Detecting language using up to the first 30 seconds. Use `--language` to specify the language Detected language: English [00:00.000 --> 00:08.000] Welcome to the Vodcast. I've spent a lifetime training to save lives and have done so in various circumstances. [00:08.000 --> 00:13.000] Today I want to share a thought that's been in my head lately concerning active shooter events. [00:13.000 --> 00:20.000] That thought is, at this point in time, do I want to save people? [00:20.000 --> 00:36.000] The Dr. Reality Vodcast with Dave Champion. [00:36.000 --> 00:41.000] Let's start with this. I'm a former Army Airborne Ranger and former law enforcement. [00:41.000 --> 00:45.000] I've taught firearms, tactics, and use of force the better part of my life. [00:45.000 --> 00:52.000] I have trained extensively in the techniques for taking down an active shooter as well as the best ways to shoot within a panicking crowd. [00:52.000 --> 00:56.000] I have taught these skills to police, military, and civilians. [00:56.000 --> 01:03.000] My point in sharing that background is I am well trained to go after an active shooter if such an event occurs at a location where I'm present. [01:03.000 --> 01:06.000] It should go without saying, I always carry a firearm. [01:06.000 --> 01:15.000] Throughout my life, I've always had the mindset that when a violent felon goes after innocent people, I should apply my skills to save the innocent. [01:15.000 --> 01:21.000] Until lately, that was what one might consider a defining aspect of who I am. [01:21.000 --> 01:25.000] It never occurred to me not to defend the innocent. [01:25.000 --> 01:28.000] Yet, it wasn't just about defending the innocent. [01:28.000 --> 01:35.000] There was also the aspect of taking on those who find it acceptable to get what they want by doing violence to others. [01:35.000 --> 01:39.000] I consider the world as a better place without such people in it. [01:39.000 --> 01:47.000] So, if they give me the opportunity, the legal green light, to act against them with deadly force, I'm fine with that and always have been. [01:47.000 --> 01:51.000] I'm not one of those people who feel any loss of life is a terrible thing. [01:51.000 --> 01:54.000] I have no problem sleeping at night. [01:54.000 --> 02:04.000] But lately, I've been wondering if I want to save people who, in the past, I've lumped into this category of the innocent. [02:04.000 --> 02:11.000] They may be innocent in terms of having done nothing to the active shooter, but are they, in a broader sense, really innocent? [02:11.000 --> 02:22.000] Putting a finer point on it, do I want to put myself in harm's way for the kind of people I see all around me who, up until recently, I would have considered innocent in the context of an active shooter event? [02:22.000 --> 02:32.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who is rabidly anti-gun and has spent decades working to eradicate my right of self-defense? [02:32.000 --> 02:39.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who thinks the answer to America's problems is more socialism? [02:39.000 --> 02:48.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who thinks Anthony Fauci is a wonderful human being who is just looking out for the best interest of the American people? [02:48.000 --> 02:57.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who believes Donald Trump declassified documents simply by saying the word declassified in his head? [02:57.000 --> 03:06.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who thinks politicians should be able to tell me how to live my life because of the notion of man-made global warming? [03:06.000 --> 03:16.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who would look at me and assume I'm ignorant, make poor choices, and I'm of low moral character because I'm covered in tattoos? [03:16.000 --> 03:24.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who believes those who decline to get injected with an mRNA vaccine should be removed from society? [03:24.000 --> 03:33.000] Do I want to save the life of a man who's been secretly sexually molesting his stepdaughter or the girl's mother who's been looking the other way? [03:33.000 --> 03:43.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who's been taking contracts away from honest business people for years by bribing the people who award the contracts? [03:43.000 --> 03:48.000] Do I want to save the life of the person who's been accepting those bribes? [03:48.000 --> 03:57.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who supports and defends government's false narrative that the income tax applies to ordinary working Americans? [03:57.000 --> 04:03.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who advocates government restricting what foods I can buy? [04:03.000 --> 04:10.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who thinks masks work and wants everyone forced to wear them? [04:10.000 --> 04:25.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who's always going on about how sinful America is while saying the U.S. should nuke the entire Middle East, including 60 million children, because the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim? [04:25.000 --> 04:40.