In Defense of Self and Rights

. A shooting suspect is found "not guilty" after shooting two men in a bar parking lot, and why it was a justified shooting.

. A woman is forced to shoot her estranged ex after he broke into her home early one morning. The restraining order didn't work, the pepper spray didn't work, but her pistol did.

. Why the proposed "Concealed Carry Reciprocity" bill is a toothless wonder. 

. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that suppressors are considered arms after all and thus protected by the 2nd Amendment.

. An HOA in South Carolina decides they're a legislative and enforcement body and outlaws the concealed carry of guns in "shared spaces",....in a Constitutional Carry state.

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please send them my way. But they have probably stripped about 30 episodes.
from that platform now, because I mentioned the word firearms in the first 30 seconds of the
program in the intro, and that just sends them into an apoplectic fit.
Well... Heck with them. I'm on all the other podcast platforms, as most of you already know.
So I didn't need YouTube. They courted me and I put my program on their platform and suddenly,
oh, no, you can't say this and you can't say that. Well, yes, I can on every other platform,
but your little totalitarian platform there, Mr. or Mrs. YouTube or whoever the heck you are. And
so I'm going to do everybody a favor, including myself, and I'm going to do you.
a disservice by taking my program off of there. So that's just how I feel about that.
Let's dive right on in, as I like to do. There was a shooting in Michigan in Garden City.
Oh, I don't remember. I think it was New Year's. Yeah, it was New Year's Day. I'm looking at it
right here. And the guy that pulled the trigger... was charged with assault with intent to kill,
but a jury recently found him not guilty. And this is an article by Amy Lange. Garden City bar
shooting suspect found not guilty by a jury. Well, with everything I've heard about this case,
that was the right decision. This guy did nothing really wrong. And a matter of fact,
I think he did everything right. um he wasn't out to harm anybody if he had he could have easily
finished off the two guys which was a father and son duo who attacked him out in the parking lot so
here it is a father and son were shot outside a garden city bar in the early morning hours of new
year's day the man who pulled the trigger was charged with assault with intent to kill but this
week A jury found him not guilty. Brian Lindsay is a concealed pistol license holder,
by the way, which means he is statistically more law-abiding than the average police officer.
No, that's not a dig on cops. That is a promotion of CPL holders. Yes,
we are certifiably. It has been shown to be true. The concealed carry license holders are
exponentially more law-abiding citizens than police officers. He was a designated driver that
night and was trying to back into a parking spot to pick up his girlfriend and friends.
Surveillance video from the bar shows the father and son approaching the driver's side and pulling
Lindsay from the car. Okay. How in the world was he ever arrested if the responding officers
actually viewed the surveillance video?
They don't always do that, as was the case down here in my home state in Fort Pierce, where a man
spent two years in jail and all the police officers had to do was view the surveillance video like
the judge did when he was brought to trial finally. And the judge,
after seeing the video, as I understand it, all but cursed out. the prosecuting attorney,
and the investigating officers because they hadn't viewed the video, which clearly exonerated the
man. I'm not sure exactly which episode that was in, but I don't have time to go into it now.
I'm just making a point. So, if somebody's trying to remove you from your vehicle,
to me, that creates several implications, and none of them are good.
It's either an attempted kidnapping... which I have every right to shoot you at that point, or it's
an assault and potentially a deadly force. situation because there's two assailants and that's a
disparity of force issue. You're not required to take a beating simply because your assailants
don't have guns or any other weapon. If you're overwhelmed by two people,
I don't care how good you are at martial arts or whatever, you're probably going to get your butt
stomped, okay? If two people attack me and I'm armed and they're not, I will shoot them both.
I absolutely guarantee you. So, disparity of force, a possible attempted kidnapping,
or it could have been an attempted murder. Why do you want to drag me from my vehicle other than to
do bad things to me? So, in the video, he leaned back into his vehicle and grabbed his gun,
which means he obviously was not carrying it on his person, probably because he may have had to go
into the bar. to get his girlfriend and the rest of his friends there.
So he was obeying the law there. He didn't have it on his person,
which once again to me proves that he was a peaceable, law-abiding citizen. Then the fracas moved
to the rear of the vehicle there in the parking lot, and Lindsey, the guy that did the shooting,
He was beaten first by the father and then by the son.
He shot the father in the head. The father is still alive. And then he shot the son in the shoulder
and then left it at that. If he was trying to kill them both, he could have easily finished them
both off after the first shot that he gave each of them. So I don't understand why he ever even
went to trial. I'm going to start farming myself out as an expert witness, I think. But Mr.
