Safely Keeping and Bearing Arms Is A Civilized Act

A wanna-be Senate candidate from Nebraska that wants all gun owners to undergo mental health evaluations every five years, kind of like a double preemptive "red flag law".

Royce reads a quote from USMC Maj. L. Caudill that frames the keeping and bearing of arms as one of the foundations of a civilized society.

A firearms manufacturer leaves Virginia due to proposed and contested bans on so-called "assault weapons".

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Them telling me that we're taking down this particular episode, that particular episode, because it
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show description should tell you everything you need to know about that. But just because they hear
the word firearms or guns mentioned in the opening of the show,
literally within the first 30 seconds, and that's always the case, they're saying we're taking this
down and it violates our community standards. Well, I tell you what, YouTube and all your other,
you know, filthy little communists there, y'all can grab yourselves a bag of hammers and head down
to the beach and pound yourself some sand. So I don't think anybody was really, I didn't have a
heavy following on YouTube anyway. And for a while I was putting videos up there,
but they kept taking those down too because I mentioned firearms. Even though there are plenty of
other gun programs on YouTube, for some reason mine gets taken down. It might have something to do
with the way I talk about people and give my unexpurgated opinion about them.
Anyway, just letting you know, I doubt any of you that are even listening to this right now ever
listen to the program on YouTube, but it won't be there. after tomorrow. So just letting you know
about that. Let's dive into things, as I like to do. I'm about to read an article by one Matt
Johnson, who is a freelance reporter for the Plains Sentinel in Nebraska.
And he's writing out of Omaha, actually. And he's writing a story about a U.S.
Senate candidate for U.S. Senate there in Nebraska. And what he wants to do to gun owners not just
in his state but across the entire country he wants to subject them to uh back i'm not background
checks mental health checks every five years every five year interval if you own an ar-15 ak-47
or other type of assault weapon he thinks that you should have to get a mental health evaluation
every five years. Here's the story. Dan Osborne, an independent candidate,
buddy, I don't know why you're an independent. You might as well be a flat-out flaming communist.
An independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska at a town hall in Omaha last week told
attendees that he believed there should be mandatory mental health checks at five-year intervals
for all owners of AR-15s and similar assault-style rifles.
You know what? I think I'm on board with this, but only if it's applied strictly to all Democrats.
Yeah, we can't trust you guys with guns. You've proven that. Anyway, article continues. One guest
asked Osborne if he could offer anything, quote, other than thoughts and prayers,
which makes us all want to throw up regarding gun violence. Well...
I've got a solution, and I'm pretty sure all of my listeners would concur with this solution,
but none of you Democrat-Communists want to hear it because it involves putting good guys with
guns in all the target-rich environments throughout the country known as gun-free zones,
and you don't like that. Partly because I believe most of y'all want more dead kids because
nothing sells gun control quite like dead school kids. You think I'm making that up?
I bet you a dollar against a donut. I think I've talked about it here before. Osborne responded
with notable candor while he stressed the need for middle ground and compromise.
Okay, so he... we need to compromise our precious rights that were purchased with American blood.
I see. Yeah. You know, this draws an obvious conclusion that Democrats,
I know he's an independent, he says he is, but he might as well be a Democrat. Democrat communists
like him think that those rights are cheap and worthless. If he really thinks we would just hand
them over so easily, oh, Number one, what does he think about those rights?
Number two, what does he think about us? Yeah. Middle ground, by the way,
with this kind of totalitarian tripe, is surrender. There's no such thing as middle ground or
compromise when it comes to our rights. There is nothing to be compromised on.
You don't get to say, well, you got to accept some gun control. No, we don't.
Any more than we have to accept five-year interval mental health checks,
okay? He also emphasized the importance of keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals.
Well, I agree. Let's disarm every Democrat across the country and refuse to sell them any more
guns. And... Let's include independents who have such a low esteem of the Second Amendment too.
People like, oh, let's say this guy here, Dan, yeah, Dan Osborne. He cited,
now here, this is pure gold. He cited the case of 74-year-old Billy Booth of Crete,
not any city in America named Crete. He's referring to,
yes, the island of Crete, the Grecian island, the largest of the Grecian islands,
okay? Billy Booth of Crete, who opened fire on a family of Guatemalan neighbors before turning the
gun on himself. Okay, why do you reference that incident? Were there no domestic examples to choose
from? And how do you know what the man's motive was? Well, he thinks he knows.
