Latest / Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights / Government Lies About Good Guys With Guns
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- 0:16Well, welcome to the Live to Shoot podcast.
- 0:18My name is Jeff Dowell, and I've been a licensed farms dealer for the last 17 years.
- 0:22In this podcast, we talk about, everything related to the second amendment as well as anything else going on in the news or a sports story or anything else that I might find interesting.
- 0:32So welcome, welcome, welcome.
- 0:34So this week we had the presidential debate, which I'm not really going to talk about.
- 0:39I didn't watch it.
- 0:40I don't typically watch the debates because it's just better for my own mental health.
- 0:45But we did learn in this debate that Kamala Harris is a gun owner.
- 0:50Who wouldn't know?
- 0:50Who knew?
- 0:51You know?
- 0:51So You know, and it's because, again, the elite believe that they need to have those rights that others don't.
- 0:59Others don't.
- 1:00They will buy all the privately armed security that they need, but they do want to take your guns away.
- 1:06And while she continues to deny that she wants to take your guns away, she has already said many times, and it's, it's It's been documented that she supports a buyback program and she supports a mandatory buyback program.
- 1:20And when you say mandatory, another word for that is confiscation.
- 1:24I think she dances around it when people say she wants to confiscate her guns.
- 1:28No, she wants a mandatory buyback is what she wants.
- 1:31She doesn't want to confiscate them.
- 1:32She wants a mandatory buyback.
- 1:34She wants to give you something for those guns.
- 1:36She doesn't want to just take them.
- 1:37But what are they going to give us?
- 1:40I don't know.
- 1:41But, You know that is a, you know, what came out of the debate.
- 1:45Who won?
- 1:45Who lost?
- 1:46What's the results?
- 1:47I don't know.
- 1:48I don't think it moves the needle too much.
- 1:50But another story that came out this week was an article by John Lott.
- 1:56And If you don't know who John Lott is, he is an economist, a political commentator, but he's also a very huge gun rights advocate, writes a lot of articles.
- 2:07He's written several books one book called More Guns, Less Crime, the other one, The Bias Against Guns Freedonomics is, is another one, and he came out with an, an article in the Federalist saying that, you know, the government has been lying to us about the data around showing that good guys with guns save lives.
- 2:30Now, who would be surprised to know that, think the government has been lying to us about Anything, really.
- 2:38I mean especially David and especially the CDC.
- 2:41I mean, really, we, we love the CDC.
- 2:44They are, they, they keep us so safe.
- 2:47But yes, when it comes to, um, the, you know, the government has always been, you know, debunking this idea that good guys with guns can save lives.
- 2:57They believe that nobody should have guns, but John Lott wrote that the numbers do back it up.
- 3:05But the FBI have been fiddling with those numbers.
- 3:09This is from his article.
- 3:09It says, Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control, the CDC, under the Biden administration, has sought to suppress data proving that armed citizens help prevent crime by removing the estimates.
- 3:22It's estimates of defensive gun uses from its website.
- 3:25For almost a decade, the CDC referenced a 2013 National Academies of Science report noting that people use guns to stop crime anywhere from about 64, 000 to 3 million times a year.
- 3:39The decision was taken after a gun control activist, Mark Bryant, founder of the Gun Violence Archive, lobbied to remove the misinformation Regarding the CDC's defensive gun use estimates.
- 3:51Because they are cited by gun rights folks to stop gun control legislation.
- 3:57Soon after the CDC took those numbers and estimates down.
- 4:01And now they list, and list no numbers.
- 4:03And I mean, extreme bias, right?
- 4:07And we wonder why, you know, we can't trust the government.
- 4:10You know, what about all those different COVID numbers?
- 4:13But he goes on to say that you know, the CDC isn't the only one.
- 4:17He quotes, he talks about the FBI.
- 4:18He says the FBI has also shown itself to be susceptible to political pressure.
- 4:23Huh, surprising, the FBI defines an active shooter attack as occurring when an individual actively kills or attempts to kill people in a populated public area.
- 4:34This measure includes everything from just one person shot at, even if the target isn't hit, to a mass public shooting, it doesn't, it doesn't include however shootings involving other crimes such as robbery or fighting over drug turf.
- 4:47To compile this list, the FBI hired researchers at the Texas State Police departments, you know, don't record these cases.
- 4:56So the researchers relied on Google searches to find stories about these incidents.
- 5:01As such, the FBI relied, evidence relies on a data set that is actively hostile to the truth.