Lindsey spent five months in jail. This is why you need to have some good carry insurance,
preferably U.S. Law Shield, because I think they're probably the best out there.
I've dealt with others. One of them I'm absolutely seconded by.
But U.S. Law Shield seems to be the best one. They have on staff,
and they will get you in touch with when you need them, attorneys who are well-versed in firearms
law and self-defense law. And they're not just attorneys who paid a few dollars to get put into a
pool that they get called in the middle of a night for a situation. These are actual firearms and
self-defense attorneys. Mr. Lindsey spent five months in jail. The bond was set at a million
bucks. But his attorney, once he showed the video,
it told an entirely different story. The jurors deliberated for six hours during the deliberation
process, and they came out and said, not guilty.
Six hours, that's really not a long deliberation. If they were really, what should I say?
conflicted over what they saw, I think it would have taken longer. But I think this was probably a
pretty much unanimous decision. So the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office there in Michigan came out
with a statement and said, well, this was a really challenging case, but there are some cases that
must be decided by a jury, and this was one of them. Okay, how was it challenging?
Did not the video evidence exonerate the man in your eyes? If the jury could see that the man acted
in self-defense, why could not the Wayne County prosecutor's office? Why could they not see that?
I don't understand that. They also said, in coming back with a not guilty verdict, listen here,
you'll hear the tone deafness of the Wayne County prosecutor's office. In coming back with a not
guilty verdict, the jury determined that the case was not proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
Well, I think it was more than that. I think they determined that the man was innocent of all
charges, not that you guys somehow failed to convince them. The father's still in the hospital.
The son even testified against the man at trial, and it still came out in the defender's favor.
So, Mr. Lindsey, I'm glad that you walked. You had every right to, sir,
as far as I'm concerned, as police officers tell each other. Good shoot. Not meaning that I'm happy
somebody got shot. It means that I'm happy that the innocent party did not go to prison.
Now, you fathers out there, if you're one of those men that feels you still have some fight left in
you and you have something to prove to yourself, your son, or others, just don't.
Grow up. Or you're going to find yourself... possibly weeping over your son's lifeless body,
or your son may be burying you, and he's lucky that didn't happen this time, especially since he
took a shot in the head. As far as I'm concerned, the two assailants are a couple of idiots,
and they set pathetic examples for the rest of society. And the father sets an absolutely pathetic
example for his son, and if he survives his wound, hopefully... He'll unscrew himself and start
shaping up, start being a model citizen, not someone who's hanging out at wee hours of the morning
with his son, obviously drinking too much and then attacking people that you start having a beef
with. Uh-huh. Here's another story of a good shooting. And ladies,
if you ever file a restraining order and if you feel in the least bit... and I mean justifiably
afraid, don't make up a lie, if you are justifiably concerned that your estranged former boyfriend
or husband is a threat to you, and you have good reason to believe that,
file that restraining order. You know why? Because, number one,
it's only a piece of paper and it's not really going to stop anybody. But what it does do, it
starts a paper trail and paper wins the day in the courtroom. All right.
You file that restraining order that way when your ex comes to pay you an unexpected visit and you
end up having to lay him down with well-placed shots. Well,
that's going to be in your favor, as was the case in this particular incident. This is an article
by Harriet Ramos. Man shot, critically injured after assaulting X at West Fort Worth home.
A man was shot and critically injured Saturday morning during an apparent domestic violence
situation in West Fort Worth, police said. Officers responded to the 5500 block of Hidden Creek
about 7 a.m.
I've said this so many times on this program. Violence can find you at any hour of the day.
And yes, you'd be surprised how often that happens in the morning, especially in these kind of
situations. You know why? because that perpetrator had been laying awake all night, angry that he's
not getting his way, angry that you're not taking his calls, angry that he's not responding to your
text, angry because it's not working out the way he wanted to. He probably didn't sleep that night,
and if he did, it was only a couple hours, and he wakes up pissed off, and now he's going to come
pay you a visit, which is what happened here. 7 a.m., after a woman reported that she had shot
someone, According to the 911 call sheet, police said the caller's ex-boyfriend entered her house
without permission and began assaulting her. Ladies, if you break up with a boyfriend or a husband,
have your locks changed immediately. You can buy new locks at Home Depot. I'm sure there's a
handyman around somewhere that wouldn't mind coming and helping you out with that because if he's
got a key or she's got a key or whatever the case may be, They can come pay you an unexpected visit
inside your home. Police said the caller's ex-boyfriend entered her house without permission and
began assaulting her. The woman used pepper spray to defend herself and then shot her attacker,
according to police. The man was struck three times and taken to a hospital in critical condition.
