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Spam Texts and free speech under attack in Mississippi · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: So I just got right before the break Again, as
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  Speaker 1: how it goes, The Queen sends me a text that
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  Speaker 1: she received. It says, here, I'm reading this to you
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  Speaker 1: now verbatim, the toll Roads notice of toll evasion. You
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  Speaker 1: have an unpaid toll bill on your account. To avoid
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  Speaker 1: late fees, pay within twelve hours or the late fees
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  Speaker 1: will be increased and reported to the DMV. Then it
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  Speaker 1: gives you a link where you can click to pay toll. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's not it continues, please reply. Why then exit the
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  Speaker 1: text message and open it again to activate the link,
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  Speaker 1: or copy the link to your Safari browser and open it.
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  Speaker 1: The toll roads team whishes you a great day. Here's
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  Speaker 1: our problems. We live in Ohio. There is no there
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  Speaker 1: is no toll roads team in Ohio. We have the
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  Speaker 1: BMV Bureau motor vehicles. We do not have a DMV
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  Speaker 1: right and we haven't gone anywhere that has tolls anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I like how it says if you don't pay the money,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna report it to the DMV. Yeah, as if
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  Speaker 2: the DMV would do that's not what they do.
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  Speaker 1: And it comes from a number that is forty four.
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  Speaker 1: It's an international code. What's it? Where is that? Zach?
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  Speaker 1: Look up? What's the international? What's forty four? The international power?
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  Speaker 1: The United Kingdom UK? Yeah, alrighty, so, yeah, it comes
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  Speaker 1: from a UK number, which doesn't have to be in
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  Speaker 1: the UK. With all these up text nows and all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, you can fake numbers and yeah constantly.
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  Speaker 1: What an absolute rip. But somebody somewhere, because I guarantee
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  Speaker 1: that went out to a whole bunch of people, somebody
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  Speaker 1: somewhere is going to respond to that and send them
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  Speaker 1: some money. That's a shame. That's sad, but it is
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  Speaker 1: the truth of things, m all right. So Zach sent
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  Speaker 1: me this story earlier that I want to get into. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's it is. Uh, it's the death of free speech,
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  Speaker 1: at least in Mississippi, wasn't it. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: in the state of MISSISISPI Yeah, thin, it's Mississippi. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're going to love that. Stand by for it.
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  Speaker 1: Eight two one ninety six eight two one WTV and Teresa,
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  Speaker 1: you're on sixten double UTV in heighth Hello.
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  Speaker 3: I've been getting those text messages from the toll roads.
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  Speaker 3: I get about two of them a day, and they
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  Speaker 3: started a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I know.
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  Speaker 3: And I told my daughter, I said, do we still
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  Speaker 3: own toll from when we were in Florida? And She's like, no, Mom,
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  Speaker 3: I paid those And I'm like, well what are these?
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  Speaker 1: You Know what I find interesting is just like around
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl time, Safari the Apple browsers started promoting itself
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  Speaker 1: as a cure browser and your safe here and your
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  Speaker 1: information isn't stored and that kind of thing. And this
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  Speaker 1: this spam text actually says paste it into your Safari link,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm very curious about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, do I open this link? No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just I'm deleting it. But I've been about two
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  Speaker 3: a day.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have an iPhone or an Android?
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  Speaker 3: I have an iPhone?
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, specifies Safari. You have an iPhone. I have
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  Speaker 1: an iPhone. Zach. You didn't get one of these? Did you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I got one. Did you get one too? I think so?
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  Speaker 2: But I got like the the international code was like
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  Speaker 2: six ' eight and then there was a string of
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  Speaker 2: numbers and then it was something about going to a
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  Speaker 2: toll or something, and then.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, maybe it's finally time that Apple gets attacked.
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  Speaker 1: They have been immune from it. The internet has been
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  Speaker 1: a Microsoft, you know, target range for everything that it
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  Speaker 1: is Microsoft or Android. Maybe somebody's finally going after.
