Well-Regulated: Managing Guns and The People Who Shoot Them

WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.120 --> 00:00:10.869 It's only head and now it's online Bible. This stylecom yes emotions with boyle 2 00:00:11.550 --> 00:00:17.989 style. Hey, welcome back to buy polar style. I am indeed John 3 00:00:18.109 --> 00:00:25.100 Emotions. This episode is called well regulated. It's managing guns and people who 4 00:00:25.140 --> 00:00:29.780 shoot them. Take a little now, but your boy is done. He's 5 00:00:29.820 --> 00:00:34.979 walking around like it's number one to win downtown, got on the phones. 6 00:00:35.140 --> 00:00:38.850 Don't shoot, shoot, shoot that thing at me from shoot, shoot, 7 00:00:38.929 --> 00:00:43.770 shoot that thing at me. You know you've got my simpathy, but don't 8 00:00:43.810 --> 00:00:47.770 shoot, shoot, shoot that thing and don't shoot, shoot, shoot that 9 00:00:48.009 --> 00:00:55.399 thing, shoot, shoot that. You know you got my shoot, shoo, 10 00:00:55.479 --> 00:01:03.719 shoot. So if you live in America, you obviously know we're having 11 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:07.870 a problem with mass shootings. Mass shootings tend to get blamed on guns, 12 00:01:08.989 --> 00:01:15.430 sometimes they get blamed on people. Oftentimes there seems to be kind of a 13 00:01:15.549 --> 00:01:22.019 conflict and society can't agree on which it is. So I'm going to go 14 00:01:22.180 --> 00:01:26.180 through some points and, you know, make a few other points and try 15 00:01:26.260 --> 00:01:33.090 to, I don't know, just provide you some more information to make better 16 00:01:33.170 --> 00:01:40.250 decisions with regards to guns and killing people and things like that, like you 17 00:01:40.370 --> 00:01:44.409 know. So let's get into it. Let's well, there's a lot of 18 00:01:44.489 --> 00:01:49.200 stuff here and just by the way, I am my personality, my delivery 19 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.920 style when to go through it quickly and I'll probably bounce around quite a bit. 20 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.640 Fortunately, I'll leave show notes so you can see the more salient topics 21 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:02.469 by their time mark in the podcast and if you want to jump ahead to 22 00:02:02.590 --> 00:02:07.709 those, go ahead. That's fine, but this whole thing won't take very 23 00:02:07.750 --> 00:02:09.069 long, half an hour or so, so it's going to be hard to 24 00:02:09.110 --> 00:02:14.550 keep up and of course I'm going to upset people. I'm going to Piss 25 00:02:14.590 --> 00:02:22.419 people off because I'm fairly independent thinker and I have differing opinions on guns and 26 00:02:22.819 --> 00:02:29.939 mental health issues. So I'm bound to piss probably everybody off. Hopefully, 27 00:02:30.569 --> 00:02:32.169 you know you're not too upset about it, but if you do have a 28 00:02:32.610 --> 00:02:38.250 point you'd like to make, by all means go to bipolar stylecom whether you're 29 00:02:38.250 --> 00:02:42.409 on your phone or whatever device you're listening on. There should be a button 30 00:02:42.449 --> 00:02:45.759 there that says something to the effect of leave a voicemail or leave a voice 31 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:49.840 message. Go ahead and leave me a message and I will do my best 32 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:54.360 to play that message in its entirety on upcoming follow up show to guns and 33 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:59.189 mental health. Okay. So don't feel like you don't you can't argue with 34 00:02:59.310 --> 00:03:02.669 me. I'm totally up for a discussion. Name Collins not going to help. 35 00:03:02.750 --> 00:03:07.430 But if you want to discuss guns and or mental health with regards to 36 00:03:07.550 --> 00:03:12.349 each other, feel free to leave me a message and I'd love to hear 37 00:03:12.389 --> 00:03:15.699 from you. So, that said, let's let's go forward. Let's take 38 00:03:15.780 --> 00:03:19.819 the next first step. So in this let's let's call it a debate, 39 00:03:19.939 --> 00:03:23.460 I think it's more of a discussion, but there are like two or three 40 00:03:23.620 --> 00:03:28.689 points that I'm pretty hard stuck on, and the first one is that we 41 00:03:28.810 --> 00:03:35.770 have to agree that human lives are more important than money. Why? Well, 42 00:03:35.889 --> 00:03:39.090 because human lives invented money, human lives invented guns. Human lives are 43 00:03:39.129 --> 00:03:43.520 more important than all of the other things. So we have to agree that 44 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:46.520 human lives are more important than money. If you don't agree with that, 45 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:50.960 then I'm not going to have a discussion with you about the rest of the 46 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:57.710 things. And we also have to agree that guns are an American right enshrined 47 00:03:57.830 --> 00:04:02.389 in the Constitution Amendment number two. We have the right to keep in bear 48 00:04:02.469 --> 00:04:12.060 arms. And the third one we have to agree that facts established by legitimate 49 00:04:12.139 --> 00:04:17.939 research and studies are more valuable in the debates, then fallacies. If you 50 00:04:17.980 --> 00:04:21.579 don't know what a fallacy is, if they didn't teach you critical thinking in 51 00:04:21.699 --> 00:04:29.610 high school, go look up fallacies. Fallacies, the fallacies. Look up 52 00:04:29.649 --> 00:04:31.730 those. We're not going to get involved with those things, like Straw man 53 00:04:31.850 --> 00:04:36.449 and slippery slopes and all that. If you pose a problem that's not actually 54 00:04:36.449 --> 00:04:40.759 happening right now, like you're presenting a problem that Matt might or might not 55 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:44.480 happen in the future. That's a slippery slope. We're discarding those. So, 56 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:48.040 to reiterate, we're going to agree that lives are more important than money, 57 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:55.230 that guns are an American right and that facts are more important than fallacies. 58 00:04:55.870 --> 00:04:59.430 Cool, all right. Now we can move forward. So, as 59 00:04:59.509 --> 00:05:02.870 you may or may not know, I am a California person, born and 60 00:05:02.949 --> 00:05:08.180 raised in California, but I move a lot. I travel around the country. 61 00:05:08.180 --> 00:05:12.620 I've been to many different places. I'm currently in deep South Louisiana, 62 00:05:13.100 --> 00:05:16.860 gun country, Bible Belt, the whole bit, and I make it a 63 00:05:17.019 --> 00:05:21.490 point to get out and visit other humans in person and stay with them for 64 00:05:21.569 --> 00:05:28.930 a while so that I could better understand them. So let's start with the 65 00:05:29.129 --> 00:05:35.959 well regulated militia. Let's start with the well regulated militia. They're there, 66 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:41.399 for example. Let's take us Switzerland, for example. There's a kind of 67 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:46.720 a quasi myth that everybody in Switzerland has to have a gun. That's not 68 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:50.230 that's not true. What there's some cool detail in here, though. So 69 00:05:50.709 --> 00:05:56.990 in Switzerland what happens is when you are twenty years old and you're a man, 70 00:05:57.829 --> 00:06:01.709 you go into training, you learn how to basically military training, right, 71 00:06:01.790 --> 00:06:05.819 and then you're done. After the training, they send you back home, 72 00:06:06.459 --> 00:06:13.540 but they send you back home with a rifle and ammunition. Now, 73 00:06:13.620 --> 00:06:17.889 in the past ten years or so, they stop sending the ammunition. They 74 00:06:18.009 --> 00:06:21.050 just send you back home with your rifle that they trained you how to use 75 00:06:21.769 --> 00:06:27.009 and at the end of your basically, so from twenty to thirty years old 76 00:06:27.329 --> 00:06:30.610 in Switzerland, you're part of the militia. If any there's any emergency or 77 00:06:30.610 --> 00:06:35.680 danger, you're called up. You've been trained with your rifle and now instead 78 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:39.959 of, you know, the fifty bullets they used to give you, you 79 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:45.000 have to go to the armory