The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, police said. Now, I want to make a couple of
salient points here. Number one, the pepper spray probably, obviously I should say,
didn't work as intended, or it only worked to a minimal extent.
I do carry pepper spray as a first line of defense, as obviously she did here.
She used it as a first response. Okay, nothing wrong with that.
Thankfully, she had a gun to back it up when that didn't work. And this is why pepper spray should
never be your only means of defense, ladies. I talk to so many of you and I ask you,
where's your gun? Oh, I don't really carry it. Why not? I just don't think I'm going to need it.
You have pepper spray? Oh, I got pepper spray. Okay, good. What if that doesn't work? Oh,
it'll work. Well, how do you know? Didn't work in this incident, did it? Never carry it as your
only means of defense. Carry a firearm and yes, carry a good sturdy locking blade folding knife
because you might have to hack that dude up if something happens. Maybe your gun jams or he knocks
it out of your hand. Always have more than one weapon and not carry only one like pepper spray.
Now, before we go into the break. A lot of people are lauding this proposed National Concealed
Carry Act. Don't get excited just yet. I am reading an actual memo from U.S.
Senator Mike Crapo. I'm assuming that's how he pronounces it. C-R-A-P-O.
I didn't want to really call him Crapo. This is from June 15th of this year.
And I don't know.
What should I say? They blacked out. They redacted the person's name that he was writing it to.
Listen to this. Thank you for sharing your support for S-65,
the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. As a co-sponsor of this legislation,
I agree we must support the Second Amendment and welcome the opportunity to respond.
Listen. The Constitutional Concealed Carry Act would allow law-abiding citizens to exercise their
fundamental right to self-defense while they are traveling or temporarily living away from home.
Specifically, the bill would enable individuals with concealed carry privileges, no,
it's a right, in their home state to exercise this right in other states,
provided Here we go. Provided state and local laws concerning specific types of firearms and
locations in which firearms may not be carried are respected.
This measure has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee for further consideration.
Let me assure you I do not support more gun control. No,
but you support people who have concealed carry licenses.
obeying gun control in other states. You're saying they have to respect local laws.
Well, what if those local laws say you can't carry? Oh, well, then I guess you can't. So what good
is this Concealed Carry Act? How about you start putting some teeth in the Second Amendment instead
and you start jailing people for 20 years at hard labor when they try to enact or enforce gun
control laws? How about that? We as Americans must protect and preserve our constitutional right to
bear arms. This bill does not do that, Mr. Crapo, at all.
Burdening law-abiding citizens of this country with additional gun restrictions is not the answer
to safeguarding the public. Okay, neither is you forcing them to honor...
illegal laws constitutionally repugnant laws that tell them well yeah we know you can carry but not
here uh yeah this is not this doesn't bode well by the way if they're if they're supposed to honor
those you know carry laws and restrictions of other states doesn't that also include magazine
capacity restrictions yeah it would so basically If you have a 15-round Glock 19,
you're not really allowed to carry that in that state then after all. So what good is the National
Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act then, huh? By the way, there's caliber and ammo type restrictions
in New Jersey, New York City, Chicago, et al. We got to honor that too?
We got to obey that too? Yeah, New Jersey, you're not allowed to carry hollow points as I
understand it. Henry? Correct me if I'm wrong with an email, please, brother.
Are there any penalties for states that willfully disregard this law? Of course not.
Of course not. I foresee nothing but trouble for people carrying through other states,
you know, like Brian Aitken, get his book Under the Blue Tent Sky. Or Shaneen Allen about the legal
trouble she found herself in when she inadvertently crossed into New Jersey with a Pennsylvania
carry permit? Yeah, don't expect other states to honor this. They don't honor the Second Amendment
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You know, a few episodes back, we covered a story on how a judge claimed that,
I think it was the Fifth Circuit, claimed that suppressors were not arms covered under the Second
Amendment. My reaction was, okay, fine. Then the government has no authority to regulate them any
more than if they were covered under the Second Amendment. And I made the comment that just because
something is not explicitly... protected by the supreme law or any of the amendments in the supreme
law does not automatically grant the government the right to regulate it their powers are
enumerated and they are limited but they tend to think that that's not true oh if they think they
have that it's not covered or protected they think they have the right to regulate it and that
that's a lie that way that that brought forth my contention that Whether suppressors are or are not
actually arms or accessories should literally mean nothing, okay? As far as the supreme law goes,
anyway. And the government has no rightful authority to regulate them regardless of whether they
are or are not. Regardless of whether they're an accessory or an arm,
doesn't matter. The government has no right to regulate the arms industry in the first place.
