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in the military. My son was in Iraq for your other places, you. There's so many Members of the military coming back with post-traumatic stress after witnessing. The v You know, just like when in the military. My son was in Iraq for your other places, you.

There's so many Members of the military coming back with post-traumatic stress after witnessing. the violence and participating in it. for these children. These teachers. you should be focusing on their mental health as well.

And so I'm grateful anyway.

Sorry to start off that way, but I couldn't begin without acknowledging what happened. You know, just like when it was a weird way, when he started His address. When he started his address, that was a really weird way. Yeah. Starhull of this?

Because it was He like walked out. We said this yesterday 'cause it was happening right as we were finishing the program. And it was odd because I mean, he launched right from that, going right into talking about politics. And it just seemed entirely... Utterly tone deaf.

And I mean, I just don't know how to explain it. I mean, there's no. There's no way to explain it. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash here with you.

And we're going to recap everything that we were learning yesterday. about all of this. this this horrific tragedy that that took place. Uh And we've got a lot of information to go over.

So to start with And I wrote about this, there's two pieces up. At the newsletter. Chapter and verse. that you can go and read. Um, we were quite busy last night.

I was quite busy last night. uh going over everything, following everything as it came in. Lorraine has a piece up, and I also have a history that gets into the statistics of the assault weapons, all of that stuff. What really gets me is how, I mean, I guess I'm not surprised, but. Democrats immediately went out.

And decided to blame everything but the person involved. And this was really. Kind of one of the first times I actually saw the press kind of run defense. For murderer. And I have an entire piece for you.

Also on that. Just like that. I mean, it's just kind of it's just stunning. You had the press, everybody from the Washington Post to even other Democrats, everybody. going all in to blame everyone from the victims their faith.

to any politician in the area. Anyone? Instead of the actual murderer involved.

Now camera footage came out today also. the body cam footage from the police. I mean it's nothing short of heroic. The officers with the Metropolitan Nashville Police responded. And it really is a stark contrast to the cowardice scene.

and Neuvalde and even Parkland. Two in particular. These officers went in. There was a response team that went in. The officers' names: Rex Engelbert, who's a four-year veteran.

Michael Colazo, a nine-year veteran, they were part of a team of first responders to that campus. and they were the ones who, on the body cam footage, which I viewed, They're the ones. who neutralized. The killer. They didn't?

Wait 77 minutes in a hallway? They responded fast. Within minutes? They responded with bravery. There was zero hesitation.

They ran to the sound of danger. And it is nothing, as I said, short of heroic.

So this It's wild because I I mean I just Remember Just this past week. No, yet last week. Yeah. You had the officers in Uvalde who were blaming the fact that the killer had A semi-automatic rifle, and they had tons of dudes also that had their own semi-automatic rifles, but that's why they couldn't go in. Or Parkland, Scott Israel, immediately.

Was looking for where the cameras were so he could talk to the cameras and get himself some press. I mean I think And it it's just something.

So we're going to get into the we're going to talk about the response. We're going to talk about a whole bunch of things. We're also going to talk about the fight the right has got to have about transgenderism, because there's too many damn people on the side of conservatism that are accommodating so many things that they were against 15 years ago. We're going to rip the band-aid off hair and all, and we're going to have an honest conversation about it. Because I'm already seeing some people on the right saying, Are conservatives really going to go to the route of saying that this is a mental illness?

Yes, do you have a problem with it? Maybe then you have one too. I'm just I'm Tired of it.

So again, welcome to the Nationally Syndicated Radio program. You can listen coast to coast. market near you and you can watch the simulcast. That is on YouTube the first the through the first Facebook and direct TV channel 347.

So, to start off with, let's just start off. Let's go back. This is just some of the stuff we're going to cover this first hour. We're also going to talk with Stephen Hallbrook later on about some of the stuff with the pistol brace rule, et cetera, et cetera. We have energy, we have all kinds of stuff to get into.

But. First and foremost, the The president had called for a new assault weapons ban yesterday while we're marking on this tragedy. And The White House spokesperson. Can we have this audio? Let's start with this audio.

We played his. She said this. This uh I I I don't have the list in front of me just a second. Yes. She was the one.

She asked, Well, how many more children does it take? This was an absolutely asinine question. to ask. Listen to this. In his State of the Union, the President called on Congress to do something.

To stop the epidemic of gun violence, tearing families apart, tearing communities apart. How many more children? have have to be murdered. before Republicans in Congress will step up and act to pass the assault Weapons ban.

So I wrote about this. First off, I think it's absolutely ghoulish. that she did this. This is absolutely ghoulish. For the Idea that the assault weapons ban is needed or has ever worked is false.

There was, I mean, numerous studies. There's a Department of Justice study. You have all the receipts for this if you're a subscriber to chapter and verse. You have There was a Department of Justice study. In fact, there were a couple.

A Department of Justice study. that show there was zero evidence that the ban had any impact. on gun homicide rates at all. There was a Journal of Internal Medicine study. that concluded That the assault weapons ban had zero impact on gun homicide rates.

You have the Rand Corporation. They concluded With updates even earlier this year that an assault weapons ban would have zero impact on reducing gun homicide rates. The New York Times. had published a thorough deep dive. On assault weapons and the ban, and came to the same conclusion.

Politi fact. Num numerous studies. You're talking about something that's responsible for the fewest homicides annually, and it does absolutely nothing to reduce. The overwhelming firearm-related homicide that is brought on by what, drug and gang violence? Barack Obama remarked yesterday.

He said, Oh, it's the number one killer of children. It's the number one killer of children. Do you know where they're getting this phrase from? Do you know where they're getting this saying from? They're getting this saying from an old survey.

that counted children ages two to nineteen, And it is overwhelmingly Inarguably. Drug and gang violence. that drives it. That is the big thing. But they want to put it as though they want to make it as though These are all school-aged children 'cause they went a fear monger.

In these instances. Pulse Nightclub, Parkland, Sandy Hook, Uvalde. The right aid in Maryland going to Colorado Springs, to Denver, to California, to Washington. I'm looking at my list of all of these mass casualty incidents, every single one of them, without exception amongst any. These were all known to their All of them were known to law enforcement.

All of them were known to law enforcement.

So This His call for this ban is entirely, it's unneeded because it doesn't work. Zero evidence. I mean, the Journal of Internal Medicine, they reluctantly had to admit this. The Journal of Internal medicine, they were trying to argue that, well, maybe some stronger gun policies. But no, they actually had to finally admit that, yes, it doesn't have any impact.

None of it has any impact. The facts remain. It's also worth noting that it's silly. to have this conversation at all without comparing it to defensive gun usage. Which according to all available publicly posted criminal statistics outweighs that of criminal usage.

