Kyle Rittenhouse is facing a possible life sentence after being acquitted on all gun charges in the Kenosha, Wisconsin shooting that left 5 dead. In this episode of the podcast, we talk about the decision by the judge to throw out the gun charge, and why we think this is a huge victory for the prosecution. We also hear from the defense about the possibility of a mistrial, and we have an exclusive story from the Daily Mail on the 500 National Guardsmen on standby in case of riots in the area.
00:00:00.000When you guys send super chats before the live stream starts, they do appear, but then
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00:00:16.000So I just want to make sure you guys knew because we actually had a really good super
00:00:19.000chat just now that I thought was the best possible intro for tonight's show.
00:00:24.000It was a super chat, and I think it was from someone named Jordan.
00:00:27.000It got erased from the super chat already, but he said, the defense in the Rittenhouse case got to the one-yard line and then fumbled.
00:00:33.000If the jurors agree on provocation, all self-defense is out.
00:00:38.000And theoretically, they could then get Rittenhouse life in prison.
00:00:42.000They could get him on intentional homicide.
00:00:44.000You see, it all stems from the fact that the prosecution first was able to admit false evidence, computer-generated imagery, Not from the night in question, because the defense didn't understand how to explain it was not real evidence.
00:00:59.000And then they said, if this is in, this splotchy image that was made on a computer makes it look like Kyle Rittenhouse pointed his gun.
00:01:07.000And the judge said, okay, the jury will be instructed on the potential provocation, which means if they say to the jury, by raising his weapon, and they're going to say it, They're gonna state it as fact.
00:01:19.000He raised his weapon, therefore you can't claim self-defense.
00:01:23.000With or without evidence, they can now just say it.
00:01:43.000I think he's a good guy, but he gave so much to the prosecution at the last minute, it was shocking.
00:01:48.000That being said, it seems like for the most part, he got to the edge of throwing out the gun charge against Rittenhouse, and then walked it back and said, but we'll give the jury instructions.
00:01:59.000And based on the jury instructions, they're gonna acquit on the gun charge.
00:02:03.000Unless, I guess, provocation comes in and they just say guilty on all counts.
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00:06:24.000500 National Guard troops will be on standby in Wisconsin for Rittenhouse verdict as police forces across America brace for acquittal.
00:06:36.000Yeah, it does seem extremely likely there will be an acquittal, but my friends, we have an update on today's news.
00:06:42.000It definitely seems like the prosecution has thrown a Hail Mary pass.
00:06:47.000Might actually get, they could potentially get all counts.
00:06:51.000You see, the prosecutors were able to introduce fake evidence.
00:06:54.000Because the judge didn't get it, because the defense didn't get it, and now the jury will be told that computer-generated images is actually video from the night in question.
00:07:06.000And I'm just sitting here like, how did this happen?
00:07:09.000How did the defense screw this one up?
00:07:12.000We got Andrew Bronk over at Legal Insurrection says, Written House Trial Day 9, prosecution big win on provocation.
00:07:19.000Lacking any factual rebuttal to self-defense, the state will argue that Kyle Rittenhouse was a provoker with intent, eliminating self-defense privilege under Wisconsin law that cannot be regained by withdrawal from the fight.
00:07:37.000If you're watching right now, if you're watching live, if you're watching on a YouTube clip, that image on the screen, I'd like you to comment and say what it is.
00:08:20.000Because a computer attempted to decipher what a larger version or a clearer version would be, and this image is actually nonsense.
00:08:28.000They introduced this image on the left, which, by their own admission, was enhanced by an algorithm.
00:08:36.000Which means a computer generated the image, not a sensor capturing light from the day in question.
00:08:42.000That is to say, the prosecution was able to admit evidence that they say shows Kyle Rittenhouse pointing a weapon at someone, but it's not real.
00:08:49.000It is not actually a photo from the night in question.
00:08:52.000And the judge said, oh, I guess we'll just let the jury decide.
00:08:55.000Now what's going to happen in closing arguments, the prosecutors will say definitively, as a statement of fact, we showed you a video clip and image of Kyle Rittenhouse pointing his gun at these
00:09:07.000people. So it's no wonder why Rosenbaum attacked him. In fact, Rosenbaum was acting in self-defense,
00:09:13.000not Kyle Rittenhouse. As a statement of fact, they can now make that claim. And the jury might
00:09:17.000be like, oh, well, if that's true, the only thing the defense can say is, come on, you couldn't
00:12:01.000I mean, I would look at that picture and I would have said as the defense, how can you tell me definitively where his face is in that photo?
00:12:09.000How do you know what direction he's even pointing?
00:12:12.000And then I would have the guy circle what he tells me is the weapon and I would have said, What you're claiming is the rifle in this photo accounts for maybe six or eight pixels of the entire thing.
00:12:24.000There's no possible way that you can discern what is a rifle and what is the sling.
00:12:28.000And you can't even tell me whether he's facing toward the camera or away from the camera in this photo.
00:13:17.000Well, that's fine, but then I would say why don't we have Zeminsky here as a complaining witness because he endangered him just in the same way as anyone else.
00:13:26.000So if you're claiming that he pointed a rifle at this person and that's what provoked the entire attack and this person is not there and is not being charged, how can we move forward?
00:14:11.000When I say I have a picture of the prosecutor pointing a gun at Kyle Rittenhouse, it's literally a stick figure and there's a squiggly line in a circle, like crude on purpose to make my point.
00:14:21.000It is now a statement of fact that Tim Poole has a picture of ADA binger pointing a gun, recklessly I might add, at the defendant, at Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:15:05.000But so like here's a really good example of what you're dealing with though, right?
00:15:08.000So we have false evidence that has been admitted because you have a judge who is trying to retain the regalia of the court.
00:15:16.000He wants, I think he's coming in good faith.
00:15:19.000And I think one of the things that we saw this last week was that the constant interaction between the judge and binger was that the judge was consistently disappointed with his actions.
00:15:30.000Like he was hoping that binger was going to come and act as a prosecuting attorney should within the decorum of the court.
00:15:39.000And so as you saw binger continuously bring things forward that were either a overtly malicious In the way that he was very manipulative in his conversation.
00:16:05.000And so now our judge, our Judge Schroeder, is in a situation where he is mitigating between two people, two groups, parties, whatever, two parties, and one of them is at least acting within the court, the rules of the court, and one of them is deliberately not.
00:16:21.000And he, I think he's in a situation combined with, this is probably the most important case that judge has ever ruled over in his entire life.
00:16:54.000Bronco says the state will argue this pointing of the rifle did trigger a violent response from Rosenbaum.
00:17:00.000Rittenhouse then led the provoked Rosenbaum across the parking lot where Kyle ultimately acted on his intent to use Rosenbaum's provoked attack as an excuse to use deadly force.
00:17:08.000Basically, they're going to argue In that video we showed you, he pointed his gun at him, and then acting in self-defense, in defense of others, Rosenbaum chased after him.
00:17:18.000It was Kyle's intent to lead him to an open space to get him away from a crowd where he could kill him.
00:17:27.000And there was no mention of that for the first week and a half of the trial.
00:17:32.000So the defense is going to have to rely on, you saw him render aid, you heard from one witness, a journalist on the scene, who said he was de-escalating violence.
00:18:17.000Yeah, Chris Hayes had a monologue, and he was like, he just paused and goes, based on what I've seen, I think an acquittal is going to happen, in all honesty.
00:18:26.000And I was like, come on, you know, if you've got MSNBC saying he's gonna be acquitted, I think he's gonna be acquitted!
00:18:34.000I mean, I'll be honest with you, I've been pretty disappointed with the trial in its entirety just because seeing as how important this case is going to be as a landmark for future use of force, self-defense, you know, people who conceal carry in general.
00:18:49.000I'm very surprised at how ill-prepared I think the defense was to answer a lot of the questions that they brought up, especially as it pertained to like the ammunition choice, the particulars of the weapons, you know, they were talking, you know, using terms like re-rack the slide on an AR-15.
00:19:07.000They got this female cop up there who's, you know, just not even using the right terminology.
00:19:12.000First they said he should have had hollow points and then at some point they were trying to insinuate that his FMJ
00:19:19.000ammo Was designed to go through police armor vests, right?
00:19:23.000Right, you have all these cops up there and look, you know, I can I can talk about my
00:19:27.000All day long but like these guys are not firearms experts, okay
00:19:35.000Alec Baldwin was talking about how the solution for Hollywood is to have a police officer on set to clear firearms.
