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00:04:37.000A 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.
00:04:48.000Crime is rising all across the country.
00:04:51.000Crime is up in almost every single metropolitan area in America.
00:04:57.000In Philadelphia, homicides are up 37%.
00:05:22.000In Atlanta, homicides are up 58% and shootings are up 40%.
00:05:27.000There is a crime wave that is spreading across America.
00:05:31.000And the way that Joe Biden wants to address this crime wave is that he believes the fact that people own firearms is the reason why crime is going up.
00:05:43.000Nothing to do with abolishing the police or removing any sort of the bail functions that have worked over the last couple decades, where first-degree murderers in Chicago are being released on bail just hours after murdering somebody.
00:06:00.000It has nothing to do, of course, of the $950 shoplifting limit of what's happening in Walgreens, where if you go into Walgreens and you steal $949, you will not be prosecuted by the local San Francisco district attorney.
00:07:05.000Instead, it is a culture of crime that has set in across the country.
00:07:09.000And with it, of course, if all of a sudden you're going to have crime be the new normal and acceptable, you're going to see firearm crime go up as well.
00:07:19.000Joe Biden gave a very unusual speech yesterday.
00:07:23.000The speech he gave was overly defensive.
00:07:29.000The speech he gave was trying to preempt some of the arguments that those of us that believe in an armed citizen remake.
00:07:36.000I want to play some of the tape here of Joe Biden and some of his apparatches in the media trying to defend him.
00:08:35.000Now, one part of the Second Amendment is frequently mentioned by the gun grabbers and the collectivists and the statists.
00:08:44.000A 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.
00:08:52.000So Joe Biden and the gang, they focus on that term well-regulated militia.
00:08:59.000They say, ah, see, we have the ability to say that only people that are in the military are able to own weapons.
00:09:06.000You see, this is an overly simplified, sloppy, and inaccurate argument.
00:09:13.000This is someone who's never read the Federalist Papers and specifically Federalist 46 by the father of our Constitution, James Madison.
00:09:22.000This is an argument that does not understand what a militia was at the time of the formation of our Constitution.
00:09:35.000A militia back during the time of the Founding Fathers was any male ages 18 to 30.
00:09:41.000Is that what Joe Biden thinks should be able to own firearms and weapons?
00:09:45.000He continued by saying he wants to be able to track and trace guns so they can prosecute gun trafficking across city and state lines.
00:09:56.000I'm going to play this tape from Joe Biden, and then I'm going to have you think to yourself when you hear him talk, what is the goal here?
00:10:04.000Now, the common talking point by a lot of conservative pundits, many of whom I respect, is that gun control is not about guns, it's about control.
00:10:20.000As part of our strategy, the Justice Department is creating five new strike forces to crack down illegal gun trafficking and the Carter's supplying weapons to cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and the Bay Area.
00:10:34.000With these strike forces, local and federal law enforcement and prosecutors are going to be able to better coordinate the prosecution of illegal gun trafficking across city and state lines.
00:10:45.000Now, nothing Joe Biden is recommending or suggesting is going to reduce crime in the inner cities of our country, but it will increase federal law enforcement's ability to be able to know whether or not you own weapons or not.
00:10:59.000And so what Joe Biden, the argument he was making, and it wasn't him, it was his 26-year-old Yale graduate speechwriting team of people that do not know the difference between an Armalite rifle, an AR-15, to a pistol, to a semi-autic semi-automatic weapon to an automatic weapons.
00:11:19.000All of them, they're all dangerous weapons of war.
00:11:24.000The argument Joe Biden was making is that if you give up the freedom to own a firearm, if you just trust us, then all of a sudden your life is going to get better.
00:11:37.000You see, the goal that Joe Biden and the collectivists have here is about trying to erode and deteriorate this idea of self-reliance.
00:11:52.000An armed citizenry is an independent citizenry.
00:11:56.000An armed citizenry is one that is far more responsible.
00:12:02.000A disarmed citizenry is an obedient one.
00:12:08.000When you do not have the ability to protect yourself and your family, then you'll be more likely to obey.
00:12:14.000That when government starts rolling the tanks to the streets, you will bend the knee.
00:12:26.000Government will never use its power against us.
00:12:32.000Now, I think it's somewhat self-evident that government is already using its power against us.
00:12:39.000I think it's somewhat self-evident that we're already seeing the top levels of the military brass embrace the use of force against political opponents they disagree with.
