The Charlie Kirk Show - Unearthing the Dark, Uni-Party Push to Disarm America

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today at Charlie Kirk Show, a pretty comprehensive episode on weapons and guns.

00:00:04.000 John Davidson from the Federalists joins us and unpacks what are Republicans doing to try to take people's guns away.

00:00:10.000 It will really, it'll take you back, especially some Republicans from some red states.

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00:01:20.000 Okay, there's a lot of different stories I want to unpack here.

00:01:23.000 I want to kind of go into the gun issue.

00:01:26.000 We've talked about this a fair amount, and it seems as if Nancy Pelosi is just going to go after the entire enchilada. 0.97

00:01:35.000 She's going to go after assault weapons. 1.00

00:01:38.000 Now, just so we're clear, assault weapons is a made-up term.

00:01:42.000 It is not a technical term.

00:01:44.000 Anybody that is in the firearm industry, anyone that knows anything about weapons, that knows anything about guns or the Second Amendment industry, they will tell you that assault weapon is a completely and totally made-up term.

00:01:58.000 Assault weapon could be a baseball bat, it could be a golf club, it could be a knife.

00:02:03.000 Now, when you ask somebody to define an assault weapon, which I have done, and that video continues to go viral, they just say, What?

00:02:11.000 Of course, you know what it is.

00:02:12.000 It's self-evident, really.

00:02:13.000 So they say, Well, it's a weapon of war.

00:02:15.000 Well, pistols are used in war as well.

00:02:18.000 That's a weapon of war.

00:02:19.000 What exactly do you mean a weapon of war?

00:02:22.000 So when you press people on these topics and these issues, they're not really able to clearly define it.

00:02:27.000 And in reality, it comes down to mass gun confiscation.

00:02:32.000 That's really what it comes down to.

00:02:33.000 And I just want to alert the grassroots.

00:02:36.000 I want to try and warn you that we are going to have to have a fight against attempted gun control coming in the next days and weeks and months.

00:02:47.000 Ellie Mistahl argues that an individual's right to self-defense with a gun isn't actually provided by the Second Amendment.

00:02:54.000 Its original purpose was to preserve white supremacy and slavery.

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00:03:00.000 In your book, Ellie, you argue that an individual right to self-defense with a gun was not provided by the Second Amendment, but by the Conservative Supreme Court's interpretation of the Second Amendment in its Heller decision.

00:03:12.000 You also say, quote, there was an original purpose to the Second Amendment, but it wasn't to keep people safe.

00:03:17.000 It was to preserve white supremacy and slavery. 0.65

00:03:20.000 Look, Ellie Mistahl is not a serious person.

00:03:23.000 He's a provocateur who just says things to try to get headlines.

00:03:27.000 Interestingly enough, the National Rifle Association that comes under massive scrutiny and continuous scrutiny by the left actually started originally as an attempt to try to arm former slaves against KKK members.

00:03:44.000 That one of the first initiatives the National Rifle Association engaged in was to try to increase gun ownership amongst southern slaves.

00:03:54.000 The Second Amendment is applicable to all people of all colors and all backgrounds, regardless of your income level or your socioeconomic situation.

00:04:09.000 Kamala Harris in Cut 12 calls for an assault weapons ban.

00:04:12.000 Someone should ask her, what is an assault weapon? 1.00

00:04:14.000 No, no, technically, what guns would you ban and what guns would you allow still?

00:04:19.000 Where would you draw the line?

00:04:21.000 What exactly is the functional technical difference between a 9mm and an AR-15, besides the fact that they have increased ammunition capacity?

00:04:30.000 They're semi-automatic, one pull of the trigger, one bullet.

00:04:32.000 What exactly is the technical difference there?

00:04:35.000 Because it looks scary.

00:04:36.000 Well, if something looks scary, that doesn't necessarily mean you should ban it.

00:04:39.000 In fact, there's a really bad reason to ban something.

