March 30, 2023 • 54 mins
EPISODE 165: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:45) The gun cult of this country, led by Fox News and the right wing media hatred factory, has metaphorically shat on the dead children of Nashville. They are trying - at this moment - to use their poor, destroyed bodies, as a rationalization for the purging of the LGBTQ community AND its allies on the fallacious pretext that, as the filth Tucker Carlson said, "The Trans movement is targeting Christians." Simultaneously these sadists are using the murder of these nine-year olds as the final, ultimate excuse to not merely do nothing to stop the madness of Gun America, but to INCREASE the number of guns they own and place them ubiquitously in this society.
This cult of death with its AR-15 Murder Machines must be stopped. As always, the first step to halt evil is to call it evil, and do so loudly. And yesterday, two Congressmen began the loud attack on evil: Jared Moskowitz of Florida, and Jamaal Bowman of New York, whom I am proud to say now represents the town in which I grew up.
B-Block (24:06) The cornerstone of the Republican/Fox/Gun Cult lie is its perversion of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. To understand that lie you must understand that the Constitution is in actuality a property document that decides what the government can own and what the people can own. Forms of the word "vote" appear just 37 times in it. "Right" and "rights" appear just 15 times. Terms of money and ownership are included 103 times. The Constitution is about OWNERSHIP. Yet the 2nd Amendment does not contain the word "own" nor any synonym for it. And as the former Chief Justice of the United States said, "The gun lobby's interpretation of the 2nd Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud...on the American People..." Let the lying begin.
C-Block (42:44) From February 15, 2022, after the shooting at Michigan State. (57:30) Every Dog Has Its Day: as we try to save the country let's save a poor puppy named Junior.
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Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The
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gun cults in this country, the fascist right has metaphorically
shot on the dead children of Nashville. Be very clear
what the far right, led by Fox News and the
right wing media hatred factory, is already doing is doing
right now, largely out of sight of mainstream America, in
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full flower and with total rage. It has finally found
someone to be both the scapegoat and the excuse. To them.
America's crisis of mass gun murder is no longer something
they have to rationalize or be defensive about. It has
this week after Nashville become their weapon. After decades of
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trying to blame anything and everything but guns for the
uniquely American disaster that is ritualized mass gun slaughter, the
far right has finally found the real cause the right
people to blame trans people. These right wing creatures are
simultaneously positioning the tragedy at the Covenant School as a
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hate crime, as an attack on Christianity, a literal religious
war against them by trans people, while also insisting that
the tragedy at the Covenant School is a reminder that
their right to own murder machines is inalienable, and the
Second Amendment is the equivalent of the Christ child. And
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any attempt to stop the ritual sacrifice of children, their children,
our chidren America's children, that that is another hate crime
against them, because they have decided that guns are more
needed than ever, because as the filth Tucker Carlson said, quote,
the trans movement is targeting Christians. Kill nine year old
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Christian kids in a school. You're a monster, a religious bigot,
a hate criminal. Trying to prevent the killing of all
nine year old kids in schools. You're a monster, a
religious bigot, hate criminal. In doing this, the right has
revealed itself is something far worse than we knew, far
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worse even than we suspected, far worse than we could
have imagined in our worst nightmares. They do not want
quote their unquote children killed in quote their unquote schools.
They do not care if your children are killed in
your school, if their kids die. It is what the
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twenty twenty Republican Senate nominee from Delaware just called a
war on Christians because they want us dead. Unte If
your kids die, it is just collateral damage to their
Second Amendment rights and horrifyingly, there turns out to be
one further circle of hell that shooting in Nashville is
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now the only excuse they need to ramp up their
persecution of transpeople, and of drag Queen's story time, and
of gay people, and of LGBTQ people and allies. Human beings.
See children, their bodies exploded by the AR fifteen murder machine,
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and they mourn and they recoil, and they seek to
find a way to make it stop, to save all children,
to save all Americans, to somehow end the torturing reality
that this nation, every day, every hour, every second lives
as slaves to the gun lobby and its perverted interpretation
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of the Second Amendment. But the far right sees all
this as an opportunity to blame and scapegoat and gaslight
and purge. And just as the death cult in this
country was latching onto this fantasy of martyrdom, an idiot
named Joscelyn Berry, who was the press secretary to the
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Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, decided that nine hours after the
nightmare in Nashville was the perfect time to tweet us
when we see transphobes Above a clip from the nineteen
eighty movie Gloria, with the actress General Olins holding two
handguns and Governor Hobbs's office waited thirty six hours before
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saying anything before Jocelyn Barry resigned or was made too,
because yes, transphobes are a deadly threat in this society,
and yes, a tweet that gives transphobes fodder for their
newfound Christian martyrdom is as deadly a threat in this society.
The point is, we shouldn't permit mass shootings at Christian schools,
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and we shouldn't permit mass shootings at LGBTQ clubs that
held drag shows in Colorado. And we shouldn't permit mass
shootings by trans people or by straight people, or by Christians,
or by atheists, or by Fox News viewers, or by
MSNBC viewers, or by crazy people, or by saying people,
or by the grandson of a Maga California State assemblyman
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who compared January sixth to Lexington and conquered We shouldn't
permit mass shootings. We have spent the money to train
the cops. We have spent the money to give the
cops the weapons. We have pushed for more good guys
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with guns. We have trained in active shooter drills everybody,
from kindergarteners to stadium ushers. We have made up excuses
for the shooter drills, telling the little three year olds
that they have to hide in case there is an
escaped animal. And it didn't stop Colorado Springs or the
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University of Virginia, or Buffalo or Vivaldi or Nashville. In
desperately trying to process and understand this spiraling national disaster,
which gets exponentially worse with every passing week, we always
leave out one component without which these things could not
possibly happen. We always leave it out because it is
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more horrible to contemplate than being in the club, or
being in the bus, or being in the supermarket or
in the school. It is this. There are people in
this country who want this to keep happening. We live
in a hell where more children die by gunfire in
a year than from any other cause, and more than
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on duty police officers and active military members. The rights
cannibalistic obsession is not merely to own a gun. It
is to own a gun so that someday they can
shoot someone who is without a gun. The victims are
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always unarmed, whether it is a psychopath shooting you in
a classroom, or cops shooting some black kid, or some
hobophobe shooting up another LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs. It's
not the fight that they lust after. It's the unfair fight.
They don't want guns. They don't want gunfights. They want
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to hunt people they do not like. They want blacks shot,
they want kids shot, they want gays shot, they want
Asians shot, they want Jews shot, they want liberals, and
now they want people who have declared war on Christians
when there has never been war on Christians in this
country shot. This happens not because the country fails to act.
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It acts. This happens not because the Congress fails to act.
It acts. This happens not because the president fails to act.
He acts. This happens not because mental health professionals fail
to act. They act. This happens not because the filibuster
is in the way. The filibuster is a wall of paper.
This happens not because the gun lobby is in the way.
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The gun lobby is a wall of paper. This happens
not because the Red States are in the way. The
Red States are a wall of paper. This happens because
the Republicans let it happen. Republicans equal gun massacres, gun
massacres equal Republicans. Without one entire political party prostituting itself,
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the gun lobby would lose all its power. Congress would
be able to rout the death cult. The President would
be able to enforce the laws and issue executive orders.
The filibuster would be irrelevant. The Red States would fall
one after the other, and the will of the people
and sixty one percent of us want a new assault
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weapon ban would prevail, and we would no longer be
slaves to the gun. But there is a political party
prostituting itself, and that party is the Republican Party. And
there may or may not be anything we can do
quickly enough to stop these ritualized sacrifices of our children
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and our innocent citizens to a non existent quote constitutional
right unquote this year or next. But the sooner, Democrats
tell the truth with rage and with revenge in their words.
The sooner they say, those kids are dead because Republicans
got rid of the assault ban and Republicans stopped gun control.
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The sooner we will be able to make some impact.
The Second Amendment argument is a complete lie, and I
will go into that in depth in the second segment.
The word own does not appear in the Second Amendment.
There are no other words that mean own in the
Second Amendment, even though the Constitution and the Bill of
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Rights are largely a property document. If they had meant own,
they would have said own. So to adapt what was
said after an antislavery publisher was assassinated in eighteen thirty seven,
is America free or are we slaves to the mob
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rule of gun owners? Because the Republicans who are at
fault for gun massacres managed to fool not only their
own cultists, but many normal people too. In the Red
States under Republican control, the party line is gun violence
is a problem only in the Blue States, in the cities.
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In fact, your chance of dying by a gun in
Texas is nearly three times more than it is in
New York. Your chance of dying by a gun in
Louisiana and Mississippi and Wyoming is nearly twice as much
as it is in Illinois. Your chance of dying by
a gun in Idaho and Kansas and Nevada and Indiana
and half a dozen other Red states is twice as
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much as it is in California. There are small actions
you and I could take to push back against this nightmare.
