welcome back everybody this is Eric and
Chad here with Iraq veteran88 88. today
we got another gun gripe episode for you
these are the types of videos that I
hate making the most I hate
making these types of videos I
absolutely do but I really do want to
talk about the recent school shooting in
Nashville because there's a lot of
information coming out about it and
there's a lot of things that we can
learn and take from it and it's such a
tragic tragedy I mean I hate to see
these types of events because it's it's
always terrible to deal with loss and we
hate to see situations where a shooter
carries out a heinous terrible Act of
evil you know what I mean and that's all
this is pure evil and as we dive deeper
into this video I think you'll see that
there's a lot of information that you're
probably going to want to know and we're
going to try to be as respectful and
direct as we can and I hope that you'll
join us for this discussion and maybe
comment below and let us know what you
think about things that are going on but
it's definitely a tragedy and our hearts
go out to the families of the people you
know affected and everything like that
and in this situation you know three
children were killed three adults were
killed and the police did end the threat
it and stop the shooter and the shooter
did die so that's seven people total
with the shooter it's a very terrible
series of events and it really paints a
very tragic picture that we'll try to
unravel as we get into today's gun gripe
but
um a terrible situation especially for a
Christian School and this is just such a
terrible terrible terrible event I
cannot
you know make that distinction enough
that we really hate to see these types
of things happen but you always have to
wonder like is there something we can
learn is there something we can take
away from it you know what can we take
from this and turn it into you know
maybe a learning situation well for one
we are going to get into this in more
detail but the law enforcement response
was textbook and we are going to get
into the way that that was handled
um so look the law enforcement up there
in Nashville look you guys did a
freaking great job we're not going to
show the footage out of respect for the
identities of everybody involved but
the law enforcement response was
textbook and we'll get into that
but there's definitely a lot of very
scary situations going on in our country
and some very mentally
unstable people in our country and you
know it's it's very very unsettling Chad
see these types of things going on look
I think um
I think I might lay out some ground
ground rules and just some prerequisites
okay because that's how I am all right
you guys know we've done this before
with like the Pulse Nightclub shooting
yeah you know from a 2A and gun rights
perspective we support everybody but on
a personal level you know I'm a family
man so obviously I'm going to disagree
with some of these movements and things
right but
and we're probably going to misgender
some people in this video so I mean I'm
sorry but like we're gonna talk about
biology because the shooter was a female
all right they they changed the headline
several times you know initially it
started out as like a teenager shot up
to school and then it went to a woman
shop school and then it was a
transgender that shopped school and then
it's a person that shot up at school and
initially Christian was in the title and
then they removed Christian from the
title so all the hot keywords were gone
you know trying not to piss anybody off
um that's how our new system works you
know they'll change the headline all
throughout the the day when this will be
whatever narrative they're trying to
push yes exactly and like it's a
sensitive subject all right a
transgender man
a biological female shoots up a
Christian School and part of the
reporting was that she was a former
student there so you're trying to wrap
someone's entire life 28 year old person
their entire life up into a few news
articles it's impossible to do so what
happened to this person what led them to
this point you know there is definitely
a mental issue in this country they're
mentally unstable people like you
mentioned and we are not caring for them
and we are not reading the signs early
enough you know and
as a as a family man you know like I see
my kids every day we homeschool
we do not send them to public school
maybe one day I'll send them to private
school I don't know but right now we
homeschool and it's the best thing I
think we could have ever done
I see my kids all the time I know my
kids they are all very different people
right
and you know like you have
you have movements in this country
on both sides of the aisle you know like
on the extreme right and on the extreme
left you know pushing for transgender
and and LBGTQ ideals be put in the
public sphere more and then you got
people on the other side that are 100
holy against it and they are just
constantly fighting and then you got
everybody else who's in the middle like
us I mean we're mostly centrists right I
agree okay but you've got stable
level-minded people that are just trying
to get through life and
try to make sense of these things that
happen and you got people screaming from
the left oh we need more assault weapons
fans gun bans you know oh they use these
type of guns we got to get these things
off the streets and you got people from
this side blaming you know oh it's a
transgender person and it's just the
Other Extreme and neither
should be setting an example of what you
should be like in these kind of
situations at all and like I feel I feel
horrible for the conservatives that are
coming out of the woodwork now and just
