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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We the People. The preamble to the Constitution of the
United States, We the people of the United States, in
order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure
domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
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To do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United
States of America. These the first words people see when
reading our Constitution, So important that school children oftentimes taught
to memorize her words. How powerful thy statement. The power
given to the people in the first line, the power
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given to create the constitution that governs those within, the
power to ensure internal tranquility, to establish justice for all,
and to establish this for infinite generations. The brilliance of
those founders must never be forgotten. Shall not be infringed.
The Second Amendment to our Constitution, a well regulated militia
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being necessary to the security of a free state, the
right of the people to keep in bear arms shall
not be infringed. The right of the people to keep
in bear arms shall not or ever be infringed, because
of the necessity to have security of the free state,
and the security to protect your family. In modern times
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and throughout history, the demise of an individual's freedom has
always has always started with the disarming of the people.
We must fight and fight and fight to protect these
freedoms from within, because without them, our nation's fate is inevitable.
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Government of the people the Gettysburg Address, that we hear
highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain,
That these dead that these dead soldiers, that these dead officers,
that these dead servants of our country and of our people,
That this nation under God shall have a new birth
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of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people,
for the people shall not perish from the earth. That obligation,
that birth of freedom was not just given to us
that day, but it resonates every day and throughout every generation.
What have you done to ensure this nation not perish
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in our watch? And to ensure those sacrifices before us
were not in vain? With malice towards none, the second
Inaugural Address of President Lincoln. With malice towards none, with
charity for all, with firmness and the right, as God
has given us to see the right, let us strive
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on to finish the work as we bind up the
nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne
the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to
do all which may achieve and cherish a just and
lasting peace amongst ourselves and with our nations, delivered so timely,
so eloquently, so historically, and done so with only forty
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one more days of his life to live. E plurbius unum.
Out of many, one, out of many, out of many religions,
out of many ethnicities, out of many cultures and backgrounds
and languages and colors and races, out of many, we
stand as one, one strong, god fearing nation that is
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not going to give in to tyrants to temptation. Our
strength has been and will always be, standing as one,
and at no other time in recent history. We must
look to thy neighbor and commit to them that we
stand as one when in the course of human events.
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July fourth, seventeen seventy six, The Declaration to the World
of our Independence, When in the course of human events
it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with another, and to assume
the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station
to which the laws of nature, and of Nature's God
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entitles them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind,
requires that they should declare the cause for which impels
them to their suppression. So bold, so brave, so unbelievably incredible,
those words and those men set forth for us to
build upon and to preserve. Judged by the content of
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their character, Martin Luther King's speech, April nineteen sixty three.
We must strive to judge others by the content of
their character, by their integrity and their actions, by their
devotion and compassion. We must strive if we are to
keep a free nation. We must strive to judge thy neighbor,
not by the color of their skin, or by the
God they worship, or anything that makes them different from us.
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But our judgment must lie with how they live their lives,
and their commitment to stand up and fight to help
you live yours. Give me liberty or give me death.
March twenty third, seventeen seventy five, Patrick Henry, This is
no time for ceremony. The question before the House is
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one of an awful moment to this country. For my
own part, I consider it as nothing less than a
question of freedom or of slavery. It is only in
this way that we can hope to arrive at truth
and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God
into our country. If I keep my opinions at such
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a time through fear of giving offense, I should consider
myself guilty of treason towards my country, and as an
act of disloyalty towards the magistory of Heaven, which I
revere above all earthly kings. Is life so dear or
peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price
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of change in slavery. I know not what course others
may take, But as for me, give me liberty or
give me death. A republic if you can keep it
September seventeenth, seventeen eighty seven, Benjamin Franklin. A republic. We
have a republic, if only we can keep it. Those
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founders did not set forth a government that was to
never be touched again. They set forth a system that
would certainly take the people by which it was given
as power. It would take the people to continue to
breathe life into it. Adams wrote, we have no government
armed with power capable of contending with human and passions
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unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution is designed only
for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate
for any other. He said. It is by these standards
that we have a republic, only if we can keep it. Liberty,
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once lost is lost forever. Philadelphia, July seventh, seventeen seventy five,
a letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams. My dear,
your description of the distresses of the worthy inhabitants of
Boston and other seaport towns is enough to melt a
heart of stone. Our consolation must be dith this, my dear,
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That cities may be rebuilt, and a people reduced to
poverty may acquire fresh property. But a constitution of government,
once changed from freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once
lost is lost forever. When the people surrender their share
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in the legislature and their right of defending the limitations
upon the government, and of resisting every encroachment upon them,
they can never regain it again. Two hundred and fifty
years ago, the founders of our nation told us that
if we lose it, it will never be regained again.
