On this week's episode of The Nod, the boys discuss the mass shooting at a high school in Arlington, Virginia, the new Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy special, and much, much more!
00:01:54.000Let's see if he weighs as much as a duck.
00:01:57.000We're going to be talking about a lot.
00:01:58.000Look, yesterday we were live on air and there was a shooting happening in Arlington and my general policy is Don't talk about those things until you get more information.
00:02:07.000Statistically, the early reports are usually wrong, and they were.
00:02:22.000We're politicizing this before the bodies had even assumed room temperature.
00:02:26.000And as part of, of course, the mission statement with the show, we want to talk With you about what you can do to protect yourself and what solutions there possibly are.
00:03:18.000They haven't been covering it at all this morning.
00:03:19.000Now they're going back to Donald Trump and the attempted coup, which also, by the way, is pretty interesting when you compare the bail set for this guy who shot four people on school grounds versus the bail set for Kyle Rittenhouse, or versus people held for indefinite amounts of time for trespassing.
00:04:32.000And Dave Landau is here, you can follow him on the Twitter, and he has a show coming up, actually a weekend at the Orlando Improv, October 15th through 16th.
00:10:19.000You know, when they called me, can I just, I don't want to go rogue right here, but the Vox Apocalypse happened, you know, before they created, we talked about this yesterday, the industry, sometimes known as the Crowder Rule.
00:10:29.000When they called me, YouTube, after the Vox Apocalypse, and they were, it was me on the phone, they were reading from a sheet of paper, right?
00:10:37.000So I see me being talked about everywhere, and senators saying, I need a ban, blah blah blah, and I'm going like, oh my gosh, this is getting out of control.
00:10:44.000Their stock, you know, Alphabet, Google, their stock price takes a nosedive, they release these new guidelines, and they call, and they start reading off of a sheet of paper, you know, after having reviewed your content, we believe here at the, you know, reading this whole stock letter, and I, this is when I had, I thought I might be having a heart attack.
00:10:59.000I think it was an actual panic attack, just because I thought, oh my gosh, they're going to remove the channel, everything, and create a new rule, even though we've already been told that we haven't broken any rules.
00:11:07.000So the room started spinning, and I swear to you, and I lay down, and I'm like, oh gosh.
00:11:59.000They shove woodchips up your thumbs, which is a very creative form of torture and tells you that their militaries have too much time on their hands.
00:12:05.000Should have been like, I was wearing a mask, but until you walked in, I was pleasing your daughter.
00:15:53.000And Dave Chappelle did this in tribute to Norm Macdonald.
00:15:56.000So you have a guy who people are trying to cancel right now, Dave Chappelle, a pock, of course, honoring a guy who was cancelled for the last three years of his life.
00:16:03.000And then extra cancelled once he died.
00:17:17.000If she was going to the Women's March and she replied, I hope those white bitches get tear gas.
00:17:27.000I guess he makes a joke about beating up a lesbian in a bar, but it was self-defense because he thought it was a guy.
00:17:33.000He said, I tenderize them titties like chicken cutlets!
00:17:39.000I wolfed the toxic masculinity out that bitch.
00:17:43.000But he talks about how he's there, and this girl he's just talking to, being polite, and this dude steps between them, and at some point in the conversation realizes she's a woman, and he's like, you're a woman?
00:19:04.000They're all sitting down, sucking down Marlboros and wearing painter's pants.
00:19:09.000Yeah, nobody's ever looked up in, you know, the naughty sites of real lesbians.
00:19:15.000We get in trouble for that, aren't we?
00:19:19.000No, you're not gonna get in trouble for that!
00:19:20.000It's like, let me see a essentially heterosexual site.
00:19:27.000And of course, he's gotten in a lot of trouble for, again, the LGBTQ, the Alphabet Community, as he calls them.
00:19:34.000I guess they didn't take kindly to his sorry not sorry apology, but he made a point wrapped in a joke saying that empathy is not gay, empathy is not black, empathy is bisexual, it must go both ways.