We could encourage and support the boycotts by students who
have done more than any other group of Americans. We
could demand credit card companies refuse to let customers use
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their credit card services to buy at least the worst
of the guns and the ammunition. We could demand news
organizations to show, where possible, the images of what one
of these guns actually does to the human body, the
way we showed the images of the Nazi death camps
after World War Two, when so many said it was
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too graphic. Because that is the point, it is too graphic.
It is too graphic to be shown, and therefore it
is too graphic to happen. Yet after each one of
these after each one, Republicans immediately try to turn the
subject to the quote mental health crisis. Though many Democrats
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buy into this line and whole or in part, there
is no mental health crisis. Fewer than five percent of
the shooters have any identifiable mental illness. What one hundred
percent of the shooters have guns? The only mental health
crisis in this country about this subject is insisting that
the weekly mass murders have nothing to do with guns.
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More Republicans, more deaths, more Republicans, more mass shootings, more Republicans,
more dead. Second graders and first graders and kindergarteners and
LGBTQ people and minorities and Christians say it. This is
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the Republican business enabling the gun lobby to sell more
guns to kill more children. Republicans did this, and especially
two Democrats listening. Stop invoking God every time this happens.
If you want to pray for the Republicans victims or
their loved ones, go ahead, and they're all Republicans victims,
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but do it in private. Do it at the end
of your speech. The night of the Texas shooting last May,
Joe Biden made nine references to God. Mister president, Whether
you believe there is a God or you don't, it's irrelevant.
Faithful and the atheist would have to agree. If there
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is one. God has clearly left this crisis for us
to solve, and the President is, as Lincoln once said,
clothed in immense powers. Use them already. We need executive
orders to ban these weapons and we do not need
you saying you have exhausted your executive order. Supply make
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more orders. And if a court blocks those orders, mister President,
issue more orders than that. Issue twenty of them, Issue
two thousand of them, Issue two million of them. I
want the corrupt Republican judges and the Republican gun lobby
waiting knee deep in executive orders. I want them suing
so many times that it will take the year thirty
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three thousand before it's all sorted out. Just do it.
The Senator Elizabeth Warren has noted executive orders alone could
broaden the requirement for background checks for virtually every gun buyer,
and to report multiple gun purchases, and to raise the
minimum age to buy a gun, and to increase prosecution
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for gun trafficking across the Texas border, and to revoke
the license of gun dealers who break the laws, and
to investigate and prosecute the NRA, and to keep guns
out of the hands of any domestic abuser. That's just
what any president could do today. President Biden, you have
not run out of executive orders. And if that is
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still not enough, mister President, if the Congressman Tim Burchett
of Tennessee admits about this nightmare quote, We're not going
to fix it. Criminals are going to be criminals, and
Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota says, I think the
things that have already been done have gone about as
far as we're going to with gun control. If these
men representing these states admit they cannot enforce the gun laws,
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you have to do what Eisenhower and Kennedy and Lyndon
Johnson did when other state attorneys general and governors and
senators and congressmen confessed they couldn't or wouldn't enforce integration laws.
Send in troops to enforce these laws, mister President, or
just wait wait for whatever and whoever is to be
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hunted next. Police arrested two men in Pennstation in New
York in November with weapons. They had plans to shoot
up a synagogue. Two nights later, they closed the campus
at the University of New Orleans over a threat from
a former student. Hours after, five died at Club Q.
The libs of TikTok Twitter account that filth invoked drag
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shows again and targeted two more Colorado state representatives. Where
do you want to see the next tragedy happen, mister President,
on first and foremost, President Biden, stopped dancing around the truth.
These children in Tennessee and Texas, and the grocery shoppers
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in Buffalo, and the people just out for a Saturday
night in a place they considered their haven in Colorado,
they were killed by Republicans directly or stochastically, say this,
use your immense powers to clothe these truths with legitimacy
and with acceptability. When Republicans come out as they are
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still removing the dismembered bodies of the kids the Republicans
have decided are suitable to be hunted, and when Republicans
vomit nonsensical excuses claiming that this happened because it's transpeople
declaring war on Christians, or that the school didn't have
high enough fences, or a door was opened, or because
the targets weren't hard enough, or they outright lie and say,
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if only there have been a cop in the school
in Texas, when as we found out, the cops stood
and watched, or an outright line say well, only there'd
be a good guy with a gun in the tops
market in Buffalo when there was a retired cop with
a gun inside and he's dead too. Or when they
outright line say only they're been a cop in club
que in Colorado Springs, when in fact the shooter was
stopped when an unarmed man grabbed that gun from his
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hand and hit him with it. Come out and say it,
President Biden, the Republicans killed those kids in Nashville. Say
it the way Congressman Jared Moskowitz said to Marjorie Taylor
Green when she snorted out the buzzwords she could remember,
like Christian and trans and good guys with guns. Okay,
I'll yield, Thank you, mister chairman. You know there are
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six people that are dead in that school, including three children,
because you guys got rid of the assault weapons ban.
Say it. Say it the way the Congressman Jamal Bowman,
the former school principal who now represents the town I
grew up in. Send it to the media and to
the pro death Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey last night in
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public as loudly as cowards pray for such fun to
the question, why the hell will you do anything to
say about the children, And let don't slay that. Oh well,
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until let's stay tuns four. Let then is slaying all
the way up to lunching day or train from four.
They're freaking cowards, they're gutless. We're not here talking about
I'm talking about gun violence. You know, there's never been.
I'm talking about you like lane. It's more that allows
teachers to carry carry guns. Good thing, more gus because
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more done, more guns me to more duncause look at
the data. You're not looking at any data. You're young.
You're carrying the water for the gun lobby. No, no,
hook at the data. More guns, even more death. But
the good states that have open kyrie laws have more
death in every school day with stay home hoping kyrie
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laws and have more doth its never been a sho
you listen to what I'm saying. That's what and what
called that children and daying nine year old children? Friends,
lucis that armed teachers? Have you ever worked in the school?
Have you ever worked in the school? And every how
you ever work in the school? How do you ever
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work in the schools? He guessing the pus have you
ever worked in the school? You will not answer my question.
Don't stop and talk to the room. Okay, I'll bring
it down to not have you ever worked in the
school Granville, I haven't worked in the school. You're twenty years?
I was, I was right, I work for years. How
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are you twenty years? I was serious as I was
in the school. Every time he can't even answer yes
to no question? Answer why don't they in the slash
why question? A fake? You back with the real meaning
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of the Second Amendment after this? Did you know there
are two references in our Constitution to dollar amounts, I
mean literally dollar figures. Section nine discusses attacks or duty
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of quote ten dollars, and the seventh Amendment protects your
right to a jury trial where the value in controversy
shall exceed twenty dollars. The Constitution, with all its amendments,
is a patriotic seven thousand, six hundred and seventy six
words long, seventy six seventy six and two clauses mentioned
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an exact value in cash and merchandise or when the
word money appears six times. In those seven thousand, six
hundred and seventy six words. The word coin piers five times.
There are ten references to taxes eight times. You read
duty or duties. The word debt pierce seven times. There
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are four uses of the word compensation to imports, to exports,
and the rest of it, the non ownership parts stripped away.
The rest of the United States Constitution and its amendments reads, profit, paid, treasury, emoluments, revenue, imposts, excises, imposts, excises, credit, commerce, bankruptcy, securities,
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exclusive right purchased, capitation, commerce, revenue, treasury, appropriations, receipts, expenditures, profit, emolument, credit, gold, silver,
tender payment, imposts, impost, treasury, profit emolument, bribery, lands, grants
forfeit your fines, equity payment, pensions, bounties, pay obligation, obligations, incomes, manufacture, sale,
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pay value, owner, property, property, private property. The Constitution is
a property document. Our Constitution is about ownership. Those references
just to dollars and money in coin and taxes and
duties and debt and compensation and other ownership. There's one
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hundred and three of them all told in the Constitution.
The word vote, votes, and voting appear a total of
thirty seven times, the word rights and right fifteen times money,
and ownership one hundred and three times. Our Constitution is
first and foremost a property contract. What the government can
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own and must own and pay for, and what the
people can own and must own and pay for. It
is noble, and most of it has held up flawlessly
since seventeen eighty seven, and in some places it is
almost sublime. But it does not read like the Declaration
of independent Its closest relative is the contract you sign
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when you buy a car. So isn't it funny? Then?
In the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States of America, the second of all of them ever passed,
the one about guns, it does not say anything about
owning guns, dollars, money, coined, taxes, duties, debt, compensation, import
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export pay value, owner, property, property, private property. A constitution
with more fine print in it than a mortgage, a
constitution that mentions ten dollars and twenty dollars. And yet
there isn't one of those ownership or property or value
words in the little part about guns. A well regulated
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militia being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed, which one of those words means own,
None of them do, which words in the part stating
that the Second Amendment is about the well regulated militia
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in a free state are unclear. None of them is.
