00:00:00.000Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Ken Paxton from Texas weighs in on the latest out of Uvalde and the southern border.
00:00:07.000We also have Andrew Pollack who talks about solutions on how to harden our schools and get mentally crazy, insane people that are evil off the streets.
00:00:16.000It's a politically incorrect way to talk about it, but it's exactly right.
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00:02:54.000So Andrew, why don't you introduce yourself to our audience and kind of tragically share how you got into this fight and then let's talk about solutions.
00:03:03.000My daughter Meadow was murdered in 2018 at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School.
00:03:16.000And, you know, I've never, personally, I've never been the same since she was murdered.
00:03:22.000But I owe it to parents and to just the average people in this country to try and educate them in things they could be doing to better protect their children and themselves.
00:03:36.000Society, it's a shame how bad society has been going down the path that it's been going down.
00:03:42.000But there's definitely solutions out there.
00:04:01.000The biggest problem, you know, you mentioned, you said school shootings, but you just go back to, it's all, it's mostly all mass shootings, Charlie, not just at schools.
00:05:55.000So they do get brought to the hospital, but the whole system to where they get in front of a judge and it goes on their background to where it's not put on their background, then that gives them the ability to be able to go purchase a firearm legally.
00:06:11.000That's where the system's broken, Charlie.
00:06:14.000You know, these people that threaten people that are a danger to themselves or to society, it needs to, that process needs to be perfected where it would go on their background.
00:06:27.000So they didn't have the ability to purchase a rifle.
00:06:29.000So yeah, this is a controversial topic for some people.
00:08:24.000And so, what you're saying, though, is that the background checks is part of this, but because of the closure of psychiatric institutions and because of the kind of the political correctness, I suppose, around it, that even if we had the most robust background check, you know, system available, which it's more rigorous than people realize, is the kind of these evil people with these incredibly, I believe,
00:08:51.000demonic possessions and thoughts that they're not even getting their records filled out when they get checked into these institutions.
00:09:21.000You know, they want them out the door as fast as possible.
00:09:24.000So they get put out back into society without anything on their background.
00:09:29.000You know, all you do is hear Democrats talking about universal background checks, background checks, but then, you know, they don't believe in holding the criminals accountable.
00:09:39.000You know, you got this whole reform movement going on, no bail, just, you know, leniency policies of not arresting.
00:09:48.000So gun background checks only work if the criminals and these evil people get arrested and it goes on their background.
00:09:56.000That would stop a lot of these mass shootings.
00:09:59.000Yeah, and that now you're getting towards something that has been contributing to our homelessness crisis in our country and increase in crime.
00:10:07.000I mean, look, in the 1950s, there was anywhere between half a million people in state psychiatric institutions.
00:10:18.000Now there's 37,000 and our population is nearly double.
00:10:22.000And look, this is something that people don't like talking about, but you know, and I think there was probably a good argument that some of these institutions were inhumane.
00:10:32.000I get that argument, and they could have been improved.
00:10:36.000But the kind of the push to deinstitutionalize was part of the liberation movement in the 70s.
00:10:41.000And basically, you're saying that if a kid starts spouting off that he wants to shoot up a school, you're going to go put him on benzodiazepans and Xanax and Prozac and hope it doesn't happen.
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00:14:54.000So number one is marry someone or make enough money to send your children to private school.
00:15:01.000Number two is: okay, if you do have a child and you have no choice to send them to public school, you have to get involved with your local elections.
00:15:26.000Parents, you have the power to make a difference locally and put like-minded people into these school boards that are going to take security seriously.
00:15:37.000You know, they didn't do it in Avaldi after so many shootings.
00:15:52.000Okay, parents or all your listeners, do not send your child to a school that doesn't have at least one police officer or security guard or trained personnel with a firearm per 500 students.
00:16:31.000Another tip for parents is you could go after you drop your child off at the school, take a ride, go back to that school and see if you could get in.
00:16:41.000Just because there's a single point of entry, if they have it, principals need to reinforce with the children and the faculty not to open a door.
00:16:50.000Go to one of the side doors, knock on it, see if they'll let you in.
00:19:42.000And what is your office going to do to get to the bottom of this?
00:19:47.000So unfortunately, my office can only investigate any type of crime, whether it's law enforcement or whatever, if we're asked.
00:19:56.000If DPS, if the state police asks us, otherwise it's on them to continue the investigation.
00:20:03.000It is strange now that the police department Uvale, if that's accurate, that they don't want to talk to the state police and just bring it, as you said, the answers.
