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E55: "Gun Violence" - What is the Root Problem? · The Junto Podcast

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Hello, America. Welcome to the Juneto podcast, where we promote the practical
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applications of critical thinking and bold creativity.
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I'm your host, Edgar Mills. Thank you for,
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Hello, America. Welcome to episode 55. We're still going strong.
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I hope you guys are enjoying the content, and I appreciate you guys for listening.
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All right, today we may get a little bit controversial. We shall see.
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I watch local news in the morning, and a topic that I see all the time is starting
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to press on me a little bit.
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I reject collectivist excuses that puts the blame on tools or systems instead
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of individuals who choose to do crime, who choose to do wrong,
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who choose to do violence, etc.
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And I'm doing some air finger quotes here. Gun violence is a favored slogan
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amongst the politicians and activists and corporate media they like to use to
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sidestep accountability to misdirect accountability,
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So I want to talk about it head on because the stakes are pretty high.
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The stakes are innocent human lives being lost.
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Yeah, in major cities, Atlanta, Chicago, et cetera, for sure.
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But it's spreading out also to the suburbs and even more rural places.
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It's spreading out. But as these populations in the city, it ain't that the
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populations are necessarily exploding in the city.
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But if a new, especially tech industry moves in and they, well,
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gentrification, let's talk about that just for a sec. That's not what I want
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to talk about. I'm getting sidetracked.
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But I'm not opposed to gentrification as it's so-called.
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There's nothing wrong with bringing the property value up and making an area
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nicer. but it does displace people.
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And those displaced people have to go somewhere. And if a place where low-income
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housing existed, or just old housing, not necessarily low-income,
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whatever, just a place that's getting a little dilapidated and whatnot,
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and somebody comes in and buys up five square city blocks to build high-rises
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and office buildings, those people got to go somewhere.
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So that pushes out to the to the outskirts
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right used to be there in
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atlanta there's there's otp and
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itp and everybody itp rips
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on everybody otp that's outside the perimeter inside the perimeter but 285 used
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to be when i was younger 285 was like the outskirts for sure now 285 barely
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contains the population of Metro Atlanta.
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And just going outside of 285 these days, you got to go six exits down before
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you start to get a little elbow room.
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So, yeah, I'm not saying population rise is a problem.
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It's not. I believe that's a false argument there.
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But anyway, my point is crime while, well, we'll hit some statistics in a minute.
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So anyway, back to gun violence. And every time, imagine, folks,
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every time you hear me say gun violence, that I'm doing air finger, air finger quotes.
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Because I reject the term gun violence. They coined activists,
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leftist activists and politicians They coined that phrase, gun violence As a
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deliberate deflection device Yeah,
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in order to shift blame off of individual criminals And to shift blame onto
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firearms They've been trying to control guns ever since the beginning And I
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mean the beginning of our almost 250 year old country,
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In order, yeah, unarmed citizens are easier to control.
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Unarmed populations are easier to control. That's just it. If you break it down
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to the barest essentials, that's it.
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But the leftists who are big government, they want government control of everything.
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That's it. Gun violence makes guns seem really scary.
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Therefore, we must control them.
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Guns good people are inanimate objects yep no different than your car no different
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than your shovel no different than the cup of coffee the the cup you pour your coffee in.
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There's a few every town i think it was called every town usa or something like
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that every town for gun safety and Moms Demand Action, people like that.
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They made the term gun violence widespread.
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If you say a thing enough, right, that's a tactic.
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You say a thing enough, it catches on.
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They made that popular in the very early 2000s and 2010s.
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And instead of a neutral description of a firearm-related incident, it became gun violence.
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Yeah, so everybody, yeah, that's it. And that turned into a political weapon
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that somehow implies that a gun possesses some kind of agency,
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some kind of ability to influence.
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That guns are somehow inherently evil and guns somehow cause the violence.
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Guns are inert tools, again, like your car, like a knife, like a hammer, like a needle.
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All those things are used to kill all the time.
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Nobody says hammer violence. Nobody says automobile violence.
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Why not? No one even says knife violence when some psycho goes on a rampage,
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especially in like, you see this in China and you see it in Great Britain where
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dudes go on these knife rampages.
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Because guns, generally speaking, are outlawed to the general population.
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Now, granted, you know, organized criminals certainly have guns,
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but they go on these stabbing sprees,
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cutting people up. Nobody says knife violence, so it's kind of weird.
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The term gun violence, when they wrap up their statistics nicely to be able
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to shape a narrative, that lumps in suicides.
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Suicides are responsible for over half of gun deaths, gun-caused, gun-related deaths.
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Yeah they lump in accidents
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dump well i reject the term accident negligent
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discharges they lump those in as gun violence when
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some dumbass accidentally shot someone else
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because i thought it was unloaded me defensive gun use they lump in with gun
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violence and yeah there was a violent thing happening but i think statistics
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are going to begin to show as people start paying attention to it and start
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actually recording these things,
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that defensive gun use is exponentially greater than what you think it is and
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has been known to stop criminals and mass shooters and all sorts of things.
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And then criminal homicides, yeah, they lump all those together,
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and it comes out with a big, big, scary number, a big, big, scary statistic.
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And then based on that big, scary statistic, these leftist anti-gun groups demand
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that we disarm all law-abiding citizens.
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Because again, mind you, criminals aren't going to disarm just because the law
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says so. By definition, they're criminals.
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But what this term gun violence also does is it ignores root causes of violence. Yeah.
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And it purposely does that so that it can then purposely pave the way for more government control.
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And government control and government policies never, ever, ever touch the root causes of violence.
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They just put what they think are good band-aids onto a gushing bleed.
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Guns are not the problem. Guns have never been the problem.
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Just because guns happen to be an efficient killing tool, I agree, they are.
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And in some of my classes, sometimes I even call them the killing machine.
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Guns are meant for killing. Yeah.
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And I believe everybody should have one and carry one.
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Everybody who's mentally stable and not criminal oriented.
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So the term gun violence, it's misleading because it breaks it down into a little subset.
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But they don't address anything other than the gun.
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In the major metros, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, places like that,
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Detroit, criminals use guns.
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But as far as violent crimes go, I don't even think guns are most prevalent. and violent crimes.
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If you just look at violence, but the media fixates on them.
