A new frontier in public policy, largely unnoticed, is prescribing away your Second Amendment rights. A man comes to a hospital with a sprained ankle, and the doctor asks him a few questions about his gun: How many alcoholic drinks do you drink each week? Do you have access to firearms inside or outside the home? When the patient answers yes, she offers him a gun lock and a pamphlet with information on firearm safety classes.
00:00:00.000I know we're all busy talking about the border and the economy and the wars overseas,
00:00:05.040but the libs over at the Atlantic are celebrating a new frontier in public policy,
00:00:11.020largely unnoticed, and that is prescribing away your Second Amendment rights.
00:00:17.640Here's the headline. The doctor will ask about your gun now. Just a paragraph or two.
00:00:25.620A man comes to Northwell Health's hospital on Staten Island with a sprained ankle.
00:00:31.500Any allergies? The doctor asks. How many alcoholic drinks do you have each week?
00:00:35.880Do you have access to firearms inside or outside the home?
00:00:39.160When the patient answers yes to that last question, someone from his care team explains that locking up the firearm can make his home safer.
00:00:47.080She, of course it's a she, offers him a gun lock and a pamphlet with information on secure storage and firearm safety classes.
00:00:56.200And all of this happens during the visit about his ankle.
00:01:00.820Northwell Health is part of a growing movement of healthcare providers that want to talk with patients about guns,
00:01:08.220like they would diet, exercise, or sex, treating firearm injury as a public health issue.
00:01:15.040In the past few years, the White House has declared firearm injury an epidemic,
00:01:20.760and the CDC and the National Institutes of Health have begun offering grants for prevention research.
00:01:28.340Meanwhile, dozens of medical societies agree that gun injury is a public health crisis,
00:01:33.540and that healthcare providers have to help stop it.
00:01:37.640As they say, this policy has been building for some time, largely unnoticed.
00:01:42.640This is part of a much broader agenda.
00:01:50.320This is not about your ankle, and this is not about your alcoholic drinks, and this is not even totally about your guns.
00:01:58.240This is about the liberals pathologizing your rights, beliefs, and way of life,
00:02:04.840so they don't have to debate them, and they don't need to recognize them.
00:02:09.240I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:31.480And so Gretchen Whitmer was asked about an increasingly controversial public policy question, and that is the surrogacy industry, the baby store, and IVF, which really come down to the same questions we've been debating with abortion for a long time, which is, does human life really begin at the beginning of human life?
00:03:54.600Okay, then are we going to treat the humans like humans, or are we going to treat them like products to buy and sell, or are we going to treat them like trash or like a pathogen to be destroyed?
00:04:20.800You know, who cares what my position is, Kaylin?
00:04:23.860What matters is what the parents and their doctor agree is whatever is right for them, how they define it.
00:04:32.000That's the only one whose opinion should matter.
00:04:34.140Not a judge, not a politician, not a governor from a different state.
00:04:37.960That's what the fundamental question is here.
00:04:40.620Are we going to empower Americans to make their own health care decisions and make decisions about how they go about starting their family and whether or not they go about starting a family?
00:04:49.940And that's what I'm fighting for here in Michigan.
00:04:56.840The question that CNN is asking is, hey, Governor, do you think as a matter of law we ought to be able to slaughter babies or alternately put them in a freezer forever?
00:05:08.480And the governor of the state of Michigan says, what are you asking me for?
00:05:57.740It's just individual rights or something like that.
00:06:00.800No, no one has ever seriously believed that there isn't a totally protected individual right to kill your babies or lock them in a freezer forever in America.
00:06:12.680Brought about by a novel technology that draws on eternal principles and debates, and we elect public servants to make the laws for us and help to resolve some of those debates.
00:06:25.940The politicians are an expression of the desires of the people, and we elect them in part for their judgment.
00:06:35.460But they don't want to give us their judgment when they know that the answer is ghastly.
00:06:38.240Gretchen Whitmer wants to avoid the question here because she knows that it's kind of a lose-lose.