But those people don't. They don't they don't want to acknowledge that. I mean, it's pretty amazing some of the stuff I saw, and I'm looking at some of it now. I have a piece that's up. And it's titled We're Entering New Territory Where the Left Feels Violence is Justified.

Newish, because they've always kind of felt that it was justified. but now more than ever. I was watching a number of A number of journalists and lawmakers and everybody else. Run defense for a child killer because the female killer wanted to use male pronouns. They so boggled the initial coverage, nobody had any idea if we were talking about a dude or a chick.

USA today tried to put their ideology in the mouth of the police chief. When they tweeted at 11.05 p.m., quote, police on Monday afternoon said the shooter was a transgender man. Officials had initially misidentified the gender of the shooter. They didn't misidentify what she wanted to cosplay as in her make-believe fantasy world. She was a broad who wanted to use male pronouns.

No one cares what the killer cost plays as. It's a distraction from the people who actually matter. the victims. I had trans activists going at me yesterday. No one gives a rat's ass what you want to cosplay as.

Nobody cares. This is I mean, it was just shocking to see how blatant it was. I'm going to play some audio for you coming up. About all of this, and we're going to talk about SROs. We're also going to get into the Biden budget push.

Because that's He's already moved on. He's already moved on. and the problem with violence. Violent trans activists is now the norm and not the exception. We'll discuss this as well because this is not the first angry trans activists, and nor will it I hate to say it, I hope to God it's the last.

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This is funny to me. A handful of cows found their way into, this is real, this is actually real in Montana. A handful of cows found their way into a newly built home and lived in it for a month before they were noticed. I'm s Yes, actual like cow squatters. That's an actual photo that Juan is showing on the simulcast.

Well, it's a painting of it, but they said the family was moving from Washington. The aunt was supposed to be checking on the place. She didn't. A rancher filed a report about missing some cattle, even checked their barn, but not the house. They think a storm sent them looking for cover.

And they also think the storm blew in a door or the cows nudged one open somehow. And it was Just Awful. It was an awful instance. I think it's actually kind of hysterical. This is, I've just never heard anything like this before.

A 36-year-old mother almost had to have her legs amputated because she fell asleep kneeling on all fours following a boozy night out, cut off her circulation for hours. Julia Anderson passed out because she is a moron. She drank about 20 drinks on an empty stomach. She's from Canada. and she nearly lost her legs because she cut off her circulation.

She collapsed on her bed, kneeling on all fours. And when she woke up, her legs had ballooned to double their size. She couldn't move on her own. That's insane.

So I guess she's coming back to normal, but the photos that were, I mean, it is. She had to undergo dialysis, a blood transfusion, and a skin graft on top of her leg. She was hospitalized for five weeks. That's just wild. Madonna announces a Nashville stop on her celebration tour.

And the proceeds aren't going to victims or victims' families, but they're going to the militant trans organizations after Tennessee. They're blaming the state of Tennessee for passing these bills. Pillow Face McTallon only in the studio is going to be going to Nashville to try to parlay her aging relevance into some sort of politics that a lot of celebrities who are on the sunset end of their professional lifespan think are going to give them an extra 15 minutes. I have nothing nice to say. At all.

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So this guy's redeeming the drunk girl. Their powerlifting coach, Avi Silverberg, just broke the Alberta women's bench press. He did it though on purpose. The Heroes Classic? He, the former record holder, a trans-identifying male, had a front row view as Silverberg mocked.

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Will say to Republicans in Congress: Is what are you going to say to these parents? What are you going to say to these family members? 63% Of Americans, and I heard this poll laid out here on the show earlier today, it's a political poll, said that they want to see. Safer gun safety measures. They want to see that.

That is the will of the people.

So Republicans need to listen to majority of Americans in this country.

Well, let's fisk that because it's incredibly misleading. First off, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. bottom of our first hour. Lot of stuff to hit.

Coming up, we're going to hit the IRS visiting Matt Taibbi. We're going to hit the Biden budget battle because he's now pushing that even more. There's a number, I mean, I just have so much stuff for you guys today. I'm going to try so hard to work this in. The death of a religious society, I have so much for you.

Let's just go through. First off, Corine Jean-Pierre, she again in that audio soundbite too, was asking, well, what are people, what are Republicans going to do? She cites this survey. It's a Kaiser Health Survey that builds on a previous one that they have. And in fact, I have like 18 years of polling data.

Um that I'm That I was just going through over yesterday evening, all this polling data from the past almost two decades. It's never been a top three concern, gun control. And in all of the instances where gun control has been surveyed, it's always been typically when they're trying to get either some sort of majority survey for assault weapons ban or some sort of majority survey for magazine restriction, et cetera. It's a push-pull, meaning they're basically leading your questions. And it's really weird survey size, and it's typically oversampled with people who, excuse me, with people who are on the left.

And this Kaiser Health poll, this is where they're trying to pull this from. This was published. trying to find a date on this. This Kaiser poll that I have It was there was one that was revisited earlier this month. Or sorry, excuse me, earlier last month.

And they were saying, oh, 63% of Americans want gun laws to change. And they were trying to cite the scallop poll, which was a push-pull. I mean, they would ask things like, do you think we should have background checks? Like, without telling people, well, we have background checks. You know, do you think that, you know, that's, they're trying to push for universal background checks.

Or they would say, they would ask very leading questions like this: Do you think where they would beg the question, meaning they would ask you a question but present it in a way to where the conclusion was true.

So if you're based on the premise, it would assume the validity of the premise.

So if you have a push-pull that's asking you whether or not you think, well, they're asking it in the way that as though background checks don't exist. And so do you think that we should have universal background checks? And they conflate the two in the questioning that they ask.

So that is. That is that's the whole That's the problem with these sorts of surveys. In fact, some of the, and I'm going to pull this up, if you bear with me, because I have a lot of data here. And I just wanted to just knock this talking point that she has down. It's never actually been a majority position.

Majority has actually always opposed gun control. And in some instances, it may have been a slimmer majority than not, but it has always been a majority of Americans that have opposed the gun control restrictions, like the ones that are pushed by Democrats. Because people understand universal background checks means the only way that that operates is to have a gun control or have a firearm registry so the government knows exactly everything everyone has because that's what it would take in order to satisfy every single every single even lawful in-state transfer and sidebar to this all of these are still federally regulated and if you disagree with me on it then why is there a federal penalty Moving on.

So she's wrong on that. Secondly, Democrats, as I pointed out, Democrats don't want gun control. Let's be real, really, really honest about this. Democrats do not want gun control. If Democrats wanted gun control, If they had wanted gun control more than they wanted to win elections.