and check out your bullets. And even back 80 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:50.110 when the Swiss, the Swiss government, handed out bullets and guns the bullets 81 00:06:50.149 --> 00:06:57.069 were handed out in sealed packs and the government audited those bullets regularly. They 82 00:06:57.069 --> 00:07:00.509 would go to people's houses and check on your bullets. Okay, still sealed, 83 00:07:00.589 --> 00:07:03.019 good to go. For many reasons, I'm assuming because they want to 84 00:07:03.060 --> 00:07:06.019 make sure you had the bullets in case there really was an emergency, and 85 00:07:06.420 --> 00:07:10.980 for the second reason that you just not screwing off and using all your bullets 86 00:07:12.339 --> 00:07:16.250 either sport, hunting or killing people, I guess. Anyway, that's well 87 00:07:16.329 --> 00:07:20.769 regulated. That's that's a cool way to start. If Switzerland can do it, 88 00:07:21.529 --> 00:07:26.050 we can do things like that. The whole idea that we have the 89 00:07:27.089 --> 00:07:31.720 right to freedom from bureaucracy and that's bullshit. You have the right to keep 90 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:36.639 in bear arms, you don't have the right to be free from legislation that 91 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:42.639 governs the use of the gun or the bullets or anything else. There's nothing 92 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:47.149 in the constitution that says you get to avoid regulations. You just get to 93 00:07:47.269 --> 00:07:50.589 keep in bear a gun. By the way, of course it's for a 94 00:07:50.709 --> 00:07:55.230 well regulated militia and there's no such thing in America. There are not. 95 00:07:55.589 --> 00:07:57.990 I mean if you can call it the army, but that's not what we're 96 00:07:57.990 --> 00:08:01.379 talking about. In America. The implication is that we needed a well regulated 97 00:08:01.420 --> 00:08:07.699 militia in case some Jackass takes over and instructs the standing army to fight against 98 00:08:07.699 --> 00:08:11.180 the people, and then the people could stand up with their all well regulated 99 00:08:11.220 --> 00:08:18.370 militia and fight back, which sounds awesome in practice if it were only well 100 00:08:18.490 --> 00:08:22.089 regulated, but it's not. Back in the seventeen, almost eighteen hundreds, 101 00:08:22.889 --> 00:08:26.769 the soldiers would have the same thing as as Switzerland. You'd have to go 102 00:08:26.009 --> 00:08:28.920 back to the armory to pick up your bullets. You had your gun. 103 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.960 It was in the benefit of the government for people to know how to use 104 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:37.039 a gun and to be well trained on how to fix it and break it 105 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.759 down and put it back together. That's all cool, but of course a 106 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:45.509 gun is useless without bullets. So they kept their well regulated militia that kept 107 00:08:45.549 --> 00:08:48.190 their bullets in the armory and you'd have to go meet down at the armory 108 00:08:48.309 --> 00:08:54.909 and pick up your bullets when everybody agreed there was an emergency. So flash 109 00:08:54.029 --> 00:09:03.019 forward to today. There are roughly three hundred ninety three million guns in America. 110 00:09:05.580 --> 00:09:11.929 About a million of those are registered, so that means there are three 111 00:09:11.970 --> 00:09:18.809 hundred and ninety two million unregistered guns in America. Like wow, that's pretty 112 00:09:18.809 --> 00:09:22.090 incredible. So the idea that we're going to somehow move backwards in time and 113 00:09:22.210 --> 00:09:28.480 register all those is well seem mathematically a possible I'd guess, is the best 114 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:31.039 way to put it. I don't want to say it is impossible, but 115 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:33.720 this is not a science fiction movie. There's no Gort, it's not the 116 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:39.149 day of the Earth stood still. There's no omnipresent power that can render all 117 00:09:39.549 --> 00:09:45.110 weapons useless simultaneously. That obviously is not going to happen. Neither is trying 118 00:09:45.149 --> 00:09:48.950 to register, in hindsight, three hundred ninety two million anything. That's not 119 00:09:50.070 --> 00:09:54.539 going to work, especially because they're they're not scientific instruments. Their crude machines 120 00:09:54.620 --> 00:09:56.179 are just made out of steel. They got, you know, a couple 121 00:09:56.259 --> 00:10:00.980 springs and rotating barrel, if you got a revolver, but it's not a 122 00:10:01.139 --> 00:10:03.700 complex thing, easy to hide. Now they make them out of plastic. 123 00:10:05.100 --> 00:10:07.690 You know, you can download blueprints and print your own gun made out of 124 00:10:07.730 --> 00:10:11.529 plastic that will fire a real bullet. How are you going to stop that? 125 00:10:11.210 --> 00:10:18.090 Pretty Hard, right. So how do we regulate the guns? How 126 00:10:18.169 --> 00:10:20.840 do we keep and getting back to the whole thing, so the gun is 127 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:26.720 a touchy subject. For example, in Louisiana, a in a place where 128 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:31.919 she's like one of the farms we stay at. The driveway itself is a 129 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:37.909 dirt road, probably almost a half mile long. It connects to a road 130 00:10:37.309 --> 00:10:41.470 that connects to another highway that connects to town. But if there were some 131 00:10:41.629 --> 00:10:46.750 bad guys, whatever kind of bad guy you could imagine, coming to your 132 00:10:46.909 --> 00:10:52.379 house, what good is there's you calling the cops is not going to do 133 00:10:52.539 --> 00:10:54.700 anything. They don't they're not going to come out and help you. There 134 00:10:54.740 --> 00:10:56.659 they they won't make it there on time. If they do, they'll be 135 00:10:56.740 --> 00:11:01.179 behind the bad guys down the dirt road and bad guys will be closer to 136 00:11:01.259 --> 00:11:03.139 you anyway, and it's just a shit show. There's no fucking way that 137 00:11:03.259 --> 00:11:09.809 you could rely on the police to protect yourself in a rural area like this. 138 00:11:09.809 --> 00:11:13.649 Likewise, when I lived in near Skid Row and downtown Los Angeles or 139 00:11:13.690 --> 00:11:18.409 when I lived inside the middle of the tenderloin in San Francisco, when you 140 00:11:18.529 --> 00:11:22.080 call a cop because there's a threat, they don't show up for fifteen or 141 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.679 twenty minutes, even if the fucking Gat, I mean even if the fucking 142 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:28.679 police station is across the street, a block away. They just don't show 143 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:33.509 up that quickly. So gun advocates, the ones who claim Selfdefense, I 144 00:11:33.629 --> 00:11:39.269 think that's well intentioned. They might not have the best intentions in, you 145 00:11:39.350 --> 00:11:43.830 know, calling out that argument, but it's valid. There are many places 146 00:11:43.909 --> 00:11:48.620 in America where the police cannot help you. Moreover, if you're mentally ill, 147 00:11:50.059 --> 00:11:52.980 you don't want to call the police anyway because they could set you off 148 00:11:52.100 --> 00:11:56.179 and end up killing you like they do. Police kill mentally ill people. 149 00:11:56.379 --> 00:12:01.059 Never call the cops. If you have a mental illness or a mental health 150 00:12:01.100 --> 00:12:03.529 emergency, call a medic, get some doctors out there to help you. 151 00:12:03.889 --> 00:12:07.730 Never call the police. Tell them to stay the fuck home with their weapons. 