00:04:42.000 No, actually, when you get into the technical nature of gun control, of talking about this, you realize the firearm illiteracy that has plagued the entire national discourse.

00:04:51.000 Oh, it looks scary.

00:04:53.000 Okay, well, that means absolutely nothing.

00:04:55.000 Play Cut 12.

00:04:57.000 We know what works on this.

00:04:59.000 It includes, let's have an assault weapons ban.

00:05:02.000 You know what an assault weapon is?

00:05:05.000 You know how an assault weapon was designed?

00:05:07.000 It was designed for a specific purpose. 0.99

00:05:11.000 To kill a lot of human beings quickly.

00:05:18.000 An assault weapon is a weapon of war with no place, no place in a civil society.

00:05:26.000 A weapon of war, like a pistol, is a weapon of war, because every single member in a combat theater will get a pistol as part of their standard operating equipment.

00:05:36.000 It's interesting.

00:05:38.000 When you think about it, the left fails to be able to answer very simple what-is questions.

00:05:43.000 What is a woman? 1.00

00:05:44.000 They can't answer that question.

00:05:46.000 What is an assault weapon?

00:05:47.000 They can't answer that question.

00:05:48.000 When does life begin?

00:05:50.000 These very simple civilizational defining issues.

00:05:52.000 And she says, well, it's very simple.

00:05:53.000 Everyone knows what an assault weapon is.

00:05:54.000 They're weapons of war.

00:05:57.000 Really?

00:05:59.000 You know where the actual war zone is in our country, Kamala Harris, where you don't ever mention?

00:06:03.000 It's the place with the strictest gun control.

00:06:06.000 Just in May so far, 59 people have been shot and killed in Chicago, 293 shot and wounded, 352 total shot, and 62 total homicides.

00:06:16.000 So far in Chicago, so far this year, 231 people have been shot and killed, 1,007 shot and wounded, 1,238 total shot for 255 total homicides.

00:06:28.000 Now, the vast majority of those gun deaths that are happening in Chicago, the vast majority are with semi-automatic pistols.

00:06:39.000 They're not with AR-15s.

00:06:42.000 They're not with sniper rifles.

00:06:45.000 No, they're with semi-automatic pistols that are widespread and available in most states, but not in Chicago, actually.

00:06:53.000 Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the country, and yet some of the highest gun violence and some of the highest deaths in general.

00:07:02.000 So if we were actually serious about stemming the curve of gun violence and widespread violence, we'd talk about urban violence and gang violence and fatherlessness and all these other leading indicating issues.

00:07:15.000 Chicago weekend shootings, more than 50 shot nine fatally in Memorial Day weekend violence.

00:07:21.000 Memorial Day weekend in Chicago historically means a violent start to summer months.

00:07:25.000 This year, police say more than 50 people were shot nine fatally over the holiday weekend.

00:07:31.000 That doesn't get the attention of Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:07:33.000 No, instead, right now, as we are doing this program, the House of Representatives is considering legislation to raise the limit for firearms.

00:07:43.000 So I will just have a very simple question.

00:07:46.000 Do you believe 18-year-olds should be able to vote?

00:07:48.000 And do you believe 18-year-olds should be able to serve in the military?

00:07:51.000 And it's kind of this great irony because the Democrats are telling us that we need to lower the voting age to 16.

00:07:57.000 Like, we need to trust children like Greta Thunberg, but they shouldn't be able to own guns. 1.00

00:08:00.000 So, which is it exactly?

00:08:03.000 Should we trust teenagers to determine the future of our civilization or should we allow them to own firearms?

00:08:08.000 It's very simple.

00:08:09.000 18-year-olds being able to own weapons.

00:08:12.000 The argument for it is if you can serve in the United States military, then you should also be able to own a weapon.

00:08:19.000 It's that simple.

00:08:20.000 If you should be able to vote, you should then be able to own a weapon.

00:08:23.000 The White House is considering, the House is considering legislation to raise the age limit for firearms.