00:19:48.000And he's saying that the whole thing with punching down he's like well sometimes you do punch down in comedy you punch up and everything but he's talking about how he's jealous of the LGBTQ community because like you guys have made these enormous strides in this short amount of time he's like I couldn't help just think that if Martin Luther King was like now just put on some booty shorts and rub yourself with baby oil and get up on a float he's like we could have It's like if they just had some booty shorts back then we could have ended slavery a hundred years earlier.
00:20:19.000And he's just making the point of like how there's this massive progress in this community in such a short amount of time.
00:21:09.000You're not allowed to criticize them whatsoever.
00:21:11.000This is not a community right now where they're acting as though people insult them consequence-free.
00:21:17.000And he had a story, I remember, Dave Chappelle, it was back when he was, he kind of wasn't really doing stand-up, but talking about, you know, his specials, and it almost kind of got sort of Lenny Bruce-ish.
00:21:25.000And he talked about a guy playing this card game when he was a kid on the street to find the red card.
00:22:13.000And he made the point, he said, because to remove a man's ability to provide his effect,
00:22:17.000his livelihood is to remove his, it's the same as killing him.
00:22:21.000And that is something that I've talked about.
00:22:22.000He understands that, and that's why this guy, especially as someone who has had his livelihood removed from higher-ups, progressives at Viacom and Comedy Central, people who tell you that we need more diversity hiring, who told him at HBO, why do we need you, right?
00:22:37.000They see people, whether you're a minority or not, whether you're LGBTQ or not, as useful tools for them.
00:22:50.000If you remove someone's ability to make a living, that's a serious problem, especially for something that is absolutely not only under protective speech, at least in this country, it's not in Canada, it's not in Australia, but certainly defensible under the guise of comedy.
00:23:04.000And I think you're going to see more of this from Dave Chappelle.
00:23:18.000And we've talked about comedy being kind of the last bastion of free speech, like the last hope to maintain free speech and the role that comics play in the society.
00:23:26.000And if you think that that's just being a little bit kind of exaggerating, being a little over the top, just look at what they're doing with the vaccine mandates now about taking people's ability to make money away.
00:23:34.000You have to have this vaccine, or you no longer have a job.
00:23:37.000What do you think that's going to do to thousands—not tens, twenties, hundreds of comics that can't say this stuff—but thousands and thousands and thousands of people who can no longer make a living for their family?
00:23:47.000People don't understand this when they say, well, really, what's your line on this end?
00:23:50.000Really, is it a vaccine mandate where you can't work?
00:23:52.000Or really, it's where someone says that you can't tell an offensive joke?
00:23:55.000Just so you understand, we are talking about, with a vaccine mandate, removing someone's ability to work, to provide for their family.
00:24:00.000We are talking about when you demand a special be removed and you call up every club, and this happens all the time, and you say, hey, don't book this person.
00:24:06.000You are removing their ability to make a living for their family.
00:24:10.000Do you understand that as far as every war waged, ever, up until maybe the 19th century, that was enough?
00:24:20.000Do you realize people just fought for land so that they could actually work really hard and till the soil, and hopefully, if they became a sedentary agrarian society, provide enough to get their family through the renter, and they would kill you if you stood between them and their turnip crops?
00:24:32.000Do you understand that taking away someone's livelihood was enough to go to war?
00:24:36.000That's why people warred, and we're so far removed from it because we live in this life of convenience that we go, oh, well, you know what?
00:24:43.000If we just take away his ability to provide for his family, it's not like we're not killing him.
00:24:56.000And it's not to ruin the special for anything, but it gets a little heavy, obviously.
00:25:01.000But when you look at that, it also shows that everybody is an individual.
00:25:04.000Just because you feel strongly about something or you don't like anything or you don't like what somebody says, that person was a huge fan of his comedy, regardless of what he said.
