Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 3 ｜ Guns, Government & God： Why I Fight for 2A

00:00:00.000 Welcome back to Relatable, everyone, where I, your host, Allie Stuckey, discuss the most

00:00:05.100 relevant topics from a conservative, millennial, and biblical perspective.

00:00:09.920 Today, we are going to talk about, drumroll please, guns, everyone's favorite topic.

00:00:16.480 So, let's go.

00:00:18.320 Let's talk about guns, baby.

00:00:30.420 Let's talk about you and me.

00:00:32.560 For those of you who don't know, this podcast is a part of CRTV.com, where you can find me

00:00:38.020 as well as a bunch of other conservative commentators and where I post several videos every week.

00:00:43.620 So, I asked my social media followers over the weekend what you all would like me to

00:00:49.360 discuss on this week's podcast, and I got a lot of great suggestions.

00:00:53.380 There are literally so many things that I want to talk about today.

00:00:57.520 I'm, like, overwhelmed. 0.99

00:00:58.500 I, like, I really want to talk about that really stupid and absurd and irresponsible spending 0.99

00:01:04.380 bill that makes it hard for me to justify ever voting for another Republican again. 0.96

00:01:08.900 And I might touch on that at the end of this podcast, might not.

00:01:13.360 It might need to be a whole episode for a different day.

00:01:15.800 I also want to talk about the California Supreme Court case involving abortion and free speech.

00:01:20.380 But I wanted to listen to what you all wanted.

00:01:24.400 And many of you asked that we talk about guns, the Second Amendment, and this whole March for

00:01:29.820 Our Lives thing that happened this weekend.

00:01:32.280 And in light of the insane tension and the disagreement that surrounds this issue, I thought it would be

00:01:38.280 good to try to add some Christian millennial conservative clarity to the conversation.

00:01:44.140 First, let me back up and tell you kind of who I am in relation to guns.

00:01:50.380 I am not what you would call a gun fanatic, whatever that means, although I don't think that's a bad

00:01:55.160 thing if you are, because if you are what people call a gun fanatic, I think that's awesome.

00:02:00.760 I just personally am not one of them.

00:02:02.680 My husband and I recently became gun owners, and I am right now in the middle of applying

00:02:07.460 for my license to carry.

00:02:09.680 I have shot guns a handful of times.

00:02:12.500 I didn't really grow up around guns, even though I grew up in Texas, where I'd say guns

00:02:16.360 are a part of our culture.

00:02:18.060 My dad owned guns growing up, but I really never saw them unless he was hunting, which

00:02:22.660 he and my brothers did pretty regularly.

00:02:24.220 So I guess I saw guns and I never really thought about it.

00:02:26.540 But honestly, guns weren't really something that we talked about or even thought about growing

00:02:31.420 up, and really only in the last few years did my parents start carrying guns, and none

00:02:36.620 of my close friends, even right now, carry guns.

00:02:40.620 So this whole idea on the left of the Second Amendment, of Second Amendment advocates being 0.99

00:02:46.360 gun nuts who care more about guns than children is so frustratingly stupid, because it's just 1.00

00:02:52.580 not true. 1.00

00:02:53.500 I don't really care about guns.

00:02:55.740 I care about the right to defend myself however I want to.

00:02:59.000 And I care about what that right stands for, which is individual liberty.

00:03:03.900 I care about the Second Amendment because I care about liberty, not because I care about

00:03:08.640 guns.

00:03:09.320 The only reason guns are at all important to me is because they are the means by which

00:03:14.600 we get to protect our liberty.

00:03:16.840 I mean, you've probably heard before, there is no First Amendment without the Second Amendment.

00:03:20.760 And that is true.

00:03:21.680 We have no ultimate ability to defend ourselves against a tyrannical government who would wish

00:03:26.960 to take away our right to free speech and religious expression and all of that if it

00:03:30.920 were not for our right to bear arms.

00:03:32.780 And this is true of any of our rights, actually.

00:03:35.960 They are all protected by the Second Amendment.

00:03:37.980 Privacy, unreasonable searches and seizures, etc.

00:03:40.940 And I don't mean this in the sense that, like, if we found out that a government official 0.96

00:03:44.740 spied on our browsing history that we'd get to go to their house and shoot them. 0.96

00:03:48.440 I mean that in a bigger and, like I said, ultimate sense. 0.98

00:03:52.200 I mean that a government who wishes to completely subdue its people wouldn't be able to easily

00:03:57.760 do that if the people they're trying to subdue are well-armed.

00:04:01.800 We would be able to form a militia, even, which is a group of non-professional soldiers,

00:04:06.020 and we would be able to take up arms and defend our freedom, theoretically, from the tyranny

00:04:11.680 of the government.

00:04:13.260 Now, of course, we might not be able to win, but we'd have the ability to fight for our rights

00:04:18.960 in a very tangible sense.

00:04:20.400 Now, okay, you might be thinking, that sounds apocalyptic or totally far-fetched.

