36 - KAMALA'S ANTI GUN POLICY

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0:50 Hello? Hello, World of Blades listeners, Welcome to episode thirty six. Ah, we're starting to get up there. We're starting it up there, getting closer to which I guess is a landmark for most newer shows. But we're not stopping anytime soon, so I don't see that as being an issue. And before we again, I want to get a few things out of way. Firstly, must apologize did not get my usual mid week release out to you. Life happens been busy, and so therefore I'm here on this day, Saturday, August seventeenth, around six in the morning recording. It's nice and cool out here right now. So I got everything open in studio A, got the doors in the windows just to get the nice breeze in here as it will be hotter later today as it has been out here where I live in the summer. Also, I need to give a shout out too Whiskey Hell. The guys at Whiskey Hell gave us a mention and they've been supportive of World Ablaze, and I want everybody who listens to this show to please check Whiskey Hell out. They've been around a while, they definitely have a following. I'm sure that they're a much bigger show than I am at this point, but regardless, if you haven't heard them, please search for them in your favorite podcast app. Whiskey Hell great guys.

2:08 They talk about news, politics, and current events from a very sensible perspective, and they also sample craft beers from micro brews to maybe large breweries you haven't heard of, but very cool. You get to learn a little thing about you know, beers, may discover some good ones that you may have never never heard of before. They may become your favorites, and at the same time, they know what they're talking about when it comes to current events, so support whiskey. Hell with that being said, I think, well, firstly, let me say this. We are going to talk abou Kamala. How can we not? Election season DNC is coming up Monday, August nineteenth, and so yeah, Kamala is the topic today, specifically her wanting to put further restrictions on your right to bear arms or right to even own guns. And I'm gonna go down the rabbit hole of that whole issue, and uh, well, why is she so wrong and why you should be worried? Now? I do have to get me through the episode. I do have my espresso, actually, got a shit. I think I got about five shots of espresso in this this cocktail I have here this morning, and because I feel like it and I do like a fine cigar in the morning, I'm going to be lighting up the tabernacle over here by Foundation Cigars. But let me get my cutter ready. I think I'm gonna go ahead and put a V cut on this because

3:40 I do prefer a V cut. All right, got that cut. Now it's time to light this sucker. I'm gonna grab my flame torch lighter here and here we go, and there we are. I'm gonna toast this up. And I know I don't normally do this on the show. I've done it a few times, but you know, I'm a cigar smoker and I enjoy a fine cigar, and today just felt like, you know, it was a cigar a cigar day, definitely a cigar morning, and uh with the pairing of a good, good espresso. So here I go, a little little little pregame here that looks good. Take a puff, and then I'll move on. Mmm mm hmm. Yep. Do yourself a favor if you haven't had a cigar by Foundation Cigars. By the way, I'm not endorsed by these guys whatsoever. It's just it kind of become I go too lately. Haven't had a bad smoke, so check them out. Usually I smoke the ol Max actually pretty much almost anything they make. But I gotta say this tabernacle is awesome. All right. Well that out of the way, hold on them. Get a little coffee in me, a litt little espresso. Okay, with that out of the way, let's get to Kamala. So Kamala Harris believes that it's her life's mission, and she thinks she's gonna win over voters by pushing the issue of guns, how guns are dangerous, how the population well really doesn't need guns. Now, she hasn't outright said that, but she has more than implied that by stating she wants to within her first one

5:13 hundred days as president, if Congress doesn't pass more restrictive laws, that she herself will pass an executive order to do so. It's been heard that, well, she's been heard saying that she has no problem taken away everyone's guns. Why is this an issue. It's an issue because one of the things that keeps a government in check is really the fear of its own people. Now people realize and understand we need a government, We need a governing body. There are things that are too big for all the people to get together and manage and handle. So a governing body is really, you know, it's kind of like a CEO of a comp They're voted in based on their experiences and merits and what they think they can do to steer the ship of the company. The United States of America is pretty large organization and we need the right person in charge to do so. But just like a CEO where their job is based on performance, and their pay is based on incentives. That is one of the things that keeps the CEO in check, and one of the things that keeps the president or the government in general in check is the fact that its citizens are very heavily armed. Now, in our history, there's only been a few uprisings against the British government, and you

6:44 know that was done in an effort to create our own country and declare our own independence, and we had a civil war which was North vers South, very bloody, probably one of the worst wars in our history. So since then we really haven't had an issue where the citizens felt it was bad enough to take up arms and rise up against their government. And because we have the right to bear arms and we are as a population armed and at the ready, our government hasn't been able to overreach and do things that would turn them into basically tyrannical government where they have complete and total control of everything you do, down to how much food you can purchase, what you're allowed to spend your money on, etc.

7:41 Although recently it would seem that there have been attempts to do those things in an indirect way, but still the fear of its people is what keeps our government in check and guns are very very big reason why that is. In fact, it's a tool used for hunting, for food, and of course for protection of oneself and for the people against its own government if need be, and against any foreign entities that wish to cause harm. Now, the disarmament of the people has always led to catastrophic results and has led to the result of a tyrannical or dictorial government, and some examples definitely come to minds such as the USSR or Russia. There was Nazi Germany, there was Venezuela, Argentina, and those are just a few.

