S3 E28 - Conventions Die in New York with CEO Brian Thompson

In the aftermath of the shooting death of Brian Thompson, Large companies should be abandoning New York City as a convention destination. Not even in the top ten preferred US cities in some surveys, New York’s strict gun laws could not protect Brian Thompson from progressive ideas about security and law enforcement.  He would have been safer elsewhere.  New Yorkers would rather protect criminals over the law abiding as shown by their criminal rights record and underscored by the rejoicing over Thompson’s death. Will other CEOs allow their companies to select New York as a convention destination in the future? They would have to be crazy.

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[00:00:00] Would every CEO, who's planning to attend a convention in New York City next year, please raise your hand, in lieu of placing a target on your back. How the shooting of Brian Thompson has underscored the truth about New York City. Today on the 10th, man.

All over America, the marketing and finance teams of major companies are gathering now to decide where to hold annual meetings and what conventions to attend next year. The city of New York will be missing from the shortlist. As people react to the assassination of Brian Thompson. The only sensible way for businessmen to protect themselves is to accept that New York is a shooting gallery and they're the targets. The only logical response is to take their conventions somewhere else. 

New York City should be worried that one of their major customers was gunned down in their streets. 

He was their bread and butter. [00:01:00] But they're more concerned about gun laws. New York is proud of their suite of gun laws, which the United nations , yes, the UN thinks we should all have. Just before the Tops supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York. In may of 2022. New York had enacted a series of gun laws they put in place, red flag laws. 

They did universal background checks. They banned high capacity magazines (so called). And they demanded the registrations of so-called assault weapons. They also banned ghost guns. And mandated. Safe storage. After that shooting, they raised the minimum age requirement for some gun purchases. They enacted more red flag laws. They banned more guns. They also banned body armor. 

[00:02:00] And they banned hate speech on social media that might cause people to do violent acts, but apparently. Not hate speech against corporate executives. This shooter didn't use an AR. He only fired three shots. The victim was prohibited from owning the body armor that might've saved his life. So clearly these laws are useless or worse than useless. 

On top of that, the city's progressive views with its hostels. Its e-bikes. Public transportation and crowds. It makes it an assassins paradise. Even without the lax gun laws. 

Democrats have a gun fetish. And put gun laws over public safety. 

But they forget that New York City's visitors don't care about how many gun laws are on the books. So much as they care [00:03:00] about. Their own safety. All of this is indicative of New York attitudes in general. Especially attitudes of the gen Z liberals living there. For here, we have the richest culture in history at the richest time in history. And one of the richest and most privileged of all these whiners went out and killed a man. A man who. Ironically worked his way up from the bottom. 

And there's no one who's calling out this irony. Sadly, this is just the latest. In a trend of blaming victims and coddling criminals. 

Way back in 1984, we had a case of Bernard Goetz. Colloquially known as the subway shooter. Mr. Goetz had been a repeat robbery, victim robbery being confronted with violence and threats in order to get your money. [00:04:00] And he. Had the courage to defend himself against four hoodlums. He ended up shooting them. And as a result. Who went on trial. Not the hoodlums. Mr. 

Goetz went on. Trial was put in jail. He was tried for attempted murder. The guy, just trying to mind his own business was accosted by four thugs. He goes to jail. 

So 30 years later, 2014, we have Eric Garner. Mr. Garner died. While resisting his arrest for more than 30 times. He wasn't confronted by a private citizen, but by the police. There was no gun. No shots fired. He died while being taken into custody while resisting arrest. Ironically. He died, selling cigarettes. 

In view of the possible motive for the attack on Mr. Brian Thompson, [00:05:00] you have to wonder how did Mr. Garner cigarette sales affect everybody's insurance premiums? Because they're a known cancer risk. Yet, Garner got sympathy from the public. 

His family was paid $6 million. In a liability lawsuit. You wonder, did they take that money to pay Garner's hospital bills? Or did the public have to pay for that? Another reason for our high insurance premiums or high copays, et cetera, because there's so many parasites who don't pay at all. So New York City paid $6 million to Garner. At the same time they're fighting the payment of the reward. To the McDonald's informer, an employee at a McDonald's restaurant in Pennsylvania called in the presence of Luigi Mangione in their restaurant. And there was a $60,000 reward. But New York City is at the moment saying they're not going to pay the reward because [00:06:00] he didn't call the New York City police department. He called 9 1 1 instead. So he should have called N Y P D. 

