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Shock Blue Dots With Glove Argument · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red, turning the Blue Dot Red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. I look forward to trips to the
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  Speaker 1: barber shop for several reasons. My barber is good, I
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  Speaker 1: get compliments on my haircuts. He is a friend. Our
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  Speaker 1: wives have been friends since they were classmates in grade school,
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  Speaker 1: and his wife is a godmother to one of our children.
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  Speaker 1: And I enjoy hearing what people are talking about in
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  Speaker 1: the chair, he said. The hottest topic recently was the
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  Speaker 1: electric shock gloves in the schools. These are gloves used
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  Speaker 1: by law enforcement to neutralize people posing a threat. Typically,
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  Speaker 1: the law enforcement officer grabs the troublemaker by the arm
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  Speaker 1: for a second or two. An electric shock delivered by
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  Speaker 1: the gloves stuns and numbs the trouble maker, allowing the
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  Speaker 1: officer to assert control over him. The local newspaper said
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  Speaker 1: gloves had been used twice in OPS, once on a
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  Speaker 1: train passer and once on a student who hit a
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  Speaker 1: security guard in the head with a chair and punched
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  Speaker 1: him in the head. But after left wing activists made
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  Speaker 1: of us, OPS was allowed to opt out of gloves
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  Speaker 1: for its resource officers. The general objection was an officer
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  Speaker 1: who resorts to use of electric shock gloves is a
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  Speaker 1: failure at his job. The situation would never have gotten
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  Speaker 1: to the point of using gloves if the officer had
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  Speaker 1: done his job properly and de escalated the situation. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: these brain dead liberals and progressives. They are disconnected from reality,
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  Speaker 1: school board members, school officials, the ACLU, and other leftist
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  Speaker 1: advocacy organizations. A whiner from the Nebraska Young Democrats put
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  Speaker 1: these people in a room with an angry sixteen year
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  Speaker 1: old male throwing chairs and threatening them with lethal harm.
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  Speaker 1: See how effective their left wing blathering talking points are
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  Speaker 1: at de escalating the situation. The breakdown of the family
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  Speaker 1: means ever larger waves of dysfunctional, antisocial, angry students show
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  Speaker 1: up at school. Have you walked down a high school
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  Speaker 1: corridor lately? I am a six foot two hundred pound male,
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  Speaker 1: and I am average size for a high school junior
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  Speaker 1: or senior male, especially if the kid as an athlete.
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  Speaker 1: Regardless of the size of the student, leftist gibberish does
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  Speaker 1: not address the heart scalding and soul searing pain that
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  Speaker 1: drives these students to act out violently, or they might
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  Speaker 1: just plane be jerks. Whatever the case, the reason there
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  Speaker 1: are resource officers in the schools is because force applied
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  Speaker 1: by trained professionals sometimes is needed to control volatile situations.
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  Speaker 1: This reminds me of when I was the state senator
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  Speaker 1: twenty some years ago. Rank and file teachers said they
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  Speaker 1: were fighting for more pay to compensate them for the
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  Speaker 1: hellish classroom environment. Students were becoming increasingly dysfunctional and dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Administrators and parents were not backing up teachers trying to
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  Speaker 1: control unruly students. If the teacher was white and the
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  Speaker 1: student was black, forget about it. The teacher did not
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  Speaker 1: engage in any way for fear of being targeted in
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  Speaker 1: a lawsuit alleging racist persecution. Some of the anti glove
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  Speaker 1: activists said they want students to feel safe. If I'm
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  Speaker 1: a student, I feel a lot safer knowing that officers
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  Speaker 1: can neutralize a dangerous person with a minimum of violence
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  Speaker 1: and drama. The glove has about a fourth of the
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  Speaker 1: zapping power of a taser. Would these complainers prefer that
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  Speaker 1: police use tasers? Do they prefer that students are punched,
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  Speaker 1: headlocked and body slammed. I tend to think of taxes
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  Speaker 1: and inflation and Iran and other congressional or national issues.
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  Speaker 1: When I think of turning blue dots red, but this
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  Speaker 1: is another issue on which you should go on offense
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  Speaker 1: with blue dotters. Surely you don't oppose the use of
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  Speaker 1: electric shock gloves to neutralize dangerous students. Surely you prefer
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  Speaker 1: that to use of fists, tasers, or other weapons. And
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  Speaker 1: remember the person you address may not be reachable, but
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  Speaker 1: witnesses to the conversation can be persuaded by your common
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  Speaker 1: sense argument. That's check with Chip. I'm Chip Maxwell. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for listening.