The Second Amendment prevents the government from making it illegal
for individual states to have their own state militias. It
does this by making it illegal for private citizens to
bear arms, so that is made sacrosanct. Private citizens may
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bear arms for a state militia, bear arms for use
in a militia. The Second Amendment guarantees the right to
your state national guard. Unfortunately, it also guaranteed the right
for a state to rebel against the federal government. Thus
it guaranteed the right to civil war. But no matter
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how awful that is, it still doesn't say anything in
here about prohibiting gun control. The Second Amendment is gun control.
It may say you can bear one. It may even
say you can keep one in your own home if
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you're using it as part of a well regulated militia.
It does not say you can own one. And if
you don't own that gun you are keeping and bearing,
somebody else does own that gun. And that somebody has
got to be the government. And therefore we start with
the idea that it says in the Constitution that the
government controls the guns, all the guns, and just for
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the record, the arms mentioned in the Second Amendment. Those
are muskets, not repeating rifles, not machine guns, not automatic
murder machines. We have a history of government gun control
that stretches back to the nineteenth century, back to when
the musket began the process of evolving into an oozy
take one of the seminal moments of American cultural history,
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this symbolic essence of our expansion to the west. The
gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, on October
twenty six, eighteen eighty one. The OK Corral was a
gun fight about gun control to prevent gun terrorism. It
was illegal to carry a gun in Tombstone, Arizona in
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eighteen eighty one, and the Clantons and the mcclaris were
ignoring it, and the town marshals the Earp brothers were
enforcing gun control. Gun control in Tombstone, Arizona in eighteen
eighty one, and it was tougher than it is now
in all but a handful of places in the America
of twenty twenty three. But of course, what does that matter.
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This is settled law. The Supreme Court ruled in the
Heller case in two thousand and eight. The highest court
in the land essentially heard the lead phrase of an
amendment indicating that is it about a well regulated militia
for an individual state government. Then it stuck its fingers
in its ears and pretended that in a property document
filled with dollars and money and coin in taxes and imports, exports,
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pay value, owner property, property and private property. Doesn't matter
if the words used are keep and bear arms rather
than keep and own arms. Our own and bear arms.
But it's the Supreme Court. How could some knitwit with
a podcast have a better understanding of the Second Amendment
than the justices on the United States? Well, you know
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what they say about the Supreme Court quote. The gun
lobby's interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the
greatest pieces of fraud. I repeat the word fraud on
the American people by special interest groups that I have
ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the
Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies the militia,
would be maintained for the defense of the state. The
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very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that
it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right
to any kind of weapon he or she desires. The
speaker added, quote, the Second Amendment doesn't guarantee the right
to have firearms at all. Who said that? Warrenburger, Chief
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Justice of the United States or nineteen sixty nine until
nineteen eighty six, appointed by Richard Nixon. He believed homosexual
behavior could be prohibited by law. He thought that sending
a man to prison for life or writing a bad
one hundred dollar check was just fine. He believed in
a strict constructionist reading of the Constitution, just like the
Tea Party did. The Second Amendment, Warrenburger said, doesn't guarantee
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the right to have firearms at all. So if we
have dispensed with the idea that in a property document,
an amendment about each state being able to have its
own citizens bearing arms in a well regulated militia that
doesn't include one single word about ownership actually means no.
Terrorists have an inalienable right to own and keep a
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million guns apiece, and they can kill an average of
one hundred and fourteen people a day in this country.
And if we have dispensed with the idea that the
Supreme Court, which upheld this preposterous interpretation, could not have
made a mistake and endangered the lives of every citizen,
and I'd like to thank Chief Justice Burgher for doing that.
Then we come to the three most popular excuses for
why we should have gun laws so loose, so protective
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of mass murderers and terrorists at the cost of the
lives of school children, that if transported from eighteen eighty
one to now, the residence of Tombstone, Arizona, would have
called all of us butchers. The excuses are hunting, protection
against governmental tyranny, and the rights of the responsible gun owner.
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About hunting, bluntly, if you need an AAR fifteen, or
you need thirteen guns or any automatic weapon of some
kind to kill any animals smaller than a kraken, you
are no good at hunting. Take up another pastime. And
about protection against governmental tyranny, Okay, we've had every kind
of president now, and we've had two world wars, and
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a day of terrorist attacks, and a civil war during
which we still managed to hold a presidential election which
the Democratic nominee wanted to cut a deal with the
traitor estates, and we had an attempted insurrection two years ago,
and we still haven't had one national government decide to
invade your home and haul you off because you were
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for abortion or against abortion, or because you were a
Democrat or a Republican or a fascist or a Republican fascist,
and before the next dim bull running for the Republican
nomination for something explains that we wouldn't have had gun
terrorism if only more good guys had guns, or that
the Holocaust wouldn't have happened if the victims had all
had guns, or that Jesus would have been fine if
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he'd had an aar fifteen. Remember the last time this
country actually did go into the homes of some of
its citizens and seize them and drag them off against
their will to detention camps where they did not know
if they were going to be fed or shot. You
forgot about that. The internment of one hundred and twenty
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thousand Americans during the Second World War. The Japanese Americans
property sees, liberty erased, habeas corpus, suspended, illegally, imprisoned without
any due process, some for more than four years. They
didn't have access to guns. None of them. Their neighbors
didn't have access to guns. That actual example of the
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US government invading your home and hauling you off was
affected by the freedom to have a gun and the
Second Amendment. How exactly how did the Second Amendment protect
those people against the government. Well, right, it didn't. All
the guns the citizens were bearing and keeping, and nobody
as much as clean one in an attempt to defend
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these Americans being rounded up and sent off in box
cars to concentration camps. And bluntly, again, at this point
in our history, if the government did decide to round
you up or round up your group or some group,
your thirteen guns would not stop them. Your thirteen thousand
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guns would not stop them. While you were worried about
your gun, the government was busy taking away nearly all
of the privacy of your communications. The government can follow
you from space. Not only do you carry a tracking device,
you paid hundreds of dollars for it, and you buy
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a new one when they updated. It's called a smart phone.
You have a microphone in your house that could be
broadcasting everything going on in your house to god knows
who or where, and you call it Alexa like it
was your goddamned cousin from Philadelphia. Hell I can pay
a small fee get your address, look it up on
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Google Earth, find a one hundred and eighty degree view
of your home and figure out the easiest way to
break into your home. And I can do it on
my phone. How are you going to stop the government
with a gun? Speaking of guns and governments, nearly ten
percent of all the presidents in the history of the
United States have been assassinated with guns. A fifth was wounded,
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a sixth was wounded while running for reelection, and seven
others survived significant assassination attempts by guns. That's thirteen out
of forty five presidents. There are no longer any excuses
for the governmental protection of gun rights, and there are
all kinds of regulations and waiting periods and controls that
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can make an immediate impact on how often the gun
terrorists who've killed our children, who had a phantom constant
protection to own the guns with which they killed our children,
can get those guns. Those regulations and waiting periods on
both the state and federal level are of value and
should be enacted and enforced, And the first of them
clearly should be designed to close the so called gun
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show loophole. But these are half measures, and every one
of them we might pass. The NRA and the death
lobby and everybody else who profits from gun terrorism can
fight and sue over and bribe politicians and roll back,
and the half measures can no longer be the goal.
And yes, the process will inevitably and in no small irony,
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lead to many of us who advocate for it being shot.
And yes, in a bigger irony, still, it will inevitably
lead to public protests and mass demonstrations that will require
those of us moving towards banning guns totally will have
to be protected by countless numbers of men and women
bearing guns. But the time of our crisis has come.
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To our phrase Professor Lawrence B. Hiccock of Western Reserve College,
the question now before the American citizens is no longer
alone can the schools and public places be made free
of the risk of gun massacres? But are we free?
Or are we slaves under gun mob law? So, if
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you'd like to continue killing thousands of our citizens and
terrorizing the rest of them each year, treating a misinterpreted
constitutional amendment protecting your local state national Guard as if
it were the revealed word, sacrificing our children on the
altar of gun rights for psychopaths like we were the
Canaanites throwing them into the fire to appease the god Moloch.
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Go right ahead, I'm done with it. You know that
third rail of American politics. They're going to take your
guns away. It should be the avowed policy of every
Democrat in this country. We are going to take your
guns away, my promise. Who's this We liberals and conservatives
and gun haters and gun lovers and everybody everybody who
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values a human life more than a goddamned gun. Which
side are you on? You pick the gun over the life?