And here's what I mean by that.
Osborne linked the incident to U.S. Senator Katie Britt's response to President Joe Biden's State
of the Union address. He said she sat there in her kitchen and she said the illegal immigrants are
basically coming up here to kill us and rape us. The day after that, a man in Crete pulled a
shotgun on his Guatemalan neighbors and opened fire. Oh, I thought you were talking about assault
weapons. Hmm, was it an assault shotgun? Number one,
Danny, Katie was not wrong. Because multiple, Islamofascists especially,
have stated repeatedly that they're here to overthrow us and rape our women, not to mention
Hispanic illegal immigrants who have come into our country and killed and raped our women and our
children and our sons and our daughters and murdered us. Yeah, we do have some basis for our
concern, okay, Dan Dan? And again, this happened in Crete.
Over 5,300 miles away from Washington, D.C. So how is it that you're so sure that the shooter in
Crete was inspired by Miss Britt's words? I don't think he was at all.
I think you were just trying to make a correlation there to denigrate Miss Britt's.
Third, sir,
America hating people like you. Know a thing or two about incitement, because you're all experts at
it. You have inspired you and your kind, sir, and you can tell everybody you're an independent,
you're a Democrat, you can lie all you want, but you, swine, have inspired more political and
street violence than any other political party in American history. Hands down, bar none.
Osborne proposed a... Preemptive red flag law. Well, I thought red flag laws by nature were
preemptive, but now you want to be a preemptive, preemptive red flag law. Okay. Targeting owners of
assault-style rifles, which would require gun owners to undergo a mental health evaluation every
five years to re-register... Those weapons. Oh,
I think we're getting to the real meat and taters of what he's trying to pull here, and it's a
registration scheme. Because in order to, you know, know who's getting evaluated every five years,
you have to create a registry. It's mandated by the mere concept of it.
Yeah, I tell you what.
This is pretty insidious. I tell you what, here's the other problem. Many Democrats are going to
jump on board with this, and they're all for it. They would love it. They'd love nothing more than
this thing being rammed through, and all of the, not just the citizens of Nebraska,
but across the entire nation, subject ourselves, number one, to having our guns registered,
and number two, to be mentally evaluated every five years. And I guarantee you something else,
those mental evaluations must or will have to be done according to whatever they propose,
will have to be done by an approved mental health expert.
And I guarantee you something else, those approved mental health experts will probably have,
what should I say, a free hand in denying the re-registration of your assault-style firearms.
This is also more glaring proof that people like Mr. Osborne and Democrats,
they love to fabricate stories and even people in their efforts to point...
to those people as motivation for their treasonous assaults on the Bill of Rights. And here's what
I'm talking about. Listen to this part of the article. He recounted a conversation with a gun owner
at a town hall in Columbus to illustrate the idea. And of course,
this fictitious gun owner is set forth as an unimpeachable representative of all gun owners across
America. Osborne recalled, he said, I said, do you own an assault-style rifle,
an AR-15, an M16, an AK-47, or anything like that?
He's like, yeah, I got a lot of them. Then I said,
let me ask you, would you have an issue with having to re-register those guns after taking a
mental health exam? Let's say, I don't know, just throwing a random number out there every five
years. And the gun owner sat for a second and he said, no,
bull crap. I don't believe it. He created a fictitious person and held him up as the standard,
the common sense standard that he thinks the rest of us should be.
It sounds a lot like little Dick Gephardt from the 1990s, who's... billionaire friend who allegedly
begged him to raise taxes on billionaires. Yeah. Osburn said suggested law enforcement would likely
support the measure. Well, yeah, the corrupt ones would, absolutely, especially like the Virginia
State Police. He said, I always look to law enforcement, too,
to ask them, what is your stance on guns? Because they're ultimately the ones who have to deal with
them a heck of a lot more than most of us do. Well, tell you what,
Mr. Osborne, why did you not look to the supreme law rather than biased law enforcement officials?
or potentially biased law enforcement officials. Because just like the country,
it looks to me like law enforcement is split down the middle to one side being pro-Second
Amendment and the other not so much. And then there's the middle, the guys rolling in the middle of
the road there that think it's okay for, oh, just a little bit of gun control. It's okay. No,
just a little drop of arsenic in that glass of water is not going to hurt you. I mean, it's still
99.99% water, isn't it? Yeah, why didn't you look to the writings of the founders?