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Have we been listening? One nation under God? The pledge
of allegiance, one nation under united under God's divine providence,
one nation under God added to our pledge of allegiance
by an Act of Congress in nineteen fifty four. Join
or Die seventeen fifty four, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Benjamin Franklin, Publisher,
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Join or die. Join together as one, or die alone
as many. The strength we bring to man is that
we have chosen to recognize our differences as strengths, and
have committed to join together as one nation with the
unbreakable power of providing freedom to all join together or
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die all alone. Don't tread on me flag used by
the first naval commander during the American Revolution. Do not
tread on me, For I lay peacefully amongst all others,
but deadly amongst my enemies. I live peacefully, but through provocation,
will fight to the death to defend my freedoms. I
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warn you, through peaceful means, do not tread on me.
Our lives, our fortunes are sacred. Honor the Last Line
and the Declaration of Independence, that these United Colonies are
and of right ought to be free in independent states,
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that they are absolved from any allegiance to the British Crown,
and that all political connections between them and the State
of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved,
and that is free. In independent states they have full
power to levy war, concede peace, contract alliances, establish commerce,
and do all other acts and things which independent states
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may have the right to do. And for the support
of this declaration, with the firm reliance on the protection
of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives,
our fortunes, and our sacred honor. These quotes that I
have read are in a flag that I had made
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that hangs above my desk. They remind me every day
that we have an obligation to protect our freedoms, to
ensure peace and prosperity for the next generation. And it
reminds me every day that what we believe to be
difficult times is really tomorrow's history on how we perceived
persevered through wars, poverty, diversity and tyranny, persevered to rise
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above like the men and women before us. This is
our obligation to our country. As we go in to
one of the most important elections of our times, take
a moment to think back on the foundations that was late,
and the obligations to deliver the greatest nation ever to
the next generation, fight for our freedoms, defend our nation,
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honor our God, and on Tuesday, vote for those who
will do the same. On Target, we'll be right back,
not going to back down. You know what. I remember
this song from ED. You might not remember this. After
nine to eleven they did a concert to raise money
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and it was all acoustic and he was on there
with this welcome back on Target. I'm your host. Eric
joined today in the LAPD studios. I got JC on
the line and you there, JC.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Here, and that is a great song. I think about
it every time the Second Amendment comes up. So you've
got to take that stance. We just can't check.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
JC and I have big ED sitting to my right here.
Good morning, Good afternoon. I guess we are not looking
at the TV. We're not losing yet. Ed, We're not
losing yet. Thanks for joining us today. That is true.
We just haven't won yet. That's right, we haven't won yet.
We haven't put ahead yet. Guys. We were broadcasting live
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from the studios of LAPD Firearms and Range. Thank you
for joining us today. Guys. It is I am. I
am the first to admit I am done with these
political ads. Let this thing be over. Get on with it, amen.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I'm telling you I was about ready to throw a
brick through the TV this morning listening to that. I
can't even say a word that I can say on
the air about her.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It is yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
To her her voice, let alone. What she says is
just just let you want to bomb.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I know, well, guys, we are the owners of LAPD Farms,
Drange and Training facility, and are active in law enforcement.
But for one hour on Saturdays, we put together a
group of firearm experts to discuss new products in the market,
training tips, and oftentimes political topics surrounding the Second Amendment.
Our commitment that has always been to bring you facts
about our industry, help listeners and customers with safe, responsible
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ownership of firearms. I wanted to think I wasn't here.