being such Hypocrites about the
situation I agree you know we we always
get upset when
when generalizations are made about
someone that looks like me let's just
put it that way all right a guy look you
know you're pretty pasty I mean okay I'm
I'm your average white dude right I mean
like someone looks like me you know we
we hate for someone to paint a picture
of well now all people look like me and
come from my background are all the same
because one person decide to carry out
and heinous act of violence so I think
in in respects to
let's just say
you know moral consistency and logical
consistency you can't paint the entire
uh transgender community in the same
light you know just because one
transgender person committed this
terrible act of violence doesn't mean
that all transgender people are bad
doesn't mean that all LGBT whatever you
know that community of people are bad
people and um I just think it's
important to not throw people under the
bus unnecessarily right you know we
wouldn't want those generalizations
being made about us so I'm not going to
sit here and paint generalizations about
others I have a lot of transgender
followers on Twitter right and a lot of
them are pretty freaking based people
like their freedom loving people just
like you and I and they're responsible
and they they work hard and and that's
their lifestyle and who am I to judge
someone by their lifestyle
but when we look at the entirety of the
situation it is terrible I mean you have
to ask yourself a lot of questions right
I mean was this
um this girl you know
uh bullied in school perhaps I mean did
she have a rough time I'm not saying
that it's justification of course for
carrying out these terrible acts but one
has to ask theirselves well when you
look at Columbine and the events of
Columbine like those kids you know at
some point we're bullied you know what I
mean so this bullying in school and
things I mean that can go both
directions right you know depending on
the makeup of the school and the
demographics of the school
what's so interesting about the school
is the school was really just a
microcosm of society I mean think about
it right in society you have good people
you have bad people you have
ugly people Beautiful People smart
people dumb people black people white
people and everything in between you
have Christian Muslim Jewish whatever
your persuasion is they're all in that
mixing pot in the school now unless it's
a a Christian school or a specific
private school that caters to a certain
specific demographic of kids or whatever
like this Christian School was you know
it's terrible to think that parents who
want their their kids to grow up in that
environment and to be taught those
ideals and those Conservative Christian
ideals in a safe Conservative Christian
environment now you know three of these
children are not going home and that's
scary right and three adults
probably trying to protect the kids
perished as well and that's terrible we
should always try to find ways to avoid
these situations from occurring now the
police took about 15 minutes to respond
but the response time is what it is and
I I'm not going to say whether that's
par for the course or not but I think
the police response was pretty good I
did see the the body cam footage of the
unit that responded to the shooter and I
must say I actually
kind of brought back some memories for
me because I mean these guys were
absolutely on their A-game they did not
play around they did a wonderful job of
going into the school in a methodical
fast Tactical Safe Manner and they
absolutely ended the threat in the most
professional way possible so I must say
they did a fantastic job so what I read
was uh like 15 minutes response time but
that was it was 15 minutes from the call
to ending the threat so there was the
the one report I saw the times were
unknown as far as when they arrived
entered the school and such as that but
from call to ending the threat 15
minutes which is pretty fast now if we
compare that to something like Uvaldi
one hour and 14 minutes in Uvalde until
even the door of the school was breached
so a lot more people and kids perished
you know adults and kids perished in
that that shooting well one positive
that we can take away if you could ever
call it a positive but one one
Silver Lining you can take from this is
that maybe in the future
these law enforcement agencies can take
this video and learn from it and go hey
how can we better improve our tactics
but beyond tactics response time the
absolute best response time is a teacher
with a dang gun right and gun free zone
and in gun-free zones and we've tried to
say this over and over again and I feel
like we're talking to a brick wall I
feel like we're talking to people aren't
listening but Chad and I have been
making these videos for over 15 years
and I've been involved in the 2A space
for over two decades right and I've been
telling people for two decades that
gun-free zones are just murder zones
they're just places where is is going to
create a soft target and allow a person
who wants to carry out evil to carry out
evil and that's exactly what happened
this shooter left behind a Manifesto a
detailed Manifesto giving a lot of
information about potential targets the
equipment they were going to use the
layout I mean Maps everything so this
paints a picture of a person who's
obviously very mentally deranged you
talk a pre-meditated shooting this
wasn't just some random act of violence
this was methodically and carefully
planned out by this person and according
to the Nashville police chief
okay he actually came out and said that
the manifesto included some other
