The Charlie Kirk Show - Debunking Democrats on Gun Control in the Wake of Boulder

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00:02:34.000 Some unfortunate news has developed in the last 24 hours.

00:02:38.000 Last evening, a shooter, and we're still trying to figure out his motive, went into a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, beautiful Boulder, Colorado, and opened fire, killed 10 people.

00:02:52.000 What would drive someone to do something so brutal, so evil, and so disgusting is quite honestly hard to even comprehend.

00:03:03.000 In the last year, as we've been doing our program, our whole country has been locked down, and there was a rather significant decrease in mass shootings just because there weren't massive groups of people.

00:03:17.000 People were clustered at home.

00:03:19.000 But now, unfortunately, we have seen in the last couple of days, actually in the last week, two mass shootings, one in Atlanta and one in Colorado.

00:03:30.000 With Joe Biden being president, we know exactly what's about to happen.

00:03:35.000 Our constitutional rights are going to come under attack and are going to be put in jeopardy.

00:03:43.000 Now, I don't like politicizing these shootings.

00:03:45.000 It's a tragedy.

00:03:47.000 And whatever the motive of this person was, we must find that out.

00:03:52.000 It's very important.

00:03:54.000 I feel for the victims' families, and I feel for anyone that was impacted by either of those shootings.

00:04:02.000 However, all of this also takes place in a context where violent crime is rising dramatically, not just in certain areas, but across the country.

00:04:17.000 Violent crime is up in New York City.

00:04:19.000 It's up in Los Angeles.

00:04:20.000 It's up in Chicago.

00:04:22.000 And we must understand that all of this takes place in a context where last year there were 719 people shot and killed in Chicago.

00:04:33.000 A person was shot every two hours and six minutes.

00:04:36.000 A person is murdered every 11 hours and six minutes.

00:04:39.000 Now, I know a lot of people say, Charlie, that's what about is?

00:04:43.000 You must focus on the issue at hand.

00:04:47.000 Well, the issue at hand is actually a statistical outlier.

00:04:51.000 Mass shootings are not the norm in our country.

00:04:54.000 And this is going to reinvigorate a gun debate in America, one that we are less equipped to have in this current state of political affairs than in years past.

00:05:06.000 The National Rifle Association is going through some internal difficulties right now.

00:05:12.000 And I am told by a lot of people on their board that they're going to arise stronger than ever.

00:05:17.000 And I sure hope that's the case, that they've been under attack from the Democrat Attorney General, Letitia James, nonstop from New York.

00:05:26.000 We are also seeing that Joe Biden is going to make gun control a primary concern, a primary focus of his administration.

00:05:38.000 So why do we have the Second Amendment?

00:05:41.000 Do we have the Second Amendment for personal protection?

00:05:44.000 Do we have the Second Amendment for hunting?

00:05:48.000 Both of those things are important, obviously, to be able to protect your family in case of civil unrest or to be able to go hunting.

00:05:58.000 No.

00:06:00.000 We have the Second Amendment to protect ourselves against the threat of tyranny.

00:06:06.000 That is the proper explanation of the Second Amendment.

00:06:09.000 The Second Amendment is the amendment that protects all the other amendments. 0.99

00:06:15.000 And I know that it could be very difficult to talk about this when this scumbag goes into a grocery store and just opens fire, indiscriminately killing people, 10 people. 0.99

00:06:27.000 And we're going to find out exactly what he stood for, and we will get to the bottom of that. 0.99

00:06:33.000 However, we should not, and we will not go in a direction in our country where we start to sacrifice our freedoms, our God-given freedoms of self-protection and the freedom of preserving the other freedoms because some lunatic goes into a grocery store and starts opening fire.

00:06:54.000 I'm reading here from the postmillennial.com, quote, a witness told Fox 31 Denver that they heard a sound like fireworks when they were leaving the store and saw a man in the parking lot holding an AR-15 style weapon and wearing tactical gear.

00:07:10.000 The witness reportedly ran back into the store to alert people.

00:07:14.000 Democrat Governor Jared Polis says, quote, my heart is breaking as we watch this unspeakable event unfold in our Boulder community.

00:07:22.000 We are making every public safety resource available.

00:07:26.000 And he has a full statement there.

00:07:27.000 Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado, said, quote, my prayers are with the shoppers, employees, first responders, and others affected by the shooting in Boulder.

00:07:38.000 May God be with them.