00:06:43.780Either she says, yeah, you can't just slaughter all the babies or throw them in a freezer forever, which alienates her infanticidal Democrat base.
00:06:56.440We're going to get them, which obviously alienates the moderates and the independents who don't think it's a great idea to go to the baby store and then kill them or freeze them willy-nilly.
00:07:05.540So she says, well, no, it's actually, are you kidding me?
00:07:26.460You think you get to have an opinion in our self-government over whether or not we murder a bunch of babies?
00:07:31.180No, if you don't have a uterus, then you don't get to use your reason and your conscience to determine whether or not we slaughter a bunch of infants in our ostensibly self-governing republic.
00:08:04.220There have been plenty of societies that slaughter kids, whether for the purposes of eugenics or for the purposes of supposed individual liberation or just because of cruel prejudices.
00:08:17.660But let's not pretend that this is not controversial.
00:08:21.900Let's not pretend that you don't have an opinion, Gretchen Whitmer.
00:08:25.560Let's not pretend that the question of whether or not we get to protect ourselves with our Second Amendment rights, how we get to use the natural right to self-defense, that that's not a political question.
00:08:37.940It's what they want to do by taking, by promoting the technocracy and by pathologizing and scientifying, that's a new word that I'm making, scientizing all of the political questions.
00:08:52.700It's just a way to take the political matters out of the realm of debate and to shut you up.
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00:10:20.240Speaking of science and progress, another Democrat politician, Pete Buttigieg.
00:10:26.500Judge, the Secretary of Transportation, he's returned from maternity leave.
00:10:32.220He is now going on Fox News, and he is explaining how important it is for Americans to give up the cars that they like to buy a bunch of dumb electric cars that many people don't like.
00:10:46.120Consumers have wanted and purchased more EVs every single year than the year before.
00:10:52.860And, you know, Tesla is facing more competition as GM and Ford and Stellantis and other competitive players start to make sure they get a piece of the EV market.
00:11:03.000Let's be clear that the automotive sector is moving toward EVs, and we can't pretend otherwise.
00:11:09.880Sometimes when these debates happen, I feel like it's the early 2000s, and I'm talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.
00:11:17.700The reality is that the automotive sector is moving toward EVs, and the U.S. can either fall behind China, or we can claim the lead.
00:11:35.140Because in the case of electric vehicles versus regular cars, the electric vehicles are much closer to the landline phones, and the gasoline-powered cars are much closer to the cell phones.
00:11:46.960People like cell phones because they get to move around with them.
00:11:51.300They can take their phone calls anywhere.
00:11:52.900It gives them a lot more choice in mobility.
00:11:56.140The landline kind of tethers you and limits your ability to move, just as the electric vehicle does.
00:12:00.500You can't go on a cross-country road trip willy-nilly with an electric vehicle because the range isn't long enough.
00:12:05.720And once you run out—even on the best electric cars, you run out your 200-mile range at best, you're going to have to pause and then sit at the electric charging station for, even with the best cars, what, half an hour, maybe longer for the cheaper electric cars?
00:12:51.420That is Pete Buttigieg doing the exact same thing that Gretchen Whitmer is trying to do, doing the exact same thing that the libs at the CDC are trying to do with guns.
00:12:58.820They're trying to pretend that their vision of left-wing progress is inevitable.
00:13:06.660Well, actually, guys, you know, the country, it's just moving toward electric cars.
00:13:11.320No, you're trying to make it move toward electric cars, and people don't want to.
00:13:14.760Um, actually, you know, we've sold more electric vehicles this year than any year in the past.
00:13:21.280Yeah, what, you sold like five last year, and you sold four the year before.
00:13:24.580I mean, it's a little bit higher than that.
00:13:26.000But the reason he's even going on TV now to desperately defend electric vehicles is because even Tesla,
00:13:31.580Tesla, which is sexy and cool, and it's run by the wackiest, super-genius billionaire that we've seen in our lifetimes,