To hell with you. You support terrorism, We are going
to take away your terrorist weapons guns confiscation. By the
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way to do it, I'm afraid we're going to have
to use a well regulated militia. What follows I first
presented on February fifteenth of this year. One of the
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students survivors at Michigan State was a student survivor of
Sandy Hook, and at least three of the student survivors
of Michigan State. We're student survivors at Michigan Oxford High
School fifteen months earlier, and we can say with all
too much certainty that some of them we'll also become
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survivors of Toledo twenty nine, Dallas twenty thirty three, your
city twenty thirty five, My city twenty thirty seven. Because
mass gun murders are profit centers. Why does this supposedly
sophisticated nation abide the ritual sacrifice of our children and
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our brothers and sisters and parents to the moloch of
insane gun owners like Lauren Bobert or Thomas Massey or whoever,
the ones who get some kind of sexual gratification from
owning and displaying and stroking and firing weapons because it
makes other people millions of dollars. That's why we are
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owned by guns. And so we go on calculating the
averages and deciding if by age five it is already
too late to teach kids how to play dead in
their classrooms, and we go on listening to fascist asshole
madmen like Ron de Santis talk about fortifying schools and
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fortifying movie theaters and fortifying churches, and we go on
listening to messianic buttonheads like Eric Adams talk about giving
more guns to more police, when police often turn out
either to be the murderers or the cowards who idle
in the hallways as the children of Uvalde are executed
one by one, and we go on listening to the
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fatuous idiots like the Missouri House where the police said,
we need laws to stop fourteen year olds from walking
down the streets of St. Loui is carrying ar fifteens,
and the House voted one hundred and four to thirty
nine to keep open carry legal in Missouri for kids.
And we go on listening to a moral monsters like
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Donald Trump talk about arming teachers and bringing back firing squads,
and we listened to these paid scum Republicans bribed by
the gun manufacturers and the gun organizations, recite what they
have been paid to say about responsible gun owners, when
after half a million gun deaths in this country in
the last ten or twelve years, it is no longer
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in doubt there are no longer any responsible gun owners.
On this nightmare so familiar, so routine, and so constant
that we no longer remember the details or the location
or the motive were the sequence of them, And now
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we are no longer even remembering that there was a
nightmare last night where the night before, and we're now
marbling them into other things in American life, as if
they were snowstorms or flight delays, and a hockey podcaster
begins by saying, well, it's tough to do this after
the Michigan State news, but let's talk about the Carolina
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hurricanes needs at the deadline, and the New York Times
can run a sidebar that the shooting, well, it upended
the lives of thousands, but it also put the school
back in an uncomfortable spotlight, what with the sexual assault scandal.
There we go on in an unacceptable world in which
we are owned by guns. We go on to borrow
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from Churchill, in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided,
resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity,
all powerful to be impotent. The dead of Michigan State,
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the dead of Las Vegas, the dead at the Pulse,
the dead at Well. Why do we bother with individual
place names anymore? The dead of the killing field, the
dead of the transcendent national shooting range that is the
United States of America. They are dead because somebody is
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making money off them, and because Ted Cruz is making
money off them, and Marjorie Taylor Green is making money
off them, and every horror politician is making money off
them and rarely even bothering anymore to wash the money
through seepack or save America this or shoot America, that
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the donations come straight and unhidden. And whether it's Trump
or DeSantis, or who are soon to be very very surprised,
Nicki Haley, or just some other idiot free from morality
or conscience, whom the moneyed interests select, it is fair
to say that the Republican nominee for president in twenty
twenty four, whoever that is, will be underwritten by the
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gun manufacturers and the gun lobby and their masters, the
death lobby, who pay good money to bad people to
maintain not just our culture of guns and shooting and
dead children and thoughts and prayers, but also maintain the
world's culture of continuing to poison the atmosphere and kill
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off the species one by one because the one billion,
nine hundred and sixty three million dollars in profit made
last year by big Oil just isn't enough. Because they
stay up at night anguished by the thought that there
remains somewhere one dollar not yet stolen from a child
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dying next to the earthquake rubble in Syria, or Turkey
one dollar yet to be pocketed by Darren Woods, the
CEO of Exxonmobile Away God intended it. It is economics,
and thus the only solution can also be economics, because
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we will not defeat them in the states that are
already lost to the control of the death lobby. And
even if President Biden said tomorrow we are not owned
by guns, and I don't give a damn. If I'm
reelected or even renominated, I'm going to issue four hundred
and fifty executive orders and take every damn gun I
can get off the streets. And if the House and
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send it won't reinstate the assault weapons man, I will
do so unilaterally and come and get me in the courts.
Even if Biden did that, we the anti death people,
we would lose in the Supreme Court because Clarence Thomas
the whore is on the Supreme Court because of and
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bought and paid for by the death lobby, and Samuel
Alito the whore is, and John Roberts the whore is,
and Neil Gorsich and drunken Brett Kavanaugh and Bible paralegal
Amy Coney Barrett. And so we must ask ourselves what
economically can we do to the gun lobby, to the
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oil lobby, to the death lobby, and to their minions
in the Senate and the House, and all the Senates
and all the houses in all the states in America
and in this country. There are only a couple of
measures that might possibly work, and might possibly work fast
enough so that enough of us won't be killed in
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next year's three hundred gun massacres or the next decades
three hundred climate crises. And that one thing is to
spare you the kind words, the soft words. That one
thing is economic civil war. It can start simply, buy
nothing from Texas, do not go to Florida, do not
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patronize Missouri. We can start there, and then we can
get serious. It is a simple mathematical fact that, with
some exceptions, and a little more nuanced than time permits
me here, it is a simple mathematical fact that the
blue states of this country keep the Red states of
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this country from going bankrupt. It is a simple mathematical
fact that the Blue states pay in more to the
federal government than they ever get back in services or infrastructure,
or certainly in per capita representation. New York pays a
net twenty four billion a year, California pays in and
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at fourteen billion, and most of that goes to keeping
Florida and Texas from starving. Florida gets thirty six billion
a year more than it pays in Texas nearly that much.
It is state to state socialism, and we all know
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that we can't have socialism. And it is a simple
fact that the Blue States restrict and regulate guns, and
the Red States sell guns and sell guns and sell
guns and profit off dead children. And when the political
whores like Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson and Rupert Murdoch
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point to the gun carnage of Chicago, they are actually
pointing to the gun carnage of weapons smuggled in from
Indiana to Chicago. And it is also a simple fact
that we can dance around for decades yet to come
about how to stop the gun massacres of February twenty
forty seven and the chemical disasters of June twenty sixty
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one so bad they reminded old timers of where was
that East Palestine, Ohio? Or we can cut to the
chase and put it this way, if the Red States
do not agree to strict and enforced gun regulation and
the removal and the outlawing of gun manufacture, and a
revision of the Second Amendment so that the vagueness that
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isn't actually there but the death lobby has sped a
century convincing millions, is there, that all doubt about the
Second Amendment be erased and replaced by the simple statement
that private gun ownership is illegal without a series of
licenses and mental health tests, and that the owner is
liable for whatever is done with his gun, and if
that includes murder, then the owner is liable for life imprisonment,
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whether he fired the gun or not. If the Red
States do not agree to that, and by the way,
to reapportioned representation in the House and the Senate so
that Idaho does not have as many senators as a
real state and not a welfare state like Idaho, And
if they do not agree to the resignations of Chief
Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Barrett, gorsych Kavanaugh, and Thomas.
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If the Red States do not agree to that, then
the Blue States will simply stop paying money into the
federal government, and the Blue States will simply spend that
money directly on their own citizens. And if the leaders
of our blue states who will not comply with this,
then the only solution we have, Since the murders at
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Michigan State Monday night and the murders at your town
name here next week are profit streams for many people,
the only solution we have is to then stop paying
our federal taxes until our state leaders recognize that the
only way out of this nightmare is to threaten the
red states, and thus threatened the gun lobby, and thus
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threatened the oil lobby, and thus threatened the death lobby
with economic strangulation, economic civil war, to save the country,
To save the next six hundred thousand Americans who will
die by gun violence almost certainly by the year twenty
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thirty five, if it does not get worse before then
six hundred thousand, the same number who were killed in
the actual Civil War. And if you ask yourself, or
you are asked by what right we could threaten economic
civil war, just say this is constitutional under the Second
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Amendment quote a well regulated militia being necessary to the
security of a free state. Eight. The right of the
people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed.
Our rights to the security of a free state have
been infringed upon by the gun lobby and the death lobby,
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which has convinced generations of gun fetishists that an amendment
that does not contain the word own nor any synonym
for own, does contain it. The Constitution is a property document.
It mentions rights only fifteen times. It mentions voting only
thirty seven times. This is out of nearly eight thousand words,
but it mentions money and ownership one hundred and three times.
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The Second Amendment is about making sure nothing interferes with
a well regulated militia, well regulated militia that is there
protecting our rights as citizens to have, as it says
in the Second Amendment, the security of a free state.
Our Second Amendment rights have been trampled on by Donald
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Trump and the Republican the anti Second Amendment Republicans. We
need to start enforcing the Second Amendment. We need an
economic civil war against the gun lobby and the death
lobby and those corrupted and financially insolvent red states that
stand in the way of peace and security in this
country because we are owned by guns. But God damn it,
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we are not going to be owned by guns any longer.