00:20:16.000Yeah, and so that's interesting that the Attorney General's office isn't able to investigate it unless it's asked.
00:20:22.000I suppose there's some people that are asking the question, is there a cover-up underway?
00:20:28.000So what's your take generally as the Attorney General of Texas?
00:20:31.000You know, you're going to be under a lot of pressure from left-wing activist groups to try and go after the Second Amendment.
00:20:38.000What's your perspective as the chief law enforcement officer of the great state of Texas as it comes to hardening our schools and protecting our Second Amendment rights?
00:20:56.000We have two programs in Texas that were passed, I believe, in 2013 when I was in the Texas Senate called the Guardian Program.
00:21:03.000And then we also have a Marshals program that involves even more training.
00:21:07.000So I think if shooters knew there were people in those buildings with guns and they didn't know who they were, I think it would have an insurrent effect.
00:21:15.000And if it didn't, then we'd at least have people trained to deal with the situation before law enforcement got there.
00:21:20.000Because as we already noted, they didn't get there right away.
00:21:23.000And then when they did, they didn't go in right away.
00:21:26.000And we lost valuable time and lost valuable lives.
00:21:29.000And I think that can be somewhat solved by just implementing the program that's already been passed.
00:22:23.000Look, I don't have a good answer for that.
00:22:25.000I don't know if he's just been up there too long and he's bought into the swamp politics.
00:22:30.000Sports on hearing that he's negotiating some type of limitations on lawful citizens having the ability to have arms.
00:22:38.000And if he's doing that, I'm not in favor of it.
00:22:41.000I don't think most Texas are in favor of it.
00:22:43.000And I'm not afraid to say he's wrong if that's what he's doing.
00:22:46.000Yeah, I just, it's just such a misrepresentation of kind of what the voters of Texas want.
00:22:52.000I mean, there's this story in the Federalists that there is no bipartisan gun compromise in the works, just GOP capitulation.
00:23:01.000And of all the people to kind of lead negotiations, it's Senator John Cornyn from Texas, who's focusing on two new gun control proposals, including red flag laws.
00:23:13.000And so, you know, we've talked about red flag laws here on this program and how they might have good intentions, but it also could create situations where people are misdiagnosed or misprofiled.
00:23:26.000We've talked about it on this program.
00:23:28.000For example, moms and dads are categorized as domestic terrorists by our federal government.
00:23:33.000Does that mean they can no longer own a firearm?
00:23:36.000Can you talk about how some of these gun control policies that the federal government might try to pass might on a surface have some good intentions, but in reality might prohibit total peaceful, law-abiding, mentally stable Americans from being able to own firearms?
00:23:51.000Yeah, so I think you're right about this.
00:23:52.000I think red flag laws sound like reasonable ways to deal with this problem, but they're really not.
00:23:58.000They create a dangerous sort of setup because then who decides whether you're a that you're a threat?
00:24:07.000Well, what if the government doesn't like you?
00:24:08.000What if the government has uses pretenses to go take away your Second Amendment right?
00:24:14.000Well, we're talking about constitutional rights.
00:24:18.000Those were given to us not by the government, and they cannot be taken away by the government.
00:24:22.000I don't care what good reason they have, unless it goes through the constitutional process of changing the Second Amendment.
00:24:28.000We as Americans have that right, and I don't believe that we should have some government oversight deciding when we can have that firearm or when we shouldn't.
00:24:36.000Yeah, and that's the most important point.
00:24:38.000I mean, if we were at a place where we had trust in the federal government and their ability to compile lists and to kind of put forward threat assessment tags, I think a lot of us would not necessarily be on board for it, but I'd be more open-minded for it.
00:24:54.000But, you know, they say, for example, you know, in their press conferences, we have to make sure certain people are not able to own firearms.
00:25:01.000I totally agree with that conceptually.
00:25:15.000But the federal government now has a track record, especially with the moms and dads of domestic terrorists calling people that come in to take selfies in the Capitol Rotunda as, you know, trying to lock them up for the rest of their life.
00:25:27.000You know, we can't, we don't trust the government to kind of compile these lists, and it's not out of the realm of the possibility that they would try to use that against us.
00:25:38.000What do we know about this individual purchasing the weapon and where he got it from?
00:25:43.000Does that fall under your office's jurisdiction, or is that still Texas Department of Public Safety?
00:25:49.000That is still local police and Texas state police.
00:25:53.000It does not fall under our jurisdiction unless, again, we have law enforcement officers in our office that assist or we're asked often to participate in investigations.
