September 15, 2025 • 44 mins
America is facing violence, lawlessness, and leadership failure at every level. In this episode of The David Rutherford Show, Rut delivers a fiery call to action: stop waiting for help, stop pretending the danger isn’t real — and start training.
From physical strength and mental conditioning to situational awareness, self-defense, firearms training, and community activism, Rut breaks down why the time to prepare is NOW. Because when chaos comes, there are only two kinds of people: trained and untrained. Which one are you?
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00:00 - The Rising Violence In America
09:27 - Why We Must Train Now
26:29 - 6 Things We Must Do To Train
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the current state of America, There's only one thing
that you can do. It's time for you to get trained.
Today on the David.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Rutherford Show, What's Up Everyone, This is David's producer Jeordie
with a quick disclaimer. Today's episode was recorded just a
few hours before the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. As
David discusses rising violence in cities across America and our
need for training, mental conditioning, community activism, and taking responsibility
(00:32):
for our safety, it may seem odd that he leaves
this story out. I wanted to jump in and let
you know that this is the reason why, and that
Charlie's assassination certainly would have been relevant and mentioned had
we recorded this afterwards. However, the ideas and lessons from
the episode are still not only relevant, but tragically they
(00:53):
are now even more relevant than ever. Thank you and
please enjoy this episode of The David Rutherford Show, What's Up.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Team Wow. I got to tell you something, man. The
response that is coming in across the nation that I
am interpreting through all the different places that I'm paying
attention is nothing short of miraculous. Right, And what do
I mean by miraculous. I mean by miraculous, people are
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starting to get fired up. They are sick and tired
of crime and violence that are plaguing our cities, that
are plaguing our towns, that are plaguing the places that
we're not We should not be vulnerable, right in the schools,
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in on the streets of major cities, in in on
public transit systems, walking our dogs in parks, right in
our own homes, in our college towns. Right, these are
not places that we should be vulnerable. These are definitely
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not places that our women and children should be vulnerable
at all. But yet, guess what this is where we've
gotten to after years and years and years of ford
of failed policy, of failed deliverance of justice. Right, all
of those incredibly tumultuous decisions that have, for one reason
(02:29):
or other, social justice decisions by DA's social justice decisions
by by our judges, social justice decisions by those in power,
thinking that they know what's best for our society, And
now we're facing what we face now. Well, guess what
(02:50):
Now Your society is going to change. And that's not
because they're innately racist, they're innately bigots, they're innately anti
immigration they're innately whatever that you want to call us, right,
We're not fascist, we're not communists, we're not cap you
know what we are. We're pissed off, red blooded Americans
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that we have now come to a place where we
have to endure the incompetence and corruption of your rule.
And people are pissed, you know. I think, just again,
this the death of that poor Ukrainian woman by that
individual who had fourteen prior arrests, and now we found
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out that the circuit court appointed judge didn't even pass
the bar. They were never a practicing attorney, they were
never they never ran a law firm. They were placed
into that position as a political appointee, which ended up
resulting in categorically resulting in the death of this poor girl.
(04:00):
And then the other thing. Just the ability for no
one on that bus system to do a goddamn thing
is repulsive to me. Repulsive, And I'm thankful that the
federal it's now going to be a federal case in
a civil rights case, so we can start, you know,
seeing this properly investigated and hopefully properly adjudicated, and this
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individual can be put under the death penalty so that
this will stop further people from doing this. But here's
the deal. There are so many dysfunctional people in this country.
There are so many criminals from other countries, criminals from
our own country. There are so many drug addicts, mental
health people that are on the streets that the only way,
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the only way for this to begin to right itself
is for that second amended to be implied right to
be used accordingly, for individuals to begin to be able
to defend themselves against the scourge of violent repeat offenders
that are out on the streets every day. That's what
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needs to happen, right. I remember, as I was going
through the research for this, I found a case by
a girl named Logan Federico who was a South Carolina
college student who had her home broken into and was
brutally murdered by an individual who had thirty plus prior arrests.
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Another beautiful young girl that was needly, needlessly killed because
somebody didn't feel it was appropriate that this person needed
to get help or seek help. Er. As Van Jones says,
hurting people hurt people, you know what, Well, to hell
with those hurting people. It's time for them to be
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hurt in return, right and If you don't like, that's
tough shit, because what is happening is my daughters are
now in an irrational threat. My wife is in an
irrational threat. And what I'm here to tell you is
we're pissed off for a reason, right, We're pissed off
at a reason. You want to go down a little
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rabbit hole of madness, something that will get you pissed off.
Search up illegal aliens and vehicular manslaughter. How many people
have been needlessly killed by illegal aliens driving drunk or
under the influence in vehicles because they don't know how
to drive right? Or how many? How much? How much?
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How many? How many of our children have been exposed
to people that are off the charts mentally ill? Right,
this is the reality. And don't tell me, Oh it's
not that bad. I live here. It's not that bad.
I get that all the damn time, you know. I
ask people from wherever they're from, like Chicago or Memphis,
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or or or Houston or South Florida, Miami or Dade Broward,
and I said, you know, is it dangerous? Right? And no,
it's not that bad. Oh yeah, well would you go
out here after dark? Oh? No, no, that place is horrible.
I would never go there, So why not? And why
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not is because we've given up these areas. We've given
them up to those that are are are out there
committing crimes. I mean, there's a guy out there, one
of my you know, a person I follow. His name's
Alex Rose, and he he baits in these child predators
right and then meets them, confronts them with their their
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desires to for pedophilia right, for child porn images, finds them,
confronts them, and then has the police show up. And
in many circumstances, there are cases where the police doesn't
do anything about it. They do not arrest the criminal
on the spot. Right. There was another gentleman I just
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watched who was on the streets in Michigan and he
was interviewing crackheads doing crack, wanting crack, doing crack on
the streets, filming them. The police showed up to arrest
him or to question him, to remove him from the scenario.
And when he asked, is it illegal to do crack
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out in the open, they said yes. And then he
asked the couple, why don't you arrest them? And the
cop was like, well, we want to get them help. Well,
I don't see any help going on. I don't see
any help going on in the streets of California. I
don't see any help going on for these repeat offenders.
I don't see any help going on. Now, why is that?
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It's because from top to bottom, from those who are
in charge of these areas. Not on a national level,
I mean, we obviously have seen a dramatic shift and
not only homeland security within ICE, but FBI taken down
major traffickers, going after pedophiles and pedophile rings, you know,
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arresting violent criminals, going after terrorists. You know that's happening.
But how big is the FBI? How big is homeland security?
Your streets? It's your police departments are responsible for your streets.
So how do we do this? How do we shift this? Well?
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I think you know, when the perception of the unknown
threat overwhelms a human perception of safety, they will inevitably
move into a permanent state of hypervigilance. Now, what happens
to people under a permanent state of hypervigilance? Now, as
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a person that lived in that state for more than
fifteen years of my life, while I was actively carrying
a gun for living and then what I had to
live with it after because of the ramifications of that
long term exposure to that. You know, and what we
now know is operator syndrome, one of the core problems
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within the seventeen different medical mental health and this is
operators across the board, operators from every branch of special operations,
and then also regular military personnel or police officers. There's
a form of operator syndrome within police officers as well too.
You know what the effects on the human mind take place, right,
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and when you think about the broader context of when
you have a society or a subculture within society that
lives in this spot where stress hormones are perpetually being
inducted into their nervous system, right, what happens to them?