8:45 We can even go as far back as the Ottoman Empire, and then in more modern times other examples where this has been implemented and may not have turned out to be as bad yet, but where governments are definitely imposing more and more radical socialist agendas and views honest people. We must also bring up the UK. We also must bring up Australia and Canada, which is seemingly who seem to be well on their way to becoming very tyrannical under the leadership of Justin Trudeau, and with the removal of guns, things such as free speech go away. The control of your money goes away. And those are just the two things that stand out probably the most to people.

9:45 But also consider the control of your food. It can get to a point where it is so bad that a nation could easily become North Korea. And I'm sure that is something that every person who is a member of a free nation absolutely doesn't want. Now you may say, what does all that have to do with Kamala Harris. Well, Kamala very much wants to impose your right to bear arms, your ability to own a weapon, and she's even been caught saying she wants to impose mass registration. The problem with mass registration of weapons is really giving the government a list of known individuals that they can go to easily confront and disarm. Kamala believes in this so wholeheartedly that I have a clip here from twenty twenty when she was running for president against Joe Biden, and she made a statement where even Joe Biden himself was in disagreeance of. In fact, he blatantly told her that that's not possible and it's not constitutional. Now, this clip is just one example of Kamala Harris stating what she believes she's not hiding it. And this was in twenty twenty when she so much wanted to be president, and her

11:16 beliefs haven't changed since. But let me go ahead and play this clip for you. They said I'm going to issue an executive order, Biden saying there's no constitutional authority to issue that executive order when they say I'm going to eliminate assault weapons, saying you can't do it by executive order anymore than Trump can do things when he says he can do it by executive order. Does the Vice president have a point there? Some things you can, many things you can. Let's let the senator answer, oll. I mean I would just say, hey, Joe, it's said as saying that we can't. Let's say yes we can. Let's get constitutional. We can. So, even after being told to her face it's unconstitutional that you can't do that, she laughs in the face of everybody up there and says, no, no, you can, as if to say, well, I'm going to regardless of what you think. Now, she tries to justify her tyrannical communist rhetoric by always pointing to gun violence in America and mass shootings and keeping kids safe and those are logical, they're logical statements, They're logical things that we should all be concerned with. But as with most things that come out of the mouths of people like Kamala Harris, they're absolutely taken out of context and blown out of proportion.

12:43 And of course, if anybody knows anything about me on the show, I call people out on their shit, and I'm not afraid to read the data in support of my statements. But before I do, Sony another puff that is agree gar and so now that was back in twenty twenty she made that statement, and she made it again a little bit later on on the same campaign when she was trying to run for president. I'm gonna play that. Clip with universal background checks and a renewal of the assault weapon ban, but they have failed to have the courage to act. So Ben, here is my response to you.

13:23 Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress one hundred days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws, and if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action. And specifically, what I will do is put in place a requirement that for anyone who sells more than five guns a year, they are required to do background checks when they sell those guns. I will require that for any gun dealer that breaks the law, the ATF take their license. And by the way, ATF alcohol to back on fire Well, the ATF has been doing a lot of a and the t banomen to the F and we need to fix that again.

14:06 Kamala Harris stating that within her first hundred days, if Congress doesn't do what she asks them to do, then she will pass executive orders to put further restrictions on gun ownership and the ability to bear arms. Now, she says some things, as most politicians do. That kind of makes sense, right, I mean, who doesn't want universal background checks? I mean, if you're gonna buy a firearm, of course you want a background check. Why wouldn't she want a background check on something that could be potentially a dangerous weapon in the hands of a person who shouldn't have one. But it always comes down to again taking things out of context. I'm going to read something about universal background checks.

14:58 Here's an article that I got from the National Firearm Industry Trade Association. It's NSF dot org. They did an investigation and in their investigation, here's some things that they well, this is what they came up with, and this is their findings. It states if universal background checks were mandated, the question becomes whether criminals would change their behavior and instead choose to obtain firearms from FFLs or federally licensed firearms dealers. Okay, so let me stop there and break that down, because statement makes sense. It's true just because you mandate these background checks, which by the way, I'm not against. I think there should be mandated background checks.

15:44 If you want to buy a gun, we need to know that the people buying guns are mentally sound and are not individuals was extremely violent pass. We absolutely need to know what's going on. We also need to know if it's a person that hey might be dumb enough to try this and guess what they're flag for being a known terrorist. These things do happen. But the Firearm Industry Trade Association is correct in their statement. It's not gonna stop criminals from pursuing the purchase of guns elsewhere. They're not going to just suddenly go, well, I guess now, as it's mandated, I'm gonna have to go to a dealer to buy my gun or my weapon a choice.