152 00:12:07.769 --> 00:12:11.570 They're just going to make a situation worse. Adding guns to a mental 153 00:12:11.610 --> 00:12:15.840 health crisis is never a good idea, even if the guns belong to the 154 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:22.600 police, largely because many police officers have mental health problems themselves. XMILITARY PEOPLE 155 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.240 HAVE PTSD. A lot of these folks have their own mental health is use 156 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:30.029 that they simply don't report because they don't want to lose their jobs. So 157 00:12:30.269 --> 00:12:33.470 understand that we've got lots of mentally ill people running around with guns. On 158 00:12:33.669 --> 00:12:39.309 purpose, with badges, the independent spirit of America, people like you know 159 00:12:39.509 --> 00:12:43.419 myself, when lots of people I know were like, well, fuck it, 160 00:12:43.460 --> 00:12:46.340 if the cops aren't going to come, I do need to take care 161 00:12:46.379 --> 00:12:50.340 of myself. So that's one argument for having a defensive handgun. But what 162 00:12:50.620 --> 00:12:54.740 kind of gun do you need to defend yourself? An assault rifle? I'm 163 00:12:54.740 --> 00:12:58.139 not even sure that's a fair term, but it's a term that they use 164 00:12:58.179 --> 00:13:01.169 in the marketing material. That implies that you're going out to attack something. 165 00:13:01.690 --> 00:13:05.450 You know what, it's not a hunting rifle. It's an assault rifle. 166 00:13:05.370 --> 00:13:11.690 Whether a are fifteen stands for assault rifle. I don't think so. I 167 00:13:11.850 --> 00:13:16.080 think it stands for something else. But Anyway, I see a lot online 168 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:18.399 are stands for assault rifle. I think it's a marketing term, I think 169 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:24.080 it's armament. Whatever, I didn't I don't care anyway. But getting back 170 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:26.389 to the other act, look, what kind of weapons should we be allowed 171 00:13:26.429 --> 00:13:30.950 to have? If none at all, or all of them? You know, 172 00:13:31.070 --> 00:13:33.750 where do you draw the line? Is a six shooter enough? Is 173 00:13:33.830 --> 00:13:37.950 a two shot derringer enough to protect yourself? Do you need a long barrel? 174 00:13:39.509 --> 00:13:41.500 Is it short barrel? Fine. Frankly, I like the Moss prog 175 00:13:41.580 --> 00:13:46.379 five hundred you rack that fucking shotgun and most good guy, I mean most 176 00:13:46.460 --> 00:13:48.860 bad guys with any brain in their head are going to drop what they're doing 177 00:13:50.179 --> 00:13:54.580 and move away from you. Right. So racking a shotgun. That's pretty 178 00:13:54.580 --> 00:13:56.610 effective and you don't even have to shoot it. But again, a shotgun 179 00:13:56.690 --> 00:14:00.730 and more than you know, fifty yards is not going to hurt somebody unless 180 00:14:00.730 --> 00:14:03.289 you got a good slug in there instead of some buckshot or whatever. I 181 00:14:03.450 --> 00:14:07.409 remember as a kid we used to climb up in the mountains and the farmer 182 00:14:07.450 --> 00:14:13.519 up there had he put rock salt in his shotgun shells. So if it 183 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.720 ever hit you, the Little Rock Salts would get in your skin and burn 184 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.000 like fuck. Like I don't know how fuck burns, but that's sound much 185 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:22.360 they burn. Imagine how like salt in your eye. Now imagine a little, 186 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:26.070 a bigger bead of salt up under your skin. That's your hurts. 187 00:14:26.070 --> 00:14:28.909 It's not going to kill you, but it's going to remind you not to 188 00:14:28.990 --> 00:14:33.830 get on that farmer's yard again, er up on his field, which also 189 00:14:33.870 --> 00:14:37.230 brings up another point. In the south, guns are just the tool. 190 00:14:39.139 --> 00:14:43.419 Like I mean, Sure's there's idiots to drive around with gun racks and unnecessary 191 00:14:43.100 --> 00:14:48.259 display of their fucking armament. You know, the typical like monster truck, 192 00:14:48.299 --> 00:14:50.059 dudes with little Dick's, that kind of thing. Whatever, I'm not talking 193 00:14:50.100 --> 00:14:52.929 about those. I'm talking about, you know, honest to goodness, just 194 00:14:54.210 --> 00:14:58.289 farmers who need to they need a gun to put down to cow with the 195 00:14:58.330 --> 00:15:01.929 broken leg or to shoot off a coyote that's coming in for the chickens. 196 00:15:01.250 --> 00:15:05.529 They're just tools for farmers, for people like that, it's just the tool. 197 00:15:05.649 --> 00:15:09.039 So if you can imagine somebody saying, yeah, we need to take 198 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:15.759 away your tools, well, how does that sound? Think of whatever job 199 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:18.120 you do and if someone just randomly came and said, yeah, we're going 200 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:22.710 to confiscate your tools. Well, it's not that much different than the vaping 201 00:15:22.750 --> 00:15:26.389 products nowadays. You know, a couple of people dive from some some bad, 202 00:15:28.509 --> 00:15:31.070 you know, vitamin E Acetate in the GEL, and they want to 203 00:15:31.110 --> 00:15:37.220 take everybody's vape device. It seems a little over overreaching. But again, 204 00:15:37.500 --> 00:15:41.419 you know, the government has the right to regulate commerce, the Federal Trade 205 00:15:41.460 --> 00:15:46.700 Commission, they can. They can regulate whatever they want, especially interstate commerce, 206 00:15:46.659 --> 00:15:50.970 so to tell. A farmer he can't have his tools. What the 207 00:15:50.009 --> 00:15:52.970 fuck is he supposed to replace a gun with? How are you going to 208 00:15:54.009 --> 00:15:58.769 kill a cow that needs to be put down because it's broken? What are 209 00:15:58.809 --> 00:16:00.610 you going to do if you got two or three coyotes out in the field 210 00:16:02.330 --> 00:16:03.480 coming for your chickens at night? You're going to sit out there on a 211 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:11.519 stool with a slingshot with the wrist rocket? Good luck, I don't know. 212 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:15.559 Anyway. So tools, they're seen as tools by some people. In 213 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:18.070 the suburbs you get a whole different argument. You just get these kind of 214 00:16:18.110 --> 00:16:22.309 people that are like, you're fucking guns and they probably never even shot a 215 00:16:22.429 --> 00:16:26.230 gun. They probably just put them on display like a poser. Look, 216 00:16:26.269 --> 00:16:29.870 oh, I'm into guns because I'm manly man. Well, you're not really 217 00:16:30.110 --> 00:16:33.139 like. Show me a hero that took care of the job with a gun 218 00:16:34.419 --> 00:16:37.700 and you know, I might say, Oh, yeah, good job. 219 00:16:37.740 --> 00:16:41.860 If you could show me the hero who took care of a problem without a 220 00:16:41.980 --> 00:16:44.940 gun, now that's a true hero, especially if he was up against a 221 00:16:45.059 --> 00:16:48.210 person with a gun. So I don't know, it doesn't anybody could pull 222 00:16:48.250 --> 00:16:51.049 a trigger of a gun. You know, five year old doesn't make them 223 00:16:51.090 --> 00:16:52.529 a hero. Doesn't make a you know, an older person a hero just 224 00:16:52.610 --> 00:16:56.809 because you can shoot a gun. That does not make a hero. A 225 00:16:56.929 --> 00:17:00.409 hero would be somebody, in my mind, that could just do things without 226 00:17:00.450 --> 00:17:03.319 a gun. Again, we're not talking about tools. I'm not talking there's 227 00:17:03.319 --> 00:17:07.279 no such thing as being a hero for shooting off the coyotes. That's not 228 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.640 what I'm talking about. I'm talking about in the sense of, you know, 229 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:14.400 in civil society, were a problems going down, a bank robbery or 230 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:17.950 you know, something like that, in assault, you know, take care 231 00:17:17.990 --> 00:17:21.190 of it without a gun, then you're a hero. If you shoot a 232 00:17:21.269 --> 00:17:23.349 gun, all right, well, it's even you're not a hero, but 233 00:17:23.470 --> 00:17:26.829 you're not like, you know, an asshole. You just defending your property. 