00:07:39.000 While we are still waiting, important information, details in the case, random public shootings and senseless acts of violence are never okay.

00:07:47.000 She is exactly right.

00:07:49.000 And the district attorney and the police have successfully arrested him, which is very rare.

00:07:55.000 Usually, shooters like this die or kill themselves in one of these unspeakably evil rampages.

00:08:05.000 So, what we see happening, unfortunately, is that the Democrats are already beginning their gun control narrative.

00:08:12.000 In fact, from Newsweek this morning, the headline from Newsweek was that this is finally something that the Democrats can rally behind.

00:08:22.000 It seems as if the Democrats were a little bit on defense in the last couple of days, especially what was happening on the southern border.

00:08:29.000 Democrats have always been able to unite on taking Second Amendment rights away.

00:08:37.000 It says here in Newsweek, quote, Colorado shooting, new rallying cry for Democrats.

00:08:42.000 And it goes on to say that Democrats are already calling for stricter gun laws as a result of what happened in Colorado.

00:08:52.000 We're going to go through all the numbers here on this program throughout the next days and weeks because we're about to have a gun debate that will heat up into one of the most consequential public policy debates when it comes to Second Amendment rights and personal protection in the history of our country.

00:09:10.000 We have seen two mass shootings.

00:09:12.000 We have a Democrat in office.

00:09:13.000 We have Democrats that do not want to talk about the border. 0.99

00:09:16.000 And so they would much rather talk about taking firearms away from innocent people because a scumbag decided to use a certain weapon for evil. 0.98

00:09:30.000 Remember, a gun, a weapon, is nothing more than a piece of technology. 0.99

00:09:36.000 It's what you do with it.

00:09:38.000 It's what you do with a car.

00:09:39.000 It's what you do with a phone.

00:09:41.000 It's what you do with an axe.

00:09:44.000 It's what you do with any form of technology. 0.97

00:09:47.000 Now, a gun, obviously, can make it easier to kill people.

00:09:51.000 It also can be easier to protect yourself.

00:09:54.000 We are about to have a national debate.

00:09:58.000 And I hope it's not a long one, because when it's long, it usually means that the Democrats get some sort of policy goal passed that will be centered around taking people's Second Amendment rights away.

00:10:14.000 The Second Amendment, and the Founding Fathers wrote extensively about this in the Federalist Papers, is the amendment that protects all the other amendments.

00:10:23.000 People say we just want common sense gun control.

00:10:26.000 They want to create a national gun registry.

00:10:29.000 They want to be able to have federal bureaucrats confiscate weapons nearly on demand.

00:10:36.000 They're also wanting to criminalize the possession and the purchasing of ammunition.

00:10:42.000 This last year, we've learned a lot about whether or not people want to be free, whether or not people want to embrace liberty.

00:10:50.000 Unfortunately, the answer has been no.

00:10:53.000 Republicans last week voted, eight of them, for increased gun control measures.

00:10:58.000 You're going to see that number go up.

00:11:00.000 These are the policy debates that are hard.

00:11:04.000 These are the ones that are really important when tensions are high and when emotions are dominating the news cycle. 0.99

00:11:13.000 And for good reason, we should be emotional about this piece of garbage that went into a grocery store and killed 10 people.

00:11:23.000 We must have this debate based on facts, based on evidence, and not allow an unspeakable tragedy to infringe on our constitutional rights. 0.93

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00:12:56.000 There's going to be a lot of conversation around gun control in our country, and yet our leaders do not want to talk about what's happening in my hometown of Chicago.

00:13:05.000 I'm reading from Breitbart.com: quote: A Chicago man has been accused of a shooting spree that wounded two, including a police officer, reportedly saying he was trying to lure police into an ambush.

00:13:18.000 Tracy Thomas Jr. was hit with five felony counts of attempted murder of a police officer after his arrest on Saturday.

00:13:26.000 So I'm from the suburbs of Chicago.

00:13:28.000 I know Chicago very well.

00:13:31.000 You look at the statistics in Chicago, it's horrifying.

00:13:34.000 If we were serious about talking about violent crime in our country, Chicago would be the top of our list.

00:13:41.000 Year to date in Chicago, there's been 114 people shot and killed, 530 people shot and wounded, 644 people total shot, and 120 total homicides.

00:13:52.000 So I am not disqualifying the pain, the suffering, and the tragedy of what just happened in Colorado.

