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Why Florida Does NOT Have Full Constitutional Carry, Biden's Attack On Guns, And More · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Let's talk about guns, the Second Amendment America. Welcome to the second hour
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  of the Morning Show with Preston Scott Im Preston. That is Grant. Great
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  to be with you. It is Show fifty one one and we are joined
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  by the Gun Writer. You can find his work at the gun Writer dot
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  substack dot com. He is Lee Williams. Good morning, sir. How
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  are you good man? How are you doing? Thanks for havving me back.
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  Oh. I look forward to this visit every month. Lee. Look,
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  you're a Floridian right and paying attention to what's going on. We knew
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  early on in the legislative session that Senate President Pasadomo was not going to entertain
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  an expansion of constitutional carry to full open kerry, which is where we need
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  to be. That being said, I want to ask you a question.
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  I asked Charlie Strickland of the Talent Training Group on Wednesday. Why are the
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  sheriffs of this state, who at least a majority are certainly conservative leaning,
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  if nothing else, why are they allowing themselves to be the excuse for not
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  going full constitutional carry? Do you have any insight? The better question is
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  for me, why is a Senate President Pasadomo allowing a group of law enforcement
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  officers to veto our Second Amendment rights, our civil rights. Why are our
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  civil rights dependent on what a bunch of sheriffs have to say. I don't
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  care what their political leanings are. Quite frankly, I'm more struck by the
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  fact that our Senate president is allowing sheriffs to veto our constitutional rights. That's
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  what gets me angry and makes me want to use a lot of bad words.
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  Allowing shriffs to infringe upon our at least blaming them to infringe upon our
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  Second Amendment rights. Open carry, whether you want to do it or not,
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  is a key component of the right to keep the bare arms, which
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  has codified both in the Second Amendment and in the Florida Constitution, Article one,
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  Section eight. It is part of the Second Amendment. It's like getting
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  half of our civil rights. And she makes this mannylike decision and then blames
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  it on sheriffs. Well, she needs to stop allowing sheriffs to veto our
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  Second Amendment rights. But and I don't disagree. But I but if the
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  sheriffs pull cover from her and say, what are you talking about the majority
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  of our association supports it. Then all of a sudden, she's stuck.
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  Yeah, there are a few that do not support the Second Amendment in that
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  Sheriff's organization, and we cannot wait until they make their way through leadership and
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  become just regular members. Again, we've caught one using talking points in some
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  of his public addresses from some of these gun band from the gun ban industry.
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  So you know, I don't care where that Florida Shurf's Association is going
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  politically. She needs to stop using them to veto our Second Amendment rights.
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  We have super majorities in both the House and the Senate. Okay, but
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  you know, just like before when we tried to get constitutional carry, one
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  anti gun leader like Passadomo and boom, they infringe upon our civil rights and
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  that has to end. This leads perfectly to a piece you've written about how
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  Joe Biden's Office of Gun Violence for Prevention is directing the war on guns.
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  Explain, Well, we had the beautiful Supreme Court decision twenty twenty two Bruin,
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  which part of which said you can carry a gun outside the home for
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  self defense regardless of your zip code. Well, the gun the Blue States
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  went crazy and they started passing all of these post Bruin tantrum laws that they
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  knew were unconstitutional. Well, they were all similar, and we're like,
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  where the hell are these coming from. They're practically the same wording. Well,
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  they've been coming from the White House. Two months after Bruin, Biden,
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  one of the senior Biden advisors, Stephanie Feldman, started meeting with the
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  states, with lawmakers, with judges, with lieutenant governors, and then a
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  couple months later, in September of last year, Biden announces the Office of
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  Gun Violence Prevention, which is in the White House. He staffed it with
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  Feldman, who is one of his long time I mean she started in government
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  as an interned with Biden, and then she got two other people, and
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  all three of them are anti gunzel It's one comes from the gun band industry
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  and the other had a small anti gun nonprofit. And it's in the White
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  House. So my boss, the Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb, I
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  think said it best, and at risk of boring your readers, I'm going
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  to quote them because it's just a trench in quote. For the first time
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  in the history of the United States, a president has created an office within
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  the White House solely to find ways to circumvent and violate the Constitution, mister
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  Gottlieb said, And do not forget that taxpayer dollars are supporting this abomination.
