Detecting language using up to the first 30 seconds. Use `--language` to specify the language Detected language: English [00:00.000 --> 00:05.600] Welcome back to the channel. In light of the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, [00:05.600 --> 00:11.120] I'd like to share a few of my thoughts with you. I leave it to you to determine how meritorious [00:11.120 --> 00:22.400] or not meritorious those viewpoints are. The Dr. Reality Vodcast with Dave Champion. [00:30.800 --> 00:37.040] Let's start with a brief recap of my background. I'm a former U.S. Army Ranger. I'm former law [00:37.040 --> 00:42.880] enforcement. I've performed high-risk felony entry warrant service. I've taught firearms, [00:42.880 --> 00:48.880] tactics, and use of force, the better part of my life. I've taught things from advanced combat [00:48.880 --> 00:54.800] rifle all the way through to the vaunted handgun combat master program. I share that with you so [00:54.800 --> 01:00.160] you can determine for yourself whether my background lends itself to perhaps being able [01:00.160 --> 01:08.160] to speak authoritatively about not having students murdered on campus. I think it's important to say [01:08.160 --> 01:15.680] upfront that America has a mental health problem being presented by the media to the American [01:15.680 --> 01:20.640] people as a gun problem. Let me give you an example so that in case you don't necessarily [01:20.640 --> 01:25.920] agree with that to begin with, let me ask you a question and you tell me what you think. [01:26.640 --> 01:33.280] Let's say you're a non-gun owner. Maybe you don't even like guns. You want nothing to do with guns. [01:34.480 --> 01:38.240] Suddenly you come home and somebody has purchased you there in your living room. Somebody has [01:38.240 --> 01:43.760] purchased a firearm for you, maybe not knowing exactly how you feel about guns, but there it is [01:43.760 --> 01:49.760] with a card indicating that it is a gift from that person to you. Now, even if it's only temporarily, [01:50.400 --> 01:58.320] you own that firearm, would it ever occur to you in a million years to go to a school [01:58.320 --> 02:03.440] and murder a bunch of students? Of course not. So what's the difference between you that would [02:03.440 --> 02:07.600] never even cross you when you find out one of the most appalling thoughts that you could possibly [02:07.600 --> 02:15.200] imagine? What's the difference between you and the person who does it? It's mental illness. [02:15.840 --> 02:22.640] So we need to start with that acknowledgement that this is a mental health problem. Now, [02:22.640 --> 02:29.040] saying it's a mental health problem is not in any way making excuses for these murderers or minimizing [02:29.040 --> 02:35.360] the horror of what they're doing. Not at all. Because I know a lot of people, the minute you [02:35.360 --> 02:40.800] say it's a mental health problem, oh, you're trying to make some excuse for it. Not at all, [02:40.880 --> 02:46.000] as you will see as we continue. As I pondered this presentation, I wondered whether I wanted to do it [02:46.000 --> 02:53.840] on mass shootings generally or have mass shootings that are specific to school campuses. In light of [02:53.840 --> 02:58.160] what just happened at Robb Elementary School, I decided that I'm going to limit this discussion [02:58.160 --> 03:05.200] today to how to prevent students from being murdered while they're at school. Let's start [03:05.200 --> 03:11.280] with this. Legally speaking, so your views may differ, but that's not going to change what the [03:11.280 --> 03:18.400] law is in this country. Legally speaking, because of the Supreme Court's decisions in Heller and [03:18.400 --> 03:26.400] McDonald, rifles like AR-15s are never going to be illegal in this country. The reason I bring that [03:26.400 --> 03:31.440] up is a lot of people want to have that debate, and for the purpose of today's presentation, [03:31.440 --> 03:38.320] there is no debate. I mean, perhaps that might not be the case 50, 60, 90, 100 years from now, [03:38.320 --> 03:44.320] but as the legal, the constitutional landscape exists today after SCOTUS's Heller and McDonald [03:44.320 --> 03:49.840] decisions, those rifles are not going to be illegal in this country. So if you have the mindset that [03:49.840 --> 03:54.800] that would make the problem go away, you need to move on to some other approach because that's [03:54.800 --> 04:01.040] never going to happen in your lifetime. Let's talk for a moment about the ineffective options [04:01.040 --> 04:06.880] that a lot of people believe would actually be effective, but they're not. One of them would be, [04:07.680 --> 04:12.640] once