00:19:41.000I'll tell you this, in all the professional, I've done almost 400 hours of professional firearms training, the only two times I've had a loaded gun pointed at my head were by police officers.
00:19:53.000And that's not to, you know, insinuate they're all bad, but...
00:19:57.000I don't know if the prosecutor says something stupid, can the defense object, your honor,
00:20:16.000Because my favorite moment in the entire trial, and you guys as gun guys are going to love it, when he said, hollow points are designed to enter the target and explode inside.
00:20:26.000And Kyle just like, furls his brow like, I don't think that's right.
00:20:29.000And the judge goes, do you mean expand?
00:20:37.000actually true. The prosecution made the argument that because Kyle Rittenhouse was using full
00:20:40.000metal jacket, he was trying to shoot through people. Sure.
00:20:45.000Because full metal jackets designed to go through and I'm like, where was the defense to cross
00:20:50.000and say, like, that's not true. Right. But the problem was Kyle's not an expert on
00:20:55.000the they didn't have a firearms expert bullet exploding. I think what happens.
00:20:59.000It goes in and then the pressure causes it to expand?
00:21:02.000Hollow point bullets usually have a hollow cavity in the front of the nose, why it's called a hollow point, and what happens when it hits a soft target, they peel back and they become larger.
00:21:12.000Especially with handguns, you have to understand we use these terms switches and timers, okay?
00:21:17.000So if I shoot you with a handgun, I could shoot you say in like center mass in the face or in the chest and that's what we would call like a switch, right?
00:21:44.000Timers are, you know, if I shoot you three times in your lower abdomen, well, you may bleed out, but that might take five or ten minutes.
00:21:52.000And in that five or ten minutes, you can still kill me during that time period.
00:21:56.000With pistol ammunition in particular, because it has a lot less velocity than rifle ammunition, you want the hole to be as large as possible so that they bleed out as quickly as possible.
00:22:07.000Rifle ammunition has some other wounding characteristics, which doesn't require it to be as large per se.
00:22:14.000But the funny thing is, 55 grain full metal jacket ammo, which is what he was using, that's what the military originally specified in the original M16 rifle.
00:22:26.000And they chose that specifically because at velocities over approximately 2,600 feet per second, which it would have been at coming out of the barrel of his rifle, they are designed to tumble and fragment very reliably.
00:22:40.000So, could they have passed through Rosenbaum?
00:23:16.000The defense didn't have a firearms expert?
00:23:19.000That's insane to me because Kyle Rittenhouse could have said in that line of questioning where they could have brought up an expert and he could have said, the use of hollow point rounds suggest intent to cause more bodily harm.
00:23:29.000In fact, by Kyle Rittenhouse using a full metal jacket, which is much more of a standard, basic round for this rifle, it stands to reason, if the round passed through, it would cause less damage and be less likely to kill.
00:23:40.000They could have had someone testify that.
00:23:41.000You could argue that six ways from Sunday, though.
00:23:43.000Because if I, let's just, now you have the issue, I use a full metal jacket round that is not as effective when impacting soft tissue.
00:23:52.000At creating a larger wound cavity, so a full metal jacket round is more likely to pass through, therefore I was not interested in killing them, only seriously maiming them.
00:24:48.000And, you know, I thought to myself, if I use hollow point or any kind of polymer tip or specialized round, that might actually hurt people more.
00:24:55.000And I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt.
00:24:56.000I just want to stop the threat against me.
00:25:20.000And people think that this is just gun people like being pedantic with terminology.
00:25:23.000You know, we hear that a lot from anti-gun people in particular.
00:25:26.000Oh, you guys are so caught up in terminology, rifle, pistol, short barrel, et cetera.
00:25:31.000And my answer that is always a couple things.
00:25:34.000First of all, this is like a common issue that we have to talk about with ammunition.
00:25:37.000In particular, there are people who that that's like a myth you see on the internet.
00:25:41.000Oh, if you If you're a home reloader and you make your own ammo and it's higher power than what you would buy off the shelf, you know, if you use that in a self-defense situation, they're going to use that against you and try to paint you as some kind of killer.
00:25:53.000So you should only use, I hear this from a lot of firearms instructors, that you should call your local police department, find out what your local police officers carry, which are almost always going to be a hollow point of some variety, And that's what you should use, because then if you get up in court, you can say, hey, I shot the guy with the same thing that the Novi police or the, you know, whatever police department uses.
00:26:34.000Yeah, chamber pressure is, you know, on par, but in terms of the diameter of the bullet, you know, and the muzzle energy compared to say, like 308 Winchester, or 30-06, which, you know, we were fielding in World War Two, I mean, you're talking about almost double the muzzle energy.
00:26:50.000Could you imagine Kyle walking around with like a Barrett M82?
00:27:18.000The barrel, you know, especially on large rifles, the barrel is very thick.
00:27:23.000So that's where the majority of the weight in a firearm is, because the barrel has to be able to withstand, especially like long barrel with a 50 BMG, if you look at those under a really high speed camera, 100,000 frames per second, you'll see the barrel wave.
00:27:37.000Uh, so they have to be very, very thick, and the steel's very heavy, so they're almost always front heavy.
00:27:43.000We should have actually grabbed some rounds to show.
00:27:47.000Like, I literally- Well, we have the- I got some in my car.
00:27:50.000We have the 50 BMG- Yeah, so- No, but- Well, see, and this is the misnomer, so, you know, you'll see- Oh, by the way, these are available on our website.
00:28:03.000So, you know, this is a Fiat, this is a 50 BMG cartridge case.
00:28:06.000But, you know, the actual projectile itself and again, with the terminology like being that this is what I do for a living, I say projectile because, you know, people will commonly refer to as the entire cartridge as a bullet.
00:28:18.000But really the bullet is only the thing that comes out and so like I've seen ads from moms demand action where you'll
00:28:25.000see them Showing the whole cartridge like coming out at the end of
00:28:28.000the rail. That's how stupid these people are a lot of movies
00:28:30.000So I want to talk about something else too. Can we first cover up the five five six two two three question?
00:28:36.000Yeah, yeah, I mean because I think this is actually much more important the
00:28:40.000Going back to the Kyle Rittenhouse case, there are multiple things that are going on in this trial that the person who's on trial is actually the American family.
00:28:48.000Like, you and I and every individual person.
00:28:50.000And the first example of the 556 question, the 223, right?
00:28:54.000I'm not going to go down to the arguments on what's the difference between 5.56 and .223.
00:28:57.000For the remainder of this conversation, they're effectively the same thing.
00:29:00.000You're talking about years of change, and it's a long story.
00:29:04.000The .223 round was designed to be shot out of a 16 or 18, 16, 20 inch barrel, a longer barrel, so it can build up muzzle velocity.
00:29:12.000So the things that impact the effectiveness of that round are the load that is used, the projectile that is used, the rifling of the barrel, the length of the barrel, All of these factors go into play where you see where in, or was it maybe 10 years ago, short barreled rifles concepts became super popular.
00:29:29.000One of the reasons why the Mark 18 has a 10.8, 10.3 inch barrel is because that's about as close as you can get before that bullet, that projectile once fired does not move fast enough to produce what are they called hydrostatic Yeah, hydrostatic shock, terminal wounding.
00:29:46.000You're looking at like very, very detailed stories.
00:29:49.000So when somebody says that the AR-15 is a deadly, dangerous weapon of war, they are simultaneously being met by veterans overseas who complained... It wasn't deadly enough.
00:30:02.000Using a 5.56 rifle with green tip rounds, armor piercing, language out the door, we're having issues because the guy was on drugs and would shrug it off.
00:30:18.000I mean, they've redesigned the... So one of the problems they had in Afghanistan in particular was they chopped... So again, you know, the original M16 was designed around a 20-inch barrel.
00:30:27.000So you're getting 3,200 feet per second muzzle velocity.
00:30:31.000They chopped that down to 16 inches, and then when you're in Afghanistan, Iraq, you're clearing these very small buildings, they needed to be able to maneuver around corners, so they chopped the barrels down even further.
00:30:43.000So now, muzzle velocity, you're only getting about 2,600 feet per second, and that's right on the line where that bullet is going to not tumble, but just pass straight through a target.
