In this episode, we talk about the recent incident involving a trucker and protesters blocking a major highway in New York City. We discuss the difference between being a driver and a pedestrian, and why you have a duty to not block major highways.
00:02:22.000And I want motorists to know I'm never going to be faced with the decision of deciding whether I or my family die or some people that I've never met and I have no idea what their intentions are.
00:02:50.000As a driver driving on a freeway or on a highway with a speed limit of 60, 70, 80, wherever you are, you do not have a duty to stop randomly at non-intersections.
00:03:12.000You're taught right of way at an intersection, sure, but you are never taught.
00:03:15.000Oh, and by the way, on a freeway, at any given moment, you have to be ready to stop on a dime in case there are throngs of people who decide to swarm your car.
00:03:31.000Josh, I think the only decision that I was even referring to, because I agree with you, it's not a decision, is basically if I'm in the car alone and I've got this situation, am I going to be charged with vehicular homicide?
00:05:28.000Wearing a tactical vest and body armor, carrying a handgun and a flashlight, and wearing that same hyper-realistic silicon mask.
00:05:37.000Again, the images, as you can see on the screen, are haunting.
00:05:42.000Now, fortunately, the state representative was not home.
00:05:46.000She and her family were gone on vacation, and so Belter left.
00:05:52.000Belter then traveled to the home of a Minnesota state senator who lived in New Hope, Minnesota.
00:05:59.000He parked in the street in that same town.
00:06:01.000I will say this is information that we already know that is out there.
00:06:07.000So, okay, they're presenting it, but they should be giving this update because there are a lot of questions that are unanswered.
00:06:13.000So there's a responsibility from the FBI right now.
00:06:15.000If there's been circulation, if there's a manifesto and only snippets taken out of context, this is where the FBI can serve a purpose, not put together a timeline that we've already put together for you and people on social media have.
00:06:26.000Okay, what about the questions that remain unanswered?
00:06:31.000And then we found out it was actively being suppressed by authorities and three-letter agencies as it related to Nashville, if not for our inside source.
00:06:40.000So I really hope that he takes some questions or gets to that and gives some new information.
00:06:46.000Otherwise, it just seems like a charade.
00:06:50.000According to the officer, he just sat there and stared straight ahead.
00:06:55.000So the New Hope police officer, who had been dispatched to the scene, proceeded to the state senator's home, and she waited for other law enforcement to arrive.
00:07:04.000When they did, by the time they did, Belter had left the scene.
00:07:12.000So they sent a female cop, she waited for real cops, and he left before the real cops got there?
00:07:37.000Belter approached Representative Hortman's home, again dressed as a police officer, wearing the tactical vest and body armor, and wearing that hyper-realistic mask.
00:07:47.000He was armed and carrying a flashlight.
00:07:51.000Unless there's some video that I haven't seen.
00:07:54.000Hyper-realistic is kind of generous when describing this mask.
00:08:22.000When Belter saw the officers get out of the car, he drew his weapon and began firing.
00:08:28.000He rushed into the house, through the front door, firing into it.
00:08:33.000He repeatedly fired into the house, and when he entered, he murdered Representative Hortman and her husband, Mark.
00:08:42.000The Brooklyn Park police officers fired at Belter as he...
00:08:55.000Officers recovered Belter's 9mm Beretta, along with the body armor and the mask, behind the home, along his path of flight when he fled on foot.
00:09:06.000They later searched Belter's car, where they found five more firearms, including Astault-style rifles and a large quantity of ammunition.
00:09:17.000Belter also had in his car notebooks containing a list of more than 45 Minnesota state and federal elected officials, including Representative Portman.
00:09:31.000Now, Belter planned his attack carefully.
00:09:36.000He researched his victims and their families.
00:09:40.000He used the Internet and other tools to find their addresses and names, the names of their family members.
00:09:47.000He conducted surveillance of their homes and took notes about the location of their homes.
00:09:56.000He concealed himself as a police officer, outfitting his black SUV with police lights and a police license plate, wearing a black tactical vest and body armor, carrying a police flashlight and a handgun.
00:10:11.000And of course he wore that hyper-realistic silicone mask.
00:10:21.000That's going to give ammo to conspiracy theorists.
00:10:24.000Because I've already seen people saying there's no way.