Well, now. Another ruling says that suppressors are protected arms.
And here's an article by Mark Chestnut that I'm referencing. The court battle over whether firearm
suppressors are protected under the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms continues with gun
rights advocates winning the latest round. The Fifth Circuit, they said suppressors are arms.
I'm sorry, I had it mixed up when I thought they were the ones that said they weren't. Suppressors
are arms, period. On June 19th, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in
U.S. v. Camo that suppressors, also called silencers,
are indeed arms that are therefore protected by the Second Amendment. The ruling overturned a lower
court decision that determined that silencers were, quote, dangerous and unusual weapons.
Really, they're an accessory, whatever, that are outside the purview of the Second Amendment.
By the way, the Second Amendment does indeed, as far as I'm concerned, protect accessories.
So many parts of firearms are actually accessories. The sights are accessories,
if you really want to get down to it. The ruling stated, first, Bruin explained that Second
Amendment arms need not be necessary for a firearm's functioning, but instead must only facilitate
armed self-defense. And second, the Supreme Court has cautioned lower courts against the trapped
in amber approach that the government attempts to use by limiting the definition of the word arms.
to those devices required for militia service at the founding silencers or suppressors are indeed
arms okay i can agree with that because as far as i'm concerned the word arms encompasses all items
used in warfare that's like saying well yeah you can own cannons but not the wheeled carriages that
carry them around yeah suppressors our arms okay they're covered uh anything that encompasses
anything useful for warfare we have the right to it according to the sentiments of the founders and
i do mean that with a big fat period suppressors are used extensively across all of our armed force
uh special forces units and in some of the you know lesser units lesser skilled units however
however you want to put that They use suppressors, and they should,
especially if they're going to be going into tight, confined places and having to shoot. The
compression, not to mention the blast and the crack, is going to make your ears bleed.
I've been in shoot houses with suppressors, and it was bad enough. I cannot imagine being in such a
confined place without one. The unanimous ruling came on the heels of the Supreme Court ruling that
the government cannot infringe on the Second Amendment rights of marijuana users, both of which
drew a positive response from the Second Amendment Foundation. Second Amendment Foundation made
this post on the X platform, a surprise second major ruling to cover today because the Fifth
Circuit just became the first to agree that suppressors are arms under the Second Amendment.
This is of massive importance, considering the other circuits have ruled the opposite,
and it puts further pressure on the Supreme Court to grant a hardware case immediately.
Second Amendment Foundation added that while the court upheld the NFA registration requirements for
now, Even just ruling that suppressors are arms creates a circuit split,
and this is very important to know this, with the Ninth Circuit. Oh, they're the ones,
that's right. They're the ones that ruled that they were accessories and not covered and protected.
The Ninth Circuit and others that have held the opposite. The Second Amendment Foundation
concluded. That is an important question to people in the states that completely ban suppressors
under state law, even if you're willing to register them under the NFA. The Ninth Circuit went the
other way and called suppressors optional accessories. The circuit split is a result of the recent
Ninth Circuit ruling that suppressors are not protected under the Second Amendment. In that case,
the same kind of NFA charge produced the opposite holding. That panel ruled that silencers were
optional accessories, lumped them in with slings and scopes, and ruled they are not arms because a
gun fires without one. And that's true. Well, my contention,
like I said before, that doesn't give the government the license to regulate it.
By the way, yeah, you can fire a gun without one, but once you have fired one with one,
you kind of want suppressors for all of your guns because it cuts down on your hearing damage very
handily. Circuit splits are what gets the Supreme Court's attention. That's what I meant earlier
and a few seconds ago when I said this is important. When a circuit split occurs,
The Supreme Court is more likely to hear the case to resolve the disagreement among the appeals
courts. The Fifth Circuit ruling decisively rejected the Justice Department's arguments that
suppressors were not arms in the United States. ruling. How do you like that?
That was a Justice Department argument. Oh, I thought they were all pro-Second Amendment now
because they're under Trump. Don't count on that. Give you one more story here.