They would have passed gun control when they controlled both the House and the Senate and the White House. They would have passed it before midterm elections. They would have passed it when Barack Obama was president and Democrats held for the first portion of his first term a supermajority before special elections. If Democrats wanted gun control more than they wanted to win elections, they would have passed it. When they were in power, they did not.

And they didn't. Because they know. Gun control pulls horribly. They didn't because they know that with higher crime rates People will vote their security. Democrats simply cannot be.

honest. About it.

So that's the other reality of the situation. She was saying, well, what are Republicans going to say? What are Republicans in Congress? What are you going to say to these parents?

Well, what are you going to say to these parents, Corrine? Your party when you held power. You didn't pass it. If it was that important to you, why did Democrats not do anything when they held power House, Senate, and White House? Not just for Biden.

Why didn't they do it for Barack Obama? When he won in 2008, there for a period, Democrats had complete, they had supermajority. They could have run anything through. They actually did until a special election. They still have a majority after that, but they lost that super majority.

Why did they not do anything? Million dollar question.

So let's go ahead and relieve ourselves of that ridiculous talking point right now. No, they immediately quickly blame.

So the reality of the situation is that you had a woman who said she was transgender who used male pronouns to go and target a Christian school. I think she purposely targeted a Christian school. She went into a church and apparently didn't find everything she was looking for there, so she decided to go through the school. And honestly, it almost sounded like she was hunting down the pastor's daughter. And I have people like Adam Kinzinger who say goofy things like.

It's time for us to discuss the availability of guns and impact on mental health. Blah blah blah. You know, to oppose this stuff. You know what it's time to talk about? It's time to talk about jacking people up with tons of hormones when you have no long-term study as to how it affects their mental health or overall physiology or anything else.

There's absolutely no data on this, but you guys are just completely fine with just pumping people full of hormones at arbitrary levels, completely healthy people, and engaging them in this fantasy of cosplay to the point where you actually encourage them to mutilate themselves as some form of sexual sepoku. It's wild. Let's have that conversation. I mean No, the reason we can't have real conversations about this, and Lord knows I have tried. I sat in an arena next to a bad cop who didn't even have one sixteenth of the bravery.

that these officers in Nashville had. Who wanted to not just blame me, he wanted to blame all of you. for his inability to do his job. The killer's mother was a gun control activist. Do you all know those?

I don't like saying the name. And I'm going to get into the copycat effect here coming up. But it's true. The mother was a gun control activist, shared all kinds of gun control stuff. That's kind of typically sort of how it goes.

For all of their talk on gun control and their belief in gun control and their families, I mean, clearly. I mean, I know sus I know now it's in our nature to sit here and immediately draw political lines when a tragedy occurs. I think it's safe to say that they didn't fit the media stereotype. They didn't fit the media stereotype of what the killer was supposed to be, so the killer has to make them the victim. It has to be the fault of, I mean, how many people?

It has to be the fault of, you know. What is it, Christians? Or it's Tennessee. It's Tennessee's fault because Tennessee passed A bill prohibiting unnecessary non-medical surgery on healthy children. This is what the listen to this.

This is audio sound by, forgive me, I'm looking at it, it's like 50114. This is uh This is Audio Sound Byte 7. I want you to listen to ABC's Terry Moran. I want you to listen to what he intimates here in this clip. All right, that is Police Chief John Drake of Nashville, who is briefing reporters on the deadly grade school shooting in Nashville at the Covenant School there this morning.

The police confirming six dead, three children, one eight years old, two nine years old, and three adults, including Catherine Kuntz, who is the head of the Covenant School. The police chief also said that the shooter has been identified as 28-year-old female. Audrey Hale said she's a former student of the school and confirmed that Audrey Hale identified herself as a transgender person. State of Tennessee earlier this month passed and the governor signed a bill that banned transgender medical care for minors, as well as a law that prohibited adult entertainment, including male and female impersonators, after a series of drag show controversies in that state. There were actually journalists out there that were saying that because Daily Wire is located in Nashville, that it was a, how did I have this?

I had the screenshot for you in my email newsletter. Forgive me. I want to make sure I get this correct. They had uh labeled it as And I had this because they deleted it immediately. They called it a hub of anti-trans activity.

is how Benjamin Ryan, a blue check journal, put it. And then you had ABC's Terry Moran suggest that the recently passed ban on experimental, medically unnecessary surgery was tied to the massacre, as though there was some sort of justification in it. Huffington Post went after Representative Andy Oglis, who represents the district where the school is located, they said that, listen to this, this is what they, Claire McCaskill, everybody ran with yesterday. I mean, for hours, guys, hours. Quote, Representative Andy Oglis, who represents the district where Covenant School shooting occurred, posted a Christmas photo with his family holding guns in 2021.

And they were pictured holding rifles responsibly, good, you know, trigger discipline, etc. The reason they posted that was to blame the I mean it's like akin to victim blaming, but they wanted to incite against him. Let's be honest about it. This is a Mott Bailey. They'll post something like this.

And then when you accuse them of the truth, that you want to incite violence against this guy. They go, no, no, no, we were just pointing this out. And they retreat back to a safer position from which to argue. No, no, no, we. Just wanted no, you didn't.

You wanted to incite against him. What is the point? I'm trying to tie this innocent dad. Who simply was holding a firearm and he's there with his kids. What What is the point in trying to tie him to this massacre?

Everyone else is to blame but the killer. The transgender killer who murdered and purposefully targeted a Christian school days ahead of Trans Day of Vengeance. Don't believe me that it was targeted? Go ahead and listen to the Nashville Police Chief audio.

Sound bite, I believe this was eight.

So, I didn't hear you say that again, sir. Is there any reason to believe that how she identifies as any motive for targeting the school? We can give you that at a later time. There is some theory to that. We're investigating all the leads and once we know exactly, we'll let you know.

So was this a targeted attack? And so this is how the media was was was trying to they the way that they were asking questions of this police chief, these are audio soundbites five and six. They were trying they were so fascinated and spending more time on, you know, apparently how she identified. than not. This is Audio Soundbite 5.

Do you identify as per instance? She does identify as transgender. Yes. Wild. Absolutely.

Wild. You also have the Washington Post's Ozzy, I guess, some reporter who thinks they share. going by one name. Also tying that lawmaker in. I mean, this is just, this is some of the stuff that was happening yesterday.

We're also going to address coming up. The prison component of this. Yeah. And then we have Wokery. The death of a religious society.

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you know uh the shooter in that situation reportedly had two assault weapons and a pistol. Oh my gosh. He didn't have an AK-47. One of them wasn't even an AR platform. Good grief.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here. That's obviously President Biden. Again. Mucking something up yesterday.