00:13:58.000 However, this all comes in a context where violent crime is going up everywhere.

00:14:02.000 And it's not about the type of weapon.

00:14:05.000 Most of the murders happening in Chicago are handguns.

00:14:08.000 They are not AR-15s.

00:14:10.000 They are not long rifles.

00:14:12.000 Now, I'm happy to explain weapons to people, but an AR-15 is not an automatic weapon.

00:14:19.000 It's not.

00:14:20.000 Now, you can illegally configure it to be an automatic weapon.

00:14:24.000 However, an AR-15 is a semi-automatic weapon.

00:14:27.000 Essentially, you have to pull the trigger every single time you discharge a bullet.

00:14:31.000 That's a very important technical difference because we're about to have a bunch of people on cable television have no idea what they're talking about.

00:14:38.000 And no, AR does not mean automatic rifle.

00:14:41.000 It's Arma-light rifle.

00:14:43.000 We went through all of these different policy debates years ago after the tragedy in Broward, Florida, at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School.

00:14:54.000 You all remember the tragedy that happened there.

00:14:56.000 But Chicago is something that the left does not want to talk about.

00:15:00.000 Democrats run all of Chicago, top to bottom.

00:15:05.000 There are no Republicans in elected office in Chicago, which, by the way, is not a clear representation or a picture of the people of Chicago.

00:15:14.000 There are so many decent people in Chicago.

00:15:17.000 And I have so many friends in Chicago, Lithuanian immigrants, Polish immigrants, Ukrainian immigrants, that are not being represented in Chicago right now by Lori Lightfoot, who's an awful mayor.

00:15:31.000 And when we look at where the majority of violent crime in our country with weapons is occurring, it is not in suburbia.

00:15:38.000 It's not mass shootings.

00:15:40.000 Instead, it is gang violence in the inner cities of our country.

00:15:46.000 It's Chicago.

00:15:47.000 It's Oakland.

00:15:49.000 It's Houston.

00:15:50.000 It's Minneapolis.

00:15:51.000 It's Atlanta.

00:15:53.000 And every single death is a tragedy.

00:15:55.000 But when you try to craft public policy around a singular event, that's usually a really bad idea.

00:16:05.000 Usually, public policy should come from the position of the protection of natural rights.

00:16:11.000 Now, here's why I am worried today as we are speaking on this beautiful Tuesday.

00:16:20.000 I'm worried because we have learned in the last year that people would rather be taken care of and they will go to safetyism much quicker than liberty.

00:16:31.000 Liberty is hard.

00:16:33.000 Liberty requires a sacrifice.

00:16:36.000 Liberty comes at a price.

00:16:39.000 You see, liberty is being willing to admit that things can go wrong, that people can abuse that liberty.

00:16:47.000 But we embrace liberty for a reason because the benefits of liberty far outweigh the costs of having that freedom.

00:16:57.000 And imagine not having that liberty.

00:16:59.000 Imagine not being able to speak your mind, not being able to buy private property, not being able to have your right to privacy, not being able to protect yourself.

00:17:08.000 So I'm afraid.

00:17:10.000 I'm a little bit afraid right now because what we have seen in the last year with the mask mandates, the lockdowns, is an American population that is more in the direction of being safetyism than liberty.

00:17:26.000 And that is the framing of the debate that will be raging in our country for the next couple of days and the next couple of weeks.

00:17:33.000 When we dive into the statistics of this, you will be stunned when you learn that the Democrats and the gun grabbers, they're intentionally misrepresenting gun issues in our country.

00:17:46.000 The gun grabbers are already dominating the news cycle.

00:17:49.000 They have found an issue that fits their narrative.

00:17:53.000 So Democrats will always ignore stories that make them look bad.

00:17:56.000 And if you just look at the statistics, when it comes to what weapons are contributing to gun violence in our country, handguns are the number one firearm used when it comes to gun deaths in America, most of which are gang-related.

00:18:14.000 7,105 gun deaths were handgun-related.

00:18:18.000 374 were rifles, 262 shotguns, and 186 other guns.

00:18:23.000 Now, you are going to hear it repeated time and time again that there are 30,000 gun deaths every single year in America.

00:18:31.000 So you will hear the mantra repeated over and over again: 30,000 people a year die of gun violence in America.

00:18:40.000 There's a phenomenal piece that was written in the Washington Post.

00:18:43.000 That's right, you heard me.