What happens when cortisol is an unending a flow of
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corsol into your neuropathology, right, It changes you, It changes
you to your core right living in a hyper state
of vigilance. And you probably would know that as fight
or flight, and when you live in fight or flight
all the time, things change and it can be either side.
Whether you live in that perpetual state of fear, which
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I have have done extensive research and training on learning
to embrace fear. I teach a course online. If you
want to check that out, it's called Embrace Fear. You
can go to our website at David Rutherford dot com
under the Frog Logic Institute Courses, and right now there's
a three for one bundle. You can get the Embrace
Fear course, the self Forging self confidence course, in the
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Team Life course and learn how to learn how to
embrace fear, because that's what you ultimately have to do,
because if you live in that perpetual state of fear,
that core is all's going to overwhelm you. It's gonna
change you, it's gonna make all different types of personality
traits become muted or anxiety and even put you into depression,
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you'll isolate. All these negative reactions happen as a result
of that perpetual state of hypervigilance. Now on the flip
side of that, where you live in a place where
you're going to start taking control or you're being inundated
into a hyper state of violence, it also has a
profoundly negative effect. That's one of the things you're seeing
from these areas that are riddled with violent behavior, where
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it's seemingly acceptable from the moment. These little kids who
don't have any oversight or protective measures in place, with
a strong family in place, or a strong male dominant
parental figure or male figure in their lives, where there
is no framework of a moral structure in there, where
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they begin to learn how to engage in crime and
violence from early ages. What do you think is going
to happen to these people who live in a perpetual's
state of having to fight to live every day. What
is that going to do to the human psyche? But
we've seen it, there's thousands and thousands and thousands of
examples throughout history that what emerges is a war like society. Well,
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guess what, America, Guess what's going to start to take place?
Because I'll have you know, there is already a significant
number of people in this country that have engaged in
a warring state for twenty plus years in the global
war against terror. And these people just want to be
left alone. These people just want to go about their
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daily business. They just want to raise their families in
peace and give them some opportunity in order to live
a better life and a calm life and a peaceful life. Well,
when you push these people too far, then guess what
things will change rapidly. And that's what's going to take place, right,
Because here's the deal. There is a growing feeling that
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no one is coming to save you. That's right, you
heard me. We have a feeling in our in our
our immediate uh circle, in our family that where we
suggest this, nobody's coming to save us. Nobody's coming to
help us raise our kids. Nobody's coming to make sure
our girls are protected in their thinking and how they
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address the world. Well, guess what now it's starting to
be the same. No one's coming to save you on
the bus, no one's coming to save you while you
walk your dog. No one's coming to save your children
in the school as it's getting shot up. No one's
coming to save you. Now, I know what your people
are going to say. They're gonna be like, what, man,
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why are you trying to you know? Create you know,
a heightened sense of fear in you, in me, And
the reality is I don't have to do that. The
reality of the street it can do that. The reality
of your own existence can do that. Now you can
sit there and continue ignoring it, like so many people
in this country wanting to do tell yourself that this, oh,
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this is just normal. There's bad apples in every society.
That's bullshit where you can talk about like the Congresswoman Crockett,
Jasmine Crockett said the other day, again, I still am baffled.
I've seen it again multiple times that the job of
the police is not to prevent crime, it's only to
solve crime. I've never heard a more dumb ass statement
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in my entire existence. Right, what our responsibility as a
civilized nation, as a civilized society, as a civilized municipality
is to protect its people, to protect and to serve,
right on all federal ass to protect and to serve.
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That's the responsibility. And if the government, whether your local government,
state government, or federal government, then based on what the
Second Amendment says, it is your responsibility to defend the
society that you protect. That's right, it's your responsibility. So
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how do we begin to do that? First and foremost,
you have to move through this reluctance, of this cognitive
dissonance that has been integrated into your mind that this
is all acceptable forms of behavior in your life. You
have to push through those barriers that you want to
ultimately create that plausible deniability, that cognitive dissonance, that moral
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relativism that has been slowly dripping into what you've been
consuming over the last thirty plus years. That it doesn't
take hard work and dedication and sacrifice in order to
create a society where you can live with cognitive dissonance,
because that's how it happens, That's how it has to
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take place. Right. You have to be willing to go
do the hard work to protect your communities, to protect
your societies, that's what it takes. Now. In order to
do that, you have to learn to understand what you're
afraid of and why. You know. When I teach this
Embrace Fear course, it's first understanding what you're afraid of,
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accepting that it's there and it ain't going anywhere, learning
to retrain your brain right. Then to test your ability
to live and act with fear as a motivational component.
Then to live with courage every single day, right to
step up when you see potentially things that are generating
fear in the people around you, to not just stay quiet,
not to get involved because of the fear that you're
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going to go to jail, like Daniel Perlman up in
New York City. That's horseshit. People get hurt when good
people do nothing right. What's the old saying, right, hard
times create hard men, which create easy times, which create
weak men, which weak men create hard times. That's where
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we're at period, end of story. We are in that
place where weak men have created hard times. So how
are you going to begin to train? Because no one's
coming to save you. I'm telling you that no one
right now is coming to save you. There's not enough
police on the street to counteract. Let's call it. Even
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if it's let's call it twenty million people came in
and let's say one percent of that twenty million people
are violent, sociopathic, psychopathic criminals that are on the streets
of America. How many people did it take to take
down Mumbai ten terrorists? Right? If you listen to Sarah Adams,
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who I'm a big fan of, it's been on Sean
ryin a ton right or Scott Man, former Green Beret.
There are sleeper cells in our country right now waiting
to act. There are gangbangers on the country, on the streets.
We saw that in videos when when the President said, hey,
we're sending in ice in the National Guard to Chicago.
They said, bringing on, let's see what you got. That's
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who's out there. These people have become so emboldened by
the lack of oversight, the lack of commitment to protecting
our citizensry, that they're running free. They don't give a damn.
So guess who it is. No one's coming to save you.
It's on you, right, So it's pretty simple. In our
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world and special operations, there are two kinds of people, right,
as it relates to a particular set of skill sets. Right,
there are two kinds of people, those who are trained
to do the skill set and those who are untrained. Period,
end of sentence. That's the way it works. Trained untrained,
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And that's it. So what are you gonna do? What
are you gonna do to get trained? What's the mindset
that you're gonna invoke? Are you gonna uh just it
there and learn or go out with your your rape whistle?
Are you gonna go out with uh? I don't know.
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I saw some crazy video a few years ago of
someone teaching someone to use a towel to defend off
an attacker. Are you gonna use your you know? Your
your uh, you know your de escalation techniques that you
learned in your HR department. Listen, you don't really want
to do this. There we there are other alternatives. We
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can find the space where you and I can find
common ground. As you're being stabbed repeatedly, over and over
and over and bleeding out on the bus, right, you
are either trained or you untrained. That is it, because
no one's coming to save you. So what kind of
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training are you going to engage in? What type of
focus are you going to have? Now? There are a
million different types of experts out there. I love DJ
Shipley and his crew with the GBRS group. I love
Eddie Gallagher what they're training out there. You know, there's
a lot of amazing. Pat McNamara is phenomenal. His educational
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stuff is absolutely phenomenal. There's an incredible amount, But it
starts prior to before you pick the specific training course
that you're going to go to. Right, it's a mindset
shift that you have to be able to advocate for
yourself enough time, right, enough focus, enough effort and determination
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as you would preparing your meals for every day, or
preparing for school or preparing for work or taking care
of you know, your family. Right, instead of going to
play golf for five hours, Why don't you get off
your ass and take your family to the range, right,
instead of going to the movies for a couple hours
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every weekend, why don't you go out and teach a
class about situational awareness or learn that, or why don't
you learn about self defense? Hey, these are the things
that are going to save your life. Is the mindset,
the training mindset that you have to induce period end
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of sentence, so you know, and that's a tough thing.