You guys sounded good. Last week we did. I was
my friend Chuck today, Chuck is home. I told him
to stay home and watch the game. He yeah, he
didn't offer me that choice. No, I know, but you know,
you guys sounded real great. Thanks so much for Lieutenant
Governor Houston for calling in for Bernie Marino calling in
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all good stuff. I wish I could be here, but
I was listening to you guys, so that was great.
Today jac is going to get us to get us
started with some important news. We have some few other
things to get to, a couple of guns of the
week to talk about. But without further, without further, I
do there you go, let's jump over to j C.
What do you have there? JC?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
It's getting serious.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I mean, these storm clouds are gathering at the Supreme
Court of the United States. There are so many cases
building and there are going to be decisions that are
coming out. And either the storm clouds are going to
wipe us away like the hurricane did North Carolina, and
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or it could be a sunny day. We'll just have
to wait and see. But let me just tell you
some of the things.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Excuse me, just me.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I caught that one. I'm glad you guys didn't see it.
There are Supreme Court cases developing front in California, Maryland, Delaware, Oregon, Connecticut, Illinois,
and Washington, DC. And they all involve either magazine bands
or outright bands of rs or at plus ars and
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ar style rifles, and these are I mean, they're all here,
all here at the same time. So to delve into
all these we may have to extend over a little
into next week. But let me just just show you
some of the latest and get back to something I
stopped talking about last week, which was which was in Connecticut.
We didn't have enough time to address that.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
But but the recent.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
One that came down, and most of these aren't good,
So just so you know, but there are differentiations in
court cases and that may lead us to Supreme Court decisions,
all right. On Tuesday this week, a divided three judge
panel for the US Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia affirmed a lower court decision which upheld DC's
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ban on the possession and sale of what it called
extra large magazine extra large capacity magazines elcms if you
have to put a initial to it, so they wanted
to ban it, and the panel ruled that the city's
ten round limit for magazine fits within the nation's historical
tradition of regulating quote, particularly dangerous weapons, so particularly dangerous
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weapons and those capable of unprecedented lethality. Even though there
weren't similar bands back when the Second Amendment was ratified,
they still said, yeah, that we should.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
We're going to uphold this.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Now. The interesting thing was when they upheld this, the
majority of the two two out of three, pointed to
restrictions on bowie knives in the nineteenth century, as well
as prohibition air regulations on machine guns and sought off shotguns.
Those were examples of why they decided to limit the
city to ten round magazines. But interesting in their arguments,
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they wrote down that the VC panel agreed that magazines
could pay capable of holy more than ten rounds of
ammunition counted as arms under the plain text of the
Second Amendment. So they agreed that they are arms, and
they also agreed that they're commonly used for self defense.
So the plaintiffside you that, hey, your analysis has stopped
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right there, because the Supreme Court, you know, said that
those restrictions on arms common use for self defense are unconstitutional.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
So he used their own words.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
But they didn't pay attention to their own words, but
the descending judge did. Justin Walker broke with his colleagues
and wrote us separately that he would have struck down
the district's magazine ban at the first step before the analysis,
and he wrote in the District of Columbia versus Heller,
the Supreme Court held that the government cannot categorically ban
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an arm in common use for lawful purposes, and he
stated magazines holding more than ten rounds of ammunition are
arms in common use for lawful purposes. Therefore, the government
cannot ban them. So as this goes forward, I think
that they're finding that the courts are going, yeah, that's
what the Supreme Court said, but yeah, we don't want
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to you know, we want to be in them anyway.
It just seems that's the case.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Just so you know about common use, the National Shooting
Sports Foundation estimates that there are over seventeen million, nine
hundred thousand magazines with a capacity of greater than ten
rounds in circulation.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Is in popularity, John, I mean, post a billion.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Of these and they're going, yeah, but they're not you know,
they're not common you know, they they have the commonly
views that we still think that we can ban them
because Bowie Kni's. I mean, we banned Bowie Knie, so
why not banned these anyway? Likely the case when we
turn to the district and to be tried for the fall.
So that was just three folks and it goes to
the full district for trial. But they said the outcome
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could be affected by the fate of a recent recent
Fourth Circuit decision upholding Marylands assault weapon ban. So this
is basically called me so Maryland has banned assault weapons.
