00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show, we go right into breaking news about what's happening in New York City with the subway shooter.
00:00:06.000We ask, what is the purpose of the Second Amendment?
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00:01:32.000New York City used to be one of my favorite places in the world.
00:01:35.000I still love New York, but what they've done to it is what I hate.
00:01:38.000It still has an energy and a magic to it, but what these politicians have done to it is just, it's unrecognizable.
00:01:46.000This morning, it seems that a would-be terrorist, and I use that word intentionally, not because we know anything about this individual, but when you try to inflict mass crime, mass murder upon a population for, let's say, any sort of other irrational reason, it's nothing short of terrorism.
00:02:07.000And the police are soon going to give an update on the subway shooting in Brooklyn.
00:02:11.000What we do know is that an individual wearing a vest came onto the subway and started shooting indiscriminately and had some sort of devices that were detonated.
00:02:22.000We think these are just smoke devices or devices that would emit some sort of a smoke screen or some sort of a distraction.
00:02:32.000But let's go to Cut 43, Harris Faulkner reporting play cut 43.
00:02:38.000Brooklyn subway station is a major crime scene this hour.
00:02:43.000Earlier this morning, we know multiple people were shot, dozens seen running through some kind of smoke.
00:02:49.000And what we've learned in just the last few minutes is really critical information.
00:02:53.000We don't exactly know how it will tie in, but we do know that now a huge portion of Brooklyn has been put on alert.
00:03:01.000Our phone started to go off momentarily.
00:03:04.000At least 16 people were injured, including eight who were shot when a suspect set off a smoke grenade and unleashed a fire, a gunfire on a Brooklyn subway.
00:03:15.000I've been right near this subway station.
00:03:17.000The gunman, possibly disguised as an MTA construction worker, wearing a gas mask, launched his bloody assault around 8.30 on a Manhattan-bound N-train on the 36th Street station in Sunset Park, where authorities later discovered several undetonated devices.
00:03:33.000And so this is going to be some graphic footage, but here's some footage of the aftermath that we're going to play.
00:04:59.000The media tends not to racialize anything unless it fits their narrative.
00:05:05.000We're not going to racialize this incident because we don't believe that race has anything to do with who you are or your value or your worth.
00:05:12.000But the more you learn about this shooting, the more you'll realize why the media will not tell you more about this.
00:05:19.000Meanwhile, Biden says that his ghost gun crackdown should be just the start on gun control, and none of this should, quote, absolve Congress.
00:05:28.000Let's go to another piece of tape here.
00:05:30.000Some of the footage of the aftermath, PlayCut 44.
00:06:05.000And I think it will, I mean, we don't know anything about the person that did this.
00:06:08.000We don't know anything about the motives, and we're not going to speculate.
00:06:12.000But wouldn't it be tragic if this person who did this had previously committed a crime and was out on bail?
00:06:18.000I'm just saying that's not a, that's not something we haven't seen.
00:06:21.000We've seen a pattern of that in other cities.
00:06:23.000Time will tell as the manhunt continues for this person.
00:06:28.000We do know that based on reporting, though, that the surveillance cameras at the scene were out of commission.
00:06:34.000Now, that shouldn't surprise anyone, especially those of us that have been trying to get footage from the 2020 election of the ballot drop boxes.
00:06:42.000It seems as if cameras going out is kind of a new theme.
00:06:46.000Now, an interesting story in Politico somewhat ties into this.
00:06:49.000New York Democrats pair back nation-leading bail reform amid crime wave.
00:07:10.000And even Democrats who sought changes are quick to point that out.
00:07:13.000But Republicans have successfully suggested a correlation to sway voters.
00:07:18.000Yeah, bail reform sounds great until my friend Pastor David Engelhardt has to fend off criminals at 10 o'clock at night, protecting his kids right in Wall Street when three or four people are coming up trying to mug them.
00:07:33.000New York used to be one of the safest cities in the world.
00:07:35.000You could walk endlessly at night without any sort of concern.
00:07:39.000I went back to New York City last summer and it was unrecognizable.
00:07:43.000It says here in the Politico article, a movement that seized the conversation in states across the nation following the murder of George Floyd is losing its momentum.
00:07:53.000In Illinois, Republicans are urging Democrats to halt a law for no cash bail that takes effect next year.
00:07:58.000In California, voters rejected a ballot measure to end cash bail.
00:08:03.000All of it is playing out as Democrats worry about losing control of the House and falling short in state legislative and governor races this fall.
00:08:10.000Eric Adams says, quote, you hear me say it over and over again.
00:08:13.000Public safety is a prerequisite to prosperity.
00:08:16.000If we're not safe, we're not going to prosper as a city.
00:08:19.000But it's about time you start to empower police officers to do their job in the city of New York.
00:08:25.000Yet the activists in New York have been working for years to try to make New York a criminal-friendly place.
00:08:33.000You see, if you understand the history of where New York was before the Giuliani and the Bloomberg kind of mayoral races or mayoral administration, New York was one of the most murderous and dangerous cities.