00:04:25.920 We would never have to defend ourselves against the government.

00:04:28.700 But for those of you who say that, like, you do realize that's how we all got here, right?

00:04:32.680 Like, you do realize that our independence from the tyranny of England was accomplished

00:04:36.180 by use of guns, that it was weaponry that allowed us to defeat a global superpower?

00:04:43.940 Guns were the means by which we achieved freedom.

00:04:46.780 And to people who say, well, that was hundreds of years ago, that's irrelevant today.

00:04:51.620 No, the nature of tyranny does not change.

00:04:54.620 Culture changes, technology changes, but the nature of power and the tyranny that always

00:04:59.640 arises from the growth of power do not change.

00:05:03.100 We should fear government overreach and tyrannical rule probably more than ever.

00:05:07.580 The only difference between then and now is that they then feared another government,

00:05:11.940 and now we fear ours.

00:05:14.360 The founders knew, though, about the propensity of any central government to take on too much

00:05:19.680 authority.

00:05:20.600 They knew the immutable nature of tyranny, which is why they recognize people's God-given

00:05:25.600 rights to defend themselves against it.

00:05:27.920 So just some factoids about the Second Amendment, just in case some of you have forgotten.

00:05:32.880 It is the second of the ten amendments to the Constitution, altogether called the Bill of Rights,

00:05:37.100 ratified by Congress in 1791, a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a

00:05:43.660 free state.

00:05:44.360 The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

00:05:48.140 That's what it says.

00:05:49.360 A militia was a group of volunteers, so men from the community who were able to come together

00:05:53.840 and form an informal army.

00:05:56.020 The idea was that the federal government shouldn't be the only ones to be able to form an army

00:05:59.960 because that could easily lead to oppression.

00:06:02.460 Obviously, that part of the Second Amendment has been contested, and that looks a little

00:06:07.520 bit different today.

00:06:08.580 We don't know of very many militias that are formed.

00:06:12.000 James Madison was the one to propose the Second Amendment in order to empower the states and

00:06:17.200 to quell many of their fears about a too-powerful central government, the spirit being that the

00:06:22.000 government would not be allowed to disarm its citizens.

00:06:26.180 So when we look at the Second Amendment from that context, it's really hard to argue that

00:06:30.080 meant anything other than the idea that citizens should be allowed to protect themselves and

00:06:34.260 that the government cannot stomp on that right.

00:06:37.200 Nevertheless, there has been a debate on the scope and really the true meaning of the Second

00:06:42.900 Amendment literally probably since 1791 because people disagree on what it means to have a regulated

00:06:49.560 militia.

00:06:50.620 What does it mean that citizens can keep and bear rights without infringement?

00:06:55.040 What does the infringement look like?

00:06:56.680 Um, some, though not really many anymore in the gun control crowd, take the whole regulated

00:07:03.500 militia thing to mean that the Second Amendment doesn't necessarily apply to all individual

00:07:09.120 citizens, but rather applies to organized military groups.

00:07:13.120 Um, obviously, the gun rights crowd points to the line that says literally the right of

00:07:18.360 the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

00:07:20.840 And they say, no, it clearly includes all individuals.

00:07:24.440 And considering the spirit of the creation of the Second Amendment, the fear the states and

00:07:29.940 the people had of government tyranny and the oppression of federal force, it's hard to see

00:07:34.160 why the Second Amendment would limit the right to bear arms to organized military groups rather

00:07:39.240 than individuals.

00:07:40.460 But still, the debate lives on and is probably a lot more complicated than that.

00:07:45.140 Much of the complexity regarding the Second Amendment has to do with Supreme Court rulings on the issue

00:07:50.260 that brought up the question of whether or not the Second Amendment is to be upheld by the federal

00:07:54.580 government or whether or not it's protected or taken away by state governments.

00:07:59.820 And this has to do with the 14th Amendment, which includes a due process clause, which is

00:08:04.060 used against the states when it comes to what authority the state has apart from the federal

00:08:08.260 government to enact laws.

00:08:10.280 For a long time, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment is not included by the due process

00:08:15.500 clause of the 14th Amendment, meaning that it's not a federal issue and so could be limited

00:08:20.360 and regulated by the state.

00:08:21.900 Presser v.

00:08:22.500 Illinois in 1886 is an example.

00:08:25.280 But then in 2008, in D.C.

00:08:27.360 v.

00:08:27.740 Heller, the court ruled that D.C.'s ban on handguns was unlawful as it infringed on the

00:08:32.800 constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

00:08:34.720 Then in 2010, McDonald v.

00:08:38.080 Chicago ruled that your Second Amendment rights are included in the due process clause.

00:08:42.760 Therefore, no state can fully infringe upon your right to own a gun.

00:08:46.640 Now, obviously, every state has different laws regarding how difficult it is to own or

00:08:50.660 carry a gun or where you can carry a gun.

00:08:53.100 And that varies depending on where you live.