00:10:26.000They've seen pictures of the guy where he's fat and it doesn't look like this guy.
00:10:30.000They're going to say this is a false flag.
00:10:32.000Him continuing to say hyper-realistic doesn't do them any favors.
00:11:27.000Also, he needs to either address and say, we don't know the why, or the motivation at this point, or he needs to address it, because that's the question that everyone is asking at this point.
00:11:38.000And that's really kind of what the FBI does, right?
00:11:40.000If their job is to prevent this in the future, You know, that's why Islam is so concerning, because 158 million people across the world who are Muslim believe that violence is justified against non-Muslims.
00:11:57.000That's the role of these intelligence agencies, is to find out the, not just the how, but the why.
00:12:03.000And their lack of transparency often is what leads to the clickbait farming.
00:12:10.000Over the past 48 hours, federal, state, and local law enforcement from throughout the state of Minnesota have worked together to carry out the largest manhunt in Minnesota history.
00:12:23.000Now, a lot has been said about law enforcement in recent weeks, but make no mistake, the men and women of our federal, state, and local law enforcement put their lives at risk and on the line.
00:12:49.000Doesn't anyone else find it odd that he was able to run through the house, get out back, shed a bulletproof vest and his mask and his gun before the cops had a chance to catch up to him?
00:13:03.000Doesn't that seem like there's a pretty long delay?
00:13:05.000I mean, yeah, unless they thought maybe he was still in the house at the time.
00:13:08.000Yeah, but they know he's going into the house where people already was able to murder them, isn't it?
00:13:10.000In other words, if they're putting their lives in harm's way, shouldn't their number one priority be making sure, oh wait, he's in the house, now it's go time to make sure he doesn't kill anybody in there?
00:13:17.000Yeah, I understand what you're thinking, but think about like you run into a house, you have no idea where this guy could be in the house.
00:13:26.000You can probably speak to this more than obviously I could, but like there's some kind of a tactical manner that you're going to enter the house and try to clear rooms to understand where this person is.
00:13:38.000While they said it was the largest manhunt, it was afterwards.
00:13:43.000They talked about the female officer that found him and was there and then had to wait for backup to do anything and then he left.
00:13:54.000Made it all the way through the house.
00:15:24.000Thank you with those comments, and we're thankful today to see these charges filed.
00:15:31.000Early on with our partners from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other federal partners from the ATF, United States Marshal Service, and others, they provided assistance to the team of local investigators from the Brooklyn Park Police Department, Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, and the BCA.
00:15:47.000Can you guys bring up the tip line for people?
00:15:49.000If there's anyone there in any Minnesota law enforcement agencies who has any information, particularly on the manifesto, guys need proof of product?
00:16:00.000The person who got us Nashville is as snug as a bug in a rug.
00:16:04.000The FBI, we had threats that we were going to be sued by the mayor of Nashville.
00:16:13.000If you have anything out there, lwctipsatprotonmail.com, we will go to jail to protect our sources.
00:16:19.000If you have any information that you think shines a light on this or missing pieces of the puzzle, please send it to lwctipsatprotonmail.com and I'll have someone from undercover reach out.
00:16:29.000I wonder if this is the most egregious murder-manhunt in Minnesota history, or if it was the largest manhunt because of the fact that they were elected officials of a select party.
00:17:16.000Are formed on the basis that we have political discourse and that we have debates ongoing on what we do and that we elect people day in, day out.
00:17:37.000But there were big Minneapolis riots, obviously, is where it started, and then it spread to Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:17:42.000Minnesota is where, in Minneapolis, I think, suburbs, is where the police went through the streets telling people to get back on their porches.
00:19:22.000Today, he was brought into federal custody.
00:19:24.000He'll make his initial court appearance in federal court over in St. Paul at 1.30 Central Time this afternoon.
00:19:31.000And my expectation, based on prior cases, is the federal case, the federal charges will be litigated first.
00:19:37.000But the state charges won't necessarily go anywhere.
00:19:39.000Can you speak to him why investigators believe he carried out this attack and for how long have you been planning these attacks?
00:19:45.000Well, it's pretty clear from the evidence that he's been planning these attacks for quite some time.