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  Speaker 3: Apple, probably And I'm like, please.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a break, don't don't pay it, have another
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  Speaker 1: piece pie instead. Take care, Teresa, stay warmed tonight. This
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  Speaker 1: this story and I don't know, do you want to
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  Speaker 1: give me your iteration of it because it's it's sad
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  Speaker 1: and it may work with your voice telling the story better. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, there's a judge, Crystal Wise Martin in.
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi, Missippy, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, and uh, there was a a opinion piece in
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  Speaker 2: a local paper and she basically put a halt on
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  Speaker 2: it or whatever the word is you want to call it.
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  Speaker 2: And once it removed, Yeah, she put an order on it,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, an order on a newspaper to remove an editorial.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody's upset about it down there, obviously, and they
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  Speaker 2: removed it. And that's where we are right now.
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  Speaker 1: This is a letter to the editor, a letter to
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  Speaker 1: the editor. It's not news, it's it is a let
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  Speaker 1: it's an opinion piece. And this judge in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Mississippi Chance Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin is then
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what chancery is. What's chancery? Is that
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  Speaker 1: like a Mississippi district thing? Or yeah, all right, chancery
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  Speaker 1: Judge Crystal Wise Martin issuing this restraining order against the
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  Speaker 1: Clerksdale Press register. Tuesday was the court date. February eighth
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  Speaker 1: was the date of the infraction. An editorial that was
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  Speaker 1: entitled Secrecy, deception, erode Public trust. Okay that I can't
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  Speaker 1: argue with the.
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  Speaker 2: Headline, No, it gets better, it gets better.
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  Speaker 1: The piece criticized the city for not sending the newspaper
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  Speaker 1: notice about the meeting of city council that was held
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  Speaker 1: regarding a proposed What was that? Oh, that's my stuff?
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  Speaker 1: You know what just happened? Apple just revolted because I'm
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  Speaker 1: reading that off my phone. I just got a black speet,
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  Speaker 1: said Safari. Cannot open the link. Hmmm. The piece criticized
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  Speaker 1: the city for not sending the newspaper notice about a
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  Speaker 1: meeting that the city council held regarding a proposed tax
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  Speaker 1: on alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco. I think it's dangerous that
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  Speaker 1: a judge would issue a timporary restraining order without having
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  Speaker 1: a hearing, said Wyatt. Emeric don't mess with people named Wyatt.
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  Speaker 1: Wyatt Emeric, who's president of the paper's parent company, Emeric Newspapers.
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  Speaker 1: We'll fight it and we'll see where it goes. The
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  Speaker 1: city's lawsuit, called the editorial libelous, said it chilled and
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  Speaker 1: hindered the city's efforts to lobby for the tax with state.
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  Speaker 1: So because you told us the people that the city
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  Speaker 1: council had this meeting about raising these taxes, and the
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  Speaker 1: newspaper was kept out of the circle. There when this
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  Speaker 1: paper found out and said, hey, this is wrong that
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  Speaker 1: you didn't include us in this notice about this meeting.
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  Speaker 1: That's hindering your chances at a state level to get
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  Speaker 1: these taxes. Correct. That's their argument. That is crooked, is
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  Speaker 1: all get out it is.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know, you know, all the behind the
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  Speaker 2: scenes things obviously in Mississippi that happens with this paper.
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  Speaker 2: I would have liked to see them say, no, we're
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  Speaker 2: not taking anything down. I don't care what the cost.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe no, I don't know if that is.
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  Speaker 1: A legal thing.
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  Speaker 2: But for a judge to do that, I mean, like
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  Speaker 2: you said at the beginning of the segment, it's pure
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  Speaker 2: anti free speech.
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  Speaker 1: This is absolutely I'm want to see if I can
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  Speaker 1: get the editor of this newspaper on with me next week.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's Mississippi, so he's probably just laying around.