00:08:55.960 But there really is generally no question about whether or not the Second Amendment does

00:09:00.520 indeed include an individual's right to possess a firearm, a right that courts have ruled should

00:09:05.940 be protected by the federal government per the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.

00:09:10.100 But the ongoing debate is, what should the limitations be on this individual rights?

00:09:17.420 Now, there are already many laws on the books regarding guns, background checks, limitations

00:09:21.200 for the mentally ill, licensing to carry a gun.

00:09:23.900 There are age limits for purchasing guns, especially particular kinds of guns.

00:09:28.200 But in general, compared to the rest of the world, it's true that our gun laws are pretty 0.92

00:09:32.420 lax.

00:09:33.720 That is because in the United States, unlike in other countries, we believe that the right

00:09:38.500 to defend ourselves how we see fit, as is outlined by the Second Amendment, is a God-given right.

00:09:44.300 And in fact, every single one of our rights recognized in the Constitution, the Founders

00:09:49.060 believed were God-given inherent rights.

00:09:51.620 And as we conservatives know and believe, if rights are inherent rather than man-made, then

00:09:57.440 they cannot be taken away by man or institutions made by men, i.e. the government.

00:10:03.200 So all of this to say, that is why I personally fight for the Second Amendment, because it was

00:10:08.520 the amendment set up to ensure the protection against the infringement of all of our other

00:10:12.180 rights.

00:10:12.820 It is the protection of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:10:16.760 And I also think it's important to note that I don't believe that everyone has to own or

00:10:21.120 carry a gun.

00:10:22.140 I think that you can be a freedom-loving, conservative patriot without owning a firearm.

00:10:27.400 Second Amendment advocacy means fighting for the choice of people to defend themselves how

00:10:31.820 they see fit in fighting against forced defenselessness.

00:10:36.040 But unfortunately, this line of thinking is nowhere to be found in most mainstream media

00:10:41.820 coverage of the gun debate, and in particular, in the coverage of the March for Our Lives, which

00:10:46.480 happened Saturday.

00:10:48.140 What we saw were hundreds of thousands of young people across the country with clever, anti-NRA,

00:10:53.340 anti-gun signs, pushing apparently for stricter gun control.

00:10:56.880 And these protests were depicted as revolutionary, as monumental, as heart-wrenching, as an inarguable

00:11:03.760 testament to the cruelty of guns, gun owners, and the NRA.

00:11:07.480 Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg are two students at Stoneman Douglas High School who witnessed

00:11:13.620 the tragedy.

00:11:14.580 And unfortunately, very unfortunately, they have been turned into media puppets, perhaps by

00:11:20.380 no fault of their own.

00:11:21.500 I mean, they are 17 years old.

00:11:22.860 And Emma Gonzalez made a speech in which she made waves for standing on stage in silence

00:11:28.800 to honor her fallen classmates.

00:11:31.160 And I won't lie, I watched that, and it was extremely compelling.

00:11:34.420 I mean, I cried.

00:11:35.260 Whether or not I agreed with her argument is kind of irrelevant.

00:11:37.880 The loss of life is tragic.

00:11:40.080 David Hogg also made a speech defending the right to live.

00:11:44.300 And they were all hailed as heroes, as vigilantes, as young leaders on the right side of history,

00:11:50.400 showing that, of course, everyone who disagrees with them, well, we are child murderers.

00:11:55.400 We are crazed fanatics who care more about guns than kids.

00:11:58.860 I mean, seriously, I'm not exaggerating.

00:12:00.740 If you just log on to Twitter, you will see that dichotomy depicted everywhere.

00:12:06.040 Mainstream, random people, celebrities.

00:12:08.640 It's people who are on the side of gun rights.

00:12:11.300 We are murderers, people who are on the side of gun control. 0.56

00:12:15.320 They are on the right side of history.

00:12:18.480 But from what I have told you about my perspective on guns, 0.95

00:12:23.040 do I sound like a crazy person who wants kids dead?

00:12:27.100 Do I sound like someone who is so obsessed with AR-15s that I can't possibly give them up? 0.61

00:12:33.340 No, of course not.

00:12:34.520 I sound like someone who cares about freedom and self-defense and people.

00:12:38.600 And guess what?

00:12:39.120 I probably represent about 99% of Second Amendment advocates.

00:12:44.760 And you know what?

00:12:45.620 Even the 2A supporters I know who are obsessed with guns and genuinely just 1.00

00:12:50.020 love firearms and gun culture are not what the media is depicting them to be.

00:12:55.360 They are moms, they're dads, they're bosses, students, caretakers,

00:12:58.480 all different kinds of people who just happen to be passionate about their freedom to defend

00:13:01.680 themselves how they see fit.

00:13:03.180 I know rape survivors, assault victims, women who work night shifts and have to walk to their 0.99

00:13:08.220 cars alone, women training for races that require them running early in the morning. 0.99

00:13:12.500 These are your average people, people just like you, who would rather not wait around

00:13:17.240 until they are the next victim, who would rather take their life and protection into their own

00:13:21.680 hands.