00:19:49.000There's voluminous writings, as you've seen in the reporting, that were found both in his car and his house, about his planning, lists of names and individuals.
00:20:14.000We have heard from the manifesto the why that he was targeting, right, pro-choice legislators or providers, meaning they were very specific in including the quote.
00:20:23.000They released that quote from the manifesto saying he was going after pro-abortion people.
00:21:28.000But when it's all of the writings, the totality, like, you know, the Nashville shooter with all the plans and the motivation behind it, it's no longer a manifesto.
00:22:55.000I don't know how many state legislators they have in Minnesota, but they said, you know, the initial report I saw earlier was 70. This guy just said 35 to 40 or something like that.
00:23:16.000So he wasn't saying the list was less than 70. Because it might be one of those things where he's just, like we said earlier, he's self-absorbed.
00:23:46.000I was just about to say, there are a lot of things about this guy that we need to understand as the public so that we can form kind of an accurate picture of, okay, this is the kind of guy who did this.
00:23:54.000By the way, they should be talking about, what do you do if a police officer, quote unquote, shows up at your house at 3.30 in the morning banging on the door?
00:24:28.000I can tell you the last time I greeted a police officer at the door, I do have an alarm system that, by the way, notifies them right away, and we have the glass breaker stuff, and I told you we have two separate air units, and so the one bedroom door will suck shut if it's on and the other one isn't.
00:24:44.000And you guys who work in HVAC, you know it's a positive pressure environment, negative pressure.
00:24:48.000Anyway, sometimes that'll slam so loudly that it's been at least two or three times that the actual alarm goes off.
00:24:55.000And this one time, it was in a matter of a minute.
00:26:33.000That's what it sounds like he had, because I don't think he had it on top.
00:26:35.000And I don't fully understand that because I thought that there were laws, and I think it depends on the state of situation, unmarked vehicles.
00:26:41.000And I don't think unmarked vehicles are- Yeah.
00:28:25.000I mean, just there's a lot of names that we're working together right now.
00:28:28.000So the FBI, there are some, and we've mentioned this, that there are some other names that are from out of state.
00:28:33.000They have been working through our Fusion Center network across the United States, and then our partners at the FBI are helping coordinate with that in that process.
00:29:19.000Right now, I think he's in the custody of the United States Marshal Service over at the St. Paul Federal Court House.
00:29:23.000Okay, guys, put some eyes on this, so if anything happens that's of note, you guys can send us a clip as it continues.
00:29:28.000Confirm what you guys have about the list, and let's take some chats, some questions on this, because I'll say, look, if it's a list of Democrats and abortion providers, I would lean toward this seems to be someone who was maybe more radical and insane and happened to have right-leaning views.
00:29:42.000It's rare, but of course it does happen, just speaking from what I know right now.
00:29:47.000I don't think we have the full picture, but that would be my guess if, in fact, the list is 100% Democrats and abortion providers.
00:29:54.000Also could be trying to, you know, trying to throw you off the scent.
00:29:58.000We've seen that in the past, too, where I've seen the Christchurch shooters say, I was radicalized by watching Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro, right?
00:30:04.000And this was someone who literally wanted folks to suspect them.
00:30:07.000Either way, so they're basically a lot of the accounts that we listed.
00:30:10.000And by the way, when we had that montage up that had JoJo from Jersey and Brooklyn Dad and the Krasensteins, I was like, the four people I hate the most on X, all in one, other than the economic policies of Robert Reich, midget.
00:30:51.000This isn't like federal people where he's actually gotten into spats with some different federal legislators or something like that.
00:30:57.000This is state legislators that he's probably never even heard of, right?
00:31:00.000So it's really hard for you to draw that line from Donald Trump's policies and position and stance on stuff to, yeah, he's supporting people violently going after politicians they disagree with.
00:31:27.000Also, the amount of abortion clinics, actual attacks, shootings, bombings, you can count pretty much on, let's say, both hands, which is unbelievably rare when you understand what a charged topic that is in comparison to the left and how many casualties and murders take place over police injustice over.
00:31:45.000Also, it's much quicker to draw the line to.
00:31:48.000The attempted assassination on Donald Trump.
00:31:50.000This man is an existential threat to the country.
00:32:02.000That's different from Donald Trump happening to be a Republican and this person shooting people who seem to be Democrats in Minnesota.
