Learning The Constitution | The Second Amendment Continued

➡ Douglas V. Gibbs, a self-taught expert on the Constitution, shares a story about a radio debate he had with a constitutional lawyer and professor. Despite not having formal education, Gibbs was able to hold his own and even outshine the other participants. This story highlights the value of self-education and challenges the notion that formal education is the only path to expertise.
➡ The speaker has a busy week ahead, including attending a Pastor Appreciation breakfast, visiting SeaWorld, watching the Blue Man Group in Las Vegas, and going to a Raider game. He also discusses his love for the Dodgers and Raiders, and his plans to talk about guns and the Second Amendment in his upcoming shows. He appreciates a gift of five subscriptions from Micro Tool Maker, and mentions that he doesn’t like to ask for money or advertise on his channel. He also talks about his long-standing friendship with Ron, whom he met at a gun show and who used to attend his constitution classes.
➡ The speaker filled in for a Constitution class and continued to do so on their own channel. They use real-world news to explain the Constitution and sometimes speak metaphorically. They discuss the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, and her controversial past. They also discuss the Constitution, specifically Article 1, Section 8, and how it relates to federal and state powers, using the example of ICE and immigration laws. They also touch on the National Firearms Act and its potential unconstitutionality.
➡ The text discusses the interpretation of the Second Amendment, arguing that any federal gun laws, including background checks, are unconstitutional. It suggests that the right to bear arms is a natural right and should not be infringed upon in any way. The text also discusses various gun control measures such as the 1968 Gun Control Act, the creation of the ATF, and the concept of a ‘gun show loophole’. It also mentions state-specific laws and waiting periods for purchasing firearms, and the controversial ‘red flag’ laws.
➡ The text discusses ‘red flag laws’ in various states, which allow law enforcement to confiscate weapons from individuals deemed dangerous. It also covers the history of gun control legislation in the U.S., including the Gun Control Act and the Firearm Owners’ Protection Act. The text argues that the Bill of Rights, specifically the Second Amendment, was intended to limit federal government power, not state power, and that each state has its own gun laws. The author believes that the federal government has overstepped its bounds in regulating firearms.
➡ The text discusses the division of powers between the federal and state governments as outlined in the U.S. Constitution. It explains that the federal government has limited, defined powers, mainly concerning external affairs like war and foreign trade, while the states have numerous, undefined powers related to internal matters affecting people’s lives, liberties, and properties. The text also discusses the interpretation of the First and Second Amendments, emphasizing that rights are a local or state issue. It further explores the legality of owning fully automatic weapons and the implications of certain court cases on the interpretation of the Second Amendment.
➡ The text discusses the incorporation of the Bill of Rights to the states, making the federal government the enforcer. It highlights the McDonald vs. Chicago case, which extended the Second Amendment’s application to all levels of government, making it a fully enforceable civil right across all 50 states. However, the text also warns about the potential dangers of this, as the federal government could dictate state or local government actions regarding individual rights. The text also touches on the shift from referring to the country as a republic to a democracy, and the potential dangers of democracy giving power to population centers.
➡ The speaker, Douglas V. Gibbs, discusses his plans to host a show with his wife, which will be aired on various platforms including YouTube and Rumble. He also mentions that the “Tuesdays with Mike” shows are postponed until after Labor Day. He plans to discuss the Second Amendment in the next week’s show and encourages audience questions. He also mentions a meeting in Southern Oregon and his various radio shows. Lastly, he hints at a solo show discussing Karen Bass and her political influence.

Until the History Channel. Ron Partain here with a good friend, the Mr. Constitution himself, Douglas V. Gibbs. Do you have like some sort of like a PhD of the Constitution someplace that I don’t know about? Yeah. No. You know, it’s funny too, because the left hates the fact that I’m self taught now. Because you’re supposed to come from their institutions. Exactly. Oh man, it’s one of my favorite stories to tell. Do you mind if I tell a story about that? No, fire away. Please do. Oh, it’s time for people to come in anyway. So I’m, I was interviewed on 5:90am and there’s a friend of mine who, who’s a show.

Oh, what’s his last name? Ed Hoffman. Uh, he does a show called the, uh, Main Event there on, on 5:90am in, in Riverside Market. And the answer for those of you who know about the Salem media channels, and he has me come in to debate with a constitutional lawyer and a constitutional professor from, from, I think, I think it was California. Cal State Santa, Santa Bernardino, I think. Cal State San Bernardino. Wow, what a shock that’s gonna be. And I’ll have to, I’ll have to fill you in on that later, but yes, and what it was, it was, and this goes, this is all the way back to 2016 and it was a discussion about natural Born Citizen and whether or not Ted Cruz is eligible.

That’s what was the crux of it. And I, and I’ve been arguing, and I’ve argued since day one that he’s not eligible. And so Ed Hoffman, you know, he’s like, hey man, I agree with you. And I want to talk about, on the show, he didn’t tell me there was going to be opposition. And so I get on the show, here’s this opposition, this constitutional lawyer and this constitutional professor. And I mean, five minutes in, me and the constitutional professor are kind of going at it and, and the constitutional lawyer, I think said something like once and never talked again.

He knew he was outmatched by both of us and, and so. Oh really? The constitutional lawyer knew he was that match. I, I mean, yeah, immediately he said like he got into the discussion at the very beginning. After that you didn’t hear him say a peep. So it was. So it’s basically Ed Hoffman, the host of the show, and me and the constitutional professor, you know what, it might have been the University of Redlands. It’s one of the two now. I’m thinking about it. But anyway, University of Redlands isn’t much better in Fact that probably say it’s worse.

Probably. But anyway, so for those of you, for those of you who don’t know, Cal State San Bernardino is obviously the Cal State system, but the University of Redlands is like, I mean it’s kind of much. It’s a more. It’s like a very, very low. It’s not a very well known school in terms of like people don’t come here from all over the place, but it’s. Brothers is like a little quiet town. It doesn’t, you know, but the University of Redlands actually is. It, it’s, it has a, it’s kind of like a what I guess it would be like a Chapman University type thing, right? It would be where it’s like, it’s, it’s very well known for its educational like, like t.

A lot of teachers go to University of Redlands and it’s extraordinarily liberal arts. Oh, horror. And, and it’s, and it just keeps on getting more liberal or should I more accurately say more Marxist. There you go, now you’re being accurate. But anyway, so, so I’m on the show and, and the professor, he’s got the academic view of the Constitution, but he’s got a pretty good handle on history. He’s a, you know, most constitutionalists are historians and vice versa. And, and I’m able to counter pretty much everything he puts out there. And, and, and, and we’re going back and forth for an hour and afterwards, you know, later on after Ed’s like, dude, you performed exactly as I had hoped.

You know, it was, it went really well. So anyway, so as I’m walking to my car in the parking lot at the radio, okay, I have heard this story and, and I love telling the story. Not for any reason other than I love the fact that I’m self taught and it freaks and it freaks out the left. But anyway, so, so the, the professor, he’s like kind of chasing me half across this gravel parking lot. Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Gibbs. I’m like, you know, I stopped. He’s yes sir. And he says, he says, you know, I’ve never come across anybody knows that much about constitution and history.

And I just wanted to ask you, because you got to have what, at least a master’s, right? Where’d you go to? Where’d you education? Where’d you get your degree? And I smiled and I said, well actually I’ve got about 30 units under my belt from the, from, from Mount San Jacinto, you know, community college, but thanks. And the look on his face was just set it off. It was, it was priceless. These people are. So you have to be a lawyer and you have to be educated in the system if you know anything, otherwise, you know.

