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[00:00.960 --> 00:06.960]  Welcome to the vodcast. Firearms are revered by many people and hated by many people.
[00:06.960 --> 00:11.760]  Despite the American people having a right to keep and bear arms, the issue continues to be
[00:11.760 --> 00:16.800]  highly politicized. Because this particular right is under constant political pressure,
[00:17.520 --> 00:24.080]  a recent study caught my eye. The study purports to provide an accurate assessment of how many
[00:24.080 --> 00:28.160]  Americans routinely carry firearms. I know a little about this subject because I spent the
[00:28.160 --> 00:32.400]  better part of my life teaching firearms, tactics, and use of force to civilians,
[00:32.400 --> 00:38.240]  law enforcement, and military personnel. I came across the study's claims in a news article.
[00:38.240 --> 00:44.400]  The claims were so outrageous, I had to go track down the study. When I read it,
[00:44.400 --> 00:49.360]  I discovered what was really going on, what the real agenda is, and I'm going to share that with
[00:49.360 --> 01:11.200]  you today. Let's start with this. I'm not going to delve into the methods used in the study. I'll
[01:11.200 --> 01:15.600]  put the link to the study in the notes. You can do that for yourself, if inclined. Anyone who
[01:15.600 --> 01:21.040]  understands how studies can be rigged to produce a predetermined outcome will see how that was
[01:21.040 --> 01:25.920]  accomplished in this case. Before I get rolling, let me share with you a brief recitation of my
[01:25.920 --> 01:31.760]  experience relevant to the subject matter. I was a small arms specialist in the United States Army
[01:31.760 --> 01:36.240]  Rangers, where I taught the use of numerous weapons systems. When in law enforcement,
[01:36.240 --> 01:41.440]  I was a certified law enforcement handgun and submachine gun instructor. Well, it's been quite
[01:41.520 --> 01:46.720]  a few years. At one time, I held the second fastest time from threat detection to target
[01:46.720 --> 01:52.320]  engagement on LAPD's FATSA system. I owned a firearms training school in California.
[01:52.320 --> 01:57.040]  After I left California, I continued teaching, spending several years range mastering at the
[01:57.040 --> 02:03.840]  largest privately owned firearms academy in the United States. I am a huge advocate of Americans
[02:03.840 --> 02:09.040]  taking personal responsibility for their safety, whether it be in their home, on the street,
[02:09.040 --> 02:14.000]  or at work. No one else is going to do it for you. And as we see time and again,
[02:14.720 --> 02:20.560]  when seconds count, the police are minutes away. Because of my passion for the right of self-defense,
[02:20.560 --> 02:26.800]  I've made an informal study of how many Americans carry a firearm on a daily basis other than those
[02:26.800 --> 02:31.920]  who carry one for a living. My professional assessment from inside the community, inside
[02:31.920 --> 02:37.520]  the firearms and self-defense culture, is dramatically different than the study we're
[02:37.600 --> 02:43.200]  discussing today. But then I was looking for real numbers not seeking to support an agenda.
[02:43.920 --> 02:51.600]  My estimate of how many Americans carry a firearm every day is roughly 2% of the U.S. population. So
[02:51.600 --> 02:57.520]  as you go about your day, for every 100 people you see, two are carrying a firearm. That 2% figure
[02:57.520 --> 03:02.240]  is national, but of course that number will vary when looking at local communities. As an example,
[03:02.240 --> 03:05.920]  you'll find a lot more people carrying firearms in the rural Southern Nevada community in which
[03:05.920 --> 03:10.160]  I live than you will in a predominantly left-leaning place like Los Angeles.
[03:11.040 --> 03:17.840]  Roughly 50% of the U.S. population owns firearms. Virtually everyone I know who owns a long gun
[03:17.840 --> 03:22.160]  also owns a handgun. Further, there are more people who own guns that are willing to share
[03:22.160 --> 03:27.600]  that information with the government or pollsters. So the true percentage will likely never be known.