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  We are paying the Biden Harris administration to violate our civil rights, and they're
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  going crazy about it. Lee, Let's take a page from what we've seen
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  Biden do with just the student loan issue. The Supreme Court renders are ruling,
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  says you don't have the authority, you can't do it. He says,
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  well, I'm going to forget that. I'm going to find another way
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  to do it. That's a pattern that this administration and frankly illiberals on the
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  left follow. They do what they want until the court stops them. How
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  much are we going to just have to rely on and hope for court interventions
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  on the things they're trying to do to slam the gun industry, to slam
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  our civil rights. We've already seen it, and the courts are already doing
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  it. Biden's cub all of anti gun people in the White House have pushed
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  the ATF into criminalizing bump stocks, pistol braces, aftermarket triggers, locks of
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  metal that they say, could be turned into a firearm, and the courts
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  are slapping all of these down and they just keep going, man, I
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  mean, they just keep going, knowing full well that they're going to get
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  overturned by the courts. Like it's cool, Like they don't care. Now
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  we're going to see that statement for Biden that he made. I mean,
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  all of us in the second amend of Community just rolled our eyes like,
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  yeah, we've seen this going on for months, years already since Joe was
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  elected. He doesn't care what the Supreme Court says. We think, however,
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  that that's just going to energize at Supreme Court right now. Second amend
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  of Foundation, NRA, Gun Owners of America and National Association and Gun Rights
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  are all asking very politely but very insistently asking the Supreme Court to review the
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  Illinois assault weapon ban are so called assault weapon ban. We think this will
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  be the case that will overturn all of this crap about America's most popular rifle
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  and folks will be able to own the best tool to defend themselves regardless of
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  where they live. Right now, your ability to own an AR or an
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  AK depends on your zip code here in Florida, Thankfully we live in a
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  semi free state. We can own them. You can't in California, you
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  can't in Illinois, can'ton Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Hawahi, you
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  name it. That should not be the case. Your rights should not be
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  dependent upon where you live. So we're hoping that the court is so angry
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  at what the Biden Harris administration is doing to our civil rights today that they'll
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  take it out and start getting up some more victories. You know, we've
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  been paying attention to a bill it's likely not to pass the House, but
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  Democrats try to introduce a bill that in essence would ban any level of training
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  at a gun range. Let's yes, you wrote about what goes on in
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  Finland. Tell us a little bit about that. Well. Being a proud
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  half thin, I am very proud of the country from where my grandparents came.
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  Finland has an eight hundred and thirty mile border with Russia, and they
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  take the Soviet Union or the former Soviet Union, very seriously because they've been
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  invaded and they kicked their butt. So Finland incorporates armed citizens into their national
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  defense plan, which I think is brilliant. And you know, they just
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  joined NATO last year and Putin vowed to retaliate. So well, the Fins
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  take that seriously. So they're increasing the availability of rifle ranges to their citizens
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  who are part of their plan, part of their defensive plan. They're building
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  three hundred more ranges, and some one of my readers did the math for
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  a country of our size to make an increase of an increase of that amount,
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  we would need thirty thousand more ranges. And I hope we get a
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  You know, it's one thing to keep and bear, it's another thing to
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  have access to range. A lot of these blue states they're not going to
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  let you train anywhere. Man, It's sad. So we want to finish
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  example which would work. Biden Harris administration considers armed civilians, armed trained civilians
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  to be the enemy. Finland considers them part of their national defensive plan.
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  And I would maintain that, whether they admit it or not, we are
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  part of our national defense plan, which is why our country's never been well
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  targeted with a full military invasion versus what's going on on the southern border right
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  now. I would agree. I would just say we need to be that
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  needs to be respected by the government agreed, you know, if we are
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  part of it and stop trying to take our damn guns away. Though I
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  am loath to go here because I'm an ardent belief, have an ardent belief
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  that black history is American history and how to be taught that way, not
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  segregated out. How ironic right. Lee Williams, thegunwriter dot substack dot com,
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  has written a piece that really speaks to Black History Month as it relates
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  to the Second Amendment. Lee, go, this is a brilliant piece.
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  Thank you. It was fun. It was an idea from Alan Gottlieb,
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  the founder of the Second Amendment Foundation. He said, why don't you write
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  it, but take a look at this. Call these guys up. And
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  I got to tell you, man, I had a great time and I
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  learned so much doing this. I mean, you got to look at the
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  tradition of arms as different for Black Americans. There were codes after the Civil
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  War that prevented them from oting firearms. That was there, and that's why
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  gun control has its roots in racism. YEP. In Florida, you know,
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  a white person could enter a black owned home and just look for guns
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  without a warrant. Louisiana, white folks could stop blacks wherever they were at
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  searching for weapons. If they refuse, they could use leaf force. And
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  you can't mention Black history and firearms without mentioning the Reverend Martin Luther King.