And so when someone comes out with all this information and then I’m like, well, I’m self taught, basically, that they don’t know how to handle it. Right. It’s like, it’s, it’s like a robot that just like, they don’t know and they don’t know what to do. They, they literally don’t know what to do. Because how dare you have the audacity to be self taught. Yeah, exactly. And so it’s, it’s. That’s. I remember, I remember you telling me that story and as you got into it, I’m like, oh, I think I have heard this. But because, because these weren’t people that were calling in.

These were actually people. Yeah, they were in the studio. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I had to sit across the table from them and all that jazz. But, but that’s, it’s funny that you say that. The constitutional lawyer was like, I’m done. And you can see it on his face. It’s like, what am I doing here? What did I step into? And you know what? Wanted to address that real quick because I think it’s important. You know, constitutional lawyers, they, it’s like, they’re not constitutional lawyers. They don’t know the Constitution. They know the. What’s that? It’s all about case law.

Yeah, they’re not constitutional lawyers. And that. And see, that’s, that’s the biggest misnomer out there. And I think that’s one more element of how they’ve, how the system has deliberately misled us, you know, and it’s by titles. Right. You know, and that’s why I’ve developed this great answer when people. Because I get asked all the time, oh, constitutional expert, so you’re, you’re a lawyer. And my response is always the same, no, I’m not a lawyer. That’s why I understand the Constitution. Right. And that’s exactly true. That is exactly true. Well, I’ve had several people with law degrees go through the Constitution with me in person classes, California.

And all of them said the same thing to me. All of them. I learned more about the Constitution from you than I did in law school. But the one that really got me was one who is a Fallbrook, who’s an immigration lawyer specifically, and sat down and I, and he. I’d start bringing up laws and stuff. That’s in the. In immigration law. And he’s an immigration lawyer been doing for a long time, and he didn’t know about it and. Oh, yeah. And he’s. And he’s like, shocked and he’s. He’s about it, you know, he’s, you know, same way of thinking as me.

He. As a Christian. Also how he found out about my classes. A couple years ago, I was the. The main sponsor of a Pastor’s Appreciation Breakfast back down in San Diego, and he met me there and since. And he was driving an hour to come to the class of Fallbrook. Immigration lawyer. Crazy. That’s crazy. That’s not the same guy that I met, is it? Yeah, that’s it. Really? Yeah. I need her. I should reach back out to him because I hadn’t talked to him and. Well, we had lunch that one day, but that was it. I hadn’t talked to him since.

Yeah, he’s. He’s a good guy. He’s a good guy. That. That. Pastor’s Appreciation Breakfast. So the year before last, I was the primary sponsor. This last year, I didn’t sponsor at all. I was in the middle of moving. Whatever. This year I decided to be the primary sponsor again. My. My logo’s gonna be on all this stuff. And the. And the main speaker this year is going to be Jack Kib. So I’m gonna be SP sitting right next to Jack Kip. So that’s going to be nice, fun, interesting for me. So for anybody, if want to figure out how to go, it’s a Pastor Appreciation breakfast through k praise kprz.com the end.

It’s gonna be October 20, 8th or 9. Yeah. Yeah. It’s in San Diego, in Mission Valley. So I’ll be down in the area. So that’s gonna be a great week. I’m going to a Pastor Appreciation breakfast on Tuesday. On Wednesday, I’m going to SeaWorld. On Friday, I’m seeing the Blue Man Group in Las Vegas. And then on Sunday, I’m going to a Raider game at Allegiant Stadium. That’s a hell of a week. Oh, man. Why did you have to go to the, say, Raider game? Because I’ve been a Raider fan since I was. You know, I’ll cut you some slack because the same thing with me and the Dodgers.

So it’s all good. Yeah. Well, that’s what’s funny is a Dodger fan’s supposed to be Raider fans. The Raider fans supposed to be Dodger fans. I’m a Raider fan, but not a Dodge fan. You’re a Dodge fan, not a Raider fan. We both don’t fit the mold. No, we do not. Okay. No, no, no, we do not. And Ed says Blue Man Group is awesome sauce. Yeah, I’m looking forward to. It was my wife’s idea. All right, let’s get to talking about guns. Oh, yes, absolutely. Thank you, Micro Tool Maker. I really appreciate that. Thank you.

How do I get my membership now? How do I retrieve that? What do you mean? He gifted me a. Says, oh, I guess I automatically have it. Okay. Oh, he gifted five subscriptions. Yeah. And he gifted one of them to me. Oh, nice. So I get, basically what that means is that now you are a. You see the little thing next to the little red rook next to the. Yeah. So that means you’re a, your, your monthly member on my channel. Okay. Very cool. I think that’s what that means. I’ve never had anybody do that before.

So, Micro Tool Maker, you’re awesome. I appreciate it. Significant sincerely. Well, you know what? Now let’s get serious about the Second Amendment then make sure that Micro Gun maker, Micro Gun maker, Micro Tool maker, and the rest of everybody else there gets what they came for. So we began last week talking about the Second Amendment and it was more general discussion. And while we did break down the language a little bit, we didn’t really get into all the detail. But also how much because, because I’ve been talking about so many things. I, I, I, I do six shows a week, not counting the videos that I do with Warhamster.

Six. Six live shows. AM radio or yours? I, I, I, I have you on Tuesday. I have a Alan Myers with the, for the Republic on Patriot Soapbox on Sunday nights. I have two radio shows on Saturday. I have a radio show with the lack the, the Zaki Radio America Matters Media on Wednesday, another one on Thursday or Thursday. And then, uh, and then I’ve got, uh, yeah, then I’ve got my two shows, two radio shows on Saturday. So I still want to do that thing. I actually want to do that thing with the, uh, Mexican American war even more than ever.

I saw a really awesome little short video clip this morning about how Mexico was an absolute disaster. Oh yeah, before we did it. And they did the exact same thing to the Spanish, if not worse than what we did to them. And then actually he made a very interesting point. He says, we didn’t steal their land. We paid them $15 million for it. And then another 10 for the, for the Gadsden purchase. So we didn’t steal it. We bought It. And part of the reason we did that was not just because we wanted the land, but they needed the money to rebuild after we obliterated them.

Right. Well, they should have just taken the 20. Whatever. Because we. Because Polk offered them 20 million and they flat out refused. But I digress. All right, now. Yeah. My Mexican American War. And. And I think I’m the first person that turns you on to the Mexican American War in the sense that it’s not what they tell you. Right. And so. Yeah, that’ll be fun. I think we ought to do that. Yeah. 100. But anyway, yeah, let’s talk about some firearms stuff. So Mike Micro Tool makers, showing his appreciation, says, I’ve been watching your shows. Just want to throw some appreciation your way.

And so now. So thank you, Michael. And then. Listen, guys, I don’t. If you, if you watch my shows. If you’re a veteran and you watch my shows, you never hear me saying, hey, hit the like button. Hey, subscribe. Hey, you know, donate here. You. You. You know, you don’t see me advertising stuff. And in fact, a lot of times people have to pry it out of me. So talking about stuff that I do have kind of like, you know, things that I do because I just. I. I hate. I don’t know. I don’t want. Trust me, I could use the money, but I’m not like, I don’t.

