On June 1st, 2025, a peaceful demonstration in Boulder, Colorado turned into a scene of terror when a man armed with firebombs and a makeshift flamethrower attacked civilians in broad daylight. This video dives deep into the event, questioning why strict gun laws in Boulder failed to prevent such a catastrophe and exploring the chilling effects of current gun policies on citizens' willingness to intervene. From failed legislation to ignored attacks, this episode challenges the narrative that gun control is the key to public safety.
00:00 Introduction: A Day of Terror in Boulder
00:19 The Attack: A New Kind of Mass Violence
01:41 Gun Laws Under Scrutiny
02:04 Defining Mass Shootings
02:24 Case Studies: Misleading Statistics
04:40 The Ineffectiveness of Gun Control
05:38 The Chilling Effect of Modern Gun Policy
07:33 Ignored Attacks and Media Bias
09:19 Conclusion: The Real Issue at Hand
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Episode Transcript
Sunday afternoon, June 1st, 2025, Boulder,
Colorado.
A peaceful demonstration turnsinto a scene of terror.
A man shows up with Molotovcocktails, explosives, and what
authorities describe as amakeshift flame thrower.
He attacks people in broaddaylight with fire.
He attempts a mass killing,which brings us to Today's Mass
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Shooting.
Except it wasn't a shooting.
There were no guns, no highcapacity magazines, no AR-15s,
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handguns, or so-called "ghostguns", and in Boulder, a city
with some of the strictest gunlaws in Colorado.
None of those laws made adifference.
This was a real mass attack,just not with the right weapon.
It wasn't a scuffle, it wasn'ta crime of passion.
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It was planned, premeditated,designed to kill as many as
possible.
That's what a mass attack is,and yet, despite the carnage,
the story is missing something.
Not the facts.
The press covered the event.
What's missing is the context.
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The discussion that should betaking place is not.
Because this is exactly whatpoliticians promised their gun
laws would prevent.
That was the whole pitch.
"Pass these laws and peoplewill be safe." That was the
goal, wasn't it?
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So why isn't anyone asking whythose laws failed?
What counts as a "massshooting"?
You might be surprised.
While Boulder was literallyburning gun control advocates
and media outlets continued topush the narrative that there's
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a "Mass Shooting Every Day inAmerica".
So let's take one of those daysthat they're counting the very
same day, June 1st.
That's when there were four"Mass Shootings", according to
the activists.
But look at the details ofthese events.
Forget the gun definitions justapply common sense.
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Three of the four eventshappened between midnight and
1:00 AM so although they weretechnically on Sunday, they were
actually Saturday night.
And they were not random actsof terror, not school children
gunned down at recess, ratherthink of bars, parking lots
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criminal grudges.
One of these shootings waslabeled a "pool party".
Yes, at 1:00 AM.
Actually, it was a drive bywhere the intended targets
returned fire.
There were dozens of rounds,eight different guns involved.
None of these are massshootings the way people think
of Parkland or Uvalde.
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These are violent crimes.
Tragic, yes, but not plannedattempts to massacre strangers
in broad daylight.
The timing, the location andthe motive, they all matter.
And then there's the violentpark they keep ignoring.
The fourth shooting, the onethat actually was on June 1st?
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That one happened during theevening in a public park in
Ilhan Omar's district.
Ilhan Omar, one of the gungrabbers.
Hundreds of shots were fired.
Witnesses ran for coverthinking they were being fired
on by a machine gun.
And here's a twist.
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It was the same park whereanother mass shooting happened
not long ago.
So this wasn't a peacefulcommunity suddenly rocked by
random evil.
This was a known hotspot with apattern of violence, and yet
it's filed under the same label,"mass shooting".
Just like Parkland, just likeSandy Hook and just like King
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Soopers in Boulder.
See the problem?
So let's go back to Boulderafter the March, 2021 King
Soopers massacre, 10 peoplemurdered in cold blood, the city
did what progressives alwayssay will solve the problem.
They passed everything.
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Assault- weapons bans, magazinelimits, waiting periods,
mandatory storage, localpermitting, and background
checks.
Every checkbox was marked.
Every restriction in place.
The kinds of laws that nationalgun control groups dream about.
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And yet, three years later, aman nearly burned a neighborhood
alive using fire, not firearms.
None of the laws stopped himbecause evil doesn't care about
gun laws because evil doesn'teven need a gun.
And how about when helping getsyou killed?
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The danger isn't just beingunarmed, and all of the victims
of the flamethrower attackscertainly were unarmed, but in
some places, even stopping anattacker puts you at risk.
Take Arvada, Colorado, justnorth of Boulder in 2021.
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A man with a shotgun murdered apolice officer.
A legally armed citizen, johnnyHurley stepped in and stopped
the killer before he could domore carnage.
Heroic life saving, and thenHurley picked up the killer's AR
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15 to examine it or to securethe scene, and police shot him
dead.
The same police who had donenothing against the actual
shooter.
And that's not just tragedy.
That is your policy in action.
That's what happens when gunculture is demonized and anyone
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with a weapon, even the hero, isseen as a threat.
Now, imagine that same citizenhad been at the Pearl Street
Mall on June 1st.
He sees someone lighting up acrowd with a flame thrower,
people screaming, burning,diving for cover.
He has the means to stop it.
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He has a clear shot.
Does he act or does he freeze?
Remembering Johnny Hurley andwondering if he'll be the next
one mistaken for the attackerand shot by police.
This is the chilling effect ofmodern gun policy.
It doesn't just disarm, itdiscourages action.
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It tells good people to standdown even as the innocent burn.
And then there are the attacksthat don't make the cut.
Not because they weren'tdeadly, but because they weren't
useful to the narrative.
In March, just months beforethe Boulder firebombing, two
police officers in Boulder wereintentionally rammed by a
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driver.
It was deliberate, it wasviolent, and it was barely
covered.
Then in April in Vancouver,Washington, a man used a van to
kill 11 people in another massramming like the one in New
Orleans on New Year's Day.
No gun, no manifesto, justcarnage and death.
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These were Mass Attacks inevery sense of the term, but
they weren't called that.
They weren't added to any MassViolence Database, and there was
no renewed push for vehicleregulation.
Why?
Because the weapon, howeverdeadly wasn't a gun.
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It's the tool versus the truth.
Gun control activists keepwaving their hands and saying,
"Why does this keep happening?"Maybe the better question is,
why does it only matter when ithappens with a gun?
Because when a man tries totorch a neighborhood, silence.
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When someone mows down, copswith a car, nothing.
When 11 die in a vehicle,ramming, no policy shift.
But when four gang membersshoot each other at 12:30 AM
behind a liquor store, "Massshooting ban, everything!" This
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isn't about safety.
It's about control.
Control of the weapons, controlof your rights, and control of
the narrative.
And while they're busy countingmass shootings by injury count,
and political utility, thepeople with intent to kill are
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counting on the fact that no onewill stop them.
And what about those who couldstop it?
What about the citizen whomight act if he weren't afraid
of becoming the next JohnnyHurley?
Because when the only thingthat stops a killer is banned,
the people willing to interveneare punished, you're left with
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laws that protect nothing butheadlines and the politicians.
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