- 5:08Yeah, so Google.
- 5:09We're using Google to determine these numbers.
- 5:12He says, During 2020 and the beginning of 2021, I, John Lott, he worked as the Senior Advisor for Research and Statistics at the U.
- 5:21S.
- 5:21Department of Justice.
- 5:22He says, My job included evaluating the FBI's active shooting reports.
- 5:27During my time with the DOJ, I discovered that the FBI either missed or missed.
- 5:31or misidentified many cases of civilians using guns to stop attacks.
- 5:35It says, for instance, the FBI continues to report that armed citizens stopped only 14 of the 350 active shooter cases that identified in the 10 year period between 2014 and 2023.
- 5:48It says He said the Crime Prevention Research Center, which he runs, has found many more missed cases and is keeping an updated list.
- 5:56He says, as such, the CPRC is organization Numbers tell a much different story.
- 6:01Out of the 515 active shooter cases from two 2014 to two to two 20 2023, sorry.
- 6:09Armed citizens stopped 180, saving countless in his lives.
- 6:13Our numbers even include 27 cases where a law abiding citizen with a gun stopped an attacker before he could fire a shot.
- 6:20Overall, the CPRC estimates that law abiding citizens with guns have stopped over 35 percent of active shooting over the last decade and 39.
- 6:306 percent in the last 5 years.
- 6:32The figure is 8 times higher than the 4 percent estimate.
- 6:37the FBI.
- 6:38Now 35 percent not huge.
- 6:41I mean, you know, I, I think, you know, the numbers get much bigger when you talk about individuals protecting themselves with a firearm, whether just you know, using it as a deterrent or actually firing it but you know why you know one reason that these act these numbers are not as high on these what they consider active shooter or mass shooting incidents is because where do most of these events occur all right gun free zones And the good guys that have the guns also obey the law and they don't take their guns into gun free zones.
- 7:21So they don't have as much of an opportunity to protect innocent people because they are following the law.
- 7:28But these law buyers are the ones that, you know, Kamala and her regime want to take the guns away from.
- 7:35So, that's one reason I believe the stats might not be as high because they're happening, you know, at schools and places like that where People have, you know, in malls where they have, you know, you can't carry, usually typically say they won't, they'll have a postage that you can't conceal carry.
- 7:53But so those people that could defend you are not there because they're following the law.
- 7:59But if you look at this, the Appalachee high school shooting where a school resource officer Brought down the, the, the, the, perpetrator and didn't even kill him.
- 8:12Does show that arming and protecting our schools do work.
- 8:16Now, do we need, probably, we need more resource officers?
- 8:21Yes Do I believe we need to arm our teachers?
- 8:24Yes.
- 8:25I think we've got, as I said, I believe it was last week's process.
- 8:28Special cargo in those schools, our children.
- 8:31We need to protect them.
- 8:32We need to lock it down.
- 8:33We need to have you know, one resource officer for a high school.
- 8:37These large schools that are, can be our campuses in a lot of cases.
- 8:42Isn't sufficient.
- 8:45And so we need to either have more resource officers, which, you know, Kamala Harris, you know, she is very, you know, defund the police.
- 8:53She doesn't want the police to be protecting us.
- 8:56She doesn't want us to be able to protect ourselves.
- 8:59She really doesn't want us to be protected at all.
- 9:01She wants to have chaos, but I think what this does show is that, you know arming our citizens, providing more resource school resource officers can help protect our kids.
- 9:12And that's what we need to do.
- 9:14But we also need to know we can't trust the government.
- 9:17And this is just another case of that.
- 9:19And it everything that they continue to say, uh, is false.
- 9:24This Kamala, if you look at the, watch the debate, and I, I said I didn't watch it, but I've gotten highlights.
- 9:29You know, she lied, lied, lied.
- 9:31The moderators did not, you know, correct her.
- 9:34They, they fact checked President Trump over and over again, because the left wants to continue to lie to us.
- 9:42They think we're not smart enough to figure it out, but we are.
- 9:45Our eyes are open, and we can see.
- 9:48So.
- 9:48You need to keep spreading the truth, tell people they can't trust the numbers they see from the government about what how guns keep individuals safe.
- 9:57And we need to keep fighting for our, and protecting our guns.
- 10:01And again, we got to get out and spread the vote and get President Trump reelected.
- 10:06So get out there, vote and fight, fight, fight.
- 10:09I appreciate you listening and have a great rest of your week.