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Because guns make headlines. That's why. They're scary.
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So it's easy to sensationalize, and it heats up political extremes on either side of the issue.
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Knives, Blunt hammers Blunt objects Ball bats And bare hands Yeah,
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Account for thousands Of assaults and murders every year But nobody says a damn
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word about it And mind you I'm not saying We should place Restrictions on knives
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and hammers How are you going to restrict somebody's bare hands?
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It's the violence it's not the the the tool used for the violence it's the violence itself,
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now looking at some fbi data we're not going to get into boring statistics yet
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but we are going to get into some statistics but some fbi data shows that most
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urban homicides are gang related,
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Drug related Or some kind of Personal beef Over turf or some Crap like that
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and that they're not random Shootings at all And that's the vast majority of,
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Homicides in.
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In higher crime areas, yeah, somebody with a gun, that's going to escalate, right?
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If it starts out as a fist fight and one of the two has a gun,
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yeah, strong chance they're going to pull that gun and end that fist fight.
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But the fist fight started for some other reason, didn't it?
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Or you think somebody carrying a gun goes around and the gun's like,
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hey, hey, let's go mess with this guy and then blast him.
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Maybe there's some criminally insane people out there maybe maybe somebody out
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there their gun talks to them i don't know the violence comes from a broken culture,
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you can't outlaw human nature good people there's human nature but then what else,
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behavior violence that's a learned learned
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behavior violence is and it
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gets burned into the heart and mind by repetition
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by by the world around you if you
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live in the hood and all you see is violence that's what that's that's what
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you know and then it becomes your behavior and you act that way violent indignant
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and unless you've got a criminal record and then if you have a clean record
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yeah you can go buy a gun and i'm all for it if you got a clean record you should Be able to buy a gun.
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But the gun's just a tool still.
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And when these leftists and these activist judges and all these people,
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they focus only on the gun.
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And they let the perpetrator off the hook.
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And then all the citizens around this perpetrator are now...
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They are we've got this problem child who
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grew up being violent never got any accountability
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applied no consequences minimal
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consequences now he's still terrorizing the
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neighborhood terrorizing the city and furthermore you're trying to disarm law-abiding
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citizens now they're left defenseless while criminals have the weapons and they
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don't want to speak out especially in the hood right because they're torn between loyalty to their people,
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and they don't want to talk to the cops.
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And if they did, they would be targeted anyway, most likely.
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So you're torn between, okay, do I speak out, do I point fingers and name names,
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or do I just sit quietly and maybe become a victim sooner or later?
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That's a tough choice. It's a tough choice.
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So let's do a broad look at gun ownership versus crime.
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I'm not going to belabor these too much, but these figures bust the leftist talking points.
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But they say I'm enough, right? That's the thing. If we say it enough,
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it must be true. But it's not true.
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States with higher gun ownership have lower crime.
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So the 2024-25 FBI data one overall violent crime in America is down,
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significantly over the past five years so one everybody should acknowledge that
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and look at that and acknowledge it the only reason it seems like the world
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is out of control is because social media because people love to catch it on video,
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post it up, and it gets a million hits.
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But crime is down. Violent crime is down.
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Now, these states are rural, right? But we got Montana, Wyoming,
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Alaska, Idaho, all with, you know, nearly 70% gun ownership.
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And their crime stats are extremely low.
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And also in the South, you've got a lot of, because most Southern states are gun friendly.
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But look at states that are not gun friendly.
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Massachusetts, New Jersey. They've got extremely strict gun laws.
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But somehow their crime rates are through the roof.
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So I said crimes down. Atlanta specifically. I'm going to talk a lot about Georgia
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and Atlanta because that's where I'm at.
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But the homicides dropped.
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I think in 2024 there was 120-something recorded homicides.
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Now, aggravated assaults went up. And if you know anything about Atlanta,
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you live in Atlanta, you got all these young people out running the streets
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creating freaking chaos everywhere.
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And that lends itself to that aggravated assault number going up.
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But most of those are not gun-related in any way. But what does that prove, though? No.
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The people are the problem, not the gun. And even in these states that have
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lower crime rate, like homicide rates, it's the urban spaces that push those numbers, folks.
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It's the urban spaces that push those numbers. I'm going to say it right now
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before we get into what we got
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coming next, but correlation does not equal causation. We got that right.
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But I would consider myself a street smart guy i i grew up on the low end you
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know and i have a fair amount of experience with violence i was never a gangbanger
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or anything like that but i'm i'm adjacent i was always adjacent,
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i was hood adjacent gangbanger adjacent and and intimately familiar with violence throughout my youth.
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From what I see, and then I see data that backs it up, it's lawful gun owners
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do not push the crime waves.
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Criminals do. Lawful gun owners do not do crime, generally speaking, in numbers, right?
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Of course, there's always anomalies here and there.
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Some jealous husband does a murder-suicide or something. I get it.
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But that's not, that does not, barely registers as a decimal blip on the crime statistics.
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Criminals ignore every law in the books. You can ban guns all day long.
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They're going to have them.
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Yeah, look at the war on drugs. All right.
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Now we're going to get into some boring statistics. statistics,
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but I'm going to use these statistics to set up where I'm going next.
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And if you want to hit me up about racism and this and that and the other,
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you're welcome to it. I will discuss it with you all day long.
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But the facts are the facts. And here we go. Now, I'm going to be working on
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Metro Atlanta statistics.
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And Metro Atlanta is, you know, a couple of counties here in the middle,
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Fulton County and North Fulton.
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I don't know if, well, I think they might be considered. Let me see. I thought I had that.
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Metro Atlanta, at any rate. And I'm going to tell you. And then we're going
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to work on some Georgia state statistics.
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But Metro Atlanta area encompasses somewhere around 6.5 million people.
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And that's a lot of people.
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Now, you guys know, if you've ever been to some major cities,
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Metro Atlanta spreads out.
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Atlanta is the city in the trees, right, or something like that.
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I forget what people call it. It's not as compact as some place like New York,
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for instance, or Boston, or something like that.
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Atlanta spreads out a little bit, and it's good. I like it. I like the green trees.
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Six and a half million people. And of that,
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45% are white, about 35% are black, somewhere around 10% to 12% Hispanic,
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and then somewhere around 6% or 7% are Asian.