16:28 Now they'll continue to buy them on the black market. They're going to continue to steal them. They're going to continue to find ways to get the guns into their hands. So, reading on further, it says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention review of the effectiveness of various firearm laws, published in two thousand and three found no evidence this would happen. Again, as I said earlier, there's no evidence whatsoever. Criminals are just gonna stop being criminals and trying to find guns in an illegal fashion. They're going to still do it regardless of mandates. But again, I do support the fact that we need universal background checks. Okay. It says that more recently, in twenty thirteen, the Justice Department review of violence prevention studies found that even a perfect universal background check system would not address the largest sources of crime guns or guns using crimes. Further, the study found that effectiveness would depend on requiring gun registrations. Now that right there, requiring gun registrations, which is absolutely something that Kamala has been behind, is kind of a bad thing.

17:42 If you're going to go through the background check, we already know whether or not you should be able to have a firearm. The gun registration thing. It's a bit sticking now. I know we have to register our cars. I'm sure there's people going to make some arguments on why we should register fire arms because hey, they can be considered a weapon. Well, being that, I think out of the box and I've had you know, martial arts training end that growing up, I had to know how to really defend myself. I tend to look at things at times that could be used as weapons in a worst case scenario. So if we have to register guns, then we need to register shovels, axes, pick axes. How about handsaws, hammers, I mean, almost any garden tool. Let's register kitchen knives. I mean, do you see where I'm going with this. Registrations are nothing more than a list, a list of government can use to identify who has the weapons, who they need to go to in order to disarm those individuals. That is the danger of a national registration or a mandated registration of firearms, because technically anything could be made a weapon. And I'm going to go over that later on in the episode when we start talking about murder and how it compares in the

19:13 US to countries that well don't have guns. So reading on the article from the Firearm Industry Trade Association, It says here that additional evidence that university background check law would fail to limit access to firearms among prohibited populations can be found in an analysis of the implementation of the Brady Act. According to two thousand study, there was no evidence that implementation of the Brady Act was associated with the reduction in homicide rates. And again, as I just stated earlier, I'm going to go over that in this episode. Now they go on to make more of an opinion here, but their statement I kind of agree with, well, actually I do agree with it. And they make a statement here saying that ultimately the goal of red stration for anti gun advocates is confiscation law abiding owners firearms, and I agree with that because that's exactly what the goal of the registrations are. All further says the strategy is historically present in many countries as far back as Nazi Germany which I mentioned earlier, to modern day Australia, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, and most recently Canada. So there you have it. Studies have been done on whether or not these mandates make a difference in well, they don't and now again I'm not saying we don't need universal checks.

20:40 I mean, that absolutely makes sense, But there isn't a need for the registration of all gun ownership. And there isn't any evidence that even by doing universal background checks that is going to reduce the sales of guns. I mean, I'm gonna use this as an example. It's a loose example, but we all know that marijuana has been made legal in pretty much almost every state, pretty much started here in California. The legalization of marijuana did not stop or kill off the black market of marijuana sales. In fact, to this day, thousands and thousands and thousands, maybe tons and tons of pounds of marijuana are still imported, smuggled illegally into the US and sold on the streets because even though marijuana was made legal, the retail, the legal retail said in marijuana, while the prices themselves are so high because of all the regulation, red tape and money the government wants as a kickback to make it legal, that people are still turning to the black market to get affordable marijuana. Now, again, marijuana is not a gun, but still an example of how well further mandating things doesn't eliminate a person's ability to buy what they need or attain what they need in an illegal fashion on

22:12 the black market. Now, so far, I really hope I'm making sense here. Okay, Again, universal background checks? Sure, why not? But giving the government a comprehensive list of people who actually own firearms and confiscate those firearms from those people who may use them to actually live by hunting for their food and protecting themselves is wrong. It is absolutely wrong. And once we allow that, what's going to stop them from, as I said earlier, making you register for other frivolous items that they deem dangerous and unnecessary for you to own and use in any manner you see. Fit again, universal background checks, great registrations. No. Now her other claim and what she alluded to by stating, well, any legal firearms dealer caught violating the law and providing false information, they should have the licenses revoked and find etc. Possibly even jailed. Now, Kamala, slow your fucking role here, okay.

23:30 Firearms dealers can't necessarily control whether or not the information provided by an individual is in fact true, And the whole reason to have background checks is for the governing agencies who actually run and screen these people based on the information given is so that it could be fact checked and so they can find out whether or not this individual is legitimately who they say they are. So how is that the burden of the firearms dealer. Fire Arms dealers aren't selling guns illegally intentionally. There's a thing called straw purchases, which relates to those individuals who were actually hired by drug cartels and other gangs and dangerous individuals who have a clean, perfect record, but get paid by these cartels and gangs to purchase these legal firearms, which are then taken and smuggled across the borders or put into the hands of these dangerous individuals. Now, you can't blame the dealers for this. These are just criminals being criminals. Criminals will always find a way. Just as in the days of prohibition when they outlawed alcohol, bootleggers still figured it out and people still consumed alcohol. It's not something you're going to stop, just as your war on drugs never worked and drugs are still sold illegally

