The gun debate is once again back in the headlines, and the left has wasted no time politicizing it. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) is one of the few in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents. Today, we re going to keep running those stories to get hurt again. If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots, you are in the right place. This is the movement for you. You ever watch this guy on television? Like a machine, a machine. Many days I m a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state. They aren t really coming for me, they re coming for you, I m just in the way. Today's episode is a mashup of what you need to be most concerned about, and what you should be most worried about, in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting that left 17 dead and scores of more dead across the U.S. on the other side of the country. We ve all seen the Florida law, and we know it s a good model for what can be done to make our schools, schools, and our communities safer. We re here to remind you that we can all work together to make a difference, and that we are all capable of making a difference in our communities and in our everyday lives. We can all get together, and come together to get things done, and together we can do what we need to make the country safer. In the country we all need to do better, not less safe, and more secure, more safe, better, more secure and more prosperous, more peaceful, more of us all have a better day to be kinder, and a better place to do more of what we love and more of each other, and less of what matters. - Thank you for listening, and thank you for supporting the show, and thanks for supporting us, and good morning! - Matt, Matt, and God bless you, bye! - RATE, RATE AND REVIEW (RATE AND SUBSCRIBE, AND SHARE THE PODDS, ENJOYING IT, GOOGLE, GRAFFEE, GOT A FRIENDS, AND GOT AN IDEA AND TALKING ABOUT IT!
00:04:38.000Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:04:45.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:04:48.000He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:04:51.000So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
00:04:55.000If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots.
00:05:42.000We are broadcasting live from 1721 of the Longworth House Office building here on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. And on guns, bad take after bad take is all the left has to offer.
00:05:57.000Ineffective, impractical, and largely unconstitutional.
00:06:01.000Huge debate yesterday in the House Judiciary Committee on a variety of gun control measures that they are going to bring to the House floor next week.
00:06:11.000And they're going to do everything they can to pressure Republican senators to join them to get a gun control bill to Joe Biden's desk.
00:06:22.000I'm going to give you the highlights from that hearing and also What you need to be most concerned about.
00:06:27.000We all care about the problem of protecting children and we want to find solutions that do work without infringing upon Second Amendment rights.
00:06:37.000Now is not the time to throw away what I consider the most important insurance of our freedom.
00:06:45.000The individual right to keep and bear arms.
00:06:48.000We can approach this rare problem carefully, rationally, But that is not what we saw from House Democrats, and I think nothing brings that into greater focus than this tweet from Manu Raju.
00:07:00.000He is covering the debate in the House Armed Services Committee, and he quotes David Cicilline saying, quote, Spare me the bullshit about constitutional rights, David Cicilline says to Matt Gaetz during hour nine of House Judiciary Committee meeting on guns package.
00:07:19.000Spare me the bullshit about constitutional rights.
00:07:22.000Can you believe that a member of the Judiciary Committee would be able to have such disdain for those rights?
00:07:29.000We got a lot of folks right now joining us live on Rumble, on Facebook, on Getter.
00:07:38.000Olaf Hart says on Getter, wrong headline for the show, quote, you won't take my guns, FJB. So until saner heads prevail, here's what you need to know.
00:07:51.000First, people continue to draw attention to the Florida laws passed after the Parkland shooting.
00:07:58.000Here is Senator Chris Murphy on this week on ABC News.
00:08:07.000The Florida law is a good law and it's a signal of what's possible, right?
00:08:12.000It married together, changes to Florida's gun laws with some significant investments in mental health and school security.
00:08:19.000And I had a long conversation with Senator Scott last week and had him tell me the story of how they were able to pass that legislation and get Republicans to support it.
00:08:29.000It also proved that Republicans could take on the gun lobby because the NRA opposed that measure and still get Re-elected, which has been the case I've been making to Republicans for a decade.
00:08:41.000So that kind of legislation certainly is a model.
00:08:46.000Not everything that anti-gun violence advocates would want.
00:08:50.000And while I don't think we will mirror the Florida law, it certainly is the kind of thing that would make a big difference and would make a lot of families and kids in this country feel more secure and more safe if it passed at a national level.
00:09:07.000We have to be very careful about this.
00:09:09.000I'm from Florida, and I would not sign a federal version of the Florida laws.