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Now, some of those numbers vary depending on what source you look at.
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Because, yeah, we have a significant amount of undocumented citizens cruising around metro Atlanta.
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In the city statistics, Atlanta is about 47% black and about 39% white and then others.
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Now, I'm not minimizing the others, good people. Don't get wrong here.
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But for the sake of what we're talking about, we're talking about black and
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white right now because the majority of the crime statistics shake out like that.
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All right, in the state of Georgia, so Atlanta's majority black,
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or I guess you'd say the plurality, 47% black.
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In Georgia, that's not the case.
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There's a lot of rural space in Georgia, and it's something around 60% white,
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34%, 35% black, and then others.
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So white versus non-white categories is how GBI breaks it down for whatever reason.
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The numbers are largely black, takes up the non-white category.
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2024, these are the latest data. 83% of murders were committed by blacks.
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This is GBI statistics. 81% of robberies committed by blacks.
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66% of aggravated assaults committed by blacks.
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Now, I've got a very interesting statistic here.
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And you think I'm hammering, I'm being racist. I'm just pointing out factual numbers right now.
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We'll get to all the whys and what for us.
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53% of rapes were committed by whites.
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Now, that's it. And you know what? And I'm even tempted, I'm apt to do a podcast on this topic later.
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That was an interesting statistic that stood out to me. while doing this gun
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violence situation here.
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53% of rapes were committed by whites.
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More to follow. All right, that was violent crime. Property crime.
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The disparity is a little less, right? The disparity is a little less in property crime.
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But the overall violent crime statistics shake out.
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67 percent of all violent crimes
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committed by blacks the overall property
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crime we're talking burglary larceny motor theft 52
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percent shake out to be black and
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then obviously overwhelmingly males right
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and overwhelmingly between the
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ages of 18 and 34 overwhelmingly that's across demographics atlanta specific
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homicide victims now this is a very important number this is very important number.
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Victim demographics, 2024 Atlanta
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Police Department data, 90% of homicide victims were black, 87% male.
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I don't think that's a surprise to anybody. And then 93% of the suspects that
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are arrested for those were black.
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Like something like out of 100 plus, like seven of them were female maybe.
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So between 91 and 97, and that's 22 and 23 data.
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They don't have this data newer than that.
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91 to 97% of known fatal shooting victims and suspects were black.
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Yeah, victims and suspects. Yeah.
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In suspects between 88 and 96 percent male.
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And then the averages, surprisingly, the ages, the average ages was between 26 and 31.
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So, yeah, there's a lot of 18 upward who are outdoing crime,
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but the victims and perpetrators of murder were, the average age was 26 to 31.
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So, a few more, come on, a few more I hate to keep doing statistics,
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So black individuals were victims of violent crime 1.9 times higher than their
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population share And they were
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arrested for violent crime Two times higher than their population share,
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Blacks were victimized, largely
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by other blacks 3.2 times higher than a white rate of victimization,
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and the arrest rate is 3.8 times higher than the white arrest rate.
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And overall, this is the takeaway number. And I'm talking to the black community here.
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82% of violent crime victims were the same race as the offender.
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That's the thing to think about. And I'm not saying it's okay to do crime on
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the other race or anything like that.
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I'm saying it's just crazy that the vast majority of the violence perpetrated
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by young black men is perpetrated on young black men.
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That's a shame. And we'll get to it here.
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Because, look, that was crime statistics, all right? That was some just dry numbers.
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You can take them for what you want. Dry numbers.
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But now we're going to look at root causes of violence, folks.
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And you ain't going to like it.
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Probably the black community is not going to like what I'm about to say. And I welcome debate.
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In metro Atlanta, well, urban areas for sure where there's majority black population,
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but I'm talking about metro Atlanta.
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Now, all the crime, not just a violent crime, hell, all the crime,
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it stems from the same toxic culture that's being pushed day in and day out.
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And it has been purposely crafted over the past six or seven decades by the
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political activists, and you can call them puppet masters if you want.
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And it's celebrated via ignorance, either from lack of education or just willful ignorance.
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This toxic culture is celebrated.
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The culture of fatherless homes, the purposeful cultural division,
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because the left loves class warfare, good people.
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They love it. So they have a vested interest in maintaining a significant cultural divide.
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Welfare dependency.
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The devaluation of moral behavior.
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Morals in general. Manners in general. Good manners are no longer applauded or rewarded.
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This is a part of this toxic culture.
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I'm open for debate Over 70% of black children Were born to single mothers That's bad.
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Largely, that's based on, well, definitely poverty, school dropout rates,
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gang involvement, which is probably a pretty significant one,
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and then violent crime related to that gang involvement.
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And like I said, virtue in general is laughed at.
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Good manners is laughed at. if you're
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a young black kid and you try to speak as
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though you are are somewhat educated and you
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enunciate words correctly you get clowned on virtue is laughed at education
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even is laughed at self-reliance gets this welfare state degrades at at a family self-reliance,
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And then in this ghetto culture,
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self-reliance is thieving.
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You know what I mean? That's what's considered self-reliance.
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I got to get mine, so I'm going to take yours.
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That's what the ghetto culture celebrates, exacerbates.
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And even centuries ago, you know,
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I always bring up Frederick Bastiat, But he talked about the welfare state is
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the opposite of virtuous self-reliance.
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Ghetto and gangster culture glorifies predators. Yeah.
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Now, I remember, now look, I'm no fan of Hillary Clinton. I can tell you that.
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But I remember in the 90s, she said something like, you know,
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maybe she wasn't nuanced enough. I don't know, man.
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But she said, like, young black men are predators or something like that.
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Well, I mean, I don't know if she was like, she got ripped for it,
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though. And she was a Democrat, you know.
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And the Democrats prod themselves in owning the black vote. Right.
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A slip of the tongue there. They pride themselves in owning the black vote.
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But it does, ghetto gangster culture absolutely glorifies predators because
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they, because it's glorified in a way that it's, well,
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romanticized even a little bit that, hey, the strongest survive.
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So you got to be the strongest, whether it's through violence or stealing or whatever it is.
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Well, I mean, it's not an outdated concept.
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The strong do survive, but being strong in mind and body, not just the ability
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to shoot somebody and take their stuff.