00:12:50.000But I'm going to build this argument out.
00:12:51.000I'm going to prove it to you that not only can it happen here, they're trying to implement it here.
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00:14:05.000All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.
00:14:09.000The Communist Party must command all the guns.
00:14:12.000That way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.
00:14:43.000An armed citizenry is a responsive citizenry, and it's a respected citizenry.
00:14:50.000I'll give you an example of a difference between a hostage situation and a negotiation.
00:14:59.000I wrote this in a piece, I think, for Newsweek last year or two years ago, when the Hong Kong protests were heating up.
00:15:07.000Hong Kong has a very interesting and mixed history.
00:15:11.000It had a charter document with the British Empire for over 100 years.
00:15:15.000I think it expired in 2016 or 17 or 18.
00:15:19.000And because of that, this idea of who controls Hong Kong came into full light.
00:15:25.000The Chinese Communist Party, being greedy, imperialist, soulless, amoral dictators, they, of course, wanted to control a very rich and prosperous.
00:15:50.000You might remember the demonstrations.
00:15:53.000But all of a sudden, when those sort of demonstrations start to reach a boiling point, all of a sudden people look around and they realize that those sorts of public outbursts eventually have to hit an intersection of force.
00:16:08.000And the Hong Kong freedom fighters realized the hard way that they were in a hostage situation with the CCP.
00:16:18.000The Chinese Communist Party had complete and total control of the Hong Kong freedom fighters.
00:16:23.000It was just a matter of when the Chinese Communist Party were going to roll the tanks to the streets.
00:16:30.000Hong Kong would have had a negotiation, not a hostage situation, if every one of the 19-year-olds in Hong Kong had an AR-15 strapped around their back.
00:16:43.000The Chinese Communist Party would have backed off.
00:16:45.000They would have said, okay, what do you want?
00:16:48.000You see, an armed citizenry prevents widespread and collective action against a citizenry.
00:16:58.000And so a question that I think is a very important question is: do weapons or guns change the dynamic of liberty?
00:17:10.000Does the ability to own guns make your ability to speak your mind more or less achievable or likely?
00:17:20.000Is an armed citizenry more likely to be free in other ways outside of owning a gun?
00:17:28.000We have said many times on this program that there is no First Amendment without the Second Amendment.
00:17:34.000The Second Amendment is the amendment that protects all the others.
00:17:38.000Joe Biden mocked this argument yesterday.
00:17:42.000Joe Biden must be reading charliekirk.com.
00:18:22.000Those who say the blood of patriots, you know, and all the stuff about how we're going to have to move against the government.
00:18:31.000While the Tree of Liberty is not watering the blood of patriots, what's happened is that there never been, if you wanted to think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.
00:18:45.000Well, first of all, it's a complete lie that you couldn't buy a cannon in colonial times and at the framers, at the time of the framers and the founders.
00:18:52.000Number two, no one here is advocating for weapons of mass destruction.
00:18:57.000That is called a gaslighting red herring argument.
00:19:00.000Instead, what we are saying is: if you're protected by a certain weapon, Joe Biden, we should be able to have that same weapon.
00:19:08.000If you're protected by people with AR-15s, we should be able to own AR-15s.
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00:20:30.000This is from a Chicago homicide detective.
00:20:33.000I'm not going to say who this is from.
00:20:37.000Constant cancellation of days off and 12-hour delays with no clear strategy for the surge of violence from a clearly clueless and inept headquarters command staff.
00:20:48.000We have no support from the upper echelon of our command staff, a prosecutor's office that is openly and vehemently anti-police, and a mayor who is more concerned with appeasing the radical anti-police than assuring the safety of the citizens of Chicago.
00:21:06.000The front lines of what's happening in Chicago.
00:21:08.000And let's go to our carnage report of what's happening in Chicago.
00:21:14.00011 shot and killed this week, 56 shot and wounded, 67 total shot, and 11 total homicides.
00:21:19.000Just in June alone, 65 shot and killed, 314 shot and wounded, 379 total shot, and 66 total homicides with the most strict gun laws in the country.
00:21:36.000So a common talking point of the gun grabbers is that the founding fathers never imagined or envisioned having an armed citizenry.
00:21:50.000So I will get to Federalist 46 by our fourth president, James Madison.