I don’t want my channel to be about money, and I’ll just. I just never do. And I feel. I don’t know, I just. I kind of feel like. I just. It feels unnatural coming out of my mouth if I ask for it. So anytime I get it, I’m. I’m extraordinarily grateful, really. I mean. And I mean that sincerely, so. But. But I don’t ever ask. And let me address something very quickly. A couple. Couple just administrative things. Number one, Mike King, kind of. He. I don’t want to say that He. He said that he’s gonna. He’s got to postpone all shows until after Labor Day.

We’ll see. I tend to think based on the history of the last month and a half, I just feel like maybe there was some discontinuity between him and I, and I think he’s kind of. I don’t know, maybe. Maybe. I think where that. That, that very well could be done. Ghost yesterday had a death. He had a death on the family, actually. His. His ex wife passed away and his daughter. He went up to help his daughter, so he was unavailable. So anyway, that’s. That was why there was no show last night with Ghost. And I tried to do the Jim Willie show and that was an abortion, so I got to edit that.

And anyway, so just, just know that there’s things that were going on behind the scenes. I did try to get it, but I just couldn’t get it to work. So anyway, I’m similar, but in my case, because my expenses are so high, sometimes that bites me in the butt. But yeah, I’m the same way. I’m not gonna sit there and make sure you, like, make sure you subscribe, don’t forget to donate and all this other stuff. I’ll mention it at least once, you know, like at the end of the show I’ll do that. But, but yeah, I’m the same way.

I, I’m not, I’m not fond of that. I don’t like people doing it to me a whole lot, especially when it becomes salesmanlike and you get to the point where, you know what, I don’t even want to listen anymore because of it. So, but, so I, I’m very similar to you. And, and for those of you who don’t know, and let me say this real quick, Ron and I go way back. We first actually met at a gun show. He remembers, he remembers that better than I do. I, I, I remember more meeting him and, and getting to know him through the constitution class in Corona.

But, but I would, I had a table of gun shows and I’d have my books on the Constitution and stuff like that, and then he had all his stuff and, and, and I’d always walk around, try to talk to everybody, get to know people. And I was that way. And I think you were very similar in that sense. And so that’s how we first met. And when he realized I had a class, he was actually coming all the way out from Beaumont to Corona, which is pretty good, pretty good drive, especially in Southern California. About 45 minutes.

Yeah, yeah. Well, anywhere else it would have been 20 minutes. But in California. Exactly. But yeah, you know, it’s funny because it took half an hour to get to Walmart where I lived in Southern California. It takes me half an hour to get the Walmart here, but it’s four times as far away. So, you know, I, I think you were getting, I think you were going to make a point though, I think. Yeah, well, anyway, so I just want to say we go way back and we’ve got, we’ve known each other a long time and so that’s the reason why we do sometimes get a little Almost too comfortable talking about stuff.

So apologize. Sometimes that we do get kind of off track, but Ron’s a dear friend and used to come out to my constitution classes. And then I was on with Scott McKay for a while and after I was done being on Scott’s show, Ron basically says, hey man, why don’t we just keep. Well, actually, no, actually, no, that was, that’s not totally exactly the way it happened. And what happened was I was basically Scott McKay’s right hand guy. Right. And when he went on tour, he couldn’t do the show with you. So I kind of stood in as a, as a fill in just to do the Constitution class with you.

And then I think, you know, he just kind of stayed out on tour for quite a long time. And then we just kind of migrated it over to doing, you know, on my channel. So. But initially and my friendship with him kind of, you know, we kind of. Anyway, because he covers a lot of things that. Yeah, enjoy yourself, but. Exactly. It’s okay. No, you know, love him, good guy. Don’t, you know, don’t necessarily subscribe to everything that we, that he believes. And that’s okay. But anyway, so that’s where this came from. That’s probably what, the third or fourth time we’ve gone through the Constitution.

Each time is different only because there’s new, new, new things in the cycle, the news cycle, not because Constitution changes. The, the Constitution information is the same, but the examples sometimes are updated because you got new examples always being thrown at you. I like to use, I like to use real world news to help you understand the Constitution. And I like to use, and I speak metaphorically sometimes, stuff like that. But anyway, go ahead. Okay, so let me ask you a question here because this really isn’t firearms related, but it is related to the immigration specifically because you mentioned immigration earlier and Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles, I did a very deep dive on that woman.

I don’t know if you’ve ever done a deep dive on that woman. Yeah, she, she’s. She. Oh, he’s got a wild past. Wow, I had no idea. I mean, she’s a damn. She’s a, she’s a damn communist terrorist. Oh, yeah. And you know. Well, no, she’s worse than that. Yeah. So the, you know, and the thing that really makes me nervous about her is that she is so soft spoken and you know, it’s like she’s, you know, you see the guys that are like the big buff guys and they come at you with the, you know, with their strength she doesn’t have the physical strength.

But I’ll tell you what, I would not underestimate that woman in any way, shape, matter or form. And when I found out all about her history and the things that she’s done, it actually kind of made me a little bit nervous for Los Angeles. But, but, but more, more than that, I wanted to ask, you know, she. They filed that restraining order which I thought they couldn’t do. I was, that was, and that’s kind of like my question. I thought the Supreme Court stopped all that, but she apparently filed a restraining order and it, and it went through.

I don’t understand. Since when does the court or anybody else saying you can’t do something stop the hard left? First of all, no, no, no, no. She’s doing it. I, I believe she is doing it in defiance. But here’s the thing. Ultimately, so, so it, it’s an interesting paradigm. So the federal government in, under normal situations cannot operate inside a state unless invited by the state. And a sheriff can tell under normal operations, normal situations, an agency not to operate in his county if he so desires, because if he believes that they’re doing so in an unconstitutional manner.

There are exceptions. Article 1, Section 8, which is and, and understand when this was written, the militia was the arm of the federal government to execute any laws domestically that has been essentially replaced by federal officers. While I’m not saying that it should be federal officers, that’s what it is. So this is going, so this, so this is really going to refer to the federal government’s execution of the law arm. And what it says, Article 1, Section 8 is that the Congress have the power and, and, and they’re talking about bring calling up the militia and then the President deploying the mission to, to provide, let’s see, to provide for calling forth the militia.

And that back then it was the militia, then it became things like the National Guard. Now it’s these federal agencies to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions. Those are the three exceptions to having to get permission from the state to operate the rest of them. You’ll see in like Article 4, Section 4, you’ll see an Article 1, Section 10, things like that. Article 1, Section 8 gives us those three exceptions that, that when federal officers, federal agents, federal troops, whatever, are in a state, they don’t have to seek information, I’m sorry, don’t have to seek permission from the state that the state can’t stop them if they are trying to execute federal law, suppress an insurrection or repel an invasion.

Okay, what is ICE doing? 2. They’re 2 out of 2 out of 2 out of 3 of those. Repelling invasion and executing federal law. Right. First of all, second of all, Trump didn’t come in with his federal officers, ice and then bring in the troops, National Guard and stuff under the pretense of forcing anything. Originally, ICE is simply. They’re executing immigration law, but the troops came in not to help ICE do their job. It was to protect federal buildings. Federal buildings are federal property. For, for Karen Bass to file a restraining order against federal government to bring in personnel to execute the law and protect their buildings.

That would be like San Diego having a, A, an order, a restraining order against the federal government because they don’t want them on 32nd street, the base where all the ships are. Right. It’s a federal property. Those buildings in LA are federal property. Federal government has every authority to defend. That wasn’t, that wasn’t what. She filed the lawsuit. No, it’s over ICE being there in the first place. But, but if you read it very carefully, it includes pretty much all federal personnel, so it includes the ability to defend those buildings too. But yeah, get back to ice.

