The Charlie Kirk Show - The Best Defense of the Second Amendment in the Face of Joe Biden's Gun Grab

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00:04:37.000 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.

00:04:48.000 Crime is rising all across the country.

00:04:51.000 Crime is up in almost every single metropolitan area in America.

00:04:57.000 In Philadelphia, homicides are up 37%.

00:05:01.000 Shootings are up 27%.

00:05:02.000 In Los Angeles, homicides are up 22%.

00:05:05.000 And shootings are up 51%.

00:05:08.000 In Portland, homicides are up 533%, and shootings are up 126%.

00:05:15.000 In New York City, homicides are up 13% and shootings are up 64%.

00:05:19.000 Hello to our friends on WABC.

00:05:22.000 In Atlanta, homicides are up 58% and shootings are up 40%.

00:05:27.000 There is a crime wave that is spreading across America.

00:05:31.000 And 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.

00:05:43.000 Nothing 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.

00:06:00.000 It 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.

00:06:16.000 Joe Biden acknowledges none of that.

00:06:18.000 Instead, he says that it is because of gun owners and because of the amount of gun sales that have happened in the last year.

00:06:31.000 This is why violent crime is going up.

00:06:34.000 Now, he doesn't actually address that not just gun crime is going up, but all crime is going up.

00:06:41.000 So if Joe Biden's theory was correct, only gun crime would be going up.

00:06:48.000 If Joe Biden's theory was correct, which it isn't, then only deaths via a firearm would be increasing.

00:06:57.000 Instead, all crime is up.

00:06:59.000 Arsons are up.

00:07:01.000 Rape is up.

00:07:03.000 Looting is up.

00:07:05.000 Instead, it is a culture of crime that has set in across the country.

00:07:09.000 And 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.

00:07:19.000 Joe Biden gave a very unusual speech yesterday.

00:07:23.000 The speech he gave was overly defensive.

00:07:29.000 The speech he gave was trying to preempt some of the arguments that those of us that believe in an armed citizen remake.

00:07:36.000 I want to play some of the tape here of Joe Biden and some of his apparatches in the media trying to defend him.

00:07:44.000 And so let's start with this one.

00:07:48.000 Let's start with cut 74.

00:07:50.000 Joe Biden.

00:07:51.000 This shouldn't be a red or blue issue.

00:07:55.000 It's an American issue.

00:07:56.000 We're not changing the Constitution.

00:07:59.000 We're enforcing it.

00:08:01.000 Cut 74.

00:08:02.000 We have an opportunity to come together now as Democrats and Republicans.

00:08:07.000 That means Congress packs these sensible gun prevention, violence prevention initiatives is worrying.

00:08:13.000 It makes sense.

00:08:15.000 Background checks, ban on assault weapons, repeal of liabilities over gun manufacturers.

00:08:21.000 Folks, this shouldn't be a red or blue issue.

00:08:25.000 It's an American issue.

00:08:27.000 We're not changing the Constitution.

00:08:29.000 We're enforcing it.

00:08:31.000 We're not changing the Constitution.

00:08:33.000 We're enforcing it.

00:08:35.000 Now, one part of the Second Amendment is frequently mentioned by the gun grabbers and the collectivists and the statists.

00:08:44.000 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.

00:08:52.000 So Joe Biden and the gang, they focus on that term well-regulated militia.

00:08:59.000 They say, ah, see, we have the ability to say that only people that are in the military are able to own weapons.

00:09:06.000 You see, this is an overly simplified, sloppy, and inaccurate argument.

00:09:13.000 This is someone who's never read the Federalist Papers and specifically Federalist 46 by the father of our Constitution, James Madison.

00:09:22.000 This is an argument that does not understand what a militia was at the time of the formation of our Constitution.

00:09:29.000 A militia was any male ages 18 to 30.

00:09:34.000 Let me say that again.

00:09:35.000 A militia back during the time of the Founding Fathers was any male ages 18 to 30.

00:09:41.000 Is that what Joe Biden thinks should be able to own firearms and weapons?

00:09:45.000 He continued by saying he wants to be able to track and trace guns so they can prosecute gun trafficking across city and state lines.

00:09:56.000 I'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?

