02-10-26 Andy Hooser sits in for Mark and covers the days news

This is Armed American Radio's Daily Defense. Armed American Radio's Daily Defense, because they don't want me to, that's why I do it. Presented by the National Rifle Association. From the CZ Studios. They're never going to stop us here. Here is your host, the loudest conservative voice in America fighting the enemies of freedom, Mark Walters. Well, I will tell you, it is not Mark Walters today. It is yours truly, Andy Hoosier. Yeah, we're back for another day. In case I didn't upset you enough yesterday from the halftime show thing, we are back at it again for a Tuesday. Mark Walters is off, which means you have me solo. Well, with Greg here as well, Greg down in Dallas. What's up, brother? happy post-Monday celebration, the greatest day of the entire week as we set that tone, right? Yeah, absolutely. Andy Hoosier said twice he had to be here twice this week. That's right. That's right. We had to just see how many more people would get upset throughout the day today. Yeah, that's right. Did you get any response? I'm sure we had some angry comments from the conversation yesterday, but that's all right. We are going to focus on a lot of guns today, which is fun. Okay, well, let's do it. Yeah, I think we're in more unified sense on that front, and there's plenty to talk about. I have, Greg, you are going to love this. We have about a four-minute expose from the New York Times on firearms. And it's all audio, so it's about a four-minute clip. I don't know yet whether we're going to play all of it at once or break it up into pieces. But this is going to, for all of us, all the listeners, this is going to drive you absolutely crazy. You're going to lose your minds over this one, so it's going to be fun. We'll play that here in just a moment. First and foremost, as usual, Mark Walters out today. I believe he'll be back at it tomorrow, but yours truly sitting in today, armedamericanradio.org is the website. Go and check that out. If you want my website, you can go to hoosierreason.com, H-O-O-S-E-R, reason.com, and see all the good shenanigans that we're up to on a regular basis. So first and foremost, we have, I want to take us up to, which I don't know how much, at least lately Mark's been talking about the issue up in Minneapolis and the ICE protesters and the shenanigans that are going up there, where apparently we are now, quote-unquote, de-escalating the situation. That's what we've been told. That's been from the couple different press conferences from Tom Holman with ICE and saying that we are de-escalating and that we are working more with local law enforcement. Now, I want to preface that by reminding that all of this could have been prevented with all the protests and anarchy and riots and everything that we've seen, and that the two people that lost their lives, completely unnecessary. Right? Everybody can agree on that? Greg, we can agree with that? Completely unnecessary because of their choice to intervene with federal law enforcement doing an operation. Right? Outside of that, if they wouldn't have done that, they would still be alive today. Everybody can concurrently agree on that, right? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Most of us can. Those of us with common sense in a brain. Most of us listening to this broadcast. Yes, most of us listening to this broadcast. we can come to that basic and current agreement. That being said, the protesters apparently are not going away. They still are doing their rabble-rousing the way they want to do. The only difference is now local law enforcement's kind of sort of doing something about it. There's an audio clip, and let me see if I can find it because I have it on my wall. I have now made it part of my normal sound clips I use on this show because when the law enforcement in Minneapolis are arresting protesters, They do it in such like a lighthearted manner now that we kind of have to make fun of it. You are now under arrest. Please sit down and wait for instruction. I find that hilarious, right? Like, please sit down, have a cocktail. We'll be with you in a moment to tell you what to do next. You're being arrested for violating whatever you're doing. So those are the idiots that we're having to deal with. That's the mindset that we have to go through in Minneapolis. The protesters, on the other hand, are not stopping. And in fact, they still want a complete removal of ICE, Immigration and Custom Enforcement, out of Minneapolis. And that leads me to this expose the New York Times has done. They have now had journalists, and I say that in air quotes for the radio listeners here. They now have journalists that have, how do I want to put this, tried to, I can't say done investigative journalism because that would give them way too much credit for the New York Times. But they've gone to the protesters and other members of the community in Minneapolis because apparently there is a major surge in individuals that are going through gun training, getting carry permits and going to the range to practice on how to use firearms. I know. Now, before I play the clip, speculation, Greg, on who is actually going to the range. Are they the protesters wanting to fight ICE? or are they the other side of the aisle that's concerned about the protesters that are in the street? Which side do you think is actually going and going to the range and getting their concealed carry permits? Well, a part of me says that this is going to be a group of people that will soon to be room temperature because they're out there in the middle of ice and arrests. All right, let's see. This is the New York Times expose on the new gun carriers in