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And look, all right, I'll get to it. I'll get to it.
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The war on drugs, good people. What did the war on drugs do to the black community?
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It was called a war on drugs, but it was the opposite of that.
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But what it did do is create a massive, massive, widespread underground system
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of black markets, gang wars, turf wars.
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Meanwhile, the CIA is importing drugs from South America.
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But in the inner cities, they're the ones, they're paying the price on American soil.
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And the black population loses, you know, in this dynamic, this underground system.
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Yeah, it's the way it is. I'm open for debate on it.
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Progressive policies, folks, these leftist and progressive policies,
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they bemoan and belittle and erode the nuclear family and make it a butt of
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jokes and clownery and the nuclear family is the source of all evil. Yeah.
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Is the bedrock of god dang civilized society.
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Now, that don't mean that there aren't bad individual humans out there.
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A dad who's running around banging a secretary or a mom who's,
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you know, hooked on Valium.
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Yeah, I get it. There's individual issues to be dealt with, but we're talking
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about the structure itself.
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Mom, dad in the household, kids who have structure, Kids who have a little bit
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of, a little discipline, you know, it ain't got to be frigging rigid.
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And kids who have a little bit of guidance, yeah, a little guidance,
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who are urged to get an education, who are urged to get the job,
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to learn a little bit of structure and discipline.
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There's more to it than just pro sports and whatnot and raw athletic ability.
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The dynamic or i'm sorry
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that the nuclear family is was
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and and it should still be the bedrock of civilized society now if you're out
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there and you're listening you're gay and trans and and whatever lesbian hey
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that the structure itself is is intact you still shouldn't be running around,
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if you've got a partner.
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You still shouldn't be running around doing drugs and being promiscuous or whatever other vile things.
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The structure still holds. Whatever your little nuance is, is your little nuance, and that's great.
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Wow, that's, I'm about to get off on a different tangent. Let me back up here. Let's see.
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Yeah, when I was young, so anyway, growing up, right, I was an only child,
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unsupervised, and we always came up in the lower end, the lower end,
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They divorced when I was very young, but they was always moving around south
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side of Atlanta somewhere, chasing low rent, I think, I guess.
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I grew up, my grandparents on my dad's side always lived in Section 8 housing.
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Look my dad was rock solid my uncle
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david rock solid but some of
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my other family members not so much and they
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were always putting extra effort
34:53
onto my grandparents anyway they always lived in section eight so we were always
34:59
among the one or two black white families in a in a completely black neighborhood
35:05
or something like that but they always moved around from whatever apartment to apartment.
35:11
I assume chasing low rent. Hell, I don't even know why.
35:14
But what I did see throughout all that is, you know, I saw welfare dependency
35:21
and I saw people who had no incentive to get up and go to work.
35:26
And I saw a lack of marriage. I saw teen pregnancies.
35:33
And when I was young in the in the 70s and 80s, I didn't see the victimhood narrative.
35:40
That came along probably in the mid-late 90s and 2000s.
35:47
I didn't really see the victimhood culture, but that blew up,
35:51
man, and especially in the 2000s, that blew up, being pushed by leftists and
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the progressives of today.
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But today, what does that do? What does that enable yeah
36:03
these indignant tantrums you see
36:06
out in public when a grown-ass woman gets questioned
36:10
or gets called out for doing something that's
36:13
just generally speaking unacceptable and you get these these friggin violent
36:19
indignant tantrums and they start that's unacceptable shit man and that i didn't
36:26
even see that kind of shit in the in the 70s and 80s, or even in the 90s.
36:31
But that stuff, it's not, those aren't symptoms of just poverty.
36:35
I've known plenty of poor people who are perfectly sane, rational, well-behaved, or,
36:43
they did, man. There's plenty of poor immigrants from all over the world that
36:48
come here with a strong family unit, and they don't do any violence.
36:55
The failure is not just the poverty piece.
36:58
It's individual character and culture that is being purposely decayed by the activists.
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And you need to understand what I'm saying, people. The activists have a stake in it.
37:11
They have a stake and they
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are purposely decaying the culture to create
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the dependency on their system all this
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all this shit is exacerbated by garbage bullshit marxist urban policies that
37:29
have done nothing folks have done nothing to help the black community you know
37:36
i used to watch One of my favorite shows when I was young, Good Times.
37:40
And that was what, you know, you look at it and you're like,
37:43
well, yeah, they're poor.
37:45
James is out there working. You know, JJ catches an odd job here and there.
37:51
Florida, did she work? She worked too. I think she worked at like a social worker thing.
37:57
But guess who ran that household? Yeah. Yeah.
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Around he didn't mess around he was
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structured he had discipline yeah and then
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guess what man that they never got rich but
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but they were a family they were happy and it's they struggled yeah for sure
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and i'm not saying that's the stasis right i'm not saying that's where they
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i'm just saying minus the dad that looks very different look you go to any major urban area,
38:33
I think in good times, they were in Chicago, right? Yeah, I think so.
38:37
Go to any, first of all, all these major urban cities, they're all Democrat run.
38:45
And if you go to any one of these cities and look around and you see these homeless
38:49
tent cities and people living under the bridges and all this stuff,
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you can point by point go back and find a failed progressive policy that created that.
39:02
And a policy that most likely got funded and then somehow magically just petered out.
39:09
But then, you know, but then there's a few politicians that their net worth magically.
39:16
You know, in following months after the hubbub went away, right?
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The policy got passed, it got funded, and then you see no movement.
39:25
And then a year later, you got politicians who add into their net worth.
39:32
And let's get a little racial here for a minute. Don't think for one second
39:37
that black politicians and black councilmen and black commissioners are immune
39:43
to corruption because they're not.
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No politician, no councilman, no commissioner is immune to corruption.
39:53
It all depends on the foundation of their character.
39:58
And the majority, I'm going to do finger quotes, white system,
40:01
is not blameless in all this at all.
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Again, I continually blame the leftists.
40:08
And especially from a historic perspective. folks I
40:12
am not dismissing you know
40:15
all the injustices of the past I am not dismissing it I'm not minimalizing it
40:20
it exists it's there and you can remember it and you can have museums dedicated
40:26
to it and you can teach the history of it in schools but don't dwell in it because,
40:35
the white air fingers quote white system has become the easy scapegoat to avoid
40:43
individual accountability.