These are. They are there executing the laws of the United States. Right. This is their job. Instead of us calling up a militia, now we do it with ice. It’s, it’s basically the inverse of what happened with SB870 in Arizona, right? Oh, absolutely. Because Arizona, the, the, the federal government wouldn’t do deportations in the state of Arizona. And so the state of Arizona said, okay, well what we’re going to do is we’re going to basically take the federal code or whatever it was in the federal, the federal law, and they just inserted it into the state law to give their state people the same ability to do what the federal people were supposed to do with one exception.

They changed the law on one thing. In this in counterfeit zones law, they didn’t allow profiling. Federal law does. So it actually wasn’t as bad to the left. And they went after him. Why? Because they said it was violating Article 6. Because state cannot have laws or actions contrary federal. And so, so federal government’s saying, okay, well, since we decided not to enforce immigration law, you can’t go contrary to it. Right. Your job is to enforce the federal law, first of all. So second of all, state is, is, has concurrent power regarding that. It’s, it’s, it’s like the example I like to use with a school, school grounds.

The principal, in a sense, what principal’s office would be basically the federal government and the classroom and the teacher, that would be the state government. And if a, if a kid broke onto campus that’s not supposed to be on campus, they’re going to call the principal and the principal’s gonna send in security, get that person off campus. But if that person, but that doesn’t mean, because it’s the job of the principal to get the kid off the campus. Doesn’t mean that the, that the teachers can’t lock their doors or that they can’t kick the kid out of the classroom if the kid gets into the classroom.

Right, right. Yeah. 100 See what I’m saying? No, I, I agree. Well I, I just, I, I just wanted to touch on that real quick and I, I, we’ve kind of gone a little off the rails here. Let’s, what I’d like to do is kind of redirect it back to, to guns because I know there’s a lot of people here who want to talk. Well and, and I don’t know how much, I don’t remember how much we talked about the, the nfa. The NFA which did get brought up last week, the big one big beautiful bill does something very interesting to the nfa.

The National Firearms act. Right. It eliminates the taxation, the, the fee, the 200 fee, which is a tax. Right. And the argument is that tax made the NFA constitutional because Congress has the power to tax the rest of the law is unconstitutional. But because Congress has power of the tax, it kind of squeaked in. You eliminate the power to tax the rest of the law is unconstitutional. There’s nothing cost, there’s nothing that gives Congress authority. So the NFA is going to fall apart. Why is this important? Because, and, and I mentioned this last week and I didn’t go into detail on it because the Second Amendment, its primary focus, it’s really soul focused.

But, and we’ll get this conversation and, and for some people this might be hard to swallow. I want you to really think about what I’m saying and then, and we’ll go through it is really, it’s about the federal government shall not be infringed means shall not be infringed. This, this is very clear language. And so the federal government, every single federal gun law, all of them, background check, all of it is unconstitutional. Not a single authority to the federal government because the Second Amendment says so. Shall not be infringed. What does infringed mean? Infringe means to interfere or there’s encroach so any interference or encroachment of any kind is not allowed.

Shall not be. Shall means mandatory. Shall not be infringed. Okay, so you’re right. You’re the right of the people to keep, to own, to have, to possess and bear, to. To carry concealed or not bear arms shall not be infringed. It’s very simple. And it sounds like we have a. Sounds like we have a court that’s starting to kind of move us back in that direction. Now we will never totally get rid of federal influence on guns because it’s been so emotional beded that even the people who agree with me don’t believe it can be eliminated, but it should be none of the federal government’s business.

Now, your rights. Right, like things like background checks. Yeah, yeah. So you’re. But, but see, now your right to keep baram is a right. It’s a natural right. It’s a gift from God. So. And I also, I also don’t. Okay, so let me just say this because, and I don’t mean to cut you off, but these are the things that have happened federally to firearms that have been circumvental. Circum. You know, things that have circumvented or they’ve tried to get around. Number one was the. When the 1968 Gun Control act came out, it created. That was what I think created the atf, because prior to that it was just.

The ATF wasn’t an agency until then. If I remember correctly, they. Prior that it was the Treasury Department because it was a tax, but they created prohibited possessors. So if you’ve been convicted of a felony now that you can’t have a firearm, then it also created. Oh, I don’t think it did background checks, but it did create the 4473 system where you had to fill out paperwork to get a weapon. So it wasn’t necessarily a background check and it’s not technically a registry, but really it is. Right, but it did create the. You have to fill out the forms to get the weapon.

If you’re buying it brand new, it didn’t stop the ability for transfers, what they call private party transfers. And this is what the left will refer to as the gun show loophole, where, oh, well, you go to a gun show and you can just buy it. No, what you’re doing is that within each individual state, if the state doesn’t have a law requiring you to buy the weapon with a background check, then from a private party, you can essentially. It’d be like you coming over to my house and buying a tool, a hammer or a piece of furniture or something.

I mean, it’s no different. So at gun shows, there would be a lot of people who would walk around and they’d carry, they’d be carrying weapons and they’d be, I had, you know, I’ve got a, I’ve got this item for sale. Ask me. And that was what they talked about with the gun show loophole. But, and most states that you’re going to have to, then you fill out paperwork and then you have to pick it up at a, at a gun shop that has. No, that’s only California. That’s only California. That’s only California. No, because if you do a transfer, if you did a transfer in Arizona, you could just go to a transfer dealer, they’d run the transfer.

And if you pass and you walk away with it just like you would in a gun store, okay, California. I, I don’t, I don’t think California is the only state with a waiting period, but there are, there, there are other states out there that do have. And the reason, what they call it is, they call it a cooling off period. And the whole notion of that is that, oh, look, if you, you know, the idea is, is that if you’re, if you’re angry at somebody and you’re going to go buy a gun because you want to kill them, well, if you have to wait 10 days to get the weapon, then that means that, you know, very likely that your, your, your anger will have cooled off by then, so that you’re not going to actually go harm somebody.

And that’s literally why they call it the cooling off period. I mean, it’s just asinine. Yeah. Well, my wife was stunned when we got here and I bought a firearm. And the, the background check, federal. The state didn’t really care, but they had to do the federal, according to the state or something like that. And it took two minutes on the computer. Yeah. And then they said, okay, here’s your gun. And I said, oh, can I buy some ammo too? Okay. I was only in there for 10 minutes. It took me that long to buy the ammo.

The time it took me to fill out the paperwork and get approved took maybe three minutes, four minutes. And I could. Well, see, that’s why. And see, that’s why. And I’ll tell you, that’s why people aren’t opposed to the background check system. But, you know, if you read the Constitution, it doesn’t say you, you know, what is it no, no law. Unless. Shall not be infringed. Shall not be infringed unless you’ve committed. Yeah. There’s no asterisk. Right. Well, and, and, but, but now. And you know, it’s interesting too, because one of the places where I got hammered by some folks in my family that don’t necessarily agree with me politically is that when my father died, he had a good number of, of rifles and revolvers.

I was already a gun owner, but most of my guns came from an inheritance when my dad died and inheritance to be get. When you receive a gun from a family member, they call it a, let’s see, a paperwork free transfer or something like that. In other words, they’re yours. You don’t have to report it, you don’t have to pay for it. In some states, if some of them are handguns, they want you to do something. But like California. But for the most part it’s, yeah, you know, that was your dad’s, now it’s yours. No paperwork.