I had there were a lot of people who were just blasting the idea of SROs. School resource officers. Lots of them were. And it was at the point where it just it just angers me because I feel like people are not Interested in having a serious discussion about school security. All of these people, most of the people who are lamenting this, you know, the presence of SROs in schools, they say, oh, it's like a prison.

You're going to turn it into a prison. Is that what you think when you walk into a concert? You think it's a prison? Is that what you think when you walk into a jewelry store? Do you think it's a prison?

Do you think it's a prison when you go to a football game? Do you think it's a prison when you go to a baseball game? Do you think it's a prison when you go to a soccer match? Do you think it's a prison when you're on the plane?

Well, I mean, that might be a sidebar. Everywhere these people go, at some point. They are protected by guns. They are protected. by good people with guns and they don't even know it.

They have no idea. Most of the people who compare SROs to jailers. They don't have any clue about this. Have the discussion. If you want, in your school, in your community, about the most effective way to protect kids using school resource officers without.

turning SROs into disciplinarians. That's fine. But harden soft targets, please. There is too much evil in this world. Too much accommodation of criminality, which we're going to discuss.

to leave our children security. to chance. or to things like an unlocked door. like a new Valdi. or an open door.

like in parkland. Coming up. Oh boy, where do we start? We have a lot. to get you.

The violence Of the militant transformation. activist movement. We're also going to talk about the absence now the the death of a religious society. That Wall Street Journal poll. and all the latest and we're going to talk with Stephen Hallbrook.

who's going to give us some insight. Onto a number of things, whether it's the pistol brace or the AR-15. We got a lot to discuss. And even Even more on the way. Stick with it.

Second hour coming up. You know, look, pronouns. Pronouns do not kill children. People with guns kill children, and it's going to be a distraction in our coverage and keep us from what we now know, which is each of these cases has a similarity more than any difference. Wow.

That is CNN's Juliet. Kayem? Kayim? Saying that, it's not the pronouns. They're again, it's like running defense for this murder.

And this is some of the stuff that I want to get into. There's so many different aspects of this story. And then, of course, we also have. The TikTok bill, you need a warning about this bill. There's a lot to get into today.

Welcome to the program. Welcome back. Top of our second hour, Dana Lash here with you this Tuesday. The Argument: pronouns don't kill children, people with guns kill children. There's going to be a huge fight on the right, and the right needs to figure out what's going on with itself.

uh over the whole issue of transgenderism. It has to happen. Because you have some segments Of The Uh right. That I get the idea of a big tent. But then you this is where you get in from ideology to party.

The it it's it's a it's about strategy.

However, I think that this is a little different because if you're talking about transgenderism as gender dysphoria, that is a mental illness, not all mental illness. induces violence. And I think it's important to acknowledge that as well. Because if you don't, then what happens when you have people who have mental illness where the only person they want to be violent against is themselves and not to anyone else? I mean, I think it prevents people from going and seeking treatment.

I think it stereotypes veterans who have PTSD and they're returning from combat. I think there's a we so I do think that it has to be spoken of in an in an educated manner because there's a lot of differences. But there is mental illness that absolutely does induce people to violence, and I think anyone that's going to go and shoot up a s uh a school of kids is evil, willfully evil, and chooses to indulge the worst aspects of their mental illness. I don't give them a pass. They're evil monsters.

So how do how do we do that? This is why I bring this up. Because It needs to be discussed. We're in a really weird period right now because it feels like we're entering the justification phrase, everything that I was sharing with you last hour, the media running defense for this murderer, the blue checks blaming everyone from the Christians who ran the school to the community to everybody. Every Uh all of this Is it's just kind of wild and it doesn't get to the heart of the matter, which is what is the motivation?

I mean, clearly, it sounded like from what the police said that this individual wanted to get revenge on something. They were mad at the Christians at the school. It's weird that the same media that racists to brand all law-abiding firearms as firearm owners, as mass murderers after a tragedy.

Now they want to blame the school's stated faith, they want to blame the community, they want to blame everyone and anything else but the killer. The murderer in the Colorado STEM School tragedy identified as trans. Let's go back to July of 2020. A Colorado transgender teenager who admitted to taking part in a shooting at a Denver area charter school that left one student dead, eight others wounded, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison plus an additional 38 years. The 17-year-old, 19-year-old, there was also a 19-year-old co-defendant in the shooting who pled not guilty.

And the one of them identified as being trans, born female. Identified as male. wanted to be trans. Or the Colorado Springs nightclub killer. Going to November of 2022.

The suspect at Club Q. And I think we'll all remember this because of the way the media wanted to portray it otherwise. identifies as non binary according to court filings. The suspect is non-binary and used they them pronouns, and they will and they would be addressed as MX instead of Mr. or Ms.

According to a footnote in the court filing. The Maryland Rite Egg killer. identified as trans. The transgender right aid employee, and this was in 2018, the twenty six-year-old who opened fire at the Rite Aid in Aberdeen, Maryland. uh shot three people dead, injured three others.

This individual also identified as being trans.

Now why do I bring this up? Am I saying that every single person who struggles with gender dysphoria is a mass killer?

Well, of course not. That's as stupid as saying that all law-abiding gun owners are somehow facilitators of mass murder. But let's be clear on something. There is a major problem in the trans community, particularly militant violence with their activists. I can't tell you the amount of video and everything that I saw last night of women getting punched in the head by trans activists, elderly people getting knocked to the ground by trans activists, kids getting spit on by trans activists, all kinds of actual physical violence.

and threats of violence. This is just days away from the trans day of vengeance. Coming up on April 1st, they're going to be out in front of the Supreme Court building. Their promo materials state: quote: We need more than visibility. The trans day of vengeance stopped trans genocide.

Well, I don't see trans genocide, but I do see dead school children at the hands of a trans activist. They're asking people to wear masks as well, you know. Let's take the delusion a step further even. How how well would it go on? go over if the right promoted some bizarre day of vengeance.

What if there's a Parents' Day of Vengeance, Cain? How would that go over? Parents' Day of Vengeance. We need more than visibility. How would that go over?

Like a lead balloon. I mean I'm not making things up. There's a history of violence with the militant activist community. One female and it's all over the world, not just in the United States. For instance, Kelly J.

Keene, she went on a tour of Australia and New Zealand. And one of the reasons that that's getting so much attention is because the video of so many women being assaulted. By men pretending to be women is one of the craziest things I've ever seen. We can't play any. I didn't send you guys any of the video because they're calling her a see you next Tuesday.

They are screaming all kinds of. Absolutely misogynistic invectives at her, calling her a Nazi, all kinds of stuff. It is really bad. And all she has done. Is what J.K.

Rowling does is say, that women exist. I mean, they were trying to go after J.K. Rowling's children. Because J.K. Rowling said that women should exist.