00:25:14.000People don't have to fit into a box of what they're told to be, and that's the problem now.
00:25:19.000Everybody thinks they have to fit into this certain area and be angry at these other things.
00:25:25.000Calling a place and trying to get somebody- like, I don't call everywhere Kathy Griffin works and go, look, I just think she's terrible and no one should see it.
00:25:33.000Like, there's no- you have every right to.
00:25:38.000Sir, I've been telling the manager all day.
00:25:41.000But it's just, you have no right to take that away from people in this country.
00:25:46.000And it's just getting exhausting as a comic, because if you write comedy around the idea that you're not going to offend somebody, you're not writing comedy.
00:25:55.000Well, you end up writing The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
00:26:53.000You know Rashida Tlaib, who was out there fear-mongering about COVID, and certainly, if you look at Michigan and the governor and the shutdowns, where you weren't allowed to go to a nursery.
00:30:16.000Anyone out there who is more terrified than Rashida Tlaib and Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom and Governor Whitmer and every single Democrat who tells you to be afraid is an idiot.
00:31:47.000And then afterwards they say, well, the mail-in ballots, and you're like, well, come on, you're an entire news agency, you already were saying in the lead-up, you know, the mail-in ballots obviously, but then you said, uh, there's no, the mail-in ballots won't make up for this gap.
00:33:18.000Don't forget, by the way, while we're talking about the squad, AOC took her mask off.
00:33:25.000She put it back on for a picture and then took it off right after.
00:33:27.000So again, this is the squad, the people who talk about how we need the lockdowns and of course people should have a more significant social safety net so that the lockdowns aren't... It's all self-perpetuating and she's not afraid.
00:35:01.000I mean, we, for two weeks, we said, like, okay, we'll be careful, and we, at that point when they were saying you shouldn't wear masks, we said, actually, if you're sick, here's how you can make your own mask if you have to go to a place of work.
00:35:10.000Then we just said, oh, they're gonna keep us locked down, we're gonna do an entire month, and we did two-a-days.
00:35:17.000Not only you should live your life in fear, and certainly not for something like this, you should be prudent, Whatever, whatever I have to say here.
00:35:25.000But I just don't know anymore if I buy that these people are terrified.
00:37:14.000People have been asking me to cover the debt ceiling.
00:37:18.000I don't want to have to, but former Vice President Joe Biden made this comment yesterday, and I think that we can sum this up in really two phrases.
00:37:25.000I don't think we really need to argue about the state of our country or direction we're going.
00:37:32.000Raising the debt limit is paying our old debts.
00:37:37.000There's nothing to do with new spending or what may be coming this year or other years.
00:37:41.000There's nothing to do with my plans on infrastructure or building back better, both of which are paid for, but they're not even in the queue right now.
00:38:02.000Is anyone going to argue with me that Donald Trump was tougher on China than Joe Biden?
00:38:08.000If we're going to talk about common ground, there have to be some basic facts here.
00:38:10.000Does anybody actually believe that increasing our debt limits so we can borrow money to pay previous debts as we incur new debts have nothing to do with each other?
00:38:22.000Do you honestly believe that paying off your previous credit card statement that you can't afford in no way affects your upcoming credit card statement?
00:38:31.000I'm sorry to be reductive, but what the shit?
00:38:34.000You're paying off your credit card with a higher interest credit card.
00:39:53.000Look, I don't know if you want- what else do you want me to say?
00:39:56.000We are so far gone where trillions is a rounding error, and we're acting like it has nothing to do with our ability to spend ourselves into oblivion.
00:40:15.000And I think we have, like, a shortened teaser for people who don't know, and then, of course, there's a story now demanding a female James Bond, but here we go.
00:41:06.000There's no shortage of black action heroes.
00:41:10.000I mean, black action stars, you have people like Will Smith, Denzel Washington, not to mention characters like Shefflick.