00:26:03.000If we're asked, we're ready to roll today if we're asked.
00:26:08.000So far, that's been carried on by the local police and by state police.
00:26:18.000Yeah, I mean, basically, the FBI couldn't come in here either unless the state police asked them.
00:26:24.000My understanding is that to some limited extent, the FBI has been asked to participate, which I'm not sure that would have been my call, but that's what's happened.
00:26:33.000Yeah, that's interesting because it seems as if the DOJ just made a preemptive investigation.
00:26:38.000Like, we're just going to investigate this.
00:26:40.000And so I suppose that's a really interesting state's rights kind of discussion for another time.
00:26:45.000I want to play tape here of the new Biden White House press secretary, Jean Pierre, where she talks about hardening schools.
00:26:55.000Let's listen to this together, play cut 28.
00:26:59.000And so the problem is with guns and not having legislation to really deal with an issue that is a pandemic here in this country.
00:27:11.000I know there's been conversation about hardening schools.
00:27:14.000That is not something that he believes in.
00:27:26.000Well, look, I'm not surprised because they typically, it seems like whatever is coming out of their office is not good for America.
00:27:34.000I don't know how they cannot be for protecting these children and giving them a chance and doing that by hardening the schools.
00:27:42.000I see no downside in that other than it costs money.
00:27:45.000And since we're sending $40 billion to Ukraine, I don't know why we can't spend that money, similar money, protecting our most valuable asset, which is our children.
00:28:02.000to continually to sue the Biden administration around Title 42 and the erosion of our sovereignty.
00:28:09.000We have 11 lawsuits alone just related to the border.
00:28:12.000The most recent one that went up to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Remain New Mexico asylum program, is really important to get reinstituted.
00:28:19.000It's one of the primary pieces of legislation or statute that President Trump used to lower, continue to lower the number of people coming here illegally.
00:28:29.000That decision should be coming soon, along with Title New gives us a chance at stemming some of the tide.
00:28:35.000But the reality is they've opened the border up.
00:28:41.000They're working with the cartels, and they want as many people here as possible, including the transportation of drugs, because they're freely allowing that to occur.
00:29:19.000Look, we all know that a war is being waged on reality, and the left is leading the charge.
00:29:23.000Their radical gender ideology has seeped into children's classrooms, into medical terminology, and into our everyday life.
00:29:29.000It's producing a generation of psychologically infantile and confused young people.
00:29:33.000Not only that, but this radical ideology is trying to erase the people who brought us all into existence, women.
00:29:39.000Now Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire is taking matters into his own hands.
00:29:43.000He recently embarked on a journey around the world to ask one simple question, what is a woman?
00:29:46.000And you'd be surprised not only how few people are capable of answering, but how many people have a completely twisted idea of what a woman is.
00:29:53.000Thankfully, he got his whole experience on film.
00:29:55.000It's the question you're not allowed to ask, the documentary they don't want you to see, what is a woman?
00:29:59.000Would you get check out today at whatisawoman.com?
00:31:49.000It's all about what you want, what you feel is right, regardless of who you disenfranchise, regardless of who you cut in line.
00:32:01.000What about the happiness and the well-being of the teammates?
00:32:03.000And this is where society does come in.
00:32:06.000And this is where the people say, oh, let people do whatever you want, live and let live.
00:32:10.000No, you need guardrails so people could be actually free or else the strong dominate the weak.
00:32:15.000Remember, we have a moral principle in the West that the strong must protect the weak and that standards must allow people to participate and compete within certain agreed-upon frameworks.
00:32:27.000The one that has worked rather well is chromosomal structures.
00:32:31.000Thomas goes on to say that it's just all about all about happiness.
00:32:38.000Critics accused, this is a hilarious article from The Independent.
00:32:41.000I don't have time to go through all of this.
00:32:44.000Critics accuse trans swimming star Leah Thomas of having an unfair advantage.
00:32:59.000Katie Ledecki, who is like the best female swimmer ever.
00:33:04.000And without having to read this kind of pile of pharmaceutical-funded transgender propaganda, Thomas won the national title.
00:33:13.000It proves the point that if you win the national title, then obviously you have an unfair advantage and you weren't able to win it against fellow men.
00:33:22.000And they say, well, her time is on par with Katie Ledecki.
00:33:25.000Yet they don't mention that Katie Ladecki is on pace to get more gold medals than Michael Phelps if she competes in one more Summer Olympics.
00:33:33.000Thomas says, it's been a goal of mine to swim at the Olympic trials for a very long time.