00:31:11.000So it helps it to pass through particular barriers and all these things were tested on what we saw in Afghanistan in the global war on terror as they cut the barrels down and they saw yeah, you know 22556 got a bad reputation for a little while because They were having a lot of pass-throughs.
00:31:29.000They had designed things to work against people with body armor.
00:31:31.000They weren't wearing body armor They weren't tumbling So they had, you know, the military, unfortunately, is not very good at, like, redesigning the whole thing as a package.
00:31:41.000They cut the barrel down, they forget about the ammunition.
00:31:43.000They redesign the ammunition, they forget about the rifle.
00:31:46.000And it takes a long time to get all the way through.
00:31:48.000I think one thing we're learning a lot about, which most of us probably already knew, if you're somebody who knows guns, and you guys infinitely more than the average person, You know all the different reasons for different bullets, all the different reasons for different barrel lengths and styles, handgun versus rifle, heavy barrel versus, you know, etc.
00:32:08.000And what I've come to start, you know, realizing is in the past few years when I've been buying guns and learning about them, when you look at this trial, it really exemplifies how the average Urban Democrat type person thinks all that exists are AR-15s and bullets.
00:32:26.000They don't realize that, like, you're talking about .223 and .556.
00:32:30.000They can both be fired out of a .556, but a .556 can't be in a .223.
00:33:34.000I'm not an expert, but I do know about the weapons I have and why I have them.
00:33:39.000And so I just explained why the different kind of rounds, why the different kind of shotgun shells or whatever, why the different kind of shotgun.
00:33:47.000And it's like, some are better at close range, some are better at medium range, some bullets do one thing or another.
00:33:52.000And the issue is that, The world isn't rifle, handgun, and bullet.
00:33:57.000Which is what most of these establishment gun control type people and the prosecutor in the Rittenhouse case seem to think.
00:34:03.000So I want to get into the perfect example of this.
00:34:06.000And we were talking about it before the show.
00:34:08.000One of the questions asked to the prosecutor was, in the moment when Gage Grosskreutz was pointing the gun at Kyle, the prosecutor said, why did you think he was a threat?
00:34:20.000Rittenhouse says, because he was pointing a gun at me.
00:34:24.000And the prosecutor says, he's got a gun in his hand, right?
00:34:28.000Yes, he could have shot you from 40, 50 feet away, but he didn't choose to.
00:34:55.000Which would mean someone who, he had a permit before, it was now invalid, he knows he won't hit the target, so he's closing the distance to guarantee he hit the targets.
00:35:04.000In fact, that proves He was even more dangerous.
00:35:15.000Kyle was not threatened by the fact that other people had continued shooting after the fact.
00:35:20.000Probably because he's like, they're nowhere near me.
00:35:22.000But the prosecutor got that question in, and there was no one to rebut it.
00:35:26.000Well, I mean, it's also tragic because now that Gage is missing a part of his bicep, we're not going to be able to take him to a range and see his effectiveness at 40 meters.
00:35:36.000You know, Gage Grosskreutz, I tweeted this out.
00:35:39.000I said, people keep cheering for this Kenosha guy who travels, you know, super far to go to a riot, bringing a gun he's not legally allowed to possess.
00:35:49.000I don't care if he's claiming he wants to provide medical assistance or be an EMT or whatever.
00:35:55.000I'm talking about Gage Grosskreutz, of course, not Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:35:58.000Which is, it's interesting that they keep saying he crossed state lines with an illegal gun, and I'm like, Gage Grosskreutz traveled 40 miles with an illegal gun.
00:36:06.000Not that I think guns should be illegal, but in this instance, like, statutes of the law.
00:36:09.000Well, and in Gage's, I mean, first of all, he's carrying a .40, so, obviously, he doesn't know what he's doing.
00:36:26.000It's just kind of an overrated caliber.
00:36:27.000It had its time and everybody kind of jumped on this bandwagon.
00:36:32.000It's a watered-down 10mm because the FBI basically invented 10mm because there was a couple of bad shootouts they were involved in so they wanted something really really powerful which 10mm is.
00:36:44.000But then they found that their agents couldn't handle the recoil, so then they watered it down and created .40 Smith & Wesson, which is the same bullet, a little bit shorter case, less powder.
00:36:54.000And so for a while, it was more powerful than 9mm, enough to warrant it.
00:36:59.000But these days, with modern powder and bullet technology, the difference in recoil isn't worth the added penetration, the lower magazine capacity, the inability to put two, three rounds in the same hole, all those kinds of things.
00:37:14.000But what I was getting at with Gage is, everybody in this country who concealed carries a gun on a daily basis knew that that guy, I mean, he was a liar, obviously, but the minute that that prosecutor said, so, you know, you carry this gun every day, and he said, Oh, yeah, wallet, keys, gun every day, I leave the house the same way.
00:37:31.000And the prosecutor said, Do you know if you had one in the chamber that night?
00:38:12.000And, um, the other thing, too, is I remember watching this commercial for, like, workplace firearms mounting or whatever.
00:38:19.000And it was like, I got an ad on Facebook for it.
00:38:21.000And basically, all of it shows that when they're putting the gun in there, it's actually designed so that you push the gun with your hands to chamber around under your desk.
00:38:30.000Like, what's the point of having a weapon unready to be used?
00:38:32.000Someone kicks your door in and threatens your life and you're like, give me a minute to, you know, there we go.
00:38:59.000Alec Baldwin was handed a firearm, pointed at somebody, and pulled the trigger believing that he was so holy of a person, he didn't even have to check the- I'm sorry, you're incorrect.
00:39:44.000So this is like a, look, people might think it's nitpicking, but this is literally him making a very deliberate action to be like, not only am I going to, because some might argue that he was just going like, ah, ah, you know, like thinking he had an empty, you know, cleared cold gun or whatever.
00:40:04.000Well, that's why this is this stuff is really important as I was saying earlier about firearm terminology in particular People people on the other side think that we get too caught up in the details, but the details matter I mean when you if you're a gun owner, you almost have to be a paralegal in a sense because you saw that in some of the jury instructions they were talking about with Rittenhouse with the gun charge getting basically thrown out and You know, the whole thing came down to, was he in possession of a short-barreled rifle or not?
00:40:34.000Well, if you ask your average person, what is a short-barreled rifle, they probably wouldn't be able to tell you, but the difference is, you know, a sixteenth of an inch.
00:40:42.000If it's 15.9 inches, you end up like Randy Weaver.
00:41:12.000I want to talk about Kyle Rittenhouse basically winning on this gun charge, but the judge was not, I guess, strong enough to just say, get it out.
00:41:19.000Because I think as a question of law, the judge literally said, there is an exemption for Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:41:33.000Imagine the law says if you are standing on the street and you cross the street in the middle of the road without using the crosswalk, you are guilty of jaywalking.
00:41:42.000And then you're sleeping on a bench and a cop walks over and says you're under arrest for jaywalking.
00:41:46.000As a matter of law, you did not jaywalk.
00:42:58.000If you are 12 years old, and with your dad, and he gives you a rifle to go hunting, and you are hunting with him, you are not violating the law.
00:43:07.000If you are 16 and you take your rifle by yourself and carrying it, you are not in violation of the law.
00:43:14.000If you are under the age of 16, you're now in violation of one of the statutes and you're not hunting.
00:43:19.000You're now in violation of both statutes.
00:43:25.000And the judge said, I agree with you, the defense.
00:43:29.000I'm just going to instruct the jury to that regard.
00:43:31.000And it's just like, Then if you agree, it specifically says this law does not apply to you if you are 16 or 17, then why would the jury even have to answer the question?
00:43:43.000Which goes back to my earlier point on the judge trusts in the system.
00:43:50.000He's coming with good faith, he's believing that the jurors are going to come not under duress, that they're going to understand what he's saying, they're going to be able to understand what he's speaking about the law, and then they will be able to follow through with it.
00:44:04.000This is the meta-narrative of the problem that you have here with the entire Kyle Rittenhouse case, is you have a judge who is coming in good faith, being played against by both a media apparatus and an overtly Oh yeah.
00:44:22.000Did you see, uh, there was a point where, I can't remember which charge it was, I think it was like second degree reckless homicide.
00:45:38.000That both parties, both the defense and the prosecution, are coming to the court, both of them are looking at something that they believe is called justice, and they want to see justice enacted.
00:45:49.000They don't both have the same objective.
00:45:52.000The defense and the judge want to see justice completed.