00:41:13.000This is not something where there has not been equal representation, so I think that James Bond should probably be true to the origins, but it's not really a big deal, but there is a demand and outrage that they make James Bond a female character, which of course would never work, for reasons that are obvious, which I won't get into today because I've already covered it, and I want to maintain what small piece of my soul I have left.
00:41:37.000But we actually do have titles now that have been suggested that have been floating around the studio for the next James Bond installment.
00:43:25.000Or, and another reason some argue that female James Bond wouldn't work, as opposed to the dance of seduction that's required for a male to make himself attractive to a female mate, which is really sort of the back and forth, the tangle of love, the female James Bond would just need to show her tits briefly and then of course get all the information she needs.
00:46:39.000Also, by the way, I can understand if you're like button hesitant, because that like button...
00:46:45.000It was created using dead fetal tissue.
00:46:49.000I didn't want to be a downer, but my point is I really wish YouTube would stop doing- and there's no need, like, why do you even need fetal tissue for a like button?
00:48:19.000So we'll get to the point where we're talking about the vaccines and how long the immunity lasts.
00:48:24.000Isn't that, doesn't that raise some eyebrows?
00:48:26.000But this isn't the first time we've seen this.
00:48:27.000Like you said, with Israel and then we had some information that the misspeak, apparently misspeak, out of Australia, even though he was quoting an article that was written.
00:48:35.000I mean, both must have gotten it wrong.
00:48:37.000I have no idea what really happened there.
00:48:43.000And by the way, this is local Vermont news right here.
00:48:46.000Almost, I believe almost, I think it's like 95%, every county has been labeled high transmission in Vermont by the CDC.
00:48:54.000And this is something, look, the reason that this matters is because to this day, still, the CDC blame, and former Vice President Joe Biden, blame the unvaccinated.
00:49:04.000There is a clear message that is coming through.
00:49:08.000This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
00:49:11.000It just confirms that this really is a pandemic.
00:49:13.000Oh, right now on CNN, we'll bring it up later.
00:49:15.000The latest data confirms that we're still in a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
00:49:47.000When we're talking about Vermont, even CNN, and we've talked about this with the vaccines, and we've talked about the Mayo studies, CNN, I was just reading this, I believe yesterday, or the day before, had to acknowledge, I'm going to read the quotes from CNN, okay?
00:50:00.000From CNN, which they are quoting qualified scientists, the Israeli study, and I believe some medical journals.
00:50:05.000So this is something where if I had said it, BAM!
00:50:35.000The waning appears to accelerate after the fourth month to reach a low level of approximately 20% in subsequent months.
00:50:44.000CNN quoting the New England Journal of Medicine, still quoting.
00:50:51.000These findings suggest that a large proportion of the vaccinated population could lose its protection against infection in the coming months, perhaps increasing the potential for new epidemic waves.
00:51:05.000If you, hold on a second, how, how, I don't, In other words, it's like, yeah, well, you have the vaccine to reduce any surges and to reduce any new epidemic waves and to immunize you, you know, against the virus.
00:51:18.000Okay, so that's what we're doing it for.
00:51:19.000Well, yeah, except for the fact that if you take the vaccine, your protection will go down to 20% and that'll lead to more surges of the virus.
00:52:45.000Some parents have expressed concerns that their children are highly unlikely to be affected, and that's true, and they've also expressed concern from the New England Journal of Medicine that the protection wanes down to 20% after only a few months, and so I would say that I understand, but BREAK YOURSELF, BITCH!
00:53:05.000They just pull up at the school in an ice cream truck.
00:53:29.000They're saying we want to authorize it.
00:53:30.000No, first off, let me make sure I have this about right.
00:53:36.000So we have a virus, disease, with a death rate, a mortality rate, which I'm not allowed to quote because Big Tech will be furious.
00:53:45.000But we can say, because CNN was allowed to say it, that the hospitalization rate, including everybody, even 90-year-olds, when you include that entire pool, is 2% or less.