Minneapolis, which, by the way, might I remind you, is a place that has some relatively strict gun laws, at least in the city of Minneapolis, because, well, it's run by a bunch of Democrats. So because they've been against the firearms, right? They've been against the Second Amendment. How much have you shot before? Just like 22 rifles and Boy Scouts. Here in Minnesota, people who've never considered owning a gun are now learning how to use one as immigration operations and protests have upended daily life. In the weeks since federal agents arrived here and after the fatal shootings of Rene Good and Alex Preddy, firearm permit applications have surged. Data obtained by the New York Times shows a sharp increase in permits to carry across Minneapolis and surrounding counties compared with the same time last year. You show me your two-hand position. All right. Good. Alex von Bradenfels calls himself a, quote, nerdy software engineer and says that he's not the kind of person you'd expect to see showing up at a gun range. I would never have seen myself getting a gun if not for, you know, the government coming here and seeing them violate people's rights incredibly violently. The first time that I went to a protest, a federal agent pointed a gun at me for filming him. You know, I was always in support of gun control, but recent events here, the killing of Alex Preddy definitely changed that for me. All right, so AR-15. Magazine is orange right there. And this is your charging handle. Good. Not everyone buying a gun wants to defend themselves from federal agents. Some, like Aaron Giddens, feel the need to arm themselves because anti-ICE protests. I have no fear of ICE being here. It's the effects of ICE being here and all the protesting. If you're going to a protest, I mean, why do you feel like you need to carry there, right? Instead of spending all that time and energy, why are you not instead like trying to help these illegal immigrants become legal immigrants? Does it matter which one I put in? Okay. Okay. Brittany Cedeno is visiting the range today to train with her husband, who's a seasoned gun owner. So talk to me about, like, where you stand politically and your journey into fire-ups. I'm liberal, progressive, whatever. You know what I mean? Like, there are people who legitimately need, you know, protecting. Bernie worries that Kevin, a naturalized U.S. citizen, faces new risks every time he decides to carry a gun openly in public. You know, every single time that I have to leave, you know, get groceries or whatever it may be, you know, I'm having to make decisions such as, like, do I carry, do I not carry? Is this a life or death, you know, decision? You're a minority. It does paint a target on you. even though I didn't want to, I was like, I'm going to learn so that if I absolutely have to, I can exercise, you know, my second amendment, right. To protect yourself with a weapon. After everything that's been happening recently, we decided together to drain our savings to buy this gun and to buy like one of those. And sorry, I kind of hate the fact that things are changing so quickly and everything is so uncertain. I have no illusions that I'm going to defend myself with a gun from the state, but I want to be able to defend my community through collective deterrence. if enough people in this community are arming themselves and DHS and ICE know that, then I'm hoping that it'll make them think twice about their own illegal violence, essentially. All right. There is so much to break down in this audio clip. When I heard this, my brain hurt so much because the way they've twisted themselves into a pretzel. First and foremost, I've never heard of anybody actually cry of having to empty their savings account to buy a firearm So I just throwing that one out there because I sure the listeners to this show we emptied our savings account many a time to purchase a firearm and by golly we were happy to do it because we were so excited about that new toy that we have but there was a lot to break down i know we have to take a break here in just a minute so i'm gonna set this up as we come back this is what we're up against and i want you to think about throughout the next hour here with us on is it the best is this the best way for the aha light bulb moment to come on for them? Or are they not mentally prepared to accept what they just said on tape to the New York Times about the idea of the Second Amendment defending themselves against a tyrannical government and even trying to protect their community from things actually happening? What a wild time. We'll break some of this down when we come back around the corner. Armed American Radio's Daily Defense. Stay here. The following segment of Armed American Radio is proudly being brought to you by the National Rifle Association. Help us defend freedom by visiting nra.org slash AAR and join today. Welcome back to the show. Yeah, welcome back to the show. Great to have you here. Armed American Radio is Daily Defense. Great to have you for a post-Monday celebration. Greatest day of the entire week. So we have an expose from the New York Times, a video of looking at some of these anti-ICE protesters up in Minneapolis that have now turned themselves to what? To the Second Amendment. Training themselves on firearms. Massive increase in those trying to apply for concealed carry permits. Now, before we talk about how stupid of an idea that is for protesters and go out there and try and fight federal law enforcement with a firearm, which is what led to the death, by the way, of Alex Preddy, if we remember that. I know we have short-term memory loss issues in society, but that was only, what, like a month