And the point is in that case actually have requested
review for the Supreme Court and it's all and the
Supreme Court has already expressed interest in taking up that
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issue of the of that ban. So those are just
two of the states I mentioned. Okay, so the High
Court could decide whether to take the case by the
end of the year. I think they have a date
like on the December thirteenth to decide what they're going
to be hearing from the upcoming upcoming year. So in
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the same vein Oregon, one of the states I mentioned,
they're a public court considers gun control referendum and on Tuesday,
another three judge panel of the organ Court of Appeals
hurt arguments to either overrule or to uphold a lower
court's decision that Organ's Measure one fourteen is unconstitutional when
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it was challenged a judge the Robert Richeiro found that
the voter backed gun law actually violated the state constitution,
so he overturned that law. But it actually just passed
with fifty point six percent, and almost all those votes
came from the Portland, Oregon area, which they said that's
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what suaded because eighty five percent of the county's in
Oregon voted against that that rule. So what that does
is that bans future purposes purchases pardon me, of magazines
that can hold more than ten rounds. So again we
have this ten round magazine limit. So they basically are
hearing this. They've heard it. They haven't issued their they're
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ruling yet. But besides doing the banning magazines of more
than ten rounds, they also are going to do the
old Foyd thing that Illinois did. Before you can even
purchase a gun, they want you to purchase a permit
to purchase a gun, and then when you purchase a
commit permit, they're going to acquire the applicants to complete
and pay for a safety class and then pay for
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a federal background check, and that when you buy the gun,
you have to have these second federal background checks. So
it just seems they're just piling on. But in the
writing of this they said that it really doesn't deprive
Oregonians of their liberty because the large capacity magazines are
not commonly used for self defense. Therefore they're not protected
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by the Second Amendment. It's what one of the judges read.
So wow, anyway is there.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I mean, if the Supreme Court hear some of these cases,
I mean you would like to think kind of done,
you know, let's get on with stuff. But I mean
it never seems to work out that way with Bruin.
I mean, every time they come out, you're like, Okay, well, great,
this has set the precedents and the decision has been
made and we have clarification. But it just seems to
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keep going on and on and on.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Well, the good news is, as I said, the storm
clouds are brewing enough they're coming up eric that they're
going to have to do something. And the indications and
how the indications are. For example, Scotus in a story
we had sends signals on a gun band case and
go to Sending signals means they're considering it. Maryland attempted
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to delay a Supreme Court consideration of their band on
so called assault weapons because they weren't certain that they
could really really defend that, so they tried to delay it.
But actually the Supreme Court says, we're going to give
you until the twenty seventh of November to submit Why
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you really think that that we want the final notes
for that? When they single that, that means they are
probably at least they're very seriously considering holding a regular
Supreme Court case.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
So Jase, all good stuff. We need to keep tabbed on,
especially considering what happens next week. We're gonna jump to
the bottom of the hour news. When we come, we'll
get to some more news from JC. We have a
couple of neat guns of the week and much much more.
We're want to talk aboututcasting live from the studios of
LAPD Farms Range. We'll be back right after the break.
All right, and one week left here. Welcome back to
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on Target. I'm your host, IC joined in the LPD studios.
I got big ed to my right, jac Is on
the liveline and Miss Ellis says, we have a caller,
so let's let's go. You want to go to a caller,
d Let's go to a call Okay, Hi, you're on
with on Target. How are you today, Derek Delvert, it's
Frank Leros.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
I'm rocking out to that Thumper music. Fight, Fight Fight,
that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Frankly, shouldn't you be at Pauline? How are you having time?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
How do you have time to talk to us?
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Always have time for the on Target radio show. But
I gotta tell you it is a busy day. We're
seeing steady turnout at all eighty eight counties and we've
had close to two point three million people already vote
for early voting. We're making it easy to vote, hard
to cheat. That's what we do.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Wow, two point three million. How does that compare to
prior years.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Some counties have blown past their all time record. Some
counties are still just short of that. But all in all,
I think we're on target, speaking of that, on target
for another record breaking year. We'll see Tuesday will make
the difference.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Wow, that's incredible. And you know what we're talking to me, Jesus.