Why not look to the Constitution? What does the Constitution say? You claim to uphold and defend it
and believe in the Second Amendment. But he don't. He said most law enforcement will say,
yeah, there needs to be some legislation to help protect us law enforcement people.
Well, such legislation already exists. It's already illegal to assault and kill police officers.
And they're also protected by the Supreme Court's 1967 civil rights case,
the decision. known as Pearson v. Ray, which created the very dangerous doctrine of qualified
immunity for law enforcement. There's already a lot of stuff protecting them. If you get assaulted
unlawfully by a police officer, you're not allowed to defend yourself against them,
and you essentially are required to stand there and take whatever physical abuse they want to dish
out on you and then fight for rectification later in the courts.
I'm not one that agrees with that, but that's not what this podcast is about. Osborne has said in
the past that he supports, quote, reasonable gun safety measures. Okay,
well, the only problem is what you guys call reasonable and what we call reasonable are two
diametrically opposite things. But he is also, quote, fundamentally in favor of the Second
Amendment. Okay, I think I can tell you in no uncertain terms.
that if Mr. Osborne has ever even read the Second Amendment, he doesn't understand it.
He doesn't know what it's about. He doesn't understand its import. He doesn't understand its
purpose. He doesn't understand its scope. He doesn't know crap about it,
and that's why he thinks... he can stand in front of people at a town hall and raise a fictitious
straw man as a representative of gun owners and say, I think we should have these mental health
evaluations every five years if you own one of these types of guns. Why just those types of guns?
Hmm. Why not shotguns like the guy in Crete that allegedly used his?
Yeah. In his 2024 race against Senator Deb Fischer,
he also stated that he would seek advice from law enforcement on gun control policy.
Well, again, why not simply consult the Constitution, sir? By the way, most law enforcement
officials will always agree to more infringements because they are the ones empowered by them.
Just so you know. Osborne said in a 2024 interview, If law enforcement wants bump stocks banned,
then we should ban bump stocks because those are the guys that have to deal with it every single
day. Well, the people on the streets are the ones victimized by the criminals,
so why not consult them? Especially in all the communist-occupied territories where they're
required to be defenseless victims and waiting at all times. Did you talk to any of them?
No. You talked to their oppressors. Yes, the ones wearing badges who arrest them if they get caught
with a gun that their father or grandfather willed to them, but they failed to get it registered.
That's not hyperbole, by the way. There are multiple incidents where that has happened.
And by the way, law enforcement does not have to deal with so-called bump stocks every single day.
Just throwing that out there. And one more thing, sir.
If law enforcement told you that this country should create massive camps known as,
let's say, re-education camps, complete with crematoriums and forced labor,
would you then propose such legislation, sir? Oh, but law enforcement said they wanted it.
And you think, well, you guys have to deal with it, so that's fine with me. The silliness of your
brainless following of, what should I say,
law enforcement ideas regarding gun control, that's dangerous.
That's always dangerous.
They said gun groups oppose this proposal. No kidding. The Plains Sentinel reached out to Patricia
Harold, president of the Nebraska Firearms Owners Association, or NFOA,
regarding Osborne's comments. And Harold, yes, Harold said Osborne's proposal violated the
Constitution. Well, because it does. Do you got to get a background check and a mental evaluation
to go to church or speak freely? Yeah. Harold said Dan Osborne's strategy to violate firearms
rights demonstrates a penchant for illegal government overreach. His remarks reflect ignorance of
not only Nebraska's law-abiding firearm community, but the Constitution and the criminal justice
system. And amen to that. It is total ignorance, and it's really, really ignorant that he would
consult only law enforcement, especially when gun owners, listen,
John Lott ran the study on this. Gun owners are the most lawful,
law-abiding, peaceable demographic of society over and above law enforcement officers.
Why don't you seek our input, Mr. Osborne? Harold also said his extreme suggestion to require
mental health evaluations for law-abiding gun owners is an affront to individual liberty and
common sense.
are a significant concern to our over 26,000 members of the Nebraska Firearm Owners Association.
Okay, and again, I ask my usual round of questions. Do I need a mental evaluation to go to church
on Sunday, or to speak freely, or to petition my government for a redress of grievances,
huh? Yeah, okay, if you're talking about mental evaluations for Democrats, I might go along with
it, but anyway. Says the National Rifle Association also has a longtime history of opposing red
flag laws claiming that the government would abuse the laws to take away citizens' rights.