234 00:17:26.910 --> 00:17:30.339 That's fine. There's a story recently where three kids came up on a 235 00:17:30.380 --> 00:17:37.700 guy's lawn and had masks gone, they had guns and I think the story 236 00:17:37.740 --> 00:17:41.140 said that they had assaulted somebody in the front lawn late at night and then 237 00:17:41.140 --> 00:17:45.450 the homeowner came out and killed all three of the kids. That's pretty amazing 238 00:17:45.250 --> 00:17:48.730 and sad for the families for sure, and even sad for the guy who 239 00:17:48.809 --> 00:17:52.369 killed them, because he's got that on his his plate. For the rest 240 00:17:52.410 --> 00:17:56.569 of his life. Not Saying he's wrong, but it's still something he has 241 00:17:56.609 --> 00:18:00.000 to process, which you know, it's difficult, like taking anybody's life. 242 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:04.400 I am very pro living. If it's alive, let it live. Now 243 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:07.839 I'm not going to get into a debate on when something is a viable life 244 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:11.759 form. That's not a debate for a man to have, but I'm just 245 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:15.390 saying if it's alive, let it live, whether it's a snake or even 246 00:18:15.430 --> 00:18:18.910 a coyote. I wouldn't shoot a Kyote. I just shoot near a coyote 247 00:18:18.950 --> 00:18:22.470 or just they got like a bear. I forgot the thing bear flares, 248 00:18:22.470 --> 00:18:26.069 I guess you call them. When you live in the mountains near bears, 249 00:18:26.029 --> 00:18:29.900 we use these things called bear flares. We also use pine saw on our 250 00:18:29.940 --> 00:18:33.660 doors because bears hate pin saal. Anyway, if you happen to run across 251 00:18:33.660 --> 00:18:37.259 the bear and he's aggressive, they have these little tiny things about the size 252 00:18:37.299 --> 00:18:41.339 of a can of Mace that shoots off a flare, shoots out about fifty 253 00:18:41.339 --> 00:18:45.450 yards and big old pop sound like a like an Amadi, almost like a 254 00:18:45.490 --> 00:18:48.609 nice deep boom sound that scares the shit out of a bear. He scares 255 00:18:48.690 --> 00:18:52.369 them away and he he doesn't kill you. You do the same thing with 256 00:18:52.529 --> 00:18:53.730 coyotes. You can do the same thing with anything you're trying to scare, 257 00:18:55.250 --> 00:18:57.440 except humans that are actively trying to kill you, because they probably don't care 258 00:18:57.519 --> 00:19:02.079 and they probably have a reason that trying to kill you. So that's the 259 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:04.160 thing, when we have to have a reason, a way to defend ourselves 260 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:10.710 in circum in circumstances where cops aren't around. The bullshit, though, is 261 00:19:10.789 --> 00:19:15.230 most people I hear the arguments coming from are in the Goddamn suburbs. There 262 00:19:15.230 --> 00:19:18.069 in the suburbs, where the police arrive in five minutes because they got nothing 263 00:19:18.069 --> 00:19:19.589 better to do than give out speeding tickets when they get a call that, 264 00:19:19.710 --> 00:19:22.069 oh, there's an intruder. Fuck, there's like twenty any cops at your 265 00:19:22.069 --> 00:19:26.619 house, and those are the suburban people better clinging to their guns so hard 266 00:19:26.660 --> 00:19:29.900 and like, Dude, you don't even live in danger. You're a fucking 267 00:19:30.019 --> 00:19:33.420 white guy in a suburb of America. Life does not get any easier on 268 00:19:33.500 --> 00:19:37.930 this planet than your life is right now. If you're winning so much and 269 00:19:38.089 --> 00:19:42.170 you're still that angry, go seek help man. Go get your emotions in 270 00:19:42.289 --> 00:19:47.730 check so that when you are playing with your guns you don't hurt somebody, 271 00:19:48.569 --> 00:19:52.250 and the type of gun, whether it's for defense or for assault, makes 272 00:19:52.289 --> 00:19:56.920 the difference in this argument, because what we're really talking about here is mass 273 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:00.880 killings. Pete, there's there's crime in the city, there's domestic crime, 274 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:07.230 all kinds of horrible crimes in which people die at the hands of perpetrators with 275 00:20:07.309 --> 00:20:14.349 guns. Guns are also a big role in suicides, especially suicides of former 276 00:20:14.470 --> 00:20:18.990 war vetts. So there's an issue there with people killing themselves with guns. 277 00:20:18.029 --> 00:20:23.059 It's probably one of the better arguments for controlling the the use of guns somehow, 278 00:20:23.539 --> 00:20:26.339 and we'll get to the word control in just a second to because that's 279 00:20:26.380 --> 00:20:30.059 problematic. But what we're really talking about is mass shootings. How do we 280 00:20:30.180 --> 00:20:33.220 prevent the mass shootings? How do I mean? Because, Pete, that's 281 00:20:33.259 --> 00:20:37.089 what freaks people out. People more and more staying inside, staring at screens 282 00:20:37.130 --> 00:20:41.289 all day instead of interacting with other humans in public, and some of them 283 00:20:41.289 --> 00:20:44.450 will chock it up to bullets. Dangerous out there. You know, I 284 00:20:44.930 --> 00:20:47.490 don't want to go to large events because, Jesus, you know, somebody 285 00:20:47.529 --> 00:20:51.000 could just shoot it up. Well, yeah, that's true, that actually 286 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:55.559 is true, but don't let that fear overcome you so that you just perpetuate 287 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:57.920 the problem by just sitting and staring at your screen and type in a way 288 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:02.319 like you're we have a right to guns and your social media accounts, of 289 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:06.190 go back out in public and check it out, but we need to address 290 00:21:06.190 --> 00:21:10.309 the mass shooting things. So that's where I think technology is our friend. 291 00:21:11.029 --> 00:21:15.670 I'm not even sure limiting the amount of bullets in a clip or magazine. 292 00:21:15.670 --> 00:21:21.500 I'm sorry matter. You know what I mean, because well, it's just 293 00:21:21.660 --> 00:21:26.380 not a fight I think is an effective fight. In the European Union they 294 00:21:26.420 --> 00:21:30.420 have a limit on magazine sizes. I'm not sure what the number of bullets 295 00:21:30.420 --> 00:21:32.579 is, but they thought that that was a way to go, just limit 296 00:21:32.619 --> 00:21:36.529 the number, and eventually Switzerland even joined in on that too. They limit 297 00:21:36.569 --> 00:21:41.009 the number of bullets that a gun can shoot at a certain time, which 298 00:21:41.410 --> 00:21:45.170 I guess if you want to limit the bullets, that seems so ass backwards, 299 00:21:45.210 --> 00:21:49.160 like some fucking eighteen hundred sho why are people using old world solutions for 300 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:55.559 new world problems when we have technology? Here's where people start to get in 301 00:21:55.559 --> 00:21:59.440 the slippery slope arguments, and I'm not here and them just because there's slippery 302 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:03.230 slope arguments and you can't prove that it will happen or won't. What I 303 00:22:03.309 --> 00:22:08.069 would propose is better technology and guns. For example, there's a company called 304 00:22:08.710 --> 00:22:14.029 shot spotter, I think it's called, where they have towers in high crime 305 00:22:14.109 --> 00:22:18.980 neighborhoods that can detect the pop of a gun. It processes the sound, 306 00:22:18.539 --> 00:22:23.859 triangulates where it came from and can send police over to a certain area and 307 00:22:25.220 --> 00:22:29.779 kind of scroll around a few blocks see if there's any crime happening. That's 308 00:22:29.819 --> 00:22:34.650 cool. This same company also has some awesome technology that they apply to schools. 309 00:22:36.170 --> 00:22:41.369 For example. They have technology now that if shot spotters installed in your 310 00:22:41.410 --> 00:22:47.440 school and a gun goes off, the technology will send back to the police 311 00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:52.160 a map of the school where the shots came from. If there's a secondary 312 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:55.519 shot, it'll map that. It could effectively draw a map of where the 313 00:22:55.559 --> 00:23:00.269 shooter has been and send that map in real time over to the police station 314 00:23:00.470 --> 00:23:04.549 so that when the police get there they'll be able to deal with the situation 315 00:23:04.630 --> 00:23:07.470 a lot more effectively. More importantly, though, when you have that kind 316 00:23:07.470 --> 00:23:11.470 of technology and it detects a shooter in a specific area on a map of 317 00:23:11.549 --> 00:23:15.140 a school, it could automatically lock every other door in the school. It 318 00:23:15.539 --> 00:23:22.259 means just go on and on with the technology. With artificial intelligence g coming 319 00:23:22.299 --> 00:23:26.220 on in several years, there's going to be more and more speed and more 320 00:23:26.259 --> 00:23:30.529 and more processing power to help determine where a shooter is and where he should 321 00:23:30.529 --> 00:23:33.930 be compared to shooters that are shooting that things that they're not supposed to be 322 00:23:33.930 --> 00:23:41.000 shooting at. The Johnny Mossberg of the Mossburg gun family, I think pretty 323 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:44.440 sure I know his names Johnny, and I'm pretty sure he's a Osburg. 