00:10:04.000 Now, 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.

00:10:12.000 I totally agree.

00:10:14.000 But it's deeper than that.

00:10:16.000 We're going to explore that together.

00:10:18.000 Play Cut 76.

00:10:20.000 As 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.

00:10:34.000 With 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.

00:10:45.000 Now, 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.

00:10:59.000 And 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.

00:11:19.000 All of them, they're all dangerous weapons of war.

00:11:24.000 The 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.

00:11:37.000 You see, the goal that Joe Biden and the collectivists have here is about trying to erode and deteriorate this idea of self-reliance.

00:11:52.000 An armed citizenry is an independent citizenry.

00:11:56.000 An armed citizenry is one that is far more responsible.

00:12:02.000 A disarmed citizenry is an obedient one.

00:12:08.000 When you do not have the ability to protect yourself and your family, then you'll be more likely to obey.

00:12:14.000 That when government starts rolling the tanks to the streets, you will bend the knee.

00:12:21.000 You might say, Charlie, that's unrealistic.

00:12:25.000 It's never going to happen here.

00:12:26.000 Government will never use its power against us.

00:12:32.000 Now, I think it's somewhat self-evident that government is already using its power against us.

00:12:39.000 I 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.

00:12:50.000 But I'm going to build this argument out.

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00:14:05.000 All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

00:14:09.000 The Communist Party must command all the guns.

00:14:12.000 That way, no guns can ever be used to command the party. 0.71

00:14:18.000 Mao Zedong.

00:14:21.000 Ideas are more powerful than guns, Joseph Stalin said.

00:14:25.000 We would not let our enemies have guns.

00:14:27.000 Why should we let them have ideas?

00:14:29.000 Joseph Stalin would say.

00:14:31.000 Our principle is that the party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the party. 0.71

00:14:40.000 Mao Zedong.

00:14:43.000 An armed citizenry is a responsive citizenry, and it's a respected citizenry. 0.72

00:14:50.000 I'll give you an example of a difference between a hostage situation and a negotiation.

00:14:59.000 I wrote this in a piece, I think, for Newsweek last year or two years ago, when the Hong Kong protests were heating up.

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00:15:11.000 It had a charter document with the British Empire for over 100 years.

00:15:15.000 I think it expired in 2016 or 17 or 18.

00:15:19.000 And because of that, this idea of who controls Hong Kong came into full light. 0.87

00:15:25.000 The Chinese Communist Party, being greedy, imperialist, soulless, amoral dictators, they, of course, wanted to control a very rich and prosperous.

00:15:37.000 It's hard to call Hong Kong a nation. 0.97

00:15:39.000 Let's just call it a place like Hong Kong.

00:15:42.000 And so, but the Hong Kong students and the Hong Kong youth, they wanted liberty and freedom.

00:15:49.000 You might remember the protests.

00:15:50.000 You might remember the demonstrations.

00:15:53.000 But 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.

00:16:08.000 And the Hong Kong freedom fighters realized the hard way that they were in a hostage situation with the CCP.

00:16:18.000 The Chinese Communist Party had complete and total control of the Hong Kong freedom fighters.

00:16:23.000 It was just a matter of when the Chinese Communist Party were going to roll the tanks to the streets.

00:16:30.000 Hong 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.

00:16:43.000 The Chinese Communist Party would have backed off.

00:16:45.000 They would have said, okay, what do you want?

00:16:48.000 You see, an armed citizenry prevents widespread and collective action against a citizenry.

00:16:58.000 And so a question that I think is a very important question is: do weapons or guns change the dynamic of liberty?

00:17:10.000 Does the ability to own guns make your ability to speak your mind more or less achievable or likely?

00:17:20.000 Is an armed citizenry more likely to be free in other ways outside of owning a gun?

00:17:28.000 We have said many times on this program that there is no First Amendment without the Second Amendment.

00:17:34.000 The Second Amendment is the amendment that protects all the others.

00:17:38.000 Joe Biden mocked this argument yesterday.

00:17:42.000 Joe Biden must be reading charliekirk.com.

00:17:50.000 I highly doubt that.

00:17:51.000 But I think that he is starting to hear this argument more and more, and he tried his best to preempt it.