Well, that's exactly what's been happening. Especially here in Florida, in Polk County, where
everybody laws. and adores Grady Judd, and I have no idea why. He's not a constitutionally-minded
sheriff. He has used red flag laws thousands and thousands of times,
even filing them on eight-year-old schoolchildren in an effort to have his deputies go to that
child's home and intimidate the parents into turning their guns over, knowing good and dadgum well
no eight-year-old owns any guns. Yeah. I don't know why everybody just fawns over Grady Judd.
I think he's a little tyrant. That's what I think.
The Plain Sentinel reached out to Senator Pete Ricketts' campaign for comment. And a spokesperson
for the campaign said Osborne wants to force Nebraska gun owners to undergo mandatory governmental
evaluations, mental health evaluations, every five years just to keep the guns they already own.
Then he said something very telling that I've already kind of much intimated here. Dan Osborne will
toe the line on Democrats' most extreme positions every...
Time. Yep, that's exactly right. That's exactly, he's 100% right.
And Osborne calls these things common sense. But again, what people like him and people like us
call common sense are very diametrically opposite the one from the other. Yeah.
So if you want to talk about disarming Democrats, I'm all for it. They have nothing to worry about
from us. We won't go hunt them down. But if we were disarmed tomorrow and the Democrats kept their
guns, we'd be hunted down just like those Nigerian scum are hunting down Christians there in their
country. That's exactly what would happen. Now, this is for little Dan Dan and all Democrat
communists and all lovers of totalitarianism and civilian disarmament.
This is a thing that I brought out of... retirement, so to speak.
Uh, it's a, it's a, uh, a short blurb by major L Caudill,
USMC retired. And he makes a very stunning, well put point here.
And. This is going to be in the transcript. If you'd like to copy and paste it and post it on
social media, whatever you want to do, or if you want to email me at shootingstraightradiopodcast
at gmail.com, I'll send it to you directly. The quote and everything just copied and pasted,
and you can copy and paste it too. So here's what he said. Why being armed is a civilized act.
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another, reason and force.
If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument or
force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of these
two categories without exception. Reason or force. That's it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion.
Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force
from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as that may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me
because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal
weapon that puts the 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year-old
retiree on equal footing with a 19-year-old gangbanger, and a single guy on equal footing with a
carload of drunken guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength,
size or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender. There are plenty of people who
consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people that think that we'd be
more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for an
armed mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are
mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat. It has no validity when most of the
mugger's potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule
by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society.
A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has
granted him a force monopoly. Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal
that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways.
Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting
overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats,
sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force Watch too much TV where people take beatings and
come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works
solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed,
the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as
it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it
wasn't both lethal and easily employable. When I carry a gun,
I don't do so because I'm looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at
my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid,
because... but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who
would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force.
It removes force from the equation. And that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.
But to hear people like Dan Dan Osborne and all the Democrat communists, um,
we should all be disarmed. Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
What recourse would we have against the street mugger or worse yet,
government soldiers or federal officers? And that was from Major El Caudil,
USMC, retired. Don't go anywhere. We've got a lot more to go here on Shooting Straight.
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You know, we've been keeping an eye on Virginia. And there's a lot going on there. And I dare
say... fight is not just relevant to Virginians, it's relevant to every American citizen in the
nation. Because if things happen there the way the communists want them to happen,
that is going to set bad legal precedents and it's going to spread throughout the country. That's
also making the Supreme Court sit up and take notice and start to decide which side of the
Constitution they intend to be on. Yes. John Roberts, I'm talking to you.
But gun control or infringements, they don't just disarm peaceable citizens and allow predators to
prey upon them at will. It also kills economies. Look at New York City.
Look at Seattle. Look at California. Look at all the businesses pulling out of those states and
cities because of the draconian gun control. And how that has allowed crime to just flourish there
in that city or state. They're leaving. I mean, look at Portland. Not Portland.
Am I saying? It might not be. Oakland, I'm sorry. Oakland, California. That place is a sewer of
crime, and it's not getting any better. And businesses, large corporations,
well-known corporations are pulling out of there and going, we're not going to subject our
employees to the things going on there. It's just rampant, violent crime.
And they have no choice because they have to... jump through their shoelaces and pay exorbitant
funds just to get a license to own a gun, much less carry one. So a lot of people just give up.