locations like a mall and such and such
and that the shooter actually attempted
to go to another school but chose not to
attack that location because of the
strict security measures in place hmm
well that should tell you everything you
need to know right there I mean that
that writing is on the wall right there
already right we know that armed
teachers provide a hard target
that school resource officers provide a
hard target and that a shooter is not
going to go into a situation where he
knows he's going to meet resistance he
or she or whoever they're going to go
into a situation that offers the least
resistance and has the softest targets
and allows them to carry out their plans
unopposed that is a fact and that is the
real tragedy that we still allow these
things to continue we continue to listen
to the anti-gunners who say that well we
have to have stricter laws there's not a
law in the world that would stop someone
from carrying out an act like this right
the only way to deal with Force is with
Force
to stop Force you use Force
and the time frame but between when the
force is is done against you to when you
have to apply the force back needs to be
the shortest time frame possible and
what is the best way to do that for the
victim to be armed and be able to
provide Force immediately in response to
force
that is the only way
what what did you did they didn't show
up with a book and say hey it's against
the law to be in here with a gun it's
against the law to shoot people what do
they do no they went in and shot the
person who was harming their fellow
citizens
you know and it's terrible I mean I hate
to see these types of things occurring I
hate making these videos I hate doing
these types of gun gripes but how many
times are we going to tell people what
the solutions to this issue are and how
many times are they going to ignore us
and how many times this stuff's going to
keep happening before people will
actually take the things that we say to
heart and understand that we know what
we're talking about
it's just it's asinine I know I
understand
but the Silver Lining again is that the
police response
really good I mean those guys obviously
spent some time training together and I
do want to give
some good props to I'm just going to say
the team leader now it didn't seem like
they had like maybe a super involved
rank structure but here's the thing
the
the lead guy
let's see
officer Michael
Collazo okay now was officer Michael
Collazo the you know lieutenant or
Sergeant or guy in charge on that
particular stick maybe not but you know
what he did he took charge right he put
his hands on people told him where to go
he said hey you've got the rifle you
need to be in front of me right you walk
in front of your fellow officer he
lowers his muzzle their muzzle awareness
was good their speed and tenacity was
good they maintained their momentum
they communicated with each other they
maintain their Lanes there was a command
structure a command and control you had
officer Michael Collazo saying hey go
right do this do that like someone has
to take charge someone has to take the
initiative in that day Michael Collazo
took the initiative 110 based on what I
saw in the body cam footage I don't
think you could have asked for a better
response
definitely a 180 from what happened in
Uvalde absolutely and uh I mean a
complete 180. and that's another reason
too as you mentioned um when we were
talking earlier that's probably why this
body cam footage was released so quickly
is because you know like hey the police
want to get on top of it and like
there's no questions about how they
responded to this this tragedy
um good transparency on your partner
Nashville
um I have to say some great transparency
Tennessee all right so some blame game
right all right I mentioned earlier you
know the the the the right right wing
okay opponents whoever and just just
people out there are making all like
conservatives look bad right now just
trying to blame the transgender you know
movement or transgender people for this
just like you mentioned you know we get
blamed you know gun owners get blamed
for everything all the time and right
now there's I talk about blaming
constitutional carry laws so Tennessee
has constitutions from Kerry right
Georgia just passed it several States
over the past few years at past concerts
carry so the blame is oh well you can
just carry a gun anywhere and that's why
this happened
so we're going to see like a Slowdown of
constitutional carry laws being brought
up and maybe passed in state
legislatures or are we going to see a
ramp up to try to get you know uh more
likes gun laws out there you know for
people to actually defend themselves and
their families and their communities
with
um I think what good is constitutional
carry if you can't carry where where the
crimes are occurring so if if schools
keep being victimized by shooters then
why aren't the teachers carrying why
don't we have resource officers in every
school like well you're creating
environments where it's just a killing
field for these people so you can't you
can't say that it's Society at large
carrying around a gun with
constitutional carry when you don't
allow people to carry in schools so
those staff those kind of laws on the
state level are what lead to you know
arming the teachers and it's not a
mandatory thing it's never been a
mandatory thing in in the school
districts that have passed these kind of
laws right or these kind of uh like
bylaws or whatever you want to call them
you know if if a teacher wants to be
armed in the school they have the
ability to go through the training and
you know have a firearm on campus and
like everything's covered you know their