00:08:31.000 It's happening right now as it's unfolding, which is amazing because you think about it.

00:08:35.000 What about 18 or 19 or 20-year-olds on college campuses that own guns to protect themselves against the evil men?

00:08:42.000 You see all these contradictions in kind of the left-wing activist groups.

00:08:46.000 One of them is that they believe that men are all around the corner to destroy women and that college campuses have rape culture.

00:08:55.000 If all of that was true, which is widely overexaggerated, but if all of that was true, then wouldn't you want to be able to have young 18, 19, and 20-year-olds be able to own weapons and be able to defend themselves against that?

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00:10:03.000 Kind of an amazing moment unfolded in this hearing where there is Representative Greg Stubay from Florida.

00:10:10.000 I've met him.

00:10:10.000 He's great.

00:10:12.000 I think he's a really underrated member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

00:10:15.000 He's right near Sarasota.

00:10:17.000 He is good at baseball.

00:10:18.000 That's right.

00:10:18.000 That's one of the reasons why we won the congressional baseball game, which actually I think the congressional baseball game is coming up again.

00:10:25.000 Am I right about that?

00:10:26.000 It feels like it was actually pretty recent, though.

00:10:29.000 It's usually in the summer.

00:10:31.000 I'm actually not so sure.

00:10:33.000 So Greg Stubay was actually explaining to fellow Democrats what is going to happen if they pass this bill.

00:10:41.000 And he shows guns that the Democrat-led bill would ban, including a very simple handgun.

00:10:47.000 And just listen to how this unfolds.

00:10:50.000 The, let's just say, the infamous Representative Sheila Jackson Lee. 1.00

00:10:55.000 She doesn't get as much coverage as she used to. 0.90

00:10:57.000 Sheila Jackson Lee used to get a ton of coverage. 0.97

00:11:00.000 And now you just got so many clowns over there. 0.97

00:11:02.000 You got AOC, you got Bush. 0.99

00:11:04.000 It's just Corey Bush.

00:11:06.000 You got Ayana Presley, Rashida Talib.

00:11:09.000 She just kind of blends in now.

00:11:11.000 She doesn't stand out as much as she used to.

00:11:13.000 Play Cut 74.

00:11:15.000 This is a XL 6-hour P365.

00:11:19.000 Comes with a 15-round magazine.

00:11:21.000 Here's a seven-round magazine, which would be less than what would be lawful under this bill if this bill were to become law.

00:11:28.000 It doesn't fit.

00:11:29.000 So this gun would be banned.

00:11:30.000 I hope the gun is not loaded.

00:11:34.000 I'm at my house.

00:11:34.000 I can do whatever I want with my guns.

00:11:38.000 Democrats want to control your guns at all times.

00:11:40.000 So he shows the gun to the, he shows up the gun with good firearm control, by the way.

00:11:46.000 And he has it right up to the camera.

00:11:49.000 Good form and proper form, I should say.

00:11:52.000 And Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, they really are so concerned about gun control.

00:11:58.000 She says, I hope that gun isn't loaded. 0.94

00:12:01.000 And he's like, I'm at my house.

00:12:02.000 I can do whatever I want with my guns.

00:12:04.000 His proper response would be like, of course it's loaded.

00:12:06.000 Are you kidding me?

00:12:08.000 This is not just here to just show you.

00:12:12.000 They really do believe in gun control.

00:12:14.000 Now, the great response from Rep Stubay came on Twitter, where Democrats are losing their mind that Representative Stube would even motion that he's showing a gun.

00:12:24.000 So Eric Swalwell said, with a screen grab of Representative Stubay, said, this is who Republicans are.

00:12:31.000 Kids are being buried and they're bragging about how many guns they own during our gun safety hearing.

00:12:37.000 They are not serious.

00:12:38.000 They are a danger to our kids.

00:12:41.000 Where Representative Greg Stubay responded and said, if you hate the Second Amendment, move to China.