00:13:21.980 That's it.

00:13:22.540 And these so-called gun fanatics are literally, literally the most responsible people I know.

00:13:30.620 You want to know who takes the law seriously?

00:13:33.780 Law-abiding gun owners.

00:13:35.660 If you've ever been to a gun range, you know how incredibly obsessive the trainers are about

00:13:42.180 gun safety.

00:13:43.540 Have you ever been around a gun expert and accidentally pointed an empty gun the wrong way?

00:13:49.120 You will be absolutely lambasted.

00:13:51.600 They will yell at you.

00:13:52.540 They will tell you to put the gun down.

00:13:55.120 Why?

00:13:55.880 Because law-abiding gun owners know better than anyone else that every time someone makes

00:14:00.860 a mistake or makes a bad decision with a gun, their own Second Amendment rights are at stake.

00:14:07.040 We who stand up for the Second Amendment are not these heartless gun nuts.

00:14:11.060 We are people who want the right to protect ourselves and our families, how we want to protect

00:14:16.640 them, and the media and the gun control crowd on the left are demonizing us to drive their

00:14:23.980 gun control agenda.

00:14:25.180 This entire narrative that gun owners in the NRA, who stands up for the rights of gun owners,

00:14:30.200 are to blame for mass shootings is just not accurate.

00:14:34.620 It is purposely deceitful and immoral.

00:14:38.320 Do you know how many people the NRA has murdered?

00:14:42.000 Zero.

00:14:42.380 Do you know how many people NRA members have murdered?

00:14:46.460 Zero.

00:14:47.040 In fact, if you remember Sutherland Springs, that shooting down in Texas at a church a few

00:14:52.460 months ago, the man who stopped the shooter with his gun was an NRA member.

00:14:56.360 Imagine that.

00:14:57.740 It took a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun.

00:15:01.680 Who would have thought?

00:15:03.720 The only people to blame for mass shootings are the shooters themselves.

00:15:08.060 Not the millions of people who own and use guns responsibly.

00:15:12.460 Why?

00:15:13.420 Why would we punish everyone for the actions of a few people rather than addressing the

00:15:18.600 real problems at hand, like the deadening of morality in this country, the deterioration

00:15:23.440 of the family, loneliness, depression, isolation, mental health.

00:15:27.900 All these things we know for sure make someone more likely to commit acts of violence on themselves

00:15:34.720 or on other people.

00:15:35.900 And by the way, just a plug here, I've written about these things on my blog, the Conservative

00:15:41.240 Millennial blog.

00:15:42.140 I've talked about how the deterioration of the family and fatherlessness is linked to

00:15:47.980 crime and mass shootings and depression.

00:15:50.520 So make sure to go check that out.

00:15:52.200 I won't spend all of my time explaining it right now.

00:15:55.820 But I mean, considering all of these things and saying all of this, I am not saying that

00:16:04.220 I am completely against any regulation of guns.

00:16:08.440 I don't think people with a history of serious mental illness should be able to own a gun as

00:16:14.020 long as those specifications of mental illness are clear.

00:16:16.740 I don't think criminals should be able to own guns, especially domestic abusers. 0.51

00:16:20.740 I believe in background checks, even very thorough background checks.

00:16:24.420 And these regulations and protocols are already in place in most places.

00:16:28.500 And actually, there's one thing that I think that we need to change here in Texas.

00:16:32.540 In Texas, if you buy a gun, they do a background check before you can pick it up.

00:16:36.820 But if they don't get back to you in three days, then you can pick up the gun.

00:16:41.020 No question.

00:16:42.080 No questions asked.

00:16:43.480 That to me is weird.

00:16:45.260 I think the background check should have to be completed before you can pick up your gun.

00:16:50.780 So I'm not against logical and minimal regulation of guns.

00:16:54.260 I simply don't think that making our gun laws stricter and stricter is going to decrease

00:16:58.440 the loss of life.

00:16:59.700 Not sure if you knew this or not, but criminals commit crimes.

00:17:03.340 That's what they do.

00:17:04.280 They are not hampered by gun-free zones, as we saw when the Bernie Sanders deporter shot

00:17:08.520 and nearly killed Republican Congressman Steve Scalise.

00:17:12.100 They are not afraid of regulations and laws.

00:17:14.340 If they were, they wouldn't be out shooting people in the first place.

00:17:17.480 They will find a way to get a gun, and they will find a way to break the law.

00:17:20.840 That is the nature of crime.

00:17:22.380 And if you look around the world in our most dangerous cities, the ones at the top of the

00:17:26.140 list do not have the most lax gun laws.

00:17:28.740 Of the 50 cities with the highest murder rate in the world, 41 are in Mexico and South America.

00:17:35.460 You can go to gunpolicy.org, and you can look at all of their gun laws in Mexico and South

00:17:40.060 America, and you will see that their gun laws are extremely strict.

00:17:42.940 So Los Cabos, Mexico is the murder capital of the world with 111 murders per 100,000 people

00:17:49.060 in 2017.