00:32:10.000I mean, every Christian I know, by the way, every single Christian, when an abortion issue happened, and there weren't that many, like you said, they made it seem like there were a lot, and when you go back and look at it, there were not that many incidents, hated it.
00:32:22.000It's like, that's not how you fix this.
00:33:32.000He said he had been texting with him with like I think 45 minutes before the shooting or was it before he left that morning?
00:33:37.000And he was saying so he had been communicating with him that he had already met with the police officers and was talking to the press and reading out texts.
00:34:07.000I'm imagining there's quite a few chats on this, and lwctipsatprotonmail.com, if you have any information on this or any other events like this, because we're still tracking down some leads here behind the scenes.
00:34:18.000And look, I'll tell you, most of them lead to dead ends, but every now and then you get Nashville, you get Jay Varma, the COVID architect, you get the DOJ and Donald Trump.
00:34:37.000But a lot of people say, look how many views we have, and so we helped him get it.
00:34:41.000Well, we've done that too, but we can actually say, we released the DOJ story.
00:34:46.000The next day, they declared that Donald Trump would be eligible to run for president, that they would put off the hearing.
00:34:53.000So we can say definitively that you guys helped apply pressure that paved the way for Donald Trump to become president, because otherwise, that doesn't happen.
00:36:09.000It's not an exaggeration to say that this is the stuff of nightmares.
00:36:15.000This is something that this shooter was preparing for months.
00:36:20.000There was a list of about 45 elected officials.
00:36:25.000We learned for the first time here that it wasn't just the two houses in which he actually shot people.
00:36:31.000There were two others that he visited.
00:36:34.000And, you know, I'll let you take it from there, John.
00:36:37.000But obviously, from a law enforcement perspective, read between the lines for us beyond the absolute jaw dropping shock and disgust about the way that this man was trying to take.
00:37:02.000And then when you bring on the panel, they weigh it down.
00:37:12.000I think we need to avoid making the same mistake they make.
00:37:15.000I think the case that Stephen just laid out on rhetoric causing potential harm and actually physical harm in this case of calling Donald Trump a Nazi and saying that he's a fascist and that we have to stop him by any means necessary.
00:37:27.000I think that is a very clear, direct line to, okay, this is part of the problem.
00:37:33.000Saying that, you know, having rhetoric against opponents, like we don't like their ideology, we think they're crazy, we think of this, we think they're anti this, that is much more murky.
00:37:43.000Because that, you can then use it for every single case out there, and if you're going to do that, it needs to be very, very clear, because we're not trying to silence people voicing their opinions about, listen, I want the left to be able to talk, too.
00:37:55.000I don't agree with what they have to say about these things, but I want them to be able to do it, as long as they don't violate any laws.
00:37:59.000Well, I can tell you exactly, to change my mind, where we used to sit down, people would sit down, and most of them were very productive conversations, and then there were several instances where people said, he's a Nazi, he's this, and the crowd got out of control, and I've had people, I've been punched in the face.
00:38:13.000on national television, someone tried to hit me over the head with a rock.
00:38:15.000So I can tell you that when people go, he's a Nazi, I've seen it.
00:38:28.000That's very different from people sitting there discussing ideas, no matter how charged it is.
00:38:31.000I can tell you I've lived it firsthand, and Donald Trump went through the latter for his entire presidency, post-presidency, and, well, third presidential run.
00:38:41.000Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, fascist existential threat wants to commit genocide against trans people.
00:38:47.000I can tell you firsthand that that leads to a very different outcome than people sitting down and even airing their grievances passionately.
00:39:31.000There were a couple of examples of that.
00:39:33.000I remember them misidentifying Dylan Roof as a radical right-wing extremist, and then I think the El Paso shooting, which turned out not to be the case.
00:39:50.000I would hold that as the exception, not the rule, because yes, it has happened before, but only take that as a given when you can prove it.
00:39:58.000Because otherwise, everything to you is going to be a false flag.
00:40:00.000And that's a very dangerous place to live, man.
00:40:39.000And Mission Control, let me know, because I had read, too, that the two initial Democrats were shot were two lone holdouts, and I don't believe that that's true.
00:40:52.000Because there was a lot of fake news on purpose.
