00:00:41.560If you're a fiscally responsible homeowner, there's no reason right now that you should be paying a higher percentage on your mortgage than you should be.
00:00:49.000I mean, we talk about this all the time.
00:45:00.720Her name is Dr. Jill Biden, not just Jill.
00:45:03.640But, you know, so the red flags, the red flag law, we've gone over this before, but basically this is something that some Republicans are on board with.
00:45:12.760And in theory, you can see why it would make sense.
00:45:15.160In practice, it makes, it has lots and lots of problems.
00:45:18.040People who should not be flagged have their weapons taken away, get them taken away constantly by people who don't like them and falsely accuse them of things.
00:45:27.940There's very little in the data that shows red flag laws are going to stop mass shootings, are going to stop domestic violence.
00:45:34.880The only place you really see any potential effect in the data is suicides, that maybe you might be able to figure out that there's some effect, though it's still completely unproven.
00:45:48.020And you have something, when you're going to take away constitutional rights from someone, you should be pretty sure about it.
00:45:53.680Mm hmm. And it's understandable how this one kind of goes down the road a little bit.
00:45:59.380But you'll notice he's not actually really doing anything.
00:46:01.780He's saying he wants a commission so that they can form the law and other people can pass.
00:46:07.580Yeah. They're recommending that states do this. Yes.
00:46:10.160And but he knows a national law. He wants that states to do it.
00:46:13.640He wants a national law. But he realizes correctly he can't do any of that himself.
00:46:17.780So this is this is this is him playing to his base a little bit here.
00:46:21.260Yeah. He realizes what he said in the campaign, which is he was going to do all this stuff on day one.
00:47:56.140Now, this is among the most disingenuous claims he will make in the entire speech.
00:48:02.000First of all, there's no the Charleston loophole is not a loophole.
00:48:06.020It was a specifically it was very specifically designed in the law.
00:48:09.040The reason it was designed in the law is because if you don't have what they call the Charleston loophole, you could go for a background check.
00:48:17.100The federal government could say, eh, couldn't quite get to that one.
00:48:44.020So the Charleston law was the Charleston loophole, as they call it, which is not what it's called, but that's their fancy name to call it now, is based on this idea that the Charleston shooter went to get a gun.
00:48:58.420They didn't do the background check for three days.
00:49:00.620So he was able to get the gun without the background check.
00:49:03.960Now, the reporting that's happened since the incident shows that he would not have failed the background check anyway.
00:49:10.780So it wouldn't have made a difference.
00:49:13.200But that's how they're trying to loop this in.
00:49:15.480They want to extend the period for the background check to 10 days and maybe forever.
00:49:21.320However, what's fascinating about this is in 2013, the Manchin-Toomey amendment, they tried to push that through.
00:49:30.820If you remember that, that was like the sort of the gang of eight approach to gun control in which some Republicans were on board and some Democrats worked with them, Manchin and Toomey being the headliners.
00:49:41.720But in that law, what they did was not extend the period for the Charleston loophole, quote unquote, what was to shorten it to only one day.
00:52:02.060He's the author of First Freedom, A Ride Through America's Enduring History with a Gun.
00:52:06.100And it's a history, it's exactly what it sounds like, a very detailed history of firearms in the United States going back to the founding.
00:52:15.400He says, I wrote a book on the history of American guns.
00:52:18.600And never once did I run across any law that restricted Americans from owning any weapons they desired, unless we're talking about blacks or Indians, because most gun restrictions in U.S. history have been employed to unarm the people who need weapons most.
00:52:33.340So when Joe Biden's like, oh, go back, certain people were limited from buying guns.
00:52:38.400Yeah, blacks and Indians, that's who was limited from buying guns.
00:52:42.760Okay, and no weapons were restricted back in the day.
00:52:50.100He continues, the idea of the federal government conducting any kind of domestic gun policy whatsoever would have been a completely alien concept to anyone before the 1930s.
00:53:01.860Even then, no specific types of guns were banned from use.
00:53:05.120It really wasn't until 1986 that the fully automatic guns were effectively banned by the federal government.
00:53:10.860Wasn't the machine gun banned in the 30s?
01:28:53.400And it's limited because if you screw up with their device, like you do something stupid with a gun and misuse it, then they can't be held liable for that.
01:29:43.900The Second Amendment was designed so that we could maintain a militia, not go bird hunting, although I like the idea of bird hunting.
01:29:52.800It's just as we have progressed in ways of needing to defend ourselves because those around us who would seek to hurt us have greater ways to hurt us.
01:30:04.840We should have greater ways of defending ourselves.
01:30:07.480We don't need a 22 short to defend our homes anymore.
01:30:13.300Having an AR may be necessary at some point.
01:30:15.840But you said something a few minutes ago that made a lot of sense to me.
01:30:18.640You said that this is more than just for defense, and that's the truth.
01:30:22.500The people that are buying these ARs are buying them, yes, for defense, but a lot of them are buying them because it's an art or a skill or a hobby.
01:30:29.980Some of them are doing it as a form of an investment for retirement because money is about worthless anymore, and so they stockpile guns not to use them but to have them in storage for their future.
01:31:00.620Most of the people buying these things are people like the callers we're talking to who are average people who might want to try to do this.
01:39:03.360It's like if you just took off for a flight right now and you flew around your city in a circle for an hour and then landed, that's all it would be.
01:39:09.600I just wanted to see how long it would take to circumnavigate the world.
01:39:43.660You're going to get these technologies.
01:39:45.100If they would allow the technologies we already have, like nuclear, to advance, we would have a lot less worry about these sorts of things.
01:39:54.580But that's apparently not the road we're going on.