Before we go We're not going to solve this in
one day. We might be able to solve something for
a dog named Junior. Every dog has its day. Junior
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has been at the New York Pound since November fifth.
He's a sixteen month old puppy, young dog, beloved of
the staff there, playful child and dog friendly, and now
they have put out a euthanasia order on him. He
needs our help. Anyone can adopt him, he is ready
to go, He's that easy to deal with, or our
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pledges to help defray the costs of a rescue to
pull him and save his life. You can see Junior's
video and read about him on my Twitter feeds and
pledge to help, or if you are so moved, get
to New York and adopt him. The details are there.
I thank you, and Junior thanks you. Cowntown with Keith
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gun cults in this country, the fascist right has metaphorically
shot on the dead children of Nashville. Be very clear
what the far right, led by Fox News and the
right wing media hatred factory, is already doing is doing
right now, largely out of sight of mainstream America, in
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full flower and with total rage. It has finally found
someone to be both the scapegoat and the excuse. To them.
America's crisis of mass gun murder is no longer something
they have to rationalize or be defensive about. It has
this week after Nashville become their weapon. After decades of
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trying to blame anything and everything but guns for the
uniquely American disaster that is ritualized mass gun slaughter, the
far right has finally found the real cause the right
people to blame trans people. These right wing creatures are
simultaneously positioning the tragedy at the Covenant School as a
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hate crime, as an attack on Christianity, a literal religious
war against them by trans people, while also insisting that
the tragedy at the Covenant School is a reminder that
their right to own murder machines is inalienable, and the
Second Amendment is the equivalent of the Christ child. And
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any attempt to stop the ritual sacrifice of children, their children,
our chidren America's children, that that is another hate crime
against them, because they have decided that guns are more
needed than ever, because as the filth Tucker Carlson said, quote,
the trans movement is targeting Christians. Kill nine year old
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Christian kids in a school. You're a monster, a religious bigot,
a hate criminal. Trying to prevent the killing of all
nine year old kids in schools. You're a monster, a
religious bigot, hate criminal. In doing this, the right has
revealed itself is something far worse than we knew, far
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worse even than we suspected, far worse than we could
have imagined in our worst nightmares. They do not want
quote their unquote children killed in quote their unquote schools.
They do not care if your children are killed in
your school, if their kids die. It is what the
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twenty twenty Republican Senate nominee from Delaware just called a
war on Christians because they want us dead. Unte If
your kids die, it is just collateral damage to their
Second Amendment rights and horrifyingly, there turns out to be
one further circle of hell that shooting in Nashville is
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now the only excuse they need to ramp up their
persecution of transpeople, and of drag Queen's story time, and
of gay people, and of LGBTQ people and allies. Human beings.
See children, their bodies exploded by the AR fifteen murder machine,
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and they mourn and they recoil, and they seek to
find a way to make it stop, to save all children,
to save all Americans, to somehow end the torturing reality
that this nation, every day, every hour, every second lives
as slaves to the gun lobby and its perverted interpretation
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of the Second Amendment. But the far right sees all
this as an opportunity to blame and scapegoat and gaslight
and purge. And just as the death cult in this
country was latching onto this fantasy of martyrdom, an idiot
named Joscelyn Berry, who was the press secretary to the
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Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, decided that nine hours after the
nightmare in Nashville was the perfect time to tweet us
when we see transphobes Above a clip from the nineteen
eighty movie Gloria, with the actress General Olins holding two
handguns and Governor Hobbs's office waited thirty six hours before
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saying anything before Jocelyn Barry resigned or was made too,
because yes, transphobes are a deadly threat in this society,
and yes, a tweet that gives transphobes fodder for their
newfound Christian martyrdom is as deadly a threat in this society.
The point is, we shouldn't permit mass shootings at Christian schools,
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and we shouldn't permit mass shootings at LGBTQ clubs that
held drag shows in Colorado. And we shouldn't permit mass
shootings by trans people or by straight people, or by Christians,
or by atheists, or by Fox News viewers, or by
MSNBC viewers, or by crazy people, or by saying people,
or by the grandson of a Maga California State assemblyman
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who compared January sixth to Lexington and conquered We shouldn't
permit mass shootings. We have spent the money to train
the cops. We have spent the money to give the
cops the weapons. We have pushed for more good guys
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with guns. We have trained in active shooter drills everybody,
from kindergarteners to stadium ushers. We have made up excuses
for the shooter drills, telling the little three year olds
that they have to hide in case there is an
escaped animal. And it didn't stop Colorado Springs or the
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University of Virginia, or Buffalo or Vivaldi or Nashville. In
desperately trying to process and understand this spiraling national disaster,
which gets exponentially worse with every passing week, we always
leave out one component without which these things could not
possibly happen. We always leave it out because it is
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more horrible to contemplate than being in the club, or
being in the bus, or being in the supermarket or
in the school. It is this. There are people in
this country who want this to keep happening. We live
in a hell where more children die by gunfire in
a year than from any other cause, and more than
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on duty police officers and active military members. The rights
cannibalistic obsession is not merely to own a gun. It
is to own a gun so that someday they can
shoot someone who is without a gun. The victims are
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always unarmed, whether it is a psychopath shooting you in
a classroom, or cops shooting some black kid, or some
hobophobe shooting up another LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs. It's
not the fight that they lust after. It's the unfair fight.
They don't want guns. They don't want gunfights. They want
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to hunt people they do not like. They want blacks shot,
they want kids shot, they want gays shot, they want
Asians shot, they want Jews shot, they want liberals, and
now they want people who have declared war on Christians
when there has never been war on Christians in this
country shot. This happens not because the country fails to act.
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It acts. This happens not because the Congress fails to act.
It acts. This happens not because the president fails to act.
He acts. This happens not because mental health professionals fail
to act. They act. This happens not because the filibuster
is in the way. The filibuster is a wall of paper.
This happens not because the gun lobby is in the way.
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The gun lobby is a wall of paper. This happens
not because the Red States are in the way. The
Red States are a wall of paper. This happens because
the Republicans let it happen. Republicans equal gun massacres, gun
massacres equal Republicans. Without one entire political party prostituting itself,
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the gun lobby would lose all its power. Congress would
be able to rout the death cult. The President would
be able to enforce the laws and issue executive orders.
The filibuster would be irrelevant. The Red States would fall
one after the other, and the will of the people
and sixty one percent of us want a new assault
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weapon ban would prevail, and we would no longer be
slaves to the gun. But there is a political party
prostituting itself, and that party is the Republican Party. And
there may or may not be anything we can do
quickly enough to stop these ritualized sacrifices of our children
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and our innocent citizens to a non existent quote constitutional
right unquote this year or next. But the sooner, Democrats
tell the truth with rage and with revenge in their words.
The sooner they say, those kids are dead because Republicans
got rid of the assault ban and Republicans stopped gun control.
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The sooner we will be able to make some impact.
The Second Amendment argument is a complete lie, and I
will go into that in depth in the second segment.
The word own does not appear in the Second Amendment.
There are no other words that mean own in the
Second Amendment, even though the Constitution and the Bill of
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Rights are largely a property document. If they had meant own,
they would have said own. So to adapt what was
said after an antislavery publisher was assassinated in eighteen thirty seven,
is America free or are we slaves to the mob
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rule of gun owners? Because the Republicans who are at
fault for gun massacres managed to fool not only their
own cultists, but many normal people too. In the Red
States under Republican control, the party line is gun violence
is a problem only in the Blue States, in the cities.
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In fact, your chance of dying by a gun in
Texas is nearly three times more than it is in
New York. Your chance of dying by a gun in
Louisiana and Mississippi and Wyoming is nearly twice as much
as it is in Illinois. Your chance of dying by
a gun in Idaho and Kansas and Nevada and Indiana
and half a dozen other Red states is twice as
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much as it is in California. There are small actions
you and I could take to push back against this nightmare.
We could encourage and support the boycotts by students who
have done more than any other group of Americans. We
could demand credit card companies refuse to let customers use
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their credit card services to buy at least the worst
of the guns and the ammunition. We could demand news
organizations to show, where possible, the images of what one
of these guns actually does to the human body, the
way we showed the images of the Nazi death camps
after World War Two, when so many said it was
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too graphic. Because that is the point, it is too graphic.
It is too graphic to be shown, and therefore it
is too graphic to happen. Yet after each one of
these after each one, Republicans immediately try to turn the
subject to the quote mental health crisis. Though many Democrats
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buy into this line and whole or in part, there
is no mental health crisis. Fewer than five percent of
the shooters have any identifiable mental illness. What one hundred
percent of the shooters have guns? The only mental health
crisis in this country about this subject is insisting that
the weekly mass murders have nothing to do with guns.