324 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:47.680 He could be a Smith in Weston, I fucking care. Whatever, it's 325 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:51.920 something. The point point is the son of one of the airs to all 326 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:56.789 of the the guns, Johnny Mossburg, let's call him that, has invented 327 00:23:56.829 --> 00:24:02.630 a technology. It's a thumb print technology, where the gun won't fire unless 328 00:24:02.670 --> 00:24:06.309 it knows it's you, which is cool. A lot of people say, 329 00:24:06.349 --> 00:24:08.950 oh well, what if it doesn't work? Well, to prove his technology 330 00:24:08.990 --> 00:24:12.900 to the military he had to put it through torture test. It worked threezero 331 00:24:14.259 --> 00:24:18.900 times in a row without fail. That's more effective than most average handguns. 332 00:24:18.940 --> 00:24:22.140 Even a revolver might jam more than once. Every three thousand times. So 333 00:24:22.380 --> 00:24:27.289 the technology exists so that you could buy a gun that only you could shoot. 334 00:24:27.609 --> 00:24:30.410 So if there was ever an instance of who shot this fucking guy, 335 00:24:30.849 --> 00:24:33.410 oh, it came from that gun, you're the guy with the gun. 336 00:24:33.769 --> 00:24:37.690 It's kind of the similar way to way, you know, if there's a 337 00:24:37.769 --> 00:24:42.119 car crash and the DMV determines that that's your car, you're responsible, whether 338 00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:47.440 or not you were driving. It's your responsibility. Your fucking responsible for your 339 00:24:47.480 --> 00:24:52.359 car. You should be responsible for your gun. So combine that thumb print 340 00:24:52.440 --> 00:25:00.069 technology with artificial intelligence, faster networks, satellite imagery. Imagine this. In 341 00:25:00.190 --> 00:25:03.430 the future you can have all the biggest magazine you want, a fucking drum 342 00:25:03.509 --> 00:25:08.980 magazine like that asshole used in Dayton. Doesn't matter. The moment you and 343 00:25:10.099 --> 00:25:12.859 your you know, High Tech Gun with the trigger that only you can operate 344 00:25:12.980 --> 00:25:15.779 through a thumb print, the moment you get too close to an area you 345 00:25:15.900 --> 00:25:19.579 should not be with all that equipment, it will just cut you down. 346 00:25:21.450 --> 00:25:23.410 Yes, it will shut you down, or it could shut you down. 347 00:25:23.450 --> 00:25:26.049 A lot of people say, yeah, well then they could shut it all 348 00:25:26.089 --> 00:25:30.529 down. Really you think so? Why would they do that? WHO's they? 349 00:25:30.930 --> 00:25:34.089 Who is they by the way, the government, the government, the 350 00:25:34.210 --> 00:25:38.079 overpowering government that you should have fought against up till now. Anyway, this 351 00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:41.680 is another argument. I fucking get into it. Two a types. Their 352 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:45.839 whole deal was we need a well regulated militia so that, you know, 353 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:48.759 in case of tyrant tries to take over the government, we can deal with 354 00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:52.230 it. Well, a fucking tyrant has taken over the government and you didn't 355 00:25:52.230 --> 00:25:56.789 do shit about it. There in lies a huge hole in your argument. 356 00:25:56.990 --> 00:26:00.109 If you're not going to stand up for everybody in America, you're going to 357 00:26:00.150 --> 00:26:02.470 stand up and say, Oh, well, except for trump, he's not 358 00:26:02.549 --> 00:26:04.019 really that bad. Well, we'll fuck off. He is that bad, 359 00:26:04.779 --> 00:26:08.500 guns aside, you know, he's the kind of guy that the militias should 360 00:26:08.500 --> 00:26:11.380 have been after. He should have been taken down a long time ago by 361 00:26:11.460 --> 00:26:15.900 militias, put in a cell kept there for the rest of his life. 362 00:26:15.980 --> 00:26:19.049 You know, we don't need people like that propped up so highly. That 363 00:26:19.289 --> 00:26:22.690 said, you know, if you're not going to fucking go do your job, 364 00:26:22.769 --> 00:26:26.529 you had one job, that tool. You had your well regulated militia, 365 00:26:26.930 --> 00:26:30.450 your one job for that, and your argument was to prevent, you 366 00:26:30.529 --> 00:26:33.559 know, people from taking over America. Well, they did. They took 367 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:40.160 over America. We got communist Russia back in the president of America, and 368 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:45.559 you realize, like the second s and USS are is socialist. That's what's 369 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:49.430 taken over America from the top down, and you, dumb ass to a 370 00:26:49.589 --> 00:26:53.710 types, didn't do anything about it, probably because you're racist and you agree 371 00:26:53.710 --> 00:26:57.470 with him. But Hey, that's a different episode. So here's the thing 372 00:26:57.589 --> 00:27:03.539 that's problematic, I think. And when we talk about managing guns and people, 373 00:27:03.579 --> 00:27:07.660 is the terminology we use a lot of times I hear words like common 374 00:27:07.779 --> 00:27:11.500 sense, gun reform. You know what, if someone came to you and 375 00:27:11.619 --> 00:27:15.569 said that you were not using common sense, you would be offended. We 376 00:27:15.730 --> 00:27:21.490 can't go after gun people and tell them to not using common sense. I 377 00:27:21.690 --> 00:27:23.690 had a gun. I don't have one now, but in irrelevant. I 378 00:27:23.769 --> 00:27:27.769 just didn't use it, so I sold it because I like money better and 379 00:27:27.890 --> 00:27:32.359 I'm a good shot. All out a side. Well, let me just 380 00:27:32.440 --> 00:27:36.240 put that out there. I like guns. I will have one probably in 381 00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:38.400 the future. I don't need one now. When you travel, it's kind 382 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:41.799 of hard because the state, the state. Sometimes people give you the side 383 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:44.509 eye when you going through a border check and you got any weapons. Oh 384 00:27:44.509 --> 00:27:47.910 yeah, I do so anyway. I'm not opposed to guns. I'm not 385 00:27:47.990 --> 00:27:51.789 opposed to shooting, but why can't it be more like a fucking bowling alley? 386 00:27:51.910 --> 00:27:53.750 If you want to shoot, go to the shooting range and get a 387 00:27:53.829 --> 00:27:57.940 gun there. Shoot The gun while you're there, enjoy it, shoot any 388 00:27:57.940 --> 00:28:02.259 gun you want. They have machine guns at some of these ranges in Louisiana. 389 00:28:02.299 --> 00:28:04.539 You can just go shoot to your hearts content and then when you leave, 390 00:28:04.700 --> 00:28:08.819 hey back to home. No Gun, or maybe just the small defensive 391 00:28:08.859 --> 00:28:12.890 weapon like a six shooter or something simple that won't fall apart on your something 392 00:28:14.009 --> 00:28:18.650 very easy to clean and disassemble and know all about, or like grandma with 393 00:28:18.970 --> 00:28:25.569 with the two shot derringer. Very simple device, but it would stop a 394 00:28:25.650 --> 00:28:29.039 rapist, stop a mugger, if stop a person breaking into your window, 395 00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:32.799 that's for fucking sure. You know, I wouldn't have a problem if everybody 396 00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:37.400 America had to carry a two shot little derringer in their pocket, concealed. 