00:18:44.000 A couple years ago. 0.71

00:18:46.000 And the title was, I used to think gun control is the answer.

00:18:49.000 My research told me otherwise. 0.82

00:18:51.000 So 33,000 sounds like a lot of people.

00:18:54.000 But let's start with the top-line number.

00:18:56.000 Did you know that we're the only country in the world that counts death with a firearm as suicide, as a firearm death?

00:19:05.000 That's two-thirds of the 33,000 figure, two-thirds.

00:19:10.000 The story says, quote, I researched the strictly tightened gun laws in Britain and Australia and concluded that they didn't prove much about what America's policy should be. 0.79

00:19:20.000 It's exactly right. 0.98

00:19:22.000 It continues by saying, as my coworkers and I kept looking at the data, it seemed less and less clear that one broad gun control restriction could make a big difference.

00:19:32.000 Two-thirds of gun deaths in the United States every single year are suicides.

00:19:36.000 Almost no proposed restriction would make it meaningfully harder with guns on hand to use them.

00:19:43.000 I couldn't even answer my most desperate question.

00:19:45.000 And if I had a friend who had guns in his home and a history of suicide attempts, is there anything I could do that would help?

00:19:50.000 Leah Labresco.

00:19:52.000 Leah Labresco is her name.

00:19:55.000 And she goes on to say here, which is very interesting when it comes to a statistical analysis of what is happening in America when it comes to gun violence.

00:20:07.000 And she says this: quote, However, the next largest set of gun deaths, one in five, were young men ages 15 to 34 killed in homicides.

00:20:14.000 These men were most likely to die at the hands of other young men, often related to gang loyalties or other street violence.

00:20:22.000 She continues by saying, and the last notable group of similar deaths was 1,700 women murdered per year, usually as a result of domestic violence.

00:20:30.000 Far more people were killed in these ways than in mass shooting incidents, but few of the popularly floated policies were tailored to serve them.

00:20:40.000 So this is Leah Labresco for the Washington Post, and it says, quote, I used to think gun control is the answer.

00:20:45.000 My research told me otherwise.

00:20:47.000 So the more you dive in actually into the data, you realize that this is a highly complicated issue.

00:20:54.000 And it specialized to a couple cities and a couple demographics, mostly gang-related violence.

00:21:03.000 Now, what happened in Colorado was a tragedy.

00:21:06.000 I'm not going to make light of it.

00:21:07.000 I'm not going to say that we should minimize it.

00:21:11.000 However, it comes in a context and it comes in a framework that we must remind ourselves and remind others that violent crime is going up in most cities across the country.

00:21:22.000 The cities that it isn't going up in are cities that have open carry and they have legal ownership of firearms.

00:21:32.000 Those cities are not seeing massive increases.

00:21:34.000 New York City has a historic increase in violent crime right now.

00:21:38.000 And New York City has some of the strictest gun laws in the country.

00:21:43.000 Mass shootings are actually quite rare.

00:21:46.000 I know that comes as a surprise to some people because you remember them so vividly.

00:21:52.000 But mass shootings actually represent a tiny share of all shooting deaths.

00:21:58.000 This is actually from the liberal website, Vox.com.

00:22:03.000 Vox.com.

00:22:04.000 Mass shootings represent a tiny share of all shooting deaths.

00:22:09.000 Quote, there has been a rash of heavily publicized mass shootings in recent years.

00:22:13.000 This is from a year and a half ago.

00:22:15.000 But those incidents, while tragic, are actually a tiny sliver of America's gun homicide program.

00:22:21.000 Mayors Against Illegal Guns, analyzing FBI data, found that fewer than 1% of homicide victims in 2010 were killed in incidents, where four more people died.

00:22:30.000 And by the way, if you want to find these articles, I know that some of you are going to want them or need them for some of your liberal friends that are calling for gun confiscation right now.

00:22:39.000 CharlieKirk.com is the place for you.

00:22:41.000 We will offer links to this Vox.com article and the Washington Post article.

00:22:47.000 Vox, which is a liberal website, makes the argument that mass shootings are actually not the major issue when it comes to violence or gun violence.

00:22:56.000 Suicide and gang-related violence are.

00:22:58.000 Now, some people might say, well, Charlie, that only proves our point that if we get rid of guns, we'll get rid of gang-related violence.

00:23:04.000 Go to London.

00:23:05.000 In London, they have massive amounts of crime unrelated to firearms.