00:17:58.000 Sloppily, of course.

00:18:01.000 Cut 70.

00:18:03.000 Biden said, Well, if you think you need weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.

00:18:08.000 Now, this is a very dark thing to say.

00:18:12.000 Cut 70.

00:18:14.000 The Second Amendment from the day it was passed limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own.

00:18:21.000 You couldn't buy a cannon.

00:18:22.000 Those who say the blood of patriots, you know, and all the stuff about how we're going to have to move against the government.

00:18:31.000 While 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.

00:18:45.000 Well, 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.

00:18:52.000 Number two, no one here is advocating for weapons of mass destruction.

00:18:57.000 That is called a gaslighting red herring argument.

00:19:00.000 Instead, what we are saying is: if you're protected by a certain weapon, Joe Biden, we should be able to have that same weapon.

00:19:08.000 If you're protected by people with AR-15s, we should be able to own AR-15s.

00:19:13.000 Isn't that called equity?

00:19:15.000 I thought that's the whole new push of the left.

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00:20:30.000 This is from a Chicago homicide detective.

00:20:33.000 I'm not going to say who this is from.

00:20:35.000 We are frustrated and exhausted.

00:20:37.000 Constant 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.

00:20:48.000 We 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.

00:21:03.000 That is from the front lines.

00:21:06.000 The front lines of what's happening in Chicago.

00:21:08.000 And let's go to our carnage report of what's happening in Chicago.

00:21:14.000 11 shot and killed this week, 56 shot and wounded, 67 total shot, and 11 total homicides.

00:21:19.000 Just 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.

00:21:36.000 So a common talking point of the gun grabbers is that the founding fathers never imagined or envisioned having an armed citizenry.

00:21:50.000 So I will get to Federalist 46 by our fourth president, James Madison.

00:21:58.000 But first, I want to go through something that is not always mentioned.

00:22:04.000 So the Constitution of the United States was ratified officially in September of 1787.

00:22:11.000 But 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.

00:22:19.000 George Mason is one of my favorite founding fathers.

00:22:22.000 Not George Mason, the basketball team, not George Mason, the university, George Mason, the founding father.

00:22:28.000 George Mason, in 1776, passed the Virginia Declaration of Rights, amongst many other.

00:22:36.000 He wrote this, George Mason did.

00:22:38.000 And it was passed by the Virginia Constitutional Convention on June 12th, 1776.

00:22:43.000 So I want to reinforce the significance of this.

00:22:46.000 You 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.

00:22:59.000 In 1776, on June 12th of 1776, right before July 4th, 1776, the Virginia Declaration of Rights was passed.

00:23:10.000 On 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.

00:23:25.000 And Section 13 was George Mason who just loved the Lord and understood the need for people to protect themselves.

00:23:36.000 In 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.

00:23:50.000 Let 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.

00:24:00.000 Quote, 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.

00:24:15.000 Let me say that again.

00:24:17.000 The proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state.

00:24:21.000 George Mason is saying, if you want to be free, you have to have weapons.

00:24:25.000 That standing armies in times of peace should be avoided as dangerous to liberty.

00:24:31.000 What is he saying right there?

00:24:32.000 We don't need standing armies.

00:24:34.000 We have the people with guns.

00:24:36.000 That's what's going to protect our liberty.

00:24:38.000 And that in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination and governed by the civil power.

00:24:48.000 Whoa.

00:24:50.000 George Mason is saying, the military must have a check, which is the people.

00:24:56.000 Now, that's a radical statement in today's political discourse.

00:25:00.000 What George Mason was saying is that if you want to be able to pursue virtue, you must be able to have the check and balance.

00:25:09.000 You must be able to have the people to have the capacity to defend themselves.

00:25:14.000 Now, I encourage every child who's in school and every parent to just familiarize yourself with the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

00:25:23.000 Let me read this.

00:25:24.000 This is before the Declaration of Independence.

00:25:26.000 In some ways, George Mason was sort of like Nikola Tesla to Thomas Edison.

00:25:33.000 He's the guy that kind of invented it earlier, but never gets any credit.

00:25:37.000 Quote, that all men are by nature equally free and independent and certain inherent rights of which they enter into a state of society.