397 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:41.230 Then you never know who the fuck is the carrying so you have to assume 398 00:28:41.309 --> 00:28:45.349 everybody is and I don't think we're going to have a lot of mass shooters 399 00:28:45.390 --> 00:28:48.950 if everybody carried a two shot derringer seems kind of simplistic, but you know, 400 00:28:49.150 --> 00:28:53.029 it's one idea. And so getting back to the regulating part. The 401 00:28:53.150 --> 00:28:57.380 First Amendment, free speech. Yes, they can regulate our speech. Second 402 00:28:57.420 --> 00:29:00.819 Amendment, right to bear arms. They can regulate your right to bear arms. 403 00:29:00.859 --> 00:29:04.140 They're not taking away our free speech, they're not taking away your guns, 404 00:29:04.579 --> 00:29:07.859 but the government does have the right to regulate them. I know you 405 00:29:07.980 --> 00:29:11.130 push back because, oh, well, if they do this, then that 406 00:29:11.250 --> 00:29:14.369 will happen again. That's slippery slope. You don't have any proof that that 407 00:29:14.490 --> 00:29:18.650 will happen, whatever that is that you've imagined in your head. So enough 408 00:29:18.690 --> 00:29:22.490 with the slippery slopes. We got to come up with real ideas. Technology 409 00:29:22.809 --> 00:29:25.680 is the best way to deal with that. And if we had guns that 410 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:30.519 people could shoot freely wherever they wanted to, except when you're starting to near 411 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:33.759 a crowd. Like why would anybody need a gun activated near a concert? 412 00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:38.990 If there's a concert nearby, there should be an invisible shield that deactivates all 413 00:29:40.069 --> 00:29:45.509 unauthorized guns, leaving them with only security guards or law enforcement or whoever protects 414 00:29:45.549 --> 00:29:51.269 the concert. In this example, and much like Israel or Switzerland, I 415 00:29:51.390 --> 00:29:56.660 think everybody at a certain age, not just men, men and women, 416 00:29:56.220 --> 00:30:00.140 Trans People whatever, all the people should be trained at a certain age to 417 00:30:02.619 --> 00:30:07.210 work a gun. There's three hundred ninety three million guns in America. There's 418 00:30:07.210 --> 00:30:11.250 a hundred, I mean one point two guns for every human in America. 419 00:30:11.930 --> 00:30:15.690 That's a lot of guns. That's like not learning how to swim on a 420 00:30:15.849 --> 00:30:19.210 planet covered with water. If you don't know how to swim and you live 421 00:30:19.289 --> 00:30:23.160 on earth, that's just dumb. If we don't know how to use guns 422 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:27.000 in America, that's dumb. But it gets so carried away. Like I 423 00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:33.000 was at Public Swimming Pool in California once a couple years back and a little 424 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:36.990 kid, let's call him calling, you know, it was like his friend 425 00:30:37.069 --> 00:30:40.069 and gave him a squirt gun in the pool. So he ran up to 426 00:30:40.109 --> 00:30:41.549 the thing, got up on the side of the pool and said look, 427 00:30:41.549 --> 00:30:47.069 Mommy, I got a squirt gun, and the MOM's Super Liberal, obviously 428 00:30:47.349 --> 00:30:52.220 came back said, Colin, that is not a squirts gun, that is 429 00:30:52.299 --> 00:30:56.339 a watcher squirter. So she just didn't even want him to say the word 430 00:30:56.420 --> 00:30:59.380 gun. You can't stick your head in the sand and think that that's going 431 00:30:59.420 --> 00:31:02.460 to solve the problem. Not Saying the word gun. You fucking kidding me? 432 00:31:02.740 --> 00:31:06.849 Get a grip man. And so what's all this technology cost? That's 433 00:31:06.890 --> 00:31:10.289 going to be too expensive. Hut back to rule number one. We've already 434 00:31:10.329 --> 00:31:15.609 decided and agreed that humans are more important than money and, besides, we 435 00:31:15.769 --> 00:31:18.119 live in a capitalist country. Money is not an issue. If it costs 436 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:22.960 money, somebody will just invent a bet or cheaper thing. There's competition in 437 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.480 the market for technology. If we can get the fucking corporate lobbyists that receive 438 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:32.799 communist Russian money through the NRA paying it to the you know, the lawmakers, 439 00:31:33.109 --> 00:31:36.549 that's an issue. If we can't stop that flow of money from Russia 440 00:31:36.549 --> 00:31:41.349 through the NRA to the senators, yet we're fucked. But that again, 441 00:31:41.950 --> 00:31:45.390 political discourse and voting and all that aside, we still have to come up 442 00:31:47.029 --> 00:31:51.339 with an idea. The idea is technology. Let the free market run free. 443 00:31:51.380 --> 00:31:57.059 quit putting this false hopes or regulations or constraints on people through threats or 444 00:31:57.140 --> 00:32:01.170 promises or whatever you're doing to coerce the free market. quit doing that. 445 00:32:01.650 --> 00:32:06.130 Obviously, if Johnny Mossberg has a way to put a thumb print on a 446 00:32:06.170 --> 00:32:10.210 gun so that only the user could open begun and fire it. That's technology 447 00:32:10.329 --> 00:32:15.170 is progressing. If shot spotter has a map away to map a school and 448 00:32:15.369 --> 00:32:17.960 tell you exactly where the shooter is, that's technology progressing. If we can 449 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:22.359 just connect all of these you know that guy up in the Tower and Laws 450 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:25.160 Vegas that shot up the country concert? His gun wouldn't have been active. 451 00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:30.309 It couldn't have been active the my magical invisible shield. Of course technology, 452 00:32:30.390 --> 00:32:34.990 yes, cost money. Don't care. Spend the money, just spend it. 453 00:32:35.109 --> 00:32:37.710 You got plenty of it. Whoever wants to invent this shit can go 454 00:32:37.750 --> 00:32:42.710 out and create a better gun. What we're running into is just resistance from 455 00:32:42.710 --> 00:32:49.140 corporate lobbyists. Fuck corporate lobbyists. They're they're a priority is money over people. 456 00:32:49.940 --> 00:32:52.660 Now in this argument, people are more important than money for the reasons 457 00:32:52.700 --> 00:32:57.220 I explained, because people inventing money. People have the capacity to invent a 458 00:32:57.339 --> 00:33:01.690 gun and people can invent our way out of this mess if those fucking obstructionist 459 00:33:01.809 --> 00:33:06.529 lobbyist people would get the fuck out of the way. And so the last 460 00:33:06.529 --> 00:33:08.890 thing I wanted to do just throw a wedge into just to poor put a 461 00:33:08.930 --> 00:33:13.799 little bookmark here. Is the mental health thing right. People say, oh 462 00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:17.160 well, guns don't kill people. Crazy people kill people. Well, not, 463 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:22.279 not. Not. Normally, most mental health patients are more likely victims 464 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:29.869 of gun crime than perpetrators, and the kind of mental health problems that come 465 00:33:29.990 --> 00:33:37.150 to pass that we find out later after people shoot up them all are well 466 00:33:37.230 --> 00:33:42.420 documented. It just nobody did anything about them. There's another type. There's 467 00:33:42.420 --> 00:33:49.059 a disorders like intermittent explosive disorder, ieed ha ha, real funny terminology, 468 00:33:50.059 --> 00:33:52.019 but you know, where people just snap, and people do just snap. 469 00:33:52.180 --> 00:33:54.809 There's a history of mass shootings in America. I mean when I was a 470 00:33:54.890 --> 00:34:00.210 kid, I think it was the fuck s or something. I'm old man, 471 00:34:00.289 --> 00:34:02.529 but there's a dude who shot up a McDonald's killed over twenty people. 