00:23:11.000 They actually have a higher rate of violent crime in certain parts of London than any part of major cities, including Chicago.

00:23:18.000 Knife crime, mugging, jumping people on the side of the street.

00:23:22.000 Now, some people would say, well, Charlie, a firearm is more deadly.

00:23:26.000 I'll grant that.

00:23:28.000 However, to say that you're going to eliminate all violent encounters altogether on some sort of pipe dream of gun confiscation is unrealistic and it is immoral and it's unconstitutional.

00:23:43.000 So, if you actually dive into the numbers deeper, I think you'll realize that this gun control debate is not rooted in facts, data, or evidence in any way, shape, or form.

00:23:55.000 Joe Biden, I'm going to make a prediction right now.

00:23:57.000 Joe Biden is going to talk about this for the next couple of days, and so is the activist media.

00:24:02.000 And this comes on the heels of another news item when it comes to Joe Biden.

00:24:07.000 That's not about gun control and not about gun confiscation.

00:24:10.000 We're getting a lot of emails in right now, freedom at charliekirk.com. 0.52

00:24:13.000 We will post these at charliekirk.com, all these articles, the Vox.com article, as well as the Washington Post article that was, quote, I used to think gun control is the answer.

00:24:23.000 My research told me otherwise.

00:24:26.000 But I want to get to this other story here that Joe Biden released, and it was just kind of a non-news story.

00:24:33.000 Joe Biden and his team of radicals are unveiling a $3 trillion infrastructure, climate, and welfare bill.

00:24:44.000 I'm reading from the wonderful Breitbart.com.

00:24:46.000 We also have this on CharlieKirk.com.

00:24:49.000 Quote: President Joe Biden's White House team is drafting a $3 trillion infrastructure spending package, according to reports, but most of the spending will be directed towards social welfare programs.

00:24:59.000 Now, I want to be very clear.

00:25:00.000 I'm actually pro-infrastructure.

00:25:02.000 If there was a way to do infrastructure in a pro-worker, pro-American, pro-21st century way, I'm all for it.

00:25:11.000 I really am.

00:25:13.000 Public-private partnerships, building smarter airports, a smarter grid.

00:25:19.000 I think that the American infrastructure has been deteriorated over the years.

00:25:25.000 And I want to put the muscular class back to work. 0.98

00:25:27.000 I want to put our designers.

00:25:29.000 I want to put our innovators.

00:25:31.000 I want to put our construction workers back to work.

00:25:34.000 However, most times these infrastructure packages end up being massive handouts to unions.

00:25:41.000 They end up being inefficient, decade-long construction projects that cause traffic and they cause disruption in local areas.

00:25:50.000 They end up being filled with corruption and not actually contributing to economic growth.

00:25:56.000 However, Dwight D. Eisenhower did prove that certain infrastructure programs are good for the American economy.

00:26:02.000 I think it's a good thing that America has an interstate highway system.

00:26:07.000 Now, some strict libertarians will say that should be all done with private money.

00:26:11.000 I think a private-public partnership at times is fine.

00:26:13.000 The Chicago Skyway, for example, is a private-public partnership.

00:26:17.000 There's other examples as well.

00:26:19.000 But sometimes there is a role for the government to provide with taxpayer dollars, infrastructure to allow commerce to occur.

00:26:28.000 How many people here are going to be taking road trips over the summer thanks to the interstate highway system we have in our country?

00:26:34.000 Our goods, our services, our packages that are delivered to us in almost a moment's notice is made possible thanks to our infrastructure.

00:26:41.000 And our infrastructure is crumbling.

00:26:43.000 This is something that President Trump was spot on about.

00:26:45.000 But Joe Biden's infrastructure package, it's not even about that.

00:26:49.000 Instead, it's about $400 billion in green spending.

00:26:54.000 Other reporting spending measures in the proposal include trillion-dollar proposals for welfare, including tuition reductions among minorities, healthcare initiatives, and more.

00:27:05.000 Not to mention, what about the debt?

00:27:08.000 What about the debt and deficit?

00:27:09.000 You know, I got my start at Turning Point USA complaining about rising debt and deficits, and both parties are to blame.

00:27:18.000 And I love Donald Trump, and I'm a defender of his.

00:27:22.000 But the part of his presidency that was my least favorite was our escalating national debt and our deficit.

00:27:31.000 And I will do a podcast in the near future all about the national security threat that our national debt poses to our country.