00:09:17.000I would not have voted for the Florida law in its entirety if I were in the Florida legislature at the time it was considered.
00:09:23.000For example, raising the age to purchase a rifle from 18 to 21 is is unconstitutional and ineffective.
00:09:32.000If you can sign up for the selective service, if you can sign a draft card, you should be able to buy a rifle.
00:09:40.000If you could potentially be drawn into a conflict for the preservation of your country or our nation's interests, you should be able to fully exercise the freedoms that you would be fighting for at home.
00:09:55.000Yesterday on the House Judiciary Committee, my colleague Thomas Massey and Jerry Nadler had this very debate about raising the age.
00:10:59.000So there you have Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler saying, well, we have to bring people whose brains aren't fully formed into the military.
00:11:06.000So, you know, that just is what it is.
00:11:11.000When you're a citizen of this country, you get to avail yourselves to all of those natural rights of citizenship.
00:11:16.000And the Second Amendment is a natural right.
00:11:19.000Even the Ninth Circuit, the liberal Ninth Circuit, agrees with that.
00:11:25.000These increases artificially in age also won't stop school shootings.
00:11:30.000Postponing a violent mental episode is not going to help.
00:11:34.000Furthermore, if you're hell-bent on buying a gun to commit an atrocity, you can always buy one illegally, you know, like the criminals do, in the violent blue cities that have the most gun control.
00:11:45.000Actually, on this salient point, The clearest take came from Shaquille O'Neal during some analysis of the Eastern Conference NBA Finals on TNT. Take a listen to Shaq.
00:12:00.000You know, I want you to do a background check.
00:12:02.000Let's not forget about the underground market.
00:12:04.000Because again, places where, and even Charles, places where me and Kenny are from, anybody can get a weapon.
00:12:12.000And I'm not talking to Ernie, go on the store, show your ID. You know, in the hood, anybody can get a weapon.
00:12:19.000So I want to know what you think about raising the age to 21 about these background checks that, you know, I think would be largely ineffective.
00:12:28.000Leave your comments on Twitter, Facebook.
00:12:30.000We've got Tammy saying we need the USA to unify.
00:13:04.000Let the message from this committee hearing to Republican senators be astonishingly clear.
00:13:12.000If you back red flag laws at some reflexive response to some emotion that you have, you betray your voters, you are a traitor to the Constitution, the Second Amendment,
00:13:28.000the Fifth Amendment, you do nothing to make mass shootings less likely, And you put a target on the back of your constituents to be Subject to bizarre proceedings that you wouldn't see in any other type of circumstance that has a profound impact on your rights.
00:14:09.000And what the Democrats want is to ensure that the government has the power to take your guns away without giving you due process.
00:14:18.000And shame on any Republican in the Senate that would pave the way to that type of deprivation of our liberty and our constitutional rights.
00:14:26.000I yield back to the gentleman from Arizona.
00:14:31.000Mike on Facebook says, we don't have a gun problem, we have an idiot problem.
00:14:35.000And on Rumble, Rio says, enforce the laws we already have.
00:14:40.000See, as congressmen, it's our duty to see that the Constitution is respected by the government at every single level.
00:14:49.000And there should not be enforcement anywhere of something that is blatantly unconstitutional.
00:14:56.000House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler gets totally flummoxed on the Second Amendment and the Fifth Amendment and the Tenth Amendment in this exchange with me all at once.
00:15:40.000I believe in the amendment it says in the states that the sense of Congress is that the Congress would disfavor the enactment of laws known as red flag laws in the states where they do currently exist.
00:15:53.000Does that alter the chairman's view of ripeness?
00:16:24.000That is what victory looks like in an exchange.
00:16:27.000So he's fine with massive federal intervention to rewrite the voting laws of the states, but when it comes to vindicating natural constitutional rights, not so much.
00:16:48.000Even private entities that are seeking some sort of grievance scenario, like a crazy ex, they file a report and then somehow get in concert with the government to seize your guns, going through a bad divorce.
00:17:03.000This will surely be the part of dissolution of marriage litigation.
00:17:06.000It's already happening in Florida where our red flag law has been used nearly 6,000 times.
00:17:13.000This is my introduction of the legislation to stop red flag laws, not only federally, but in the states as well.