How would that work? Exactly. So a guy comes in for fast food, sits down it's fast food, right? So he though, so this employee is supposed to wait for his break. Go online, look up the number of N Y P D. Make the phone call. And go through the prompts. Well, that's funny because the next person that does that. The next time there's a reward. 

And somebody does that. They're going to say, well, you're a jerk because you were more worried about getting the money than actually catching the guy. Because in the time all this took , the criminal would have fled. In our society, only certain people are allowed to worry about the money. Others are not. 

Luigi Mangione worried about money - good. Brian Thompson worried about money - bad. 

Jumping [00:07:00] forward from the Garner case. Now we have Daniel Penny, the latest. He was just acquitted of all charges. In this case, again, a criminal died. And again, not while being apprehended but during the commission of a crime, he was in the process of assaulting women and children on the subway. An unarmed citizen stops the assault. And gets charged with. Manslaughter. 

He was released, but. The important point about all of these, all of these having taken place in, in New York City is. New York City has been famous lately for saying that nobody is above the law. None of these cases were by the rule of law. None of these individuals were charged. 

Initially all of them were charged. After the riots. 

Now, all of this shows just how progressive New York City is. But convention go-ers don't care [00:08:00] how progressive you are. Convention go-ers just want to do their jobs. And not get killed. Part of the blame, the victim mentality, and part of what we're hearing now is, well, why didn't Brian Thompson have a security detail. 

He could have just employed some body guards. More irony. The people who are complaining about insurance costs, things that every executive should spend another million dollars a year. On this expense. There's already enough overhead in the insurance business. Draining another million dollars for every executive every year. That's not where your premiums should be spent. 

New York City doesn't have a good attitude toward private security. Any time. Someone involved in an incident is injured. The security personnel are prosecuted. Whether it takes place with or without a gun. 

[00:09:00] Last February. A tourist was shot in Times Square. Which is an explicit gun-free zone. And security guards and police chased him. With him shooting at them, but none of them. I dared to shoot at this shoplifter. Who injured a tourist from Brazil. 

More recently, just three days before Thompson was shot. A security guard at TJ Maxx was slashed. In the face. How can you slash someone in the face for doing his job and who did this? It was a teenage girl. 

A teenage girl with two accomplices slash this poor man with a knife when he stopped them for shoplifting. Now, these are security guards, not body guards per se. But the same principles hold true of any private security in New York City. Because According to New York City, The primary role of private security is [00:10:00] personal protection. Right? Wrong. The primary role of private security in New York City is deescalation. 

If you want to be involved in private security in New York, you have to have special New York training in deescalation because that's your job. 

When there's a threat. You're allowed to try and evacuate the principal. The principal is the person you are guarding. And you're allowed to shoot if there's an imminent threat. But you have to prove there's an eminent threat. 

And, you know, the only sure way to prove there's an imminent threat is if he starts shooting first. 

So when you see a threat, your first responsibility is not to respond at all. It's to retreat. You have to retreat first. That's the law. In New York City. If [00:11:00] you're a security guard or body garden, and you do site decide to shoot. Anyone who fires a gun in New York City will then be on trial for what you hit. Whether it's the perpetrator someone else's private property. Or perhaps a bystander you'll be on trial. 

And this has never mind all the other obstacles, like the lack of reciprocity. 

You can't have another state's gun permit. You have to have a New York City gun permit. 

And nevermind all the places where guns are banned and guns are banned everywhere that they're not specifically allowed to you personally. In New York City. 

And he should have had a security detail, if you think the reaction of the crowds cheering for Brian Thompson's death is deafening now. Imagine the clamor if Mangione a poor surfer boy with a back injury were the one lying dead in the street with the rich CEO [00:12:00] standing over him. Other CEOs, other executives can avoid all this. And All they have to do is simply avoid New York City. 

 New York City is proud of the rights that gives the criminals. But the customers in New York City, even the ones who do care about the rights of criminals. Care even more. About their own safety. 

I hope mayor Eric Adams can keep his hotels full of illegal aliens because his convention business is about to dry up. New York's strict gun laws can't protect you from progressive ideas about security and law enforcement. And there's nothing for the common citizen to do, except avoid the big apple. 

New York better prepare because the biggest and scariest revolutions are the quiet ones. And there's not going to be any great announcement that the conventioneers aren't coming. [00:13:00] They'll just vote with their feet. And New York will find out. When they just don't show up. 

Thank you for listening.