00:53:54.000So we have a virus like that that has allowed us to obviously, an emergency authorization of a vaccine that had
00:54:01.000not been approved despite being through several other trials beforehand, right, an
00:54:05.000mRNA vaccine. And of course, this emergency use authorization is only allowed to be used if
00:54:10.000there are no effective available treatments.
00:54:29.000And now we are looking at the state with the highest vaccination rate, that has their highest caseload, when we have a significant portion of the United States vaccinated, we have more cases this August than last August, and the study says you're down to 20% after a few months!
00:55:40.000It's always like, don't worry about it, we'll cross that bridge.
00:55:44.000It's never, just up until now, Well, even here in this CNN article, they say, and one theory is that people who are vaccinated may be engaging in more social activity, which could be the reason that they make up such a high percentage.
00:55:57.000First off, if a vaccine works, that could not be less relevant.
00:56:09.000Have they ever been like, well, you know what, the reason that all the people from the measles vaccines, that category, the reason that they make up 90% of those with current measles is because, well, you know what, they're going out in social situations.
00:57:22.000Look, we had something, I couldn't record the voiceover for today because it ended up getting really complicated, but I spoke with people on the street this last week and people who supported the mask mandate said well this is because it's really dangerous for children.
00:57:34.000Look, we've talked about the numbers, how deadly the flu, the normal flu is for children.
00:57:39.000It's like 0.85% in the last two seasons from the CDC.
00:57:49.000And I said, well, because the flu is actually surprisingly lethal.
00:57:52.000And I won't say it now because I don't have the numbers in front of me, but you can guess whether they are more or less lethal than other diseases by, oh, I don't know, a 10-time multiple.
00:59:09.000Honestly, when people talk about masks, how many of you wear a new mask every single time or wash it on an equivalent to a commercial sanitary heat cycle every single time?
01:00:40.000All the time, and in Detroit, all the time, just not covered.
01:00:43.000The reason the media rushed here with cameras was because they thought, oh, suburban area, school shooting, of course we're going to, before the bodies are even warm, run with a narrative.
01:00:51.000Now, I want to be clear, there's some information out there that we don't know.
01:00:57.000Now, the reason we're talking about it is because the media misreported this yesterday as though they did know.
01:01:03.000Some legitimate outlets reported that there were deaths.
01:01:06.000Some outlets reported falsely on videos that had been circulating.
01:01:09.000And I want to say that we don't have all of the information here, but I'm going to make some inferences, in which I'm not entirely confident, as an exercise in just reading about what the media is not telling you.
01:02:19.000He was trying to protect himself when he went back home, got a gun, came back in, cocked it, loaded it, went through the metal detectors, and shot four people.
01:02:30.000I mean, as a parent, though, I mean, I can understand her stance of defending her child instead of just jumping in and apologizing.
01:02:50.000There's a couple books on Columbine including one of the mothers that I read and you know they did in some ways like a minister had a secret funeral for Dylan and Eric I think the other ones yeah, I can't remember I forgot their emails but I Know it's crazy.
01:03:10.000I'm like oh I You guys haven't responded since 99.
01:03:25.000Sue Klebold wrote a book about it where you do and there's actually a movie too which is from the uh the view of a school shooter's parents which is a really fascinating character study so it's like there is a lot of layers that can cause somebody this is somebody to behave like this I'm wondering what is truly the symptom of this or you know what's causing this?
01:03:47.000I said earlier I watched it and they seem like normal people They don't seem like they're like crazy ghetto people or anything.
01:04:15.000And there's a difference between going to school with the intent to just shoot and kill as many people as possible and going back in.
01:04:20.000So it looks like he shot an adult, a student, another person was grazed with a bullet, and another person was being treated for a fall or something like that.
01:06:15.000Let's make sure it's informative, entertaining, we can have more conversations, we can play some games, because we are not beholden to selling fear.
01:06:22.000We are not beholden to making sure that you panic.
01:06:26.000The truth is, crime has been going down consistently until 2020.