ago? Less than a month ago? It was just a few weeks ago for sure. So outside of that really, really, really bad idea, I want to – look, Greg, you know me. I'm the eternal optimist. I always try to find the bright side of things. Do you think in any way that this is maybe a positive in the sense that the aha moment came on that after years of we need more gun control, we don't like firearms, guns in communities are really bad. One of the people that was sobbing about it even admitted like, you know, I've been against against it. We don't like it. I've been advocate for gun control, so on and so forth. Now I realize the reason of why we have the Second Amendment for me to be able to defend myself and for me to be able to defend my community. Like, did the light bulb aha moment come on for some of these radical left wing activists to be like, hey, now I understand why people have been, quote unquote, clinging to their guns for so many years? I'm not too sure if that's going to be the realization that they have. It might possibly be. I think a lot of times that the light bulb comes on when they're bleeding out in the street after being shot for interfering like Alex Petty did. Well, yeah, of course. Now, again, bad idea, stupid idea if you're going to go against ICE. Their mindset was if we have enough guns in these communities and ICE knows about these guns in the community, then they're not going to come around these communities. That's, of course, not going to work. You're a federal agent. Federal officers going and doing federal things. If you interfere and you have a firearm on you, you're probably going to end up like Alex Petty did. And we no one wants to see that happen. So that is the warning. Don't do stupid things. Again, I'm trying to find the bright side here of if you're going to and applying through the process and realizing that it actually takes a process, because remember, they say that, you know, you can just walk in and grab a gun and it's so easy. It's easier than getting birth control. It's easier than getting all this other stuff that Democrats try to fight for or abortions or whatever, that it's so easy to get a firearm. They're now going through the process and they're applying for a firearm and they're learning responsibility. These are people that are probably in their parents' base and don't have a whole lot of personal responsibility or understand the idea of self-responsibility. They're now going through firearm safety courses and going to the range and firing the firearms and understanding what this industry looks like. I'm hoping that maybe even though we may not see that right away I'm hoping that maybe this is the seed that's being planted in their brains Of oh this is what it takes to get a firearm This is what it takes for me to be responsible as a responsible gun owner This is what it takes for me to actually get my concealed carry permit This is what it takes in order for me to go through the process that I've been hating for oh so long This really isn't quite as bad as before Because remember, there's an old adage out there that I fully believe in is if you don't understand it, then you fear it. And if you fear it, then you hate it. And if you hate it, then you're going to advocate against it and be violent towards it because you don't understand it. So now that you're understanding what a firearm is more, again, maybe just maybe, maybe not right away, but maybe this is a way for them to be like, oh, now I actually understand this. And this is actually not that not as bad as what I originally thought. Like, I'm hoping that people can come to this conclusion. Yeah, it's possible. And they are all experiencing that that are purchasing firearms legally. I think the I think the the what you're proposing will be missed on individuals like Kevin that was in the video because he thought that because he was I think he said he had gotten his citizenship or he was here legally. And he was concerned about when he leaves the house that he's going to be profiled and then eventually targeted for some kind of show me your papers. But what I think a lot of these people are missing is that the reason why Trump wanted law enforcement to work with, especially local law enforcement, to work with ICE is because they were wanting to get the people out of the jails first that had already been convicted of crimes or that were on hold for crimes that they had committed. Law enforcement didn't do that. Yeah, and they were refusing to do that, and so that's why they were having to go door-to-door in some locations and pull people out of their homes and separate families like they like to cry about. But they don't understand the whole perspective because they're too busy with their heads up their butts and listening to the BS that the media is telling them and even the elected officials locally on the ground. I mean, it's not a far stretch to say that the mayor of Minneapolis is an absolute liar. Tim Walz is an absolute liar. What was it? One of his, I don't know, there was a lady that was high up in his administration that's in the signal chats that's leading all this opposition to ICE. And it's, guys, these are federal crimes. Even if it's an elected official, why are we not arresting them, Pam Bondi? Yeah. No, it's a great question. Look, I mean, this is going to end two ways, and I think it's going to end two ways really bad for them, one or the other, because this video made my brain hurt with what they've said before, these progressives that despise the Second Amendment, the ridiculousness that we've had to go through for years that Mark talks about with this show, the whole purpose of this show, fighting and defending for