472 00:34:04.410 --> 00:34:07.849 There's a guy who just walked on to a school campus in Stockton, California 473 00:34:07.289 --> 00:34:12.760 with, you know, like a assault rifle type thing or a semiautomatic rifle 474 00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:16.920 shot up the place. That's when Diane Einstein, the senator, crafted gun 475 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:21.119 laws for California. Of course gun people are like so, you didn't work, 476 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:22.599 but people still shooting things up. Well, it's because the states next 477 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:25.630 to it didn't pass any law. You know, you're only your laws are 478 00:34:25.670 --> 00:34:30.510 only as good as the best laws, and if every state doesn't do something, 479 00:34:30.750 --> 00:34:32.309 then yeah, you're fucked. I mean, I could go down to 480 00:34:32.349 --> 00:34:36.429 the gun store right now and buy a gun in Louisiana and no background check, 481 00:34:36.829 --> 00:34:38.980 no, just nothing. They'll file a background check, but I leave 482 00:34:39.019 --> 00:34:43.260 with a gun, just dumb, and then I could just drive across the 483 00:34:43.340 --> 00:34:45.500 California and use it. There's so many holes in the law. However, 484 00:34:45.539 --> 00:34:49.340 if I had a high tag gun with a thumb print on it, it 485 00:34:49.500 --> 00:34:53.170 would know I'd left from Louisiana to California. Again, we don't have any 486 00:34:53.329 --> 00:34:57.409 rights to not be tracked. You might think you do. You think, 487 00:34:57.449 --> 00:35:00.929 yeah, like it's a right to privacy, but even that is can be 488 00:35:00.010 --> 00:35:04.530 regulated. We don't have a complete right to privacy. Ever since nine hundred 489 00:35:04.530 --> 00:35:07.199 and eleven, you know, with the Bush administration started letting the phone companies 490 00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:12.679 scoop up everybody's communication and give it to the spies, there is no privacy. 491 00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:15.119 So that's a joke. If you think like oh well, we won't 492 00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:17.599 have privacy, you fucking hidiot. You give all your information to facebook anyway 493 00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:20.760 and you tell him where you're at and what you did and what you hate 494 00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:22.349 and what kind of car you Gott and what kind of guns you're shooting. 495 00:35:22.550 --> 00:35:27.269 You tell the fucking Internet that already. Where do you think the government gets 496 00:35:27.269 --> 00:35:30.190 us? Information? From the Internet, from computers, from networks. So 497 00:35:30.429 --> 00:35:34.789 the idea that well, we hope to Proyvo. So if you trucked us 498 00:35:34.829 --> 00:35:37.340 were we want, I don't care. I don't care that I have I'm 499 00:35:37.340 --> 00:35:39.579 not going to go shoot shit up. So I don't care if the government 500 00:35:39.659 --> 00:35:44.539 knows my gun is moving from Louisiana to California. I wouldn't care if I 501 00:35:44.579 --> 00:35:46.980 was in California if my gun stopped working when I got to a concert crowd 502 00:35:47.059 --> 00:35:52.730 either. So the technology is available, it's ready to be implemented, but 503 00:35:52.889 --> 00:35:57.010 people think, oh no, it's just too expensive. But to compared to 504 00:35:57.090 --> 00:36:00.289 white man, your kids life? How what kind of price does like Wayne 505 00:36:00.289 --> 00:36:04.920 Lapierre put on his family's lives? And what would happen if they all died 506 00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:08.199 from, you know, gun violence? I'll tell you what happened. Nothing. 507 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:10.320 He would just say it was God's will. That's the way some of 508 00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:14.440 those people think. They think it's God's will and they'd find a way to 509 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:17.119 twist it into more reasons we should have guns. If I would have had 510 00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:21.230 a gun, I could have protected them. That kind of thing. Sorry, 511 00:36:21.829 --> 00:36:24.309 Texas, Act Center, he'll billy accent whatever. I don't mean to 512 00:36:24.349 --> 00:36:29.150 imply that only he'll billy's stand up for Jesus and guns. There's plenty of 513 00:36:29.230 --> 00:36:35.139 idiot white people in the west coast that have some weird poser effect with yeah, 514 00:36:35.219 --> 00:36:37.980 we should have guns. Yeah, guns are important. You know our 515 00:36:37.980 --> 00:36:40.539 rights and without thinking of the rest of the part, you know the rest 516 00:36:40.539 --> 00:36:45.460 of the whole. Commandments, all the commandments in the Bible, the fucking 517 00:36:45.460 --> 00:36:49.570 amendments in the constitution. None of them say you get to do whatever you 518 00:36:49.650 --> 00:36:53.090 want whenever you want. Doesn't. Doesn't work that way. That the government 519 00:36:53.130 --> 00:36:57.650 can regulate things. That's their job. In fact, if they didn't regulate 520 00:36:57.730 --> 00:37:00.489 things, we wouldn't really need a government, would we? And I know 521 00:37:00.570 --> 00:37:01.920 a lot of you think that, hey, that's actually a good idea. 522 00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:07.079 We don't fucking need a government. Burn it all to the ground. Great, 523 00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:10.119 that's awfully privileged of you to say that, but again, you know, 524 00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:14.320 how's that going to work? Just because you got a gun and you're 525 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:16.349 white and privileged in you know, things have worked out for you. Okay, 526 00:37:16.429 --> 00:37:20.389 you think that I got mine, so fuck everybody else. Well, 527 00:37:20.550 --> 00:37:22.789 yeah, the future won't have a safe place for people like you either. 528 00:37:23.550 --> 00:37:27.750 But getting back to the mental health bit, a lot of people with mental 529 00:37:27.789 --> 00:37:31.659 health problems, with mental illnesses, are never treated. In addition to whatever 530 00:37:31.900 --> 00:37:37.019 mental illness they have, they also have something called a Nosa nosia, which 531 00:37:37.139 --> 00:37:39.500 is a complete lack of insight. They don't think that they're mentally ill, 532 00:37:39.579 --> 00:37:44.730 so they will never go to see a therapist or psychiatrist, they will never 533 00:37:44.889 --> 00:37:49.449 take psych meds because they in their mind and their heart of hearts, they 534 00:37:49.489 --> 00:37:52.929 lack insight and simply don't think that they're sick. We can see that they're 535 00:37:52.969 --> 00:37:57.650 sick by the way that they act. And a lot of these people end 536 00:37:57.650 --> 00:38:00.519 up in positions of authority because that's what they're drawn to. I'm not saying 537 00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:05.840 military people especially, but especially cops. Cops are drawn to positions of authority 538 00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:09.719 because of some deep insecurity of wanting to control shit. Well, you know, 539 00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:13.349 if they go out with the gun, they're going to control things with 540 00:38:13.429 --> 00:38:16.269 the gun if they have to. especially with the the union, the police 541 00:38:16.429 --> 00:38:21.110 unions, they will stand by any COP. That I mean. Their first 542 00:38:21.230 --> 00:38:23.630 inclination is to stand behind the COP, regardless of what happened. Well, 543 00:38:23.670 --> 00:38:30.260 let's investigate first. Despite a hundred eyewitnesses video, the cops union will still 544 00:38:30.260 --> 00:38:34.380 say, well, let's investigate first. You know, that's bullshit. If 545 00:38:34.420 --> 00:38:37.340 everybody can see what the COP did, we know that that's a bad cop 546 00:38:37.500 --> 00:38:43.409 and it's not that one bad cop spoils the whole barrel. The fucking barrel 547 00:38:43.650 --> 00:38:46.369 is infected and any good apple you put in the cop barrel is going to 548 00:38:46.449 --> 00:38:52.650 get infected. Any not every there's some good cops that maintain a decent career 549 00:38:53.250 --> 00:38:58.280 start to finish. God bless them. Is that the right word use? 550 00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:01.280 God bless? So what do you say the people like that anyway? So 551 00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:07.440 the fact that the military isn't dealing with the PTSD and the cops aren't dealing 552 00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:13.269 