25:02 in an enormous, ungodly amount to the tune of trillions and trillions of dollars. So let's stop trying to put a band aid on the crack of the dam here, and let's concentrate on the real issue, which is criminal organizations and the black market. Here's a report from the ATF. I got this from the ATF government website, and I'm just gonna read a little bit about firearms, the amount of that have been documented in trafficking. It states here the ATF firearm trafficking investigations documented nearly two hundred and thirty thousand firearms trafficked in seven seven hundred and seventy nine cases between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty one. It says most firearm traffic investigations involved the diversion of relatively small number of firearms, with an overall mean of sixteen five firearms trafficked per investigation. So again, firearms trafficking. And I gotta be honest if I'm reading that number. We roughly have three hundred and thirty million individuals in the United States of America, that's our population, and two hundred and thirty thousand firearms over the course of twenty seventeen, eighteen nineteen twenty twenty one, I mean four or five years, correct, So that's not really a lot if you look at

26:34 from that perspective. But I'm not justifying gun trafficking. Okay, of course that's illegal. That's not what we want. But these aren't all the real numbers. Now, what I found when I was doing a little bit of investigating on this issue is that it got harder and harder to tie the actual amounts of firearms. Two, what the ATF considers trafficking channels. Trafficking channels being you know, weapons or guns sold by actual legitimate dealers, but they're selling it knowingly and illegally, to guns that are illegally imported into the United States for sale, to guns that are stolen from individuals. I mean, you name it. Any They really break down drug trafficking by specific categories. And when I was searching for this, and honestly, the ATF did put out a report this year twenty twenty four on gun trafficking and gun sales, but they always always referred to everything by cases cases in which they found guns were trafficked.

27:51 They don't necessarily always point to an actual amount of guns per case and or per trafficking channel. Now they allude to it a little bit later, but it doesn't seem so accurate, as you're going to find out later in this show. So let's start with firearm trafficking channel types. This is directly from the report that was taken from the ATF, and this data was taken during the time period of twenty seventeen and twenty twenty one. This will be part three of the report, Firearm Trafficking Channels and Methods Used. And I'm going to read the firearm trafficking channel types. So it says here that the survey completed provided eighteen options to select from as a type of trafficking channel, including a category labeled other. Okay, so there can be more than one trafficking channel cited per case. Now, again, as I said, they tried to make the numbers and percentages more about cases, and I think this has done intentionally to overwhelm people who don't want to dig deeper into what's being said. But regardless, this is how they conducted their report. So let's go over those trafficking channels that they have identified. There are traffic in firearms by unlicensed dealers or private persons. There are trafficking in firearms by a straw purchaser. As I mentioned, earlier or straw

29:23 purchasing rings. So it could be a gang or group of people who intentionally go out to purchase these firearms for individuals, gangs and other illegal organizations. There's also trafficking in firearms by methods of being stolen from a licensed dealer. Okay, there's a trafficking in firearms by theft from private persons. There's illegally exported from the United States two other places. So these are firearms that are actually exported from the USA. I'm going to go over that because there's a lot to that. It's not what you might think in your mind, as in dealers or people buying guns legally and then illegally exporting them as individuals. It's actually more or less driven by and funded by the Mexican drug cartels. So very important for you to keep that in the back of your mind. Okay. There's also online marketplaces. There's unlicensed makings.

30:30 I'm not really sure about what they mean by that, but there's also gun shows, flea markets, or auctions, social media platforms. Basically, they're just identifying different marketplaces where things are sold illegally or under the table. There's also peer to peer applications illegally imported into the United States, and then of course that's interesting because they don't really talk about that much. And then there's also stolen from common carriers, so when they're in transport, they're stolen. Either way, it seems like most of this has to do with illegal methods, and one of the bigger ways that they are obtained is honestly through these straw purchases. Now it says here unlicensed dealers are private persons make up forty percent of all the cases that they found between the periods of twenty seventeen twenty twenty one, but straw purchasing rings come in second at thirty nine point five percent. Now, what I do question here, because again these are percentage of cases.

31:31 What they are not telling you is percentage of or amount of guns or weapons in each trafficking channel that has been identified. Because the exportation of guns in which I mentioned earlier about it being driven by and funded by the Mexican cartels, is actually very big and very lucrative for the Mexican cartel. So there's a little bit of skewed data, but they did do the report. At least they're identifying the issues which is a good thing because now we know where to start and where to focus. Now, in part four of the report, labeled source to market, they go over sources as in how these firearms are being moved around or where they're coming from. States. Here that the term source to market type captures the geographic scope of firearm trafficking cases. Again the word cases, because that's what they want to focus on. How many cases, not necessarily the total number. And again I've scattered this report.