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who thinks Edward Snowden is a traitor for showing the American people the U.S. government was engaged in a massive surveillance program that was unconstitutionally monitoring the communications of millions of Americans? [04:40.000 --> 04:49.000] Do I want to save the life of a person who thinks censorship is acceptable as long as the people being censored are those with whom he or she disagrees? [04:49.000 --> 04:54.000] Do the proclivities I just mentioned deserve a death sentence? [04:54.000 --> 04:59.000] I'll leave that answer to you, but we're not talking about me harming anyone. [04:59.000 --> 05:05.000] The question is whether those proclivities disqualify them from being someone for whom I'd care to risk my life. [05:05.000 --> 05:12.000] Another way of asking it is, are the lives of those kinds of people worth the possibility of me being injured or killed? [05:12.000 --> 05:22.000] What about the guy who drives 15 miles per hour under the speed limit when you can't pass, but does a speed limit or better as soon as the road widens and you can pass? [05:22.000 --> 05:24.000] Should I risk my life to save that guy? [05:24.000 --> 05:32.000] How about the person who sees you put your blinker on to change lanes and immediately accelerates to close the gap so you can't get over? [05:32.000 --> 05:34.000] Should I risk myself for him? [05:34.000 --> 05:46.000] If an active shooter jumps off and I'm present, how many of the people I put myself at risk to save are exactly the kind of people I have zero interest in saving and perhaps the world would be a better place without them? [05:46.000 --> 05:49.000] No one has that answer, obviously. [05:49.000 --> 05:55.000] But it's my impression there are a lot more of these people in the world than there were, say, 25 years ago. [05:55.000 --> 06:00.000] It seems a lot of people these days are really self-centered and passionate. [06:00.000 --> 06:03.000] They don't give a damn about anyone else, and they are. [06:03.000 --> 06:05.000] It seems quite insecure. [06:05.000 --> 06:07.000] It's all about them. [06:07.000 --> 06:15.000] And that's fine, but then maybe they should deal with their own problems, like being shot by a psychopath at the mall or the grocery store. [06:15.000 --> 06:22.000] If you think I'm referring specifically to millennials or zoomers, I'm not, though I'm sure they're in the mix. [06:22.000 --> 06:27.000] Because I mentioned socialism earlier, you may think I'm speaking predominantly of leftists. [06:27.000 --> 06:30.000] I'm not, though they're certainly in the mix. [06:30.000 --> 06:33.000] I live in a community with lots of elderly retired people. [06:33.000 --> 06:36.000] The vast majority are so-called conservatives. [06:36.000 --> 06:43.000] These are folks who spent the last 50 or 60 years standing for the anthem, putting their hand over their heart for the pledge, [06:43.000 --> 06:49.000] supporting every war the government started, and showing disdain for people who don't think like them. [06:49.000 --> 06:56.000] As America moved further and further down the shitter because they were so busy thinking they were the John Rambo of patriotism, [06:56.000 --> 07:01.000] they never lifted a finger to do anything meaningful to stop America's decline of personal liberty. [07:01.000 --> 07:06.000] And while they utterly fail to stand up for liberty and control government expansion and overreach, [07:06.000 --> 07:10.000] they look in the mirror and see the most patriotic Americans that ever lived. [07:10.000 --> 07:13.000] And guess what? Their sense of entitlement is through the roof. [07:13.000 --> 07:18.000] They are basically self-centered little children in 70- and 80-year-old bodies. [07:18.000 --> 07:24.000] Are they any worse than millennials or zoomers? I don't know, but they're certainly no better. [07:24.000 --> 07:28.000] In other words, I'm not talking about age or politics. [07:28.000 --> 07:31.000] I'm talking about ignorance and self-centeredness. [07:31.000 --> 07:39.000] In people who have a seriously inflated sense of their own worth, am I any better? [07:39.000 --> 07:45.000] I'd like to think so, but ultimately that's a question better answered by others, not by me. [07:45.000 --> 07:54.000] So what are your thoughts? Should I risk my life to save strangers from an active shooter? If so, why? If not, why? [07:54.000 --> 07:56.000] Let me know your thoughts in the comments. [07:56.000 --> 08:01.000] Of course, there are more ways to save lives than taking down an active shooter. [08:01.000 --> 08:07.000] I spent 30 years teaching Americans how to use firearms effectively in defense of self, loved ones, and innocence. [08:07.000 --> 08:15.000] Yet my estimate of how many Americans carry firearms every day, other than police and security, is roughly 2% of the population. [08:15.000 --> 08:22.000] Probably less than half of those would go after an active shooter in a mall or a large store like Walmart. 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