This lady, this keen lady, she had a rally in Melbourne, Australia, And there were men who Uh Like were they were dressing like women who were attacking her on camera. Trying to hit her. Punching other women on camera. physically attacking women. One of them is a very good thing.

One of the women who was attacked is described by Spiked Online as a lesbian who nursed aid victims in San Francisco at the height of the epidemic in 1990s, in the 1990s. They were trying to beat her up. I mean, this is one of the wildest things ever. Feminists, you've lost the war. The war's lost.

Let's be clear, feminists lost the war. They lost it because they didn't draw the lines early enough. They lost it because they accommodated too much of this nonsense. And now look. I mean It has to be uh uh you have to prosecute it differently now.

I mean it's it's it's wild. And you know what? None of this gets attention. Because it's justified. Oh, their gender isn't affirmed.

And if you think that that's unrealistic, then I'll point you once again as we come full circle back to the way the press handled this killer all day yesterday. All of this reminded me of the attempted massacre at Family Research Council's DC offices. We talked about this recently because the Southern Poverty Law Center. This murderer bought a gun. Got three magazines.

Stopped by Chick-fil-A to pick up fifteen sandwiches. And he wanted to smear the sandwiches into the dying faces of the staffers as they had their last breaths. He wanted to kill them and have them choked to death the rest of the way on the chicken sandwiches. because he didn't like their position on same-sex marriage. Do you think that when people use the language like, oh, I don't know, like some of the stuff in this trans day of vengeance, stop trans genocide?

That I mean Genocide is an actual word. It has actual meaning. Too dim too Call Everyone else's refusal. to also Go along with your cosplay. Genocide is an insult to actual genocide.

I I mean This is When you have this l when they when people talk like this enough. Like the don't say gay bill. The media helped that too. There was literally nothing about that that said Don't say gay or anything. It was about allowing parents to just approve what books go in their kids' taxpayer-funded library.

You know, they pay with their property taxes for that school and for the acquisition of those books. And they wanted to be able to have parental input on curriculum and books. And the media decided to call it, along with alphabet activists, don't say gay. That's why I really don't give anyone any quarter here. Including feminists, because you all helped this to happen and bring it to the point that it is now.

People just make stuff up, they're killing us. Or There It's genocide. Don't say gay. When you have this, when you say this enough, This hyperbole Somebody like This killer, like yesterday, is going to believe you.

Now Here's the other part of it, and this is why I'm really careful in how we talk about it. And I wish the media was more careful, but they're not. You know there's a copycat theory. Reason Magazine did a really good piece on this back in 2022. titled are the media making mass shootings worse.

And according to a grow growing body of research, yes, they are. They absolutely are. And there's a lot of data to support this. They feel incentivized. Killers feel incentivized by the coverage.

People are it is it's it's highlighting some of the worst pathologies of these people and elevating them to this like superstar status by the way that the media covers it. And there's all kinds of criminologists who get into this. They said that one of the studies Over University of Alabama found that winning a Super Bowl or an Academy Award garnered less media attention than committing a high-profile mass killing. Perpetrators get pictured more on front pages than the victims. And there's a strong correlation between the number of victims harmed in the attacks and the amount of media attention that perpetrators receive.

And that's true. And Columbine? You know that The murderous duo? discussed which director would direct the movie about their crime. And writings?

And that Almost every single mass casualty incident involving someone under the age of 25, which by the way, most of them are over that age, but. That they all cite Columbi?

Somewhere on social media or later in writings that investigators find as inspiration without exception. All of this is backed up by data. I mean, the 24-7 coverage allows everything to grow and evolve. That's why the media should not be naming assailants. That's why we don't I we don't unless we can absolutely can't avoid it.

But They shouldn't be posting their their photos of these people. There were hundreds of criminologists. That signed this letter demanding that media adopt new norms for covering this because they said you are contributing to contagion. And the media is completely Not self-aware.

So coming up. We have a number of things to get into. Still even. This TikTok bill is being hailed as the Patriot Act for the Internet. What you need to know.

And why it's a danger. We're going to discuss that. And there's so much more. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

So, the Disney layoffs apparently are going to begin this week, according to CEO Bob Iger, in a memo. They said they're going to inform employees this week that they're being laid off. It will be one of the first of three rounds of cuts that, in total, will amount to 7,000 job losses. Valuation plummeted last year, causing Disney to cut. their costs.

That's. Yeah. Three rounds. Over 3,000 pounds of beef recalled for possible E. coli contamination.

A Kansas meatpacking company has recalled a little over almost 3,500 pounds of boneless beef chuck due to its potential contamination with E. coli, according to USDA. The routine inspection of a sample of ground beef tested positive for the strain, after which the Harper Kansas Base Outfit issued the recall. I wonder where their meat's from. How much you want to bet that it's not USA grade beef?

Just saying. Also, a couple of other things here. Agatha Christie is under attack by the woke sensors. We're going to talk about that coming up because there's a lot more of that to get into. ESPN celebrates Leah Thomas during Women's History Month.

And not other champion female swimmers. It's pretty amazing. And also, a new study says exercise should be the first treatment for mental health problems. That's actually, I've heard that before, and there's a lot of evidence. They said lifestyle changes, but the first and foremost should be exercises.

It was conducted by a team of 13 Australian scientists and published by the British Medical Journal's Journal of Sports Medicine. Coming up, Stephen Holbrook. A very famed Two A Lawyer joins us next. Want a behind-the-scenes look at the Dana Show? Subscribe to Dana's chapter and verse newsletter for a deeper dive in all things Dana at Danalash.com.

Some of the solutions are, you know, we need to have some red flag laws. If the shooter was in a mental crisis to allow for law enforcement to step in and temporarily, you know, make sure that they were safe and couldn't do harm to themselves or someone else. We need to expand background checks. Here in Tennessee, we've got the gun show loophole where you will have people that can. I mean, it's the same stuff.

I mean, a crime is a crime. Quit calling it a loophole. If someone's a prohibited possessor, they cannot obtain a firearm in their state of residence or anywhere. Stop saying that it's a loophole. This is Democrat State Representative Bob Freeman, who is talking about everything but the root.

Of the cause of this horrific tragedy that took place yesterday in Nashville.

Now, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. You can listen coast to coast and market near you. You can listen, you can stream it. You can watch the simulcast, YouTube, Facebook, or DirecTV channel 347.

Now, as a result of this, there was a lot of movement in the house on a couple of pieces of gun control regulation. There was a lot of stuff going on with the ATF and pistol braces and all of this. And I wanted to touch on that. In fact, we had our really good friend Stephen Hallbrook. I wanted to book him last week.