00:45:56.000The defense believes that, or justice enacted, the defense believes that it would be just for Kyle to be acquitted on a self-defense charge, which is a very important thing if you think that you're a human being.
00:46:08.000Because what the prosecution wants and what the what the media attached to it, you know Whatever what the prosecution wants is that if you use force even in self-defense against our ideologues We have the right to prosecute you that it is not a combination of this is not a court case This is a movie script when Stephen Crowder said that this is a landmark moment when Kyle Rittenhouse was breaking down on the screen which I yeah that was an emotional scenario for a lot of people and Do I like emotional arguments?
00:46:39.000I'm supposed to be the philosopher, the cold calculated whatever.
00:46:42.000But the issue that comes down to this conversation is that when Kyle Rittenhouse is now on trial, being prosecuted by a prosecutor who is overtly lying, deceiving, cheating, playing dirty at the game, we now see that no, the prosecutor and the people who are against Kyle Rittenhouse do not want to see justice, they want to see power.
00:47:03.000a victory. They won't want a victory. That will be a symbolic victory for them which says,
00:47:09.000ha, at any given point where we decide that anything that you do is arbitrarily racist,
00:47:14.000we can light your city on fire, we can terrorize your civilians, we can go after your people,
00:47:19.000we can colonize your city with our neo-fascist ideology, and then if you fight back, we see
00:47:26.000ourselves as morally justified at stringing you out in as much pain as possible.
00:47:31.000I was talking to a leftist friend of mine today who said he was hoping that the state would align on this one and, you know, basically stop the reactionaries.
00:47:41.000And I was like, what do you mean reactionary?
00:47:44.000And he's like, you know, the people that are trying to rewind civil rights.
00:47:47.000And then I was like, oh, you're talking about Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
00:47:50.000And he was like, no, I'm talking about Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:47:52.000And I was like, but Kyle Rittenhouse was there helping the protesters.
00:48:12.000And I don't think it has a bearing on a self-defense case, or him as a case.
00:48:15.000I think he was a good kid trying to do good.
00:48:18.000Because it's like when you look at the, you know, I'll throw it to Vosch, who makes the Marvel movie comparison about like, the good guy puts their gun down.
00:48:24.000Well, the good guy helps even the bad guys.
00:48:27.000And Kyle Reynolds was there just to help people.
00:48:29.000Be it stop fires, protect businesses, and make sure people who got hurt, regardless of who they were, were being cared for.
00:48:35.000Alright, so I'm going to go put some people in a cattle car.
00:48:46.000The point I'm trying to make is that Kyle Rittenhouse didn't go there as a reactionary.
00:48:49.000He didn't go there as someone who says, I have to stop Black Lives Matter.
00:48:51.000He went there as, I want to make sure people are safe.
00:48:54.000So that could be seen as being revolutionary if he's helping revolutionaries, right?
00:48:59.000The idea that the leftists perceive this, the way they perceive Kyle is, it's insane.
00:49:03.000They didn't watch the trial, they didn't watch any of the videos, they just think that he's far right and hates social justice or whatever.
00:49:09.000Well, there's also an element of the quote boogaloo boys or, you know, people who are part Of armed groups who are supporters of black lives matter who came out and said that they're here with the protesters that they don't like the police they don't like the government and they want to stand with the protesters but guard some private businesses so there is an element of this that that was there before that was something that is worth considering and not denying.
00:50:02.000They wanted to look out for each other, to at least some extent.
00:50:05.000And suddenly, this very broad blending of people, where some people were out in the streets, literally to cause chaos and mayhem.
00:50:13.000Their whole purpose was just to find, damage, burn, destroy, loot.
00:50:18.000And you know, that is still going on, in case people keep forgetting.
00:50:21.000But the issue that happened then is you had an entire other support element of people that basically said, here's our solidarity because we think your motive is correct.
00:51:35.000There was something... I'm gonna go on a bit of a anti-police... I'm gonna put my Michael Malice hat on for a minute, even though he's still blocked me on Twitter.
00:51:47.000Anyway, I'm gonna put my anti-police hat on for a minute.
00:51:51.000And I have to say, I've become much more disenfranchised over the last two years than probably ever before.
00:51:57.000So there was something kind of sick about seeing those cops testifying for the prosecution sitting on the prosecution side, knowing full well that those guys sat on their hands and didn't do a thing while Kenosha was on fire.
00:52:13.000And whether you think he should have been there or not, I would argue a 17 year old kid shouldn't have put himself in that situation.
00:52:23.000He put himself there because he saw that the supposed adults in the room weren't doing anything.
00:52:29.000And, you know, as time has gone on, we've seen through the COVID lockdowns that this, you know, people have always argued, well, the cops will be on our side when You know, whatever the big igloo happens and society collapses, they're all going to rally around us.
00:52:48.000And I used to think that, I mean, I was maybe like 80% in that camp and I think I'm basically 0% in that camp at this point in time.
00:52:57.000I mean, they will put you in jail, they will arrest you for carrying a concealed weapon, even though, you know, like, There is no such thing as a police officer making, you know, you get pulled over for being 10 miles over the speed limit and they can let you off with a warning.
00:53:13.000If they pull you over in New Jersey for having a loaded handgun, you're not getting let go under any circumstances.
00:53:20.000And so, like, at some point we have to look at this and say, You guys are willing to overlook the guy who had a joint in his ashtray, but you're not willing to overlook something that is a constitutionally protected right.
00:53:35.000Who do we need to start holding responsible for this?
00:53:39.000I'm sorry, I'm not going to donate to your benevolent police fund.
00:53:42.000I'm not going to answer the call from the Fraternal Order of Police anymore.
00:53:46.000Sorry, but guess what, you know, we supply to sit to the citizenry to the American people.
00:53:54.000And just because you're a police officer doesn't mean that I should go out of my way to make sure that I cater to your whims, because you guys certainly aren't doing us any favors.
00:54:03.000I'll tell you why I've been much more on the abolish the police train.
00:54:08.000In a grander scale, I understand the federal law enforcement is very different from local law enforcement, but wow, watching what happened to James O'Keefe should be... That is a red flag that you can see from space.
00:54:44.000The story out of New Jersey that I'd love to tell.
00:54:46.000A woman who lived in Philadelphia, where she's legally allowed to carry a weapon, was driving to go gambling in Atlantic City, and she made the mistake of not realizing New Jersey is probably the strictest gun control state.
00:56:39.000I knew a guy who was from California and he was moving to New York and he had two long guns and like two handguns in his trunk and he drove through Illinois and you've got a federal protection when you're driving, when you're moving.
00:57:17.000He was not a guy who had the money to file the claims and get the right lawyers.
00:57:21.000And he basically got four years He ended up doing like one year in prison with like three years of probation, which meant you are now a permanent resident of Illinois.
00:57:31.000I had, I had lawyers tell me if you are carrying firearms in your car, store it correctly.
00:57:37.000And if you get pulled over and if, even if you're in a state where you have to tell them you have a firearm, if you have it stored correctly, I had lawyers tell me you don't have to say anything.
00:58:06.000How am I, and shout out to Michael Malice for making this argument initially and then having me just more and more go off on this one seed he planted, this anarchist seed in my mind, in New York City where they ban you from legally having, you know, your constitutional rights have been subverted in this state, in New Jersey, in Maryland, where they do it over and over again.
00:58:27.000And I can tolerate to a certain degree legal arguments where we're going through this.
00:58:31.000What I can't tolerate is that they have evidence that Gage Grosskreutz was committing crimes.
00:58:36.000And I'm not just talking about the gun, I'm just saying that they know this guy's a violent rioter, they know what he's doing, and he won't get charged.
00:59:35.000So when you see Gage Grosskreutz violating gun laws, and they say, we're not going to execute a search warrant against you, and you're good on this one.
00:59:43.000We're not even going to check his phone when we have a warrant to check your phone.
01:00:18.000I mean, the selective prosecution, you know, I made a speech about this a couple months ago at a two-way rally up in Michigan.
01:00:26.000I said, you know, unfortunately, it was in front of a crowd of, you know, a lot of the sort of boomer types, and I said, You know, you guys probably aren't in the same line of thinking as the people who want to legalize marijuana across the country federally, and you may make fun of them as a bunch of stoners and losers and what have you.
01:00:50.000Those guys have done more in the last 20 years for the legalization of marijuana than any of you guys have done for the proliferation of gun rights.