Most people never want to talk about violence, right. I
have a very close friend of mine, doctor Dan Luna.
Check them out, you know must I think he had
nine combat deployments, twenty plus years in the sealed teams,
Seal Team six, Seal Team one. I mean, really just
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an absolute expert on violence. And he's also got a
doctorate in leadership from USC And the way he talks
about violence is almost to a point where, for some
odd reasons, in our society in America, our culture in
America has eradicated the necessity to talk about violence within
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the framework of our families, as if it's some type
of taboo subject. Matter that we can't talk about right, Well,
guess what, there's violence on your streets. There's violence out
there every day. There's violence in every aspect of our lives.
So if you're not going to train yourself to be
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aware of violence, why, we don't want to steal the
future of our children's minds. We don't want to induce
an unnecessary stress or or depressive state or anxiety to
where we will double their doses of of mental health
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pharmaceuticals we're making them take. But yet you allow them
to have cell phones at three or four years old,
or iPads, which is inducing all that anyways, And you're
too chicken shit to talk to your children about what
it means to be violent themselves in response to a
violent act or a potentiality a violent act upon them.
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I mean from the very early times, I, you know,
run into the supermarket. I'd leave my children in a
running car out in the supermarket. I'd leave my blade
in the car, and I would say, all right, where
do you stab somebody? Girls? And they would say poke, poke,
poke in the neck over and over. And they were
at four or five, six years old, And you're gonna
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think about my god, that's that's crazy to do that.
Oh yeah, you think, so what is the person on
the street trying to attack my children? Crazy? Right? Mentally ill?
Whatever want of framework psychologically you want to put around
on it. I just look at it as the perspective
or pot potential or the probability of violent attacks. So
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I'm gonna teach my kid is that violence is acceptable
in those aspects. Man. I saw a video the other
day that would make your mind actually just blow. It
was a video that this person asked these women, would
you kill for your children? And these women actually answered no,
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I would not. I would not kill for my child. Now,
thank god. I asked my wife. She says, hell yeah,
that'd be a not a heartbeat, wouldn't even think twice
about it. And I'd say, that's my lady, that's my
woman right there. But ask yourself, have you thought about that?
Would you kill for your children? Now? The overwhelming majority
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I think people would probably said yes. Would you kill
for your spouse? Would you kill for the table you
were sitting at at a restaurant where some crazy it
began to attack the restaurant? Would you kill for an
unknown bystander? A young woman who was next to you
being brutally assault raped, or beaten. Would you kill for her?
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These are real questions that we have to ask because
in those moments, when you're in that hypervigilant state, when
it's that go time, you have to make the decision.
It can't be you can't hesitate, otherwise you risk your
own death because you're not convinced, you're not full blown
into the scenario. So this is a mindset training too,
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So you have to start to think. Now, if you're
struggling with that, all right, first and foremost thing, you
can just start that really will start to breathe. This
type of mentality is physical conditioning, right right, if you
are if you have strength, you can push and pull,
you can fight, you can scratch, you can punch, right
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if you can, If you can do those things, if
you're physically strong, your chances go up. If you have
endurance right the old movie Zombie Land number one cardio.
If you can outrun your attack or if you can outlast,
if you can kick, you can scream, you can fight off,
you can engage, you can hold. Right, if you have endurance, boom,
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probability goes up pretty simple. If you're quick, right, if
you're quick, if you have quick movements, if your hands
are quick, if you can dodge, if you can run,
if you can shift, if you can move quickly and
jump over things, hop over obstacles, jump over cars, jump
through windows. So strength, endurance, and quickness, those are the
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core things. Are you doing that or are you just
gonna lay down on the ground and be a victim?
Any modicum of strength is massive. One of the leading
indicators of strength is can you do a pull up?
How many pull ups can you do? How fast can
you sprint forty meters right? How much can you deadlift?
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How much can you push? How much can you curl?
How hard can you kick a big we tie bag
or punch a punching bag? Can you deliver any kind
of impact? Or are you just going to be a victim.
So that's first place out of the development of that
core strength development. Guess what, You're going to start to
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get stronger mentally too. You're going to start to feel
more confident in yourself. You're going to start to be
able to accept that fears of reality. But I'm strong
enough to endure this. I'm strong enough to face what
i have to face. Begins to shift all those ideas
about fear and violence. The other one is mental conditioning, right,
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mental training. Now, one of the first things that you
got to do is be able to fortify that courage, right,
that last part of fear, right and bracing fear to
live with the courage to do something right. And that's
something that's repetitive, that that has to take. You have
to think about this if this doesn't happen in the moment,
because one of the things that we have categorically proven
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in so many different ways is you do not rise
to the occasion, you do not have this superman or
super mom moment. It doesn't happen. You fall back on
your last level of training or trauma. That's the way
we react under fire, right, that's the way it happens
because in those moments, your heart rate is at about
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one eighty five one seventy five, it's outstretched, your prefrontal
cortex and your ability to have that profound executive function
and metacognition going right. Your limbic system is taken over. Right,
your blood is flowing into your biceps, your quads, your gluts,
and it's ready to go, and so thinking becomes much
more difficult than those. So are you training yourself to think?
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So when you're doing that physical conditioning, that endurance training,
doing sprint works right, stop and then try and do
problem solving in between. Right you think it's challenging, it's
it's hard but or it's a stupid but it works,
whether that's playing, you do multiple iterations of the sprints.
Get off to a little Kim's game. Right, you have
a cloth, you have five items of the cloth. You
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pull the cloth back, you identify those items, pull it
back off, do another series, and then afterwards identify what
those items where you have thirty seconds to do it right.
Being able to think under Durest is critical in terms
of developing and fortifying that courage right. The other aspect
is area studies. If you're going someplace you know, know
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what you're going into, knowing your community where the most
crime takes place. Most areas have crime maps, they know
exactly what takes place. There's actually lists of what types
of crimes are taking place. If you're going on vacation somewhere,
if you're going overseas to England, Germany or whatever, you know,
go to the CIA website, go to the state Department website. Hell,
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go and search the blogs or the online information that's available.
Where are the most dangerous parts of Birmingham or London
or Brussels or wherever you're going. You can do that
in the United States too. Where in New York City
is most of the crime taking place? Where in Chicago?
Where in la Where in San Diego? Where in Dallas?
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Educate yourself before you go into a particular place. Right,
know what those statistics are. Right on top of that,
you know, be able to move effectively. Now we're moving
into another level. But mentally develop yourself not to be
a victim. Right, be comfortable with violence. Talk about violence,
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what types of violence works against different attacks. In my mind,
the number one type of violence that you should understand
and you should be mentally prepared for, emotionally prepared for,
is using your gun. That's why we have the Second Amendment.
In my mind, every single law abiding citizen in this
country should be able to carry a weapon, and you
can in most places. There's some of these traconian places
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and where you're not allowed to conceal carry, but that's
going to be eradicated my opinion, over the next several years.