the Second Amendment rights for individuals to keep and carry your firearm. That's what this is about. So anybody has the right to do it, and I applaud them for actually going through the process and learning that process. Maybe it's for a motive that we don't necessarily agree with. So two things can happen here because this is the narrative that media usually doesn't like to talk about, that when something bad happens, like a shooting in a community, that we never thought it could happen here. We never thought that that would be in our community. We never thought we'd have to deal with this type of trauma, so on and so forth. What always happens, we see a mad rush for people going and getting their concealed carry permit, starting to carry firearms and realizing I cannot wait for law enforcement. I have to take care of myself at my own pace. So that crowd that despises guns is now out there purchasing a firearm. You have the right to do so, all the power to you. So to them, this is going to end very badly one of two ways. Either very badly in the physical sense that you do try to approach federal law enforcement with a firearm, in which case it will end more like more Alex Preddy's and more incidences like that. That's, by the way, being encouraged, like you said, Greg, by local elected officials with Mayor Fry of Minneapolis, with Governor Tim Walz, that has said that law enforcement and ICE are enemies, that they are the Gestapo, that we need to continue these protests. They've been encouraged to do this stuff. And if that's the case, it is going to end for them very, very badly. And they're going to figure out exactly what law enforcement is capable of doing and what they have the right to actually do. That's fair. Yes. or on the positive side for us, negative side for them, because ideologically they're not going to like it, they're going to realize, wow, things are a little bit different from the way I perceived because I've been advocating against the Second Amendment for so long. Now I realize the importance of it for my own personal life, even if this individual, I'm scared to go out to the grocery store because I could be arrested by ICE and have to show some papers. Going through the process and carrying a firearm automatically makes you feel a little bit more secure and protected, right? Just having it on your side, having that piece on your hip makes you feel more confident and makes you feel more secure. And you're not going to be breaking any laws because knowing that you have a firearm on your hip could make that all the worse. So either way, it's bad for them. One of them is good for all of us. They just don't realize it. Lots more coming up. Stay here. The following segment of Armed American Radio Daily Defense is being brought to you by Patriot Mobile. Visit PatriotMobile.com slash AAR and use the AAR promo code to get free activation today. Welcome back to the show. Yeah, welcome back to the show indeed. Craziness, I can't believe we're already halfway through the show. I'm just getting started, man. There's a lot to break down on this video. The New York Times trying to expose the new freedom fighters of society, which I find kind of hilarious. And by the way, I am reading a lot of the comments on the telegram chat. Okay, telegram chat. Yeah, I don't do telegram except for when I'm on the show with Mark. Other than that, I don't use it. So if anybody tries to send me messages on Telegram, I do not see them because I do not use it unless I'm actually on here with Mark. So I do enjoy reading some of these comments on here. And, yeah, there's a lot to break down here because you mentioned it during one of the breaks of them. Think about this. What is it called when a whole bunch of people in a particular community end up getting firearms and train with the firearms to try and protect said community? There's a word for it, and it's a word that Democrats really, really don't like, and they've always been saying that that's like against American values. What's it called again? Is it a militia? Oh, that's right. Is that what it is? That's right. It's a militia that they were all getting together as a unit of individuals with firearms to try and protect their community or at a statewide level or whatever. So now we have a and I say this in air quotes, a militia of the radical left progressives that are trying to study up on firearms and wanting to protect their communities. And you know what? I say all the power to you. Protecting your community is a great thing. I wish you would do it with the criminals that are there trying to break into your home. But I'm sure you give them milk and cookies while you go after federal law enforcement and see how well that works out for you, because, again, it's not going to end up well. But let's break down some of this, because outside of the obvious, this is a really, really dumb, bad idea for you to go after federal law enforcement. The rhetoric that they said in this video negates every argument they've ever made about gun control and why we need to ban firearms. Right. I would never have seen myself getting a gun if not for the government coming here and seeing them violate people's rights incredibly violently. Okay. Just hold on. I know I'm trying to now violating the Second Amendment is a violation of individuals rights because we have a guaranteed protection that you have the right to keep and bear arms, pure and simple, which is why we continue to fight for the Second Amendment. And this guy, well, I never thought that I would have to get a firearm and exercise my Second Amendment until I saw the government taking away people's rights. I mean, Greg, I don't know about you, but