01:02:02.000I think the jury is going to acquit on the gun charge because the judge said he's going to give the defense's instructions as they wanted them to the jury, which means they will read the portion where it says this law does not apply to you.
01:02:16.000And the judge actually even said the state has not met its burden of proving that Kyle Rittenhouse was under the age of 16.
01:02:25.000I can respect it because he wants the jury to prove it.
01:02:29.000However, if he does get convicted on it, they immediately need to file a civil rights suit and say, convicting him on his keeping and bearing arms violates Second Amendment.
01:02:39.000Second Amendment does not have an age limit on it.
01:02:42.000And that'll be really interesting because imagine what happens if that goes to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court says, you know, the Second Amendment doesn't say how old you have to be and then all of a sudden seven-year-olds can possess firearms.
01:02:51.000Isn't the Supreme Court hearing a case right now regarding New York State versus regarding New York State Pistol and Rifle Association?
01:03:10.000Basically, the lawsuit is about, in some states, so I'm a resident of Michigan, so in Michigan, if you apply for a concealed pistol license, so long as you do the required training, which is an 8-hour class, which costs about $100, you pay the $100 application fee, unless you are a convicted felon, they have to give you that concealed pistol license.
01:03:35.000You don't have to give them a reason to have one.
01:03:37.000In New York, And in California and a couple of Maryland, New Jersey, you have to give them a specific reason why you want to carry a firearm.
01:03:46.000And in all of those states, it says specifically on the application that self-defense is not a reason to have a concealed pistol license.
01:03:55.000So you either have to be somebody who's dealing with like cash in transit, you own a jewelry store, or Most of the time, you're just a famous politician, you know who to pay, and that's how people end up getting concealed pistol licenses in those areas.
01:04:12.000And so, you know, why have it at all at that point in time?
01:04:17.000New Jersey is laughably known as, if you go to Wikipedia and look at concealed carry states, You'll see the the shall issue and the may issue and then
01:04:26.000New Jersey is red It says may issue parentheses in practice effectively. No,
01:04:31.000it's no issue. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I mean, it's it's a very important distinction because at
01:04:36.000the beginning in a shall issue state unless you have something that has been by due process
01:04:41.000Concerned considered you not allowed to own a firearm not allowed to carry a firearm then you can carry it
01:04:48.000In other words, as long as you have nothing, as long as you do not have specific items, mental health issues, which are, they have to be pretty far down to be that clear.
01:04:59.000But then, unless you have something that removes your ability, negates your ability to own a firearm, the state is required to give it to you.
01:05:08.000The other opportunity is effectively you have to go to your overlords and say, I'm a good little boy.
01:05:14.000I want you guys to look up at the screen.
01:05:16.000I want everyone to see this because this is awesome.
01:05:19.000What this map shows is that there, as of 2021, the green states are called constitutional carry.
01:06:36.000Yeah, where all the crime is. Look at Hawaii. It says may issue parentheses no issue in practice
01:06:42.000And there's New Jersey and New York City in New York City parts of California and parts of New York state
01:06:47.000It is no issue in practice. That is Unconstitutional 100. Yeah
01:06:54.000The criminals have guns and of course people are left defenseless, as you know, women who have crazy spouses who go through spousal abuse can't defend themselves.
01:07:03.000Victims are just, you know, told to not defend themselves and call the police and wait maybe five minutes, maybe 10, maybe 15, maybe even 30, who knows how long.
01:07:15.000And, you know, if we compared this to a map that showed legalization of marijuana, of course, all of them would be read at the federal level.
01:07:22.000But, you know, so then in parentheses, we would we would say legalization allowed in practice because no police officer in his right mind is going to enforce federal law in a state where it's allowed.
01:07:34.000So, I go right back to gun control is losing, but for it to continue to lose, we, at some point, police are going to have to be complicit in that.
01:07:48.000They're going to have to turn a blind eye.
01:07:58.000There are many two-way sanctuaries that have popped up all over the place, particularly where we are right now.
01:08:03.000So we do the show out of Maryland, which has strict and crazy gun laws.
01:08:07.000Get a cop, you know, like a state trooper or a local deputy and sheriff and ask them about it, and they're gonna be like, not in my town.
01:08:13.000And it's kind of, I don't try, look, with all due respect, I actually think we've got some pretty decent cops in these areas, because, you know, Western Maryland is, it's MAGA country, whatever you want to call it.
01:08:25.000I'm not going to trust a state with political issues to actually uphold their Second Amendment sanctuary, but they have affirmed that.
01:08:33.000That being said, our workspace is here in Maryland, but I actually live in West Virginia, and so I keep everything out of this state for the most part.
01:08:40.000And the feds play by a different set of rules, but to kind of add to your point, Throughout human history, soldiers, police, 99.9% of the time follow orders.
01:08:50.000The problem is a lot of the people giving out orders right now are corrupt.
01:09:07.000The police were told, hey, go after this journalist because he's reporting on stuff that we don't like.
01:09:12.000They just did that with James O'Keefe.
01:09:15.000So we are seeing things get out of hand.
01:09:18.000I know there's, you know, this concept of a rotten apple, but again, when we look at the larger kind of policing around the United States, it has failed the American people.
01:09:29.000Yeah, I wouldn't even say it's a rotten apple.
01:09:31.000It's just more, it's honestly, people Cowards.
01:09:35.000It's people who are just going to comply.
01:09:38.000From a position of virtue, is the Second Amendment something so cheap that you would expect somebody else to uphold it for you?
01:10:04.000Officer kills man who refused to turn in gun.
01:10:08.000A 61-year-old man is dead after he was shot by an officer trying to enforce Maryland's new red flag law in Ferndale Monday morning.
01:10:15.000Anne Arundel County Police confirmed the police-involved shooting happened on the 100 block of Linwood Avenue at 517 a.m.
01:10:21.000According to police, two officers serving a new extreme risk protective order, a Maryland protective order to remove guns from a household, shot and killed the man listed on the order.
01:10:31.000The man was identified as Gary J. Willis.
01:10:33.000Officials said Willis answered the door while holding a handgun, which is legally allowed to do.
01:10:37.000Willis then placed the gun next to the door.
01:10:39.000When officers began to serve him the order, Willis became irate and grabbed his gun.
01:10:43.000One of the officers tried to take the gun from Willis, but instead, Willis fired the gun.
01:10:47.000The second officer fired the gun, striking Willis.
01:11:09.000I don't know how a person should act and what, but I'll tell you this.
01:11:12.000This is what happens when people coming to your house say they're seizing your weapons and you don't know what's going on because you are not served in advance.
01:11:20.000This also happened with Duncan Lemp in Maryland as well.
01:11:25.000You guys probably know more about that story than a lot of other people.
01:11:28.000My understanding is that, I don't know if it was this story, it may have been this one, that like a sister-in-law falsely accused him of mental defect, so that the police would come and seize his weapons.
01:11:39.000This is one of them where I've heard a lot about the story, but unfortunately from a position of where I'm at, I can't verify any of it.
01:11:46.000It's all for me at this point here, Shay.
01:11:48.000From from for where I'm at not I don't from what I'm looking at I can say I can tell you ethically what the problems Are you would not make a good CNN reporter?
01:12:00.000I mean my application I guess is still on their desk, but If you want to be like CNN just make it up I'm sorry, if you want to be like CNN, you've got to crank it on a Zoom meeting with a bunch of your co-workers.
01:14:26.000But I think it's cool that, you know, they did a bit where they're making a point about the weird behaviors when it comes to offense culture and like race and all that stuff.
01:14:33.000Like, that's why I'm making this joke.
01:14:35.000Like, it literally works that way for the woke people.
01:14:39.000If a white person makes a comment about Asian people, I can say, well, listen here, I'm Asian, therefore.
01:14:43.000But if someone who's more Asian than me says it, they're like, well, you're You're too white, so... You know, if they put all that effort into going into mathematics to even determine the, like, what is the possible measurement, maybe we could have a colony on the moon.
01:14:55.000On the dark side, where it gets really cold and nothing else.
01:14:58.000That's one of the things I really like about the gun community in particular is that it, you know, whatever the left portrays about it, it's one of the more diverse places that I've actually been in in the last, you know, 10 or 15 years.
01:15:12.000And usually the stories I hear from people who aren't from the US are the most powerful.
01:15:18.000So like three quick examples, a good friend of mine, Ming, his family, his family's from China.