01:07:39.000And there are a lot of websites that are still covering with the APB picture.
01:07:44.000Meaning there's, you know, All Points Bulletin, where they were saying, hey, let's try and get the shooter.
01:07:47.000They're still using that picture even though we have a mugshot now.
01:07:51.000I'm making an inference by the fact that the media is being a little bit tongue-tied, not saying that this kid was actively being bullied, or actually the one who was being beaten up in the video.
01:08:02.000If you look at the mugshot, and keep in mind, he's a senior, we can't show you the video because that's been removed from Facebook or YouTube, but I think we have some images from the fight in question here, and if you do go and watch it, It looks a lot like the guy in the mugshot, and the other guy clearly does not.
01:08:21.000The other guy who's getting beaten up is clearly lighter skinned, clearly doesn't have the same haircut, and look, anyone can change a shirt, but it matches.
01:08:46.000So, I don't know that he's the one administering the beatdown, but because the media initially started covering it with that narrative and then they said, And now they're being quiet, and this has been circulating.
01:08:58.000If I were to bet my bottom dollar, I would say, looks like he's the one administering the beating.
01:09:04.000According to the New York Post, as of about four hours ago, they were saying that the shooting was a result of this fight.
01:09:20.000And the cousin on Facebook was basically defending him as well, saying, no, it was because of bullying and everything else, and I think posted that fight video as well, right?
01:09:30.000So there's a lot of it that says, yeah, that video is them, one way or the other.
01:10:05.000The debt ceiling, because people want to hear about that.
01:10:07.000That's the issue, is they want to memory hold us, and so we have to try and gather as much information as we can that, of course, mainstream outlets don't even want us to have.
01:10:16.000So if anyone out there actually has some more information as to whether that fight did happen that day, New York Times is saying that it did.
01:11:43.000I mean, how long were these people, so you have a kid now with 70,000, probably will get out, but might be out this afternoon, and then you have people, the charges aren't even felonies, and they don't know when they're getting out, and there's no due process.
01:11:54.000Why doesn't the left care about a mass shooter at a school?
01:11:59.000Well, because, I mean, it doesn't fit that agenda.
01:12:03.000I would argue that's... And that's what it would come to, and I think that it's also... I also do think, on top of that though, that there is a difference between the gun violence that's occurred in low-income, extremely poor neighborhoods, and the ones that are now middle class and above.
01:12:28.000But the media cannot have it both ways and say, anytime it's a mass shooter, it's a white terrorist, and then say, well the only reason it's being covered is because it's a nice white boy.
01:12:39.000It's not usual for a primarily, like you said, maybe middle class, upper middle class, white suburban neighborhood to have a mass shooting.
01:12:46.000They happen Almost daily, weekly, in other areas of the country.
01:13:25.000But I think it's an important point because here's something that nobody else is talking about right now.
01:13:32.000How many times have we heard this, right?
01:13:34.000Well, we're speaking about the race issue because they divide and conquer and separate everything by race.
01:13:38.000And so the media went with this narrative for a long time saying, oh, Kyle Rittenhouse, Dylann Roof, look, they were taken into custody by police, right?
01:13:47.000They were saying, oh, I guarantee you, if they were black, the police would have shot them on the spot.
01:13:52.000Don't, just remember in case you've forgotten.
01:13:54.000How did Dylann Roof shoot up a church, James Holmes shoot up a movie theater, and both lived to tell about it?
01:14:01.000Why is it that the police decide that some threats must be extinguished immediately while other threats get the privilege of being extinguished?
01:14:08.000Some are active and some are surrendering, dumbass.
01:14:11.000I'm asking these as questions, but I feel like we know the answer.
01:14:50.000I think the answer to that is pretty obvious.
01:14:52.000And if you're looking for a better visual illustration of the differences between being black and white in America,
01:14:57.000I don't think you're going to find one.