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  Speaker 1: It's the South, many got nothing to do. See if
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  Speaker 1: I can get him on with me then, because that
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  Speaker 1: would that would be an interesting interview. I just I
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  Speaker 1: I am sad that we again are told over and
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  Speaker 1: over that we, being conservative minded people, are a threat
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  Speaker 1: to democracy. And then this crap is what's passing. And
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  Speaker 1: I have to assume that the city council is probably
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  Speaker 1: all Democrat, probably got a Democrat mayor. They wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do stuff in the cover of darkness and they got caught.
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  Speaker 1: So good for that newspaper. Security concerns at Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: University at the hospital after guns were found on patients.
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  Speaker 1: Did you read this one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he sent it to me right before as okay,
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  Speaker 2: it brings up an interesting point that I never thought.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, two guns were found in the last three months, okay,
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  Speaker 1: which ain't bad. Two guns in the last three months
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  Speaker 1: of the Western Medical Center Ohio State East Hospital, and
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  Speaker 1: nearly ten thousand weapons, including guns and knives, had been
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  Speaker 1: confiscated at the medical center in the last year through
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  Speaker 1: medical detectors. However, two guns that were carried by patients
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  Speaker 1: in the last three months at both the Medical Center
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  Speaker 1: and OSU East went undetected, raising security concerns. Now what
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  Speaker 1: they see, here's the problem. These people, both instances apparently
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  Speaker 1: were brought in by ambulance. So I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it was an auto accident, had a heart attack or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But if let's say you're in a wreck, you're unconscious,
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  Speaker 1: the ambulance takes you to the hospital and you're carrying
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  Speaker 1: your weapon. Are you a criminal because your unconscious but
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  Speaker 1: got hauled into a hospital by an ambulance.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think that should be obviously an exception. I
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  Speaker 2: think they're worried about something. If somebody gets brought in,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they got injured, and maybe they might be on
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  Speaker 2: drugs and they have a weapon on them, who knows
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  Speaker 2: what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, this is all the more reason for people
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  Speaker 1: like me to be able to carry our weapons, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: because if those people are in the hospital, you want
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  Speaker 1: somebody like me. Your nurses aren't going to stop them,
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  Speaker 1: the orderlies aren't gonna stop them, doctors aren't going to
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  Speaker 1: stop them. But maybe a good guy with a gun
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  Speaker 1: stops the bad guy with the gun before he causes carnage. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that could never happen in a hospital. Tell that to
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  Speaker 1: the schools around the country. Confiscations of firearms through the
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  Speaker 1: years at the Wexner Medical Center from twenty seventeen to
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four firearms in twenty seventeen there were sixty three,
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, sixty four, twenty nineteen, fifty nine, twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine, twenty twenty one, fifty nine. We are consistent
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  Speaker 1: in Columbus. Twenty twenty two there were eighty three, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three there were seventy one, twenty twenty four there
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  Speaker 1: were seventy two. So those high numbers all came during
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  Speaker 1: the Biden administration. We were getting tough on guns. You
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  Speaker 1: notice also knives and blades confiscated over the years. In
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen it was seventy six, ninety one, twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: seventy five, sixty eight, twenty nineteen, seventy six oh one.
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  Speaker 1: Then in twenty twenty, dropping to thirty four to twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Who was president twenty twenty one there were four thousand
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  Speaker 1: and thirty five twenty twenty two there were forty six
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  Speaker 1: ninety four, twenty twenty three, fifty three, sixty five, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, sixty six oh six again during the peaceful
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  Speaker 1: Biden years. They have pepper spray statistics as well. They've
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  Speaker 1: got tasers and stun guns on here. Then they've got
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  Speaker 1: a category for other objects. Okay, what else is there?
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  Speaker 1: You've got the stun guns, the tasers, the pepper spray,
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  Speaker 1: the knives, the blades, and the firearms. What else is
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  Speaker 1: there that you consider a weapon you had to confiscate? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but in twenty seventeen there were eleven
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight of them, twenty eighteeneteen fourteen, twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: eleven fifty four and twenty twenty. Who was president then
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five hundred thirty Yeah a fascist, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one seven hundred thirty one, and twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four seven hundred eighty eight other whatever others were