He's a busy man. You know, he's an attorney who isn't on social media, doesn't live his life on social media.

So I wanted to have him last week because the pistol brace rule, as this relates to ATF regulation, we've talked a lot about these agencies creating a rule, having it treated as law, and then we go through this like weird, you know, legal purgatory period until which time a court repeals it. Yet you're still, you know, you could. Still be penalized for it. There was specific stuff that I wanted to talk with him about because he was involved, particularly in a case that there might actually be. Might make an exception for some of this.

I don't know. But I wanted to bring him on. If you're unfamiliar with him, we've had him on the program before. You should know him. If you have a firearm, Stephen Hallbrook, he's an attorney.

He specializes in constitutional cases and he knows everything that there is to know about gun law. And it's so good to see you. He's the guy, by the way, who defeated the ATF before the Supreme Court.

So, just in case you needed anything else further to introduce him with, there it is. Stephen, always such a pleasure to have you. Thank you so much for giving us some of your time today. My pleasure, Dana. Always good to see you.

Of course. And we really, I really was very excited to talk with you about all of this stuff related to pistol braces. I mean, obviously, we had everything that happened yesterday, which was horrifically tragic. There's some pause right now in D.C. on some of this stuff.

Not, though, on the clock with the pistol brace, et cetera, because I think that comes up at the end of May for people unfamiliar. The ATF are ruling it to be a National Firearms Act item, an NFA item.

So you either have to destroy it or turn it in or something like that to the ATF, which I don't think anybody is, I don't think anybody wants to do. This was after, Stephen, they had sent two letters prior to everybody, especially the guy Bosco, who invented it, saying this was a completely legal item. And then in 2015, they kind of turned around, did a 180 out of nowhere, and said it's not anymore. And so now a lot of people bought these with, you know, thinking they were doing, they were being lawful, they were purchasing a legal item. item and now they could be turned into felons if they do not turn their stuff in or destroy it.

And it is at the end of May that this deadline happens, correct? Yeah, you know um For years, ATF provided guidance to the public saying that The pistol braces were lawful.

Now, there are different choices. You can register it as an NFA firearm. You can throw the brace away and get a real shoulder stop. Uh Excuse me, and that way you have a real short barrel rifle, which this is not. Or you can take the barrel off and throw it away and put on a 16-inch barrel.

Or you can just get rid of the brace. And so there's different ways to get in compliance. But um One of the cases they cited, they did this very long. Um Publication in the Federal Register explaining Why they adopted the rule and also trying to justify it. And one of the cases they cited.

It's the case I argued in the Supreme Court, Thompson Center Arms v. United States. There's actually in my office hanging here. If you see this picture in the background over my shoulder, that's actually a drawing of me arguing the case. Wow.

This was a 1991. Case the different justices were there. Justice Rink was the Chief Justice. We had Justice White, Justice Scalia, some folks that are no longer there. Um But it had to do with the issue of short-barrel rifles, which is what the brace issue.

has to do with And so in the Thompson Center Arms ruling, uh the facts involved A pistol, the contender carving, it was called, made by Thompson Center Arms. and a a carving kit, meaning a shoulder stock. And a barrel that was 21 inches. You could take the pistol grip off and the pistol barrel off. and put on the shoulder stock and the 21 inch barrel and now you have a long barreled rifle.

So you convert it from a pistol not an NFA item to a rifle not an NFA item.

Now If you wanted to do something illegal, you could. Leave the pistol barrel. Which you're not advocating for. No, and put the shoulder stock on. Then you would have made a short barrel rifle.

But you know what? You could do even easier with it. You could murder somebody with it. That's just pulling the trigger. But we don't say somebody's murdered.

A person just because they could. Right. I mean, you know, it takes the actual act and the mental intent.

So um with this carbon kit The case goes to the Supreme Court. ATF says it's a short barrel rifle because you could make it into one, even though. You know that you're not, the average person is not going to. There's even a warning on the shoulder stock not to. to do that.

And so we argue the case. We end up with a 5-4. positive decision. The government lost. And basically, and the decision, by the way, was written by Justice Souter, who was known to be a so-called liberal.

Um The decision was: unless you actually assembled it as a short-barrel rifle, it's not one. And one of the reasons for that conclusion was what's called the rule of linity. It's an ancient rule that comes down to us from the English common law. It says that if If you have a criminal law and it's not clear that it applies to a certain conduct, then you construe the law. in favor of a potential defendant.

and the law does not apply to that person. I mean, remember the the Roman emperor who would put a law up so high that you couldn't read it, and there that way they could prosecute people? Um The communists called this crimes by analogy, where you could make something illegal and then something else was a little bit like it. You could, what the heck? Yeah, you know, show me the Uh, the man, or show me the crime, and I'll show you the man, whatever.

Um.

So the court said that's a basic principle of due process, the rule of linity. That if you if a criminal statute's ambiguous, you interpret it in favor of a person it might apply to and against the government.

So that's what we came down to. Uh there was there were three votes uh for the major the main opinion and then there was a concurrent opinion by justice scalia joined by justice thomas And so that made five votes against ATF. And the reason that applies here with the brace issue. is that ATF for decades now has said that the braces uh constitute pistols they're not short barrel rifles they're not If you look at the definition in the NFA of a rifle, it's made, designed, and intended to be fired from the shoulder. Intended.

And so If it's not intended to be fired from the shoulder, it's not a rifle and therefore not a short barrel rifle.

So with the rule of linity, you apply those terms, which You shouldn't even have to apply to the rule of linity when you look at the intent requirement in the statute itself.

So that's why that case applies directly to this issue and yet When ATF published their final rule, they cited that case as somehow supporting them. I know, which was incredibly confusing when I was reading this. I thought, wait, that's not how I interpreted it. Any of this. We're talking with our very good friend Stephen Hallbrook, who is an attorney.

He's argued Second Amendment cases in front of the Supreme Court.

So, does that, just to distill this down, does that mean, for people who don't understand the difference between a pistol brace, and I've explained it on Substack and on Air, and you know, I mean, your shoulder stock, I mean, there's a significant difference, but the brace was actually invented to help disabled veterans. And that is, you know, that's the thing in question. I mean, I don't think I'd ever use it, I'd never shoulder anything with that thing, but you know, that's a whole other story. But doesn't this case ultimately, the one that you argued, the Thompson case, ultimately establish that if somebody owns a pistol, they have a brace, as long as they have uh you know 16 inch barrel they got you know upper receiver whatever they can they can As long as it's not configured, known like that. then they don't have to have the brace destroyed.

Is that a correct interpretation of ultimately what that case, how that case bears on this?