01:14:59.000Yeah, I think it's the difference between hands up, going to an officer saying,
01:15:03.000Hey, look, these guys attacked me, several of them with a gun,
01:15:06.000I tried to call 911, this is a loaded firearm,
01:15:09.000And the officer saying, thanks, get over here.
01:15:11.000Versus a man, after kidnapping his children from the woman that he raped and filed a restraining order, They're reaching for a knife and a floorboard.
01:15:20.000One's an active threat who wants to be stabby-stabby Mr. Copman, and the other one is saying, hey, what do you want me to do?
01:15:28.000Yesterday, we have this kid who happens to be a person of color, turned himself in after maybe beating someone up or not, but we certainly know shot four people, and surprise, police didn't shoot him.
01:15:40.000I'm guessing he turned himself in and said, all right, I don't have my gun with me, and I just watched the cops kick the shit out of a white guy in Minneapolis from security camera footage or body cam last night in Minneapolis during the riots because they were going by in an armed vehicle and the white guy put his gun down and they walked they kicked him in the head while he was face down on the ground with his gun away from my point is it goes both ways if you want to see racism in everything and not
01:17:55.000This is incredible, because by the way the media covers it, you would think that almost all of the shootings that happen at schools are mass shootings.
01:18:03.000The number one thing is just, it's like, oh yeah, people are getting into fights and shooting each other.
01:18:09.000It's very uncommon, and 64% of all gun-related incidents at schools happen in schools that are, I know this is confusing, a majority-minority.
01:18:17.000Meaning that these schools are where a majority of the student population Schools that you would consider black or brown schools.
01:18:29.000My aunt at Denby High School in Detroit, look it up, she had to have her diploma mailed to her because someone was shot in the face at school.
01:18:38.000My dad, my uncle, sorry again, at Denby High School, there was a lady who was stabbed in the bathroom for being, back then they used the term mulatto, now they say biracial.
01:18:49.000This was a common occurrence in Detroit.
01:18:52.000It's so common that it doesn't get coverage.
01:18:54.000Yeah, and the reason that you need to know about this is because they're saying that this is an angry white man problem.
01:18:59.000They're saying that angry white men will take a gun and they will go out and they will try and get justice on their own, whether it's a school shooting, a mass shooting, whatever it may be.
01:22:48.000They require simply having a firearm and the bad guy knowing that you have it.
01:22:53.000But even when shots are fired, civilians do it at a higher rate than police officers.
01:22:58.000You know when people go, oh, so you think some guy with his firearm who hasn't gone through police training is going to stop some bad guy with a gun?
01:23:55.000I don't think that it has happened, or I think it happens very rarely, That a woman is in the process of being raped, going, thank God I don't have a gun right now, otherwise this might have gotten out of control.
01:24:05.000I think it happens quite often that someone finds themselves in a scenario where they realize, and it clicks, oh, if I only had a firearm right now, this entire scenario could have been neutralized, only it's too late.
01:24:20.000It is a lot, but when people say, oh, the risk doesn't outweigh the rewards, That's not true.
01:24:25.000When people say, your gun is more likely to be used on you, that's not true.
01:24:29.000The truth is that the risks, if you don't have a firearm, you get raped, you get killed, you get tortured, defenseless, you're a victim.
01:24:38.000The reward, if you have a firearm, and of course are responsible with it, and there are more resources available right now than ever, In American history, to learn responsible use of firearms and storing of firearms is, oh, you might be able to have a fighting chance against a rapist murderer.
01:24:54.000You might actually be able to exercise your God-given ability to self-preservation.
01:24:59.000I know you wish that there weren't any guns.
01:25:00.000I know that you wish that the people weren't violent.
01:25:03.000I know you wish there were no mass shootings.
01:25:04.000I know you wish you could wave your magic wand, but you can't.
01:25:06.000And so right now there are people out there who have to deal with other folks who have no problem infringing upon their rights and they have one of the hundreds of millions of firearms wherever they are here in the United States or across the world.