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  He was denied a carry permit by the Sheriff's office in Montgomery, Alabama after
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  his home was firebomb Okay, Martin was a gun owner, and he believed
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  in self defense. Obviously he espoused, you know, nonviolent political action,
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  but he was a gun owner. Same with Malcolm x Ei. There's that
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  famous picture of him with the m one carbing looking out his window scared.
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  So I talked to Robert Kottrell, who is a professor. He's a law
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  professor at George Washington University, probably one of the top three minds scholars in
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  the Second Amendment world. And it was just fantastic. I ran the interview
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  with him as a Q and A because his words, I just couldn't paraphrase
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  anything he said. It was just too important. And he talks about the
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  black codes. He talks about firearm ownership getting lower among blacks, but now
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  it's finally catching up. But I spoke to the Reverend Ken Blanchard and He
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  wrote a book that I think should be on everybody's bookshelf, Black Man with
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  a Gun. It's an ownership manual, but when it came out, it's
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  designed for first time gun owners who are black, but it should be required
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  reading for anybody who wants to start talking and getting into the gun world.
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  It is a fantastic book. And he said he when he got out of
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  the military's brain and when he got out of federal law enforcement, he just
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  wanted to start teaching and training. But he had to overcome hundreds of years
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  of conditioning. It was bad, I mean three hundred years of cultural conditioning
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  that said to blacks, guns are bad, leave them alone. Even the
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  gun owners he was running into were pretty much undercover and not public about owning
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  guns. And then we looked at the the great Walter E. Williams.
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  He's a professor. Unfortunately he passed away in twenty twenty and I resurrected some
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  of his columns. His column appeared in more than one hundred and fifty newspapers.
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  He was an economist, a great friend of the libertarian mister Sowell,
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  a professor Sowell and man did he have an acerbic wit in his column when
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  Congressman John Lewis said the British are not coming. We don't need guns to
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  kill people, Williams just handed him his hat with his head in it.
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  A brilliant writer. I've been reading his columns that are still out there online
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  ever since. Was eulogized by Ted Cruz, who said his legacy will endure
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  as we continue to fight for liberty. It was really fun, President,
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  and I learned a heck of a lot. And let me tell you,
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  Professor cottro has a new book coming out that's going to be huge in the
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  Second Amendment world, to trust the people with arms. He looks at the
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  Supreme Court the Second Amendment. I asked him if he was a black scholar
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  or a scholar who just happened to be black, and he said both.
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  You can't separate what he and his people have gone through culturally. And a
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  fantastic interview and a great guy. You know, when you mentioned doctor Williams,
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  it makes me smile because he was a friend of ours. He was
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  a regular guest. Wow, he was a regular guest on my show.
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  And never ever did I send him a note asking him to come on the
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  program that he didn't respond Within within hours, and just a gentleman and as
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  you as you note, a brilliant mind, and it's we lost a treasure
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  when we lost doctor Williams. What what is the biggest takeaway for you having
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  spent time in this case talking to and reading about these three men. Wow,
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  I would say that what they said about how the Second Amendment affected them
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  and how blacks in general were treated, it's still going on today. We're
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  still seeing the same type of discrimination in this case with the Second Amendment that
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  they faced in their youth. Look at the Biden Harris administration. They're still
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  trying to ban guns in public housing. People are being discriminated against in terms
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  of the Second Amendment based upon their race. Look at Chicago. Look at
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  how difficult it is for these urban cities for people to own guns for self
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  defense. Now, keep keeping that in mind. You know, the largest
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  segment of new gun buyers right now are black females, and they're finally getting
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  through, getting passed this racial conditioning, this cultural conditioning, and they're realizing,
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  you know, I got drug deals being committed right outside my front door.
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  I want a gun for self defense. And they're buying them, and
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  they're getting trained which I think is fantastic. Awesome stuff. As always great
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  catching up with you, Lee, Thanks so much, we'll talk next month.
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  My pleasure, take care. Thank you, Lee Williams. And again
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  you find his work at the gun Writer dot substack dot com