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More Republicans, more deaths, more Republicans, more mass shootings, more Republicans,
more dead. Second graders and first graders and kindergarteners and
LGBTQ people and minorities and Christians say it. This is
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the Republican business enabling the gun lobby to sell more
guns to kill more children. Republicans did this, and especially
two Democrats listening. Stop invoking God every time this happens.
If you want to pray for the Republicans victims or
their loved ones, go ahead, and they're all Republicans victims,
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but do it in private. Do it at the end
of your speech. The night of the Texas shooting last May,
Joe Biden made nine references to God. Mister president, Whether
you believe there is a God or you don't, it's irrelevant.
Faithful and the atheist would have to agree. If there
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is one. God has clearly left this crisis for us
to solve, and the President is, as Lincoln once said,
clothed in immense powers. Use them already. We need executive
orders to ban these weapons and we do not need
you saying you have exhausted your executive order. Supply make
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more orders. And if a court blocks those orders, mister President,
issue more orders than that. Issue twenty of them, Issue
two thousand of them, Issue two million of them. I
want the corrupt Republican judges and the Republican gun lobby
waiting knee deep in executive orders. I want them suing
so many times that it will take the year thirty
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three thousand before it's all sorted out. Just do it.
The Senator Elizabeth Warren has noted executive orders alone could
broaden the requirement for background checks for virtually every gun buyer,
and to report multiple gun purchases, and to raise the
minimum age to buy a gun, and to increase prosecution
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for gun trafficking across the Texas border, and to revoke
the license of gun dealers who break the laws, and
to investigate and prosecute the NRA, and to keep guns
out of the hands of any domestic abuser. That's just
what any president could do today. President Biden, you have
not run out of executive orders. And if that is
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still not enough, mister President, if the Congressman Tim Burchett
of Tennessee admits about this nightmare quote, We're not going
to fix it. Criminals are going to be criminals, and
Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota says, I think the
things that have already been done have gone about as
far as we're going to with gun control. If these
men representing these states admit they cannot enforce the gun laws,
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you have to do what Eisenhower and Kennedy and Lyndon
Johnson did when other state attorneys general and governors and
senators and congressmen confessed they couldn't or wouldn't enforce integration laws.
Send in troops to enforce these laws, mister President, or
just wait wait for whatever and whoever is to be
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hunted next. Police arrested two men in Pennstation in New
York in November with weapons. They had plans to shoot
up a synagogue. Two nights later, they closed the campus
at the University of New Orleans over a threat from
a former student. Hours after, five died at Club Q.
The libs of TikTok Twitter account that filth invoked drag
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shows again and targeted two more Colorado state representatives. Where
do you want to see the next tragedy happen, mister President,
on first and foremost, President Biden, stopped dancing around the truth.
These children in Tennessee and Texas, and the grocery shoppers
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in Buffalo, and the people just out for a Saturday
night in a place they considered their haven in Colorado,
they were killed by Republicans directly or stochastically, say this,
use your immense powers to clothe these truths with legitimacy
and with acceptability. When Republicans come out as they are
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still removing the dismembered bodies of the kids the Republicans
have decided are suitable to be hunted, and when Republicans
vomit nonsensical excuses claiming that this happened because it's transpeople
declaring war on Christians, or that the school didn't have
high enough fences, or a door was opened, or because
the targets weren't hard enough, or they outright lie and say,
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if only there have been a cop in the school
in Texas, when as we found out, the cops stood
and watched, or an outright line say well, only there'd
be a good guy with a gun in the tops
market in Buffalo when there was a retired cop with
a gun inside and he's dead too. Or when they
outright line say only they're been a cop in club
que in Colorado Springs, when in fact the shooter was
stopped when an unarmed man grabbed that gun from his
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hand and hit him with it. Come out and say it,
President Biden, the Republicans killed those kids in Nashville. Say
it the way Congressman Jared Moskowitz said to Marjorie Taylor
Green when she snorted out the buzzwords she could remember,
like Christian and trans and good guys with guns. Okay,
I'll yield, Thank you, mister chairman. You know there are
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six people that are dead in that school, including three children,
because you guys got rid of the assault weapons ban.
Say it. Say it the way the Congressman Jamal Bowman,
the former school principal who now represents the town I
grew up in. Send it to the media and to
the pro death Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey last night in
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public as loudly as cowards pray for such fun to
the question, why the hell will you do anything to
say about the children, And let don't slay that. Oh well,
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until let's stay tuns four. Let then is slaying all
the way up to lunching day or train from four.
They're freaking cowards, they're gutless. We're not here talking about
I'm talking about gun violence. You know, there's never been.
I'm talking about you like lane. It's more that allows
teachers to carry carry guns. Good thing, more gus because
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more done, more guns me to more duncause look at
the data. You're not looking at any data. You're young.
You're carrying the water for the gun lobby. No, no,
hook at the data. More guns, even more death. But
the good states that have open kyrie laws have more
death in every school day with stay home hoping kyrie
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laws and have more doth its never been a sho
you listen to what I'm saying. That's what and what
called that children and daying nine year old children? Friends,
lucis that armed teachers? Have you ever worked in the school?
Have you ever worked in the school? And every how
you ever work in the school? How do you ever
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work in the schools? He guessing the pus have you
ever worked in the school? You will not answer my question.
Don't stop and talk to the room. Okay, I'll bring
it down to not have you ever worked in the
school Granville, I haven't worked in the school. You're twenty years?
I was, I was right, I work for years. How
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are you twenty years? I was serious as I was
in the school. Every time he can't even answer yes
to no question? Answer why don't they in the slash
why question? A fake? You back with the real meaning
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of the Second Amendment after this? Did you know there
are two references in our Constitution to dollar amounts, I
mean literally dollar figures. Section nine discusses attacks or duty
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of quote ten dollars, and the seventh Amendment protects your
right to a jury trial where the value in controversy
shall exceed twenty dollars. The Constitution, with all its amendments,
is a patriotic seven thousand, six hundred and seventy six
words long, seventy six seventy six and two clauses mentioned
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an exact value in cash and merchandise or when the
word money appears six times. In those seven thousand, six
hundred and seventy six words. The word coin piers five times.
There are ten references to taxes eight times. You read
duty or duties. The word debt pierce seven times. There
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are four uses of the word compensation to imports, to exports,
and the rest of it, the non ownership parts stripped away.
The rest of the United States Constitution and its amendments reads, profit, paid, treasury, emoluments, revenue, imposts, excises, imposts, excises, credit, commerce, bankruptcy, securities,
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exclusive right purchased, capitation, commerce, revenue, treasury, appropriations, receipts, expenditures, profit, emolument, credit, gold, silver,
tender payment, imposts, impost, treasury, profit emolument, bribery, lands, grants
forfeit your fines, equity payment, pensions, bounties, pay obligation, obligations, incomes, manufacture, sale,
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pay value, owner, property, property, private property. The Constitution is
a property document. Our Constitution is about ownership. Those references
just to dollars and money in coin and taxes and
duties and debt and compensation and other ownership. There's one
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hundred and three of them all told in the Constitution.
The word vote, votes, and voting appear a total of
thirty seven times, the word rights and right fifteen times money,
and ownership one hundred and three times. Our Constitution is
first and foremost a property contract. What the government can
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own and must own and pay for, and what the
people can own and must own and pay for. It
is noble, and most of it has held up flawlessly
since seventeen eighty seven, and in some places it is
almost sublime. But it does not read like the Declaration
of independent Its closest relative is the contract you sign
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when you buy a car. So isn't it funny? Then?
In the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States of America, the second of all of them ever passed,
the one about guns, it does not say anything about
owning guns, dollars, money, coined, taxes, duties, debt, compensation, import
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export pay value, owner, property, property, private property. A constitution
with more fine print in it than a mortgage, a
constitution that mentions ten dollars and twenty dollars. And yet
there isn't one of those ownership or property or value
words in the little part about guns. A well regulated
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militia being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed, which one of those words means own,
None of them do, which words in the part stating
that the Second Amendment is about the well regulated militia
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in a free state are unclear. None of them is.
The Second Amendment prevents the government from making it illegal
for individual states to have their own state militias. It
does this by making it illegal for private citizens to
bear arms, so that is made sacrosanct. Private citizens may
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bear arms for a state militia, bear arms for use
in a militia. The Second Amendment guarantees the right to
your state national guard. Unfortunately, it also guaranteed the right
for a state to rebel against the federal government. Thus
it guaranteed the right to civil war. But no matter
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how awful that is, it still doesn't say anything in
here about prohibiting gun control. The Second Amendment is gun control.
It may say you can bear one. It may even
say you can keep one in your own home if
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you're using it as part of a well regulated militia.