00:17:50.600 Caracas, Venezuela comes next, and then Acapulco, Mexico.

00:17:53.580 Those are the top three.

00:17:54.860 In Mexico, all guns are purchased through the Ministry of Defense, meaning there is only

00:17:58.660 one place to purchase a gun.

00:18:00.420 A fulfillment of military duty is required.

00:18:02.840 Only one handgun is permitted for home defense.

00:18:05.300 In short, guns are not easily legally accessible in Mexico.

00:18:09.680 There are only about 15 guns per capita in Mexico compared to the United States' 101, and

00:18:15.320 still, clearly not safer.

00:18:17.400 In South America, the gun laws vary, but are generally very strict.

00:18:21.440 In Venezuela, for example, you have to cite a genuine reason to purchase a gun in order

00:18:26.360 to buy one.

00:18:27.060 That's true in a lot of places, actually.

00:18:28.920 Same thing in Brazil, and the possession of handguns there is prohibited.

00:18:32.480 Venezuela only has about 10.7 guns per capita, and Brazil only has eight.

00:18:38.220 And guess what?

00:18:39.480 It is not safe to live in those countries.

00:18:42.360 But of course, the left doesn't cite these countries when we are debating guns.

00:18:46.020 They bring up Australia and Great Britain as models that we should follow.

00:18:50.580 Okay, well, Australia should give you a really good picture of what the left wants in America.

00:18:56.760 In Australia in 1996, they confiscated.

00:18:59.860 They took away hundreds of thousands of guns.

00:19:03.200 And even though it has been cited that gun homicides and suicides decreased during that

00:19:07.440 time or after that happened, both of those things were already decreasing before the

00:19:11.680 confiscation.

00:19:12.460 And there is really no proof that the confiscation had a direct effect on the continued decrease

00:19:17.560 of so-called gun violence.

00:19:19.260 In Great Britain, it is very difficult to get a gun.

00:19:22.840 Most police officers don't even carry guns.

00:19:25.340 And yet it was chronicled last year by the Office for National Statistics in the UK that

00:19:29.740 London had surpassed New York City in crime rate, saturated with burglary, with murder,

00:19:35.540 and with rape. 0.90

00:19:36.660 And you remember in 2017 when there were three separate terror attacks in London by men driving

00:19:41.500 in vans.

00:19:43.000 A few of these things probably could have been stopped by armed police officers, don't you

00:19:47.800 think?

00:19:48.640 These places are not necessarily safer because of stricter gun laws.

00:19:53.440 There just isn't evidence to prove that.

00:19:55.460 They might have fewer mass shootings, but there is no proof saying that because of their stricter

00:20:00.420 gun laws, the citizens of these places are less susceptible to violence.

00:20:04.600 But it doesn't really matter.

00:20:06.140 These facts, they don't matter because that is where the left wants us to go, in the direction

00:20:09.960 of Australia, who literally took guns away from people in Great Britain, where not even

00:20:14.100 the police officers are armed.

00:20:15.760 And with 310 million guns in America, the only way that would be possible would be through

00:20:21.920 military force, going door to door, demanding our guns.

00:20:26.300 That ain't going to happen.

00:20:28.040 And that is the very thing the founders sought to protect us from by writing the Second Amendment.

00:20:33.360 See, they say that's not what they want, that they don't want to take away our guns,

00:20:36.620 that they just want common sense gun laws, whatever that even means.

00:20:40.820 That's usually how they start the conversation.

00:20:42.800 But the thing is, they end the conversation every time without fail by saying, well, why do you

00:20:47.720 even need a gun anyway?

00:20:50.000 Exactly.

00:20:50.980 That's what I thought.

00:20:51.860 That is the core of their plan.

00:20:53.240 The skepticism that anyone would even need a gun.

00:20:56.860 Why would I even need a gun?

00:20:58.600 I posted a video with Amy Robbins, who is the CEO of Alexo Athletica, a concealed carry

00:21:04.400 athleisure line for women.

00:21:06.140 And she was showing me all of the places in these leggings that she designed where someone 0.99

00:21:09.580 can carry a weapon.

00:21:11.140 And the comments that I got from leftists that we are paranoid, crazy, that it's totally

00:21:18.120 unnecessary, yada, yada, yada, were absolutely insane.

00:21:21.140 Because it's amazing to me.

00:21:22.860 It's amazing that in the age of Me Too, when sexual assault and harassment has been placed

00:21:27.640 center stage, where we're talking about it all the time, why anyone in their right mind

00:21:32.680 would ask someone, especially a woman, why she would need a gun.

00:21:36.480 Someone on Instagram told me that, well, if no one had a gun, then I wouldn't need a gun

00:21:41.860 to defend myself.

00:21:43.420 Okay.

00:21:44.100 So you're telling me that if a 200 pound guy unarmed followed me to my car in a parking

00:21:50.020 garage one night, say he had a knife or say he had a cord, or maybe he just had his bare

00:21:54.040 hands.