It, it’s, and, and so I, I actually had some of my folks on certain members of family. Ah, well, you’re an illegal gun owner because. No, I’m not. I, I, I own all of those guns legally. Well, you never registered them. There’s no such thing as a registered gun. This idea. Well, I’m a registered gun owner. If you say that, you. Obviously not, because you’re a legal gun owner. We don’t register our guns. There is no registry. Technically there is kind of under the skirt. But in a gen. In a direct sense, there is no such thing as a registered gun.

Now that said there shouldn’t be. There you go. This is, I looked this up. Let me increase this size a little bit so it’s easier for people to see. So what, what states have a waiting period when purchasing weapons? Hawaii, 14 days. And you must apply for a permit. California, buy it in the first place. So you have to get approved for the permit just to buy it in the first place. Right. California, 10 days. Washington got killed, 10 days. Colorado, three days. Florida, three days or until background check completes. May vary by county. Exceptions apply.

Illinois, 72 hours. Maine, 72 hours. New Mexico, seven days. Rhode island, seven days. In Vermont, 72 hours. Aside from Florida, what have all those locations have in common? Oh, basically, they’re all red. Well, Florida are, Excuse me, they’re all blue. But, but Florida, with the exception of Florida. But the thing is, Florida used to be nuts. That’s what I’m saying. Used to be blue. And, and believe it or not. You know, Bondi actually was Bondi, who’s Trump’s Attorney general, at least for now. She’s Florida. He. Yeah. And she actually pushed for red flag laws in Florida.

H. And if. For. For those of you who don’t know what a red flag law here, because you probably don’t have that in your state. Let’s see what red flag law. A red flag law is also known as an extreme risk protection order, allows certain individuals, usually family members, law enforcement, and sometimes medical professionals to petition a court to temporarily remove firearms from someone deemed a danger to themselves or others. Now, that’s a very loose interpretation of it, basically, what happens. And that’s why in my VA system, everybody’s like, well, Doug, you know, you can, you know, get a better percentage if you have ptsd.

No, no, I don’t care if I have it. I’m not. I don’t want that on my record because they will try to use that in the future against me. That’s correct. So these are the states with. These are the states with red flag laws. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida. Actually, they. So they do have them in Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington. Oregon’s got struck down, so I don’t think that applies anymore. But. Okay, we’ll see.

Because they tried to do it and it got struck down. Essentially what that means is that like, say you have a, you have a, like a bitter girlfriend or somebody. Bitter ex girlfriend or somebody got pissed off. And what they do is they call the, they, they, they call law enforcement and they say, oh, I think he’s really dangerous. And then they just go get. They go to a judge and say, well, we got a Sir, so. And so who says that this person has weapons and that they’re dangerous. And, you know, so they just come into your house and take all your weapons and then it’s like, it’s like Child Protective Services.

Oh, they’re dangerous to a child. Okay, take the child and then we’ll figure it out later. Right. It’ thing with. It’s guilty until proven innocent, so there’s no due process. And then, and then you have to prove to the court that you’re not dangerous. Now, that all said, according to the preamble of the Bill of Rights, the Bill of Rights was written specifically with the federal government in mind. If you read the first paragraph in the preamble to the Bill of Rights, and I’ve got it right Here in my handy dandy pocket Constitution, the conventions of number of the states having at the time of their adopting the Constitution expressed a desire in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers.

They’re talking about the federal government here. That further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added. So the Bill of Rights was specifically to limit the federal government. Now that said, your rights are. Your rights are God given rights. The states are not supposed to stomp on your rights. Federal government’s not supposed to stomp on your rights. The Bill of Rights was actually not necessary because in the Constitution for seven. What? I did not know this. What? The Gun Control act was passed in the wake of the jfk, Martin Luther King and RFK assassinations. Wow. They used the government assassinations of those three individuals as a ruse to pass more federal gun legislation.

Holy. Even though they’re the ones that orchestrated those assassinations, right? Yes. And here I’ll. I’ll. Let me show this. And I don’t mean to cut you off, but this, this is a big deal to me, so. Prohibited certain people from owning guns. The GCA made it illegal for the following categories of people to buy and own. Felons, fugitives, unlawful drug users or addicts, individuals adjudicated as mentally ill, illegal aliens, people dishonorably discharged from the military, those subject to certain restraining orders. Anyone convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence. And that was added in 1996. It created the Federal Licensing for Firearms or FFL dealers.

Those are that, that’s. Those are the two major things that the GCA did. We call it GCA. And then if I’m not mistaken, it was. This was expanded by Reagan. Yeah, because I’m almost certain it was expanded. Yeah, the. So the 68 gun control was. No, that was after he was shot at. And you had. What’s his name? Brady bill. Right. So you had the. It created this. I think it’s. I think it stopped. But FFL required record keeping by all sales dealers. It banned direct mail order sales. It prohibited interstate transfer of guns without going through a licensed dealer.

It serialized and. That’s right, it did. I forgot this. It serialized requirements and then it made handguns. And then what Reagan did to expand it was the. The FOPA in 1986, which for all of you Reagan fans, he banned the creation of an. Let’s stop there. He didn’t ban. He signed a bill that banned whether or not he did it, wanting that or not that the deals are made. Congress had to make that bill first, before he signed it, he didn’t just make it. Yeah, he, so but he did sign it. But he did sign it.

And then he did the Hughes amendment, which was the machine gun ban. So any weapon that was considered fully automatic is now banned. They could you all, any weapons that were in existence prior to 1986, they could still be transferred, but now they, you could no longer make a brand new one and, and file for a $200 tax stamp. Therefore, what that did is by limiting the amount of weapons that you see out there now that are fully automatic. You can still buy them, but they’re extraordinarily expensive. I want to say, like an AR15 or an M16.

An M16 out there that’s for sale now, that’s fully automatic. You’re looking at probably minimum, like $10,000 minimum. So. And it strengthened the ATF authority, which continued the oversight. So the GCA, first broad federal gun control and then the FOPA mixed law, protected some rights, but banned new machine guns and reinforced parts of the GCA. So Reagan also supported the Brady Bill in the 1990s after his Preston, he’s calling for background checks despite NRA opposition. I find that extraordinarily weird because the NRA was actually, they were the ones that went in there and kind of negotiated the deal.

That’s why. Well, they knew that they were going to lose it and so they wanted to at least save some of it. Well, I think that’s what happened. But as the old saying goes, sometimes politics is the game of the possible. Well, I, I, I, for me, NRA is negotiating about now, so. But the real fear is the federal government being involved. The states weren’t worried about themselves with a Bill of Rights. That said, every state constitution has gun language in each state constitution. The Bill of Rights Second Amendment doesn’t apply to the states. It applies federal government, but the states have their own Second Amendment.

One of the great things about Oregon, where I live, is the state constitution is very clear about, in its language about gun, about gun ownership. So one of the reasons why the gun laws in Oregon are not what it is in California, and trust me, they’ve been trying, is because every time they try to pass these laws, the state supreme court will strike it down because of the Oregon State Constitution. Now that all said, and, and this is the part I wanted to get to because, see a first Amendment, it’s very clear. Congress shall make no law.

The Congress shall make no law really applies to all the Bill of Rights amendments except for maybe 9 and 10 and, and what it means is the federal government can’t make laws regarding guns. Now what I was saying earlier, the Bill of Rights was redundant. It wasn’t necessary. Why? Because there was no authority regarding guns given to the federal government during in the first seven articles anyway. They already couldn’t make laws because regarding guys, because remember federal government’s authorities are handed out to the federal government, given to the federal government granted the federal government in article section 8 and then any subsequent amendments.