training is covered their firearm is
covered ammunition the safe storage all
that is covered by the taxpayers okay
and
I think it's a wonderful thing you don't
have to be a gun person at the school
to know that someone there has a firearm
that will protect you in the in the case
of something like this happening and it
gives less incentive for these things to
happen
right if all the schools in sensitive
locations
were covered like this then I think we'd
probably be okay but going back to what
I mentioned earlier like where where did
these
where do these things start I think
that's where we need to move forward to
as a country is figuring out the root
cause of where these actions come from
you know that's I think the biggest
thing and I think it's it's going to
take a huge cultural movement in order
to figure that out and it's going to
take both sides coming together and like
actually trying to agree on things
instead of the extreme sides just
butting on each other's heads all the
time and just being extremely bigoted
and hypocritical and look I want to say
something else too just because it was a
Christian School doesn't mean there
aren't biggest and hypocrites there
that's right you can't deny the fact
that
there are people within religious
organizations that are probably the
worst people on earth
but they're some of the best people on
Earth there too right
so what was this shooter exposed to at
that school that made them want to do
this or was it something they were
exposed to outside the school or was it
some other series of factors we have no
idea like I mentioned you're trying to
you know condense someone's entire life
into a couple of news articles and and
like everybody becomes an expert on that
person right news articles that are
usually pretty biased absolutely now
here's the issue with that you know you
must apply Nuance in every situation and
when we look at the Nuance of the
situation
blaming the tool like in this case
saying well we need more gun laws
because more gun laws would have would
have fixed this that that's like saying
you're a carpenter that that builds
houses crooked all the time and oh it's
The Stang Hammer's fault or the Nail's
fault no it's your fault because you
don't know you're not a good Carpenter
so it's like you can't blame the tool
you have to blame the user of the tool
and you have to figure out what causes
them to use the tool in such a negative
way Firearms are simply a tool and
they're used for good in a lot of
situations in fact it was none other
than the anti-gun Lobby themselves that
pushed the CDC to hide defensive gun use
statistics
they did that and got away with it right
so there are lots of reported data that
deals in Firearms being used for
personal protection in a lot of cases a
lot of situations right uh I do want to
give a quick shout out to my friend Ryan
Petty you guys might know him as being
one of the the Parkland fathers okay
instead of you know doing the typical
thing you know because Ryan is such a
pro-gun guy you know he decided to you
know get involved with the uh the the
Florida State Board of Education and
actually got some programs in place to
put armed teachers in the schools in
Florida so that's one thing that Ryan
Petty can hang his hat on that now uh
schools in Florida are much better
protected and again as Chad mentioned
earlier it's not mandatory of course
they're they're not going to say that
that a teacher now has to become
essentially a soldier or a policeman or
something like that but for situations
where you know maybe a willing teacher
wants to get some training and be a
designated Marksman if you will or
designated shooter they can go get
training and the training that the
teachers have to pass is actually akin
to air marshal training which if any of
you have ever passed Air Marshal
training or if you know about uh the way
that Air Marshals train it's some of the
strictest training and has the strictest
and hardest pistol qualification it's
even harder than military pistol
qualification or police pistol
qualification
it's harder than an FBI pistol
qualification Air Marshal training is no
joke it's hard so it's by that test that
they go hey this teacher is about to
launch a projectile at High Velocity
with a bunch of kids in the room well
think about it isn't that like being on
a plane right where you have to make
that shot count
right you have to make sure that if you
are going to engage a shooter you don't
hit you know your students or or hits an
innocent person and the stress is on
right and that's why Air Marshals pistol
certification is so difficult because
they want to make sure that you're not
just going to go blindly shooting in a
Plane full of people or shoot the window
out now you depressurize the window so
shot placement's extremely important
when you're Air Marshal and that's why
they use that as their standard for
training teachers on Marksmanship now is
every
nine to five teacher gonna want to take
that type of training or or be that
designated person no they're not and
they don't have to be there's not a
requirement all we're saying is allow
the teachers the the ability to receive
the training and carry a fire you know
or keep the firearm and obviously a
locked container you know a very well
secured location but that is still
easily accessible if they need to get to
it you know one of the teachers that
died in Parkland was a Marine Corps
veteran
and guess what he he wanted to save his
kids and couldn't because he didn't have
a gun
now would I have wanted a Marine Corps
veteran to have a pistol on that day you
better believe it
should he yes absolutely should have but
we have these barriers in place that