[03:28.240 --> 03:34.400]  Using my 2% number as a starting point, if we say that 50% of the U.S. population owns at least one
[03:34.400 --> 03:41.120]  handgun, that would mean that 4% of firearms owners carry a firearm routinely. That estimate
[03:41.120 --> 03:47.760]  is far different than the number claimed in the study, which is politically motivated nonsense.
[03:48.320 --> 03:56.240]  The important aspects of that study are what the numbers are, they assert, who performed the study,
[03:57.360 --> 04:03.200]  and what they're attempting to accomplish. The percentage of handgun owners they claim carry
[04:03.200 --> 04:12.320]  a firearm routinely is 12%. That's a 300% inflated estimate beyond what I had to say,
[04:12.320 --> 04:18.400]  and grossly inaccurate. If their number was factual, that would mean in highly pro-gun
[04:18.400 --> 04:24.720]  communities such as where I live, that some undetermined number well above 12% would be
[04:24.720 --> 04:31.920]  carrying firearms. I can assure you that is not remotely the case. Because the claims in the study
[04:31.920 --> 04:38.960]  are so ridiculously inaccurate, I wanted to know who conducted it. The study appears in the American
[04:38.960 --> 04:44.160]  Journal of Public Health, which is published by the American Public Health Association. In other
[04:44.160 --> 04:50.960]  words, the study is the work of the American Public Health Association. So who is the American
[04:50.960 --> 04:56.960]  Public Health Association? On first blush, I couldn't find any political slant associated
[04:56.960 --> 05:02.400]  with the American Public Health Association. But then I went further. I researched the
[05:02.400 --> 05:10.400]  current leadership and presidents of the association going back a decade. All of them are flaming
[05:10.400 --> 05:16.400]  liberals. They aren't simply Democrats. They're hardcore leftists from the world of academia.
[05:16.400 --> 05:19.840]  In other words, the American Public Health Association isn't really a public health group
[05:19.840 --> 05:25.040]  at all. It's a liberal political activist group masquerading as a public health group.
[05:25.040 --> 05:30.640]  Once we understand that, then we need to ask why a group that loathes firearms and wants to
[05:30.640 --> 05:38.000]  eradicate private firearms ownership is conducting a study that purports to inform us about how many
[05:38.000 --> 05:44.160]  Americans carry firearms. There are three reasons all of them interconnected. First,
[05:44.160 --> 05:48.960]  nearly a week goes by we don't see a story about some asswipe killing several people using a
[05:49.040 --> 05:55.760]  firearm. These events have led the media, predominantly left-leaning media, to repeatedly pose
[05:55.760 --> 06:02.480]  the question, who is responsible for so much gun violence? The last would have you believe the
[06:02.480 --> 06:07.680]  problem is the exercise of our inalienable right to keep and bear arms. I would suggest it is a
[06:07.680 --> 06:12.560]  failure of the American people to take personal responsibility for their own safety, instead
[06:12.560 --> 06:17.520]  wrongly believing they can shift that responsibility to the government. The American people have come
[06:17.520 --> 06:24.000]  to wrongly believe government has the ability to keep violence from occurring. Second, this study
[06:24.000 --> 06:30.640]  was released in December 2022, six months after the Supreme Court's Bruin decision. Bruin was
[06:30.640 --> 06:36.960]  essentially a death knell for a wide swath of gun control laws. In other words, gun haters know they
[06:36.960 --> 06:41.760]  are going to lose many of their laws they've managed to get enacted over the past few decades
[06:41.760 --> 06:47.600]  as those laws are declared unconstitutional when the Bruin test is applied. Third, and most
[06:47.600 --> 06:51.920]  significantly, with the advent of the Bruin decision, gun haters are left looking for
[06:52.640 --> 06:57.840]  another means of achieving the goal of rendering the American people defenseless against violent
[06:57.840 --> 07:04.320]  criminals. The new approach is going to be declaring gun violence to be a public health
[07:04.320 --> 07:10.960]  threat. They're going to claim that gun violence is a pandemic and as such justifies the government
[07:10.960 --> 07:17.920]  abrogating the American people's right to keep and bear arms. In 2020 and 2021, in the midst of