00:40:54.000And she was like, you know, she was scared of her vote.
00:40:56.000No, she obviously seemed at the time to be genuinely upset that they couldn't get the budget bill through because that comment she made at the end, we tried to get a version of this bill that didn't have that provision in it, but we couldn't get it done.
00:41:08.000Meaning she didn't want to have the provision that illegals get booted off of, I believe it was Medicaid or Social Security or whatever it was.
00:41:26.000If, again, assuming this is true, the totality of a bunch of abortion providers and then a bunch of legislators who are Democrats, then that wouldn't really hold water.
00:41:37.000So let's not just cling to one piece of evidence and go, see, this clearly proves because there are people on the right who are doing that both with Iran and Israel and with this situation.
00:41:46.000My thing right away is I go, it's not your fault for not trusting them.
00:42:04.000But when people routinely peddle false information and don't retract, don't apologize, just move on to the next one, you go, okay, all right.
00:42:11.000Speaking of which, so this is enemy attestation, essentially.
00:42:14.000So Taylor Lorenz actually wrote an article about this, that the shooter's manifesto was designed to troll.
00:42:18.000So if Taylor Lorenz, you know, is writing an article saying, hey, hey, hey, guys, don't blame the right.
00:42:23.000This was a troll because I guess this person blamed us.
00:42:27.000Spear of the Dragon 3 and all, Spyro, whatever.
00:47:47.000And I think that's a concern that people have, and I think that's a legitimate concern.
00:47:50.000Now, and I want to bring this up because we've actually been reaching out to Dave Smith to have him come on the show and be able to explain some of his views.
00:47:58.000But apparently he's gone a little bit off the deep end with his views as it relates to this crisis.
00:48:10.000It was in 2007 that the Pentagon told George W. Bush that we cannot go to war with Iran because we do not have escalation dominance against them, essentially meaning that they can hit all of our bases and embassies in the region, and we are very vulnerable to them.
00:48:27.000And we've already seen demonstrated since the Israeli attack that the Iranian missiles that they sent last year toward Israel, as many of us guessed, that wasn't really their best.
00:48:38.000They were intentionally making an attack that wouldn't really hurt anybody, that wouldn't really lead to a war, which Iran has done over and over again.
00:48:45.000But now we've pushed them to the point where they probably don't feel that they have the option not to respond.
00:48:50.000Donald Trump telling them to come back to the negotiating table now is a joke.
00:48:55.000I mean, what a what an impotent leader to be sitting there talking about coming back to the negotiating table.
00:49:01.000It's like sitting after Pearl Harbor and telling FDR now is the time to go negotiate with the Japanese.
00:51:00.000I just want to address this because I saw Dave Smith lauding With praise, this guy who made the Pearl Harbor argument, unless I'm misunderstanding it, and listen, I'll leave some room for that, it makes no sense to me whatsoever because you're basically saying that the Israelis are the Japanese and that the United States is Iran.
00:51:18.000And you're saying that the Japanese attacked the United States like Israel attacked Iran.
00:51:23.000Would we have, after Pearl Harbor, said, no, no, no, let's negotiate this out?
00:51:26.000No, we went full force and we went after Japan, right?
00:51:38.000Did we support every single group around them that hated them and give them rockets and cash and training to be able to attack them?
00:51:44.000That kind of comparison is idiotic, if that is the basis of it, and I'm not understanding some point of it.
00:51:51.000If that's what I'm hearing as a brilliant point to bring up, No, no, I do think the United States launched 180 ballistic missiles at Japan before Pearl Harbor.
00:53:10.000Donald Trump should be impeached and removed for this.
00:53:12.000All of his supporters should turn on him.
00:53:14.000It's the absolute betrayal of everything that he ran and campaigned on and everything that he stood for.
00:53:19.000And I will say, despite the fact that Donald Trump supporters have been labeled like a cult following, and that certainly is true for a percentage of his supporters, he is going to lose his coalition over this.
00:53:36.000So I think maybe, pause, I think maybe what Dave Smith is saying is the only acceptable response from Donald Trump, and maybe there's a case that he made, is a total and utter condemnation of Israel.
00:53:45.000I think that might be what he's saying.
