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Election Results - What Does It Mean For The 2nd Amendment · Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights

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  Welcome to the Live to Shoot podcast.
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  My name is Jeff Dowdle, and I've been a licensed firearm dealer for the last 20 years.
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  This podcast will talk about all things related to the Second Amendment sports story, anything else going on in the world, or anything else you might find interesting.
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  So welcome, welcome, welcome.
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  So we had the election on Tuesday, and it was a bloodbath.
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  We got hammered, and that is not good for gun owners.
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  I don't want to sugarcoat it, don't want to give false hope.
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  Things are gonna be tough over the next two, four, six years.
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  Because elections have consequences.
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  We've said that over and over in this, on this podcast.
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  We have to continue to fight for the Second Amendment.
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  We have had a good run the last couple years in terms of pro-Second Amendment legislation, rulings decisions, enforcement decisions on and on and on because we have had a pro-Second Amendment administration, Congress and even to the courts to a degree.
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  But that has all changed.
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  That has all changed and, I continue to say on this podcast, that we-- even in the best of times, you have to fight, fight, fight for the Second Amendment because they're always gonna be coming after it.
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  And now the Democrats have taken control of majority of the, the House, the Senate.
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  We still have the presidency, which is a good thing.
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  We have the Supreme Court.
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  We have a mixture out in the judges and, and such, but we've lost some key states.
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  My state of Texas for one Wisconsin, South Carolina, a lot of states are gonna be suffering some severe ramifications in terms of their Second Amendment rights.
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  What can we expect?
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  Let's look at the federal level real quick.
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  And I don't wanna be a Debbie Downer, but I do want to just have everybody understand that we lost, and losing has consequences.
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  And what we have to do is we have to get up, we have to fight, and we have to be more diligent going forward in terms of getting gun owners, conservatives, Christians to vote because that is why we lost.
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  We did not-- We-- They outvoted us.
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  I don't think if we went door to door and knocked on every person's door and got honest opinions, I do not think we're on the wrong side of the, this, of this issue at all on all these issues for the most part.
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  But we lost the vote and we've gotta do a better job of, of doing that.
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  And there, there's a lot of things that have to change and, but that is...
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  it starts at every, every person.
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  And if you're a gun owner, you have to listen to this.
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  So from the federal level, we still have the presidency, so he can veto things.
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  But, they're gonna at-attempt potentially, put the NFA s-suppressor tax back in place and all these 4473 suppressors that we've been doing will go back to the registration and, and that, that tax was$200.
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  I would suspect that they're gonna make it two thousand, four thousand, something to make it punitive that basically you cannot buy a suppressor or a short barrel rifle.
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  That could happen.
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  They could, um Uh, start looking at trying to get legislation passed about banning ARs and all those kind of things.
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  But, with the president's desk, we do have a little control, but you never know.
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  You don't know what anybody's gonna do.
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  And so we have to fight, fight, fight.
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  Now, at the state level, that's where things get even trickier.
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  So here's the things I've heard about, like Texas because we've lost the governor, the House and we lost our s- our our federal senator Texas there's gonna be one, the border's gonna open up.
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  We're gonna fi- it's not really the Second Amendment, but they are gonna make us a sanctuary city.
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  She's already said, the governor, that she's going to instruct law enforcement not to help ICE.
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  Crime is gonna become rampant again.
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  But they're gonna institute, strong red flag laws.
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  They're gonna start trying to limit constitution carry, maybe eliminate constitution carry at all.
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  They're probably g-gonna start going for magazine bans, high capacity magazine bans.
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  They may even try and do some AR-15 type bans.
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  Fortunately, we they, we did get through that where silencers are legal in Texas right now, so they would have to change that.
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  And in other states, there, Wisconsin doesn't even have their Senate.
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  They, which we do in Texas, which is a, a, a, a safeguard to a degree.
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  But, a lot of states are, are going to be seeing, And Texas may get this too, background ch- universal background checks required for everyone.
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  This is another thing I heard for Texas, registration, gun registration.
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  To buy a gun, you have to register it now with the state.
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  Red flag laws, high capacity magazine bans, AR-15 bans secure storage laws.
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  They're gonna, One thing that were popular is r- is requiring gun owners to have specific insurance that's outrageously expensive for liability type insurance.
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  So there are a lot of things.
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  It is going to be a tough environment for gun owners for conservatives.
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  If you are, if you prot- wanna protect the border, protect your rights, protect the unborn this is gonna be a tough time.
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  We, we lost a lot.
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  And we're gonna have to fight.
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  We're gonna have to pull ourselves up from our, our bootstraps and fight.
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  And I always say it on here,"Fight, fight, fight," because and the country's been through worse.
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  The, from the way we started to, to the Civil War and a variety of historical times during this country.
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  And we can get through it, on the end, God is in control.
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  I know that.
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  And this is a battle against evil, absolute evil.
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  And if you don't believe that look around, look at other countries and what's happened to them.
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  So we're gonna have to fight.
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  But the Second Amendment is gonna be on the chopping block by by everyone.
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  And w- the other's-- it's in s- what, what I used to call the Great Republic of Texas, right?
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  It's not now.
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  We are a blue state, and I can't believe I live n- live here right now, and I can't believe what they're gonna prob- try and do to our Second Amendment.
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  But it's not all dire.
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  Elections come, elections go.
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  You win, you lose, and you keep fighting, right?
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  And the left will try and go too far.
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  I'm pretty sure of that.
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  They typically do.
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  And their true colors will show, and those people that are in the middle are unswayable and can go,"Oh, I don't like this guy, so I'm gonna vote over here now." They're gonna see their true colors.
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  And they're hopefully have their, the scales from their eyes fall off, right?
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  And that's what we have to pray for.
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  We have to pray every day and, keep s- fighting for our Second Amendment.
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  This was not a good election, and things are gonna change, and we gotta be prepared.
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  So we're gonna have to stay vil- vigilant going forward.
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  And so I appreciate everybody listening.
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  I will continue to update as I see things developing.
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  We're gonna keep going forward.
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  We're gonna keep fighting.
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  I do wanna encourage everybody if you haven't, sign up, become a member of Gun Owners of America, Second Amendment Foundation, even the NRA.
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  But, Gun Owners of America and Second Amendment Foundation, they're doing good things.
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  They're fighting our battles in court.
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  They're going to Congress.
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  They're talking to the legislators.
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  There are, there are, they are boots on the ground fighting for the Second Amendment.
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  And if we can get them more money to support and fight for us, that is a good thing.
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  If you wanna do one thing today, become a member of Gun Owners of America.
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  That is my, my pitch for the day.
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  But, stay vigilant.
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  We're gonna have to fight, fight, fight.
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  And if you like this podcast, please share it with somebody, esp- a- a- all your fellow gun owners.
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  If you know a gun owner that did not vote send this to them.
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  And we've got to get every single gun owner to vote and, and fight for our Second Amendment so we can protect it and preserve it.
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  So appreciate you listening.
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  This is Jeff with the Lib Sheet Podcast, and I will talk to you later.