00:21:58.000But first, I want to go through something that is not always mentioned.
00:22:04.000So the Constitution of the United States was ratified officially in September of 1787.
00:22:11.000But 11 years before that, a man by the name of George Mason, and yes, George Mason is more than just a basketball team that went to the final four.
00:22:19.000George Mason is one of my favorite founding fathers.
00:22:22.000Not George Mason, the basketball team, not George Mason, the university, George Mason, the founding father.
00:22:28.000George Mason, in 1776, passed the Virginia Declaration of Rights, amongst many other.
00:22:38.000And it was passed by the Virginia Constitutional Convention on June 12th, 1776.
00:22:43.000So I want to reinforce the significance of this.
00:22:46.000You see, the 1619 project and the Nicole Hannah Jones types and the bitter racists that are teaching our children, they don't look at what also happened in 1776.
00:22:59.000In 1776, on June 12th of 1776, right before July 4th, 1776, the Virginia Declaration of Rights was passed.
00:23:10.000On Section 13 on the Virginia Declaration of Rights, in 1776, George Mason wrote what eventually was the inspiration and the blueprint for what became our Bill of Rights, our Constitution.
00:23:25.000And Section 13 was George Mason who just loved the Lord and understood the need for people to protect themselves.
00:23:36.000In some ways, I wish James Madison would have just copy-pasted what George Mason wrote, because I think his defense of the Second Amendment back in 1776 actually would have shut up more people.
00:23:50.000Let me read to you what George Mason wrote in 1776, and it was passed into law at the Virginia Declaration of Rights before our Declaration of Independence.
00:24:00.000Quote, that a well-regulated militia, ah, but he defines it, composed of the body of the people trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state.
00:25:24.000This is before the Declaration of Independence.
00:25:26.000In some ways, George Mason was sort of like Nikola Tesla to Thomas Edison.
00:25:33.000He's the guy that kind of invented it earlier, but never gets any credit.
00:25:37.000Quote, that all men are by nature equally free and independent and certain inherent rights of which they enter into a state of society.
00:25:45.000They cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity, namely the enjoyment of life and liberty with the means of acquiring and possessing property and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
00:25:57.000Kind of sounds like our Declaration of Independence, doesn't it?
00:26:00.000You see, that year 1776 that we're about to celebrate on July 4th, there was so much movement happening in that year.
00:26:11.000George Mason passed the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
00:26:15.000Adam Smith wrote the inquiry into the Wealth of Nations.
00:26:18.000Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence.
00:26:20.000This common through line, though, is that a small group of people cannot prevent you from pursuing virtue.
00:26:29.000He says the government is ought to be and instituted by the common benefit, protection, security of the people, nation, and community of by all various forms of government.
00:26:38.000That is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.
00:26:49.000Joe Biden has a completely different philosophical framework that he's working from.
00:26:57.000Remember this Cut 71 when Anderson Cooper said, so the gun owners out there who say, well, a Biden administration means they're going to come from my guns.
00:27:52.000And the reason why they are doing this is more and more clear.
00:27:59.000What if I told you the push to vaccinate you via force and the push to take away your firearms is the same push.
00:28:12.000What if I told you the push to try to erode your first principles and freedoms and to put a needle in your arm is the same project?
00:28:25.000We will call that here on the Charlie Kirk show for the time being, Project Obey.
00:28:32.000The common through line of what we are living through right now is an attempt to weaken your spirit, to debase your resolve, to try to have you no longer sit up straight with your shoulders back and look clearly at your leaders and say, you don't control me, you work for me.
00:28:50.000Instead, it's to have you, in a crippled-like fashion, take a knee and say, please stop abusing me.
00:29:00.000That dynamic is one that is this almost non-stop campaign of using the state and corporate power.
00:29:07.000I might mention we cannot forget corporate power to try to obliterate the social contract that John Locke so beautifully articulated, James Madison did in Federalist 46, and George Mason in the Virginia Bill of Declaration of Rights and the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence.
00:29:25.000It all is intersecting at this moment in 2021.
00:29:28.000How lucky are we to be living through this time where all of a sudden this idea of self-government and the independent judiciary and checks and balances is coming into full question and light?
00:30:03.000If their thesis was correct, then only gun crime would be going up.
00:30:07.000Every type of crime, whether it involves a gun or not, is going up, which lends itself to our argument that a culture of crime and an indifference to prosecuting that crime is what is dominating our country right now.