40:44
Why do you say that Edgar? Because I have real conversations with real people.
40:49
I watch and listen to a
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vast broad spectrum of perspectives to
40:57
include extremely racist black people and it's
41:01
a common theme within the deep black spaces that the white system is the evil
41:07
the big evil the white people are the big evil and that ain't the case either
41:12
all right now i'm going to do another set of statistics i'm doing another set
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of statistics first i'm going to give you a quote.
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America's greatest crime against a black man was not slavery or lynching,
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but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
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Hold on to that. I'm going to repeat it. So here's some other statistics.
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In America today, well, as of 2024, statistics are slow to get out, folks.
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No, this is 2025 data, 2024, 2025 data.
41:54
There are 2 million black American millionaires in America, 2 million.
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Now, I get those figures from Statista and UBS and the Credit Suisse Global
42:08
Health Reports and all kinds of other, they're compiled.
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2 million black American millionaires.
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And that shakes out something like one in every 25 black adults.
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And that number has grown since 2000. 20 even by probably a quarter million people.
42:29
No, sorry. No more than that. I think it says in 2020, there was somewhere around
42:35
260,000 black millionaires.
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And, and by 2025, 2 million black millionaires.
42:46
What, what drives that? What drove that? Well.
42:52
Their gains through the stock market. Yeah. Homeownership is a major factor
42:58
in that stability and that being able to get equity and those kinds of things.
43:05
Well, and clearly just being smart with money.
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Entrepreneurship. Yeah. Entrepreneurship is a driver of that.
43:13
And then there's two others that are obvious. What are they?
43:16
Yeah. Pro sports and entertainment. I don't know how many of those 2 million
43:22
millionaires are pro athletes, but probably a significant number.
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And entertainers, for that matter.
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Yeah, that's significant. I'm not a millionaire. I don't.
43:37
I perhaps, as of recently, and I mean the past couple years,
43:42
perhaps maybe know one millionaire.
43:46
Maybe. Maybe two And clearly we're not homies We're just snowy time.
43:55
All right. So now they're given that statistic, right?
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And that's about 5% of the black population.
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About 5% of the black population are millionaires.
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The median net worth for black households across America is $24,520.
44:19
So I want to address that disparity here.
44:23
How is that median net worth across them? And that's to include these millionaires, right?
44:28
So this 5% of the population, and that's the median number, folks.
44:33
That means it goes lower than that, well lower.
44:37
How is that possible? So when the leftist activists and progressives talk about
44:45
how the capitalism creates poverty,
44:51
well, I'll point you to the fact that, yeah, there are 5% of the black population millionaires.
44:58
Capitalism, well, communism didn't get that done.
45:02
I can tell you. And by looking at what we looked at for how they got there,
45:09
looking at stock market and home ownership and entrepreneurship and sports and
45:15
entertainment, that's capitalism at work right there. But why is there such a gap?
45:21
We're trying to bridge that gap. The middle class built America, good people.
45:27
The middle class built America, physically built it. Why?
45:33
And I quote, America's greatest crime against a black man was not slavery or
45:38
lynching, but he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
45:43
So if you're black, one, what do you think about that statement?
45:47
Two, if you're black, how does it look with the black community or is the black
45:54
community helping the black community?
45:57
So I point you to one of my favorite people to quote on the subject of race.
46:03
And this is a man who didn't care for whites particularly, but what he did understand
46:07
is accountability, and that was Malcolm X. That's who said that.
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He understood accountability. Yep.
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Of accountability in America today. And part of it comes from these soft on
46:28
crime leftist policies that just continue to linger.
46:34
Part of it comes from these sort of activist judges and things like catch and release.
46:43
When a violent repeat offender,
46:47
When a violent repeat offender gets arrested and cycled through these major
46:58
urban cities, like Fulton County, for instance,
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this socialist, and they got these social justice defenders and prosecutors and whatnot.
47:10
And these judges who are social justice activists, a violent repeat offender
47:18
can get arrested, spend the weekend in jail, wait for court on Monday or Tuesday.
47:24
And this guy's probably got a rap sheet three, five, eight pages long,
47:29
armed robbery, aggravated assault.
47:31
And then he'll get a reduced or no bail release, catch maybe probation or some
47:39
just from reduced charges down to some, the word's escaping right now,
47:46
not felony, misdemeanor. There we go. God dang.
47:50
So that it doesn't look bad on his record. And then, boom, kicked out into the street.
47:59
And here's the thing now because we got the Internet and we got instant information.
48:05
There's there's instances where dudes have gotten out of prison gone out in
48:10
the same day and committed the exact same crime in the same day,
48:18
okay.
48:21
And that's part of what you see on the right-leaning, what do you call it, news media.
48:28
And they'll be moaning that, right? Well, this guy shouldn't have ever been
48:32
out on the street. He got released and then went out and murdered somebody, right?
48:40
And that's a legit thing. That's a legit problem. And that's not wrong for right-wing
48:45
media to point that out. left-wing media just glosses right on over that.
48:52
Why is a violent repeat offender constantly out on the street? Why?
48:57
It's not a human rights issue. Now, look, first, let's jump into another topic
49:01
just for a moment. Criminals.
49:04
Justice reform needs to happen. We need to relook at our criminal code.
49:11
We need to look at nonviolent crime and reassess what things really warrant
49:22
clogging up the system with.
49:25
And then we need to relook at violent crime and determine, hey,
49:30
does this human being need to be off the street?
49:34
Some maybe indefinitely. And then we need to relook at jail itself.
49:39
Right now, what is prison but a meat factory where they go in,
49:45
learn to become more violent and more lethal, even if it's just in defending
49:51
their own butthole, right?
49:53
You're going to learn to either protect yourself or assimilate with some group
50:00
that's willing to protect you for your allegiance.
50:03
Or whatever. What kind of reform is happening in that environment?
50:08
Zero reform is happening in that environment.
50:12
So yeah, there needs to be, and yeah, there's some little programs,
50:16
man. I know, I know there's little educational programs here and there.
50:19
And you got some little nonprofit, you know, preacher goes in and,
50:23
and, and prays with the criminals and stuff. I get it.
50:27
I understand there's things, but those things aren't working.