01:15:57.000We came here, we're so happy to have this right.
01:16:00.000We truly understand it and we're willing to fight for it to the death.
01:16:04.000I trained with a UK Special Forces operator the last couple of weekends, and he left his family, he left his career in the UK Special Forces to move to this country.
01:16:16.000And he said, you know, in the UK, you can't even walk around with a pocketknife.
01:16:21.000Like, you can be arrested for spitting on the sidewalk.
01:16:23.000You can be arrested for carrying a screwdriver.
01:17:16.000I don't have one today because I was on an airplane, but I mean, I have one in my pocket literally everywhere I go.
01:17:22.000And the funny thing is every time I fly with firearms, Delta puts a zip tie around my locked firearms case for whatever reason and that's the most annoying thing is I get to the hotel and it's like I got to cut the zip tie off here but my knife is in the pelican case because I can't carry it on the plane.
01:17:37.000I'm like the last guy that you ever need to worry about but it's so stupid.
01:17:42.000You can't carry nail clippers into the airport.
01:17:44.000Nail clippers, but you can carry a Set of knitting needles that are this instant that you could like literally stab through somebody's chest if you wanted You can carry a green, you know metal straw you can carry a metal straw for your yeah, I Save the world.
01:18:04.000There was a guy who did a mini-doc over at Vice.
01:18:12.000He did a project, I forgot what he called it, but he went into the airport to see what was inside the airport that could be weaponized.
01:18:43.000When water touches it, there's an exothermic reaction, which is... I'm not going to go into great detail about what he did.
01:18:49.000You can actually watch the videos on YouTube, but when you have lithium in water, which is easily available in airports, dangerous things can happen.
01:18:57.000Basically, he did this project to explain that a lot of what they're saying you can't have in airports, you can buy worse things inside of them.
01:19:06.000And that's what people need to be aware about if they want to take the security stuff seriously.
01:19:53.000But, you know, all the security stuff, it's theater.
01:19:56.000And I take a look at a lot of these, you know, like the red flag stuff in a lot of these cities and everything, and it's all theater as well.
01:20:02.000Democrats come out and say guns are scary.
01:20:04.000That's why they specifically say an assault weapon and then they show you like a Ruger 1022 with like a pistol grip and they make it make everyone think it's different from like You know rifle grip or whatever and that's an exact gun I mean That's a very important point too because you're coming from I when the first time you brought me on the show I gave the story of the kids in college where the the summary of their knowledge and experience on firearms firearms ownership buying a gun anything like that was a 7-minute box video that was factually false and also in front inferred false things it was They watched seven minutes of lies and then suddenly thought that they had they deserved to have an opinion on guns, right?
01:20:38.000Okay, so that's where we have a cultural problem because we were talking just a minute ago about how the Second Amendment is actually winning the culture war some ways through objective means like more states are becoming constitutional carry or Firearm sale is going up.
01:20:54.000These are good things but then there are other things that are quite that some people would say questionable like well more Ideologically led people, the far left, are into guns now because they want to have their communist revolution.
01:21:10.000Maybe you could say something like insurgency.
01:21:23.000By the way, you know, look for an article on this in the upcoming edition of Concealment.
01:21:27.000But we're starting to... I think a good sign in our world right now, in the United States, is that we're reconsidering with Kyle Rittenhouse what winning looks like.
01:21:37.000Because if you had asked 10 years ago, an intellectual would have said, you defended your life and you didn't go to prison and you didn't get broke.
01:21:48.000In other words, what I think is right is that when you get attacked, defend yourself, you're recognized as doing the right thing.
01:21:59.000Well, I mean, I was reading, there was an article that said 99 out of 100 prosecutors wouldn't bring charges against Rittenhouse.
01:22:06.000Yeah, so the correct outcome is that if Kyle Rittenhouse gets acquitted, Binger gets debarred.
01:22:12.000He gets disbarred and banned from practicing law.
01:22:15.000Because what he has shown is that not only does he not either a doesn't know the law that he's supposed to be practicing or b He's got malicious intent.
01:22:24.000Doesn't care. Yeah, and so when you can wanna because in that's and this goes back to the argument of bad actors
01:22:29.000because the gun Control the gun rights people keep taught we keep talking
01:22:46.000What it doesn't do is it doesn't turn it into this, like, well, I'm the technocracy.
01:22:50.000I get to tell you what to do with guns now.
01:22:52.000However, it should be considered culturally unacceptable to receive that kind of information from an activist who knows nothing that they're talking about.
01:23:04.000And I think we're explaining it right here.
01:23:06.000When you look at that map of constitutional carry across the country, expanding, not just constitutional carry, the shall issue states, because in the 80s, it's mostly may issue.
01:23:16.000And over the past couple of decades, gun rights has been winning.
01:23:23.000People, you gotta get your state-level reps, your state senators, all that stuff.
01:23:28.000Because then, in your state, look at how many, like, the constitutional carry just happens in Texas.
01:23:33.000And the joke was always Texas was gun country, but they actually, it's fairly Australian.
01:23:36.000They're actually kind of behind a lot of other states.
01:23:39.000Texas, you need to take a training course to get a handgun, you gotta get a license and everything.
01:23:43.000And people, the joke on Family Guy was that when you buy whiskey, you get a free gun, and he hands it to Brian.
01:23:47.000Like, no, no, no, that actually is just not, Texas is actually a bit more strict, until now, at the state level, where they passed constitutional carry.
01:23:55.000Do you wanna know who was a group that actually tried to oppose constitutional carry?
01:24:01.000And this is where, like, I'm a big advocate of You know the gun community like what is a community and we can talk about that but a group that came out against constitutional carry were firearms instructors in Texas.
01:24:17.000Because they knew that if people weren't going to be forced to pay money to take their classes anymore they weren't going to be able to sell their classes and I say well that says more about your terrible instruction That nobody would take it unless forced, then it does that you think it should be required.
01:24:35.000And so there is some policing that we have to do within our own community, our own again community like what is that a community is a people with a shared sense of purpose or ideals.
01:24:44.000And so we have to look at that and say, you know, you guys are not on the same page as we are.
01:24:50.000And if you really aren't supporting gun rights, then you're not part of the community just because you own a gun and because you're an NRA trained firearms instructor doesn't mean that you get the bigger picture.
01:25:02.000And we have to be willing to call them out.
01:27:52.000If you're responsible, what comes out of that weapon... We were talking about this earlier, about having a range in West Virginia, and the laws are fairly lax.
01:28:00.000And I was like, I'm pretty sure the law is basically like, you're allowed to shoot on your property
01:28:04.000and if you hit someone, you go to jail.
01:28:05.000You know, so like understand the responsibilities that you have.
01:28:09.000So up on the, there's a mountain nearby, a small community, people shoot all the time.
01:28:23.000You've been in big cities before and people drive cars, cars are dangerous, cars can kill.
01:28:28.000But you've never expected anybody to just like ram their car into you.
01:28:32.000Same thing as like when I'm in West Virginia and I see a guy walking around with a rifle or a handgun, I'm like, why am I worried about this guy at all?
01:28:39.000We hear gunshots all the time out here and like a lot.
01:28:43.000And I just sip my coffee and I'm like, The only way for this to continue to move forward is to continue to normalize gun ownership.
01:28:51.000You know, again, 10, 15 years ago, if you were walking down the sidewalk, and you were like, man, somebody smoking weed, like, well, you know, you're like waiting for somebody to, you know, some crackhead to like pop out of the corner or something.
01:29:04.000Now it's just like, Oh, man, you know, somebody smoking weed, like it's no big deal.
01:29:08.000And same thing, if you walk into the store, and all of a sudden, like, man, everybody's carrying a gun.
01:29:14.000It's just, you know, if we got 20 years ago, if you saw somebody walking down the street with a cell phone in their hand, staring down at it as they walked, you'd think like, God, that guy's a little weird.
01:29:24.000Nowadays, it doesn't even register in your brain, because it's been normalized as a part of our human social interaction.
01:29:30.000Real quick, I got a story that's basically that.
01:29:33.000Up on the mountain, there's a public range where it's basically for hunting training, they call.
01:29:38.000That's what they say for, you know, whatever reason.
01:29:48.000And I'm like, huh, I walk towards them and then eventually I see the range and I see two guys and he's zeroing in, uh, you know, mini 14 or something and I walk over.
01:30:20.000But it wasn't hunting season, which means I knew people were at the range and I'm like, oh, I'm going to go walk towards the range and see what's up.
