Brad Johnson on gun control update in Virginia

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Brad Johnson December 23rd you know I
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recently read this incredible article
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about it was written by kind of like a
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mathematical statistician on the
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likelihood of catastrophes and he said
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that there’s a 32% chance over the
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course of anybody’s 30-year mortgage
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that their house would be flooded and he
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said that there’s a 37 percent chance
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over the course of anybody’s lifetime
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that there will be a violent revolution
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in the country you live in and he said
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that’s the reason everybody ought to
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have an m60 or 15 because the likely
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that is higher than their house will be
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flooded that there will be a violent
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revolution I got to say watching and
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following the events and reading really
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really good people like really
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conservative level-headed people about
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the events on the attempt at the end run
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around the Second Amendment and what
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seem to be focusing on Virginia it’s
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really it’s something there’s something
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going on what can you give us any kind
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of insight into that yeah it’s very
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interesting in Virginia as is turning
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out to be a testbed I would say for gun
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control and new gun control regulations
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and laws so in essence just kind of
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summing up where it stands the the there
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was a republican-controlled legislature
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for the state of Virginia it lost this
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past election in November it’s December
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now as we do this so in January the new
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crew will be sworn in and take over
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control it would be a democratic run and
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all of the senior you know governor
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lieutenant governor and down the line
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the top four people in state government
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including the legislature are now
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Democrat so what the Democratic governor
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has said he’s very very pro-gun control
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very anti Second Amendment which
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protects gun rights so he’s proposing
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two bills that are going to greatly
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restrict and perhaps confiscate weapons
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from legal gun owners so that’s that’s
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where it stands right now in January
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we’ll be
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we’ll begin to see how this unfolds but
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there’s been a lot of people coming out
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warning about this and saying look this
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is a real problem
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you cannot just ignore the Second
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Amendment and start taking people’s guns
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and so you’ve had a hundred counties in
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the state of Virginia come out and say
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we are not going to waste valuable
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law-enforcement time and money on these
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laws which are unconstitutional anyway
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and so these are counties that are
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pushing back against what Richmond is
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the capital of Virginia and we’re and
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the government is located there so
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they’re pushing back against what the
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governor and Richmond is trying to you
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know voiced off on the entire state and
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and and put in these these laws since
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he’s he’s won a plurality if you will
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for for the state of Virginia he has
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control he’s taking advantage of it to
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push these personal personal gun control
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issues so now of course what that does
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is it creates crime when you take guns
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away from law-abiding citizens you what
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you do then is you have criminals who
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already are breaking the law are
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perfectly willing to illegally have a
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gun on them in order to conduct their
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business which is you know illegal
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activity of some sort or another
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and it’s it’s interesting I mean I would
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say my observation is and and this is
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just something we’ve mentioned earlier
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in Maryland they just went to a guy’s
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house to confiscate his gun without that
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man ever having had his day in court to
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defend himself and then ended up killing
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him there on them on the at his front
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door now that’s the type of thing you’re
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going to see happen and that’s what
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everybody with any you know brains at
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all is looking at this going on and this
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is this is not a good path to go down so
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will it spark something larger in
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Virginia it depends on the governor and
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how aggressive he is if he aggressively
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goes after this and starts to go and
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confiscate weapons from legal gun owners
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yes but it you know this is a this this
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is how big it grows I don’t know but
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will people start to defend themselves
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on that yeah they’re going to so it’s
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it’s going to create some problem
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and what the police do I mean the police
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I don’t know it’ll be interesting to see
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how that plays out law enforcement
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recognizes that they’re being targeted
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by the left and the black lives matters
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group that that goes out in the street
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and chants you know what do we want
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death two cops those sorts of things so
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I mean they recognize that the
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Democratic Party has turned against law
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enforcement and ultimately I mean whose
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side you on on this are you on you’re on
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the side of law abiding citizens or are
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you on the side of criminals and what
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we’ve seen is the Democrats are
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essentially on the side of criminality
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because who’s the big winner if you take
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away the guns from all the legal gun
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owners since the criminals now you don’t
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see them saying well we’re going to go
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knock on the doors of known gang members
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and confiscate their guns you know so
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but we will go knock on the door of a
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legal gun owner and confiscate his guns
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well you know just the enormity of the
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problems with that concept just from the
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get-go are just outrageous so as is this
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goes forward January we’ll find out but
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it does have the potential I don’t I
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think civil war is probably you know to
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bridge too far I don’t think we’d be
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looking at that sort of thing but I
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think what you’ll see is law enforcement
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by and large come down on the side of
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law-abiding citizens and not come down
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on the side of the group of Democrats
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here who are against the Second
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Amendment of the Constitution and I
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think they will look at this and their
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oath to the Constitution and by and