00:21:54.680 If he followed me one night that I would be able to fight him off.

00:21:58.360 I mean, I do pure bar.

00:22:00.040 So, I mean, I can, I can do a plank for 90 seconds, but I don't think that I am quite

00:22:04.080 strong enough to beat up a man, even a man that's 150 pounds.

00:22:08.200 I wouldn't be able to do it.

00:22:09.840 Okay.

00:22:10.140 So their typical response to that is, well, why not use a knife or pepper spray?

00:22:15.520 And my first response is, obviously, I have to get a lot closer to him to use either of

00:22:20.040 those things.

00:22:20.480 And chances are he's going to overpower me before I use them.

00:22:23.240 So they're probably not going to be very effective.

00:22:25.680 And that leads to number two, a gun, even just brandishing a gun is a far greater deterrent

00:22:30.700 than those things.

00:22:31.580 And then number three, why do you care what I want to use to defend myself?

00:22:37.540 Whether it is a gun or a silly string, why shouldn't I be able to choose how to protect

00:22:45.200 myself? 0.76

00:22:46.200 Which leads to this next point of absolute hypocrisy within the gun control crowd.

00:22:51.700 And that is this concept of choice.

00:22:53.980 The left is all about choice, especially for women. 0.77

00:22:56.760 When it comes to gender, when it comes to whatever flavor of sexual promiscuity we want, 0.72

00:23:04.580 choosing to dismember babies inside the womb, but choosing to defend ourselves with a firearm. 0.92

00:23:10.800 How dare you? 0.95

00:23:13.000 I mean, really, the hypocritical rhetoric about abortion from the left that they refuse to 0.51

00:23:18.100 apply to self-defense with a gun is amazing.

00:23:20.600 They say your body, your choice.

00:23:21.980 If you don't want one, don't get one.

00:23:24.100 And it's a personal choice for women. 1.00

00:23:26.140 It's a health decision.

00:23:27.840 OK, so you're telling me each of these arguments work for abortion, the express purpose of which 0.63

00:23:34.260 is to kill a person, to kill an unborn child, but not for the possession of guns, which can

00:23:40.980 be used for many things other than killing innocent people. 0.98

00:23:44.680 No, no, no, no, no.

00:23:46.620 First of all, the idea that abortion is nothing more than a health care decision is straight 1.00

00:23:50.320 up stupid and unscientific. 1.00

00:23:51.680 It's murder. 1.00

00:23:52.240 But we won't get into that right now.

00:23:54.000 The point is that the leftist gun control crowd somehow thinks that me, a law abiding

00:24:00.360 citizen, owning a gun for protection is somehow a threat to society. 0.92

00:24:05.700 That's why I shouldn't have the choice when in reality, it's probably going to protect

00:24:10.520 me at some point in my life.

00:24:11.740 And it's probably going to protect you, too, if you're around me.

00:24:16.700 So I public speak a lot.

00:24:18.860 And when you're on stage, any of you who have been on a stage, you know that the light sometimes

00:24:23.140 can be really bright and you can't see the back of the room.

00:24:25.940 And I have this kind of fear.

00:24:28.600 I get a little bit freaked out that someone's going to burst in and shoot me or something

00:24:34.220 like that.

00:24:35.080 But you know where I'm the least scared of a bad guy with a gun?

00:24:39.020 I'm least scared when I'm speaking in Texas to groups of Republicans.

00:24:42.540 When I am in Texas speaking to conservatives, I literally have no fear of coming of someone

00:24:47.080 coming in with a gun because I know there are at least 10 good guys with guns who are

00:24:52.000 probably even specially trained to deal with an emergency scenario like that.

00:24:56.380 I'm most scared when I go to California or New York or D.C. where I know no one will

00:25:00.880 be armed except for potential attackers.

00:25:02.920 But again, this perspective, that kind of fear that especially women have and that confidence 0.90

00:25:09.540 that we have when we are around guns and when we are around good people with guns, that doesn't

00:25:14.140 get coverage.

00:25:15.500 It's not the same coverage, at least, that this whole March for Our Lives did.

00:25:19.420 Instead, we are seeing teenagers hailed as heroes only because they are driving home the media's

00:25:25.980 preconceived agenda, not because they actually know what they're talking about.

00:25:30.020 Now, I will say, I am glad that these young people have this right of free speech and are

00:25:36.900 exercising it.

00:25:38.400 Even if I disagree with them, I believe in their right to stand up for what they believe

00:25:42.140 in.

00:25:42.940 But what these kids don't realize, it seems, is that they would not have this right if

00:25:48.760 it was not for the Second Amendment.

00:25:50.780 Not just in the constitutional sense, but in a very tangible sense.

00:25:53.820 The protests, if you saw on TV, were manned by armed guards and security.

00:26:00.480 But unfortunately, they and so many people on the left are completely blind to that hypocrisy.

00:26:06.880 And no matter how hard we try to get them to open their eyes, they refuse to.