01:30:26.000There's a couple of really good lessons we can take from even how this conversation has paid off.
01:30:30.000And one of them is that when we're looking at the firearms, like firearms training as a whole, one thing that a lot of us millennials grew up with is we grew up with firearms in the home.
01:30:40.000Our parents taught us, or it was a long-term process.
01:30:43.000And so the first thing that we know is that learning how to be effective, well, learning how to be safe with a firearm doesn't take a lot of time.
01:30:50.000Knowing even the modicum, more than your average leftist, does not take a modicum amount of time to be sarcastic.
01:30:58.000But what we're recognizing, even with these training classes, right?
01:31:26.000But I don't need to make a point on that one.
01:31:28.000What we have a lesson to learn is that one of the things that the past generation brought into the gun industry, which they should not have, is infinite, endless suspicion.
01:31:41.000If I go to a range, I've got some tattoos.
01:31:45.000I'm not as tattooed as other people are.
01:31:50.000But there are ranges in my home state that you can show up to.
01:31:55.000Outdoor ranges where there's nobody there.
01:31:57.000If you show up with a plate carrier, an AR-15, and targets that you set up and you start moving and shooting, an old man will come out and yell at you for one of those, I don't see why you need one of those for hunting people.
01:32:08.000And the problem with the response is nine times out of, well, I'm sorry, every single time in probably since I've been alive, I can out shoot this person.
01:32:47.000And our objective is not to be predators in the sense, even though we'll use that language, our objective is not so much to be predators, but in the words of a wiser man than me, Jordan Peterson, a good man is not a harmless man, but a man who is dangerous and has it under control.
01:33:01.000And I think that that sounds really good, and that needs to be explored a lot.
01:33:06.000Because a free people are not a harmless people.
01:33:09.000Because you don't own a gun, because you don't know how to shoot somebody, does not mean you're not capable of genocide.
01:33:15.000The fact of the matter that we live in our country with people like Binger, is that there is something, whether it's the grace of God, this is the first time I've been on and we didn't get into a theological conversation, We'll see if the super chat fixes that but this is but it is by the grace of God and or something else that the petty tyrants that have Constituted this country have been held at bay and it's the actions of people like binger It is the attempt to go after somebody for at pot if if he's acquitted The attempt of people to go after Kyle for acting in self-defense the only thing that people are accusing Kyle of being is effective
01:34:29.000All of the leftists who are now saying they realized they were wrong about Kyle Rittenhouse, and I mean this with all sincerity, should chip in to his legal defense.
01:34:37.000Mike Lindell was the one guy that stepped up and did it, and you can say a lot of things about Mike Lindell.
01:34:44.000I prefer a different brand pillow, that's fine.
01:34:48.000I mean, it's not a bad—I just, you know, I have different preferences—but he stepped up right away and, you know, he was a man of his word.
01:36:03.000When people want to disarm your guns, they see you as their property.
01:36:08.000It's, it's just so, you know, one of the really annoying things to me is how, you know, even out here, people just, are ignorant and terrified of guns. Like, they look at it
01:36:19.000like kryptonite or radioactive, you know, oh, it's like, listen, everything here is kept
01:36:24.000safely stored properly. Don't touch it if you don't want to touch it. But the problem is
01:36:29.000there are people who get scared and then think they have to do something with a firearm that's
01:36:33.000stored properly because they don't like the fact that it exists in a space. It's like,
01:36:37.000yo, that's a gun safe. You don't need to cover it or move it or hide it. You can't open it. It's
01:37:08.000I'm not going to say it is the most egregious thing, but it needs to be addressed as supporting gun control in this sort of cyclical fashion is mental.
01:37:16.000Yeah, you gotta teach kids how to handle the weapons so that they have control of the gun.
01:37:49.000I want to I want to read a super chat But I'm going to read a YouTube rule first just so that we're all clear.
01:37:54.000This is important YouTube says that if you're posting content Don't post content that sells firearms or certain firearm accessories through direct sales or post links to sites that sell these items which include accessories that enable a firearm to simulate automatic fire and Accessories that convert a firearm to automatic fire, high-capacity magazines or belts carrying more than 30 rounds, and don't provide instructions on manufacturing firearms, ammo, high-capacity magazines, homemade silencers, accessories that enable a firearm to simulate automated fire, accessories that convert a firearm to automatic fire, don't provide instructions on how to convert them, don't provide instructions on how to install the above-mentioned accessory modifications.
01:39:55.000But like, what they don't want is people playing with weapons in their bedrooms.
01:39:58.000I actually... Sounds like we need to repurpose the studio here into a gun range.
01:40:05.000Um, I don't think that's a bad rule for YouTube.
01:40:07.000You don't want kids acting stupid and, you know, you've seen those videos where people will, like, point the weapon at the camera and do really dumb stuff, so not allowing kids to do things like that, I'm... I shouldn't say kids, anyone.
01:40:17.000You mean all the rap videos on YouTube?
01:41:14.000at two individuals and it is a picture you can see and on the other side there is a time stamp note from one of our episodes where we produce a segment but you can see here this is an angry ADA binger pointing a gun at Kyle Reynolds now this this double-sided picture Will be available both as an NFT and an auction starting at $500,000.
01:41:37.000Now, when you tell someone that Tim Pool has a picture of Kyle Rittenhouse pointing a weapon at somebody, maybe they'll spend $500,000 on this crudely drawn stick figure that I've made on a piece of notebook paper.
01:41:49.000And I will confirm that your drawing is a type of picture.
01:41:54.000I really, really want to clarify for the sake of people who aren't seeing the video.
01:41:58.000It is a torn piece of notebook paper with stick figures on it.
01:42:01.000It is not a photograph or anything like that.
01:42:25.000What I've been saying since the past week or so, the Alec Baldwin story, the first news we got was that it was a blank, it misfired, shrapnel hit the woman, and now we know the actual story is Alec Baldwin drew a single action revolver, pulled the hammer, pointed it at the camera where the woman was working, pulled the trigger, hitting her in the chest and killing her.
01:42:47.000So, when you start from that point, you have to start asking questions about potential motive.
01:42:52.000You don't just go, it's an accident, case dismissed.
01:43:07.000I think that right now, with all the data in front of us, there was another witness who came out and said the scene did not call for him to fire the gun.
01:43:15.000That means to pull the hammer back and pull the trigger in a scene that didn't call for it according to a witness, we have to start not with an assumption of an accident.
01:43:40.000And then, if we go through the information and it's determined the gun was accidentally loaded and not checked, then we can get to that conclusion.
01:43:47.000But for the time being, you gotta make a lot of assumptions to believe it was an accident.
01:43:51.000The armorer screwed up, the assistant director screwed up, and Alec Baldwin, with four decades of firearms training, just overlooked all of his training in a scene that didn't call for shooting someone and shot someone.
01:44:00.000I know I keep, we say it too much, we bring it up, like, we brought it up like five times in the past, you know, few episodes.
01:44:08.000Cleggy says, actually, no, no, no, we'll read that one next.
01:44:11.000Alan says, as a cop, this trial scares me more than anything.
01:44:15.000I think when you see cops go on the stand and side against the kid that they were cheering for, when Kyle Raneis showed up, the police thanked him.
01:44:27.000Cleggy says Starbucks recently sent a memo to their employees stating they fully intend to comply with Biden's OSHA mandate effective on January 4th.
01:44:35.000And on a related note, you guys taking applications?
01:45:35.000William Knoll says, the Zeminskys are not even in the altered picture, so even if Kyle was aiming his rifle, who knows who or what he would be aiming at?
01:47:35.000It's a shame Rittenhouse will be railroaded by the jury.
01:47:38.000Seeing the panel of lawyers beg the defense to object to anything makes me feel like Kyle's representation lacks ability to stand in spotlight.
01:47:49.000I think the defense did a fairly good job, but fairly good is not great.
01:47:53.000Yeah, and you can only do so much... For the grabby of the case, I think.
01:47:58.000It's not to cut him off hook, but you're still playing an unfair game.
01:48:03.000If Binger is allowed to do what he's doing, if the culture is allowed to do what they're doing, if people are allowed to... If Binger is allowed to act the way he is with impunity, no one's... I give it politically people are lambasting him.
01:48:18.000But the fact is that he's, you said it earlier this week, which was the worst black pill morning of my week, was, uh, Binger's gonna be a judge in 10 years.