don't allow our teachers to receive the
training and resources that they need to
protect their students
when Congress is in session
do you ever hear of people going to uh
you know Capitol Hill and trying to I
don't know walk in the door with a gun
and cause some trouble on Capitol Hill
when Congress is in session no because
there's people creeping around with mp5s
and M16 that'll crawl up you like white
on rice right so if we protect our
congressman
we protect our banks your money are our
children not our most precious resource
why do they not receive the same
protection the same level of care
you're going to send them and put them
in the hands of a stranger
for eight hours a day nine hours a day
and not know what what's going on other
than the occasional text message and
then
you know not know that that somebody in
that school is capable
of using Force against force that is
carried out against your children
think about how asinine that is think
about why we still allow that to happen
we know why these things happen we know
the answer we know the solution we have
the solution on a silver platter here
trying to hand it to you and it just
refuse to accept it
and that's not the fault of the gun
owner at large it's not the fault of the
tools it's just because of a personal
Mantra on the anti-gunner side that guns
are bad and the only way to you know get
into that Utopia society that they dream
about is to dispose of all the guns and
then we'll all be all right except for
you know the people that will still have
guns that will try to control every
aspect of your life you know
I mean the school certainly wouldn't be
any safer no the the big issue is
you know the politicization of these
tragedies on both sides of the aisle and
that was a danger that was something I
didn't want to I didn't want to stand on
the the fine line of politicizing a
situation that's not what we're
attempting to do here we're trying to
apply some Nuance we're trying to look
at the middle of the road we're trying
to look at both sides of the scenario
and see like
you know we always try to apply Nuance
in these types of videos so the
anti-gunners on the left you know Biden
came out early on like
we convert these tragedies we just need
we need to get these guns off the street
we need to pass an assault one span I
call on Congress to pass an assault
weapons ban right now
it's always the case so we've explained
before they don't work the proof is in
the pudding there's plenty of data out
there to show that those pieces of
legislation are absolute garbage and
they do absolutely nothing for Public
Safety guns in the hands
of people who know what they're doing
and have a desire to protect their
families their communities their schools
you know the people that they care about
people they don't even know they still
care about them yeah
those are the people that you want out
there you want them to have guns and
constitutional carry laws are not to
blame gun owners are not to blame that's
right you know but
the problem is people are going to
politicize it
they can you know Far Far Right Wingers
just you know you're already seeing the
the threads out there on Twitter and
Reddit and everywhere else where it's
just the the anti-transgender hate and
it's just it's so hypocritical
and I hate sometimes to consider myself
even a quasi-conservative in some cases
it's embarrassing you know to be painted
in that picture and have have people
like that painting that picture of an
entire group of people the same way that
the side that you disagree with us and
like I I don't think generalizations are
a positive thing no never it's not it's
it never comes from a position of logic
or Nuance to apply such a blanket
statement to a group of people now I
mean that's like saying when you see a
crime committed by someone who looks a
certain way that all those people are
going to commit the same crime because
they look that way or oh this person
that committed this crime was a Muslim
or he was black or he was white or he
would whatever insert whatever little
detractor you can right that's like
saying that all people that look like
that or follow that religion or whatever
right that they all were gonna are gonna
act that certain way and that's just
simply objectively untrue like you can't
generalize people in that way it's just
not a logically consistent way to to
look at the world it really isn't
healthy there was a pro-gun bill that
was going to be drawn up in the
Judiciary Committee
um I'm going to be heard or whatever and
that got postponed a few other things so
likely like pro-gun legislation is
probably going to be on the back burner
for a little bit and if any pro
legislation comes out then guess what
all conservatives and and pro-gun people
are all bigots
you know that that's just usually the
case right
we're all just bigoted individuals we
don't care
you know about things that happen
I mean come on are you going to see a
bunch of assault weapons fans get drawn
up in the Senate yeah probably you know
are we going to be talking about them in
a week or two yeah probably you know
it's just slain old thing the same old
song and dance each side wanting to pull
at the at the heartstrings of America to
try to further their political
aspirations is really what it all comes
down to in terms of the left to right
Paradigm it's like America still Falls
forward
until we learn how to be like one
Collective like just Americans just
accept each other and understand that
somebody might not agree with you
but you know you may not agree with them
but guess what you can still live in the
same space together
right I know that's a hard idea for some
people to to accept