00:26:11.380 No matter how much we talk about moral relativism, the breakdown of the family, fatherlessness,

00:26:17.060 mental health.

00:26:17.640 They still refuse to loosen their grasp on the hope that they will be able to get people

00:26:23.320 to give up their guns as a solution rather than talking about all the problems underneath.

00:26:29.520 Now, for the Christian perspective on this, this is a podcast that promises to kind of

00:26:36.480 give you a biblical understanding or at least talk through my biblical understanding of current

00:26:42.120 issues.

00:26:42.560 Well, I'm not going to pretend like there is a specific verse in the Bible from which

00:26:47.660 the Second Amendment is derived.

00:26:49.780 Thou shall arm yourselves is not in the Bible.

00:26:52.520 And just for the record, I don't think being for gun control is antithetical to Christianity

00:26:58.680 in the way that I think being pro-choice is antithetical to Christianity.

00:27:02.280 I think that you are wrong logically if you're for more and more gun control, but I don't think

00:27:07.500 that it is unbiblical necessarily to be a gun control advocate.

00:27:12.560 The gun argument really has a lot more to do with how you view humans and our rights than

00:27:18.640 it does a specific passage in the Bible.

00:27:21.300 I simply believe that it is innate in each of us to protect ourselves, our families, and

00:27:27.180 our communities rather than rely on the government, something that has proven itself unreliable.

00:27:34.240 When we start relying on the government to take care of us and to protect us, we end up in

00:27:39.200 trouble.

00:27:39.420 Every totalitarian regime has begun by people giving up their means of protection.

00:27:44.620 You think Hitler or Mao or Stalin allowed their people to be armed?

00:27:48.860 And we know how that ended up.

00:27:50.620 Murder, torture, and immense pain and suffering.

00:27:54.380 I tweeted this weekend that you know you've hit peak first world privilege when you are

00:28:00.220 protesting to have your rights taken away.

00:28:02.720 Which is exactly what is happening here.

00:28:05.940 Whether cognitively or not, these protesters over the weekend were asking for rights to

00:28:11.400 be taken away rather than given to them.

00:28:14.740 They were asking for more government control and more government dependence.

00:28:20.340 And in general, more government dependence actually leads to godlessness.

00:28:24.500 Just look at literally any country.

00:28:26.980 The more government rule there is, the less freedom of religion there is, the less people

00:28:31.540 are free to worship God because he is replaced by whoever is in authority.

00:28:35.640 I mean, look at us.

00:28:36.360 Look at the United States.

00:28:37.320 Over the past 200 years, we have continually drifted away from what was founded as a country

00:28:41.780 on Judeo-Christian ideals.

00:28:43.840 And our government has grown exponentially.

00:28:46.560 People now trust the government far more than they do God or church.

00:28:50.140 And I imagine that would only get worse if we start allowing our government officials

00:28:55.420 and police officers to be basically the only people armed, while the rest of us suffer under

00:29:00.900 the tyranny of forced defenselessness.

00:29:03.480 Of course.

00:29:04.580 Now, seeing all of this, I obviously have very strong opinions about this, but what we know

00:29:09.680 for absolutely sure, what is in the Bible that I can say with absolute confidence is that

00:29:15.580 one day there will be no need for self-defense.

00:29:18.620 There will be no abuse, no violence, no death, no terrorism, no murder, no school shootings,

00:29:25.160 no arguments about gun control, no vitriol in the media.

00:29:28.500 One day there will be complete and total peace, joy, satisfaction, and healing.

00:29:33.500 We will no longer be divided.

00:29:35.100 We will no longer feel any hate.

00:29:37.340 We will not fear.

00:29:38.480 We will not be fragmented or broken or left wanting.

00:29:41.440 We will be whole.

00:29:42.560 When Jesus returns, when every knee bows and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord,

00:29:47.100 when he defeats sin and death once and for all, when there's a new heaven and a new earth,

00:29:51.880 and when every person the Lord has called to himself will enjoy him forever and ever,

00:29:58.260 all of this chaos will be gone.

00:30:01.920 The truth is, no matter how many conversations about this we have, no matter how many marches

00:30:06.820 we have, the world isn't going to get any better.

00:30:09.880 Politics will get crazier.

00:30:11.160 Danger will increase.

00:30:12.240 We will always wonder how much worse the world can get for our children and our grandchildren.

00:30:18.620 But that's okay.

00:30:20.740 Jesus told us, in this world, you will have trouble, but take heart because I have overcome

00:30:25.980 the world.

00:30:27.060 Even though these conversations are, I think, very important, even though I believe it is

00:30:32.260 crucial for Christians to shed light into dark spheres of politics and culture, ultimately,

00:30:37.980 our hope is not in this life.

00:30:40.320 It's in the next one.

00:30:41.880 And everything we do and say is to that end.

00:30:45.160 Our encouragement, our motivation, our satisfaction right now comes from knowing that one day all

00:30:51.600 will be made new and we will no longer have to talk about these things because we will be

00:30:56.660 forever completely content worshiping Jesus together.