[07:17.920 --> 07:24.080]  the so-called pandemic, we witnessed the deprivation of unalienable rights of the American people on a
[07:24.080 --> 07:31.200]  scale previously unimaginable. That such measures were deemed acceptable by many Americans for no
[07:31.200 --> 07:37.440]  better reason than they were fearful was not lost on the gun haters. The gun haters now want to
[07:37.440 --> 07:43.040]  gin up as much public fear as possible and then assert that firearms are subject to regulation
[07:43.040 --> 07:48.480]  as a national health emergency, just like SARS-CoV-2. There's a government agency of which
[07:48.480 --> 07:54.080]  you may have heard. Its name is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more commonly known
[07:54.080 --> 08:03.920]  as CDC. So what is that agency intended to control? Let's hear its name again. Centers for Disease
[08:03.920 --> 08:09.360]  Control and Prevention. In other words, it was established to control or prevent disease. But do
[08:09.360 --> 08:16.320]  you know CDC has a violence prevention department? The opening sentence of that program's website
[08:16.320 --> 08:23.840]  states, quote, violence is an urgent public health problem. You'll note the keywords there are public
[08:23.840 --> 08:31.040]  health and urgent. The definition of urgent, according to dictionary.com, is requiring immediate
[08:31.040 --> 08:37.280]  action. The gun haters want to characterize gun violence as a health emergency. And one of the
[08:37.280 --> 08:44.560]  synonyms of emergency is urgent. Emergency is defined as requiring immediate action,
[08:44.560 --> 08:50.720]  which is the same words used in the definition of urgent. In other words, urgent and emergency are
[08:50.720 --> 08:56.480]  used interchangeably by the CDC. With that in mind, what CDC's opening statement really means is,
[08:56.480 --> 09:03.600]  quote, gun violence is a public health emergency, close quote. You may also be interested to know
[09:03.600 --> 09:09.200]  that within CDC's violence prevention program, it has a specific department that addresses
[09:09.840 --> 09:15.280]  firearms violence. Of the 10 departments within the CDC's violence prevention program,
[09:15.280 --> 09:21.360]  the firearms violence department is the largest and the most well-funded by far. This would probably
[09:21.440 --> 09:27.040]  be a good time to recall that CDC only has authority to control or prevent disease. So,
[09:27.040 --> 09:33.600]  by creating programs that address gun violence, they are laying the foundation that gun violence,
[09:33.600 --> 09:40.400]  even violence for the purpose of self-defense, is a disease. In short, CDC is characterizing
[09:40.400 --> 09:48.000]  gun violence as a disease that impacts public health and defining it as an emergency. During
[09:48.000 --> 09:52.960]  2020 and 2021, we saw what happened to the rights of the American people and federal and
[09:52.960 --> 09:58.720]  state governments declared the existence of a public health emergency, which is what CDC and
[09:58.720 --> 10:04.720]  the gun haters intend to do concerning firearms in the not-too-distant future. With that understanding
[10:04.720 --> 10:09.760]  under our belts, let's return to the American Public Health Association's study. The study
[10:09.760 --> 10:15.600]  only gathered data on lawful carry, so that informs us that whatever is the association's agenda,
[10:15.600 --> 10:21.600]  it deals with law-abiding citizens, not criminals. Of course, the core of all gun control law is to
[10:21.600 --> 10:26.640]  target law-abiding citizens because, by definition, criminals don't obey laws.
[10:26.640 --> 10:31.760]  Now, let's wrap this all together so you can get a clear picture of how these pieces work together.
[10:32.320 --> 10:37.840]  First, we have Bruin eradicating decades of anti-gun legislation. And to be clear,
[10:37.840 --> 10:42.720]  Bruin didn't magically remove those laws from the books, but anti-gunners know that under the
[10:42.720 --> 10:48.480]  Bruin test, every time one of those anti-gun laws is challenged, it will be declared unconstitutional.
[10:48.480 --> 10:53.920]  In short, they know decades of anti-gun legislation has been flushed down the toilet
[10:53.920 --> 10:58.560]  because the Supreme Court acknowledged what every liberty-loving American knew all along.