00:25:45.000 They 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.

00:25:57.000 Kind of sounds like our Declaration of Independence, doesn't it?

00:26:00.000 You see, that year 1776 that we're about to celebrate on July 4th, there was so much movement happening in that year.

00:26:09.000 Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense.

00:26:11.000 George Mason passed the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

00:26:15.000 Adam Smith wrote the inquiry into the Wealth of Nations.

00:26:18.000 Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence.

00:26:20.000 This common through line, though, is that a small group of people cannot prevent you from pursuing virtue.

00:26:29.000 He 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.

00:26:38.000 That is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.

00:26:49.000 Joe Biden has a completely different philosophical framework that he's working from.

00:26:53.000 It's the exact opposite.

00:26:57.000 Remember 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.

00:27:05.000 Remember Biden said bingo, Cut 71.

00:27:09.000 To gun owners out there who say, well, a Biden administration means they're going to come from my guns.

00:27:14.000 Bingo, you're right if you have an assault weapon.

00:27:17.000 The fact of the matter is they should be illegal, period.

00:27:20.000 An assault weapon is a made-up term.

00:27:23.000 An assault weapon is a gaslighting Orwellian newspeak operation.

00:27:29.000 There is no such thing as an assault weapon.

00:27:31.000 And if you are in the firearms industry, you know this to be true.

00:27:35.000 There's no such thing as an assault rifle.

00:27:37.000 It does not exist.

00:27:38.000 An assault weapon could be a baseball bat.

00:27:42.000 Assault weapon is a term that basically means scary-looking gun.

00:27:49.000 That's what assault weapon means.

00:27:52.000 And the reason why they are doing this is more and more clear.

00:27:59.000 What if I told you the push to vaccinate you via force and the push to take away your firearms is the same push.

00:28:12.000 What 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?

00:28:25.000 We will call that here on the Charlie Kirk show for the time being, Project Obey.

00:28:32.000 The 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.

00:28:50.000 Instead, it's to have you, in a crippled-like fashion, take a knee and say, please stop abusing me.

00:29:00.000 That dynamic is one that is this almost non-stop campaign of using the state and corporate power. 0.84

00:29:07.000 I 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.

00:29:25.000 It all is intersecting at this moment in 2021.

00:29:28.000 How 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?

00:29:40.000 Who are we?

00:29:42.000 Are we owned by the state or does the state or do we own the state?

00:29:48.000 Cedric Richmond, COT 72.

00:29:51.000 He blames America's crime spike on the NRA.

00:29:53.000 Before I play that tape, I want to reiterate this.

00:29:58.000 Not just gun crime is going up.

00:30:01.000 All crime is going up.

00:30:03.000 If their thesis was correct, then only gun crime would be going up.

00:30:07.000 Every 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.

00:30:21.000 Play tape.

00:30:22.000 What do you think is the root of the cause of this spike in violence?

00:30:26.000 I mean, we read through some of these cities, don't know.

00:30:28.000 From the administration's perspective, why is this happening?

00:30:32.000 Well, look, a bunch of reasons, I believe, but one is the proliferation of guns on the streets of America.

00:30:38.000 The fact that we have let the NRA govern this country for far too long and the president is willing to take them on.

00:30:44.000 The NRA governing our country.

00:30:46.000 So first of all, she didn't actually ask about gun crime.

00:30:49.000 He immediately goes to gun crime.

00:30:50.000 Cedric Richmond, why are rapes going up?

00:30:54.000 Is that because of the NRA?

00:30:56.000 You see, we deserve better leaders than people like Cedric Richmond.

00:31:02.000 Did you know that 80% of all grass-fed beef sold in the United States is imported from overseas?

00:31:07.000 It's staggering and it's a problem.

00:31:10.000 You need to buy meat made in America.

00:31:11.000 And that's why I get my meat from goodranchers.com.

00:31:14.000 So look, I talked to Good Ranchers on the phone.

00:31:16.000 I said, send me the box that you send our listeners.

00:31:19.000 And I could do not.

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00:31:24.000 There is enough meat for July 4th, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's, and Tax Day.

