Latest / Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights / The 2nd Amendment Is A Curse?
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- 0:15Welcome to the Live Sheep Podcast.
- 0:17My name is Jeff Dowdle and I've been a licensed farm dealer for the last 15 years.
- 0:21In this podcast, we talk about all things related to the Second Amendment.
- 0:24Might throw in a sports story or talk about something else going on in the world.
- 0:27So welcome, welcome, welcome.
- 0:28What a crazy week it's been.
- 0:30We have been trying to get a speaker of the House elected for the last few days, and it is not happening.
- 0:34I'm not gonna dig into that.
- 0:35I've got my opinions.
- 0:36But I am glad to see the fight going on.
- 0:39I know people disagree with that to a degree, but I am glad to see that we're, we're the grassroots is kind of standing up and, and fighting a little bit.
- 0:46And it's not just status quo.
- 0:47But my question to you is, is the second Amendment a curse?
- 0:51Obviously you.
- 0:53That's somewhat of a, a ridiculous question.
- 0:56Of course it's not a curse, but that's the way a lot of people feel about it.
- 0:58And recently, a editorial editor, editorial group from a New Jersey paper they wrote that exact headline that the Second Amendment is a curse, and their feelings are that the Second Amendment, the Bruin, That came down as well, has made it harder for New Jersey to pass gun.
- 1:21And because of that, they say, you know, 300 people are shot every day, every 24 hours in the US and this is the fault of the Second Amendment.
- 1:32The fact that these people have a right to keep and bear arms is the reason why they're killing people.
- 1:38The editorial, you know, slammed the court and says down a mor.
- 1:44It, it struck down more than a century old state law that restricts the right to carry a concealed gun handgun in public.
- 1:49They made it how it made it easier for lawsuits to dismantle any attempts at gun control.
- 1:56And they, the the EED editorial said, where you have fewer guns and stricter laws, you have fewer gun injuries and deaths research is shown.
- 2:05Yet, while more people are sidely on his side, the law may not withstand legal challenges.
- 2:09So actually the stats don't show that.
- 2:11They definitely show that where people legally carry weapons, there is, there is less crime.
- 2:18I mean, you just have to look at Baltimore or Chicago, some of these major Democrat controlled cities with heavy gun control and the amount of crime that they have in there.
- 2:27But this is where it really, it gets choice.
- 2:29They lifted up no other than Canada as their shining light.
- 2:33It says it, it said, now imagine a world where we didn't have to struggle with this.
- 2:38You don't have to look for far from, for inspiration.
- 2:41There it is just north of our border where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is almost reaching the point of banning gun sales in Canada.
- 2:48And they're, they're, they're praising that.
- 2:51And anytime, I think whenever we're, you know, nothing against Canada per se, but whenever we're.
- 2:56To Canada or really any other country and, and praising them for, for things like this.
- 3:03You know, we've, we've, we've slipped Canada's the place where they were confiscating and locking up truckers.
- 3:11Bank accounts because they were promoted, they were part of the, the trucker protest, if y'all remember that.
- 3:17And so is that the type of totalitarian control that you wanna be under?
- 3:23That they can na then?
- 3:25Turn around and say, now you can't, you can't, if you do this, we're gonna take your money.
- 3:29We're gonna take away your handguns.
- 3:30We're gonna, you know, we're gonna start restricting your access.
- 3:33And more simply than, than China at that point in time, they they, they state that in their thing that the core rationale is that we need guns for self-defense.
- 3:42But what we have.
- 3:44What we have is a public policy in which nearly 49,000 people a year are killed by guns in nearly 40 million firearms flood our streets, more than one on for every citizen it says.
- 3:56The board further described this area as the idea of guns for self defense as a fanatical interpretation of our second Amendment, and claimed that the country.
- 4:04Fetish with gun culture, we don't have a fetish with the gun culture.
- 4:07We have a fetish for our rights, our enabler rights to, for self protection and to protect us from radical governments that want to do things like confiscate our, our bank accounts, lock us up for exercising our free speech, and that is what the Second Amendment does.
- 4:25The, the left is crazy in the terms of the way they look at the Second Amendment.
- 4:31and that they think that it's for hunting that the, our fire fore fires put in there so that we could continue to hunt and that, you know, we, we say it's for self-defense, but that's not why they put it in there.
- 4:43They, they weren't worried so much about having guns to protect ourselves from our neighbors, you know, stealing things from us because there was already.
- 4:54That was, that self protection was already in place.
- 4:58I mean, the, the punishments that could be lashed out in, in those times for people violating crimes and stealing from others could be pretty harsh.
- 5:07And so that wasn't what they're worried about.
- 5:08They were worried about the government.
- 5:11They just came from being under a king that sent the, his troops over here to confiscate weapons.
- 5:18and to, so that he could continue to hold the colonists down.
- 5:22That is all they want.
- 5:23They say that we, we could regulate guns as we do cars based on a public health approach.
- 5:31No, no, no.
- 5:33We can't do that.
- 5:34So, you know, it's, it's, that is how the left looks at things.
- 5:38You know, there's this other article that came out.
- 5:40That I was reading and, and this was really about what the upcoming Supreme Court was gonna be doing about some, some cases and, and, and how it was handling some of these cases that are now being challenged under the Bruin decision.
- 5:54Primarily in New York, and it's, and just, I'm gonna just quote some of these from the article.
- 5:58The majority decision in Bruin, taking it face, Val, this is what their quote is, taking at face value is one of the most radical rulings in American history.
- 6:07A threat to thousands of state and federal laws that has stem gun violence for decades or centuries.
- 6:12It raises a question, did the court really intend to give virtually every adult the right to carry a concealed farm in almost any place they choose.
- 6:20Second Amendment, you have a right to keep and bear arms and it shall not be infringed.
- 6:27That's pretty clear.
- 6:28That is pretty clear.
- 6:29So that is what our rights are and until something changes with the, the Constitution, that is a constitutional right that we have and that right was put in place.
- 6:40To not control and protect ourselves, but to control the very government that is trying to control us by changing the gun laws.
- 6:49They wanna take our guns so they can control us.
- 6:51And so just this, this sentiment that is in these articles shows you that we are far from winning this fight.
- 6:57Boone was a big decision, but we are far from winning this fight.
- 7:01And we're gonna have to continue to fight.
- 7:02We're gonna have to fight, fight, you know, things like we're seeing just in about this, this, you know, battle over the speaker of the house, wherever you land on it.
- 7:10To me at least.
- 7:10We're fighting, we're not rolling over and letting the status quo.
- 7:15The, the establishment, the way things have always been done to fall into place.
- 7:20The good old boy network of just rolling over and putting these people in place and transferring the power in that way is, is being challenged and, and the way things are being done.
- 7:30And that's what we are gonna have to continue to do.
- 7:31We're gonna have to challenge the way we have done things because this culture, the culture in our society has.
- 7:37So significantly that we are sliding into a just a, a to a a time period where we're losing our rights, we're losing our freedoms, and we're gonna have to fight for'em.
- 7:49So I appreciate you listening.
- 7:51This is the Live To Shoot podcast.
- 7:53I'm Jeff Dowel and have a great day.