you know Nuance again must be applied
and I think that the modern let's just
say modern conservatism if you will
is probably
more centralist in nature you know I
think that it's your average person who
considers himself conservative
probably
pretty lacks on a lot of things that
maybe 20 or 30 40 years ago
conservatives would have really drawn a
negative Ayah and there's still a lot of
like very hardcore conservatives they're
like oh well we shouldn't legalize
cannabis or you know all of these
different things that they talk about
but then you've got a lot of
conservatives that are like in fact a
Twitter poll that I just made let me
pull this poll up real quick
oh heck I just closed that window out
well I'll pull it up real quick Chad
while you're you're interjecting but it
I want to share a Twitter poll with you
hang on I'm gonna pull it up it's not
exactly related to this but I think it
paints a very distinctive picture now
like a lot of the the people that follow
um you know my Twitter page if you're
not following me on Twitter make sure
you follow me it's um Iraq veteran88
just look for me on there I'm on there
but I like to do Twitter polls and one
of the Twitter polls that I uh recently
posted was about cannabis right and I've
got a lot of conservative people that
follow me on Twitter I mean like we're
talking 130 000 people so it's not like
a small uh group of people
let me scroll down here and uh p is
stored in the bowl
well
I never get on your Twitter it's
probably good that you don't because
frankly I don't have time you probably
don't need to I just saw that in passing
them what it was I'm gonna have to purge
that for my memory yeah
look I get spicy on Twitter y'all it's
just it's the bottom line but I wanted
to share this poll okay here's here it
is all right the question was
if cannabis makes someone's life better
and they haven't committed any serious
crimes should simply being a user of it
prohibit that person from owning a
firearm all right so this should just
tell you the difference
all right conservative values and how
much they've changed just in the last 10
to 15 20 years right if I would have
made this poll 20 years ago it'd be
drastically different out of all the
people that responded six percent said
that yes using cannabis should prohibit
you from owning a firearm 94 of
respondents said that no being a user of
cannabis should not prohibit you from
owning a firearm there were 11
636 votes pretty good pool of data if I
say so myself that should tell you right
there that the tides for conservatism
are changing a lot right I don't want to
get into this subject super hard because
that's not what this is about but it's
important to paint the picture that
there is not such a stark comparison
between left and right anymore that the
middle of the road is kind of where a
lot of us are leaning on a lot of
different issues centralist is is kind
of like the moral middle ground it's
sort of The Logical middle ground it's
sort of like a ground zero where many of
us kind of go okay maybe in some
elements we're going to be a little bit
more right-wing right like you know when
it comes to guns yeah I'm probably more
more right-wing because I'm super
pro-gun and that's generally considered
a right wing uh trait but then I'm also
for the legalization of cannabis which
by many circles would put me in the far
left category because there's a lot of
far-right people that would say oh well
only a you know evil Kami would want a
you know a hippie or somebody would want
to you know legalize cannabis now I'm
not a user of cannabis I could care less
about it but I don't think it should be
anybody's place to tell you what to do
you see again I'm more libertarian in
terms of my my mindset so again with
that being in mind getting back to the
task at hand when we discuss Firearms
ownership I mean yeah I'm not going to
sit here and say that all people that
are transgender are somehow evil or
terrible or morally bankrupt uh and that
they shouldn't be able to own a gun just
because one person commits a terrible
act you know generalizations are not
healthy for anybody and I think it's a
it's it's a bad policy for an individual
to draw such generalizations about
people especially when it involves a
tragic situation like this and we have
to remember at the end of the day you
know there's families that are affected
by this you know there there's children
whose parents are obviously distraught I
mean there's people who have mothers
fathers and sisters and brothers and
family members that love them and now
they're not here anymore and that's
terrible right also the family of the
shooter okay obviously they were
deranged obviously they had a terrible
time I mean it it's hard to draw a
conclusion like this for some but I mean
gosh their family is probably grief
stricken I mean one minute you know your
your kids as normal as they can be in
the next minute they just got shot by
the cops because they decide to do
something crazy imagine what they're
thinking are they going through the
thought process of where did I fail as a
parent right did I not love them enough
did I teach them the wrong thing did I
not instill enough values and morals and
principles in them you know did where
did I go wrong so there's a lot of lives
that are torn apart when these things
happen but I think the society needs to
to swallow the the red pill and come to
the realization that there's a cultural
problems that are at our doorstep that
are not necessarily Firearms are only a
tiny tiny component of the entirety of
this tragedy in the in the the major
tragedy is cultural
how many times have we talked about this
in the past we've tried to tell people