I've seen many instances where government has taken away people's rights in many different incidences. And they never said, well, I'm so glad that you're actually advocating for the Second Amendment to defend your rights. Yeah, no, absolutely. You don't see these people lined up outside of courthouses where everyday human beings are prosecuted and convicted for felonies and then they lose their rights and go to prison. You don't see them doing that at all. And what these what the rights must have been blurred at some point during social and civics classes in high school, because I don't know what part of our education system. It's been 30 years since I've been in the education system, so I may have missed something that states that illegal migrants have all the same rights as average citizens do in the country in which they broke into in order to come and commit massive trillion dollars worth of fraud. I mean, that's exactly no exact exactly where I was going to go is wait a second. They're saying that people's rights are being violated. So that's why they're arming up. They're defending the ones that technically don't have rights in the United States because they're not even abiding by the jurisdiction thereof. They're an illegal alien, an illegal alien that broke laws in the nation, not just by coming across the border illegally, but the ones that we're actually going after right now that have criminal records on top of that. They're not following the jurisdiction of the law of the land that they're following in the first place. They're not supposed to be here in the first place. They're not a U.S. citizen. So how are their rights actually being violated by going in and arresting them and actually sending them out of the country? They're not. This is the loosey goosey, weird reversal opposite day world that Democrats and progressives live in, just like they do on every other issue. But to where the Second Amendment's not protected, which is why they want to ban it. But yet they believe in universal health care, where the government constitutionally is not supposed to be involved in health care at all. Like it's opposite day for these guys. And now they're trying to utilize their own constitutional rights, which God bless them for doing that. But they're doing it in a way to protect people that aren't supposed to be protected or aren't supposed to be involved in the system in the first place. It's very kind of weird to me. But, Andy, how dare you? No one is illegal on stolen land. That's right. On stolen land. Yeah, you mean the Louisiana purchase where we bought the majority of the land or just the fact that we, you know, muscled our way in like every other culture had done? If we hadn't done it, one of the Native American tribes would have enslaved the other ones like they were doing already and took over that land in the first place. So, yeah, that is the dumbest, most ignorant statement that we've heard from these people, these Hollywood elites that try to make that comment, the bumper sticker argument we hear on social media. It's so stupid. But yet here we are. They've got two brain cells and one of them is whatever bumper sticker they read lately. Yeah, I did enjoy in this clip for The New York Times where they did have the lady that was about in the middle of the clip that was actually advocating why she already had firearms. I mean, she was already a user that was protecting herself not from ICE, but from the radicals that led the response of ICE. I have no fear of ICE being here. It's the effects of ICE being here and all the protesting. If you're going to a protest, I mean, why do you feel like you need to carry there, right? Like, instead of spending all that time and energy, why are you not instead like trying to help these illegal immigrants become legal immigrants? Oh, way too much sense there, Greg. I'm telling you that too much rationale on that front that, no, no, maybe you should do something productive instead of getting in the way of federal law enforcement with their federal operation that could get you killed, especially if you're carrying a firearm, that maybe you should, I don't know, work to change policy and legislation to either help them get legal. or change the process for, even though I wouldn't agree with it, for amnesty or whatever else that you want to advocate for, but a policy discussion that's more productive than standing on the side of the street and getting shot at by law enforcement. Yeah, and this woman just shows her ignorance as well because just like the process to purchase a firearm, there is a process to becoming a legal citizen from being an immigrant, a legal immigrant at that, and that takes time. There is prescribed time that must be waited, and there are prescribed fees and documentation and lots of this stuff that someone who just crosses the Rio Grande in the middle of the night and then ditches their ID at Eagle Pass on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande does not have when they come into this country. All they have is a fraudulent Social Security number that was made up or given to them through the CBP app that Biden transformed into this parole app so that they can come in here and then start taking the maximum amount of Social Security and Medicaid benefits that they can be given under the table, under the cover of darkness, where all of the citizens that pay into that system have no idea is going on. And then you see these people getting these business loans that are tens of millions of dollars, and they're driving around in fancy cars, and it's 50 LLCs into a single apartment so that they can just claim that they're the resident agent or whatever of