We're nd and a half here, our secretary of State
right here, who is giving us a safe and secure
election right here in Ohio. And I honestly, Frank, when
you think about elections in Ohio, I am so confident
in them on how they're run because I know all
the work you guys have done. I mean it is
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I feel good about that. I wish you could spread
that to the rest of the nation.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Well, we've been trying to. I actually was doing an
election integrity tour with the RNC chairman over the last
couple of weeks. I'm proud to say that he was
having me travel around the country so we could show
this gold standard example that Ohio has. I mean, it
comes down to a few simple things. We take dead
people off the voter rolls, We make sure only citizens
can be registered to vote. We check IDs. We don't
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settle these activist lawsuits. We fight them. I was with
the AG this morning. We've had people try to sue
us in the last couple of weeks to legalize ballot harvesting.
We went to court and we won. Of course, we're
not going to allow ballot harvesting. And this one you
can't make up. Just a week ago, the ACLU of
All People sued me to try to force us to
accept a non citizen ID card literally an ID card
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that says non citizen on it. They wanted us to
accept that. We went to court and we won that
one as well.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
People don't realize, I mean, people need to hear that.
I mean, it is crazy. I mean I think most
people would think, oh yeah, yeah, you do a little
work on the front end, you set the election in motion,
but it's a constant battle. I mean, you're you're fighting
clear up until the end. I would imagine even afterwards
on with some of these folks, no question about it.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
And you know my military, it is a no fail mission.
We are going to deliver the kind of convenience, secure
election that Ohians expect. It's also a huge logistical undertaking.
Imagine the scale of this operation. We've got over three
thousand voting locations that all have to open right on
time on Tuesday morning at six thirty. They have to
be staffed by over thirty five thousand properly trained sworn
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election officials, half Democrats, half Republicans. Got to have all
the right machines, the right paper. Just the logistics of
this is the big thing. This is what other states
get wrong though, when we give you those results on
election night, and we will give you the unofficial results
on election night, and other states are still counting on Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday or even Saturday. It's because they didn't account for
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the logistics of a high volume presidential election.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
But we know how to.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Get ready for November, and we've been doing that work
for well over a year now.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Wow, that's incredible, and so I mean, by all accounts,
we should have some preliminary results from Ohio on in.
I'd imagine that.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Yeah, And it's interesting to note that the very first
votes counted are the absentee votes and the early votes.
It's kind of intuitive why they're already at the horn
of election. So you'll start seeing those results at eight pm,
eight fifteen, eight thirty. Those are all the early votes
in the absenty votes, and then around eight forty five
nine o'clock we'll start counting those that are coming in
from the high school gymnasium, in the church, wreck hall
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and all of the different local polling locations. Will usually
be around ninety percent. By about eleven, most races will
have been called at that point. The prognosticators will look
at that and next say these are conclusive. It may
be one in the morning, two in the morning before
we get to one hundred percent, but we will get
to all of those election day results on election night
or in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Eric, here's
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something else worth noting. Early voting has been really strong,
and this is something that I think that Republicans have
really embraced now. The numbers show this. I mean, in
the old days, not too many years ago, Republicupblicans would
have felt pretty good if we were only behind by
a couple hundred thousand votes when the polls opened on
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Tuesday morning. Right as we sit here today on Saturday,
Republicans are out voting Democrats in early voting by a
quarter million votes, over two hundred and fifty thousand Republican
votes ahead of Democrats votes by registered Republicans.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
And that's I.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Think vodes well. But listen, we've got to get every
vote out and nobody can take this for granted.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Wow, that's amazing. I mean, those numbers are stunning. Do
you have I mean, we're hearing a lot of things
across the nation of boxes being set on fire. I mean,
what's the security been like, any active threats that you
can talk about? I mean, is that always a concern?
Speaker 6 (28:46):
So that one, in particular is one that we have
prepared for planning for an election not unlike when a
Green Beret team like I've served on, plans for a mission.