You heard before about this homeowners association down here in my home state that thought they
could start passing gun control laws applicable to the residents there within the HOA.
No. They cannot. Not at all. I don't know where, these totalitarian wannabes,
I tell you what, they get a little bit of power and authority and suddenly they think they're gods.
Unfortunately, I live in an HOA. I actually had one of them send us a notice and tell us that there
was a bare patch of grass. in our front yard, near the mailbox,
approximately 16 inches by 12, and that it had to be repaired. Really?
You have nothing better to do than to drive around and scrutinize people's front yards.
So I gotta go buy a piece of sod. Dig up that little square and tamp that one down in place and
make sure it gets watered real good. Yeah. You HOA members are busybodies,
and I'm just going to stop right there before I say something God smacks me upside the head for.
Another article by Mark Chestnut from June 23rd. HOA in another constitutional carry state tries to
ban firearms in common areas. We recently reported about a homeowners association in Florida that
banned concealed carry of firearms in numerous common areas, despite the Sunshine State having a
constitutional carry law on the books. Well, not to mention a heavily enforced preemption law,
which that HOA found out about when our Attorney General here, James Uthmeyer,
sent the monastogram. Suddenly, they backed off. Now...
The HOA of a South Carolina condominium community is trying to force similar restrictions on its
residents, despite South Carolina also having a permitless carry law.
The Forest Pines Condominiums Association in Horry County, South Carolina,
has told residents they can no longer carry guns through many of the shared spaces surrounding
their homes, including parking lots, sidewalks, and a community mail kiosk.
What?
That's pretty ballsy, don't you think? The Forest Pines HOA is trying to ban carry across most of
the property. According to a report from WMBFnews.com, the new rule set by...
management, which will still allow firearms in residents' homes and to and from the residents'
vehicles. I promise you that if people started to comply with this,
it wouldn't be long before they would crank it down even tighter and tell them you can't have them
in your home or in your vehicles either. Don't you doubt me on this. If they're willing to go to
this... extent, what makes you think they won't go further? Because that is the downward slippery
slope with these little tyrant wannabes. You know, where did this HOA,
and not to mention the Florida HOA, ever garner the totalitarian notion that they were a
legislative body? That they had any authority to supersede the Constitution in any way,
shape, or form? That they had any authority to supersede the laws of their state?
Where'd they get the idea that they had any authority to enact or enforce any gun control policies?
they presumed, I guess, had the force of law. What are you going to do if you catch me carrying a
firearm in one of those common areas and I am a homeowner and I own one of the condominiums there?
What do you think you're going to do? Huh? You going to come arrest me? You want to put hands on
me? I don't recommend that. Yeah. These people actually think they're a legislative body.
An email obtained by the news station said that firearms, whether openly carried or concealed,
are prohibited in Forest Pines common areas, including the pool and pool deck,
the clubhouse and restrooms, the mail kiosk, parking areas, sidewalks,
and landscaped grounds, and all other HOA-maintained outdoor spaces.
Excuse me? What are they going to do about it if somebody does carry a gun against their little
totalitarian wishes? Residents who own their homes aren't taking this quietly.
Some residents were angry about the announcement, especially considering some of them own their own
homes there and they're not renters. One resident told WMBF News,
What if I go out at night and while I'm walking and I get mugged? Is the HOA now financially
responsible? Because I was not permitted to protect myself in the middle of the street?
Another resident told the news channel, we're not in an apartment building where you have a lobby
that you have to walk through. No, this is my house. I don't rent it. I own it.
Now, there's an attorney that says the HOAs have the right to do that, but with limits.
And Mr. Attorney, whoever you are, you're wrong. Yeah, plain and simple. You're wrong.
Shut your pie hole. Go back to law school. Better yet, go back to, how about you take a course from
Hillsdale College on the Constitution? Other residents questioned whether the Condominium
Association had the legal authority to ban guns in the area. They don't. However,
Attorney Brad Richardson told the news station that private businesses and property owners are
allowed to ban carried and concealed weapons on their property. Well, this is not a business.
This is a residential, and the HOA does not own those.
properties per se. They're owned by the people. The people own their homes there,
and the HOA maintains the grounds, as I understand it.
He said, if you choose to live in an HOA, you're going to have to live within their rules and
regulations. Wrong. You're wrong. Show me where any HOA has any authority to craft rules that
flagrantly violate the constitutional rights of the residents that live there.
and or that goes against established state laws. He said,
where I would stop is if an HOA tried to say you can have no firearms anywhere on the property,
including your own dwelling. Well, tell me then, Mr. Oh-so-knowledgeable attorney,
do property management organizations have any authority to enact policies such as this in regards
to any other rights? Can they then outlaw free speech in those same areas?