00:17:24.000I believe one of the greatest threats to the Second Amendment, to gun owners, to public safety right now, the negotiations going on in the United States Senate To potentially adopt red flag laws.
00:17:36.000And I want members of the Judiciary Committee to be clearly on the record and to be clearly understood as to whether or not we believe it is a proper function of the United States government to try to coerce or entice or cajole states to adopt red flag laws.
00:17:53.000I am unequivocally against red flag laws.
00:17:57.000They deprive Americans of their Second Amendment rights.
00:17:59.000They deprive Americans of their Fifth Amendment right to due process.
00:18:04.000Many states have laws beyond their red flag laws, where if someone is not In a position to appropriately own a firearm, that can be dealt with.
00:18:15.000But as there is this seemingly reflexive desire to adopt red flag laws, including in my own beloved Florida, I would suggest that this committee take a position against them.
00:18:26.000In the Sunshine State, nearly 6,000 people have been subject to orders as a result of red flag laws.
00:18:35.000I view that as something that would cause grave, grave concern.
00:18:41.000Increasingly, we see these red flag laws try to be used in contentious divorces, where you've got one person trying to deprive another person of their safety and security and their liberty and their Second Amendment rights in order to gain leverage in a marital dispute.
00:18:59.000And I find that particularly challenging.
00:19:01.000Our Second Amendment rights shouldn't be subjected to that type of Of deprivation, of review by a court in an adversarial proceeding.
00:19:09.000You know, an adversarial proceeding that I think justice would require.
00:19:13.000And I would yield to the gentleman for Kentucky.
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00:19:26.000Red flag laws, they do not afford anyone due process.
00:19:29.000And you can bet that they're going to be used against political opponents so that people can centralize power.
00:19:36.000Last week, Democrats were virtually calling all Republicans terrorists.
00:19:41.000So how long until their anti-gun tools are turned against those who speak ill of their masking policies, critical race theory, or other ideological mandates?
00:19:57.000This is another issue constantly brought up by the anti-gun Democrats.
00:20:00.000You already heard Shaq's take on that earlier.
00:20:03.000It's important to also note, we already have required background checks when purchasing firearms from any licensed dealer.
00:20:10.000And the truth is, most of these shooters from those horrendous mass school shootings that we all want to make less frequent, a lot of them would pass background checks anyway.
00:20:21.000There's no history of mental illness or domestic violence or felonies in a lot of their pasts in terms of something that would be documentable and sufficient to be able to trigger one of these background checks.
00:20:35.000If we go any further, we're not going to stop mass shooters.
00:20:39.000We're just going to be infringing on the liberties of law-abiding citizens.
00:20:42.000So now there are a few things we did get right with the law in Florida.
00:20:47.000A program like the Sentinel program, very important, where retired military personnel can go to extra training to become certified as a force multiplier for school police, local sheriffs.
00:21:01.000It would go a long way to protecting our schools and there's no reason why an NARA certified teacher with a valid carry permit shouldn't be allowed to carry on school property.
00:21:11.000About two-thirds of Florida's counties Have opted into the Sentinel program.
00:21:30.000As the Buffalo shooter and others noted, certain places are soft targets due to the lack of firearms.
00:21:37.000We don't want to create soft targets where our most vulnerable Americans go about their daily lives.
00:21:43.000Recently, this clueless state senator from Uvalde named Roland Gutierrez tried to blame open carry, of all things, for the recent school tragedy.
00:21:58.000At the end of the day, what has happened over these years has been simply preposterous, culminating last session with their open carry bill.
00:22:08.000Not one law enforcement agency, everybody in Texas, every law enforcement agency said, don't do this.
00:22:15.000I gave a closing argument on that bill.
00:22:18.000I said, because of this bill, kids are going to die.
00:22:23.000I never thought that that bit of hyperbole Was going to happen in my community.
00:22:43.000But one of the off-duty border patrol agents who helped had a firearm close and available because Texas is more permissive with gun laws than a place like New York.
00:22:56.000He grabbed his barber's shotgun while he was getting a haircut and bravely charged into the school, clearing rooms and securing children.
00:23:05.000In fact, good guys carrying can save the day.
00:23:23.000Even though the media doesn't want to report them, sometimes they get reported.
00:23:27.000Just this week, last week, May 25, 2022, Charleston, West Virginia, here a man with an extensive criminal history started firing an AR-15 style firearm into a crowd.