So infringement kills businesses. It kills economies because what else happens on the other end is
you get the totalitarians preying upon them with ludicrous taxation,
exorbitant taxes, and They are driving businesses and the jobs they provide away to other business
-friendly, safer areas of the country. And understandably so. What business owner wants to stay
there where he's taxed to death and criminals keep customers away from his store?
Because that's exactly what's been going on in New York, Illinois, Chicago,
Illinois, Oakland, California, LA, and so many other...
socialist sewers, for lack of a better term,
have been running, you know, that socialism has been just ruining the place and turned it into a
sewer. So here's an article by Pedro Rodriguez. $22 million gun factory relocates from Virginia.
to Georgia over anti-gun legislation. So they stated openly, we're leaving Virginia because they
are passing laws against our chosen industry. I guarantee you something else.
Those socialists there had lined up some heavy taxation for the gun manufacturers there too.
I promise you. Not to mention soaking all the other businesses around them for heavy taxes.
That's just what these filthy godless communists seem to do. Here's the article.
On Wednesday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced a firearms manufacturer will leave the state of
Virginia over new anti-gun legislation and relocate to Georgia,
bringing a $22 million investment and employing hundreds of residents. That also means how many
hundreds of residents in Virginia are going to be losing their jobs. You can't blame this on this
firearms company. You can blame it on the little bit socialist Spanberger.
Mr. Kemp said, Georgia attracts job creators from all over the country and the world because we
work with them, not against them. Our state's pro-business approach. skilled workforce,
and enduring support for constitutional freedoms make us an ideal home for manufacturers like
Rideout Arsenal. And we look forward to their success here in the number one state for business.
So there you see the name of the company, Rideout Arsenal. They are a firearms designer and
manufacturer that... in virginia they're now relocating and they're going to be opening its doors
in uh thomasville georgia i'm familiar with the place i'm sure most of you that know anything about
georgia probably are too the thomasville mayor scott chastain made a statement he said today we
welcome right out arsenal to thomasville This includes new highly skilled jobs,
new partnerships, new careers, and new momentum for our community. And amen,
it does. It's not just the people that they're going to employ directly. It's also the local parcel
deliverers, carriers, and things like that. They're going to see an uptick in business. And those
companies may have to hire more people and create more jobs, not to mention all the other
industries associated with it. especially those that build accessories and such like that.
There's just so many people that are going to be positively impacted by this move.
Sadly, that also means so many of them in Virginia will be negatively impacted by that.
But I'm not about to lay any blame at the feet of Rideout Arsenal one bit.
They're doing this for their own survival, and God bless them for it. The new facility will be
located within the Plantation Oak Industrial Park, with additional buildings planned throughout the
next several years. They've already got growth plans. That's great. The company's founders said the
decision to locate in Georgia was made partly as a response to recent legislation in Virginia that
could affect the business. Travis Rideout, the co-founder of Rideout Arsenal,
said, This relocation was not something we originally planned to pursue.
The reality is that recent anti-gun legislation in Virginia created a significant uncertainty for
our company and ultimately forced us to look for a state where we could continue operating,
investing, and growing with confidence.
you're a business and you're a company, if you don't grow, you die. He said, we're excited to bring
new jobs and manufacturing investment to Thomas County and are grateful for the warm welcome we
have already received. The move comes after Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger,
the socialist, enacted a slew of gun control measures into law, which blocked the sale of certain
so-called assault weapons in the Commonwealth and imposed a ban on magazines capable of holding
more than 15 rounds. Spanberger claimed the legislation would make Virginians safer.
Safer from whom? She said firearms designed to inflict maximum casualties do not belong on our
streets. All right, one more time for Socialist Spanberger.
Ma'am, if I should dare call you that, these weapons are not presently on your streets,
you Bolshevik bimbo. But they could be very quickly if you and your lieutenant governor and your AG
and your worthless state police decide to try forcibly banning and or confiscating them from
Virginia citizens. Because the Virginians that I know... will then openly defy you and the state
police and your AG and your lieutenant governor by parading themselves in front of the state
capitol with their assault weapons slung and wearing their plate carriers and their battle vests
and their sidearms, usually on a drop-leg holster. Because these weapons and so many other
military weapons, ma'am, do indeed belong in the hands of the peaceable citizens of Virginia.