Well, no, of course not. Then you have no right to squelch the free exercise of the Second
Amendment. Can they craft policies that allow the police to enter the residents' homes without a
warrant? No, of course not. That would be silly. Okay, no more silly than telling them you can't
carry a gun in certain areas on this property where you live. Can they forbid residents from
praying openly? or worshiping God in those same areas?
No, of course not. Then how in the blippity blank and blank do they have any right to squelch the
free exercise of the Second Amendment? They say, well, there's no signs.
Well, amen. There's no signs. If you have no signs posted, you can't tell me to leave.
You can't tell me I can't do nothing. And in this case, even if you had signs posted, I'd tell you
to grab a hammer and head for the beach. And pound all the sand you want, baby. Here's the rest of
the article. Under guidelines from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, which doesn't mean
they're legal experts, business owners must post no concealed weapons allowed signs for carrying to
be considered banned on the premises. Can you put up signs in and say you can't pray here?
You can't speak here? Huh? Can they put up signs and say you can have your door kicked in without a
warrant? Currently, however, no signs are visibly posted around the condo's shared spaces.
Yeah, for business owners, it's one thing. For not property management companies,
a business owner has the right to allow who he wants in and out of his business.
The HOA doesn't have a say in that if the people own the homes they're in.
One resident concluded, South Carolina is a constitutional carry state. Like,
you can't do that. And there is literally no signage at the pool. There's no signage at the
clubhouse. There's no signage anywhere. And they can't tell somebody where you can or cannot carry
your gun in the neighborhood. Well, again, I say even if there were signs, it's unenforceable.
And the Florida HOA tried the same thing, and the cops shut it down.
No, the cops didn't. The cops wouldn't have cared. They didn't care until James Uthmeyer said
something about it. In an earlier attempt by the Florida HOA to restrict weapons, local police
quickly announced that they would not be enforcing the ban. The department posted on social media,
it is important to clarify that the letter distributed by the HOA is not a law.
Okay, then if it's not a law, it doesn't have the force of law. Ordinance or official directive
issued by the Port St. Lucie Police Department or the City of Port St. Lucie.
Okay, that kind of concerns me there. The City of Port St. Lucie is not allowed to issue laws or
craft ordinances. Yeah, I'm sorry, the Port St. Lucie Police Department. They don't have a right to
craft ordinances or laws. Maybe the city of Port St. Lucie can craft an ordinance,
but they cannot create laws that supersede state law. They said the Port St.
Lucie Police Department enforces state law, not private HOA policies or community association
rules. Yeah, but these little totalitarians, they're a special little breed.
I tell you what, some people get a taste of what they perceive to be power over others,
and they want to crank the screws down, baby. And that's exactly what's going on here.
It is kind of like back during COVID, when I went to my local grocery store,
and they had the arrows in the aisle. And guess how much attention I paid to those arrows.
Yep. About as much attention as I would pay to these signs telling me if I lived in an HOA,
I couldn't own or carry firearms. That's right. Do you know how many people, ordinary people,
in there, pushing shopping carts just like me, began to scream at me through their masks and tell
me, you're going the wrong way. I'm sorry. You're going the wrong way. You're not supposed to be
going the other way. Where's your mask? One guy actually told me, uh you uh you you should be
wearing it's not safe for you to not be wearing a mask and i said it's not safe for you to not mind
your own business either i pardon me for getting cranky i had one guy who was there with his wife
literally blocked me going down the aisle with his cart telling me you're going the wrong way as i
gave him a probably a look that would have turned medusa stone cold the wife obviously took the
hint and grabbed the cart and yanked it out of my way began to scream at her husband obviously
thinking he was about to get thumped and maybe he was i don't know anyway the point i'm making is
some people just get a taste or they think they're justified and condemning you or stopping you
from doing a certain thing or going a certain way or freely exercising a certain right.
And boy, they'll try to lower the boom on you. That's why it's always important to flex your
rights. Your rights are only as strong as you make them and you keep things strong by exercising
them. And that's what you should always. Always do. So, exercise your right to stay in contact with
your reps. Exercise your right to carry your firearm. Carry extra magazines.
Stock up on beans, bullets, and bandages. And you know what I'm going to say. Never forget,
incoming rounds always have the right of way. Royce out.