somebody is identified as, I don't know if the correct adjective would be legally speaking, [04:12.640 --> 04:16.640] danger to themselves or others, but that's not always necessarily true. For the sake of this [04:16.640 --> 04:24.320] presentation, just somebody who seems to be a murderous loon, how's that? When you or public [04:24.400 --> 04:31.520] officials identify somebody who might be a murderous loon, we should take more definitive [04:31.520 --> 04:36.720] action against them, which I think on first blush is a reasonable sentiment. It doesn't play out. [04:36.720 --> 04:41.840] It's not effective, but it's a reasonable sentiment to have. You may have noticed that a lot of these [04:41.840 --> 04:48.560] shooters have come to the attention of law enforcement earlier in the context of being [04:48.560 --> 04:57.360] perhaps murderous loons, and law enforcement does all that it can do, and then the person goes home [04:57.360 --> 05:03.120] because the person hasn't actually committed a crime and was not so much of a murderous loon [05:03.120 --> 05:09.280] that he could be committed against his will. So then a year or 18 months later or two years later, [05:10.480 --> 05:14.640] suddenly that person is a mass shooter. However, when you have the sentiment that [05:14.640 --> 05:19.200] authorities should do something more specific, more definitive, more effective when they identify [05:19.200 --> 05:26.000] one of these murderous loons, the only thing that the authorities could really do would be to keep [05:26.000 --> 05:36.640] that person under surveillance 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in case perhaps that person committed [05:36.640 --> 05:43.280] some sort of violent attack. Even if it was constitutional to keep somebody who is not [05:43.280 --> 05:50.160] suspected of having committed, past tense, a crime, which it is unconstitutional, even if it [05:50.160 --> 05:55.520] was not unconstitutional, there isn't the manpower to keep however many of these people under [05:55.520 --> 06:03.760] surveillance 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on the chance that he may at some point a year, two [06:03.760 --> 06:08.240] years, three years, five years, 10 years from now become a mass shooter. So you can see while the [06:08.240 --> 06:14.720] sentiment is reasonable, it doesn't play out in the real world. How about red flag laws? Do they [06:14.720 --> 06:21.840] work? Well, you may remember just back on May 14th, there was the Buffalo mass shooting. In June of [06:21.840 --> 06:32.080] 2021, that shooter, Peyton Gendron, told a teacher that what he wanted to do was murder and commit [06:32.080 --> 06:40.240] suicide. The cops were called. He volunteered to go for a mental health assessment. A day and a [06:40.240 --> 06:48.400] half later, he was returned home. And we know how that story ended. On May 14th, he shot a bunch of [06:48.400 --> 06:55.600] people innocently shopping at a grocery store, 11 months after that day and a half psyche valve. [06:55.600 --> 07:03.280] I bring this up because New York has red flag laws and it didn't accomplish anything. [07:04.080 --> 07:12.320] Most of you are probably not aware. It costs $210 to file in court to get a red flag [07:12.320 --> 07:17.920] protective order. We should also keep in mind that in New York, a protective order lasts one [07:17.920 --> 07:22.320] year. So for one year, the person cannot be in possession of any firearms and cannot purchase [07:22.320 --> 07:28.480] any firearms. And then the order expires. The person who is the subject of the order, [07:28.480 --> 07:32.960] the person who is prevented from owning or purchasing firearms then is able to purchase [07:32.960 --> 07:40.960] or own firearms again and knows exactly who filed that court order against him. I suspect [07:42.560 --> 07:50.080] that chilling thought and $210 that a lot of people just don't have is why red flag laws [07:50.080 --> 07:54.160] are effective. A lot of people believe these kind of shootings would go away. [07:54.800 --> 07:58.160] If we could limit the amount of rounds that go into a rifle and that can be accomplished [07:58.160 --> 08:04.560] in different ways, it can be illegal to have the weapon except a magazine with say 20 or 30 rounds [08:04.560 --> 08:10.320] that it can only accept 10 rounds. Or you can make it a criminal offense to own magazines that are 20 [08:10.320 --> 08:16.160] or 30 rounds and the Buffalo shooter, Brendan, he simply modified his rifle so it no longer was [08:16.240 --> 08:20.480] limited to 10 rounds. And then he went out and bought 30 round magazines. And so he had 30 [08:20.480 --> 08:26.880] round magazines he could then