And so every one of those Bill of Rights the federal government is not authorized to make laws regarding those things in the first place. But the anti Federalists are so afraid that the federal government would go eh, we can do it anyway that they want to make sure there was a declaration in the Bill of Rights that they can’t. By the way, even though you can’t, you can’t shall not be in French, Congress shall make no law. Right? They still found a way to get around it. Well they don’t mean all guns. This is what you’re told, right? But anyway, so now the reason why is because you’re right.

You have two governments here. You have a federal government and you have your state government. Your state handles state issues. Your federal government is to handle federal issues which for the most part are external stuff or stuff that has to do with the union to protect the union, like you know, communication through postal to establish it anyway, disputes between the states across state lines because you don’t want state courts deciding that it’s better for the union, preservation of the union if the federal government mediates that and so forth. That’s what the federal government’s job is. But state issues are state issues, state’s rights.

Now I know that folks that don’t necessarily agree with me politically say oh well, states rights and state sovereignty. Those are, those are key words for racism. Because see the south argued states rights. No, states rights is a Founding father idea and our states should have their own authorities on these issues. So now in order to hammer home this point, I am going to read you a section from Federalist paper number 45 by James Madison. James, father of the Constitution. Right. The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. In other words, there’s not many and they’re listed in the Constitution.

Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite. There’s a lot of them and the number goes on forever. If they’re not given to the federal government, they’re not prohibited states they belong to then, then, then they are a state issue. That is what the 10th Amendment winds up saying. The former will be exercised principally on external objects as war, peace, negotiation of foreign commerce, with which the last, the power of taxation will for the most part be connected. The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the state.

So internal issues. What is reserve estate is state issues. But notice what it said there. Which in the ordinary course of affairs concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people. What, what is life, liberty and property? Your rights. So what Madison was saying there in Federal Paper Number 45 is that your rights are a local issue, a state issue, meaning that since preamble the Bill of Rights says the Bill of Rights applies the federal government, that means that your rights that are being listed there are a state issue. We know this to be true because for example, in the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.

Well, eight states had established religions at the time that was ratified. They didn’t suddenly get rid of their established religions because of the First Amendment didn’t apply to them, only applied to the federal government. Now ultimately those states did get rid of their established religions, but not because the First Amendment, but because they decided to at the state level. Why? Because religion is a state issue. Okay. Guns, your right, keeping their arms is a state issue. Now, now here, now once again, you have the right to keep and bear arms. They’re not supposed to cross the line that you don’t want them to cross, but it’s between you and your government.

Because at the local level we’re supposed to have more control over our government. Supposed to have. That’s the reason why California should really be like four states. It’s just way too big for the people. Even keeping handle on it. That’s beside the point. Let me, let me, let me share something real quick just so people can get an idea. Okay, you really want to see what this is? These are prices of fully automatics. When you go to gun broker and you do current items to see and then you do NFA items, machine guns. And these are a list.

So this is a, this is a Springfield M1 a full auto 33,000, $34,000. Here’s an Uzi fully auto 12,500. Here’s an FN P95000 which I find really strange. This is a demo fired. I don’t understand this. Yeah, demo letter required. I don’t really Understand that. But yeah, here’s your Thompson, Mel. $40,000. Here’s a car. 15, $25,000. That starting bid. They’ll probably go for more. Well, probably not, but yeah. So anyway, just, just here’s the M16. $35,000. So that’s what you’re looking at when you’re looking at fully automatic weapons to buy. And that’s thanks to the Hughes amendment, because the hu, the Hughes amendment made it so that no more could be produced for retail sale.

Now here’s the thing. Article 1, section 9 and article 1, section 10, article in section 9 applies here. Does not allow the, the government to make ex post facto law. So what they’re. So those guns are still legal because they’re grandfathered in prior to that ban. They can’t ban something that was obtained legally. No ex post facto law. And they know it. So you can buy it, but it’ll cost you. Well, yeah, no, Mike, I think I, so I, I, somebody asked me if Mike King’s coming on. So I think Mike sent me an email this morning saying that he’s going to be postponing all shows going forward until after Labor Day.

But I’m, I’m, I’m really not thinking that by Labor Day it’s probably not gonna happen. I think. I, I don’t know. I hope that’s not the case, but I think y’ all should brace yourself for the possibility that Mike and I are done. There’s no more, there’s not going to be any more Tuesdays with Mike, unfortunately. But we’ll see. You know, I don’t want to say, I don’t want to speak it into existence, but I think that maybe that was a popular show. Yeah, Unfortunately, I don’t have any control over that. I can’t force him to come on.

So. But anyway, I, I hope that’s not the case. But anyway, continue with what you were saying, though. You, I, I derailed you because I was talking about, I wanted to show that thing about the fully automatic. Okay. So, so now here’s the reason why I’m bringing that up. So when people say, well, a state can’t do that because the Second Amendment. No, they can’t do that because you’re right. Keeping bear arms. And maybe because of the state, the state, state constitution, Second Amendment doesn’t apply to the states. Right. And people made the Second Amendment like this magic thing.

Well, they can’t do it because, well, it’s a piece of paper also. Well, the Second Amendment now applies to the states because of the. Because corporation. No, the McNod. Well, it does to them, but it’s not supposed to. Right. They will tell you it does. Right. And sometimes that, that, that’s to our advantage. You know, it’s funny, it’s just like McDonald v. Chicago. Was that 2004, 2008, something like that, where Chicago had been banning had this is before Heller and. Or was it right after Heller? Actually, I think it was right after Heller. Now I’m thinking about it, but anyway.

Yeah, I think it was like two. It was right. It was right around the same time as Heller. Yeah, but it goes right after Heller. Now I’m thinking about it. But anyway, so Chicago decided they’re going to ban handguns. And there’s a lawsuit, got all the Supreme Court. Supreme Court said you can’t do that. Violates the Second Amendment. Actually, technically, it didn’t violate second Amendment, but did violate your right to keep them bear arms. And it was probably violating the state Constitution. Right. But anyway, so. And the reason why. And the reason why is because I want us to understand that our natural rights are not there because of the Constitution.

Our, our natural rights are there because they’re God given. You naturally have them. You naturally have the right to protect yourself against tyranny. You naturally have the right to protect yourself against any other thing that might come against you other than tyranny. Tyranny being at the top of the list when it comes to Second Amendment. You have a natural right to be able to, you know, believe and, and, and practice the religion you want to. You have a natural right to, to petition your government for redress grievances. These are naturally yours. They’re part of the natural order of things.

That’s what the rule of law is. The laws of nature and of nature’s God, as it says in the Declaration of Independence. We need to understand our rights are not something has anything to do with government. It’s God’s gift to you. Government didn’t exist first. Your rights did. Right. They belong to you. They existed first. Government’s job is to make sure you get your rights, is to make sure they, they don’t interfere with your rights and that nobody else does too. And that’s when they come in, take a report and do an investigation if somebody else is interfering with the rights.

And that’s where the Second Amendment has to be understood the way it needs to be understood. So Heller was 2008, and then McDonald versus Chicago. Okay, I was thinking 2008, I was thinking flip the case, challenged The Chicago city ordinance that essentially banned handguns within city limits. The, the law remained in place even after the court’s decision in, in D.C. versus Heller right there my. Which had ruled that federal government could not ban handguns in the home for self defense. Chicago claimed that Heller didn’t apply to states or municipalities. And they’re actually correct. Right. Otis McDonald, a 76 year old black man and army veteran, lived in a high crime neighborhood in Chicago and wanted to keep a handgun in his home for protection.