With under the Trump administration, and you'll be able to
carry concealed everywhere you go in the country, because that's
what's taking place right now. The necessity to carry a
firearm everywhere you go is present and real. So why
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not do it? Well, I don't want the gun. You know,
it's uncomfortable. I don't want to make you know, I
don't want to have to carry it, and you know
I don't want to check it in or you know,
I just I'm not confident enough. Then what's up? Then
go train. It's as simple as that. You'll sit there
and you'll watch and you know, grand total nine twelve
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hours of stupid Netflix every week. But you're two and
you and you're complaining about the presence of violence. You're
complaining about the violent nature of all these criminals and
illegals that are on the street. But you won't dedicate
one hour a week at a shooting range two hundred
in that hour to get yourself in a way where
you can prepare to carry that gun. It's a proven
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statistical reality that places that have a higher percent of
concealed carrier with citizens that are willing to execute on
their Second Amendment rights, that crime is lower that's the
way it is, So why wouldn't you figure out how
to get prepared to do that? Now? The third aspect
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of training that you have to focus on is tactical training,
right hands down, and number one aspect when that is
to develop your situational awareness. All right, this is little,
very easy to do. I started doing this early with
my girls. We would walk into a target, I'd have
them put their backs up against the wall somewhere and
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I'd have them scan. I'd say, all right, from left
to right, you have one minute to scan everything in
front of you. I have them close their eyes, and
then I have them repeat any probable threat that they
thought existed. I know what you're thinking already, But rud
isn't that profiling? Isn't that racist? Isn't that? This? Isn't
that that? FBI statistics don't lie. That's all I'm going
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to say about that. FBI statistics don't lie. Look at
the FBI statistics, right. I was, I think ultimately locked
out of social media back in twenty twenty because I
posted the FBI crime statistics from twenty nineteen, and I
think that's what launched the firestorm that got me locked
out of Facebook and Instagram. But here's the deal. I
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got locked out because they're an inconvenient to social justice warriors.
The reality is there's violent crime. Violent crime comes from
certain people in certain areas period. That's what it is.
Look at this crime statistics. That's part of your situational awareness. Right.
Learn how to profile, learn what to look for, learn
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what to stay away from. Right learn what aspects of
public life are more dangerous than the others. Right, But
the biggest one is to have situational awareness, and what
that means is to look around at your environment, pay attention.
Don't have your head in the clouds. Hell. In bokwrad Tone, Florida,
we have one of the worst malls for crime in
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terms of the parking lots that anywhere in the country.
We actually had a serial killer hitting our parking lot
several years ago. And the reality is is people have
their head in the clouds. They think I'm sick, Nothing's
going to happen to me. And I'm not saying you're overwhelmed.
But what you do is you make a little check
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off in your mind. You walk into a place and
you make a little check off. What do I see,
what do I notice? What prompts me to have pause?
What looks unright? Who looks unright? What are they doing?
What are they doing? How do I move away from
the situation? How do I put different obstacles in between me?
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In a potential threat? Where do I sit? How do
I sit? In a restaurant? Where do I go? Who
do I engage with? If I'm out with my friends
and we've been drinking, is there somebody that's keeping their
wits about them? Right? These are the things that you
have to begin to develop within situation awareness. It's critical.
The other is self defense. Right. Self defense is one
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hundred percent critical for you to begin to understand. You
have to realize that self defense is a necessity in
the modern world. It always has been. And if you're
not teaching self defense, if you're not teaching how to hit,
if you're not teaching how to fight, you're wrong. And
so that's what you have to begin to do. You
have to begin to figure out how to have even
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a modicum of self defense. How to break a choke
hold right, how to slip out of it, how to
grab if someone's grabbing your shirt, how to get their shirt,
how to peel off a thumb right, how to attack
a leg, how to attack a nerd on the inside
of their leg, how to do a front kick inside
outside leg right? How to punch somebody in their throat?
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How to collapse or trach you all of these things.
If someone's on top of you, how do you simp out?
How do you push them off? How do you arch
or bridge to throw them off balance? To give yourself
some space? What do you do when somebody is coming
at you with a knife? What do you do when
somebody's coming at you with a stick or they have
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a gun pointed at you? Right? These are all realities
that have actual fortified training regimens that you can put
into place in order to combat these things. Why aren't
you out there figuring out how to do it? Well,
I don't want to live in a state like that.
I just I want everybody to be you know, I'm
going to put out good vibes, and those good vibes
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will come back to me. Horseshit. It's just is what
it is. You cannot let this many savages into your
country and expect that this is going to be just
happy go. Luckily, we've seen it's been proven over and
over for decade after decade that these people are not assimilating.
They don't want assimilating. They're abusing our social good graces.
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They're abusing our our genuine generosity. They're abusing us right,
and these corrupt officials are abusing it as well too.
So guess what it's time to go get prepared? And
what does that mean. It means weapons training, hands down
number one, Learn to shoot. Carry that gun on you
every day all day. I know it's uncomfortable at first,
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but I'm telling you this. Once you get good at
learning how to handle and shoot a firearm that you
can then carry with you, your whole perspective of vulnerability changes.
And actually there's an ease that comes over you in
your life. There's a moment where things begin to chill
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out because you know you will not be the victim.
You know that you are not gonna be overwhelmed by
some craze degenerate on crack, cocaine or fentanyl. You have
the power now, and that was given to you. Our
forefathers knew the deal that there's this is a violent world, right,
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and it always has been this illusion that we're smarter
and that because we have the freaking Internet that violence
is gonna be subdued. The hell with that. The way
violence is is subdued is by people willing to commit
violent to violent people, period. And when you don't have
enough police officers, you don't have enough of that, you
need good samaritans. And those good samaritans are the people
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that have been trained with firearms. Now, if you want
to go lesser and you carry bear spray, I'm all
right with that. That's not that's not bad, or pepper
spray or something like that. But you know, you get
somebody that's all methed out on and they're gonna they're
gonna drink in that stuff. I know, Well, a big
(39:58):
can of pepper spray. You're not putting a giant ca
and those large cans in your purse or in your
car or anything like that. What works is a pistol. Right.
Other people might say, well, I'll carry a knife with me.
Let me tell you what, unless you're going through level
five Filipino knife fighting training, you're gonna get killed. They're
gonna take that knife from you, they're gonna stab you
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to death with it. Right, knife fights are it's just
a crazy thing. I'll carry my little sap tool, my
brass knuckles. Yeah, maybe, but you better be two hundred
and forty five pounds and can you know have a
combo or be able to hit or dodge or shoot,
or your jiu jitsu blue belt or whatever it might be.
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You better have all that with it because then it
doesn't matter because they're going to collapse the distance and
be on top of you. And then the final one
I believe in terms of tactical training is activism. You
and your community need to get together and start banging
on the doors of your city hall, banging on the
doors of people who are putting judges in place. You
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need to vote in the local judges. You need to
put hardcore judges that are hard on crime. You need
to get out there and be activists to your local
mayors and to your state representatives and to your governor
to say enough is enough, we're sick of this. We
want to protect our own and if that's not it,
then you put together a little citizens patrol, Right. You
(41:26):
put together a group of people in your communities that
go around and they monitor that they volunteer to keep
areas safe and protected from these outside scourges of society. Activism.
The other side has been effectively engaged in activism for
the last forty fifty years to get us to the
point they are now. Their activism has worked against you.