It's not just some Hollywood montage where we grab guns
and go shoot back as plank. When a Special Forces
team plans for a mission, it is ours at the
dry erase board. It's thinking of everything that can go
wrong and making sure it doesn't. So we brainstorm all
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of those things, and the specific incident you mentioned is
one we have what we thought of because it's not
that difficult to do candidly, and so we wanted to
make sure we had the right safeguards in place. We've
made sure that every dropt box in Ohio, first of all,
is only located at a County Board of Elections. They're
under lights, they're under twenty four to seven video surveillance,
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and so if somebody messed around, they would find out,
we would catch them and they would be arrested for
doing that. But also they're emptied multiple times a day,
and that means a bipartisan team goes out there, takes
all the ballots out. They do it at nine PM
before they close down shops that evening, and so those
are some of the things that we do to mitigate.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
But that's not it.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
It's also weather, power outages, somebody that decides to engage
in a violent incident, which thankfully we haven't seen, but
we're ready for that. Or it's just somebody that comes
into a voting location, maybe a little bit too charged up,
a little bit too emotional. And we'll remind people be
kind to your poll workers. The men and women that
are running this election are volunteers from your community. Have Republicans,
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have Democrats, Be patient with them, be kind with them.
Their job is to make sure that the election runs smoothly,
and they're going to do just that. But they do
deserve your gratitude.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Wow, JC, you have any questions for Secretary.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Of State, I just really appreciate what he's done and
the fact that we're a hallmark for the rest of
the nation. Actually, it doesn't surprise me knowing le Rose.
I really had the utmost respect for him, and I
just keep up the good work and the good news.
We have this terrific. I don't want to count on that,
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the fact that we have the lead right now, but
I just keep hoping and praying for our country's sake
that this goes well. So thank you. Thanks Frank appreciate you.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
I've been out on the road the last couple of
days with every friend Bernie Moreno, I'm going to be
linking up with him here a few more minutes, and
we're out campaigning for him and reminding people really how
dangerous this issue one thing is and why they should,
in my opinion, personal opinion, why they should vote no
un Issue one at the power grab by the left
and reminding people how important it is to vote the
whole ticket. Don't just vote for President Trump and Bernie
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Marino and vote no un Issue won and then stop.
You got to keep going. Judges matter, local candidate, state house,
state Senate. All of this is really important. So do
your research. Get the information at vote Ohio dot gov
so you know where to go, what idea to bring,
and you are prepared to cast an informed ballot.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Hey, Frank, One thing that really surprised me last week
and I had no idea that on the Issue one,
that ninety four percent of the money for the ads
it's coming from out of state and some from out
a country.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
That should get all voted.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
It just absolutely this is our constitution.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Why are we letting people from other states determine Ohio's constitution.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
You can tell a lot by who's paying or something right,
and you're twenty four percent and it's we're talking tens
of millions of dollars. It's coming from tech bros on
the West coast and Wall Street types on the East
coast that think that they can help the Democrats control Ohio.
But your correct to mention also six million dollars from
a Swiss billionaire. Yes, the little red pocket knife. People
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like the Switzerland. A guy from Switzerland thinks that he
should tell us how we draw our district lines in Ohio.
Ohioans I believe will reject this power grab by the
left by voting no on Issue one.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Wow, well, Frank, thank you so much for calling in.
I know you guys are running crazy right now.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Ed Yeah, well okay, Frank, I just got to help
me understand. You have the early voting going on, and
you're sitting there saying that that the turn up for
the Republicans is higher than Democrats. So if you already
know that, do you already also already know how they
voted and you just can't tell you.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
No, it's thank you for mentioning that, but no, not
a single vote will be counted into seven thirty. In fact,
at seven thirty on election night, the last thing I
do is I look at my chief legal counsel to
make sure that all the polls are closing and there
hasn't been some judges order to hold them openly. And
then we actually make an announcement over the radio, the
state public safety radios that we have at each Board
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of Elections, and we tell the poll workers, the elections officials,
at exactly seven thirty that they may begin counting votes.