this business, and it's just all a shell company scam. The American way. That is the new American way. It's not about hard work. It's not about putting in the labor, putting in the time. It's about scamming people out of as much as you can, as quick as you can, and making a quick look. That's all Somalis do. Well, that is according to the Democrat Party. That is the American way. It's not just the Somali population. It's the entire NGO system that we have in the country as well. It's all of the money that comes out of the Democrat Party and the Democrat caucus that goes to these shell agencies and the NGOs and everything. When they say they're trying to help people, they use 10 percent of that money to try and help people. And the rest of it goes in their pockets or into a political campaign. That's the American way nowadays. Here's the fun part, and again, me being the eternal optimist here, is that that system is beginning to be exposed. The house of cards is beginning to crumble, and that's why they're changing their tone on a lot of issues right now to make themselves look more rational, to make themselves look like they're more appealing to the general populace because they've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar and people are not happy about it, and we're still in disbelief that it's even happening in the first place. Oh, we got a lot more. Stay right here. One more segment left right around the corner for Armed American Radio Daily Defense This segment is brought to you by Attorneys on Retainer. Get the only self-defense program for gun owners backed by a real law firm, the Attorneys for Freedom. Visit them online at attorneysonretainer.us. Welcome back. Yeah, welcome back to the show. Andy Hoosier sitting in for Mark Walters on Armed American Radio's Daily Defense Today for a post-Monday celebration, greatest day of the entire week, trying to cram it all into one hour of broadcasting excellence. Right, Greg? At least that's what we tell ourselves. Absolutely. That's what we tell ourselves. That's what we tell ourselves. That's right. If you want all the information, you can go to the website, armedamericanradio.org. Go and check them out. If you want my information, you can find me on my social media at Who's Your Reason. Also on the website at Who'sYourReason.com. That's H-O-O-S-E-R, Reason.com. I'm going to give a little plug real quick. I have on my website right now, and things are going to start happening, man. It's going to start happening really crazy. A bingo card, a political bingo card that you can download. It's a PDF file. You can download it. It's right on my homepage, on my website. Download it, print it off, put it on your refrigerator. A political bingo card. But let's see how many of those things actually happen this year throughout the political season, the midterm election. And I believe there are some Second Amendment issues on there. So, yeah, it's going to be a fun year, I think. Yeah, it's going to be interesting. That's for sure. With midterms at the end of the year and everything that's just leading up to it. I mean, when we're in the political halftime, I don't even call it halftime. I'd say midfield of the political season. Then then we have, you know, always shenanigans and a lot of chicanery going on out there. And I mean, every state is seeing it. I know Texas is seeing it. I'm sure Kansas is as well. Yeah, oh, absolutely. It's been a crazy world. And I cannot wait for election season. I that's this is my bread and butter, man. I love midterms. I love the elections. I love watching the candidates and the campaigns and the issues in the policy, which, by the way, which is what I'm going to pretty much talk about on my show coming up in a little bit. For those who like to listen to my program, there are some updates on policy in D.C. And, of course, the election season ramping up Kamala Harris making her reappearance onto the scene. Yeah, see how all that works out. That'll be great. All right, let's finish up this video because I find it quite entertaining. And there's another story about a gun store that is actually a pharmacist that has a pharmacy where you can get your Advil and Tylenol and a firearm all at the same time. That sounds great. Yeah, that's pretty awesome. So we'll get to that first. But I love this video because it shows the absolute hypocrisy of the side that has fought against the Second Amendment for years. The people that say guns don't do anything. It only creates more danger. It only creates more harm. They don't like firearms at ever. They're the ones calling the cops because a balloon popped and they think that a firearm's going off because they're so ignorant. Now creating a militia and going for the concealed carry classes and going through the permit process and going through the training and learning about firearms, not because they want to, because they feel it's their Second Amendment right to do so to protect rights. And I find that even, by the way, to the point of even shooting an AR-15, can you imagine how bad and how scary it was for them to pick up and even look at, be in the same room as an AR-15? That's kind of hilarious to me. Yeah, I'm sure that they all went and had to change their drawers when they were done looking at that. That's right. It was very scary. It jumped out. It scared them. It shot at them a couple of times, you know, that sort of thing. But, yeah, these guys are absolute insane. Even though I didn't want to, I was like, I'm going to learn so that if I absolutely have to, I can exercise, you know, my Second Amendment right to protect yourself. I mean, you know, Greg, this is what Mark talks about all the time. What I talk