[10:59.440 --> 11:06.960]  Those laws are unconstitutional. Next, we have the CDC laying a foundation for roughly 30 years now
[11:07.040 --> 11:13.840]  that gun violence is a disease and, as such, is subject to an end run around the Constitution
[11:13.840 --> 11:20.560]  and our unalienable rights by declaring a public health emergency. In order to declare gun violence,
[11:20.560 --> 11:26.800]  a national public health emergency, the CDC, and more pointedly its parent agency, the National
[11:26.800 --> 11:32.320]  Institutes of Health, has to be able to make a plausible argument that law-abiding citizens
[11:32.320 --> 11:39.360]  carrying firearms in public is the cause of gun violence. Again, I remind you,
[11:39.360 --> 11:44.080]  CDC and other anti-gun organizations make no distinction between using a firearm to
[11:44.080 --> 11:48.720]  save your life or the life of a loved one versus using a firearm to commit murder.
[11:48.720 --> 11:54.320]  The term gun violence includes both. But of course, as every thinking person knows,
[11:54.320 --> 12:00.080]  laws only restrict the law-abiding. So in reality, all legislative efforts to stop gun violence
[12:00.720 --> 12:04.240]  are designed from the outset to stop law-abiding Americans from exercising
[12:04.240 --> 12:09.360]  the right of self-defense using the most effective tool. And just as with those
[12:09.360 --> 12:15.360]  legislative efforts, the same corrupt and immoral goal exists in their plan to declare gun violence
[12:15.360 --> 12:21.840]  a national public health emergency. The study by the American Public Health Association that
[12:21.840 --> 12:27.600]  grossly inflates the number of Americans routinely carrying firearms is an initial step in the plan
[12:27.600 --> 12:32.640]  to provide the Secretary of Health and Human Services with a plausible argument that can be
[12:32.640 --> 12:39.280]  used as the legal basis to declare gun violence a national public health emergency, thus authorizing
[12:39.280 --> 12:44.560]  the government to impose extraordinary measures that violate our inalienable rights, as occurred
[12:44.560 --> 12:50.880]  in 2020 and 2021. If you think these folks have concocted a far-fetched scheme that will never
[12:50.880 --> 12:56.960]  fly, let me ask you this. What would you have thought if in 2019 someone had told you that when
[12:56.960 --> 13:02.240]  the next upper respiratory disease-causing virus popped up across the world, you'd be arrested for
[13:02.240 --> 13:06.960]  leaving your home? Or that in the modern electronic town square, you would not be allowed to give voice
[13:06.960 --> 13:12.320]  to your views if they conflict with the government's position? I'm pretty sure you would have called
[13:12.320 --> 13:20.240]  that person a kook promoting far-fetched nonsense. Yet, that is exactly what happened. Anti-gunners
[13:20.880 --> 13:27.920]  never stop. With Bruant decimating their legislative approach, the only direction left to them is an end
[13:27.920 --> 13:32.880]  run around the Constitution by invoking the very same emergency powers they just witnessed being
[13:32.880 --> 13:40.080]  imposed so successfully across most of America. In other words, they know it works because they
[13:40.080 --> 13:46.480]  just watched it work. What they want to do is simply change the impetus from an actual disease
[13:46.560 --> 13:51.760]  to something they're going to corruptly declare as a disease. Can they convince the American
[13:51.760 --> 13:56.720]  people to go along with it? I don't know. Did they convince a good portion of the public that
[13:56.720 --> 14:02.640]  lockdowns were a good idea? Did they convince the sizable percentage of Americans that wearing a
[14:02.640 --> 14:07.760]  mask would stop a virus? Did they convince a broad swath of the public that these so-called
[14:07.760 --> 14:15.280]  vaccines would stop the spread of the virus? Did they convince more than 224 million Americans
[14:15.280 --> 14:22.400]  that sticking an experimental drug in their body was a nifty idea? So I ask you, what can't they
[14:22.400 --> 14:28.000]  convince the American people to believe? I can almost hear you thinking, no one would buy that
[14:28.000 --> 14:32.000]  gun violence can be stopped by calling it a disease and then declaring a public health emergency
[14:32.000 --> 14:39.120]  against it. To which I gently remind you that it's only for two weeks to flatten the curve.
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