00:27:41.000 Not to mention how we are going to have to inflate our way out of it or cut spending, which it seems as if our leaders are totally uninterested in cutting spending.

00:27:51.000 So Joe Biden has this humongous $3 trillion infrastructure package on top of the $1.9 trillion package, on top of the $1 trillion package, on top of the $4 trillion federal government spending, on top of the $2 trillion stimulus package in one year.

00:28:09.000 Yes, inflation is coming.

00:28:11.000 The dollar will be worth less, not worthless, worth less very soon.

00:28:18.000 And almost none of this spending will encourage economic growth.

00:28:22.000 So Joe Biden is spending all this money.

00:28:25.000 Why is he doing this?

00:28:29.000 So are you making full use of your savings?

00:28:31.000 Think of the times you've yearned for better returns.

00:28:33.000 After real inflation charges and taxes, are you even making a profit?

00:28:37.000 With food, clothing, and rent all doubling over the last 10 years, you need to do something different.

00:28:41.000 Gambling on Robin Hood or stocks might lose you the lot.

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00:29:35.000 Why is Joe Biden spending all of this money?

00:29:38.000 Why is Joe Biden spending trillions of dollars?

00:29:43.000 We're at a point right now where the Democrats have made a decision, kind of like the old show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?

00:29:51.000 Where the currency means nothing and deficits don't matter, so we might as well spend it.

00:29:56.000 The Democrats know the only way to get out of debt is to inflate our way out of it.

00:30:01.000 So Democrats have a secret deal with the Federal Reserve to pump unlimited amounts of capital into the monetary system.

00:30:08.000 Might as well spend money when you can and make the ruling class richer, while working people that work hour to hour and do not have the ability to adjust prices or own tangible assets are going to get crushed.

00:30:23.000 Why is Joe Biden doing that?

00:30:25.000 Well, when the working class gets crushed, they're more likely to go on government assistance. 0.79

00:30:32.000 They're more likely to go on public welfare, which has always been the Democrats' goal. 0.95

00:30:38.000 Those are reliable voters.

00:30:40.000 Those are people that they can count on to support their perpetual power grab on the American people.

00:30:48.000 Spending money we do not have on welfare programs and inflating our currency on things that will not spur economic growth is part of an agenda that we have seen time and time again from the Democrats to destroy the American working class and addict them to government programs.

00:31:07.000 I wish Democrats would operate in good faith.

00:31:11.000 I wish Democrats would actually be concerned about the debt and the deficit, would actually want to put forward bills that would be in the best interest of the American people.

00:31:19.000 Instead, we have the opposite.

00:31:21.000 Instead, we have Democrats that are so confident they'll always be in power that after they spend a trillion, two trillion, four trillion, one trillion, $1.9 trillion, they want to put another three on top of it.

00:31:38.000 They want to inflate the currency, which will also give an excuse to bring more people into the country, both illegal and legal, because that can be a hedge against inflation.

00:31:48.000 And the cycle will repeat itself. 0.77

00:31:50.000 We are now entering into a very dangerous long-term debt cycle, similar to Japan.

00:31:57.000 We're never going to find that next round of economic growth, but the rich people in our country are going to do just fine.

00:32:05.000 The other part of this, which is very important to point out, is that the Democrats don't actually want robust middle-class growth, they want ruling-class growth.

00:32:20.000 They want the people in charge to be permanently powerful.

00:32:26.000 Entrepreneurs, risk takers, small business owners, they're the ones that are getting crushed by these lockdowns.

00:32:33.000 Meanwhile, Bezos and Zuckerberg and all these other guys have a combined net worth of $300 billion, just Bezos and Zuckerberg, nearly $300 billion.

00:32:47.000 That's not healthy for our country.

00:32:50.000 And the spending spree from the Federal Reserve and Joe Biden and the Treasury Department is putting our generation and future generations in a position of financial insolvency that will be impossible to get out.

00:33:05.000 The only way that we'll be able to get out is by inflating the currency, spending money we do not have endlessly.

00:33:16.000 And we'll just say, you know what?

00:33:17.000 We have six to seven inflation every year.

00:33:19.000 Get used to it.

00:33:23.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:24.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:27.000 If you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com.

00:33:31.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:32.000 God bless.

00:33:36.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - March 23, 2021

Debunking Democrats on Gun Control in the Wake of Boulder

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