He argued that the city’s ban violated his constitutional rights. Self defense. So the Supreme Court ruling came down on June 28th of 2010. 5, 4 by a majority opinion by Alito. Absolutely. And this is, this is the, this is the thing that really depending on, depending on circumstances, either good or bad, the second Amendment is incorporated to the states through due process clause of the 14th amendment. Now stop for a second. They’re admitting though in that that before the 14th Amendment it wasn’t incorporated to the states. Even your most, even your most liberal constitutional professor will tell you that the original intent of the Bill of Rights was to only apply to, to the federal government.

So why would they, why, why would they incorporate the Bill of Rights to the states? Because then that made the federal government the enforcer over it. Right. And see that’s where, that’s where you, you know who was it that was, wasn’t it Jefferson that said the government big enough to give you everything is, is also big enough to take it all away? Yeah, the, the, oh man, I can’t remember who it was. It wasn’t Jefferson. But. Yeah, but, but, but the, the quote still has merit. And, and actually President Ford wound up report repeating that quote and he got quite more often than not he’s the one that gets some credit for it.

But, but it wasn’t originally his. No. All right, so it says this being state and local governments cannot infringe on the individual right to keep and bear arms for self defense, especially in the home. Notice that they said infringe for the self defense. Self defense against a tyranny is, is the number one reason. But they now have downgraded to just self defense. Right. So once again they’re using language to, to prepare you for changes that might be on the horizon. So the incorporation of McDonald vs. Chicago extended the HeLa ruling from the federal only application to all levels of government.

This is called selective incorporation to the 14th amendment. Made the second amendment a fully enforceable civil right like freedom of speech or religion across all 50 states. So, so Essentially what the what, what, what? I mean, it was a win for gun rights, but it was not a win for the Constitution. Right. And I, I, I have mixed emotions about that, obviously. Yeah. But at the same time, well, do you want a federal court, let me ask it this way for my friends. Do you want a federal court and the federal government dictating to the state or a local government what they can or can’t do regarding your rights, your right to keep and bear arms? Because the moment they decide if incorporation is accepted, the moment the federal government decides it’s no longer an individual right, it’s a collective right, they’ll be able to dictate it to all the states.

That’s why it’s so dangerous incorporating. Right. The Second Amendment by ushering or by bringing in the 14th Amendment. Really what they’ve done is they have put the Second Amendment enforcers of your rights and all your rights at all levels. Okay. So, and as long as you have a court that is conservative, then it’s going to be okay. But as soon as you have a court that is not, then, you know, then you’re going to get into situations like, like Roe v. Wade. Well, yeah, hey, monarchy is great if you have a good king or, you know, or Alexis de Tocqueville, he says, hey, democracy is on the rise in America, but it’ll be okay because Americans are good people, they’re virtuous people.

So as long as they remain a virtuous people, they’ll be able to do okay. Under democracy, Andrew Jackson pushed more democratic system, was pushing away some of the republican ideals, characteristics and of our system. So. But the moment you lose that virtue, that, that virtuous society, then suddenly the tyranny creeps in really easily. That’s why we’re originally and we have the separation of powers and all that. We’ve now erased a lot of that and now the tyranny you don’t ever hear. You never. The only time that you hear that the country is called a republic is if you say this, the Pledge of Allegiance.

And I think it’s, and people say it without even thinking about the words, so it doesn’t really have any meaning. And they go out of their way to use the word democracy lately. What’s that? Everybody? Yeah. 100. Not, not just your Democrats. I mean, you know, Jesse Waters, who I love everybody. Why? Because it’s been shouted for a skull. Trump even says it. You know, nobody’s, nobody refers to the country as a republic. They all refer to it as a, as A as a democracy. Which is why. Ouch. I just hit my knee on my desk.

Which is why I wrote this book. Yep. Repeal democracy. Yeah, the light. Yeah, yeah, the lights. Yeah. But repeal democracy. Go check out this book. It explains why we’re republic non democracy and why democracies are dangerous. But in a nutshell, democracy gives power to the population centers, the cities get to the point where they run everything. Which is completely what the anti federalists tried to point out initially and what they have been proven to be right on. I don’t think that the Federalists who were pushing for the Constitution, I think their motives were pure. I don’t think they genuinely believe that it was ever going to come to the situation.

As long as the Constitution is followed, everything is fine. And the antifa. But it won’t be. Well then what system you put in? Because. Because anti federalists were right, but whatever system you put in tyranny is going to nibble at it. Well, what do they say? The freer. The freer the society, the more likely you’re going to ultimately lose your freedom. I mean I, I think, I don’t remember how what the quote was, but it was something along those lines. It’s like the more free the society where you’re, where you’re relying upon the morality and the virtuous people to keep, you know, to keep track of everything.

What you’re going to have is you’re going to have a situation where you were. Where people are now essentially, you know, on the government dole. They’re going to be, you know, now they’re subservient to the government and when they’re subservient to the government, they’re going to continuously vote in bigger government and bigger government and bigger government to the point when, you know, now when they’re Talking about the 15 minute cities, Smart cities and all this other stuff, it’s like, I mean, I mean it’s unfathomable. You know, I think I mentioned to you back in like 2014 or 15, I want to say that James Perloff wrote an article and it was called is it was titled essentially the United States and the Soviet Union have traded or the Russia has traded places and we’ve become.

We are now the new Soviet Union. Yeah, well, we. What I was going to say is we have become the very enemy we fought four wars against. Yeah. World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. We have become that enemy. World War I. While it wasn’t the fascism, Communism, it seems like it was the totalitarian type of socialist kind of mindset. But, yeah, we have become the enemy. And we have also become the British Empire, our federal government, in many ways. If you look at the mercantilism and so on and so forth, you know, Ferragam has become King George and our system has become the very socialist.

And, and they’re pushing it to go farther. Oh, but don’t worry, Doug. The solution is more communism, more socialism. Just ask Mom. Donnie. I saw, I saw. Let me share this here real quick because this was actually. I, I thought this was fantastic. This was hilarious. Socialism happens. Socialism, system collapses. But that wasn’t real socialism because it’s like the Titler cycle. Yeah, yeah, that’s very good. I’ve seen that one before and it’s exactly right. All right, so I’ve got more wood to split. I’ve got a. Yeah, all good. I’ve got a side by side to put a battery in so I could drive it back up from my cistern.

Yeah, I, I, Man, I tell you, I’ve, I’ve been turned into a country bumpkin or something, man. Yeah, we start calling all over my hands. We should start calling you. What was it? What’s the guy’s name? The, the, the, the big old lumberjack. Paul Bunyan. Paul Bunyan. Thank you. Yeah. My wife. No longer Douglas. He’s now Paul Bunyan. Yeah, but don’t worry. I still, I’m still on the air six times a week. Twice on Saturday and one. One time every other day of the week. Except for Friday. Friday and Monday is the only time I’m not on.

However, my wife. I’ve been needing to do videos, but I don’t get around to it because I’m busy doing this. I need to start putting videos on my video page. And we’ve had this idea, and we’ll probably, we’re probably gonna start this Friday doing it. My wife and I, Mr. And Mrs. Constitution. Because she has a lot of questions, and a lot of her questions are what people are asking. It’s actually, that’s actually not a bad idea because then you get people who, you know, people who don’t know anything. They don’t, you know, they, it’s, you know, it’s, it basically, like, I don’t want to say this in the wrong way, but it’s Constitution for Dummies.