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If you're not awake to that right now, then I
don't know what's going on. This is what's happening, and
this is the moment to begin to push back. High
situational awareness, self defense training, weapons training, and activism. That's
what's gonna save your society. That's what's gonna save the
(42:13):
culture of your area you live in, because guess what,
they are not coming to save you. That's the way
it is. So again, I hope you've you heard what
I had to say. I hope it's motivating. I hope
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In the current state of America, There's only one thing
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Today on the David.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Rutherford Show, What's Up Everyone, This is David's producer Jeordie
with a quick disclaimer. Today's episode was recorded just a
few hours before the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. As
David discusses rising violence in cities across America and our
need for training, mental conditioning, community activism, and taking responsibility
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for our safety, it may seem odd that he leaves
this story out. I wanted to jump in and let
you know that this is the reason why, and that
Charlie's assassination certainly would have been relevant and mentioned had
we recorded this afterwards. However, the ideas and lessons from
the episode are still not only relevant, but tragically they
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are now even more relevant than ever. Thank you and
please enjoy this episode of The David Rutherford Show, What's Up.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Team Wow. I got to tell you something, man. The
response that is coming in across the nation that I
am interpreting through all the different places that I'm paying
attention is nothing short of miraculous. Right, And what do
I mean by miraculous. I mean by miraculous, people are
(01:23):
starting to get fired up. They are sick and tired
of crime and violence that are plaguing our cities, that
are plaguing our towns, that are plaguing the places that
we're not We should not be vulnerable, right in the schools,
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in on the streets of major cities, in in on
public transit systems, walking our dogs in parks, right in
our own homes, in our college towns. Right, these are
not places that we should be vulnerable. These are definitely
(02:03):
not places that our women and children should be vulnerable
at all. But yet, guess what this is where we've
gotten to after years and years and years of ford
of failed policy, of failed deliverance of justice. Right, all
of those incredibly tumultuous decisions that have, for one reason
(02:29):
or other, social justice decisions by DA's social justice decisions
by by our judges, social justice decisions by those in power,
thinking that they know what's best for our society, And
now we're facing what we face now. Well, guess what
(02:50):
Now Your society is going to change. And that's not
because they're innately racist, they're innately bigots, they're innately anti
immigration they're innately whatever that you want to call us, right,
We're not fascist, we're not communists, we're not cap you
know what we are. We're pissed off, red blooded Americans
(03:12):
that we have now come to a place where we
have to endure the incompetence and corruption of your rule.
And people are pissed, you know. I think, just again,
this the death of that poor Ukrainian woman by that
individual who had fourteen prior arrests, and now we found
(03:35):
out that the circuit court appointed judge didn't even pass
the bar. They were never a practicing attorney, they were
never they never ran a law firm. They were placed
into that position as a political appointee, which ended up
resulting in categorically resulting in the death of this poor girl.
(04:00):
And then the other thing. Just the ability for no
one on that bus system to do a goddamn thing
is repulsive to me. Repulsive, And I'm thankful that the
federal it's now going to be a federal case in
a civil rights case, so we can start, you know,
seeing this properly investigated and hopefully properly adjudicated, and this
(04:26):
individual can be put under the death penalty so that
this will stop further people from doing this. But here's
the deal. There are so many dysfunctional people in this country.
There are so many criminals from other countries, criminals from
our own country. There are so many drug addicts, mental
health people that are on the streets that the only way,
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the only way for this to begin to right itself
is for that second amended to be implied right to
be used accordingly, for individuals to begin to be able
to defend themselves against the scourge of violent repeat offenders
that are out on the streets every day. That's what
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needs to happen, right. I remember, as I was going
through the research for this, I found a case by
a girl named Logan Federico who was a South Carolina
college student who had her home broken into and was
brutally murdered by an individual who had thirty plus prior arrests.
(05:34):
Another beautiful young girl that was needly, needlessly killed because
somebody didn't feel it was appropriate that this person needed
to get help or seek help. Er. As Van Jones says,
hurting people hurt people, you know what, Well, to hell
with those hurting people. It's time for them to be
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hurt in return, right and If you don't like, that's
tough shit, because what is happening is my daughters are
now in an irrational threat. My wife is in an
irrational threat. And what I'm here to tell you is
we're pissed off for a reason, right, We're pissed off
at a reason. You want to go down a little
(06:17):
rabbit hole of madness, something that will get you pissed off.
Search up illegal aliens and vehicular manslaughter. How many people
have been needlessly killed by illegal aliens driving drunk or
under the influence in vehicles because they don't know how
to drive right? Or how many? How much? How much?
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How many? How many of our children have been exposed
to people that are off the charts mentally ill? Right,
this is the reality. And don't tell me, Oh it's
not that bad. I live here. It's not that bad.
I get that all the damn time, you know. I
ask people from wherever they're from, like Chicago or Memphis,
(07:01):
or or or Houston or South Florida, Miami or Dade Broward,
and I said, you know, is it dangerous? Right? And no,
it's not that bad. Oh yeah, well would you go
out here after dark? Oh? No, no, that place is horrible.
I would never go there, So why not? And why
(07:22):
not is because we've given up these areas. We've given
them up to those that are are are out there
committing crimes. I mean, there's a guy out there, one
of my you know, a person I follow. His name's
Alex Rose, and he he baits in these child predators
right and then meets them, confronts them with their their
(07:45):
desires to for pedophilia right, for child porn images, finds them,
confronts them, and then has the police show up. And
in many circumstances, there are cases where the police doesn't
do anything about it. They do not arrest the criminal
on the spot. Right. There was another gentleman I just
(08:06):
watched who was on the streets in Michigan and he
was interviewing crackheads doing crack, wanting crack, doing crack on
the streets, filming them. The police showed up to arrest
him or to question him, to remove him from the scenario.
And when he asked, is it illegal to do crack
(08:26):
out in the open, they said yes. And then he
asked the couple, why don't you arrest them? And the
cop was like, well, we want to get them help. Well,
I don't see any help going on. I don't see
any help going on in the streets of California. I
don't see any help going on for these repeat offenders.
I don't see any help going on. Now, why is that?
(08:50):
It's because from top to bottom, from those who are
in charge of these areas. Not on a national level,
I mean, we obviously have seen a dramatic shift and
not only homeland security within ICE, but FBI taken down
major traffickers, going after pedophiles and pedophile rings, you know,
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arresting violent criminals, going after terrorists. You know that's happening.
But how big is the FBI? How big is homeland security?
Your streets? It's your police departments are responsible for your streets.
So how do we do this? How do we shift this? Well?
(09:35):
I think you know, when the perception of the unknown
threat overwhelms a human perception of safety, they will inevitably
move into a permanent state of hypervigilance. Now, what happens
to people under a permanent state of hypervigilance? Now, as
(09:58):
a person that lived in that state for more than
fifteen years of my life, while I was actively carrying
a gun for living and then what I had to
live with it after because of the ramifications of that
long term exposure to that. You know, and what we
now know is operator syndrome, one of the core problems
(10:19):
within the seventeen different medical mental health and this is
operators across the board, operators from every branch of special operations,
and then also regular military personnel or police officers. There's
a form of operator syndrome within police officers as well too.
You know what the effects on the human mind take place, right,
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and when you think about the broader context of when
you have a society or a subculture within society that
lives in this spot where stress hormones are perpetually being
inducted into their nervous system, right, what happens to them?
What happens when cortisol is an unending a flow of
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corsol into your neuropathology, right, It changes you, It changes
you to your core right living in a hyper state
of vigilance. And you probably would know that as fight
or flight, and when you live in fight or flight
all the time, things change and it can be either side.