32:35 They do eventually come to a point where they mention a number of firearms, but again I found them to be inaccurate when I dug deeper. But again let's let's stick the report here. So let me back up. So the term source to market type captures the geographic scope of firearms trafficking cases, which include intrastate, interstate, and international trafficking within the US. State trafficking involves a movement of firearms in markets within states, while interstate trafficking occurs between states, and then international trafficking involves and moving to firearms in markets between the US and a foreign country. So it says here in the report that the percentage of cases that are related to intrust state are fifty five point nine percent. Number of cases related to interstate is thirty two point one and then US to foreign is nineteen point two percent of cases, and foreign into the US is only one point four percent. Now, these are percentages of cases, not amount of weapons. Very important for you to realize that, because it's easy to say by looking at this, well, look how many cases they have of illegal firearms sales within the United States itself. We definitely have an internal problem when it comes to firearms. But

34:06 the problem with this data and this report in general, is it doesn't touch enough on the amount of firearms per case. And are those firearms necessarily that are being moved around in the United States, do they stay in the United States, and do they remain in the hands of people within the United States? Very important distinction here. Now, the next section I'm going to read here is part five, and they go over in this report the type and volume of firearms trafficked, and I'm going to read the top three types of firearms that have been trafficked. So there are new firearms make up sixty five point eight percent of total cases. And again this is from the period twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one. In second, there are second hand firearms, which make up thirty nine point eight percent. Now secondhand obviously being sold by private individual I don't even know if it could just also have been handed down to somebody for inheritance or just given to another person, but these are weapons that were moved outside of I would assume a legal dealer. And then the third is stolen firearms. So let's not forget there are still plenty of firearms being stolen. Now. I do have to say it's a little alarming that most of

35:37 all firearms that are being trafficked are new firearms. And now we got to ask ourselves, well, how are those being obtained? Again, that correlates back to straw purchases or straw purchasing rings. And as I as I defined earlier, it is individuals or gangs of people that are hired due to their perfect record. They pass the background checks, and they're paid by cartels and other criminal organizations to purchase these weapons from legal dealers and then recirculate them into the black market. Now, so far, it's easy to surmize that Kamala Harris's crazy vengeful stance against the American people in trying to disarm them really doesn't make any sense because thus far in this report by the ATF, everything having to do with gun sales and illegal gun sales are well actually done by illegal methods. So far, it hasn't been proven that legal gun dealers are just illegally, willingly, illegally selling and flooding the market with guns. In fact, further on their report, they have a section labeled investigation outcomes,

37:09 and I like this part because they actually get down to the meat and potatoes of this report and kind of contradict themselves because so far everything has been you know, percentage of cases, percentage of cases by trafficking source, and they did label a large amount, a large percentage being associated with gun dealers. But in this figure ten zero two, which is number and percentage of cases by top ten statutory violations, it paints a different story. Here in this report, it says that thirty five point three percent of all cases had to do with dealing in firearms without a license, so individuals not legal firearms dealers, but basically dealing firearms with a license. And obviously most of this is due to under the table sales and done by means of black market sales, and that made up thirty five point three percent. Twenty eight point nine percent was due to providing false info to acquire fire arms from a dealer. Again, Kamala Harris wants to penalize the dealers for this false information that is being provided, but also realize that there are organizations being paid by cartels to figure out how to circumvent the system to acquire these firearms. So is

38:42 it really the dealers who need to be put on trial here and have their licenses revoked and be fined and penalized and sent to jail. No. The bigger problem Kamala has here and that the government has here and that the people have here is black market. So how do we effectively shut down black market sales? That's a great question I don't have an answer for. I don't think anybody has an answer for. Because again, criminals are going to be criminals. Why are you going to go after and impose restrictions on people trying to legally purchase and obtain firearms? I guess to argue, we made well, you know, these straw purchasing rings do the same thing. They present themselves as legal individuals. Fair enough, But again they're going through a background check, and there's no way to determine whether or not the information is correct except by the entity that is supposedly checking these applications.

39:39 So who do we really hold accountable, the legal firearms dealer or the organizations that are processing these background checks. Now, that is where we may need to focus if we're going to get a handle on the illegal gun trafficking situation we have in the United States of America, targeting citizens who want to own weapons for hunting protection and literally exercising their constitutional right to bear arms. Now, let me take another puff of my cigar here. Okay, So, of all of all media outlets, CBS actually did a report on the Mexican drug cartels that were smuggling weapons across the border. Again, I mentioned this earlier, and this is why I kept alluding to the fact that in the report by the ATF and most people who spew the rhetoric of abolishing our Second Amendment rights, they never really tell you the amount of guns per trafficking channel, And in fact, the ATF report left it to percentage of cases. Right. But again, when I went back to

41:12 the firearms trafficking channels, supposedly those that were done by export or import were minuscule in terms of percentage of cases. But the reality is the Mexican drug cartels. And this report by CBS, conducted in September of twenty twenty three, so last year, investigates this phenomena. I'm going to read some of this report here says Mexican drug cartels have been smuggling a vast arsenal of even military grade weapons out of the US with the help of American citizens.