As for the imaginary epidemic of gun violence you keep quoting and propping up as your excuse for
illegally disarming your fellow citizens there, here's the bold truth, Governor, right between your
nasty little commie eyes, all right? I want you to hear this. I want you to copy and paste it out
of the transcript if you want to steal it. I don't care if you say it's your own. This is my study
that I put together. It's very simple. It's very quick. The primary common denominator in every
mass murder involving a firearm is an evil human being. 100% of the time,
the primary common denominator is an evil human being. 99.9% of the time,
Democrats. No, you're welcome. Yeah, I call it like I see it.
Yeah, if you guys would stop shooting people, we'd be a lot better off. I'm sure gun violence would
dry up. By the way, did Google how many homicides in the United States in 2024?
Because those are the, as I understand it, the latest stats in 2025 is not yet totally compiled.
And then I want you to compare that against their stated number of homicide firearms annually,
which they claim to be anywhere from 40,000 to 50,000 annually. Work the math against those two
figures. Tell me what you come up with. Yeah, I don't want to spoil it. I want you to do your own
homework on this. The second primary common denominator is a gun-free zone full of people who are
required by unconstitutional, that is illegal, laws to be defenseless victims in waiting in those
zones. And that accounts, that common denominator is there 98.5% of the time.
Yeah, first an evil human being, 100% of the time, and a gun-free zone.
98.5% of the time. You say, oh, the third common denominator has to be assault weapons.
Nope. The third is a handgun. 73% of the time.
Which wouldn't be effective if it wasn't a gun-free zone.
Rifles of any sort, AR-15, AK-47, whatever, are used in only 27% of these pre-shootings.
So let's just dispense with making willfully ignorant comments about how banning them or any other
firearm would stop or reduce mass shootings or gun violence in any way,
shape, or form. You might say, well, look at some of these other countries. They banned all these
weapons and they've had no mass shootings. Well, that's not true. Not to mention the rape and
stabbing epidemic going on in the UK right now, which was happening literally right after the Brits
gave up their guns and began getting arrested for Facebook posts. Yeah, amazing how that works.
One last thing I want to get into, and it's in regard to, some of you saw the video of two police
officers in a parking garage at a police station. being absolutely stupid with their guns.
You'll see a dash cam from a police car roll up on a group of police officers standing at the rear
of a vehicle, and one of those idiot cops unholstered his weapon and pointed it directly at the
driver, apparently in jest. He was just kidding around.
Horse playing! Did y'all see this video? Here it is from CNN News Source staff.
A newly released dash cam video shows a police officer accidentally shooting a fellow cop.
Well, this accident would not have happened if the first idiot cop had not pulled his gun out and
then the second idiot cop unholstered his while seated in his vehicle and pumping around through
the windshield.
The shooting happened inside a Pasadena Police parking garage last September,
but the video was just released this last Wednesday. A patrol car can be seen in the video pulling
up behind two officers who were standing by another vehicle. One of the officers standing outside
drew his gun and pointed it at the officer inside the patrol car before putting it back in the
holster. That is no way to joke.
the purest idiocy. It's excruciatingly stupid.
It's weapons-grade stupidity. Why would you do that unless you were an absolute juvenile-minded
jackass who has no concept of the four simple,
basic, fundamental rules of firearm safety? The officer in the car,
who had just had a gun pointed at him, pulled his, pointed it,
and apparently, Went ahead and pressed the trigger for reasons unknown.
Sent around through the windshield. He struck one of the officers that was standing there in the
shoulder. I'm not even sure it was the same idiot that pulled his gun and started this whole crap.
But he shot a fellow officer. And the police chief there in Pasadena,
it's the Pasadena Police Department, he said the injured officer has since recovered and
disciplinary action was taken. in what was described as a horseplay incident.
Horse play? This is jackass play. This is,
as the Bible called Balaam's donkey, dumbass play. Yeah,
here's my two cents. Not only are those two cops, the ones that are the centerpiece of this
excruciatingly idiotic scene, not only were they willfully and carelessly stupid,
they need to have their certifications revoked. They both need to be arrested for aggravated
assault against each other. Because if that was two ordinary citizens horse-playing with loaded
guns, that's exactly what would have happened. Where in the world did this jackass think it's
acceptable for him to point a loaded gun at his fellow officer? He knew it was loaded!
He don't tell me he thought for a second it was unloaded. No cop out there carries an unloaded
pistol and there's always one in the chamber if they've got any sense at all. If these were
ordinary citizens, they'd have both been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. They
would be felonies and they would lose their gun privileges for the rest of their life.