Whether you live in that perpetual state of fear, which
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I have have done extensive research and training on learning
to embrace fear. I teach a course online. If you
want to check that out, it's called Embrace Fear. You
can go to our website at David Rutherford dot com
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(11:47):
Team Life course and learn how to learn how to
embrace fear, because that's what you ultimately have to do,
because if you live in that perpetual state of fear,
that core is all's going to overwhelm you. It's gonna
change you, it's gonna make all different types of personality
traits become muted or anxiety and even put you into depression,
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you'll isolate. All these negative reactions happen as a result
of that perpetual state of hypervigilance. Now on the flip
side of that, where you live in a place where
you're going to start taking control or you're being inundated
into a hyper state of violence, it also has a
profoundly negative effect. That's one of the things you're seeing
from these areas that are riddled with violent behavior, where
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it's seemingly acceptable from the moment. These little kids who
don't have any oversight or protective measures in place, with
a strong family in place, or a strong male dominant
parental figure or male figure in their lives, where there
is no framework of a moral structure in there, where
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they begin to learn how to engage in crime and
violence from early ages. What do you think is going
to happen to these people who live in a perpetual's
state of having to fight to live every day. What
is that going to do to the human psyche? But
we've seen it, there's thousands and thousands and thousands of
examples throughout history that what emerges is a war like society. Well,
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guess what, America, Guess what's going to start to take place?
Because I'll have you know, there is already a significant
number of people in this country that have engaged in
a warring state for twenty plus years in the global
war against terror. And these people just want to be
left alone. These people just want to go about their
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daily business. They just want to raise their families in
peace and give them some opportunity in order to live
a better life and a calm life and a peaceful life. Well,
when you push these people too far, then guess what
things will change rapidly. And that's what's going to take place, right,
Because here's the deal. There is a growing feeling that
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no one is coming to save you. That's right, you
heard me. We have a feeling in our in our
our immediate uh circle, in our family that where we
suggest this, nobody's coming to save us. Nobody's coming to
help us raise our kids. Nobody's coming to make sure
our girls are protected in their thinking and how they
(14:18):
address the world. Well, guess what now it's starting to
be the same. No one's coming to save you on
the bus, no one's coming to save you while you
walk your dog. No one's coming to save your children
in the school as it's getting shot up. No one's
coming to save you. Now, I know what your people
are going to say. They're gonna be like, what, man,
(14:38):
why are you trying to you know? Create you know,
a heightened sense of fear in you, in me, And
the reality is I don't have to do that. The
reality of the street it can do that. The reality
of your own existence can do that. Now you can
sit there and continue ignoring it, like so many people
in this country wanting to do tell yourself that this, oh,
(14:59):
this is just normal. There's bad apples in every society.
That's bullshit where you can talk about like the Congresswoman Crockett,
Jasmine Crockett said the other day, again, I still am baffled.
I've seen it again multiple times that the job of
the police is not to prevent crime, it's only to
solve crime. I've never heard a more dumb ass statement
(15:20):
in my entire existence. Right, what our responsibility as a
civilized nation, as a civilized society, as a civilized municipality
is to protect its people, to protect and to serve,
right on all federal ass to protect and to serve.
(15:42):
That's the responsibility. And if the government, whether your local government,
state government, or federal government, then based on what the
Second Amendment says, it is your responsibility to defend the
society that you protect. That's right, it's your responsibility. So
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how do we begin to do that? First and foremost,
you have to move through this reluctance, of this cognitive
dissonance that has been integrated into your mind that this
is all acceptable forms of behavior in your life. You
have to push through those barriers that you want to
ultimately create that plausible deniability, that cognitive dissonance, that moral
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relativism that has been slowly dripping into what you've been
consuming over the last thirty plus years. That it doesn't
take hard work and dedication and sacrifice in order to
create a society where you can live with cognitive dissonance,
because that's how it happens, That's how it has to
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take place. Right. You have to be willing to go
do the hard work to protect your communities, to protect
your societies, that's what it takes. Now. In order to
do that, you have to learn to understand what you're
afraid of and why. You know. When I teach this
Embrace Fear course, it's first understanding what you're afraid of,
(17:11):
accepting that it's there and it ain't going anywhere, learning
to retrain your brain right. Then to test your ability
to live and act with fear as a motivational component.
Then to live with courage every single day, right to
step up when you see potentially things that are generating
fear in the people around you, to not just stay quiet,
not to get involved because of the fear that you're
(17:32):
going to go to jail, like Daniel Perlman up in
New York City. That's horseshit. People get hurt when good
people do nothing right. What's the old saying, right, hard
times create hard men, which create easy times, which create
weak men, which weak men create hard times. That's where
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we're at period, end of story. We are in that
place where weak men have created hard times. So how
are you going to begin to train? Because no one's
coming to save you. I'm telling you that no one
right now is coming to save you. There's not enough
police on the street to counteract. Let's call it. Even
(18:16):
if it's let's call it twenty million people came in
and let's say one percent of that twenty million people
are violent, sociopathic, psychopathic criminals that are on the streets
of America. How many people did it take to take
down Mumbai ten terrorists? Right? If you listen to Sarah Adams,
(18:39):
who I'm a big fan of, it's been on Sean
ryin a ton right or Scott Man, former Green Beret.
There are sleeper cells in our country right now waiting
to act. There are gangbangers on the country, on the streets.
We saw that in videos when when the President said, hey,
we're sending in ice in the National Guard to Chicago.
They said, bringing on, let's see what you got. That's
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who's out there. These people have become so emboldened by
the lack of oversight, the lack of commitment to protecting
our citizensry, that they're running free. They don't give a damn.
So guess who it is. No one's coming to save you.
It's on you, right, So it's pretty simple. In our
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world and special operations, there are two kinds of people, right,
as it relates to a particular set of skill sets. Right,
there are two kinds of people, those who are trained
to do the skill set and those who are untrained. Period,
end of sentence. That's the way it works. Trained untrained,
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And that's it. So what are you gonna do? What
are you gonna do to get trained? What's the mindset
that you're gonna invoke? Are you gonna uh just it
there and learn or go out with your your rape whistle?
Are you gonna go out with uh? I don't know.
(20:07):
I saw some crazy video a few years ago of
someone teaching someone to use a towel to defend off
an attacker. Are you gonna use your you know? Your
your uh, you know your de escalation techniques that you
learned in your HR department. Listen, you don't really want
to do this. There we there are other alternatives. We
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can find the space where you and I can find
common ground. As you're being stabbed repeatedly, over and over
and over and bleeding out on the bus, right, you
are either trained or you untrained. That is it, because
no one's coming to save you. So what kind of
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training are you going to engage in? What type of
focus are you going to have? Now? There are a
million different types of experts out there. I love DJ
Shipley and his crew with the GBRS group. I love
Eddie Gallagher what they're training out there. You know, there's
a lot of amazing. Pat McNamara is phenomenal. His educational
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stuff is absolutely phenomenal. There's an incredible amount, But it
starts prior to before you pick the specific training course
that you're going to go to. Right, it's a mindset
shift that you have to be able to advocate for
yourself enough time, right, enough focus, enough effort and determination
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as you would preparing your meals for every day, or
preparing for school or preparing for work or taking care
of you know, your family. Right, instead of going to
play golf for five hours, Why don't you get off
your ass and take your family to the range, right,
instead of going to the movies for a couple hours
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every weekend, why don't you go out and teach a
class about situational awareness or learn that, or why don't
you learn about self defense? Hey, these are the things
that are going to save your life. Is the mindset,
the training mindset that you have to induce period end
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of sentence, so you know, and that's a tough thing.