00:12:46.000 I hear you know some people there.

00:12:49.000 Of course, a slight towards Eric Swalwell's lover, Fang Fang, the Chinese spy, where Eric Swalwell was very close to Fang Fang and never got held accountable for that.

00:13:02.000 A recent poll conducted by the Trafalgar Group shows that a majority of Americans favor arming teachers.

00:13:10.000 57.5% of voters believe schools are somewhat or much more danger without teachers who carry a legal firearm.

00:13:17.000 The support for arming teachers is increasing.

00:13:21.000 Among all political breakdowns, arming properly trained teachers was the most popular position.

00:13:26.000 Republicans voiced the largest support for arming educators.

00:13:30.000 A plurality of Democrats agreed, with 48% telling pollsters that armed and trained teachers made schools less dangerous versus 41.3%.

00:13:42.000 We know the agenda.

00:13:43.000 These people had a goal to confiscate weapons prior to these mass tragedies, and they're going to continue that.

00:13:50.000 Now, they're going to come up against a lot and a fair amount of opposition.

00:13:54.000 It's really interesting to see Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona, who's awful, he's even been a little bit careful on the gun issue lately.

00:14:02.000 He's married to Gabby Giffords, who was shot in the head and survived, thankfully.

00:14:08.000 But gun control is kind of his big thing.

00:14:11.000 Even he has been a little bit careful on his messaging because he knows Arizonans love their guns, that there's 5 million new gun owners across America the last couple years.

00:14:19.000 And this is where Democrats are going to run into a very difficult political situation.

00:14:24.000 Now, upper-middle-class rich people, they're actually the most supportive of gun control.

00:14:29.000 You know who's the least supportive of gun control?

00:14:31.000 Poor people.

00:14:32.000 Because they want to actually be able to protect themselves and they don't live in upper-middle-class neighborhoods that are policed by armed security or by police patrols every 20 minutes.

00:14:42.000 It's a luxury of wealth to be able to be against firearm ownership.

00:14:47.000 Upper middle class suburban communities, they say, oh, well, there's no crime in our communities, so who needs guns?

00:14:53.000 I'll tell you who needs guns. 0.99

00:14:54.000 Plumbers, electricians, teachers, firefighters, and police officers earning $55,000 a year in communities that aren't, quote-unquote, as safe, and they need to defend themselves and their family against potential threats.

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00:17:43.000 So gun control is on everyone's mind, but it's very confusing kind of what is being debated and kind of the legislative details around that.

00:17:50.000 A phenomenal piece that I read in the Federalist is: quote, there is no bipartisan gun compromise in the works, just GOP capitulation.

00:17:58.000 We read from that piece the other day, and with us is the author of that piece, John Davidson.

00:18:03.000 John, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:18:05.000 Hey, thanks for having me.

00:18:07.000 So, John, walk our audience through exactly what is being debated and discussed right now when it comes to gun control.

00:18:13.000 Who is leading the charge there?

00:18:15.000 And what Republicans are defying their voters when it comes to this issue?

00:18:21.000 Sure, yeah.

00:18:21.000 It's a good way of putting it.

00:18:22.000 It's a handful of Republicans in the Senate, according to recent news reports led by Senator John Cornyn of Texas, which is my home state.

00:18:32.000 Certainly, Texans are not in support of red flag laws and quote universal background checks.

00:18:40.000 But John Cornyn is nevertheless leading the charge to negotiate with his Democratic colleagues.

00:18:46.000 Other usual suspects like Senator Lindsey Graham are on board, as well as sort of the rhino of them all, Mitch McConnell.

00:18:55.000 And it's a small group of senators at this point.

00:18:58.000 I think it's very unlikely that they're going to get much traction in negotiating with Democrats, but it tells you how unserious they are about defending the Second Amendment.

00:19:08.000 They either don't care about it or they don't understand at all what the Second Amendment means to the voters in the states that they represent.