41:53 It says exclusively obtained US intelligence documents and interviews with half a dozen current and former officials. Feel that the American government has known this for years, but sources said it's done little to stop these weapons trafficking networks inside the United States. Well, that's interesting, So they known the issue has mostly been trafficking funded by the drug cartels, but they're not focusing in that. They're just focusing on citizens trying to buy guns legally and how they have to have more mandates and restrictions on your right to bear arms. Okay, Now, if that doesn't tell you what your government is about at this moment, I'm not really sure what else I will tell you that's going to convince you that we have a problem with people like Kamala Harris. But I'm gonna keep reading. This report by CBS says dozens of cartel gun running networks operating like terrorists cells, pay Americans to buy weapons from gun stores and online dealers across the country as far north as Wisconsin and even Alaska. It says, according to US intelligence sources, the firearms are then shipped across the southwest border through a chain of brokers and couriers. So again, the major problem we have with the drug trafficking epidemic or legal gun sales is really fueled by criminal organizations like the Mexican drug cartels, and it states here that they have found that they were paying people in the US to

43:24 make these legal purchases, while these people are part of the straw ring organizations or even straw purchasers as individuals who are knowingly doing this illegally because the cartels are either making them do it or paying them. To do it. The article further reads and alludes to a project labeled Project Thor, in which it found that the problem of cartel weapons smuggling was far worse than previously understood. They estimated that cartels were trafficking between hold On for this two hundred and fifty thousand and one million weapons every year with the retail value of up to five hundred million dollars, and that doesn't include ammunition and tactical supplies hold On. So already we're seeing a huge discrepancy because the ATF and their reports and press releases said that they've only and again this is all during the same time period, but they stated there was only two hundred thirty thousand firearms trafficked in these seven seven hundred and seventy nine cases they found between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty one. But CBS doing their own investigative study, found that it was anywhere from two hundred fifty to over one million weapons being funneled through the black market system and illegal trafficking efforts by the drug cartels themselves. So yeah, we have an issue here. The US government is obviously lying to us about our gun problem. They're lying to

44:57 us about the trafficking issue. You because if all the illegal black market sales of guns and trafficking are done in the US and put back into the hands of the individuals living in the United States, then why are you trying to hide the real numbers? Are the two hundred and thirty thousand firearms that they reported, Are those only the ones that stayed in the United States? Out of the three hundred and thirty million people who live here, two hundred and thirty thousand were circulated within the United States. Well, that's not true because when we read the report, they stated the percentage of cases that were interstate and interstate, and they also have in the report a percentage that were imports and exports. So remember when I said that the percentage of imports and exports were much lower than those by interstate and interstate. Sure, So this is why I was important for you to remember when I was saying that they were focusing on percentage of cases and not really number of weapons per case or trafficking channel.

46:01 It's obvious the bigger issue we have are illegal firearms being distributed and trafficked outside of the United States, meaning sent from the US to illegal corrupt organizations outside and then distributed that through the black market and throughout the world that way. So while we do have a gun trafficking issue, there is no evidence yet here that I've read that says are the citizens of the United States themselves. And in fact, I would even further be bold enough to stay that if the drug cartels are involved and exporting these guns out of the United States, what percentage of those guns that remain in the United States aren't in fact just redistributed by the drug cartels to their organizations that are within our own borders. You see, the drug cartels operate their own illegal gangs in organizations within the United States. We know this. So the data is skewed.

47:09 The data has been put together to make you think that it's a good idea for the government to confiscate your weapons. Now, while you marinate on that, I'm going to play a clip that has Kamala Harris stating once again, and this is twenty twenty four, not five years ago. This is her twenty twenty four, literally last month in July, saying that she will take executive action to make sure there are further restrictions put on you, the people of the United States, to exercise your sec Amendment right to arm yourself, to be ready God forbid, if it ever did come to it, to defend yourself against the US government.

47:55 And let's not even go that extreme. You're right to even just have a firearm to protect yourself on your own land to hunt for food. I mean, there are very various other reasons why he would need a gun. It's not just for defending yourself against your own government, although that is again what is keeping our government in check. Here, let me go in place. I think your control agenda for Yeah, I think it's a great idea, But I mean, listen, I don't think we lacked for great ideas. As I've said many times, We've been having great ideas for decades. The problem is that Congress does not have the courage to act. And that is why from the beginning I have said my agenda include attempting to get chionomists to act. But if they don't in the first hundred days of my administration, I'm going to take an executive action because what we need is action.

48:41 Again, Kamala wants to take executive action because action is what's needed. You may be saying, Walt's she's not. She's not demonstrating anything there or saying anything that that means she's wanting to take guns away from citizens. Fair enough, But here's another clip of Kamala Harris that you may find interesting. Gun violence has terrorized and traumatized so many of our communities in this country. And let us be clear it does not have to be this way, as our friends in Australia have demonstrated.

49:28 As I said earlier, and I mentioned countries that have in more recent times that stand out taken guns away from their citizens. As I said, the UK, Canada and Australia. Remember what happened to the Australian citizens during COVID. They were being punished, arrested and patrolled by their own police forces to stay within their homes with their door shut. They couldn't even go in their front yards within certain times without being punished or arrested. Another example, how the people of a nation without without having the means to protect themselves, without the government fearing its own citizens, how that government can become tyrannical. Same thing in Canada. They removed the guns. Then they removed your right to use your money how you wanted to. If everybody remembers the truck or convoy protests that took place in Canada, and what did the government do under Trudeau's reign, Well, they didn't have guns that the citizens didn't have any way to protect themselves whatsoever. There was no fear of their own citizens, and so they went after their bank accounts and shut down people's bank accounts where they couldn't fund the truckers. They wouldn't be able to pay for the truckers wages while they were protesting, where the truckers themselves couldn't use their own money to purchase anything. So these