Yeah, in a sense it is. And because she’s learning. And so I told her this week, take down notes as you watch the news and stuff. Just take down notes and, and then ask me these questions on the Friday show because she says, what’s it going to be about? And says, I don’t know. That’s up to you. Ask me the questions. And because, because we have these, she’ll ask me a question like while we’re driving. And we’ll only have these back and forth for like a half an hour to an hour. And I’m like, man, that was good stuff.

I wish everybody could hear that. That’s where it kind of came from. Well, how many times have you and I been on the phone and be like, oh, that was great. Yeah, a lot of people I do that with the you and I especially. But yeah, we should have been recording that. I remember who was it was talking to. And he’s saying, Doug, record everything. But exactly 100. Well, the just, just, just a friendly reminder, guys. The Tuesdays with Mike’s at least for the foreseeable future until, you know, fingers crossed until after Labor Day has is now all future shows until Labor Day have been are now off.

So we’ll see what happens after Labor Day. Yeah. The show I want to do with my wife. Yeah, Rumble. But it would be my Rumble is Douglas V. Gibbs. So rumble.com I think CC Douglas V. Gib, something like that. So it would be Douglas v. Gibbs is, is my the keyword for my channel. I probably could put on YouTube until they stop airing it because they don’t like what I’m saying. I have, you know, I’ve got YouTube Rumble, a Bridey on and a bit shoot. And I was planning on doing it live on Rumble and then putting the recordings also on the other three.

So for those other audiences. But. Yeah, but, but yeah. Tau22 asks would, would that be on Rumble? Yeah. But once again, my key word is Douglas v. Gibbs. Excellent. Well, Mr. Gibbs, thank you. I appreciate your time. Always invite Roseanne onto your show. Yeah. That’s not her only interesting theory. Yeah. Yeah, we’ll see. But, but in any event, thank you very much there, Mr. Gibbs. Appreciate your time as always. And we’ll, we’ll probably be, we’ll still be talking about the second Amendment next week, guys. We, but there’s, there’s, there’s a lot of stuff now. We’ll wrap it up next week and then we’ll get into the third and fourth Amendment and all that, the legal amendments after that.

But, but I mean, anytime legislation or something comes down, it does kind of trump what we’re no, no pun intended. But it does kind of, you know, override what we’re talking about. Or what we’re going to talk about. And, and actually what we wanted to do initially is we wanted to do a hybrid where we spent half the show talking about or a portion of the show talking about current events and then the rest of the show talking about, you know, the Constitution and, and whatnot. So, but anyway, and, and, and once again, no, but real quick before I go also next week, here’s what I want you guys to do because I do pay attention to the chat room.

We’ll start wrapping up Second Amendment then. Second half of the show. I want your questions about the second Amendment. Anything, Anything. Let’s make the second half of the show next week. Q A. I, I think that’ll be fun because. Yeah, that’d be great. I like that. I like that. So just St. Sugar, all Tuesday with Mike shows have been postponed until post Labor Day. So at least that’s the word on the street right now. So we will see. And Mel and real special Ed, I got a chance to meet with them in Canton, Ohio last May.

It’s good to see you guys, all of you. It’s good as you guys. I’ve got a viewer slash listener on the Patriot Soapbox show. I do. Who’s lives out here in Southern Oregon is going to meet with me in the next week or two in Cave Junction. Any guys in Southern Oregon or Northern California, let me know. Constitution speaker@yahoo.com maybe you can get in on that Meeting at Cave Junction, Oregon. Constitution Speaker@yahoo.com Constitution Speaker. It’s a very. It’s a very. That’s a very sparsely populated area. Yeah. But hey, well, he’s up there on the other side of Medford and I’m out and I’m on and I’m on the coast.

So how far is it for you to get to Bend? What did it take? 5, 6 hours and a half hours? 6 and a half hours. Yeah, we went to Redmond. We went to a last. What was it? March? We went to a arena football game out there. Redmond. Yeah. Yeah. And then we, and then we got stuck on that side of the mountain because it was a huge snowstorm. So yeah, we couldn’t get back over the mountain for a couple days. But Ed, to answer Ed’s question, I, I very likely am going to be doing a solo show tonight because I have a new substack out about Karen Bass and so I probably will do that show where I read the.

Well, just so you guys understand how substack works, it used to be where you could upload the substack and then it would do a text to speech where it would read it for you. Doesn’t do that for you anymore. So you actually have to go through and read it. So what I’ll, what I’ll do tonight is I will probably get on there and I will read that and use the audio portion for the, you know, to put it on my substack. So that’s very likely what I’m going to be doing tonight. So. And thanks, thanks Mel for the, for the kudos about all the education.

I appreciate the fact that you guys have learned a lot and I enjoy doing this stuff. Don’t forget I’ve got shows all throughout the week on different channels. Zacky Radio, kmet, kprz, uh, KCBQ down in San Diego, uh, the, the ZAKI radio show actually is on stations are Reno, San Francisco, Sacramento and a bunch of other places around the country. So I’m pretty jazzed about those. And thank you again Micro Tool Maker for your gifting of the five subscriptions. That was awesome. That was very cool. Yeah, very, very, very, very appreciative. Very much appreciated. Can’t talk tonight.

That’s a great title. The Red Diaper Baby who became Mayor. I like that. Yeah, yeah. Well, perfect title. So here, if you humor me for a second just to give a little teaser. Let me, let me find the article here because it’s posts and view post. I will. I gotta put it in this one. Oh, the image you put is great too. You like that? Oh, I love that. You have way too much fun with AI. So here you go. This is, this is the, the Red Diaper baby who became mayor of Los Angeles. And the reason that I did that, it’s, it’s, it’s actually because down here there’s a quote where she said it being the white left played a huge role for me in Hamilton.

Believe it or not. She went to, she went to. Was it Alexander Hamilton High School? Go figure. In Hamilton High School, for example, a lot of the Jewish parents were activists and some of them were in the Communist party. So I grew up with a lot of red diaper babies and there were some African American parents who were in the Communist party. There were teachers who were in the Communist party. So white radicals were very influential. And at the same time you had the Panthers and the whole black movement. So that is what influenced her growing up.

And many of you guys may not be aware of this. She was in the, she was like on the short list to be. Oh and she was, she was the, the vice chair of the National Endowment for Democracy when the. Now, I’m not saying she had anything to do with the Ukraine color revolution, but that’s what the National Endowment for Democracy was basically at the intersection of the State Department, CIA, and usaid. But she was there. She. But she was. She was within a whisper of being the. The vice presidential nominee for Biden in2020. Wow. That’s frightening.

That is. Yeah. You got a lot of sources there. You did a lot of research for that. I can’t wait to read it. Yeah. So I’ll, I’ll send it to you and I’ve got it already on my screen. Awesome. All right. All right, everybody. Hey, have a. After you read it, let me. Call me and let me know what you think of it or. Or just let me know. I’d love to hear. I’d like to hear your thoughts about it, you know, private. Okay. Absolutely. All right, everybody, have a great evening and I will see you here in a little bit.

I haven’t, I haven’t put the show up, but I will or so it’s probably not going to be in 10 minutes. It’ll probably be more like about like, like 9 Eastern. So probably about an hour and. Hour and 15 minutes or so. So look forward to seeing you guys then.
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