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large will come down on the side of law
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and order versus I don’t know what you
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what you want to call what the Democrats
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are trying to do but for the Democrats
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it’s an emotional issue it’s something
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where they can get money and additional
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political power so that’s why they’re
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playing it out because it plays well to
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their base and it’s something where they
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can always cry you know oh we have to
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protect our children we have to do this
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and you know if you if you don’t agree
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with us then you’re trying to kill
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babies and these sorts of things so it
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lets them have this emotional appeal to
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people who are simple to them in the
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sense of politics that really really
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don’t pay attention and only take a very
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shallow look at what’s going on so
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that’s the base of the Democrats in this
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day and age not the deep thinkers
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and so this is this is where we see it
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going in Virginia how far it goes
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depends on how far the governor goes and
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we’ll see starting in January after they
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get sworn in well there seems to be
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another interesting set of conflicts
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where various police agencies have
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warned their officers that if they do
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not accept an order to go and take guns
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away based on whether red flag laws or
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whatever other reason that they will be
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banned from they’ll be they’ll be fired
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and banned from any kind of law
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enforcement agency to the extent that
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they’re capable of doing so and that’s
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despite the fact that as far as I
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understand that every civil servant
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United States takes an oath to protect
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the Constitution’s like it is really not
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so it is this will play out in court and
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you know if you start banning law
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enforcement if they refuse to follow
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what very likely is an illegal order
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from ever working again in law
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enforcement I mean guaranteed to go to
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court guaranteed to go to the Supreme
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Court and the Supreme Court is is is
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probably going to I mean they’re they’re
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leaning towards supporting the Second
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Amendment of the Constitution I mean
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you’ve got some wack nuts in there that
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will that will probably vote against it
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even though it’s clearly protected by
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the Second Amendment because they’re
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they’re radical they don’t agree with it
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politically so they don’t care what the
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laws are so they’ll get a motor to for
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it but I think I think second amendment
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would be upheld by the Supreme Court so
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those law enforcement were targeted
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hopefully they’ll run a test case
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someplace where the law enforcement to
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that particular Authority will be able
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to protect themselves and take it all
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the way up through the court system I
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mean that’s a tear I think everybody
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would want a test case on this including
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the Democratic governor I think he would
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pick a place where he could do this and
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try to run it all the way up to the to
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the Supreme Court and get a get a ruling
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and I think they would try to run it up
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there pretty quickly because he’s not
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going to be in control here in Virginia
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forever particularly if he does this
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stuff which I think would be all in all
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play very well to his base but would not
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be popular with those swing votes that
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he needs to maintain Democrat
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control of the state of Virginia in fact
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I would say this is going to be what
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part of what plays out in the upcoming
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2020 elections where Democrats are going
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to be in some trouble perhaps even in
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Virginia we’ll see how well Trump
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handles this and but at Virginia was not
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that I mean I think it was 7% in the in
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the last presidential election towards
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the Democrats in the overall state but
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we’ll see this this this election is
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going to be different and you’ve got
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president Trump picking up large
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sections of minority votes Latino even
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Jewish black votes who because of the
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economy doing so well what he’s done for
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them so we’re seeing you know perhaps as
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much as thirty percent of the black vote
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come over to President Trump if that
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does in fact take place including the
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Latino vote and a much smaller Jewish
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vote if those sorts of percentages stay
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true and come over and that’s those
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sorts of numbers I think I think Trump
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could flip Virginia so we’ll see
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we’ll see all the January will be the
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first step and then the following
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November for elections for 2020
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presidential elections will be the
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second step where we see how this plays
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out
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well it certainly puts a magnifying
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glass on the importance of the president
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Trump’s nominations to various level
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court judges we begin to really see
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clearly why if he does nothing else in
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his entire presidency but guarantee that
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the various levels of courts in the US
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are stacked by people that believe in
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the Constitution at the rule of law that
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he’s had an incredibly good and
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important presidency Trump has done a
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bang-up job on judges he really has he’s
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done a good job on justice and getting a
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man and uh and this is where you know
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I’m you know not a huge fan of what I
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see happening by Mitch McConnell and the
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Senate but he has Mitch McConnell has
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really stepped up to the plate and
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helped get these judges through and the
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Republicans in the Senate have actually
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worked hard on that and they everybody
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sort of agrees on that one issue so that
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has gone extraordinarily well so yeah
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absolutely
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kudos to President Trump and his
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administration on getting judges done
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and that’s in the face of full head and
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wins in every little place where the
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Democrats can resist they have and and
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that is where Mitch McConnell haven’t
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been around so long shines and has been
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able to get them through so yep that
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that part’s going well and Trump has
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done a fantastic job on that
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