We don't count a single vote until all the polls
are closed, and then we count them quickly. But what
we know, though is how many registered Republicans have voted,
how many registered Democrats, how many unaffiliated have voted, and
so what that means is that by registration, registered Republicans
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are outpacing registered Democrats. We don't know how.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
People vote, though, right perfect, Thank you so much, Secretary
of State Frank Rose, for calling, and really, honestly, thank
you so much for providing a safe environment, a secure
environment for us to vote in Ohio. And we look
forward not only to everything being done next week, but
also to you getting back in here and getting a
little rings time in there you go.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
I'll slink some lead with you guys. That'll be fun
and I'll look forward. I'm bringing one of my daughters
because I want to get them shooting as well. Thanks
for all you do. God blessed and good luck for
election day.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
All right, thank you took day state Frank LeRose? What
what's a good A great guy? I mean, I mean,
you wouldn't want anyone but someone like him running at
the show.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
They should take our policies for voting and make it nationwide.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
They should. They should.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I mean, we we do anything, do anything, see anything
wrong with it, and it's all fair and it's done legal.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, it's amazing though. I mean even last week the
a c LU is suing him to allow people to
come in with a an ID that says I'm not
a citizen to vote.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
That's like letting the non non citizens drive in the
United States. They don't have a driver's license in that
they drive a car and get.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Right, what happens? I know it, I know it. Jac
You have one quick story before we go into a break.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I have a quick one before we get in to
more of the Supreme Court cases. But one that's interesting.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Is Glock they have filed an appeal.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I want to get the right paper here. They have
just filed to dismiss a charge that the City of Chicago.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Has leveled with the help of the White House.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
The White House has Kamala Harris was also put in
charge of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention
in the City of Chicago, colluded with them. And they
also the group every Town for Gun Safety to file
allegations that the handgun maker Glock has refused to bend
to the White House demands to alter its design. This
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is based on the fact that people invented a way
to put glock switches on to make the guns fully automatic,
which obviously is a against the law and a violation.
But anyway, they filed a motion to dismissal of frivolous
lawsuit and then issued subpoenas by the way to the
White House to also to Steve Dubbleback, who's the director
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of the ATF, and both of those have been met
with silence. So but we hope that goes well and
that case does get dismissed.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Well, I'll tell you it's a constant battle. Guys. Let's
come to a break and we come back we got
a little bit more news. I got a little story
to tell something that occurred here last week at the
store that's of interest, and a little bit more. We're
all talking a broadcasting live from the studios of LAPD
Farms arranged. We'll be back right after the break. Thanks
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Ella for bringing us back down. We need this this week.
We do, we do need this. Welcome back to on Target.
I'm your Derek, joined today with Big Ed and JC
on the line. Thanks again to Secretary of State Frank LeRose. Guys,
I want to tell a real quick story here if
I can. I know Ed, I don't know you. I
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think you knew part of this. So about a month ago,
we put out a yard sign here at the store
for President Trump, and immediately the next day it was gone.
Of course, having a pretty extensive security system around here,
we were able to determine. I saw it on camera, right,
so it was a gentleman walking through the lot. I
didn't have a great picture of his face, but I
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had a good picture of some other attributes that he had,
backpack shirts, that type of thing. So put the sign
back in the place, and it's it's been standing now
for the last three weeks up until Monday night. Monday night.
Now we have two signs in the yard here at
the store. Monday night, I come in and both are gone. Okay,
now everything else is still standing, but both the Trump signs,
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they're gone. So I'm a little bit I'm a little
bit ticked. And so I go back to the cameras
and I'll be a son of a gun. But it's
the same guy who did it the first time a
month ago. And so I started to pick up on
some consistencies, same time of day, eleven o'clock at night,
pretty much the same clothing, same attire, same identifiable backpack.
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So I put all my little detective hat, took the pictures,
and gave my son a task of finding out what
restaurants around here closed maybe around ten o'clock, which would
put someone walking through a lot around eleven, right, And
a red shirt was on under the hoodie, so I
had a general idea what a uniform shirt may look like.
So one night this week, on my way home, I
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drove by I'm not going to mention the store, but
I drove by fast food place number one, and they
didn't have red shirts on. So I continued to go
went to fast food place number two and I a
peer in the window and lo and behold they're wearing
red uniform shirts, which, okay, that could be a coincidence,
it could be nothing. So I walked in with picture
in hand and I said, look, guys, I said, this
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gentleman walked through a lot this week and he drops something.