00:08:48.000And they completely cleaned up New York and made it the envy of the world, one of the safest places one could be.
00:08:56.000I mean, there are videos of people being shoved in front of subway trains.
00:09:02.000And people are being mugged on a daily basis in neighborhoods where crime was just unthinkable.
00:09:07.000And now in Brooklyn, right going into Manhattan, someone comes in and detonates smoke grenades and starts shooting in random directions, injuring 16 people.
00:10:35.000This all kind of ties together the day after Joe Biden made his massive and radical push for further gun control, which does beg the question, what is the purpose of the Second Amendment?
00:10:59.000Bill of Rights was officially ratified in 1791, whereas the Constitution was ratified in 1787 slash 17, I think 1788 is when they got the final votes from the states.
00:11:26.000Quote, a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
00:11:36.000So the beginning, a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of the free state, is misinterpreted all the time.
00:11:42.000What was a militia back when the founders wrote it?
00:11:47.000But when you read the Federalist Papers and you read the explanation of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, and especially the Second Amendment, there is a philosophical reason.
00:12:00.000There's a moral reason why they put the Second Amendment there.
00:13:05.000I think it would be a dark day in America where American citizens have to defend themselves against their own government.
00:13:11.000But this sort of revisionist, activist history, to act as if there's never been a tyrannical government in the last even hundred years is gaslighting insanity.
00:13:23.000In order for people to be able to remain free, in order for people to be able to speak, you must be able to defend yourself.
00:13:30.000Is there anything, is there any mystery over the last year that if people are not able to defend their rights, those rights will be taken away?
00:13:38.000There is no First Amendment without the Second Amendment.
00:13:42.000The Second Amendment is the amendment that protects all the others.
00:13:45.000The Second Amendment is not there to hunt deer, as Joe Biden says.
00:13:48.000The Kevlar vests are not there to protect yourself against a red stag or against something that you might try to be hunting.
00:13:58.000No, the Kevlar vest would be there because, God forbid, if our government turned to such a tyrannical way that we would be able to defend our right to self-government, as it says in the Declaration of Independence, when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have tied themselves to another.
00:14:19.000Look, everybody, I know you love freedom and you want to defend it.
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00:15:40.000So we have a Second Amendment, thankfully.
00:15:43.000And I believe that one of the reasons why America did not shut down and did not have a martial law as bad as we saw in other countries is because we have an armed citizenry.
00:15:55.000I believe that our reaction to COVID was one of the worst mistakes in American history.
00:16:54.000The government should be a little bit, we don't want to upset them.
00:16:58.000They got a little bit of, they got a check and balance on me.
00:17:01.000That is the ultimate check and balance on power, by the way.
00:17:04.000Remember, the process of which power is allocated in a constitutional republic is people voluntarily give up their power to their leaders, and the leaders are actually supposed to serve at the will of the people.
00:17:18.000And so the people must be able to defend themselves and, if necessary, be able to defend their liberties.
00:17:23.000Now, that's not a situation that I would ever enjoy seeing.
00:17:28.000It's not something I would support in any way anytime soon.
00:17:32.000But it's necessary to articulate the true meaning of the Second Amendment, which is so a free people can defend themselves against a usurptatious government.
00:17:41.000In fact, a properly designed government is a government supposed to fear the people, not the people fear the government.
00:17:48.000And one of the ways this is possible is to be able to have hundreds of millions of people own firearms.
00:17:54.000So Joe Biden is going on about deer hunting.
00:17:57.000We own weapons that if, God forbid, your government, Joe Biden, got so tyrannical that we'd be able to defend our communities and our family.
00:18:21.000And how many other formerly free countries have we seen go into complete and inexplicable totalitarianism?
00:18:28.000So a country that does not have a Second Amendment means that the government can basically control you a lot easier.
00:18:34.000This is the argument we made with Hong Kong that if every single one of the Hong Kong protesters had an AR-15 strapped around their back, it wouldn't be a hostage situation.
00:18:45.000100 million people with an AR-15 and a pistol or a sidearm, it makes it a lot harder to be able to tell them what to do whenever you want them to do it.
00:18:56.000When you look at examples of countries right now that don't have a Second Amendment, there's a direct correlation between those countries and pure dystopianism.
00:19:08.000The best example is the place that released the virus in the first place, China.
00:19:14.000China was the epicenter of the lab-created Wuhan virus.
00:19:18.000We called it the China virus for a reason.
00:19:23.000And I'm going to explain to you what I believe is the best theory as to why China is doing this.
00:19:29.000But China has now embraced a COVID-0 policy.
00:19:33.000I want you to imagine how insane it is to say we're going to have zero COVID cases in a country of 1.4 billion people.
00:19:41.000Shanghai, the wealthiest city in China, has gone into complete and total lockdown with 25 million people not allowed to leave their apartments.
00:19:52.000They are driving the people in Shanghai completely and totally crazy.