50:30
Those things aren't working. So anyway, back to, yes, there needs to be some
50:36
very serious and extreme criminal justice reform.
50:43
That needs to be a priority. All right, meanwhile.
50:47
As it is repeat offenders getting
50:51
getting back out on the street days later
50:54
with no serious bail at all well overly high bail is just racist because you
51:00
know they can't raise that money so they're stuck in jail well a criminal offender
51:04
needs to be stuck in jail a violent offender a violent offender needs to be
51:09
stuck in jail yeah that's that's it and a violent offender needs to be stuck in jail.
51:14
But even, especially in Fulton County, I mean, there's, holy cow,
51:23
it's liberal, right? Liberal, to say the least.
51:27
But they prioritize like DEI even in the justice system, all right?
51:37
They're going to do their own curtailing. Well, there's too many black people
51:42
getting in trouble, so we're going to let these guys go.
51:45
Well, I think violence is the metric there, not the color.
51:50
Just like you getting ahead in business should be based on merit.
51:56
Yeah, you going to jail should be based on merit.
52:00
If you do something, if you hurt someone else, that warrants you going to jail.
52:05
You merited that. Okay.
52:10
Social justice people work. It's always band-aids and never the root cause. That's the problem.
52:18
Now, in my opinion, my libertarian opinion, government exists only to protect
52:24
individual rights, therefore to punish aggressors.
52:29
If you are a violator of a non-aggression principle and you physically hurt
52:37
or murder or even steal someone's property, you should go to jail. That's it.
52:44
It's, and I hope, I don't know. Do you think I'm sounding racist?
52:52
I hope not. I'm not.
52:55
I'm certainly not. I'm looking up a thing right now.
53:00
So bear with me. Okay, so I keep, I didn't, this whole thing is not meant to
53:06
be political, but understand I blame the left for a lot of failed policy,
53:10
especially in urban areas, especially when it comes to welfare state stuff.
53:15
And earlier when I said it was being crafted over the past six or seven decades,
53:20
yeah, LBJ, that's right.
53:22
So anyway, but I'm not meaning for it to necessarily be political,
53:27
but understand policies are what they are.
53:31
And urban, major urban cities are almost exclusively run by leftist Democrats.
53:39
And that's where the problems are.
53:44
To protect individual rights and therefore punish aggressors.
53:51
The recidivism rates for violent felons is somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 plus percent.
53:58
So that means you have a failure rate by letting these people go.
54:05
Yeah, you have a failure rate. You have a success rate of 40 percent.
54:09
That's a failing grade. You get a 40% in school on anything,
54:14
you have failed. That's a big fat F.
54:17
And if there's enough numbers there to actually get patterns and statistics,
54:21
you've got to, okay, we have to do something different.
54:25
But the political doctrine doesn't say do something different.
54:31
These repeat offenders go, that's not compassion, good people.
54:34
You're just setting them up for future failure.
54:36
Sooner or later, violent, aggressive criminals are either going to eventually
54:41
do something so egregious that they go to jail or they're going to get smoked.
54:47
Yeah, that's it. One or the other. They're going to die, live by the sword,
54:50
die by the sword, blah, blah, blah.
54:52
They're going to go out and get murdered in the commission of a crime or whatever,
54:57
or a retaliatory crime, or they're going to end up with life in prison or something.
55:07
So it's not compassion to the criminals, and it's certainly not compassion.
55:12
On the contrary, it's cruelty to the broader society, especially the victims.
55:20
The victims of their crimes, because violent criminals always have a victim,
55:24
right? You can't stand by yourself and do violence without affecting someone else.
55:30
Otherwise, it's not violence. It's just crazy. You're standing around.
55:34
You can stand in the middle of a sidewalk and scream and yell.
55:38
Act violently, F this, F that.
55:42
If you don't put your hands on anybody, you don't spit on anybody,
55:46
you don't shoot anybody, stab anybody, then you don't have a victim.
55:50
You're basically just exercising First Amendment rights. So it's definitely...
55:55
To be soft on crime is to be cruel on the victims. And then it's just unfair
56:00
to the communities around them.
56:02
Because now we got, it can be a poor community.
56:06
It can be the poorest of poor communities. But if there's no criminals,
56:10
and then you got like the gangs, right?
56:14
You got the one or two bad apples that they're like wild cards.
56:17
You never know if they're going to start blasting or if they're going to steal
56:22
something from your car or what.
56:25
It's an inversion of our morals to reward crime and thugs and then try to disarm
56:34
the citizens and producers.
56:38
It's backwards. It's backwards. Endless second chances without consequences
56:44
just creates career criminality. That's all it does.
56:47
That's what your soft on crime policies does. Creates career criminals.
56:53
Well, they're talking a lot of junk, Edgar. You've been talking a lot of junk.
56:58
Borderline racist. You're picking on black people. Just stating the facts.
57:03
But I'm always down to offer some potential solutions. Yeah.
57:10
Some solutions that I think may be, you know, a little pragmatic.
57:18
So at the community level, because that's where it all starts,
57:23
on a midterm, right? Mid-range, right?
57:26
You act at the community level. And for every,
57:31
For every thug, for every whatever, there's 10 solid, strong men with a good
57:41
head on their shoulders and good moral values.
57:44
Strong men in these crime-ridden neighborhoods.
57:50
And I've seen a lot of this on the local. This is another reason the local news
57:54
is so good because you get a little glimpse into some of this stuff.
57:58
Now, when I was young, this stuff wasn't really going on. But,
58:01
you know, a group of dudes coming together,
58:05
a group of fathers who take, you know, these young at-risk kids,
58:11
these single kids who have single moms and whatnot, and they provide mentorship
58:16
and skill building, right?
58:19
One of them, they're teaching kids how to write resumes and tie ties and have
58:27
good manners and be well-received by the general public.
58:32
You don't have to bend, folks. You don't have to lose your identity or culture
58:37
to be functional in society, even if you're a minority.
58:44
Even if you're in the minority group wherever you're at you don't you don't
58:50
have to give all that up but there is a standard of behavior where nobody else
58:55
should fear that you're gonna.
58:58
Snap and go violent or where you don't escalate a disagreement and you got a
59:05
these strong men can do that and they have done that and they're doing this
59:08
in some places but that's just a piece of it, man.