I mean, imagine that you could drop something, right right,
I mean, you walk and you dropped something. And I said,
I don't know who he is, but I would like
to give him back his property that he dropped. And
so I'm tiling this to the people behind the counter,
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and the gentleman I'm talking to says, well, that's mine.
That's me. And I said what And he says, that's
me in the picture. And I said, sir, do you
have a moment, And so I invited him out around
the counter. Now, my intentions all along were to identify
this person, to do a police report and have him trespassed.
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I didn't want him on our lot whatsoever. Right, So
this gentleman comes from behind the counter and I soon
find out it's a seventeen year old kid. Doesn't surprise me,
and the kid from the beginning, he knows his eyes ed,
I swear they were the size of golf balls. Imagine
that does the thing in the middle of the night,
no one around, under the cover of darkness, and here
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I am walking in the front door of the place
where he works, and I brought him around the side,
and I soon my my anger soon turned to a
teaching moment, and I said, son, look at this. I said,
You're going to go through life and you're gonna have
people you disagree with. I said, but in this country,
you have to honor and allow others to disagree with you,
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and you can't go and destroy their property. And the
entire time ed he was yes, sir, No, sir, sir.
I am so sorry, sir. I should never have done that.
And it was a great conversation, and I will tell
you how it ended. It was kind of funny because
during the course of the conversation, I said, look, you
go and if you have a passion for a candidate
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or a cause or whatever, I said, educate yourself. And
when you come back and you have educated yourself and
you can articulate why you believe in such a way,
I said, then I will. That's something I will appreciate
and I will honor and respect you for that, but
don't just come and destroy somebody else's property. And I said,
we're in law enforcement. We own a gun store, so
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for us, there's only one candidate here in the kid
and he says, so I do respect law enforcement. That's
why I left their sign out in your front because
we have a sign out there for the levee. So
out of wish, I should give a pitch. If you
live in Perry Township, which where our story resides, you
got to vote yes on the levee. It doesn't happen
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too often at the police here are are wonderful and
you need to support them, and I think they will
buy in large people that I was working trick or
treat the other night and people really loved the police
here in the township. But it was a good story
and it was a good story of unity. Now I
posted this on Facebook. I posted the video of this
kid before we identified them in with a lot of
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positive comments. And then there was the one comment that
I would expect from a liberal. I'm going to say,
someone who's left leaning, and he says, serves you, right,
I hope you know you support a felon I hope
they steal the sign every night come and I just
simply replied you, thank you for making our point. So
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there it is JC.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Any final thoughts, Okay, hey, well sorry we lost JC.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I he's out voting.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
He's going to vote out there and now I was,
and then he's coming back to high that jay z.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
No I had knitted it. Someone knocked on our door here,
so I put us on mute there for a second.
But I appreciate everything that you did, Eric. I think
that was good and glad that you didn't base him
and put him in cuffs and haul him away. So yeah,
that was a good thing. But no, just one more thing,
because these are these are so connected. I don't know
if I got that point across, but a lot of
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these cases that I just talked about, they're withholding the
response waiting for other cases. Because there was a magazine
ban case from California. There are Connecticut. I got to
tell you about the Connecticut one. There's a law in Connecticut,
really it and it's been out there since twenty and thirteen.
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This was after the horrible Sandy Hook massacre which some
deranged person shot a bunch of school kids for the
fast of law in twenty and thirteen that actually effectively
made it illegal to own an ar fifteen period in
the whole state. So this is being challenged. Unfortunately, the
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lower court last year said that that was consistent with
the historical tradition of firearms regulation and it upheld that,
so that one's going to be going forward. But here's
the point. There's actually twenty eight point one million ars
up there, and it was brought up that ninety nine
point nine to nine eight percent of those have never
been used in a crime, So that's what.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
To be in JC. It's so true. It's all more
reasons that we got to get out and vote. Guys.
Thank you for spending an hour with us. Now you
can go watch the rest of the game. Ten to seven.
Penn stayed at this point, and thank you for everything
you've done for us here at the store. You gotta
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get out and vote, guys, and all. As always, let's
be careful out there.