00:19:57.000In fact, the people of Shanghai, not being able to leave their apartments, are screaming from their apartments, demanding that they be let out.
00:20:06.000Cut 35, a health security expert, told CNN Shanghai is an inspiration to world leaders, quote, the legacy of Shanghai will return to a mass lockdown for larger cities in the near to medium term.
00:21:13.000Let's ask a very simple question, the most basic question.
00:21:17.000If every single one of the people screaming from their apartment had an AR-15, would they still be screaming from their apartment?
00:21:26.000Would the government feel that they had the complete ability to lock you down and to starve you if every single person had a weapon?
00:21:34.000Without even having to fire a shot, if the government thinks that you have the ability to defend yourself and to defend your family, the decisions that they make are a lot different.
00:21:44.000Play cut 10, Shanghai residents go to their balconies to sing and protest.
00:21:49.000Meanwhile, a drone appears and says in Chinese, quote, please comply with COVID restrictions.
00:21:54.000Control your soul's desire for freedom.
00:23:13.000This is why gambling and chance and risk is a very big part of Asian culture.
00:23:18.000Now, Asian culture, they believe, especially in Chinese culture, in this idea of the mandate of heaven.
00:23:26.000And this is Jack Pesobic in great detail has gone into this, and it's brilliant.
00:23:30.000Similar to Europe's divine right of kings, the Chinese mandate of heaven differed in that it did not unconditionally entitle an emperor to rule the Chinese empire.
00:23:42.000While on the dragon throne, Xi Ji Ping is, the quote son of heaven, has total powers over his subjects.
00:23:49.000But he did not have to be of noble birth, but he could lose his heavenly mandate for being unworthy, unjust, or plain incompetent.
00:23:58.000However, the right of the populace to rebel was implicitly guaranteed if the heavens were seen to be displeased.
00:24:06.000Now, what would be a sign that the heavens are displeased?
00:24:10.000Famine, plague, invasion, or pestilence were all regarded as signs the mandate of heaven had been withdrawn.
00:24:20.000So, Xi Jiping is very worried, in yes, an atheistic, but still a hyper-superstitious culture that people are talking saying the CCP and Xi Jinping have lost their mandate of heaven because COVID continues.
00:24:35.000So, Xi Ji Ping is very worried going into the fall that if the virus continues to spread, the superstitious cabal that he has to get support from will say he has lost support because the virus rages and continues.
00:24:50.000Now, we in the West, you know, post-enlightenment, think this sort of thinking is insane, obviously, but they don't.
00:24:59.000China, you could do whatever you want to do with me, but wait a second.
00:25:02.000If a tsunami, a flood, an earthquake, a tornado, if a civil war or a plague comes, I'm going to question your authority.
00:25:08.000And this is precisely what you're seeing now unfold in China: Xi Jinping lose the support that he is supposed to be there or the mandate from heaven.
00:25:21.000But very simply, the Chinese people are hostages.
00:25:24.000If you do not have a Second Amendment, you end up being a hostage in the country that you live in.
00:25:29.000It's just a matter of time until the people with the guns are able to tell the people without the guns what to do.
00:25:36.000The Second Amendment is a moral equalizer.
00:25:40.000The Second Amendment is there so that the people in charge do not feel they can roll tanks through the streets and tell you what to do.
00:25:46.000And we know that's exactly what they're going to do.
00:25:54.000Justin Trudeau would not be empowered to walk through the streets of Ottawa.
00:25:59.000And let's not forget that was only like 45 to 60 days ago in the bitter, frigid temperatures of Ottawa, where Justin Trudeau mobilized Canadian troops and arrested truckers.
00:26:11.000If every trucker had a shotgun and an AR-15 and didn't necessarily use it, but just the idea that they could arm themselves against the government, forget it.
00:26:19.000Now, that's not to say there's no gun ownership in Canada, but it's nowhere near as widespread as it is in America.
00:27:33.000I'm committing the full resources of our state to fight this surge of crime, this insanity that is seizing our city because we want to get back to normal.
00:27:43.000That's a really interesting press conference.
00:27:46.000She's basically admitting this is a major issue, by the way.
00:27:49.000You see, Democrats, they go from saying it's not an issue to being like, oh, now we're the ones that are going to fix it, even though we're the ones that created it.
00:27:58.000So Governor Hochul is making a decision.
00:28:00.000She's making a decision to try to position herself as a moderate or center right on crime.
00:28:20.000But if she tries to fix one of these things, the New York BLM chapter and all the activists and all the people that write for the New York Times, they're going to go straight at her and straight with Eric Adams.
00:28:32.000Will New York City decide to put ideology aside and prioritize what they know works, even though they might get hate mail and they might get protests?
00:28:45.000That is the question in front of what was once America's greatest city.
00:28:50.000I love it at the core, but it's not what it used to be.
00:28:53.000And I just love the people of New York.
00:28:56.000They deserve so much better than what they are getting from Eric Adams and from Governor Hochul and this crime spree that is all across New York.