad you called.
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 $12,000 worth of damage to my car.
I see him daily walk by here, walk by here.
And I've called the police several times.
They've picked him up, they let him go.
They pick him up, they let him go.
I've got him on tape on three different occasions, and all they do is they arrest me in Glondell.
How much damage?
Again, over $12,000.
I mean, I just feel for you.
I don't know any other way to say it.
What part of New York do you live in, if you care to share that?
Well, I live in West Dilton, but my shop is actually in Schenectady, 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 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, West Noton's different.
West Noton, that's.
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 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'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 makes us all less safe and less secure and less free.
I have it on tape.
The police driving up to the car and the guy getting out and running and then just watching.
Well, 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, 1,500,022 to get the hell out of New York because this is how insane things have gotten.
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 to Tennessee.
What's going on?
Sean, constitutionalist martial artist ditto, you sir.
Well, thank you, my friend.
What martial art do you specialize in, or do you do an eclectic blend of arts like I do?
It's called Wado Roo.
They do 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.
I'm even lifting a lot and more than I ever thought I could.
Yeah, that's awesome, Sean.
And 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.
We can do 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 that can list the top 10 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 into shooting schools, well, 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 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 D.C. 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 Roe is overturned.
And I don't see any states preparing for potential rioting.
So what, we go back to the summer of 2020?
Where's that committee investigating?
574 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 safe.
We appreciate it.
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WCBM.
What's up, Marty?
How are you?
Hey, nothing much.
Just living in the Twilight Zone.
Every day it's a new episode.
Basically.
That's one way to look at it.
Yeah, yeah.
This whole thing with the New Green Deal.
I remember a few years ago, I think before Biden became president, AOC was outlining the plans for the new Green Deal.
And one of the things, people that can't afford electric cars, well, they'll have public transportation.
And I did a lot of research on it.
And basically, they want to put a Maglev train from New York going south all the way and then through the South to California.
But, you know, forgetting that a lot of cities, a lot of cities have horrible mass transit, crime-ridden.
But a lot of parts of the country have no public transportation at all.
What are those people supposed to do?
Walk?
There is no good answer.
Their answer to you is buy 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 creating the batteries, where the actual electric charge comes from.
Only 12% is, quote, from renewable energies.
It's fossil fuel related.
So, I mean, and you're not going to save the money that they're proclaiming you're going to save.
You know, over the summer, well, we're going to have a tax holiday on gasoline, 18 cents a gallon.
Okay, the average family is going to save around 20, 25.
If you have a Ford F-150, you're going to save $35 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 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 is 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 say 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, he can allow more drilling.
I'm sorry, more fracking in Ohio and Pennsylvania and other places.
You know, he can get our refineries back online.
They don't want a solution.
He's doing what he promised he would do.
I'm going to eliminate it.
I'm going to get us off fossil fuels forever.
It's polluting the...
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We'll get into the Supreme Court decision today on the Second Amendment, 6-3, favorable.
New York City, gun laws, unconstitutional.
Anyway, Alan Dershowitz, Greg Jarrett, Dan Bongino, Geraldo, Pete Hagseth, Pam Bondi, Leo 2.0, Terrell, Senator Josh Hawley, and Charlie Hurt.
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