Latest / Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights / Surge in Gun Violence not related to Gun Sales
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- 0:16Well, welcome to the live to sheet podcast.
- 0:17My name is Jeff dowel and I've been a licensed firearm dealer for the last 13 years in this podcast.
- 0:23We talk about all things, second amendment, as well as we might throw in a sports story or something going on in the, in the news or something in my personal life.
- 0:31So welcome.
- 0:33Welcome.
- 0:33Welcome.
- 0:34It is Friday, July 16th.
- 0:36We are blown through the summer.
- 0:38Here in Texas has been pretty much.
- 0:39Some are so far knock on wood.
- 0:41It is, like I said, Friday is the one I'm recording this.
- 0:43I don't know exactly when I'm going to get this out.
- 0:46We have what has been, you know, the, the tradition here for the last several weeks, we have baseball today.
- 0:53So we are going to you.
- 0:55And head down to around Athens, Texas to play play game this afternoon.
- 1:00And so I don't know I'm going to get this recorded, but I don't know when I'm going to get it edited and upload.
- 1:04So I'm recording on Friday.
- 1:06You may not be getting this until Saturday or Sunday.
- 1:10This weekend, I'll see if we can get it out today, but You know, over the last, you know, four, five years, really, since Trump came on the scene I have been extremely frustrated with really a lack of truth out there.
- 1:26And.
- 1:27Seeing, you know, what the mainstream media is reporting and versus what we know is the truth.
- 1:34And even when things come out as, as being factual, they continued the same old narrative and that, you know, this goes back to Russia, collusion Spying on Trump the Ukraine call all those things, the impeachment one impeachment to just story after story.
- 1:53And now, you know, we've got coronavirus and the election and January 6th and on and on and on and thing though, that is I've always been hopeful for, is that the.
- 2:10The truth is it's like a, you know, a beach ball and that you can only hold it under water so long.
- 2:16And if you've been watching the news here in the last several days and watching some of the stories, you can see that the tr they're having a difficult time holding down the truth.
- 2:28Even some of the most liberal papers are starting to eat out reluctantly.
- 2:33Some, some stories that, you know, that they really hate to report on.
- 2:39You know, one line of constitutional journals finally reported on that.
- 2:44You know, there was 200 ballots that were running through.
- 2:48Duplicate times in, in Fulton county.
- 2:51And, but, you know, still nothing here to see, you know, there was no, you know fraud in the election, but we did a small sample and did find out that that small sample, there was 200 ballots, but you know, there's nothing else to see.
- 3:04We are starting to see some truth coming out about the vaccine and that, you know, there are some adverse effects that aren't being told We are getting reports, finally, some truthful reports around Dr.
- 3:18Fowchee and what his background has been.
- 3:21And what's some of his motivations might've been, so while it's limited, the truth has started to leak out ever.
- 3:29So, so been able to look at ever so much.
- 3:32So and so that leads me to a story.
- 3:35The guardian has put out.
- 3:37And this is by far not one of your conservative right.
- 3:40Waning.
- 3:41It is much more left leaning.
- 3:43And the title of it is pandemic gun violence.
- 3:46Surge was not linked to rise in gun sales study fines.
- 3:50So what has been the narrative?
- 3:52Gun sales are out of control.
- 3:56They've gone up and that is why we've seen so much violent crime over the last year and a half.
- 4:02And then the Biden administration says, you know, we have got to do something about that.
- 4:06We have this we're all there.
- 4:09Their gun control narrative has come through banning the quote unquote assault rifles, because, you know, we, it's just getting out of control these guns, you know, violent crime gun violence is out of control.
- 4:20Yeah.
- 4:21Got to control it by bringing in and outlying all these guns.
- 4:25But here comes a little story that gets leaked out that you know, that it's not quite the, the, the facts.
- 4:31So story starts off the bites.
- 4:32It's by Lois Beckett in the guardian gun homicide searched across the United States during the coronavirus pandemic in the same year that Americans bought a record breaking number of guns, but some American leading gun violence researchers concluded that that might not that well, it might seem like an obvious.
- 4:50Cause and effect.
- 4:50Yes.
- 4:51They've always, you know, cause and effect.
- 4:53A surgeon in gun buying leads to a surge in gun violence is not supported by the data.
- 4:58And that is one of the things to the left.
- 5:01They, they don't like to do sophisticated thinking, you know crime.
- 5:07Is guns equal guns, guns are bad and the equal crime.