00:31:34.000 And I know you need to eat a lot on tax day because that's not a good day, and sometimes you got to eat.

00:31:40.000 But my friends are good ranchers, they've traveled the entire United States and met with actual people, real farmers, not the corporate hacks.

00:31:46.000 Look, good ranchers, they love their country. 0.79

00:31:48.000 Unlike 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. 0.98

00:31:58.000 When you buy steak and chicken from good ranchers, not only are you getting amazing meat, but you're also supporting American farms. 1.00

00:32:03.000 In fact, producer Connor, I went back to go into the freezer and all the meat was gone.

00:32:09.000 It was gone.

00:32:10.000 I said, What did you do?

00:32:11.000 He said, It's goodranchers, goodranchers.com.

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00:32:15.000 And he was right.

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00:32:33.000 So stop guessing.

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00:32:51.000 You'll get a big box and you'll be happy.

00:32:53.000 I know a lot of you guys want to do cookouts this summer.

00:32:56.000 Maybe it's beef, maybe it's steak, maybe it's pork, maybe it's chicken, whatever it is.

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00:33:02.000 Look, I have a, I'm going to guess, just a wild guess here.

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00:33:09.000 If you have to eat, you might as well buy from someone who helps the Charlie Kirk show.

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00:33:20.000 Our 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.

00:33:31.000 We'll do a podcast on that at some point, but that's really not the most important thing happening in our country right now.

00:33:41.000 People aren't really that concerned about process or legislation.

00:33:44.000 Of course, it's bad for the country.

00:33:45.000 We're going to spend trillions of dollars we don't have.

00:33:48.000 We'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.

00:34:01.000 We're asking questions like: who are we?

00:34:03.000 Where do we call home?

00:34:05.000 What is America?

00:34:07.000 What is a human being?

00:34:09.000 How do we govern ourselves?

00:34:11.000 These are much more fundamental questions.

00:34:14.000 And 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.

00:34:28.000 I'm sure some of it's going to be fine.

00:34:31.000 These infrastructure bills have a tendency to be massive handouts to corrupt union leaders and deliver very little to the voters.

00:34:43.000 The Second Amendment is the amendment that protects all the other amendments.

00:34:50.000 And 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.

00:35:05.000 Do you think you are more or less likely to question your government when you have a weapon?

00:35:13.000 The goal is obedience.

00:35:15.000 And 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.

00:35:33.000 Now, many apparatchiks in the media do not like it when conservatives talk this way, but they know it's true.

00:35:40.000 The 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.

00:35:51.000 I will reiterate what I read earlier. 0.53

00:35:56.000 The 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.

00:36:08.000 History teaches us that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

00:36:19.000 Mao Zedong again said, all political power comes from the barrel of a gun. 0.69

00:36:26.000 The Communist Party must command all the guns.

00:36:28.000 That way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

00:36:33.000 You see, Joe Biden is gaslighting and he says, well, if you really want to defend us, you are going to need thermonuclear weapons.

00:36:41.000 Well, 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.

00:36:52.000 What we're saying instead is that the owning of a firearm prevents conflict.

00:36:59.000 It prevents blood from being spilled.

00:37:02.000 Because when both sides know that they are armed, all of a sudden it becomes a negotiation, not a hostage situation.

00:37:09.000 You 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.

00:37:21.000 Guns aren't that necessary.

00:37:24.000 Trust us.

00:37:26.000 You trust Joe Biden?

00:37:29.000 You trust Joe Biden after they locked down our country and lied about the virus and lied about masks?

00:37:34.000 You trust Joe Biden after at every single turn his government have tried to infringe on our first freedoms and liberties?

00:37:42.000 That's the very same government that wants you to turn in your weapons.

00:37:49.000 This free society we have, this robust liberty that we enjoy that is ever decreasing, I'm sorry to say, is protected on fragile footing.

00:37:59.000 And 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.

00:38:16.000 The Second Amendment protects all our other freedoms.

00:38:19.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:38:20.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:38:23.000 And if you want to support our program, go to charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:38:27.000 God bless you guys.

00:38:28.000 Speak to you, sir.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 24, 2021

The Best Defense of the Second Amendment in the Face of Joe Biden's Gun Grab

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