00:19:18.000 Yeah, so let's get detailed here, right?

00:19:21.000 So let's kind of get into what is actually in some of the minutiae.

00:19:24.000 So you mentioned red flag laws.

00:19:26.000 And so I'm against red flag laws and for good reason. 1.00

00:19:30.000 But some members in our audience, we get some emails and they say, come on, Charlie, that sounds like a good idea.

00:19:34.000 I mean, come on, what would be so wrong about allowing the government to put flags on people not to be able to own weapons?

00:19:42.000 Obvious response that we give is look at the domestic terrorist list where moms and dads are now considered to be domestic terrorists, the ever-increasing wide-ranging definition.

00:19:52.000 What would your response be?

00:19:53.000 What would your response be to a well-meaning Republican who says, Come on, why can't we just give a little bit here or there?

00:19:59.000 What would your reply to that be?

00:20:02.000 Well, my reply specifically to the notion of red flag laws is to say that the best way to think about them is to think of them as being convicted of a pre-crime, right?

00:20:12.000 That Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report from years ago.

00:20:17.000 You essentially have a judge hold a hearing where the person who is accused of not being fit to own guns is not present.

00:20:28.000 So you're not there for the hearing.

00:20:29.000 You don't even know it's taking place.

00:20:31.000 What happens is that local police or ATF agents would just show up at your front door and say, hey, you've been judged incompetent to own firearms.

00:20:39.000 Surprise, hand over all your guns right now.

00:20:42.000 And you don't even know that it's happening.

00:20:44.000 So it's what they call an ex parte hearing.

00:20:46.000 And it's usually very rare.

00:20:49.000 You have to meet certain criteria to have such hearings.

00:20:52.000 And that's what these red flags laws would do. 0.89

00:20:54.000 You don't have any due process.

00:20:56.000 You don't have the ability to defend yourself, to mount, bring any evidence in your favor.

00:21:02.000 You can be accused by an ex-spouse, a jilted lover, a neighbor who disagrees with the American flag that you put out on your front porch for Memorial Day.

00:21:14.000 Anything could potentially be deemed reason for you to have your guns taken away from you without the ability to defend yourself.

00:21:21.000 So for one thing, it's anti-constitutional.

00:21:24.000 It completely tramples on due process.

00:21:26.000 But the other thing I'll say about this is that the idea of introducing a federal red flag law isn't a compromise.

00:21:34.000 It's not a deal.

00:21:35.000 A compromise is when one party gives something up and the other party gives something up and then they sign meet in the middle and both sides get a little bit of what they want.

00:21:44.000 This is just Republicans saying, okay, Democrats, you've wanted red flag laws for many years and finally we are going to cave into the pressure from the corporate press and sort of, you know, the talking heads in Washington and New York and just give in to your demand.

00:22:01.000 That's not a compromise.

00:22:02.000 That's not a deal.

00:22:03.000 How about we trade?

00:22:04.000 You know, I mean, I wouldn't be in favor of this, but at least it would be a compromise if Republicans said, okay, Democrats, you want red flag laws.

00:22:11.000 How about we ban gun-free zones in schools and colleges that receive federal funding?

00:22:18.000 How about that?

00:22:18.000 That's a compromise.

00:22:22.000 That's exactly right.

00:22:23.000 What they call a compromise is a surrender, and you put it best in your piece.

00:22:26.000 It's a capitulation.

00:22:28.000 That's exactly right.

00:22:30.000 So to put differently, Amber Heard could disarm Johnny Depp just because of an accusation.

00:22:36.000 And that's exactly where Amber Heard comes out.

00:22:40.000 He hit me.

00:22:41.000 He broke my nose.

00:22:42.000 And Johnny Depp is not able to own a firearm.

00:22:44.000 So you kind of, and again, we talked about the Johnny Depp, Amber Heard thing at length.