- 5:12And if it's, if it's not because of guns is because of racism and those are there, they're there go tos.
- 5:22It says the findings, just that quote.
- 5:24We need to be looking at other factors like job loss, economic change, the closure of schools, community organizations, non-profit and civil unrest.
- 5:33So again, what we've always said along that same time, is that the guns?
- 5:40Aren't the problem.
- 5:41It's it's what's going on in society.
- 5:44It's these fatherless homes it's Poor economic conditions and that we have to go out after the criminals and not the guns.
- 5:53The study is what it's out of the I guess it's the injury epidemiology journal, I guess is what the paper is.
- 6:02And it was by a Julius slammer and just a few things right out of the study.
- 6:09So in the background, a quote, it says we sought to estimate the state level association in between firearm purchasing and interpersonal firearm violence.
- 6:18During the pandemic, they studied 48 contiguous states and the district of Columbia from January, 2018 through July, 2020.
- 6:26Data was obtained from the national instant criminal background system check and the gun violence archive using negative binomial regression models.
- 6:34We estimated the association between cumulative excess foreign purchases in March through July, 2020.
- 6:40We estimated that there were 4.3 million excess firearm purchase purchases.
- 6:45So from March through July, 2020 and a total of 400,075 more firearm injuries than expected from April through June.
- 6:5520 and we.
- 6:56This is where the key we found no relationship between state level, excess purchasing and non domestic firearms, and said the state level, the magnitude of increase in purchasing with Nazi, not associated with the magnitude of the increase in firearm violence.
- 7:12So the study goes on and on, but it shows you right.
- 7:16That increase in gun sales.
- 7:17Not, it's not the cause, but for the increase in the gun violence.
- 7:23So some things that were interesting, you know, in the, in the article, you know, show, this is the results of the new study are an unexpected addition to the fierce political battle on how to explain last year, this made 25% increase in homicides, which experts say they expect will be the single worst increase in the year.
- 7:40It says.
- 7:41The even though the homicide rate across big cities remains close to half of what it was in 1990, some politicians have used a single year jump and killing pink Democrats and the Biden administration as soft on crime, you know, using an old political playbook tricks, but it also says Joe Biden has responded by focusing on firearm access and calling for new gun control laws.
- 8:02He is soft on crime.
- 8:03That that is not unusual because here his approach to the increase in the murder rate is to go after guns.
- 8:10And this study shows right here that that's a waste of time because going after the guns and the increase in the guns, if not what caused the increase in crime so that he is soft on crime, they're giving her no bail.
- 8:22They're releasing people on my bill charges are being dropped across the country on all the violent protestors and in Minnesota and in.
- 8:31Portland and in Washington because they, they helped push the narrative.
- 8:36It says it made sense that that politicians and other figures would point to the increase in gun buying in 2020 as a potential reason, shooting 70 increase last year.
- 8:47Yeah, it makes sense because that's their playbook.
- 8:49And so, but we go on and start.
- 8:53You know, looking at, you know, other reasons and one of the things is it says it was possible that in some states may have additional gun sales annoying.
- 9:01When two people had already owned multiple farms, meaning certain sales did not necessarily contribute to an increase in the overall prevalence of gun ownership.
- 9:09Well, what needs to be fed if the surgeon gun ownership went to legal gun buyer?
- 9:16We have plenty of laws already in the place that help prevent criminals from being able to purchase firearms through the mechanisms that they are tracking in these studies.
- 9:26Whenever you're looking at either, you're looking at how legal and tracking the purchases of legal gun owners.
- 9:31And these people are not committing the crimes.
- 9:34It says the role that guns are playing in, in increased of homicides may have more to do with increases in illegal gun carrying or the legal possession of guns.
- 9:42So again, we need to go after the criminals, not the guns.
- 9:46But you know, I, I bring this article up as just a little bit of good news that some of the bit of the truth is starting to get out there.
- 9:53And that is because of People out there, like people in this audience that are actually being active and pushing the message and we have to continue to push the message and that we have to support the second amendment and the importance of the second amendment.
- 10:07So I appreciate it by listening to his podcast.
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- 10:17We have to get the truth out.
- 10:18The truth is what, you know, the whole thing.
- 10:20The truth will set you free.
- 10:22It is we have to start getting the truth out about what is going on in this country.
- 10:26And.
- 10:27What then that is the only way that we can actually get to two solutions to these problems and the solutions one is not taking away our guns.
- 10:36So thank you for listening.
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