00:23:38.000Fortunately, a woman who was legally carrying a gun was there to stop the attack.
00:24:01.000Meadows said The men involved in the shootout with Hambrick have been cooperative and will likely not be charged since the teenager fired the first shot.
00:24:09.000After having reviewed most of the witnesses' statements, it appears that the descendant, Mr. Hambrick, discharged his weapon first, and as a result of that, there was an exchange of gunfire between him and two individuals, good guys with the gun.
00:24:23.000Portland, Oregon, February 19, 2022. Okay.
00:24:32.000out a handgun and shooting multiple people in the crowd, leaving one woman dead and several others injured.
00:24:38.000The shooting ended when a person with the group of demonstrators who is licensed to conceal carry a firearm fired back, striking the homeowner in the hip.
00:24:49.000Again, a good guy with a gun stops the shooting.
00:24:51.000Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 17th, 2021.
00:24:55.000On Sunday, October 17th, four people were injured after a fight between two teenagers at Lancaster Park City Center Mall escalated into a shooting this past weekend.
00:25:05.000A 16-year-old who was illegally carrying a gun started the shooting.
00:25:08.000But it could have been much worse were it not for concealed handgun permit holder.
00:25:14.000A bystander armed with a gun intervened in the shooting.
00:25:20.000The unidentified bystander who legally possessed the firearm had heard gunshots related to the fight between two males that knew each other, police said.
00:25:28.000The bystander remained on the scene until security and police arrived.
00:25:33.000Syracuse, New York, August 31, 2021. The district attorney credited a property manager with saving the lives of several individuals after he pulled out a legally possessed 9mm handgun, the very gun that Joe Biden wants to ban, and fatally wounded a man who opened fire on a crowd outside a building.
00:25:52.000San Antonio, Texas, August 11, 2021. A woman who crashed into a parked car in San Antonio's west side neighborhood climbed out of her vehicle and began shooting indiscriminately.
00:26:02.000And people who came out of their homes and rushed to aid her.
00:26:06.000The armed resident fired back and shot the driver to death, ending the violent threat to the neighborhood.
00:26:11.000Annette was a good guy with a gun, or good gal with a gun sometimes.
00:26:15.000Fort Myers, Florida, July 22, 2021. A man who was a convicted felon and illegally possessing a gun fired multiple shots into a crowd before a bystander returned fire.
00:26:25.000When the bystander confronted the attacker, he stopped attacking and threw his gun in a parking lot.
00:26:30.000Fortunately, no one was injured in the attack.
00:26:33.000Chicago, Illinois, July 4th, 2021. It seems likely that if the concealed handgun permit holder hadn't intervened in this case, there would have been at least three deaths instead of just the one woman.
00:26:45.000Arvada Colorado, June 21st, 2021. The attacker and two other people were killed in this attack.
00:26:51.000A good Samaritan who was killed in a shooting in Alvarado, Colorado.
00:28:29.000And when seconds count and the police are minutes away, that could be the difference in life and death.
00:28:34.000In the Evaldi case, the police, well, they waited in the hallway even after they arrived.
00:28:41.000One thing we learned from the Parkland shooting is that police need to be trained and up to date on their training or else they will fail due to incompetence or problems in execution.
00:28:52.000They also need leaders who will make the right decisions in real time.
00:28:58.000I don't think that happened in Ivaldi.
00:29:00.000We don't need to set our officers up for failure by putting up with a lack of funding, a lack of oversight, or poor leadership.
00:29:09.000State governors should look to Ron DeSantis of Florida, who in the first days of his governorship fired Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel for failing to keep his officers trained and prepared.
00:29:25.000The solution is not to federalize schools by getting the DOJ and the FBI involved.
00:29:30.000I'm not for federalizing the school police any more than I'm for federalizing the regular police.
00:29:35.000It's like school safety in Southern California, where they have open ramps and the use of outside space year-round probably is not going to be the same as in Minnesota, where I hear it's light outside like 20 minutes a day.
00:29:47.000And of course, the left has its usual talking points like AR-15s have to go, white supremacy, replacement theory.
00:29:55.000Representative Adam Kinzinger doesn't seem to know what he wants to do about AR-15s.
00:29:59.000Maybe we should ban their sale, he opined on ABC Sunday.