Most people never want to talk about violence, right. I
have a very close friend of mine, doctor Dan Luna.
Check them out, you know must I think he had
nine combat deployments, twenty plus years in the sealed teams,
Seal Team six, Seal Team one. I mean, really just
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an absolute expert on violence. And he's also got a
doctorate in leadership from USC And the way he talks
about violence is almost to a point where, for some
odd reasons, in our society in America, our culture in
America has eradicated the necessity to talk about violence within
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the framework of our families, as if it's some type
of taboo subject. Matter that we can't talk about right, Well,
guess what, there's violence on your streets. There's violence out
there every day. There's violence in every aspect of our lives.
So if you're not going to train yourself to be
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aware of violence, why, we don't want to steal the
future of our children's minds. We don't want to induce
an unnecessary stress or or depressive state or anxiety to
where we will double their doses of of mental health
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pharmaceuticals we're making them take. But yet you allow them
to have cell phones at three or four years old,
or iPads, which is inducing all that anyways, And you're
too chicken shit to talk to your children about what
it means to be violent themselves in response to a
violent act or a potentiality a violent act upon them.
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I mean from the very early times, I, you know,
run into the supermarket. I'd leave my children in a
running car out in the supermarket. I'd leave my blade
in the car, and I would say, all right, where
do you stab somebody? Girls? And they would say poke, poke,
poke in the neck over and over. And they were
at four or five, six years old, And you're gonna
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think about my god, that's that's crazy to do that.
Oh yeah, you think, so what is the person on
the street trying to attack my children? Crazy? Right? Mentally ill?
Whatever want of framework psychologically you want to put around
on it. I just look at it as the perspective
or pot potential or the probability of violent attacks. So
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I'm gonna teach my kid is that violence is acceptable
in those aspects. Man. I saw a video the other
day that would make your mind actually just blow. It
was a video that this person asked these women, would
you kill for your children? And these women actually answered no,
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I would not. I would not kill for my child. Now,
thank god. I asked my wife. She says, hell yeah,
that'd be a not a heartbeat, wouldn't even think twice
about it. And I'd say, that's my lady, that's my
woman right there. But ask yourself, have you thought about that?
Would you kill for your children? Now? The overwhelming majority
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I think people would probably said yes. Would you kill
for your spouse? Would you kill for the table you
were sitting at at a restaurant where some crazy it
began to attack the restaurant? Would you kill for an
unknown bystander? A young woman who was next to you
being brutally assault raped, or beaten. Would you kill for her?
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These are real questions that we have to ask because
in those moments, when you're in that hypervigilant state, when
it's that go time, you have to make the decision.
It can't be you can't hesitate, otherwise you risk your
own death because you're not convinced, you're not full blown
into the scenario. So this is a mindset training too,
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So you have to start to think. Now, if you're
struggling with that, all right, first and foremost thing, you
can just start that really will start to breathe. This
type of mentality is physical conditioning, right right, if you
are if you have strength, you can push and pull,
you can fight, you can scratch, you can punch, right
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if you can, If you can do those things, if
you're physically strong, your chances go up. If you have
endurance right the old movie Zombie Land number one cardio.
If you can outrun your attack or if you can outlast,
if you can kick, you can scream, you can fight off,
you can engage, you can hold. Right, if you have endurance, boom,
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probability goes up pretty simple. If you're quick, right, if
you're quick, if you have quick movements, if your hands
are quick, if you can dodge, if you can run,
if you can shift, if you can move quickly and
jump over things, hop over obstacles, jump over cars, jump
through windows. So strength, endurance, and quickness, those are the
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core things. Are you doing that or are you just
gonna lay down on the ground and be a victim?
Any modicum of strength is massive. One of the leading
indicators of strength is can you do a pull up?
How many pull ups can you do? How fast can
you sprint forty meters right? How much can you deadlift?
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How much can you push? How much can you curl?
How hard can you kick a big we tie bag
or punch a punching bag? Can you deliver any kind
of impact? Or are you just going to be a victim.
So that's first place out of the development of that
core strength development. Guess what, You're going to start to
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get stronger mentally too. You're going to start to feel
more confident in yourself. You're going to start to be
able to accept that fears of reality. But I'm strong
enough to endure this. I'm strong enough to face what
i have to face. Begins to shift all those ideas
about fear and violence. The other one is mental conditioning, right,
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mental training. Now, one of the first things that you
got to do is be able to fortify that courage, right,
that last part of fear, right and bracing fear to
live with the courage to do something right. And that's
something that's repetitive, that that has to take. You have
to think about this if this doesn't happen in the moment,
because one of the things that we have categorically proven
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in so many different ways is you do not rise
to the occasion, you do not have this superman or
super mom moment. It doesn't happen. You fall back on
your last level of training or trauma. That's the way
we react under fire, right, that's the way it happens
because in those moments, your heart rate is at about
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one eighty five one seventy five, it's outstretched, your prefrontal
cortex and your ability to have that profound executive function
and metacognition going right. Your limbic system is taken over. Right,
your blood is flowing into your biceps, your quads, your gluts,
and it's ready to go, and so thinking becomes much
more difficult than those. So are you training yourself to think?
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So when you're doing that physical conditioning, that endurance training,
doing sprint works right, stop and then try and do
problem solving in between. Right you think it's challenging, it's
it's hard but or it's a stupid but it works,
whether that's playing, you do multiple iterations of the sprints.
Get off to a little Kim's game. Right, you have
a cloth, you have five items of the cloth. You
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pull the cloth back, you identify those items, pull it
back off, do another series, and then afterwards identify what
those items where you have thirty seconds to do it right.
Being able to think under Durest is critical in terms
of developing and fortifying that courage right. The other aspect
is area studies. If you're going someplace you know, know
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what you're going into, knowing your community where the most
crime takes place. Most areas have crime maps, they know
exactly what takes place. There's actually lists of what types
of crimes are taking place. If you're going on vacation somewhere,
if you're going overseas to England, Germany or whatever, you know,
go to the CIA website, go to the state Department website. Hell,
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go and search the blogs or the online information that's available.
Where are the most dangerous parts of Birmingham or London
or Brussels or wherever you're going. You can do that
in the United States too. Where in New York City
is most of the crime taking place? Where in Chicago?
Where in la Where in San Diego? Where in Dallas?
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Educate yourself before you go into a particular place. Right,
know what those statistics are. Right on top of that,
you know, be able to move effectively. Now we're moving
into another level. But mentally develop yourself not to be
a victim. Right, be comfortable with violence. Talk about violence,
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what types of violence works against different attacks. In my mind,
the number one type of violence that you should understand
and you should be mentally prepared for, emotionally prepared for,
is using your gun. That's why we have the Second Amendment.
In my mind, every single law abiding citizen in this
country should be able to carry a weapon, and you
can in most places. There's some of these traconian places
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and where you're not allowed to conceal carry, but that's
going to be eradicated my opinion, over the next several years.