00:22:48.000 I'm not exactly into whole celebrity palace intrigue, but I think that's a good example for the audience to understand.

00:22:53.000 You have a psychopathic woman like Amber Heard that just says something, and potentially a red flag law could disarm an innocent person who's just been accused of something without their knowledge. 1.00

00:23:07.000 So what states currently have these laws on the books right now?

00:23:13.000 It's sort of the usual suspects.

00:23:16.000 19 states, I believe, have some version of a red flag law.

00:23:21.000 You know, obviously the West Coast, very liberal states, California, Oregon, Washington, New York has a red flag law.

00:23:29.000 I believe California's one of the most onerous in terms of trampling on due process.

00:23:38.000 I believe in California that if you've been a patient at a mental health facility twice in the same year, you're banned from owning firearms for the rest of your life.

00:23:50.000 Something like that.

00:23:51.000 I may have some of the details wrong, but it's something very extreme that is permanent and that permanently takes away Second Amendment rights.

00:24:03.000 So this is the idea behind the congressional negotiations would be have some version of a national red flag law that would apply to all 50 states that would be some kind of criteria.

00:24:15.000 All of the 19 states that have red flag laws right now have different criteria, slightly different, and they're relatively new laws.

00:24:23.000 So it's hard to judge sort of to kind of measure what the effects of them have been since they haven't been in place for more than one or two years, I believe.

00:24:34.000 But that's the situation right now, that we have, you know, this handful of states that have them and Democrats and apparently a handful of Republicans who don't care about the Second Amendment would like to have a national red flag law and get nothing in return.

00:24:49.000 Yeah, I mean, and I just want to, of course, it's just a capitulation.

00:24:53.000 I mean, you could bring in an unrelated issue and topic that I think I wouldn't agree with this, by the way.

00:24:59.000 But if Republicans were smart, they'd say, we're not sitting down at the table until you're willing to put $40 billion of border security, build the wall immediately.

00:25:07.000 Then we can talk about red flag laws.

00:25:09.000 I mean, that would, I mean, again, it's an unrelated topic.

00:25:11.000 I'm not in favor of that because I don't think we should give up our Second Amendment rights just to secure our border.

00:25:15.000 I think that's insane.

00:25:16.000 But you bring up a really smart point, which is what they call a compromise.

00:25:20.000 The Democrats just call the, you know, the march through the institutions.

00:25:23.000 They get what they want.

00:25:24.000 And we are like, oh, yeah, you know, in a stellar meeting of compromise, we gave them half of what they wanted.

00:25:30.000 It's like, no, actually, that's not how this works at all.

00:25:34.000 And we got nothing.

00:25:35.000 No, of course not.

00:25:36.000 I mean, if, and what's so hilarious is some of these people used to be in the business world.

00:25:41.000 It's like, how would you ever broker a merger and acquisition that way?

00:25:45.000 Okay, so we understand that you want to fire all of our employees and take our profits and kind of destroy our shareholders.

00:25:52.000 How about half?

00:25:53.000 No one would put up with this.

00:25:54.000 I mean, it's just, it's, and they always like, we need more businessmen in DC.

00:25:57.000 Like, how about you start acting like one?

00:25:59.000 Can you kind of build out the likelihood of this legislative package passing?

00:26:05.000 Because some people are getting pretty nervous.

00:26:07.000 What do you think the actual chances of this becoming law are?

00:26:11.000 I think the chances of an actual federal red flag law are pretty low simply because of its appalling, you know, undermining of due process that it represents.

00:26:23.000 And I think once you explain to people what a red flag law is, support for it kind of, you know, dries up very quickly.

00:26:31.000 And I know, you know, the corporate press would like to quote all of these polls that say, oh, 85% of Americans support red flag laws.

00:26:38.000 Well, yeah, but look at the polls, look at the crosstabs, look at what they actually ask.

00:26:42.000 Do they explain that you could have your guns taken away in a judicial hearing that you don't even know about?