Well, um If if the brace is not a shoulder stock. It's not a rifle. It's not intended to be shouldered. And so that's what's at issue. We don't know how ATF is going to come down on specific braces because when they first proposed the rule, They had this long calculus where if it weighed a certain amount and if it had certain sights, all of this.

I understood Monty Python's measurement of what is or isn't a which better than I understood that. That they themselves on the final rule they said well that's too confusing So why don't we adopt a rule that's even more confusing because it doesn't even give you as much specifics You know, it doesn't give you specific characteristics. They say, well, what. You know, what does it seem to be designed for and all that? There's litigation definitely that's going to happen and I think is already in place.

We don't know where this is headed, but The bottom line is that Congress is the one that makes criminal laws than an agency does. And ATF has no more business trying to expand the definition of the National Firearms Act than Than you or I do. Congress ma well look that was eighth grade civics, right? Congress makes the laws. The executive branch enforces the laws of the schoolhouse rock even.

decides the laws. This shouldn't even be something that they're doing. If they think somebody has a short barrel rifle, They can get an indictment, they take them to court, and the jury decides whether it's a short-barrel rifle. what they're trying to do here is way out of bounds. And I think There's going to be some court decisions.

You know, we have The Supreme Court is getting fed up with all the agency overreach. We had the EPA West Virginia case decided last year. The CDC, rent moratorium, all of that. I mean, it is, I tell people, this is the firearms are just a variable. This is about government agencies that are trying to create law and circumvent Congress.

Right. We had the major question doctrine where if it's something really important, I mean, Congress would have spoken to it. You don't just assume as an agency you have power. To regulate it. And then we have the Chevron doctrine that's fallen into disfavor where you defer to the government.

I mean, I've litigated over the years a number of cases involving ATF, and the first thing the government Appeals to is, I call it the divine right of deference. It's kind of like a divine right of kings. Where we're the government, so we're right. I mean, you should. The court should be able to do it.

Let the agency interpret the law, not the court interpret the law. Right. So I think there's some reining in coming for agencies generally.

So last question for you, talking with our friend Stephen Hallbrook.

So uh I mean, I'm wondering, like, what should people do? I mean, because I have people ask me, well, what do I do? I don't know what to, I don't know what the ATF is going to do. I don't know if this is going to take us into that point where, like they did with the, you know, the bump stocks, which I don't even like bump stocks, but the ATF had no business doing what they were doing. But that was a long time before Fifth Circuit overturned that.

So you have this weird, you know, this purgatory period, for the lack of a better way to describe it, where, you know, people are kind of, you know, they could be criminals or not.

Well, there's only three viable choices that are realistic. I mean, the two choices of destroy your pistol or turn it into ATF, nobody's going to do that. Like I said at the beginning, you can take the short barrel off, get rid of it, put on a 16-inch barrel. You can just get rid of the brace. Or if you want to register it as a short-barrel rifle, you can do that tax-free.

There's no $200 fee. And that would leave you the option, if you wanted to, to put a real shoulder stock on it. If you ever wanted a tax-free short-barrel rifle, here's your chance. Like that. Oh, Stephen Hallbrook, you're one of our favorites.

We so appreciate you. By the way, his latest book, I gotta ask about this real quick: The America's Rifle: The Case. For the AR-15, sir, I have to tell you, such amazing timing because, as you know, the Washington Post tried to really demonize this rifle. One of the most popular rifles, I think it's the most popular rifle for women. I can't even tell you how many I have.

I just got a brand new one I haven't even taken out yet. But the case for the AR-15, America's rifle, which I think everyone needs to get, the gun in the book, yes. But I just wanted to get your quick response to that Washington Post piece.

Well, they've tried to demonize the AR-15 for decades now. The the Handguns used to be bad, rifles were good until 1989. Suddenly, they invent the term assault weapon. And that applies to a rifle. um with certain characteristics that help you hold it more stably you know like with a pistol grip Devices on it that might make it easier to fit your body like the adjustable shoulder stock.

It's nothing but a semi-automatic rifle. It's an advanced design. It's very desirable. It's in common use by law-abiding people for lawful purposes, which is what the Supreme Court's test is. for a protected arm, the arm that's protected by the Second Amendment.

So um We've got the most ridiculous Decisions coming out. They're at it again in terms of trying to resist the Supreme Court's president. in the New York Bruin case. We just had yesterday a court from Delaware, Federal District Court upholding the new ban there. Yes.

And just making the silliest statements About well, a handgun is a lot safer to use for self-defense, but a Uh you know, r uh an assault rifle. And they don't distinguish that from other rifles. They say, oh, this 223 caliber, whoa, it's very powerful. Yeah. But it's no more powerful coming out of an AR-15 than it is.

They're ballistics illiterate. Unfortunately, we're out of time. I wish I could spend a whole day talking. I mean, you're just a wealth of information. America's Rifle, the case for the AR-15.

Stephen Hallbrook, one of the best out there to do it. Stephen, so good to see you. Thank you so much. Always a pleasure to meet with you. You take care.

Thank you. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.

Now I don't understand. I guess this fellow doesn't live in the villages because I thought you had to be old to live in the villages. I'm no mean old. You know what I mean? Like, you have to be in, like, Sick.

There it is. I never know when it's gonna ambush me. I'm like waiting.

So the headline is this: A romantic rival enters a plea in case of defecating on car of executive in the villages. I mean, could you have more prepositions in the headline? A romantic rival entered a plea in a case in which he was charged with. He defecated on the vehicle of some executive in the villages. Jeremy Powell is 30 years old and he pled not guilty in Sumter County Court.

I know. See, that's why I was asking because he's 30 years old.

So the director of accounting at the villages, he apparently. Dooted on the car. That guy walked out to his driveway and saw the passenger windshield side wiper of his vehicle was broken. There were scratches all over the doors, and someone pooped on the roof of his car.

So he looked at his surveillance footage, saw the guy doing it, and called the police. And so he recognized the guy from work. It took place in Super Bowl Sunday, and apparently it was over a girl.

So they arrested this dude, and he had a crazy high blood alcohol content level. It was nuts. All right, tomorrow I'll tell you about the guy who thought he was just going to walk onto a suit or playing with a suitcase full of drugs. Didn't didn't work out well for him, as you can imagine. Third hour on the way.

What is your responsibility to protect the other students in class with students who are? incredibly accused of violent crime. Our responsibility as a district, but more so as a school board, is to ensure that everybody has a free, fair, and public education. We're not in the practice of dismissing students because they've made mistakes. What if the mistake is shooting somebody and getting charged with attempted murder?