59:11
Or you partner with your local churches, you know what I mean,
59:14
to offer alternatives and little workshops or whatever to help rebuild the moral foundation.
59:24
I hate to,
59:28
You have to sell it, man. You know, if you're a church preacher and you're preaching
59:32
to this family, but they're not seeing any practical way to get out of,
59:37
especially a little kid doing crime, right?
59:39
He thinks this is the only way I can make money. This is the only way I can do it.
59:41
You've got to show them alternative ways as well.
59:44
But there needs to be that moral foundation. You need the values, man.
59:50
And celebrate and glorify the family unit. Houses with a father and a mother,
59:56
you should be the example,
59:59
which means dad can't be out boozing and chasing women either, right?
1:00:05
You gotta be a stand-up guy, which also means mom can't be out shaking her ass
1:00:12
and running up credit cards or shoplifting from Lenox Mall either, you know what I mean?
1:00:21
Unit. Glorify the family unit as the right way, because it is the right way.
1:00:27
And be there to guide and teach one another through everything,
1:00:31
man, good and bad, through everything.
1:00:34
Be there for each other, to include dad, especially dad, not baby daddy,
1:00:39
who's got... Now, that exists. I get it.
1:00:42
There's dudes out there with six, seven, eight kids all over the place.
1:00:47
That's bad, man. That's bad it's bad
1:00:50
for the kids dads you know who knows the
1:00:53
guys who aren't being held accountable for that i don't see how you know i guess
1:00:58
child support don't really seem to be a thing and i guess the guy ain't got
1:01:01
a job he ain't gonna nothing to do no you can't can't squeeze blood out of a
1:01:06
damn rock right be there for each other folks got and got and help each other through,
1:01:13
bad times good money wise hell i got to help a homie fund so i can help people,
1:01:19
just literally you know just to get that little those diapers
1:01:23
you know i mean get some gas get those brakes fixed be that person that helps
1:01:28
out without expecting something in return and that's just the moral piece of
1:01:33
it now what what about crime though i mean you can do your own neighborhood
1:01:36
watch now look if you're going to be armed out there you need to be trained out there.
1:01:42
And a presence may deter predators, you know, like proper predators,
1:01:47
but it also may invite challenge too,
1:01:51
especially if you're out there bullshitting, if you're not really doing what
1:01:54
you're supposed to do, that probably needs to be coordinated with local police
1:01:58
precincts. Yeah, for sure.
1:02:00
But it, but it's buy-in from the neighborhood. If, if all the neighborhood men
1:02:03
are doing it, you know what I mean?
1:02:07
But understand this, if you're going to be armed, you need to be trained,
1:02:09
folks. Period. That's period.
1:02:12
What else? So that crime, yeah, you might be there. But we look at the,
1:02:15
we remember back in the, shoot, I can't remember when, 2011,
1:02:20
12, the Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman.
1:02:25
Well, George Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch guy.
1:02:28
And that, how'd that turn out? So.
1:02:33
Don't take some stuff like that on without some serious consideration and planning and all that.
1:02:40
But anyway, back to still voluntary stuff. What about voluntary sort of community
1:02:45
educational or, or economic like co-ops, you know what I mean?
1:02:50
Have little neighborhood workshops that are free and, or, or get somebody to
1:02:55
donate their time, you know, a professional or an entrepreneur to come out and devote a little time.
1:03:02
You guys do workshops or help with life skills, even developing emotional intelligence.
1:03:09
You know, you can, the topics are endless of what you can work on to become
1:03:14
better individuals so that you can then become better communities.
1:03:18
And then long-term at the local level, I know it's tough, but hey.
1:03:24
Reject, get off of the government, get off of government, man.
1:03:29
Get off the government dependency.
1:03:32
Nobody wants to give up free money, but look, that money ain't free.
1:03:35
I don't care what you think.
1:03:37
And then start looking, instead of government, look at private charities or look at churches,
1:03:45
and these NGOs that are nonprofits that have job training that are grounded
1:03:52
in realistic skills, right?
1:03:54
That you, that it's something that's practical and real where you can get a
1:03:59
job making a decent living.
1:04:02
Yeah. You got to get up and go to work to do it, but that builds other things, right?
1:04:07
Character keeps you active, gets you off the couch.
1:04:12
And through these little local co-ops, look, you can, you can do little cultural
1:04:17
campaigns that, that, you know, kind of highlights the downside of the thug life.
1:04:24
And the gangster life and the and i don't say hip-hop i mean there's there's
1:04:28
good music out there but like gangster rap stuff that that.
1:04:34
Look, this is just a fashion statement.
1:04:37
If you carry on, the vast majority of you are going to end up dead, right?
1:04:43
And so downplay that thug life and upplay taking individual responsibility for things.
1:04:51
And even through sports, folks, that's what you see with the black communities a lot.
1:04:59
Dudes will focus hard on basketball or focus hard on, and like whole groups.
1:05:04
Because everybody loves to play ball, right? You don't have to get.
1:05:06
But then you might have some hard ass coach out there who's like really teaching
1:05:11
you some life skills too. And that's great, man.
1:05:14
Do that. But that can expand beyond sports and beyond music. It can.
1:05:21
Now, look, I've seen neighborhoods sort of shift.
1:05:25
I've seen combat veterans involved and stuff like that. And I've seen local
1:05:29
pastors kind of turn blocks around.
1:05:34
I mean, just the act of getting up and having a clean yard.
1:05:38
You may think that sounds petty, right?
1:05:41
But if you clean your yard and your neighbor cleans their yard and everybody's
1:05:46
got a nice looking yard, pretty much sooner or later people,
1:05:50
hell, for that matter, if you're a young man, invest in a lawnmower or push more even.
1:05:56
And start cutting grass and cleaning yards for a little chump change.
1:06:01
None of these things require bureaucracy none
1:06:05
of these things require government but they do all require buy-in so people
1:06:10
have to want to solve a problem they have to recognize what the problem is and
1:06:15
they have to want to solve it all right and that's stuff i provide look local
1:06:20
that's what you can do what does this.
1:06:24
Government have a stake in it? What is their... Well, one, states can enforce
1:06:31
law, yeah, without adding any political twist.
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Without regard for their DEI programs and without any social justice spin on it, just enforce law.