00:53:47.000He's saying, so if I'm following all of this correctly from what I've seen, and I follow Dave Smith to try to understand where he's coming from, because I think he's a smart guy, and I think he makes some really good points, and I think he says stuff in a way that people can kind of hold on to and understand, and that's very helpful, especially if he's deconstructing an argument correctly.
00:54:33.000You're assuming that we get dragged into a full-scale war.
00:54:35.000You're assuming there ends up being a full-scale war.
00:54:37.000You're assuming that we don't just do a show of force, essentially, and send some ships over there like we did the last time this stuff started happening, by the way.
00:54:44.000It's not the only time we've done this.
00:55:42.000All the while, Israel has been saying, we need to deal with Iran because of the biggest funders of terrorism, because they have talked about wiping out Israel.
00:55:50.000You know, as an official position of their government, because they're developing nuclear capabilities, and then, of course, because they have attacked Israel repeatedly, where they've been saying, something's got to happen, something's got to happen, they've got to come to the table.
00:56:02.000These are small attacks, but imagine if they have nukes.
00:56:05.000And Donald Trump, take Israel off to the side, has been saying, Iran, you need to come to the negotiating table, period.
00:56:15.000I think it'd probably be a good idea for everybody if you come to the table.
00:56:20.000That's how I see this playing out right now in real time.
00:56:23.000And Donald Trump saying, we're not going to go to war, but looks like Israel has it pretty handled.
00:56:27.000Iran, do you want to keep going down this path?
00:56:30.000The only alternative, barring us getting into war, which I would agree with Dave Smith, hope absolutely doesn't happen.
00:56:36.000I guess the only acceptable alternative would be for Donald Trump to condemn Israel and portray this as an out-of-the-blue attack as opposed to a response.
00:59:36.000Alright, that does mean there's going to at some point be an intervening force.
00:59:40.000And this is kind of the one, and I know people say Israel is not our ally because of all their crap, and I get all that crap, but do you want that force to be the United States?
00:59:50.000Or is there, are there some pros to that force being Israel and not the United States?
01:00:08.000And that's a big reason why we often find ourselves allied.
01:00:11.000Even though we don't share the same interests on a lot of issues.
01:00:15.000But do we have the same vested interests where we say, hey, we probably don't want Iran to have nukes?
01:00:20.000And Israel says, we really don't want Iran to have nukes?
01:00:25.000So you have to ask, okay, That's why there's an alliance.
01:00:28.000Not because of AIPAC, and not because of all the other reasons that you read online, and it doesn't mean that we should be allied with them, certainly on issues that relate to domestic policy.
01:01:02.000Pretty much, from all the evidence that we have, has Donald Trump made it pretty clear, hey, Israel, wish you the best, but we're not getting in unless our guys are attacked?
01:02:23.000I think a case could be made if Donald Trump said, by the way, we're putting boots on the ground and we're going in and we are going to be putting our military forces in with Israel.
01:02:31.000That would be something unexpected from his supporters.
01:03:00.000Like, I understand if we're saying, hey, we're going to go in and, you know, like, just like we did in Iraq and just like we did in Afghanistan, we're going to send a bunch of people over there and we're going to try to bring democracy to Iran.
01:03:23.000Now, by the way, things could get very spicy because the way Netanyahu phrases this, and listen to how I phrase it, because I'll read what he wrote, what he told the reporter for ABC.
01:03:33.000When asked ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl about reports from ABC News and other athletes, thank you, outlets that Donald Trump rejected an Israeli plan to assassinate Iran's supreme leader, concerned that it would escalate the conflict, Netanyahu said, quote, it's not going to escalate the conflict.
01:04:28.000And that's the problem that I have with a lot of these guys.
01:04:32.000And again, I agree with Dave on a lot of stuff when it comes to Gaza and it comes to the suffering that's going on there.
01:04:36.000Like right now as a human being, I have a big problem with it, but you haven't told me why you value Gaza suffering over Israeli suffering.
01:04:56.000There's going to be all these other organizations.
01:04:57.000So that's okay because it takes longer, I guess, and maybe you only have 15 or 20 people dying every other month or something like that from these things versus – Maybe that's where we can all come together and say, hey, a better plan would be X. But that's the problem I have with this, because then that colors every other thing that they do, and I'm like, these are not the same things.