insert into his AR-15 that came to him in such a way that it could [08:26.880 --> 08:31.840] accept no more than 10 rounds. And these things are very simple to do. These changes are simple [08:31.840 --> 08:38.720] to make. Having to criminalize a 30 round magazine to make that a crime, yeah, I'm sure the guy who's [08:38.720 --> 08:44.000] going to commit mass murder is very, very concerned about that. Also, and perhaps on a more practical [08:44.000 --> 08:51.280] level, normally the cops take four or five, six, seven minutes to respond to an active shooter [08:51.280 --> 08:57.840] situation like that. The difference between having a couple of 30 round magazines or having more, [08:57.840 --> 09:03.680] say, 10 round magazines and having to actually drop the magazine and insert a new one, the amount [09:03.680 --> 09:08.800] of people that's going to be shot, absolutely no different between putting in multiple 10 round [09:08.800 --> 09:12.640] magazines and putting in a 30 round magazine. I think the people who advocate that there should [09:12.640 --> 09:17.600] be lower magazine capacity and these weapons should be modified, I think they believe that [09:17.600 --> 09:24.080] changing magazines is some sort of onerous task that takes a long time, legitimately. Legitimately, [09:24.080 --> 09:27.280] if you've got a pouch and you have to pull up the Velcro and get the magazine out, drop the magazine, [09:27.280 --> 09:33.600] legitimately, this is like a five second thing. So if you change magazines four times during your [09:33.600 --> 09:38.960] mass shooting, you added 20 seconds to what you're doing when the cops are going to be there four, [09:38.960 --> 09:44.160] five, six, eight minutes later. So that sort of capacity limitation is also totally, totally [09:44.160 --> 09:49.440] ineffective. Let me just take a pause right here. If you are a person who believes these various [09:49.440 --> 09:52.960] things I just discussed and showed you that they are ineffective, if you're a person who has [09:52.960 --> 09:58.960] historically or maybe at this very time believe they are effective, I'm not trying to take all [09:58.960 --> 10:04.800] the tools out of your toolbox. I'm trying to point out that the right tools need to be applied. [10:04.800 --> 10:09.840] So if you have in your mind that this tool will work and that tool will work and experience and [10:09.840 --> 10:16.480] knowledge shows that both of those are ineffective, wouldn't you want to let those ineffective [10:16.480 --> 10:24.720] solutions go and look for something that actually maybe is a solution? What sense is there continuing [10:24.720 --> 10:30.320] to promote something which experience and knowledge tells us is totally ineffective? [10:30.400 --> 10:35.600] Why would anyone want to keep promoting that? There are a lot of people who believe that [10:36.640 --> 10:42.560] the police can handle it. The police are going to solve this problem. The police are going to stop [10:42.560 --> 10:48.800] people from being killed. All we need to do to understand that that is not true is look at these [10:48.800 --> 10:55.680] mass shootings. Occasionally the cops do end up stopping the shooter, but that's after you have a [10:56.240 --> 11:02.880] horrific body count. So I don't think you can realistically say the cops are going to solve [11:02.880 --> 11:07.760] this. The cops are going to fix this. The cops are going to stop everybody from dying when the [11:07.760 --> 11:15.280] evidence informs us that exactly the opposite is true. Then we have what happened at Robb Elementary [11:15.280 --> 11:21.280] School just the other day. As acknowledged by the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, [11:22.240 --> 11:32.320] law enforcement did not enter the school for 40 to 60 minutes after Ramos was in the school [11:32.320 --> 11:41.040] and gunshots had been heard. 40 to 60 minutes. Now, you may remember years ago the Virginia Tech [11:41.040 --> 11:46.480] shooting and one of the things that came from that, because I can remember it so vividly, [11:47.440 --> 11:51.920] watching the footage being shot outside just after the shooting started [11:53.280 --> 11:57.680] and cops running to and fro like chickens with their head cut off. I remember this one cop, [11:57.680 --> 12:03.120] he was jumping from behind a tree to behind a big dumpster and then back behind a tree. It was [12:03.120 --> 12:08.240] almost like watching a cartoon jumping, jumping, jumping and nobody doing anything to stop the [12:08.240 --> 12:16.160] shooter and that was splashed across the entire world. The cops jumping around like idiots and [12:16.160 --> 12:22.080] never bothering to go in and actually