we've been telling people for years
I know
I mean you can only beat on the door so
long
and it's like well I guess they're not
home Society needs to come to the
conclusion that all of the policies that
these freaking anti-gunners try to pair
it all the time are absolutely
crazy and ineffective like that's the
bull in the room Society needs to have
The Bravery to stand up to these sickos
and say listen y'all's ideas suck we're
going to try these ideas for a while
like we need to listen to these people
you know like what is the definition of
insanity
doing the same thing over and over again
expecting a different result precisely
right what result from this situation
can we definitively point to and say was
a contributing factor to the shooter not
going to the first location because this
was a soft target with very little
resistance to their intended action and
the other school has a harder Target
strict security
hello
McFly I'm telling you the evidence of
that situation is going to be buried in
the mainstream media no one's going to
hear about it and Only The Fringe groups
are gonna you know try to go anywhere
with it and it won't go anywhere because
guess what
just nowhere for it to go you get
squashed on social media it won't let me
accept Twitter really yeah this day has
been good I mean look since since musk
took over it's it's been a great
platform and some people would say oh
it's more toxic now I don't think it's
more toxic I think it's more real
there's it's more real right there's
more opinions that might differ from
yours so some people may view that as
toxic but for the open mind
Twitter is an environment where you know
if you actually do want to consider
having your opinion Changed by Logic
you know you can you can hear some
opinions that might differ from yours
and you know what you might come to a
conclusion that maybe that person's
right and maybe you've been wrong about
it but it takes a lot of courage to
admit when you're wrong I think and I'm
not going to sit here and say that the
anti-gunners don't want the world to be
safe like I mean I think that we really
all want the same thing at the end of
the day if you strip away all the
political politicization and all of the
the other things we all want the same
thing it's just the difference is we
read history books and we you know and
we understand human nature and we use a
little more logic and we understand the
way the world works
and
at the end of the day you know I'll say
one other thing
um
we're raising our children in this
country just general generalization not
on individual level because I know I'm
not doing this but raising our children
in this country to be entitled
spoiled rotten right expect everything
handed to him and you know by raising
him that way and and just kind of
putting them to the side and ignoring
their issues and not spending time with
them quality time you know what kind of
adults are they going to grow into
they're going to grow into very immature
adults who are triggered by the simplest
little thing we see this all the time
throughout social media and whatnot and
like this stuff really happens I mean I
go to the store sometimes in in just our
town and I see people that you're like
how can they think that it's okay to act
that way you know in public
so they grow up with that same demeanor
and they become very immature adults and
they can't handle situations they can't
just take a mature
um standpoint to something all right
somebody said something mean
okay and so
sticks and stones will break my bones
right I mean I've mentioned this another
variation just grew up completely
different I mean like but we didn't have
that but we're Millennials though we get
bashed all the time and it's like
what are you talking about I mean when I
was in school if you had a problem with
somebody
you met out in the dang yard and dealt
with it and you didn't tell nobody
teachers didn't know your parents didn't
know
you just dealt with it and and probably
the next day you're probably friend you
probably could just shake and be like
all right fine I was wrong either we're
admit it right
you can't tell somebody to meet you out
by the Merry-Go-Round these days because
they don't exist anymore wow you know or
the micro doors can't have monkey bars
anymore can't have a lot of things the
monkey bars at our school were like 14
feet tall you could like break your leg
if you fell off of it and you just did
but but for real though like the the
cultural thing and like how kids are
being raised
I mean that that's a huge factor in this
kind of crap happening they're popping
all these kits full of Behavioral
medicines they're handing them an iPad
and they're being raised by an iPad look
they don't have to be popped with a
syringe either you know
kids what they eat
water they drink I mean like you want to
go down that road yeah Buckle in but
like the kids are being pumpful all
kinds of crap and you know it's it's not
just drugs it's what we're eating yeah
too growth hormones that they put in the
food and all the genetically modified
organisms and stuff GMOs radio waves
Wi-Fi you know 5G where's the tinfoil
hat come on like work I I mean look I'm
just saying but but that's the actor
they're like Society needs to understand
all the factors that that occur with
these types of situations they always
they always want to paint the picture
that it's the gun it's the gun oh it's
always the gun it ain't the gun it
started way before that gun was just the
end of the road not the beginning
something LED them down that path and it
wasn't that gun I can promise you that
so the gun might have been the means to
the end but it wasn't the path that got