Or their gun rights, I should say.
These guys need to be in jail. This is not horseplay. This is not just something where you need to
reprimand them and maybe suspend them for three days without pay.
No, they need to be suspended and put into the state timeout system.
That's what they need. They need to have all their guns confiscated from them,
taken from their home with a red flag order if necessary. They need to be unarmed.
Neither of them. need to ever own firearms again, much less carry one in their alleged defense of
the general public. If that jackass would pull a gun on one of his fellow officers just playing
around, God knows what he has done or will yet do with that same loaded firearm.
I'm sorry. Something like that is indicative of something, some disconnect in the mind.
We pull a dangerous weapon that you know is loaded and jokingly pointed at somebody else.
That is not a joke.
Sadly, I see police officers and people that say, Royce, you just like beating up on cops.
No, I like beating up on the stupid ones. The other ones get a pass. I see police officers every
day. And a matter of fact, I saw one today at the end of the day. There's a retired Alpha Tango
Foxtrot agent. brought in some of his revolvers to show them off,
hoping we would buy them. I said, we don't buy individual weapons, sorry. And he muzzled me three
times with that Smith & Wesson Model 66. Three times he muzzled me with that dadgum thing.
I see this kind of careless gun handling from police officers regularly, especially when they flag
each other or flag me or flag my co-workers with their muzzle while they're fingers on the bloody
trigger. Yes, a firearms instructor for the state police,
as a matter of fact, did such an egregious thing. Flagged.
Her co-worker that was in there with her, she was wearing the FHP shirt that said,
firearms instructor across the back. And she's got her blippity-blanking finger on the trigger.
She's not checking the chamber before she takes possession of it, before she puts it in her hand
and works it and feels it. You know what we do to guns. Didn't check the chambers.
And when she flagged me with it the first time, I said, ma'am, watch your muzzle. You know,
trying to be nice. Well, it's not loaded. Well, how do you know? I saw you check it.
Okay. So many of you out there right now are nodding or shaking your head going, no, why didn't you
check it too, honey? She didn't. And then she picked up another gun and did not check it at all and
began to muzzle me and her co-worker again. That's when I said, ma'am. Please mind the muzzle of
your weapon. Oh, I'm an instructor. Oh, okay.
Then that gives you license to do stupid crap with guns. Well, gee, I wonder where she got that
from. Maybe that's some sort of a sickness running through the law enforcement ranks because we
just referenced a minute ago some idiot cop in Pasadena doing the exact same thing,
playing with a gun and just assuming nothing could go wrong. I see this kind of crap all the time.
To all of you officers in the audience, do yourselves and your department and your entire
profession a large favor and learn and practice the four simple rules of safe gun handling.
Number one, every gun is loaded. Period. Hands down. It's loaded. Always treat it like it's loaded.
Even if you're only holding the frame and you've got the slide off. I don't even let the frame.
muzzle anybody because it creates bad practices. For me,
when I'm holding anything, even my cordless screw gun, I don't even let that Phillips head's tip
muzzle anybody. I'm just weird that way. And it's a good kind of weird. So all guns are loaded,
period, hands down. And if you treat it like it's loaded, you won't let your muzzle sweep or cover
anything that you're not willing to destroy, because that's number two. And if you treat it like
it's loaded, you won't put your blibbity-blank finger on the trigger, or like I like to say in my
classes, keep your stinking booger hook off the bang button. And you will think about not only your
target, but what's beyond your target, because once that round leaves your muzzle, it's like a
Democrat lie. You have no idea how far it's going to go or how much damage it's going to do.
It could go clean through the person you shoot and then hurt somebody innocent behind them.
That's why you know you practice those four simple rules of gun safety.
And those two jackasses in Pasadena wearing badges did not do that.
They did not treat their guns as if they were loaded. They pointed them in the wrong direction.
They swept them towards their fellow officers and they put their stinking fingers on the trigger.
Gee, what could possibly go wrong? You want to start confiscating guns?
All of you Bolsheviks, all of you Marxists, you leftists. How about you start taking it from the
stupid people? Yeah, like those two cops, and Democrats, and anybody that associates with them.
How about that? How about you take their guns? That's the best thing you can do if you really want
to keep us all so safe. Stay in contact with your reps,
as I always say. Stay strapped or get clapped. Stock up on beans, bullets,
and bandages, and never forget, incoming rounds always have the right of way. Voice out.