do anything. In the wake of that, most departments in the United [12:22.080 --> 12:28.960] States change their protocols and policies so that instead of waiting for a bunch of guys to show up, [12:28.960 --> 12:36.160] a dozen guys, 20 guys, 30 guys, instead of that, once you had three or four officers on site, [12:36.160 --> 12:40.560] you would quickly, quickly measure it in seconds, get your game plan together. Of course, they would [12:40.560 --> 12:44.720] be practicing this in their ongoing training over time. Every several months when they have their [12:44.720 --> 12:48.400] in-service training, they would be practicing this sort of thing. It wouldn't be a completely [12:48.400 --> 12:53.040] novel thing they were doing at the moment in crisis. Once three or four officers were there, [12:53.040 --> 13:00.400] that was considered to be a satisfactory number of people to have created a team environment where [13:00.400 --> 13:06.800] the officers could then go in and take down the shooter. The idea was that police officers [13:07.360 --> 13:13.760] who have wives, kids, families, and their unions did not believe that when somebody [13:13.760 --> 13:19.760] is upstairs executing a dozen people, that a single officer should run up there and save the [13:19.760 --> 13:26.720] day. That was unsound. Police officers representing through their union, they negotiated with the [13:26.720 --> 13:29.920] police department. They came up with these policies. It was three or four officers. That [13:29.920 --> 13:35.520] would be sufficient to offset the risk that a single officer might have going in and trying [13:35.520 --> 13:41.040] to stop that shooter. You may recall the North Hollywood shootout where the two guys that were [13:41.040 --> 13:45.120] covered in body armor from head to toe and they had AKs and they attempted to rob the bank and [13:45.120 --> 13:52.240] everything went south. One of the first really incredible shootouts that was like simulcast. [13:52.800 --> 13:58.560] Everybody was watching it as it went down. A former coworker and very close friend of mine, [13:58.560 --> 14:04.560] who's a former Navy SEAL, he was there at the incident scene. Afterwards, he told me how [14:04.560 --> 14:11.360] frustrated he was. He said, Dave, if you were there, you and I could have done what was [14:11.360 --> 14:18.640] necessary to take these guys down. He said, but I could not rally any of the officers. [14:18.640 --> 14:26.240] Their perspective was we have handguns. They have rifles. I'm not doing it. In the wake of that, [14:26.880 --> 14:34.480] police departments started issuing what they call patrol rifles, which are AR-15s, patrol rifles to [14:34.800 --> 14:42.880] patrol officers. The idea was then if your bad guy has a rifle, now you have a rifle too. Again, [14:42.880 --> 14:48.480] this was the officers in the union saying, I'm not going in there if he's got a long gun and I've got [14:48.480 --> 14:53.360] a handgun. Okay, so now we'll give you a long gun. Now go in and get the guy. If we add these [14:53.360 --> 15:01.440] together, we now have the team. When you have three or four officers present and they all have long [15:01.440 --> 15:09.600] guns, now you can go do your job. However, as we saw at Robb Elementary, [15:12.400 --> 15:20.880] having the tools and having the personnel doesn't overcome fear. It doesn't overcome [15:21.920 --> 15:27.360] cowardice. There's a certain segment of the public who is probably very mad that I just used the [15:27.360 --> 15:34.000] C word. I think they have this image that cops are somehow really courageous. I'd like to share [15:34.000 --> 15:38.080] a story with you that I think without getting into any personal anecdotes of me and my fellow [15:38.080 --> 15:43.440] officers on the streets, I was in an officer survival school. There was probably about 500 [15:43.440 --> 15:49.840] of us in this large room at a big hotel in Las Vegas. This goes back, I'm guessing 92, 93, [15:49.840 --> 15:55.120] someplace in that range. They had this huge screen up at the front of the room and the [15:55.120 --> 16:01.760] instructors put up a picture of a car on a street. The car was on its roof and there was [16:01.760 --> 16:07.280] a little bit of flame licking up that you could see from the undercarriage of the car, which was [16:07.280 --> 16:16.480] now facing the sky. The instructor said, the scenario is there is a young girl, probably [16:16.480 --> 16:23.520] about 10 or 12 years old, in the car, crying for help. Who here would help her? [16:25.600 --> 16:30.400] Yeah, about 500 cops in the room. Myself, my entire team raised our hands and a smattering [16:30.400 --> 16:37.280] of others did. I