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11 yeal old expelled from school for gun · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: With the rain coming down out there and the you
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  Speaker 1: know it's it's under seventy degrees now it's sixty eight
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  Speaker 1: at George Severe Weather Station, and I was standing out
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  Speaker 1: front of the curves. To me, you know, the weather's
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  Speaker 1: on the way, the you know, the fall into winter
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  Speaker 1: weather is on the way, and you got to get
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  Speaker 1: the cars ready and stuff like that. Do you do that,
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  Speaker 1: mister tune up? Boy? Do you like do going in
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  Speaker 1: and get the flush and fill and all that stuff
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  Speaker 1: going into wintertime?
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  Speaker 2: What for the lawnmowers? No?
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  Speaker 1: For your your your your vehicle, your car. No, you
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  Speaker 1: don't do that kind of thing. No, I need to.
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  Speaker 1: I've either got to get my Explorer up and running
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  Speaker 1: again or I'm gonna end up buying either a new
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  Speaker 1: Beater or tires for the Trailblazer one or the other.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta do something because right now it's like you know,
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  Speaker 1: the on the wet pavement, it's like being on skis.
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  Speaker 1: So I got to get the thing of it is,
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  Speaker 1: I really want my Explorer back. I really want my
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  Speaker 1: I really want my Explorer back so bad.
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  Speaker 2: I know where you can get a good oil change,
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  Speaker 2: But other than.
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  Speaker 1: That, it needs more than only I don't know what's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with it. See, this is the problem. This is
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  Speaker 1: the problem. I love the vehicle. It's an old one.
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  Speaker 1: It's a two thousand and six Explore, but it's like what,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of the old big ones, third row. And
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  Speaker 1: I love that vehicle, I really do. But it developed
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  Speaker 1: this problem where I could be tooling along, you know,
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  Speaker 1: fifty miles an hour, and then it would just turn off.
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  Speaker 1: It would just stop like there was no fuel, nothing
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  Speaker 1: getting to it, just stopped. Well, the fuel pump pressure
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  Speaker 1: showed being good. It happened to me three occasions before
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  Speaker 1: I decided I can't drive this anymore until we figure
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  Speaker 1: out what's going on. I spent nearly one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: having diagnostics done. Nobody could tell me what was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: We can't duplicate the problem, Chuck. We don't know what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, and so I can't drive it because I
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  Speaker 1: guarantee if I start driving it, it's going to do
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  Speaker 1: the same thing and leave me stranded somewhere. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't want that. I want to know what's wrong with it,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody was able to tell me, and so it
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  Speaker 1: just sits there, missing it, and I miss I miss it.
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  Speaker 1: It misses me, and uh, I want my explorer back.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I got from looking at the rainy wather
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  Speaker 1: and the leaves blowing out there. Just one of those things,
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  Speaker 1: or I gotta buy tires. I hate buying tires. So
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  Speaker 1: I told you I want to tell you about this
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  Speaker 1: eleven year old kid. And I was trying to find
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  Speaker 1: this story too, from last week. I cannot find it.
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  Speaker 1: About a teenager I believe that. I believe he was sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was in Arizona, maybe Arkansas, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not positive. But here's the gist of the story. Some
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  Speaker 1: some nutcase weirdo comes to the house and uh may
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  Speaker 1: have been a stalled car. The car may have stalled
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  Speaker 1: on the road, I'm still not sure about that. But
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  Speaker 1: comes to the house and starts a shooting. No connection
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  Speaker 1: to this guy, no tie ins, nothing, He just he's
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  Speaker 1: nuts and so he starts shooting. And there was a
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  Speaker 1: big family that lived in the house. Some of them
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  Speaker 1: were hit, some of them fled. I believe it was
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  Speaker 1: mom who picked up a shotgun and returned fire, and
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  Speaker 1: then mom got hit and then the son I believe
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  Speaker 1: it was, and I'm pretty sure he was sixteen, picked
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  Speaker 1: up the shotgun and and eliminated the threat. And I've
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  Speaker 1: been trying to find that story because I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to talk about it last week. I've been
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  Speaker 1: looking for it too.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest with you, there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: that the headline sounds similar. Yes, it's not exact what
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for.
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  Speaker 1: It just it was a positive story because you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a story in our news right now about
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  Speaker 1: a child where somebody left their gun accessible and a
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  Speaker 1: child shot themselves. Guns are not toys, obviously, they are tools,
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  Speaker 1: and if used improperly like a like a buzzsaw, they
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  Speaker 1: can do image. But in some cases they also do good.
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  Speaker 1: Even in the hands of young people, they can do good.
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  Speaker 1: Not all young people are gangstas or thugs. Some of
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  Speaker 1: them actually know their way around firearms. They've been hunting,
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  Speaker 1: they've been in scouting. They grew up on the farm. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: not like me. I know.
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  Speaker 2: It was like from being from the streets.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the hard streets, the tough streets, the sixth streets,
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  Speaker 1: the main streets. You've been through all those right.
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  Speaker 2: Difficult You ever see the movie The Warriors?
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  Speaker 1: Ah? Yeah, I did kind of like that kind of
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  Speaker 1: like that, except probably more like West Side story.