on there and that's what Society at
large is going to have to come to the
conclusion I get to look at the bull in
the room hard they could fight the bull
in the room that's the bull in the room
culture
so
it's terrible and I hate it and I really
don't like making these kind of videos I
hate them but I feel like it's important
to put our thoughts out there
it's important for people to understand
where you stand on a situation it's
important for people to understand what
the real solutions can be
meaningful impactful solutions that are
based on data and logic and scientific
acumen
not just a knee-jerk reaction to an
inanimate object that's not going to
help anything
and this is all terrible and I hate to
report these types of things but I feel
like it's important that we that we put
some thoughts out there on it absolutely
and you know it's important that we that
we remember the families that are
affected by these these tragedies and
and hope that they can find peace in
Solace and that they can find you know a
path forward that makes them whole in
life and that they can you know find
their path with their creator
you know it's terrible and there's
nothing that I can say that will that
will ease the burden of the situation
that will ease the grief that will make
life better for those people who have
been irreparably harmed right there's
nothing I can do that will take those
actions back but it is important to
recognize that evil as a force
is a force that has to be met with Force
it's the only way to stop evil and evil
struck that day bottom line
bottom line it was an evil act carried
out by a very disturbed and evil person
and all we can do as a society is try
our best to harden our institutions
and to protect our children in every way
we can I mean I know when my grandson is
visiting
you better believe ain't nobody gonna
roll up in my place and hurt my grandkid
I'm gonna I'm gonna meet that with Force
right and I would want an adult who had
custodianship on my kid at the time like
a teacher to have the same force that I
would apply at home if I was protecting
my kid
to protect my kid when I'm not there and
if we're being honest with ourselves as
well it's a big responsibility to ask of
a teacher not every teacher should be
required or forced in any way to to take
on their responsibility because it is a
responsibility you're putting yourself
In Harm's Way and let's be honest but
you're also In Harm's Way if you're
unarmed let's be honest with ourselves
though not everybody has the proper
mental Acumen uh or you know technical
um know-how whatever the case is to to
handle firearms and use them effectively
either right so like you can't just put
a gun into a teacher's hand and expect
them to you know beat John Wick of
course or some nonsense but think about
how many former police and military ends
up going into the education you know
going into teaching there are plenty of
Faculty members at various schools that
are more than capable of protecting
their students awesome we just have to
be courageous as a society and be like
you know what enough's enough we're
going to put guns we're going to put a
sign and outside that says hey shooter
don't come in here because our teachers
are going to end you we protect our
students with guns I know you've seen
the signs now what do you think which
school is one school there that's got
the signs that says hey our faculty's
armed and don't try nothing
and then the one across the street that
has a gun-free zone sign up which which
which area you think the shoes are going
to go to
come on
you know the answer
it's terrible
and that's the that's the story that's
the story of this gripe is
Hard Target versus soft target and it
always comes down to that
but it is terrible and I hate to report
it but we wanted to make this gripe and
I hope you all have a wonderful day I
hope you all
you know hold your kids close and take
care of your kids you know and as a
parent as a grandparent you know this is
sucks I I can't imagine
the feeling that I would have to lose a
child and no one should have to lose a
child and and there are many dangers in
our life that we have to contend with
the world is a dangerous place but there
are dangers that we can control a lot
closer right we put our seat belts on
right to in case we get in a car wreck
you know
we have insurance in case we get hurt
you know we lock our doors at night so
no one can come in our home
you know there's all these measures that
we put in place to protect ourselves
against the evils and dangers of the
world why should we not extend those
same protections to our children
that's the question I posed for you
today and I hope that you'll take that
to heart and really understand where
Chad and I are coming from on this one
so thank you so much many more videos on
the way again I really hate to report on
tragedy I I don't like discussing this
type of stuff but hopefully we had some
silver lining and some sustains that we
could pull from this that hopefully will
make Society a better place if people
will just listen to us that's all we've
been asking for is a chance for people
to just listen to us and take what we
say to heart and understand that maybe
we maybe we know what we're doing
talking about okay we've been trying to
tell people for over 20 freaking years
okay this ain't new
Society needs to get their heads out of
their butt
and start paying attention to data and
statistics and logic and reality
and I think we can come away
with a safer place for everybody so I
hope you all have a wonderful day thank
you so much many more videos on the way
we'll see you soon
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