would guess in a room of 500, there might have been 30 hands up and the hands [16:37.280 --> 16:42.480] went up and they came back down. When they came back down, the instructor said, everybody who had [16:42.480 --> 16:49.040] their hands up, put your hands back up. So we all put our hands back up. The instructor then said, [16:50.320 --> 16:59.520] look around, see who these officers are. These are the officers you don't want to work with [17:00.080 --> 17:06.720] because they are not committed to themselves or to you going home at the end of their shift. [17:07.600 --> 17:11.360] If you had moved in towards that car to save that girl and that car had exploded, [17:11.920 --> 17:18.320] then you would be dead when it is your job to go home at night. Despite the fact that I obviously [17:18.320 --> 17:23.840] hold a different opinion because my hand was up than the instructors and the other 470 officers [17:23.840 --> 17:29.680] in the room, I'm not judging them. I understand that going home at the end of your shift, not [17:29.680 --> 17:36.720] being dead is a good thing. It's, I suppose, just where any given individual draws that line. I make [17:36.720 --> 17:41.360] that point because in these active shooter scenarios, that's exactly what's playing through [17:41.360 --> 17:45.280] the minds of these officers. If you haven't been in law enforcement, you probably don't know. [17:45.280 --> 17:50.160] It is preached, preached, preached, preached like evangelical religion. [17:51.120 --> 17:57.200] You must go home at the end of every shift. It doesn't matter. If a thousand citizens die, [17:57.200 --> 18:06.800] a thousand, you must go home at the end of your shift. Every cop goes home at the end of the shift. [18:07.920 --> 18:11.600] And again, I'm not judging, but I think the public should understand [18:13.040 --> 18:18.720] where the vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of cops draw that line concerning what they're [18:18.720 --> 18:25.200] willing to do and not willing to do as your children are being murdered. What if the cops [18:25.760 --> 18:33.280] do come in? Is that going to save the day? Well, right out of the Robb Elementary School shooting, [18:33.280 --> 18:39.840] we have this story. When police entered, one of the cops said in a loud voice, [18:40.560 --> 18:49.120] if you need help, yell out. So a young scared girl yelled, help. [18:49.120 --> 18:58.000] Well, Ramos heard her, locked in the room and murdered her. My point being that kind of complete [18:58.720 --> 19:07.360] and utter stupidity is not going to save your child. So that closes out our section on [19:07.920 --> 19:12.400] ineffective approaches, things that people think perhaps could work or they really, [19:12.400 --> 19:17.360] really, really believe it would work if we could just do it that are, as you see, [19:17.360 --> 19:22.400] completely ineffective. Now, let's talk about something that is proven effective. [19:23.520 --> 19:28.800] That is the Israeli model. Now, before I say anything that involves the word Israel, [19:28.800 --> 19:34.480] this is not an Israel-Palestinian discussion. I don't care what your views are on Israel as a [19:34.480 --> 19:38.080] nation and how it deals with the Palestinians or the Palestinians deal with the Israeli. [19:38.080 --> 19:44.080] This is not about this. This is a very narrow discussion about how they keep their children [19:44.080 --> 19:50.880] from being murdered. All right. So understanding that, Palestinians were at one point [19:51.520 --> 19:58.720] coming onto school campuses and murdering Israeli children. So the way that Israelis, [19:58.720 --> 20:06.000] the Israelis, their entire society decided to address this is that school staff was going to [20:06.000 --> 20:15.280] be armed and not just with pop guns, with combat rifles. It is very, very common for Israeli school [20:15.280 --> 20:23.680] staff to be armed and they have zero compunction about killing somebody who comes on campus to try [20:23.680 --> 20:30.160] to murder any of the students in their charge. Israelis will put that intended murderer down, [20:30.160 --> 20:34.640] go home and sleep like a baby. Now, that's never going to work here in the United States. [20:35.360 --> 20:39.360] I don't know. I shouldn't say never. Never say never, right? It certainly isn't going to work [20:39.360 --> 20:44.880] at this point in history in the United States because there's a difference between Israelis [20:45.520 --> 20:57.040] and Americans. Israelis accept the reality of violence in the world instead of whining and [20:57.040 --> 21:03.840] bitching and griping about it and trying to solve it by legislation and tell this guy, [21:03.840 --> 21:08.160] well, you stop doing that and you stop doing the other and then the reality of violence will go [21:08.160 --> 21:13.680] away. Instead of that, the Israelis arm up, they train and they kill the motherfuckers. [21:14.400 --> 21:24.080] So Americans aren't like that. Any term that I can think of about how so many Americans see this [21:24.080 --> 21:32.000] issue, any term I think of is pejorative, but an American will look you right in the face and say, [21:32.560 --> 21:41.200] I shouldn't have to own a gun, learn how to use it and carry it in order to protect the lives [21:41.200 --> 21:49.280] of children. That's not my job. Another way to phrase this is that the Israeli people, [21:50.000 --> 22:01.360] they accept the reality of violence in the world and they accept personal responsibility [22:01.360 --> 22:11.600] for keeping themselves and others safe. In America, a huge, huge, huge swath of the American public [22:12.960 --> 22:22.400] rejects the reality of violence in the world, how it operates, when it pops up, what you have to, [22:22.400 --> 22:32.800] they reject all of that because they choose not to accept responsibility for it, resolving it. [22:32.800 --> 22:38.000] They do not accept responsibility for their own protection, for staying alive and they do not, [22:38.000 --> 22:47.840] they sure as hell don't accept responsibility for saving children. They see no shame in that perspective. [22:48.560 --> 22:52.960] I have no idea how they do it. [22:56.080 --> 23:02.640] If I was like that, I could not look myself in the mirror. With all that said, [23:03.280 --> 23:08.560] do I support mandatory arming of all school staff? No, I don't. When I taught firearms [23:08.560 --> 23:13.360] in California, one of the things, it was Southern California, like the greater Los Angeles area, [23:13.760 --> 23:18.800] as you might know, there are a lot of left-leaning people living and some of those would [23:18.800 --> 23:24.160] occasionally be in the groups that I was teaching. One of the very first things that I would discuss [23:24.160 --> 23:36.160] with them was be absolutely confident that if you carry a gun, you can use a gun because carrying a [23:36.160 --> 23:44.960] gun, bringing the gun out and then not being able to engage can be more dangerous, depending on the [23:44.960 --> 23:50.560] situation, more dangerous than not having a firearm at all. Consequently, if there are school staff [23:50.560 --> 23:55.600] that says, I absolutely know for a fact that I could not press that trigger. I can go through [23:55.600 --> 24:00.080] the training, I can carry the gun, but I'm telling you in that moment, I know myself and I would not [24:00.080 --> 24:05.520] be able to press the trigger. Okay, so that's not the person. What is the value of mandating that [24:05.520 --> 24:10.320] person go through all the training and carry a gun? Absolutely none. Remember, this whole conversation [24:10.320 --> 24:15.680] is about what is effective and non-effective and forcing somebody to carry a gun who knows they [24:15.680 --> 24:20.640] cannot, I shouldn't say knows because you never really know until the moment, but they feel in [24:20.640 --> 24:25.680] their heart of hearts. They could not press the trigger. Having them carry a firearm under mandate [24:25.680 --> 24:33.120] is almost certainly ineffective. Everyone else who works in a school district on a school campus [24:33.120 --> 24:36.960] and is not one of the very, very small minority of the people who say I absolutely, positively [24:36.960 --> 24:44.560] could not press the trigger. Everybody else should volunteer to go through ongoing training, [24:44.560 --> 24:50.480] purchase a firearm, perhaps the district can set up some sort of financing, learn tactics and [24:50.480 --> 24:55.520] firearm skills. If you're familiar with school districts, there are special days that teachers [24:55.520 --> 24:59.200] don't have students in the room and those special days are provided so that the teachers can do [24:59.200 --> 25:06.320] things that the district thinks are important. Okay, so it's not unusual to have a teacher [25:06.320 --> 25:11.280] with a day without students when the district thinks it's important. So when we look at the [25:11.280 --> 25:15.520] thing when the district thinks it's important, here's what I'm going to say. There is nothing, [25:16.160 --> 25:23.360] nothing that is more important than that the students who are dropped off in the morning [25:23.360 --> 25:32.000] are still alive at the end of the school day. That is job one, making sure the students are still [25:32.000 --> 25:40.000] alive at the end of the day. Education is second to that. I