It does not say you can own one. And if
you don't own that gun you are keeping and bearing,
somebody else does own that gun. And that somebody has
got to be the government. And therefore we start with
the idea that it says in the Constitution that the
government controls the guns, all the guns, and just for
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the record, the arms mentioned in the Second Amendment. Those
are muskets, not repeating rifles, not machine guns, not automatic
murder machines. We have a history of government gun control
that stretches back to the nineteenth century, back to when
the musket began the process of evolving into an oozy
take one of the seminal moments of American cultural history,
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this symbolic essence of our expansion to the west. The
gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, on October
twenty six, eighteen eighty one. The OK Corral was a
gun fight about gun control to prevent gun terrorism. It
was illegal to carry a gun in Tombstone, Arizona in
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eighteen eighty one, and the Clantons and the mcclaris were
ignoring it, and the town marshals the Earp brothers were
enforcing gun control. Gun control in Tombstone, Arizona in eighteen
eighty one, and it was tougher than it is now
in all but a handful of places in the America
of twenty twenty three. But of course, what does that matter.
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This is settled law. The Supreme Court ruled in the
Heller case in two thousand and eight. The highest court
in the land essentially heard the lead phrase of an
amendment indicating that is it about a well regulated militia
for an individual state government. Then it stuck its fingers
in its ears and pretended that in a property document
filled with dollars and money and coin in taxes and imports, exports,
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pay value, owner property, property and private property. Doesn't matter
if the words used are keep and bear arms rather
than keep and own arms. Our own and bear arms.
But it's the Supreme Court. How could some knitwit with
a podcast have a better understanding of the Second Amendment
than the justices on the United States? Well, you know
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what they say about the Supreme Court quote. The gun
lobby's interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the
greatest pieces of fraud. I repeat the word fraud on
the American people by special interest groups that I have
ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the
Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies the militia,
would be maintained for the defense of the state. The
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very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that
it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right
to any kind of weapon he or she desires. The
speaker added, quote, the Second Amendment doesn't guarantee the right
to have firearms at all. Who said that? Warrenburger, Chief
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Justice of the United States or nineteen sixty nine until
nineteen eighty six, appointed by Richard Nixon. He believed homosexual
behavior could be prohibited by law. He thought that sending
a man to prison for life or writing a bad
one hundred dollar check was just fine. He believed in
a strict constructionist reading of the Constitution, just like the
Tea Party did. The Second Amendment, Warrenburger said, doesn't guarantee
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the right to have firearms at all. So if we
have dispensed with the idea that in a property document,
an amendment about each state being able to have its
own citizens bearing arms in a well regulated militia that
doesn't include one single word about ownership actually means no.
Terrorists have an inalienable right to own and keep a
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million guns apiece, and they can kill an average of
one hundred and fourteen people a day in this country.
And if we have dispensed with the idea that the
Supreme Court, which upheld this preposterous interpretation, could not have
made a mistake and endangered the lives of every citizen,
and I'd like to thank Chief Justice Burgher for doing that.
Then we come to the three most popular excuses for
why we should have gun laws so loose, so protective
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of mass murderers and terrorists at the cost of the
lives of school children, that if transported from eighteen eighty
one to now, the residence of Tombstone, Arizona, would have
called all of us butchers. The excuses are hunting, protection
against governmental tyranny, and the rights of the responsible gun owner.
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About hunting, bluntly, if you need an AAR fifteen, or
you need thirteen guns or any automatic weapon of some
kind to kill any animals smaller than a kraken, you
are no good at hunting. Take up another pastime. And
about protection against governmental tyranny, Okay, we've had every kind
of president now, and we've had two world wars, and
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a day of terrorist attacks, and a civil war during
which we still managed to hold a presidential election which
the Democratic nominee wanted to cut a deal with the
traitor estates, and we had an attempted insurrection two years ago,
and we still haven't had one national government decide to
invade your home and haul you off because you were
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for abortion or against abortion, or because you were a
Democrat or a Republican or a fascist or a Republican fascist,
and before the next dim bull running for the Republican
nomination for something explains that we wouldn't have had gun
terrorism if only more good guys had guns, or that
the Holocaust wouldn't have happened if the victims had all
had guns, or that Jesus would have been fine if
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he'd had an aar fifteen. Remember the last time this
country actually did go into the homes of some of
its citizens and seize them and drag them off against
their will to detention camps where they did not know
if they were going to be fed or shot. You
forgot about that. The internment of one hundred and twenty
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thousand Americans during the Second World War. The Japanese Americans
property sees, liberty erased, habeas corpus, suspended, illegally, imprisoned without
any due process, some for more than four years. They
didn't have access to guns. None of them. Their neighbors
didn't have access to guns. That actual example of the
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US government invading your home and hauling you off was
affected by the freedom to have a gun and the
Second Amendment. How exactly how did the Second Amendment protect
those people against the government. Well, right, it didn't. All
the guns the citizens were bearing and keeping, and nobody
as much as clean one in an attempt to defend
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these Americans being rounded up and sent off in box
cars to concentration camps. And bluntly, again, at this point
in our history, if the government did decide to round
you up or round up your group or some group,
your thirteen guns would not stop them. Your thirteen thousand
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guns would not stop them. While you were worried about
your gun, the government was busy taking away nearly all
of the privacy of your communications. The government can follow
you from space. Not only do you carry a tracking device,
you paid hundreds of dollars for it, and you buy
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a new one when they updated. It's called a smart phone.
You have a microphone in your house that could be
broadcasting everything going on in your house to god knows
who or where, and you call it Alexa like it
was your goddamned cousin from Philadelphia. Hell I can pay
a small fee get your address, look it up on
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Google Earth, find a one hundred and eighty degree view
of your home and figure out the easiest way to
break into your home. And I can do it on
my phone. How are you going to stop the government
with a gun? Speaking of guns and governments, nearly ten
percent of all the presidents in the history of the
United States have been assassinated with guns. A fifth was wounded,
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a sixth was wounded while running for reelection, and seven
others survived significant assassination attempts by guns. That's thirteen out
of forty five presidents. There are no longer any excuses
for the governmental protection of gun rights, and there are
all kinds of regulations and waiting periods and controls that
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can make an immediate impact on how often the gun
terrorists who've killed our children, who had a phantom constant
protection to own the guns with which they killed our children,
can get those guns. Those regulations and waiting periods on
both the state and federal level are of value and
should be enacted and enforced, And the first of them
clearly should be designed to close the so called gun
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show loophole. But these are half measures, and every one
of them we might pass. The NRA and the death
lobby and everybody else who profits from gun terrorism can
fight and sue over and bribe politicians and roll back,
and the half measures can no longer be the goal.
And yes, the process will inevitably and in no small irony,
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lead to many of us who advocate for it being shot.
And yes, in a bigger irony, still, it will inevitably
lead to public protests and mass demonstrations that will require
those of us moving towards banning guns totally will have
to be protected by countless numbers of men and women
bearing guns. But the time of our crisis has come.
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To our phrase Professor Lawrence B. Hiccock of Western Reserve College,
the question now before the American citizens is no longer
alone can the schools and public places be made free
of the risk of gun massacres? But are we free?
Or are we slaves under gun mob law? So, if
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you'd like to continue killing thousands of our citizens and
terrorizing the rest of them each year, treating a misinterpreted
constitutional amendment protecting your local state national Guard as if
it were the revealed word, sacrificing our children on the
altar of gun rights for psychopaths like we were the
Canaanites throwing them into the fire to appease the god Moloch.
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Go right ahead, I'm done with it. You know that
third rail of American politics. They're going to take your
guns away. It should be the avowed policy of every
Democrat in this country. We are going to take your
guns away, my promise. Who's this We liberals and conservatives
and gun haters and gun lovers and everybody everybody who
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values a human life more than a goddamned gun. Which
side are you on? You pick the gun over the life?
To hell with you. You support terrorism, We are going
to take away your terrorist weapons guns confiscation. By the
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way to do it, I'm afraid we're going to have
to use a well regulated militia. What follows I first
presented on February fifteenth of this year. One of the
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students survivors at Michigan State was a student survivor of
Sandy Hook, and at least three of the student survivors
of Michigan State. We're student survivors at Michigan Oxford High
School fifteen months earlier, and we can say with all
too much certainty that some of them we'll also become
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survivors of Toledo twenty nine, Dallas twenty thirty three, your
city twenty thirty five, My city twenty thirty seven. Because
mass gun murders are profit centers. Why does this supposedly
sophisticated nation abide the ritual sacrifice of our children and
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our brothers and sisters and parents to the moloch of
insane gun owners like Lauren Bobert or Thomas Massey or whoever,
the ones who get some kind of sexual gratification from
owning and displaying and stroking and firing weapons because it
makes other people millions of dollars. That's why we are
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owned by guns. And so we go on calculating the
averages and deciding if by age five it is already
too late to teach kids how to play dead in
their classrooms, and we go on listening to fascist asshole
madmen like Ron de Santis talk about fortifying schools and
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fortifying movie theaters and fortifying churches, and we go on
listening to messianic buttonheads like Eric Adams talk about giving
more guns to more police, when police often turn out
either to be the murderers or the cowards who idle
in the hallways as the children of Uvalde are executed
one by one, and we go on listening to the
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fatuous idiots like the Missouri House where the police said,
we need laws to stop fourteen year olds from walking
down the streets of St. Loui is carrying ar fifteens,
and the House voted one hundred and four to thirty
nine to keep open carry legal in Missouri for kids.