01:06:34.000Do you think they are going to use this, I think this is going back to the Belter thing, to try and push an even more egregious assault weapons ban?
01:06:42.000If so, how do you think they'll go and try and pass it?
01:06:45.000I don't know what the laws are in Minnesota.
01:06:47.000Those things tend to happen on a state level now.
01:06:51.000Because there just isn't the stomach for it nationally.
01:06:54.000Every year that goes by, more and more Americans own firearms.
01:06:58.000And that's honestly just one of those issues that has been won by education.
01:07:03.000That's why we did the gift a gun trend a long time ago.
01:07:06.000I said, yeah, buy someone a gun for Christmas.
01:07:11.000Because the moment someone goes and has to purchase a firearm, they realize this idea that, oh, there's no background check, is complete horse crap.
01:07:19.000With each new legal gun purchase or each new legal firearm owner, you now have a person who's been inoculated against the bullshit from the left on something like an assault weapons ban.
01:07:31.000So it's just not something that's going to happen nationally.
01:07:41.000With Minnesota gun laws on a state level and municipal level, you might have some saber rattling and you might have some people do something like a bump stock ban or a bullet button.
01:07:51.000I mean, he had, they said, an assault style rifle.
01:07:53.000They said he had some, but in California it would be an assault weapon because the pistol has, if it's, for example, a Glock or a Walford, more than 10. 10, okay.
01:08:02.000Yeah, I had a CZ-75 from California when I was in Michigan, and it had all California magazines, where all they do is they hollow out a part of it and shorten the spring so that you can't use what the magazine was meant for.
01:08:17.000So Minnesota law really quickly in 2023, they extended the waiting period for assault weapon purchases from federally licensed dealers from seven days to 30 days.
01:08:27.000And then Minnesota prohibits the possession of semi-automatic.
01:08:29.000Military-style assault weapons, which, what the hell is that?
01:08:33.000By persons who are under 18 years of age, such person may carry or possess a semi-automatic military assault rifle.
01:08:40.000Only, and then there are some exceptions, it looks like.
01:08:42.000So, they're saying if you're over 18, you can buy something?
01:08:45.000Well, but I don't know, a semi-automatic like we made the case here.
01:08:48.000Well, I think rifles can be owned, if I'm not mistaken, by...
01:08:54.000So, in other words, it seems like the waiting period is bullshit.
01:08:57.000You have people who have been killed during that waiting period because they were purchasing a firearm to defend themselves, so that's terrible.
01:11:32.000And I'm not saying that, I'm not encouraging globalism in any way, but people are going, unless we're going in to destroy shit.
01:11:39.000And either colonize them or turn them into a state, or these people are presenting an actual existential threat, not like Donald Trump as president, to the United States, we really shouldn't be engaging.
01:11:52.000Because when you look at the deficit spending, when you look at the debt that we have that's, what, $40 billion trillion at this point?
01:11:59.000And you look at it, you go, and by the way, it's not like these expenditures, if it was providing, let's say, some missiles capable of interception to help resupply the Iron Dome in Israel, it's not like that would Directly take food out of homeless shelters' mouths.
01:12:11.000So I think that's a false equivalency too.
01:12:13.000But I think that people are now at the point where they're tired of being guilted into helping the rest of the world when the solution at home is always more spending and government inefficiency in the name of empathy.
01:12:53.000That reverend, where he's like, I don't want anything, and then finally they see him there, and it's that guy with a very interesting face who was on Boston Legal.
01:12:59.000And he says, sometimes a shepherd must protect his flock.
01:13:02.000He's probably going to get shot because this guy has no idea how to handle a musket.
01:13:06.000And at least at that point, you know you did all you could.
01:13:10.000I think Americans are at the point where if we find ourselves in a war, it's easier for us to sleep at night as American citizens to say, all right, we did everything we could to try and avoid this.
01:13:28.000As violent and as forceful as humanly possible.
01:13:32.000It's the difference between a drunken bar fight where guys are posturing and punching and shoving and you getting mugged in an alley at night and doing whatever it takes to eliminate that person.
01:13:46.000Whether it's ripping out his throat, choking him unconscious, stomping his nuts.
01:13:49.000It's, I have to get out of this because my life has been put in imminent danger.