51:01 are just examples that may be a little closer to home in terms of America, but because we consider Canada, UK Australia are close, you know, brothers or cousins or sisters where we have it. And let's not even forget what happened to Argentina and Venezuela way back when their guns were confiscated by voting for socialist leftist policies that eventually led to a tyrannical communist government. Now here's a quote from Mao Zeidong, also known as Mao Setung. Now I may have mispronounced as slightly, but he was the leader of the China's Communist Revolution and served as the first Chairman of the People's Republic of China nineteen forty nine through nineteen fifty nine and Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from nineteen thirty one through nineteen seventy six. Now, he said, all political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns that way, No guns can ever be used to command the party. You want me to repeat that, or maybe I should one more time. He said, all political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns that way, no guns can

52:34 ever be used to command the party. That's a bit scary because it's sounding a little similar to the policies that are trying to be put in place by the Democratic Party of the United States, and very very similar to Kamala Harris's take. Now, I'm not saying she's an outright commedy, Well maybe i am, but pretty adamant on not just restricting but taking your guns. And the only reason to do so, the only reason any government would want to try to force or impose this, is so that the government has control of their citizens, just as the Communist Party has done throughout history. Don't call it a coincidence when it is coincidentally extremely frequent. It is now a truth. It is no longer a conspiracy This is reality. These are the dangerous times in which we live in, and we must pay attention. And this is why it's very important that we vote accordingly, because behind the scenes, this is how it's going to happen. They take away the guns. Who has the guns the government once you can't defend yourself, then they control the food and your money, which by then, I'm sure, if this

54:07 does happen, will be useless, just as it was useless in Argentina and in Venezuela. We're on a dangerous path here. The citizens have to recognize that the right to bear arms is not just some cliche American patriotic statement. The right to bear arms was intelligently and thoughtfully made a part of our constitution for a very good reason, and that reason is to keep the government in check and to protect the citizens, protect our rights in maintaining the status of a free nation. But the government, the government wants to further scarre you. So even if you realize that you need your weapon to keep the government check, they're going to play on your sympathies. And listen, murder and death is not okay, it's not good. So don't think that I'm advocating for any of that. But I gotta stick to the data and the facts. And as much as we don't want to hear the numbers and hear about people dying, I still have to go over this because facts matter. Data matters, and the Democratic Party and the Harris Waltz campaign has been telling you that they want to protect the children, that the mass shootings

55:40 are just outrageous, and we wouldn't have these mass shootings if we just took guns away, that nobody would die. But there's some data that I need to go over now. The Brady Organization did some studies on gun violence in America, and I've got data from this organization from their website, which is Bradyunited dot org. Well, who are these people? It says here that at Brady, gun violence is personal, from our founder to our namesakes to today. We are a survivor led it's our legacy, it's our lineage, and it's our present. Many of our leaders and team members know firsthand the devastating toll gun violence takes. So this is an organization that takes gun violence serious. They definitely want to control it because gun violence isn't good, period.

56:37 But their numbers I think are very important. The research they did in finding the percentage of gun violence in America based on types of violence is eye opening and relevant to this discussion that we're having. So on their own website and their data, it says, again, going back to mass shootings, mass shootings are bad. Killing children is absolutely bad. But it's interesting to know that in Brady's own data, the Brady Organization's own data, it says mass shootings make up only one percent of all gun violence in America. One percent. Yes, it's still bad. It's still the mass shooting of kids. I get it. But it's only one percent. It says here that sixty percent, sixty percent.

57:34 This is important people, sixty percent more than fifty sixty percent of the gun desks are actually suicides, thirty percent less than fifty. In fact, less than forty percent are homicides. And that percentage also includes one percent of the mass shooting. So if we take out mass shootings, it's thirty six percent are homicides. Mass shootings are one percent. And the reason theyfy that separately because it's it's not a it's not a thing. It's not a regular occurrence. As bad as it is, it's not an everyday occurrence. It's not a common event. It's not something that happens every day. And then it says three percent of gun deaths include law enforcement involved shootings, unintentional shootings, and those that were undetermined.

58:22 Interesting data. So how much are guns contributing to deaths and homicides in America? Especially when it comes to mass shootings? Now, mass shootings. So I'm gonna say a few things on that, mass school shootings within the last I want to say, five years. I just did this, I just did this data. I dug this up just recently that most of all of them, now not all, I'm not saying all, but most, I'm gonna say the majority for sure, factually for sure, and you can look us up. We're actually done by those who were transitioning, people who were considered to be transgender.

59:08 And these are kids who are transitioning, people whose hormones are at a whack, people who are insecure, unsure, and mentally unstable. And that's a harsh reality. So I'm gonna just throw this question out there to you. Are guns really the issue or is it the person using the gun as a weapon? Is it really the gun or is it really the mental instability of the person using the gun as a weapon. And you see, this is where we need to do better, because teenagers and kids don't just act without showing you signs that they need help or that they're reaching out for attention because there's an underlying issue that they can't solve. They always show you.