00:31:00.100 Okay, that concludes that part of my podcast.

00:31:06.180 Okay, I have one last part.

00:31:08.620 This is a new segment.

00:31:09.660 I'm trying new segments at the end of the podcast every week because why not?

00:31:13.320 Last week, my last segment was called Things I Just Don't Get and I talked about how I just

00:31:18.420 don't get fashion bloggers and lifestyle bloggers, how they do what they do, considering I can't

00:31:24.500 manage to brush my hair in a single day.

00:31:27.280 Okay, there's a lot of things I just don't get, so I'm probably going to do that segment

00:31:30.740 a lot.

00:31:31.700 And if there are things that you don't get, I want you to email them to me because I'll

00:31:34.920 probably think they're really funny and maybe I'll share them.

00:31:37.280 But this week, I have a new segment and this segment is called Confessions.

00:31:41.740 And if I could play Usher's Confessions right now without copyright infringement, I would,

00:31:46.140 but I can't.

00:31:47.220 So I'm not even going to try to sing it.

00:31:48.980 I tried to sing at the beginning of this podcast and I already listened to it.

00:31:52.340 It's bad.

00:31:52.820 I'm not going to sing again.

00:31:53.620 Um, but this is where I will confess something to you that I have been really bad about and

00:31:59.900 that I'm seriously going to get better at, um, and hopefully be sanctified through.

00:32:06.100 So in alley worlds, there are two kinds of sass. 1.00

00:32:09.860 There is biblical sass and there is unbiblical sass.

00:32:13.320 Biblical sass is like Jesus to his disciples, like all the time, like when they didn't get 0.91

00:32:18.040 a parable and he would be like, dude, do you like not remember this prophecy that I'm clearly

00:32:23.540 talking about right now?

00:32:24.640 Like, how do you, how do you not get this?

00:32:27.120 Or when he overturned the tables and the temple, that is biblical sass.

00:32:31.080 Biblical sass is like righteous anger or even using sarcasm to make a legitimate point. 0.89

00:32:39.200 Unbiblical sass is what I am supremely guilty of. 1.00

00:32:42.320 It is used to make people feel stupid for saying something really stupid. 1.00

00:32:46.920 Like, are you an idiot or are you dumb because you didn't really just actually say that? 1.00

00:32:52.320 See, that's really me. 1.00

00:32:54.300 And I do that a lot, actually, especially in the past few days, because I've seen some 1.00

00:33:01.480 really, really idiotic comments on gun control. 0.99

00:33:05.180 And I just, I just can't resist sometimes. 1.00

00:33:10.840 And I unleash this unbiblical sass. 0.96

00:33:13.720 And let me tell you, I have always struggled with this.

00:33:16.400 I think that I learned how to speak sarcastically before I learned how to speak literally.

00:33:21.940 Sometimes this is good.

00:33:22.900 Sometimes it's not good, though, but it is always funny.

00:33:26.960 No, I'm just kidding.

00:33:28.180 No, actually, it is.

00:33:29.740 But what I've learned sometimes, and maybe this is a lesson for all of us,

00:33:34.040 sometimes I have to sacrifice humor for godliness.

00:33:37.460 And it's actually really even hard for me to say that because it makes me sad.

00:33:40.780 But seriously, unbiblical sass is my cross to bear. 0.95

00:33:44.360 And I give you guys permission to call me out on it.

00:33:46.580 But please do it nicely because I might be kind of sensitive about it.

00:33:50.320 But seriously, speaking the truth in love is what we are called to do.

00:33:54.100 Sometimes sarcasm is an effective tool. 0.99

00:34:00.640 But a lot of times it just makes people feel dumb. 0.95

00:34:03.220 And that should not be what I'm about. 0.57

00:34:05.840 I seriously, I seriously sometimes like, my responses, I'm like, oh, gosh, I can't believe

00:34:13.540 that I just said that.

00:34:14.520 That was really mean.

00:34:15.280 And that was totally not Christlike.

00:34:16.780 And that was totally ungodly.

00:34:18.560 It's really sad, actually, how politics and the internet can bring that out in each of us.

00:34:24.180 But as Christians, we are called to be salt and light, not to be sass and mean.

00:34:29.560 So I'm really going to try to get better at that rather than just like unleashing my unhinged 1.00

00:34:37.060 sassiness to people sometimes who just say stupid things on the internet. 0.98

00:34:40.860 But anyway, OK, I'm going to end it there. 0.98

00:34:43.660 Love you guys.

00:34:44.600 Be sure to go to CRTV.com slash Allie to check out my videos.

00:34:49.860 Follow me on Twitter, on Instagram, on Facebook.

00:34:53.620 You can also go to the conservativemillennialblog.com for my blogs and email me with questions or

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00:35:03.060 Bye!

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - March 28, 2018

Ep 3 ｜ Guns, Government & God： Why I Fight for 2A

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