00:31:24.000There is enough meat for July 4th, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's, and Tax Day.
00:31:34.000And I know you need to eat a lot on tax day because that's not a good day, and sometimes you got to eat.
00:31:40.000But my friends are good ranchers, they've traveled the entire United States and met with actual people, real farmers, not the corporate hacks.
00:31:46.000Look, good ranchers, they love their country.
00:31:48.000Unlike all these wokesters, and they sell you this fake vegan meat made in a laboratory with Bill Gates and underwater or whatever he's doing, this is real because their product is 100% American.
00:31:58.000When you buy steak and chicken from good ranchers, not only are you getting amazing meat, but you're also supporting American farms.
00:32:03.000In fact, producer Connor, I went back to go into the freezer and all the meat was gone.
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00:33:02.000Look, I have a, I'm going to guess, just a wild guess here.
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00:33:20.000Our team sent us this note that President Biden says that they have a deal on infrastructure between the moderates, the Republicans, and the moderate Democrats.
00:33:31.000We'll do a podcast on that at some point, but that's really not the most important thing happening in our country right now.
00:33:41.000People aren't really that concerned about process or legislation.
00:33:45.000We're going to spend trillions of dollars we don't have.
00:33:48.000We're in the midst, though, of something much more deeper and fundamental than policy debates of whether or not we're going to get some bridge that we don't need going out to Martha's Vineyard.
00:34:01.000We're asking questions like: who are we?
00:34:11.000These are much more fundamental questions.
00:34:14.000And actually, that's an argument that I would much rather have than whether or not we need some sort of solar panel project on some bizarre island in the Galapagos region or whatever they're spending infrastructure money on.
00:34:28.000I'm sure some of it's going to be fine.
00:34:31.000These infrastructure bills have a tendency to be massive handouts to corrupt union leaders and deliver very little to the voters.
00:34:43.000The Second Amendment is the amendment that protects all the other amendments.
00:34:50.000And it says very clearly in our charter and our founding documents, this contract and this promise, from the Virginia Declaration of Rights to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, that you have a right to question your government.
00:35:05.000Do you think you are more or less likely to question your government when you have a weapon?
00:35:15.000And as I demonstrated in the Hong Kong example, if you are not able to protect yourself, if you do not have the ability to challenge a usurptatious government, God forbid it ever comes to that, then you are nothing more than a prisoner in an open-air environment.
00:35:33.000Now, many apparatchiks in the media do not like it when conservatives talk this way, but they know it's true.
00:35:40.000The 20th century is stained with the blood of over 120 million people that were murdered in cold blood after dictators, tyrants, and despots took your weapons away.
00:35:56.000The leader of the National Socialist Workers' Party, Hitler, said the most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern European people to have weapons or arms.
00:36:08.000History teaches us that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
00:36:19.000Mao Zedong again said, all political power comes from the barrel of a gun.
00:36:26.000The Communist Party must command all the guns.
00:36:28.000That way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.
00:36:33.000You see, Joe Biden is gaslighting and he says, well, if you really want to defend us, you are going to need thermonuclear weapons.
00:36:41.000Well, I guess, Joe, that if there was ever, God forbid, something that happened in our country, you're willing to use a thermonuclear weapon against the opposition.
00:36:52.000What we're saying instead is that the owning of a firearm prevents conflict.
00:37:02.000Because when both sides know that they are armed, all of a sudden it becomes a negotiation, not a hostage situation.
00:37:09.000You see, one of the tricks of the tyrants, one of the ploys, one of the tactics and one of the strategies that they employ is try to tell you, ignore history.
00:37:29.000You trust Joe Biden after they locked down our country and lied about the virus and lied about masks?
00:37:34.000You trust Joe Biden after at every single turn his government have tried to infringe on our first freedoms and liberties?
00:37:42.000That's the very same government that wants you to turn in your weapons.
00:37:49.000This free society we have, this robust liberty that we enjoy that is ever decreasing, I'm sorry to say, is protected on fragile footing.
00:37:59.000And that fragile footing at times is as simple and as plain as your ability to walk into a gun store, be able to put a revolver on your hip or an AR-15 on your back and say, God made me free, and if I need to, I will protect that freedom.
00:38:16.000The Second Amendment protects all our other freedoms.
00:38:19.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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