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  Speaker 2: There are some dancing involved.
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  Speaker 1: You look kind of like a ballet guy. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot find If I can find that story, I will,
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  Speaker 1: I'll hold on to it. I'll post it to my
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  Speaker 1: Facebook page. But that being said, because I want to
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  Speaker 1: lead you into this story about this kid in Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: They accuse this kid of possessing a we weapon. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they're not arguing the story, by the way, but I
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  Speaker 1: need you to listen to this. The mother of a
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  Speaker 1: Michigan elementary school student is speaking out. Yes, I said
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  Speaker 1: elementary speaking out after her son was expelled for taking
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  Speaker 1: a gun away from another kid. Lancing mom Savira or
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  Speaker 1: Savitra McClerkin Total local outlet WILX, September nineteenth. Her son
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  Speaker 1: is eleven years old. He was expelled from Dwight Rich
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  Speaker 1: School in the Arts back in May because his classmate
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  Speaker 1: had brought a gun to school. According to the mom,
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  Speaker 1: her child's being punished for something she considers heroic, as
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  Speaker 1: he believed he was helping the other students around him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm frustrated wits end. I don't know what to do,
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  Speaker 1: McClerkin said back in May WLNS and the Lansing State
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  Speaker 1: Journal both reported the disassembled, unloaded weapon was found inside
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  Speaker 1: the school. Police later arrested a twelve year old boy
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  Speaker 1: whose name has not been made public. McClerkin told the
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  Speaker 1: radius or the television station that her son allegedly spotted
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  Speaker 1: his classmate carrying this gun. He used his hunting knowledge
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  Speaker 1: to disarm and disassemble the weapon before throwing away the ammunition.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't want to get his self in trouble. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to tell on anybody. Didn't want to get
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  Speaker 1: the kid who brought the gun to school in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: He knows firearms aren't supposed to be in the school.
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  Speaker 1: She said, Well, could have been a tragic and devastating day.
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  Speaker 1: He acted out of courage and compassion, of fundraiser message
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  Speaker 1: reads on GoFundMe, because that's how we handle everything these days.
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  Speaker 1: School administrators eventually learned the eleven year old had handled
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  Speaker 1: the weapon, expelled him for possessing a gun, removing him
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  Speaker 1: from school for an entire year. Instead of being recognized
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  Speaker 1: as a hero, he's being treated like a criminal. The
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  Speaker 1: GoFundMe post says he's been expelled, banned from all school platforms,
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  Speaker 1: despite being an ab student and respectful young man and
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  Speaker 1: an athlete who's been playing sports since he was six
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  Speaker 1: years old. By the way, by the way, the young
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  Speaker 1: man is a young black man boy eleven, so he's
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  Speaker 1: not a man yet. He and his mother both black, Lansing, Michigan. Now,
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  Speaker 1: should he have turned it in, Yeah, yeah, that would
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  Speaker 1: have been the wise thing to do. But he's eleven,
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  Speaker 1: so maybe he wasn't thinking that direction. And this isn't
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  Speaker 1: a symptom of twenty twenty five. I remember Andy asking
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  Speaker 1: OPI why didn't tell some about his friend, and Nope, said, well, Paul,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to tell on one of your
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  Speaker 1: own whose kids had to stick together. But he saw
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  Speaker 1: somebody with a gun, took the gun, disassembled the gun,
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  Speaker 1: threw away the ammunition, kept everybody safe, didn't rat out
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  Speaker 1: his friend. Maybe a three day suspension, I could live
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  Speaker 1: with that, But to expel this kid for a year,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I think this is an absolute miscarriage. And
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  Speaker 1: with all of the stories in the news everywhere all
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  Speaker 1: over this country each and every day about young brown
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  Speaker 1: skinned males picking up guns and doing violence and wreaking havoc,
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  Speaker 1: this kid, this kid tried to do the right thing,
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  Speaker 1: and he has been expelled. I'm sorry, but I think
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  Speaker 1: that's dead wrong. I wonder, since there's no father, grandfather,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uncle Jim or anybody talked about in this story,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if his mom is a hunter, if she's
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  Speaker 1: taken him out and done some Uh, you don't know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't be gender exclusive. Do women hunt? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know any of them. Where I grew up, they did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch.
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  Speaker 2: He's up in Michigan too. I'm not joking, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it depends on where was he in Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: Lancing is that more r get more rural? Lancing is
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  Speaker 1: Lancing is a I mean it's a metropolitan area.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But anyway, there's I know there's woods around there somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, there's a lot of women that hunt, especially
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  Speaker 2: where I grew up in West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: Are women deer hunters as a general rule where you're from.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, But I mean again, that's just a general yeah
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  Speaker 2: type of Thing's funny women that hunt, sure.
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  Speaker 1: I just I'm just wondering if mom took him out
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  Speaker 1: hating She says because of his hunting knowledge, he knew
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  Speaker 1: how to tear down the gun, how to unload, how
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of the ammunition. I'm sorry this. In
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  Speaker 1: the scheme of things, this is not a huge story.
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  Speaker 1: But in the scheme of things, it really is a
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  Speaker 1: huge statement on the state of mind this country is in.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, black kid gun expel I'm not good with this,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe that's just me.