Michele Maples - Political Analyst & Conservative Attorney Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seven, twenty three our time here on Houston's Morning News.
Right shortly after Uvaldi, there was a bill passed in Congress,
a quote unquote bipartisan gun bill that John Cornyn helped
to pass. It's been called a knee jerk reaction, at
least by Wesley Hunt. Of course, Wesley Hunt is running
in opposition to John Cornyan. He would like to primary

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him and have an opportunity to run for the United
States Senate. It was called the bill that Wesley Hunt
is proposing is called the Second Amendment Restoration Act. He says,
nobody in the state wants to see children harmed. The
idea is trying to control the Second Amendment in Texas
by implementing red flag laws is unacceptable. In other words,

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it's the argument that it's not the guns, it's the
mediacts that have the guns that are the problem. Michelle
Maples joins US political analyst and conservative attorney. Where do
you stand on this one, counselor.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I was qustally Hunt on this one, and look, if
I were going to primary John Corny that I beat
them up on this issue as well. And so just
real quick after Uvaldi and I think knee jerk reaction
is the right term that we use here. That bipartisan
bill incentivized states to enact red flag laws. Now, red

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flag laws sound good, but in reality, what they do
is they deprive every American of their Second Amendment right
without any sort of due process. And that, in fact,
is the most Unamerican thing that you can do, because
our country is founded on the principle that you cannot
deprive somebody of their life, liberty, property without due process

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of law. And with these red flag laws, an accusation
by somebody who has a vendetta against you would be
good enough to deprive you of your Second Amendment right.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
And even if that worth the case, Michelle mabeles, at
the end of the day, how many people have been
saved by these so called red flag laws? Anybody? Anybody
adn't None that have hit my radar, none that hit
mine either. So at the end of the day, where gauds,
how do you feel about the rights part of it?
It just damn well doesn't work.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
That's correct, It just doesn't work. And this is feel
good legislation. This is something that after such a disgusting
tragedy where children are murdered in cold blood, the politicians
get together and think, well, we got to do something.
We have to do something to make themselves feel better,
as opposed to actually doing something that would have the
lasting effect of preventing these sorts of tragedy.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well, let's talk about that aspect for a second here,
because it's one thing to say, well, we don't want this,
this needs to be repealed, we need to take this away.
But the other side is always going to say, well,
what would you do, because you already use the term
we've got to do something, So what in your mind
could we do that would be effective, that wouldn't trample
on people's rights.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Armed every school with police officers at the door. It's
that simple. Garden our campuses. Put police officers on every
single school campus with firearms. It's that simple.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Can we recruit enough people in order to be able
to make that happen?

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I bet you could find some retired police officers who
would volunteer to do it. I bet we could find
some retired military who would love to do it.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
And that idea has been proposed before, and nobody's really
you know, I guess there's maybe a few schools that
have taken up on the offer of wanting to do
something like that. But schools, being the liberal bastions that
many of them are, they're just as afraid of the
idea of guns and gun rights as the people who
would have proposed this red flag log to begin with.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well, that is true, but there are several school districts
in Texas who do allow their teachers to carry and
I think those need to be the school districts that
we look at and we can say, hey, this school
district has had armed teachers for the past ten years
and there has not been one incident. Let's take a
look at that and see if we can repeat this
playbook all over the nation and prevent these sort of

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disgusting tragedies.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
All right, thank you, Michelle, appreciate it. As always, Michelle
Maple's political analyst and conservative attorney.