00:26:47.000 No, they don't.

00:26:48.000 So once the debate actually ensues about the details of what a red flag law is, I think the support for it will dry up.

00:26:56.000 I think it may be a little bit more likely that you have some federal version of universal background checks, which is really would be something for the Republicans who believe in this stuff to say like, oh, we, you know, we struck a deal with Democrats and got gun legislation through.

00:27:13.000 But in reality, as you know and I know, and probably most of your viewers know, anyone who goes to a store and buys a gun has a background check.

00:27:21.000 Like the vast majority, 95 plus percent of gun sales in the U.S. involve a background check.

00:27:26.000 So in terms of actually changing anything, this would be pure legislative theater.

00:27:32.000 So, maybe, you know, because it's pure legislative theater, that one has a slightly better chance of getting through than the red flag law.

00:27:39.000 Yeah, and there's this gun show loophole farce.

00:27:41.000 But, yeah, based on the 1986 Brady bill, if I'm not mistaken, we do have some form of background checks.

00:27:48.000 What they won't tell you, though, is that the FBI hasn't done their job in forever.

00:27:52.000 They get a heads up on a lot of these shooters before, and they're not doing their job.

00:27:58.000 So, before you pass all new laws, just ask why is our national police force more interested in targeting moms and dads that show up at school board meetings and not intervening with these potential pressure cooker people that legitimately could be shooting up a school or something unthinkable.

00:28:13.000 But they always want to pass another law.

00:28:15.000 That is just a pattern of the left.

00:28:17.000 A war is being waged on reality, everybody, and the left is leading the charge.

00:28:21.000 Their radical gender ideology has seeped into children's classrooms, into medical terminology, and into our everyday life. 0.99

00:28:26.000 It's producing a generation of psychological infants and confused young people.

00:28:29.000 Not only that, but this radical ideology is trying to erase the people who brought us all into the world, women. 0.90

00:28:35.000 Now, Matt Walsh of the Great Daily Wire is taking matters into his own hands.

00:28:39.000 He recently embarked on a journey around the world to ask one simple question: What is a woman?

00:28:43.000 And you'd be surprised not only how few are capable of answering, but also how many have a completely twisted idea of what a woman is. 0.86

00:28:49.000 Thankfully, he got his whole experience on film, the documentary they don't want you to see what is a woman. 1.00

00:28:53.000 You can check it out today at dailywire.com/slash Charlie.

00:28:56.000 Radical gender ideology have a not-so-secret agenda, and this film exposes it all. 0.98

00:29:01.000 Check out what is a woman at dailywire.com/slash Charlie. 1.00

00:29:05.000 That is dailywire.com/slash Charlie.

00:29:11.000 Play cut 75.

00:29:13.000 So, there's this great question from Gallup, which essentially is: are you satisfied with U.S. gun laws?

00:29:18.000 And if you aren't satisfied, are you dissatisfied?

00:29:20.000 Do you want stricter gun laws?

00:29:21.000 Do you want them to be less strict?

00:29:23.000 Only 36%, only 36% of Americans say they are dissatisfied and want stricter gun laws.

00:29:32.000 Get this: 54% say they're either satisfied or they're dissatisfied and actually want less strict gun laws.

00:29:39.000 This to me tells the story because it could be that you want stricter gun laws, but you're generally actually satisfied.

00:29:45.000 And this 54% gives it away.

00:29:47.000 Most Americans are either satisfied or they actually want less strict gun laws.

00:29:51.000 That is really that's CNN.

00:29:53.000 John, what is your reaction?

00:29:54.000 That's not surprising.

00:29:57.000 I think that these Republicans who are sitting down with Democrats in Washington are so disconnected from normal Americans and the communities that they ostensibly represent, they have no idea how unpopular what they're contemplating really is.

00:30:14.000 Most Americans understand that there is, you know, a constitutional right to own firearms and that gun laws are only followed by law-abiding Americans.