1:00:02 The problem is most people don't know how to recognize it or flat out blatantly ignore it, and then one day things boil over and we have these tragic situations and the first thing people do is point to the gun, when in fact it wasn't the gun. Murder rates don't go down because you take away guns. Now, I'll admit maybe the ability to execute a well, poor choice of word there, I apologize, but basically, the inability to kill people on a level of a mass shooting where there's multiple individuals that wants dying within an event is going to be hard to pull off without a gun. I could admit that, but it's not going to stop people from being killed. As you're going to find out here shortly, I'm going to go over murder rates, murder rates by population so currently and I took a lot of this data and now most data only goes up to twenty twenty two. Every so many years they go back and they create more studies or new studies based on current data.

1:01:14 But regardless this stance, the USA currently has three hundred and thirty million. It's really like three hundred and thirty three million or so. So if we did the numbers based on how many murders there were in the USA, and I'm gonna also point out that these murders weren't all by gun. Okay, these are just murders. The total percentage of murders as of twenty twenty two data in the United States was less than one percent out of three hundred and thirty three million people. Less than one percent. In fact, it was point zero zero six y four. Now compare that to the UK, where they took guns away from their citizens, you would think there'd be no murders.

1:02:01 Now the population of the UK, which is far less it's sixty seven million, they also have a murder rate of less than one percent. Now, murders didn't go away. Murders did not go away even though they took away guns. Now, isn't that interesting. As I stated earlier, criminals will be criminals. They will find a way. The UK's percentage was point zero zero one zero, of course lower than the US, but they also have a smaller population. Regardless, both numbers are less than one percent and less than one percent by just a little bit in the UK, which is a nation and where guns are taken from their citizens.

1:02:48 Now let's go to Australia because their data last data they collected was in twenty twenty one. Now they only have twenty six million people. That's it. Again, they have the lowest murder rate, still less than one percent, and it's less than the UK and the US. It's point zero zero nine to three. But again murders didn't go away. So let's look at some of this data here. So I'm looking at data from Australia, for example, and the data on here is very similar to what you would find in the UK, where number of homicides are literally the highest percentage is done by sharp objects. So they're still finding ways to kill you. They're gonna either do it by a knife, or they're going to fabricate a stabbing weapon, just like you hear about in prisons. You heard about shives, Well, those are where prisoners actually make knives or stabbing objects out of just common materials. What's really interesting is the brutality here. Getting up close and personal to kill someone with a knife takes a lot more commitment than using a gun. Period. A gun has the ability to kind of separate yourself from the act to a degree because you could do it at a distance.

1:04:10 But with a knife you have to sit there and continually stab and cut and slash. You really have to show that you're committed in your mind to be able to pull this off to kill another individual. But what I find interesting in second place, the most common cause of murder is blunt force trauma by beating someone to death. That's right, beating someone to death. Do you want to be beat to death? Do you know what that's like? Have you ever been in a fight where you're ganged up on and were kicked and punched by multiple people. You imagine them not stopping to the point where you die. I would say that takes on another level of brutality. Okay, And this is very similar to the UK. The numbers may be different, the percentages may be different because of the size of poplations, but in the UK, in Australia, the leading cause of death is by sharp object or stabbing, and second literally beating someone to death. Think about that.

1:05:13 So taking away your guns has no effect on getting rid of murder whatsoever. And in each case, if you go by population, the percentages are extremely close. In the US, to the UK and to Australia, they're all very similar to each other in terms of percentages, and those number of percentages very close. The only difference is the amount of actual people, because again we have three hundred and thirty million or three hundred and thirty three million, and these other nations have sixty seven million and twenty six million, respectively, but still one percent less than one percent is still the percentage of homicides in each case. And taking away guns from the citizens did not eliminate murders period. So what's the reason then, why does Kamala want to take your guns away? Again, it's for control, it's for control.

1:06:16 It's because they do not want you to have the right to bear arms. And it's been proven that taking away guns is not going to eliminate murder. But at the same time, it does make it easy for the government to control you and impose their will on you, just as they did in Argentina. And Venezuela and Communist Russia, Nazi Germany, and the list goes on, the list goes on. So be very careful in supporting the Democratic Party right now, be very careful in throwing all your support behind Kamala Harris, because she really does mean what she says, not hiding it from you, She is telling you. And I think that we need to be very smart about this. And yes, democracy literally is on the line this election. Now, I know this is all a lot of data and a lot of facts absorb and believe me, I can keep going.

1:07:21 I mean I haven't even dove into Venezuela and Argentina and how the nail on the coffin for those nations were when they gave up their weapons, and I can go back even further in discussing the occupations of the Ottoman Empire and how they also instituted the disarmament of their people. Once again, thanks so much for sport and show. Please like, follow, and share, and hey, listen to other shows that are like us, such as Whiskey Hell, The Jesse Ruzinski Show, and The Stretch Goose Podcast. Taste Your Contain on your feel attention Devils Higher, your high Temption.

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