understand education is the primary [25:40.000 --> 25:48.160] goal. However, you're not educating dead students. So job one, make sure students are still alive at [25:48.160 --> 25:53.600] the end of the school day. School districts are going to say we can't afford that. Okay, so [25:54.320 --> 25:59.120] there's so much waste in the public school education system, so much monetary waste [25:59.680 --> 26:04.640] that I don't want to hear it. Until there is a viable program set up that meets the kind of [26:04.640 --> 26:08.720] standards we're talking about here today so that all of the staff that volunteers to do this [26:08.720 --> 26:13.520] is properly trained up and ready to go and is getting that training one full day every four [26:13.520 --> 26:18.640] months. Unless or until that's happening, I don't want to hear a word about budget constraints. [26:18.640 --> 26:25.040] Take it out of all the freaking waste in your public school systems. When you've made sure [26:25.040 --> 26:28.720] that you've done everything that's reasonable to keep your students alive, then we can have a [26:28.720 --> 26:35.280] conversation about your education budget. My last thought on that program is no more than half of [26:35.280 --> 26:40.160] the training. So if you have, say, four training days in a year, no more than two of those training [26:40.160 --> 26:45.040] days that year should be conducted by law enforcement. Because although I think a lot [26:45.040 --> 26:50.320] of the public is ignorant about this, the real horsepower in tactics and firearm is not in law [26:50.320 --> 26:56.000] enforcement. If you've been in law enforcement or been involved in law enforcement training, [26:56.000 --> 27:02.080] as have I, you know the true horsepower for these kind of issues is in the private sector. Now I [27:02.080 --> 27:07.680] know there's this mindset that the cops are the experts to this and they're not. Nevertheless, [27:07.680 --> 27:13.200] I understand, especially government institutions like school districts will have the false [27:13.200 --> 27:17.040] perception that cops are the guys that who should do the training. So my thing is I'm saying, [27:17.040 --> 27:20.240] okay, you want to have cops come in and do some training, that's fine if that's what you need to [27:20.240 --> 27:26.560] do. But the other half of the training should be by that community that has superior skill sets. [27:26.560 --> 27:30.960] And as I said, the horsepower really is in the private sector. You're probably clear on this [27:30.960 --> 27:38.560] without my saying it. But this entire presentation today was not about stopping school shootings. [27:39.200 --> 27:46.400] Because there is nothing, zero, nothing that can be done to stop a lunatic from grabbing a firearm [27:46.400 --> 27:54.480] or any kind of weapon and walking on campus. What this has been about is making sure the body count [27:54.480 --> 28:01.360] is as close to zero as humanly possible, preferably zero. You know, we see this guy coming, [28:01.360 --> 28:05.680] we see he's a threat, maybe he attacked somebody else, a janitor or something in the hallway, [28:05.680 --> 28:10.240] come out of the holster and drop him. Okay. So that of course would be the best case scenario [28:10.240 --> 28:18.560] that the body count is exactly zero. Nevertheless, if the body count is one, or two, or three, [28:19.520 --> 28:31.120] is that not better than 19, 20, 22, 35? It would be nice to have some mechanism by which we could [28:31.120 --> 28:37.040] guarantee the body count would be zero. Who in their right mind would not love that solution? [28:38.240 --> 28:44.960] I talked about the reality of violence in the world. So there is no such guaranteed solution [28:44.960 --> 28:50.480] that you're going to have zero body count at the end when a lunatic attempts to set out [28:50.480 --> 28:56.480] to murder children. There is no guarantee. But I wanted to highlight today the different approaches [28:56.480 --> 29:05.200] that are ineffective from the ones we know have been proven effective. As I close, if you value [29:05.200 --> 29:12.160] this sort of clear and concise presentation, do me a favor, go to my website, DrReality.News, [29:12.160 --> 29:18.720] pick up a copy of Income Tax, Shattering the Mist, and or Body Science. You have my word, [29:18.720 --> 29:27.040] they will be either or both, will be the most fascinating books you have ever, ever read. [29:27.040 --> 29:34.240] That is my word to you. And running a special right now, if at checkout in the coupon code window, [29:34.800 --> 29:40.400] you enter Tax Truth, all one word, Tax Truth, free shipping. 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