with the control freaks that become police officers. I mean you've got vetting processes, 553 00:39:13.389 --> 00:39:15.949 you've got psych tests, you know, come up with better side tests, 554 00:39:16.269 --> 00:39:19.789 use ai to figure out who the fuck is going to be a bad 555 00:39:19.949 --> 00:39:22.710 cop. That's all I'm saying. We have the technology. We can rebuild 556 00:39:22.710 --> 00:39:28.260 the whole gun system. We have the meet. So let's try that and 557 00:39:28.300 --> 00:39:30.940 let's stop using words like control and instead of manage, because we're not going 558 00:39:30.940 --> 00:39:35.659 to control guns. We're not going to like, you know, taking guns 559 00:39:35.699 --> 00:39:38.730 away. Any of that is not going to work. Let people keep their 560 00:39:38.809 --> 00:39:44.010 guns, as many as they want, but manage the guns better. Put 561 00:39:44.050 --> 00:39:47.210 them on a grid, make sure that people are not accumulating in one area 562 00:39:47.329 --> 00:39:52.170 with a lot of high powered weapons with lots of bullets, you know, 563 00:39:52.449 --> 00:39:58.320 make sure that one person that's been acting strange on the Internet, make sure 564 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:02.480 that person is not bringing a high capacity magazine to a crowded area. Technology 565 00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:06.599 can do all of these things and we're just simply not trying hard enough with 566 00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:08.670 technology. A lot of it just comes down to people say no, it's 567 00:40:08.710 --> 00:40:13.070 too expensive. Well, it's not too expensive, because we've already agreed that 568 00:40:13.150 --> 00:40:15.789 life is more important than money. So get out there and spend the money 569 00:40:15.989 --> 00:40:22.019 on the technology to stop mass shootings. Don't take away the guns. You 570 00:40:22.139 --> 00:40:23.340 can't take away the guns. You're not going to take away their tools. 571 00:40:23.539 --> 00:40:29.619 Nobody wants to take away anybody's tools. There are there are people that do, 572 00:40:29.860 --> 00:40:34.059 I'm sure, like Bet Oh oh rourke, you know, blasting out 573 00:40:34.099 --> 00:40:36.730 Yo, we're going to take your are fifteen s, we're going to buy 574 00:40:36.730 --> 00:40:39.050 it back to what end? To what end they're just going to remark it 575 00:40:39.090 --> 00:40:43.130 it back as an msixteen again. That's all the a are fifteen was. 576 00:40:43.210 --> 00:40:45.849 It's a civilian M sixteen. Why not just sell them in M sixteen? 577 00:40:46.329 --> 00:40:52.440 And every time you try to codify this, codify you end up making things 578 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:55.400 worse because you say, well, we're going to outlaw are fifteen. Well 579 00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:59.840 then they just come out with the R sixteen. Technically this isn't covered by 580 00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:02.800 the law. So anytime the capitalist see a kind of restraint on their money 581 00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:06.389 making, they're going to work their way around it. Well, in this 582 00:41:06.469 --> 00:41:10.949 case we have to give the capitalist and incentive to fucking put better technology into 583 00:41:10.989 --> 00:41:16.789 guns by more people creating better technology, which lowers the cost of the technology 584 00:41:16.829 --> 00:41:22.980 to the consumer and eventually will have well protected, well regulated society. We're 585 00:41:23.139 --> 00:41:28.900 mentally ill people like police and the military don't get to shoot guns and that 586 00:41:29.059 --> 00:41:34.090 stable people will have their guns disabled if they ever enter in a situation where 587 00:41:34.090 --> 00:41:38.769 there shouldn't be. That seems like a fair trade to me. Again, 588 00:41:38.889 --> 00:41:42.489 you know, I'm sure I said plenty of things that piss people off on 589 00:41:42.610 --> 00:41:45.090 both sides, but that's okay. I mean, I'm not here to Piss 590 00:41:45.090 --> 00:41:47.840 you off. I'm just here to start a dialog where we don't wear use 591 00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:53.360 words like control or common sense or mandates. No fuck all that. We're 592 00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:55.760 going to keep guns. There's no way to get rid of three hundred and 593 00:41:55.800 --> 00:42:00.000 ninety three million guns. And if we got rid of three hundred and ninety 594 00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:01.949 two million and just left the one million that are registered, I don't think 595 00:42:01.949 --> 00:42:07.710 those people are going to be able to protect us in emergency situation. Right. 596 00:42:07.349 --> 00:42:10.510 So let me know what you think. If you've you know I'm not 597 00:42:10.550 --> 00:42:14.389 going to mock you. Well, if you call and leave a message, 598 00:42:14.389 --> 00:42:17.019 that's just cursing and name calling. moral. You can curse all you want, 599 00:42:17.139 --> 00:42:21.420 just name Collins not really going to help and I hope I haven't name 600 00:42:21.539 --> 00:42:23.300 called too much in this episode. That said, if you want to have 601 00:42:23.300 --> 00:42:27.780 a dialog, for sure, leave the message and tell me why technology you 602 00:42:27.820 --> 00:42:32.010 won't work. Why have you so little faith in technology? If it's because 603 00:42:32.050 --> 00:42:36.449 you fear the government, that why aren't you doing something right now to affect 604 00:42:36.489 --> 00:42:38.409 change in the government? You know, if you really fear the government from 605 00:42:38.449 --> 00:42:40.769 taking over your gun or controlling shit in the way you don't like it, 606 00:42:42.409 --> 00:42:45.760 you got to come up with a logical argument for why you're not addressing the 607 00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:49.840 government right now. Why are you afraid of the government doing that? What 608 00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:53.039 about the government makes you fearful? Well, figure that out for yourself. 609 00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:58.239 Leave me message and, like I said, I'll put this all together in 610 00:42:58.360 --> 00:43:01.710 an episode in the future, you know, basically a response to the gun 611 00:43:01.949 --> 00:43:07.469 episode. Cool, all right, that's that's enough. That's just enough of 612 00:43:07.590 --> 00:43:09.869 talk, too much. I feel like I'm wearing your ear out. I 613 00:43:09.989 --> 00:43:13.900 just had to get this out because you know what it is. It's Monday. 614 00:43:14.699 --> 00:43:17.139 I would not be surprised if there was another mass shooting this week in 615 00:43:17.179 --> 00:43:22.139 America. It's just just the way it is and we've got to stop the 616 00:43:22.179 --> 00:43:24.460 mass shootings. Once we can stop the mass shootings, we can work on 617 00:43:24.539 --> 00:43:30.130 individual domestic crime, gang crime and things like that. Those are not the 618 00:43:30.210 --> 00:43:34.650 focus. Normal people are not worried about gang crime because they don't they're not 619 00:43:34.769 --> 00:43:37.250 any gang and they don't go to where gangs live. A lot of people 620 00:43:37.570 --> 00:43:42.840 in domestic situations where they're in danger. They have a pretty good sense that 621 00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:45.880 they're in danger already and are working actively to get out of that situation. 622 00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:50.760 So gang crime, domestic violence, and that sort of thing. Will worry 623 00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:53.159 about that later. Bank robberies, we can talk about that later, but 624 00:43:53.199 --> 00:43:58.389 right now let's just focus on the mass killings. Let's figure out a way 625 00:43:58.670 --> 00:44:04.389 through technology, to eliminate mass killings by guns. Cool, cool, all 626 00:44:04.389 --> 00:44:07.150 right, I'll talk to you next time. Hit me up on twitter at 627 00:44:07.190 --> 00:44:12.739 bipolar style, or you can go to bipolar stylecom and yeah, do your 628 00:44:12.820 --> 00:44:16.300 thing. All right, cool, see you later is one thing. And 629 00:44:16.460 --> 00:44:24.530 what's that? You have to use so many cuss words. Fuck you, 630 00:44:24.610 --> 00:44:36.969 talking them out style on I cheese and following on twitter. Joy, excuse 631 00:44:37.170 --> 00:44:37.719 me, by Quality