And we go on listening to a moral monsters like
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Donald Trump talk about arming teachers and bringing back firing squads,
and we listened to these paid scum Republicans bribed by
the gun manufacturers and the gun organizations, recite what they
have been paid to say about responsible gun owners, when
after half a million gun deaths in this country in
the last ten or twelve years, it is no longer
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in doubt there are no longer any responsible gun owners.
On this nightmare so familiar, so routine, and so constant
that we no longer remember the details or the location
or the motive were the sequence of them, And now
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we are no longer even remembering that there was a
nightmare last night where the night before, and we're now
marbling them into other things in American life, as if
they were snowstorms or flight delays, and a hockey podcaster
begins by saying, well, it's tough to do this after
the Michigan State news, but let's talk about the Carolina
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hurricanes needs at the deadline, and the New York Times
can run a sidebar that the shooting, well, it upended
the lives of thousands, but it also put the school
back in an uncomfortable spotlight, what with the sexual assault scandal.
There we go on in an unacceptable world in which
we are owned by guns. We go on to borrow
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from Churchill, in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided,
resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity,
all powerful to be impotent. The dead of Michigan State,
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the dead of Las Vegas, the dead at the Pulse,
the dead at Well. Why do we bother with individual
place names anymore? The dead of the killing field, the
dead of the transcendent national shooting range that is the
United States of America. They are dead because somebody is
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making money off them, and because Ted Cruz is making
money off them, and Marjorie Taylor Green is making money
off them, and every horror politician is making money off
them and rarely even bothering anymore to wash the money
through seepack or save America this or shoot America, that
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the donations come straight and unhidden. And whether it's Trump
or DeSantis, or who are soon to be very very surprised,
Nicki Haley, or just some other idiot free from morality
or conscience, whom the moneyed interests select, it is fair
to say that the Republican nominee for president in twenty
twenty four, whoever that is, will be underwritten by the
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gun manufacturers and the gun lobby and their masters, the
death lobby, who pay good money to bad people to
maintain not just our culture of guns and shooting and
dead children and thoughts and prayers, but also maintain the
world's culture of continuing to poison the atmosphere and kill
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off the species one by one because the one billion,
nine hundred and sixty three million dollars in profit made
last year by big Oil just isn't enough. Because they
stay up at night anguished by the thought that there
remains somewhere one dollar not yet stolen from a child
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dying next to the earthquake rubble in Syria, or Turkey
one dollar yet to be pocketed by Darren Woods, the
CEO of Exxonmobile Away God intended it. It is economics,
and thus the only solution can also be economics, because
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we will not defeat them in the states that are
already lost to the control of the death lobby. And
even if President Biden said tomorrow we are not owned
by guns, and I don't give a damn. If I'm
reelected or even renominated, I'm going to issue four hundred
and fifty executive orders and take every damn gun I
can get off the streets. And if the House and
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send it won't reinstate the assault weapons man, I will
do so unilaterally and come and get me in the courts.
Even if Biden did that, we the anti death people,
we would lose in the Supreme Court because Clarence Thomas
the whore is on the Supreme Court because of and
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bought and paid for by the death lobby, and Samuel
Alito the whore is, and John Roberts the whore is,
and Neil Gorsich and drunken Brett Kavanaugh and Bible paralegal
Amy Coney Barrett. And so we must ask ourselves what
economically can we do to the gun lobby, to the
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oil lobby, to the death lobby, and to their minions
in the Senate and the House, and all the Senates
and all the houses in all the states in America
and in this country. There are only a couple of
measures that might possibly work, and might possibly work fast
enough so that enough of us won't be killed in
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next year's three hundred gun massacres or the next decades
three hundred climate crises. And that one thing is to
spare you the kind words, the soft words. That one
thing is economic civil war. It can start simply, buy
nothing from Texas, do not go to Florida, do not
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patronize Missouri. We can start there, and then we can
get serious. It is a simple mathematical fact that, with
some exceptions, and a little more nuanced than time permits
me here, it is a simple mathematical fact that the
blue states of this country keep the Red states of
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this country from going bankrupt. It is a simple mathematical
fact that the Blue states pay in more to the
federal government than they ever get back in services or infrastructure,
or certainly in per capita representation. New York pays a
net twenty four billion a year, California pays in and
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at fourteen billion, and most of that goes to keeping
Florida and Texas from starving. Florida gets thirty six billion
a year more than it pays in Texas nearly that much.
It is state to state socialism, and we all know
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that we can't have socialism. And it is a simple
fact that the Blue States restrict and regulate guns, and
the Red States sell guns and sell guns and sell
guns and profit off dead children. And when the political
whores like Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson and Rupert Murdoch
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point to the gun carnage of Chicago, they are actually
pointing to the gun carnage of weapons smuggled in from
Indiana to Chicago. And it is also a simple fact
that we can dance around for decades yet to come
about how to stop the gun massacres of February twenty
forty seven and the chemical disasters of June twenty sixty
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one so bad they reminded old timers of where was
that East Palestine, Ohio? Or we can cut to the
chase and put it this way, if the Red States
do not agree to strict and enforced gun regulation and
the removal and the outlawing of gun manufacture, and a
revision of the Second Amendment so that the vagueness that
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isn't actually there but the death lobby has sped a
century convincing millions, is there, that all doubt about the
Second Amendment be erased and replaced by the simple statement
that private gun ownership is illegal without a series of
licenses and mental health tests, and that the owner is
liable for whatever is done with his gun, and if
that includes murder, then the owner is liable for life imprisonment,
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whether he fired the gun or not. If the Red
States do not agree to that, and by the way,
to reapportioned representation in the House and the Senate so
that Idaho does not have as many senators as a
real state and not a welfare state like Idaho, And
if they do not agree to the resignations of Chief
Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Barrett, gorsych Kavanaugh, and Thomas.
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If the Red States do not agree to that, then
the Blue States will simply stop paying money into the
federal government, and the Blue States will simply spend that
money directly on their own citizens. And if the leaders
of our blue states who will not comply with this,
then the only solution we have, Since the murders at
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Michigan State Monday night and the murders at your town
name here next week are profit streams for many people,
the only solution we have is to then stop paying
our federal taxes until our state leaders recognize that the
only way out of this nightmare is to threaten the
red states, and thus threatened the gun lobby, and thus
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threatened the oil lobby, and thus threatened the death lobby
with economic strangulation, economic civil war, to save the country,
To save the next six hundred thousand Americans who will
die by gun violence almost certainly by the year twenty
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thirty five, if it does not get worse before then
six hundred thousand, the same number who were killed in
the actual Civil War. And if you ask yourself, or
you are asked by what right we could threaten economic
civil war, just say this is constitutional under the Second
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Amendment quote a well regulated militia being necessary to the
security of a free state. Eight. The right of the
people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed.
Our rights to the security of a free state have
been infringed upon by the gun lobby and the death lobby,
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which has convinced generations of gun fetishists that an amendment
that does not contain the word own nor any synonym
for own, does contain it. The Constitution is a property document.
It mentions rights only fifteen times. It mentions voting only
thirty seven times. This is out of nearly eight thousand words,
but it mentions money and ownership one hundred and three times.
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The Second Amendment is about making sure nothing interferes with
a well regulated militia, well regulated militia that is there
protecting our rights as citizens to have, as it says
in the Second Amendment, the security of a free state.
Our Second Amendment rights have been trampled on by Donald
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Trump and the Republican the anti Second Amendment Republicans. We
need to start enforcing the Second Amendment. We need an
economic civil war against the gun lobby and the death
lobby and those corrupted and financially insolvent red states that
stand in the way of peace and security in this
country because we are owned by guns. But God damn it,
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we are not going to be owned by guns any longer.
Before we go We're not going to solve this in
one day. We might be able to solve something for
a dog named Junior. Every dog has its day. Junior
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has been at the New York Pound since November fifth.
He's a sixteen month old puppy, young dog, beloved of
the staff there, playful child and dog friendly, and now
they have put out a euthanasia order on him. He
needs our help. Anyone can adopt him, he is ready
to go, He's that easy to deal with, or our
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pledges to help defray the costs of a rescue to
pull him and save his life. You can see Junior's
video and read about him on my Twitter feeds and
pledge to help, or if you are so moved, get
to New York and adopt him. The details are there.
I thank you, and Junior thanks you. Cowntown with Keith
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