00:30:06.000The AR-15, which as you said, you own an AR-15.
00:31:21.000And what Adam Kinzinger and others don't seem to understand...
00:31:24.000Is that AR-15s are the most commonly owned rifle in America, used by many Americans for lawful activities such as shooting competition, hog hunting, and personal protection.
00:31:36.000The left went nuts when I put up this tweet in response to someone asking whether or not people needed AR-15s.
00:31:42.000And I highlighted the fact that target practice, self-defense, hog hunting, these things could be legitimate uses.
00:31:49.000I think that got like 2 million impressions because of the number of people that were just utterly triggered.
00:31:54.000Less people are killed by rifles every year than handguns or knives.
00:31:59.000AR-15s are just a convenient boogeyman for the left.
00:32:03.000Yes, we know AR-15s are scary and black and they make a loud noise, but AR-15s save people's lives.
00:32:09.000Who's to tell the government, who is the government, I should say, to tell the roof Koreans that they don't need AR-15s to protect their businesses and families during the LA riots?
00:32:21.000Who is the government to tell you that you don't need an AR-15 to protect your family and property from violent hordes during civil unrest like those we saw in the last few summers?
00:32:32.000But it makes people uncomfortable sometimes to know the real purpose of the Second Amendment.
00:32:38.000And the Second Amendment does not exist for self-defense or for hunting.
00:32:44.000It is The AR-15, well, who's to say that wouldn't be the tool that would be necessary to curate the balance of power that has secured American liberty for many generations?
00:33:08.000We keep hearing That the Second Amendment is an absolute.
00:33:13.000Biden says that you couldn't own cannons when the Second Amendment was written.
00:34:29.000We can't decouple sort of what's going on with guns from what we see, the nationalist movement in this country.
00:34:37.000And Chuck, it is frightening to think that we are mixing easy gun access with the rise of nationalism and this toxic sort of hate, grievance politics, replacement politics, and we're mixing sort of easy access to assault weapons in this toxic mix And my God, this cannot be the way forward for this country.
00:35:04.000And it's not a right or left problem, but you can't...
00:35:06.000Look at that nationalist movement that you're seeing there, and we've got grievance politics, and we have replacement theory, and let's all grab assault weapons.
00:35:15.000This cannot be the way forward for this country.
00:35:20.000Sassy Bear on Rumble says that we might need our guns to be able to get to our food just given the challenge that we've had with supply chain issues.
00:35:31.000Hopefully we're not to that point where Americans are essentially going to have to hunt for their food if they want to be able to survive and get along and get right with things.
00:35:41.000Thanks so much everyone for Tuning in, you know, it's very important that we follow this legislative process, that we see what's coming down the pipe.
00:35:50.000This is likely to be up for a vote next week on the floor.
00:35:57.000A lot of you seem to be against this gun control.
00:35:59.000I'm against this gun control, and certainly we're going to continue to battle against it.
00:36:04.000We also have breaking news right now that I want to go to.
00:36:07.000Peter Navarro was just indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal contempt of Congress and this is a total abuse of our justice system.
00:36:17.000The January 6th committee is illegitimate and thus no American should be held in contempt of Congress for not complying with a committee that is not duly formed and duly populated.
00:36:30.000When we had Republicans that Leader McCarthy had selected to serve on the committee, Nancy Pelosi kicked them off.
00:36:37.000And she did so because she wanted to run an illegitimate process.
00:36:41.000And you know who was all too willing to run that illegitimate process with Nancy Pelosi?
00:36:52.000These contempt proceedings are not justified.
00:36:55.000And it continues to concern us that the goal right now It's not for them to be able to deliver for the American people, but for them to be able to just try to scare people about conservatives.
00:37:06.000Maybe everyone's a domestic extremist.
00:37:08.000Maybe everyone needs their gun taken away.
00:37:40.000If Democrats are not talking about saving children's lives and stopping hate crime and a woman's right to choose what happens in her body this election cycle, well then shame on Democrats.
00:37:55.000on Meet the Press saying, ignore people's economic concerns.
00:38:12.000I think that people want to protect life, protect unborn life, and then certainly protect life in our schools, in our communities, not by passing gun control, but by ensuring that we get rid of the gun-free zones that make some of our most vulnerable soft targets.