00:30:27.000 And, you know, just deeply disturbed people who go and shoot up schools and massacre elementary school children are not going to abide by laws, are not going to abide by gun laws any more than criminals are.

00:30:41.000 The idea that you stop these school shootings by outlawing guns is like saying you stop murder by outlawing murder.

00:30:51.000 You know, so it's common sense on the one hand, but common sense is something that our elected leaders in Washington have very little of.

00:30:58.000 And we see that in these efforts to negotiate with and strike a deal with Democrats who, by the way, I was going to mention this in the last segment.

00:31:07.000 Democrats are done negotiating or striking compromises.

00:31:11.000 When was the last time Democrats decided to compromise with Republicans on anything?

00:31:15.000 Their party is controlled by the hard, left-wing activist-based that is unwilling to compromise on any issue.

00:31:22.000 And so the idea that there would be some kind of a deal about guns is absolutely farcical, completely divorced from reality.

00:31:31.000 The Democrats have not conceded anything since the roaring 20s, and that's not an exaggeration.

00:31:36.000 Since FDR, the Democrats have not given an inch.

00:31:39.000 Since the Roaring 20s, they have never come to a legislative consensus that is in the favor of something conservatives want.

00:31:47.000 The only exception might be in the 1990s with Bill Clinton, who might have come to the middle on crime and some other issues. 0.91

00:31:53.000 That might be, but they were getting tons of things in return, like mass immigration, all this other garbage.

00:31:57.000 What then is the driving force?

00:31:59.000 I think it's deeper than just disconnection.

00:32:02.000 I mean, you have someone like John Cornyn, is it just kind of this kind of empty kind of vacuum in their soul where they want to be liked?

00:32:11.000 You know what I mean?

00:32:11.000 Like, what is it?

00:32:12.000 Is it kind of just this, I so deeply want to be accepted by the Washington Post, and this is my time to shine?

00:32:19.000 What exactly do you think is the motivating factor here?

00:32:22.000 Well, without speculating on the condition of their soul, I do think that a lot of these politicians in Washington are very sensitive to the kinds of things that are said about them in places like the Washington Post and the New York Times.

00:32:37.000 When you spend the majority of your professional career and your adult life in Washington, D.C., you know, nobody likes to be a pariah, right?

00:32:46.000 In your social milieu.

00:32:48.000 And that's what you become in D.C. if you're like, you know, Ted Cruz or Chip Roy and you sort of say the impolite thing and call people out and stick to your principles.

00:33:01.000 It's much easier to get along in Washington, D.C. if you're more like John Cornyn or Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham.

00:33:09.000 That way, you don't get nasty things said about you in the paper of record.

00:33:15.000 And I think that normal, everyday average Americans underestimate that aspect of life in Washington, D.C. and in Congress, that how much of an influence that has on the kinds of things that happen, the kinds of things that don't happen in D.C.

00:33:32.000 It's not a small thing.

00:33:33.000 It's a big thing.

00:33:34.000 It happens to a lesser extent in state capitals and state houses, but it happens in a really intense and sustained way in Washington.

00:33:42.000 And I think that's what's driving some of this.

00:33:45.000 I think that's exactly right.

00:33:47.000 The pressure on people like Cornyn and others to conform and to become a reasonable person, the Washington Post, it is not understood, I think, by most voters.

00:33:57.000 Like, well, why would you care what the Washington Post says?

00:33:59.000 It is a massive point of influence.

00:34:03.000 I believe firmly the New York Times and the Washington Post are better lobbyists than most people on K-Street, unintentionally at times.

00:34:10.000 Okay, phenomenal coverage of a very important issue.

00:34:14.000 Thank you, John Davidson from the Federalist.

00:34:16.000 Thanks so much.

00:34:16.000 Thank you.

00:34:19.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:20.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:23.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:34:24.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - June 03, 2022

Unearthing the Dark, Uni-Party Push to Disarm America

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