01:48:28.000So like, and if you want to go back to the question of what winning looks like, it's, okay, let's, let us actually start a fund to have him fired.
01:48:45.000I do not think nihilism is a good worldview.
01:48:49.000The firearms community has given in to nihilism for so long, saying there's nothing we can do about them.
01:48:56.000And certain measures we've seen things encroaching like the bump stock rate, the bump stocks and the braces and all this other kind of stuff.
01:49:03.000Like, look, in our generation, our generation, we could see not we probably would not be able to see the ATF completely abolished.
01:49:11.000But we could see in our generation, we could very well see large elements of the NFA completely removed.
01:49:33.000From kbryan4190 says, My employer, Ohio Health, just issued an email stating if we are not fully vaccinated by January 12th, we will be considered resigned from our position, not fired.
01:49:44.000There was a viral TikTok video where this guy said, If you are required to do something for work, they have to cover the cost of whatever that requirement may be, or compensate you.
01:49:53.000For instance, if you're required for overtime, they have to give you time and a half, for instance, in most instances.
01:49:59.000Or they're required to at least pay you.
01:50:02.000A vaccine is a permanent change to your life.
01:50:05.000So, if they issue a workplace requirement that is vaccination, that means you are required to be vaccinated 24-7.
01:50:12.000It means outside of work, which means they gotta pay you 24-7.
01:50:15.000I think there's actually, it's a funny argument.
01:50:24.000If your workplace instructs you that you have to be vaccinated, it's very simple.
01:50:28.000Get a very simple contract drafted and say, thank you so much for doing the vaccine mandates.
01:50:34.000And then say, just please sign this medical form which states, if any injury or negative or adverse event arises due to the vaccine at any point in my life due to the permanent medical procedure, company assumes all risk. In the event company dissolves,
01:50:48.000is sold, the name changes or otherwise, the new owners or the prior members of the corporation
01:50:55.000assume all liability for a medical procedure. And then when they refuse to sign it, you can
01:50:59.000say, hey, hey, hey, I said I'll get vaccinated, but they are refusing. I'm not kidding about
01:51:03.000doing that. There was a- I had a bad idea.
01:51:06.000There was a- Originally, I believe the CDC, or OSHA actually said, employers who require medical treatments as a workplace condition assume all liability for that condition.
01:51:19.000Make sure your employer signs off on that form.
01:51:21.000And if they say no, say, do you think vaccines are unsafe?
01:51:25.000And then if they refuse to sign it, call them an anti-vaxxer.
01:51:47.000And then, at that point, if they refuse to sign it, I would file a lawsuit and say, if they believe it's unsafe, and they're mandating employees to do it, like, that is them creating a workplace risk they must be held liable for.
01:52:02.000Well, there's a lot of lawsuits like that currently underway, and there's a lot of people not complying with these VAX mandates, and they get to keep their jobs.
01:52:08.000So, you know, it depends on the situation, depends on the person, but there's a lot of different interesting cases happening right now.
01:52:43.000Because he will give them grace for their malpractice.
01:52:47.000He literally stated, I don't believe you are acting in good faith, the prosecutor, and then said, but I'm going to allow you to admit evidence I don't understand.
01:52:56.000I'm going to allow you to continue a trial after you've committed grave constitutional violations.
01:53:01.000Because he believes in the regalia and decorum of the court.
01:53:06.000Instead of saying, you have violated the Constitution, you have violated the good graces of this court, you have violated my rulings, I hereby rule a mistrial with prejudice.
01:53:17.000That's what he would say if he really believed in America.
01:53:19.000You do not come into my court and subvert our legal and judicial system which has been crafted and precedence has been set and laws have been written and you sought to destroy this?
01:53:45.000I was listening to the show a little bit last night, and it was kind of that conversation on the idea.
01:53:50.000Unfortunately, some people's first discovery of evil is when it's causing grave bodily harm to them.
01:53:57.000The idea that I understand that we want to give grace, this cultural concept that we have in America, that we want to give grace to other people saying, oh he just doesn't know something.
01:54:10.000And at some point negligence, when you seize its position of power and you accept that responsibility and then you prove negligent, you need to be held responsible regardless of intention.
01:54:20.000Take the example of the generals who led over Afghanistan.
01:54:37.000I understand there's a thing called finding a silver lining, but there's a difference between finding a silver lining in something and then calling something that is catastrophic as good.
01:54:56.000I know that we give some grace to that subject, right?
01:54:59.000But if I literally go online, if I go publish in our publication and say, this firearm is a safe firearm when I know the fact that it will cause grave bodily harm for the person intending to use it.
01:55:58.000I just don't think that he's going to be playing around with something this important that day.
01:56:01.000But for those that aren't familiar with coloring the water, I love this concept.
01:56:05.000Imagine there are four glasses of water on a table and there is a pool of water beneath them, meaning there is a leak coming from one of these glasses or more and you don't know which one.
01:56:15.000So you put red, green, blue, and orange in each glass, and then whatever color the water on the table turns to, you know where the leak is coming from.
01:56:25.000So basically what they're arguing is, the judge puts a poison pill into the jury, the gun charge, which is clearly, as a matter of law, not applicable to Kyle Rittenhouse.
01:56:34.000If the jury is politically biased, or biased, or just doesn't want to take the time to actually go through the law, and they come back, This reminds me of that band, and I always forget the one, where they demanded brown M&Ms in their dressing room.
01:56:53.000Everyone thought it was divas being like, I only need red M&Ms.
01:56:55.000But actually, they said, we'll put something seemingly innocuous right in the middle.
01:57:00.000And if we don't get it, we know they didn't read the contract.
01:57:02.000Yes, because they'd had a huge accident at one of their events where they had talked to the stage manager and they let the stage collapse or something and people ended up being seriously hurt or dying.
01:57:11.000So this was incredibly important to them.
01:57:21.000So they were like, let's make sure they do the stupidest, most innocuous thing imaginable.
01:57:26.000I don't think the judge is doing that.
01:57:28.000But I do think the judge is holding in his back pocket a directed verdict and a mistrial with prejudice because he said I will take it under advisement.
01:57:34.000He really wants the jury to rule on this one.
01:57:37.000I also think, he's in his seventies, he might be like, no, as a matter of law, I'm issuing a directed verdict and throwing that out.
01:57:49.000But I mean, this is, this is a good strategy to this.
01:57:51.000So like, if we're looking at it this way, if, if the, if the judge, if the, if the verdict comes out one way or another, that the, um, That Kyle Rittenhouse has acquitted.
01:58:03.000We need to make sure that we play a smart game here.
01:58:33.000I'm not letting anybody come and burn down my house, but I'm not gonna go throw on my kit and protect the shopping mall down the street at this time.
01:58:50.000Let's just say the malicious actors who have studied it online, and you can find them if you want to, have already stated that they are trying to dox the jurors.
01:59:21.000Hopefully their neighbors are willing to step up.
01:59:22.000I mean, there are good men in this world that you can talk to.
01:59:25.000There are good men out there who are, you're a juror and you're being threatened.
01:59:30.000This is a very important moment to consider.
01:59:33.000If come Monday, they do the closing arguments, if we get a speedy verdict and they say guilty on all counts, you know it's broken and then we're in trouble.
01:59:57.000I think Texas and Florida's like, you know, stand your ground.
02:00:00.000We will not allow that culture to persist here.
02:00:02.000I think the people that looked at this case saying, I hope there's at least a semblance of law and order or justice in this world, will become masked vigilantes enacting violence.
02:00:12.000And you look at the crime in San Francisco, you look in Connecticut.
02:01:00.000And we might actually, I'm not completely sure, but I believe we'll relocate everything.
02:01:05.000The core functions of the business as we expand and do new shows is going to be based at Freedomistan.
02:01:10.000So with like Tales from the Inverted World and we're doing a new pop culture show that hasn't been announced yet, but it's actually all put together and functioning and we have like test runs going.
02:01:20.000Those will probably be recorded at a different location and we're gonna start expanding at Freedomistan You know recording areas and sports and you know video games and all that stuff because there's more acreage So this this place is great.
02:01:32.000It's big, but we don't have so much land.
02:03:17.000We've got to figure out what's going on for February.
02:03:19.000But then for a week out of every month, we're going to do a show on location in various cities with specific guests from those locations for events like the Bitcoin Conference or Porkfest.
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