With under the Trump administration, and you'll be able to
carry concealed everywhere you go in the country, because that's
what's taking place right now. The necessity to carry a
firearm everywhere you go is present and real. So why
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not do it? Well, I don't want the gun. You know,
it's uncomfortable. I don't want to make you know, I
don't want to have to carry it, and you know
I don't want to check it in or you know,
I just I'm not confident enough. Then what's up? Then
go train. It's as simple as that. You'll sit there
and you'll watch and you know, grand total nine twelve
(32:44):
hours of stupid Netflix every week. But you're two and
you and you're complaining about the presence of violence. You're
complaining about the violent nature of all these criminals and
illegals that are on the street. But you won't dedicate
one hour a week at a shooting range two hundred
in that hour to get yourself in a way where
you can prepare to carry that gun. It's a proven
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statistical reality that places that have a higher percent of
concealed carrier with citizens that are willing to execute on
their Second Amendment rights, that crime is lower that's the
way it is, So why wouldn't you figure out how
to get prepared to do that? Now? The third aspect
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of training that you have to focus on is tactical training,
right hands down, and number one aspect when that is
to develop your situational awareness. All right, this is little,
very easy to do. I started doing this early with
my girls. We would walk into a target, I'd have
them put their backs up against the wall somewhere and
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I'd have them scan. I'd say, all right, from left
to right, you have one minute to scan everything in
front of you. I have them close their eyes, and
then I have them repeat any probable threat that they
thought existed. I know what you're thinking already, But rud
isn't that profiling? Isn't that racist? Isn't that? This? Isn't
that that? FBI statistics don't lie. That's all I'm going
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to say about that. FBI statistics don't lie. Look at
the FBI statistics, right. I was, I think ultimately locked
out of social media back in twenty twenty because I
posted the FBI crime statistics from twenty nineteen, and I
think that's what launched the firestorm that got me locked
out of Facebook and Instagram. But here's the deal. I
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got locked out because they're an inconvenient to social justice warriors.
The reality is there's violent crime. Violent crime comes from
certain people in certain areas period. That's what it is.
Look at this crime statistics. That's part of your situational awareness. Right.
Learn how to profile, learn what to look for, learn
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what to stay away from. Right learn what aspects of
public life are more dangerous than the others. Right, But
the biggest one is to have situational awareness, and what
that means is to look around at your environment, pay attention.
Don't have your head in the clouds. Hell. In bokwrad Tone, Florida,
we have one of the worst malls for crime in
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terms of the parking lots that anywhere in the country.
We actually had a serial killer hitting our parking lot
several years ago. And the reality is is people have
their head in the clouds. They think I'm sick, Nothing's
going to happen to me. And I'm not saying you're overwhelmed.
But what you do is you make a little check
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off in your mind. You walk into a place and
you make a little check off. What do I see,
what do I notice? What prompts me to have pause?
What looks unright? Who looks unright? What are they doing?
What are they doing? How do I move away from
the situation? How do I put different obstacles in between me?
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In a potential threat? Where do I sit? How do
I sit? In a restaurant? Where do I go? Who
do I engage with? If I'm out with my friends
and we've been drinking, is there somebody that's keeping their
wits about them? Right? These are the things that you
have to begin to develop within situation awareness. It's critical.
The other is self defense. Right. Self defense is one
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hundred percent critical for you to begin to understand. You
have to realize that self defense is a necessity in
the modern world. It always has been. And if you're
not teaching self defense, if you're not teaching how to hit,
if you're not teaching how to fight, you're wrong. And
so that's what you have to begin to do. You
have to begin to figure out how to have even
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a modicum of self defense. How to break a choke
hold right, how to slip out of it, how to
grab if someone's grabbing your shirt, how to get their shirt,
how to peel off a thumb right, how to attack
a leg, how to attack a nerd on the inside
of their leg, how to do a front kick inside
outside leg right? How to punch somebody in their throat?
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How to collapse or trach you all of these things.
If someone's on top of you, how do you simp out?
How do you push them off? How do you arch
or bridge to throw them off balance? To give yourself
some space? What do you do when somebody is coming
at you with a knife? What do you do when
somebody's coming at you with a stick or they have
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a gun pointed at you? Right? These are all realities
that have actual fortified training regimens that you can put
into place in order to combat these things. Why aren't
you out there figuring out how to do it? Well,
I don't want to live in a state like that.
I just I want everybody to be you know, I'm
going to put out good vibes, and those good vibes
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will come back to me. Horseshit. It's just is what
it is. You cannot let this many savages into your
country and expect that this is going to be just
happy go. Luckily, we've seen it's been proven over and
over for decade after decade that these people are not assimilating.
They don't want assimilating. They're abusing our social good graces.
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They're abusing our our genuine generosity. They're abusing us right,
and these corrupt officials are abusing it as well too.
So guess what it's time to go get prepared? And
what does that mean. It means weapons training, hands down
number one, Learn to shoot. Carry that gun on you
every day all day. I know it's uncomfortable at first,
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but I'm telling you this. Once you get good at
learning how to handle and shoot a firearm that you
can then carry with you, your whole perspective of vulnerability changes.
And actually there's an ease that comes over you in
your life. There's a moment where things begin to chill
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out because you know you will not be the victim.
You know that you are not gonna be overwhelmed by
some craze degenerate on crack, cocaine or fentanyl. You have
the power now, and that was given to you. Our
forefathers knew the deal that there's this is a violent world, right,
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and it always has been this illusion that we're smarter
and that because we have the freaking Internet that violence
is gonna be subdued. The hell with that. The way
violence is is subdued is by people willing to commit
violent to violent people, period. And when you don't have
enough police officers, you don't have enough of that, you
need good samaritans. And those good samaritans are the people
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that have been trained with firearms. Now, if you want
to go lesser and you carry bear spray, I'm all
right with that. That's not that's not bad, or pepper
spray or something like that. But you know, you get
somebody that's all methed out on and they're gonna they're
gonna drink in that stuff. I know, Well, a big
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can of pepper spray. You're not putting a giant ca
and those large cans in your purse or in your
car or anything like that. What works is a pistol. Right.
Other people might say, well, I'll carry a knife with me.
Let me tell you what, unless you're going through level
five Filipino knife fighting training, you're gonna get killed. They're
gonna take that knife from you, they're gonna stab you
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to death with it. Right, knife fights are it's just
a crazy thing. I'll carry my little sap tool, my
brass knuckles. Yeah, maybe, but you better be two hundred
and forty five pounds and can you know have a
combo or be able to hit or dodge or shoot,
or your jiu jitsu blue belt or whatever it might be.
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You better have all that with it because then it
doesn't matter because they're going to collapse the distance and
be on top of you. And then the final one
I believe in terms of tactical training is activism. You
and your community need to get together and start banging
on the doors of your city hall, banging on the
doors of people who are putting judges in place. You
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need to vote in the local judges. You need to
put hardcore judges that are hard on crime. You need
to get out there and be activists to your local
mayors and to your state representatives and to your governor
to say enough is enough, we're sick of this. We
want to protect our own and if that's not it,
then you put together a little citizens patrol, Right. You
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put together a group of people in your communities that
go around and they monitor that they volunteer to keep
areas safe and protected from these outside scourges of society. Activism.
The other side has been effectively engaged in activism for
the last forty fifty years to get us to the
point they are now. Their activism has worked against you.
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If you're not awake to that right now, then I
don't know what's going on. This is what's happening, and
this is the moment to begin to push back. High
situational awareness, self defense training, weapons training, and activism. That's
what's gonna save your society. That's what's gonna save the
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culture of your area you live in, because guess what,
they are not coming to save you. That's the way
it is. So again, I hope you've you heard what
I had to say. I hope it's motivating. I hope
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