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And if it's a bad law, guess what? Get rid of it. Yeah.
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We could probably stand to reduce our law
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in Georgia we could probably stand to
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reduce the laws on our books by half I'm
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that's a big bold guess I'm guessing we could reduce that by half violent crime
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is always going to be against the law folks murder theft assault and battery
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it's all going to be always going to be against the law but we can get rid of meaningless laws,
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Be tough on crime.
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Don't let repeat offenders or serious offenders walk.
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There needs to be consequences for things that we find to be unacceptable.
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And there needs to be a community, like statewide, sort of consensus on what is acceptable.
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Well, violence is not. Now, whether it's,
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mandates or minimum sentence. I'm not a big fan of minimum sentencing,
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but I think that should be per case.
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But don't let repeat offenders walk. Don't be soft on crime. Be hard on crime.
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Stop this no bail or reduced bail stuff.
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Now, everybody's like, accuses bail of being a scheme you know, just to get money.
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Well, it's a deterrent.
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If you're a repeat offender and you keep getting, if you start getting held
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accountable for the bail amount, well, you're just going to be sitting in jail.
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And that's the way it ought to be.
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Guess what? It ain't a scam if you don't pay the bail.
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If no money changes hands, then it ain't a scam at all, is it?
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And then at the state level you can look at education I'm I
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think public schools are failed but guess
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what school of choice at least right
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we don't want segregated schools necessarily right some black people out there
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like yeah I don't want my kids going to school white kids and vice versa and
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that's that's some shit from way back it's it's no good anymore what it's a.
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Do you want your kid to be able to be articulate and to understand, have a vocabulary?
1:09:08
When he reads a contract, does he need somebody to read it for him or does he
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understand what's going on there?
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So I think school of choice is a thing. And I think the money should follow
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the student and not go to a district.
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And I think the funding should follow the student, but that funding should apply
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to private schools, charter schools, homeschool, the whole works.
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But education is one of the key elements here in this whole poverty and crime
1:09:46
situation, folks. Yeah.
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So education reform in some way to ensure that these kids in the ghettos are
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still getting legitimate, not just factory education, but I mean legitimate education.
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And then welfare reform, folks.
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I think welfare reform needs to come up. I think for the most part it needs
1:10:10
to go away, except in most extreme cases.
1:10:13
And yeah, you can like it or you can love me or hate me. I think there needs
1:10:17
to be a work requirement with the ability to work. There needs to be a requirement.
1:10:23
Now that can be done at state level, federal level. What can be done at federal level?
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Well, very little.
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Keep your hands off my guns, but like, yeah, well, at the federal level,
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yeah, stop funding activist prosecutors and don't federalize local crime.
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Like, let the state deal. Let the state and the municipality deal with their
1:10:51
situation in the way that they see fit.
1:10:53
Because, again, the only legitimate role of government,
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as per John Locke, as per Frederick Bastiai, is protecting individual rights
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and prosecuting guilty people who violate others' individual rights.
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Everything else is just tyranny in disguise.
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So, yeah, that's it. It's a lot of education stuff there, federal-wise,
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I think, or yeah, federal and state-wise.
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Federally, I don't think there's much you can do for this poverty situation.
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Don't incentivize. So here's the thing. Here's what likes to happen.
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These liberal state programs get federal money to keep these programs going,
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but then they got to adhere to certain federal parameters.
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Cut the federal money out of it. Cut the federal money out of it.
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So there are some solutions. I think the community-based solutions are better
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and more important than the larger solution.
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Other than law enforcement itself, or when I say law enforcement,
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I don't necessarily mean on-the-ground law enforcement.
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I mean the court system enforcement.
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Yeah, criminal justice reform needs to happen, but violent offenders need to be held accountable.
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That's all there is to it. now notice.
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A little bit, I haven't said the catchphrase gun violence, because there's bigger issues than guns.
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It's just bigger issue. Gun violence, air quotes every time,
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I want you to understand, I'm doing finger quotes.
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It's a symptom. It's not the disease. It's a symptom.
1:12:40
The disease is the degradation of a culture that excuses criminal behavior.
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A culture that weakens the family unit and a culture that gives a free pass
1:12:55
and gives freebie and excuses to criminal behavior instead of accountability
1:13:04
and demanding individual accountability.
1:13:09
And it torments me to watch
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the local news every morning and a little black kid you know seven or eight
1:13:17
years old got shot in the leg or a little black girl gets killed because of
1:13:23
some rampant bullshit criminals out there doing whatever the hell they want and that the bigger.
1:13:30
Don't have either the moral courage or what they consider to be the resources
1:13:36
to address the problem, but more importantly, to name the problem.
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If you want change, some of you don't. If you want change, you got to demand
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personal accountability.
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You got to have a strong family unit. Even if you're a single mom,
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it's not, I don't mean you can't have a strong family unit.
1:13:56
Arm yourself if you're a law-abiding citizen
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arm yourself and train yeah and
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now you know that's worst case scenario but if you got to
1:14:05
deal with a criminal deal with it but if you want change personal accountability
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yeah strong family defend yourself and then hold these god dang social justice
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prosecutors and defenders and judges accountable,
1:14:26
and then make every effort to limit government to what its rightful job is.
1:14:32
And that's to protect your rights, your individual rights, and to punish those
1:14:39
that would violate those individual rights without prejudice.
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A white dude with a gun ain't no different than a black dude with a gun when
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he kicks your door open or a knife or a baseball bat or his bare hands.
1:14:55
Don't matter what tools they use. A criminal is a criminal. Don't matter what
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color they are. Don't matter what country they come from.
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If they're here to violate you or yours, race just became irrelevant.
1:15:08
And unfortunately, what we saw in statistics is there's too much black-on-black crime.
1:15:14
That's the majority of the crime, folks, out there in the world.
1:15:18
So, addressing the problem, calling it what it is and who it is,
1:15:23
and then demanding change.
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Anything less than that, it just sells.
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Well, the people I grew up with in the lower ends of Atlanta,
1:15:37
metro Atlanta, and it sells out every law-abiding citizen in no matter what city it is.
1:15:45
So be accountable and demand accountability from everybody else.
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That's what I got today, folks. Might have been a little not too light,
1:15:55
but I see it every morning and I felt the need.
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