about all the time with the second industry talks about all the time is that our goal is that we hope that we never have to use it right. That we need it, that we have it and never need it instead of need it, need it, need it and never have it. I can get it out. And that's exactly what the motto is for anybody that carries a firearm. and now they're getting it. I'm seeing, again, this is the eternal optimist in me, they're really stupid for why they're doing it, but for whatever reason, kind of like religion, whatever reason that leads people to God, all the power to you. You can lead the horse to the trough, but you can't make him drink from it. You know, whatever reason, whatever aha light bulb moment turns people to their faith in however manner that that is, I'm not here to preach to you on religion, but however that progresses in your life, trauma or a light bulb moment or a vision or whatever, that everybody's path is personal and different and unique. Yeah. And I think for issues like this, for policy, for for politics, for ideology, political philosophy, it's the same way. However you get to the end point is unique for everybody differently. A lot of people came over to the Republican conservative side after 9-11. A lot of people came over after Donald Trump. A lot of people came over after, you know, the messaging from the Democrats. It's completely out of touch or Joe Biden being defended in the media that he's completely sane still or Kamala Harris saying really stupid crap. Whatever it is, everybody's path has been different on where they get to this point. This might be the moment where people realize because the rhetoric that that just said, that person just said the reason I'm getting it is to hope to never have to use it, but to exercise my Second Amendment. Even though I didn't want to, I was like, I'm going to learn so that if I absolutely have to, I can exercise, you know, look at my Second Amendment right to protect yourself. I mean, Greg, help me out here. I mean, this this sounds like a rational, sane Second Amendment owner right there. No, you're not wrong, but I think there's a slight misconception that they're understanding and they're using the word protect yourself, not realizing that they are being offensive in their actions. well of course yeah of course that's and that's problem because they're using it and again that's why i said at the beginning this is going to turn out really bad in two ways for them one of them is good for everybody they just don't realize it the other way it's really bad for everyone because either they're going to try to put themselves in a situation with federal law enforcement to where they will have a firearm they claim they're defending themselves and by defending themselves that means that they're on the street brandishing a firearm at federal law enforcement because they don't like law enforcement there because they're intrusive, they're oppressive or whatever. That's going to end very bad for everybody, including us who do not want to see any lives lost whatsoever because of you acting really stupid. The other option is, is that you realize what's going on here. You have that aha moment and you don't go aggressive on the offense because you realize that's not being protected and you have it and now you can protect yourself from other issues out there, in which case you may not like the fact that it's working, but it's working because that's what we've been promoting for the entire time, because we understand that's why the importance and the purpose of the Second Amendment in the first place. So one can be really good for all of us. One can be really bad for all of us. It depends on what they actually do with this information now. Yeah, no, you're not wrong. And we also are not seeing eye to eye on the same definition of tyranny. They believe that what is going on with cleaning up the streets of these illegal immigrant scumbags and these fraudsters and these people that came here under the guise of seeking refuge when they are actually just seeking to rob us blind through our system the best they can. There's a big difference between getting rid of widespread criminality and then there's a difference between defending yourself against a government that has become criminal and is enforcing its way on you, infringing on all of your rights. I'm curious, and I think this would be really hilarious. I'm curious of how many of these, quote unquote, militia types that are now trying to, you know, understand the Second Amendment and start getting the firearms. I'm curious of how many of them will end up using this firearm or having to at least brandish the firearm with a home break in or a shooting in their community from a bad guy where they realize, oh, I have the gun now. I can do something about it to actually stop. I'm curious how many are doing this with this particular intent. And they ended up using it for another purpose that we use it for a completely another reason. They always try to criticize us for doing in the first place. That would be hilarious. I think that would be really fun to watch. And I'm sure those stories will maybe might come out at some point. Well, it's really interesting real quick to see if any of them end up in the same position that Kyle Rittenhouse did and then having to defend themselves in that scenario. Well, there is that. Mark will be back out again tomorrow for a Wednesday. Until then, we enjoy it. Appreciate it very much. We'll see you back on the radio here soon. Bye. You just filled your prescription for freedom with Mark Walters, presented by the National Rifle Association. The National Rifle Association. on the Armed American Radio Network.