You know, I think that's an opportunity for us as a district to make sure that we have a robust safety plan with the student and those family and that family and those impacted. You know, but I can't say that I believe that you know the expulsion of a student is what we should be doing or the denying them a free and fair public education. Oh my gosh, what? Especially because some of these instances that we're talking about are happening outside of our jurisdiction as a school district. Like if the attempted murder happens off school grounds, then that's not DPS's call?

Yeah, I know it sounds terrible, but it's not Denver Public. That's the role of the Denver police. And so we rely on our partners with the law enforcement to help us with these issues and then being able to create safety plans. Wow. What on earth?

That's the school board director for Denver Schools. Saying that students who make mistakes shouldn't be removed from in-person learning, even if they're charged with shooting someone. Oh, what? This is like, this is what restorative justice looks like. Welcome back to the program.

Top of our third hour, Dana Lash with you. That is what restorative justice looks like.

Well, we've got we don't want them to miss in student learning.

Well, what about the kid that they shot? They're going to miss in student learning. Probably because of the weak deterrence that allowed. This kid to become You know a monster. I mean it's hypothetical But at the same time, this is what played into Parkland.

I mean, there's a reason why all of a sudden, almost literally overnight. the referrals of students and misbehavior to police dropped dramatically. And it was because Robert Runsey just stopped reporting it. That came out, by the way, in the Stoneman Douglas, their commission. And It it to me it's it's Just I mean, that's kind of stunning.

I'm just stunned by this. Man, they're making the case for homeschooling. If they I mean, that's exactly what that is. Cam, what are you thinking over there? You're like, you're anti.

I'm just confused because this is the same group that push and and continue to push for red flag laws. Yet, when they have the information that a student has shot someone else or that they've made those threats, that doesn't deter them from. Attending the school or to you know, it it makes zero sense to me. I don't understand how you can be so for red flag, but then once you know all this information, you're not going to do anything about it.

Well, we're not going to do. I mean, you know, we just don't want them to miss out on. In-person learning, Kane. You're so mean, missing out on the in-person learning. Oh my gosh.

Oh, I mean if that just assumes they're actually learning. anything at all.

So, this is a new development that's coming out. There's a lot of information that. is coming out about. uh everything that happened with Nashville. And one of those One of those things is that the individual, the killer, She was under uh care of a doctor.

The Nashville chief had said that she was under doctor's care for emotional disorder. Her parents believed that she had sold the only firearms that she owned, but unbeknownst to them, there were others. That is now coming out.

So she was apparently, she was receiving, they say it's emotional, it's mental health treatment. Stop it. Stop like rewording stuff. It's mental health treatment. She was under care for a mental health treatment.

That was what it was. And they said that Most of the pieces on this, they're like, oh, she had purchased and she had other firearms. She had hidden seven firearms, all of this. They. They hide that they said that she was that she had these firearms and was hiding them, but what about the mental health information?

Mental health issues were known. Warning signs had already appeared. I mean Who intervened? I mean, if the parents already the parents' answer was is odd, the way that it's the way that it's put. Because if the parents had they said that well, the parents, you know, thought she had sold everything unbeknownst to them.

Well, why Why would she have been selling anything? Was there been a discussion with her and her parents? These are questions that's important to ask because You have all of this language and all of this blame on all of these other innocent people and incitement from media outlets towards other innocent people. But if there were all of these warning signs and the family saw them, yes, yes, yes, I understand people are like, well, it's really hard to react, you know, you know, in hindsight. And it's, you know, there's, you know, you have to think of, you know, it can be a lot more difficult.

No, I don't accept that as an excuse. I really don't. I don't accept it. I mean this idea that You know, her uh the parents, they knew that she had some. I still, this is still predictable.

My point still stands in that. This was someone who was seeking mental health treatment and warning signs were there. She was under doctor's care, so it was serious enough that she was under regular care. And so that's That's actually a that's a pattern with these suspects. That can't be ignored.

You know the other pattern is that she apparently, according to police, Had scoped out a number of different places. For her Um to for her for her to carry this out. She looked at apparently a number of places And Chose to not engage in certain places that they had armed security. I put that in your email newsletter. You have that.

I mean all of this stuff is going to come out.

So, what is to do with this situation with the this like The violent Transactivism. I mean there's They have like the Day of Rage that's coming up April first. Huh? Oh, the v day of vengeance. Day of rage, same difference.

Kind of. It pretty much is. I mean, it sounds like uh like a horror film. I'm you know, I'm curious. Yeah.

I wanted to get into a couple of other things too that I think is important. First and foremost, apparently, while Matt Taibbi was testifying to the before the House on uh March 9th, I think this was. The Wall Street Journal has the story The FBI showed up at his house. They actually showed up to his house. They were at his personal home the day that he was testifying before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Federal Government.

The IRS left him a note saying that he needed to call the IRS.

So he was told in a call that his tax returns had been rejected owing to concerns over identity theft. 2018 and 2021. He provided the House Oversight Committee documentation showing his returns had actually been electronically accepted. He says the IRS never notified him or his accountants of a problem. after he filed out more than four and a half years ago.

And They said that When I mean this is weird. They said apparently there was a problem with this 2021 tax return. It was rejected and then rejected again. And He's said that it's because the IRS apparently owes him, not the other way around. And The thing is, when did they send w When did the IRS start sending people For something that they could have, like, wouldn't is that something they'd send you a letter for?

I mean, if they're challenging a tax return, don't they send a letter? Yeah. I mean, and and wouldn't they notify his accountants? Because he actually uses an accounting firm. Wouldn't they notify the accountant?

Yeah. And then if they Wanted to schedule the audit, and I know this because of everything everywhere all at once. They they schedule it at the agent's office, right? You don't Just show up, no, knock, knock, knock, hi. your friendly neighborhood IRS.

I I it um It's just weird.

So Jim Jordan sent a letter to the IRS Commissioner and the Secretary of Treasury asking for explanation. Taibbi tweeted that he didn't want to talk about it, at least not until he sees how they respond to Jordan's letter. But that's weird. And this isn't, it's not unusual. It's I mean, it is not at all unusual.

Think of what they did to the Tea Partiers and all of this. I mean, this is like kind of par for the course for the IRS. It is so weird, though, that. just happened to be on the ninth when he was Were they there while he was actually testifying? That's the one thing that Wallstreet Journal doesn't say.

I'm just curious, were they actually right there?

Now Speaking of tech, etc. I wanted to share This A lot of people are raising some red flags about this. A lot. This Potters. This TikTok bill.

So we've been having the hearing on TikTok in DC. And there is now a bill Excuse me for pulling this up. Uh that's uh It was introduced by Senator Mark Warner from Virginia. And it is bad. It isn't a bill that actually is just about banning TikTok.

And I haven't read through everything, but I've seen enough. to where it's like, wow, it does there's more? I'm kind of shocked. I mean, I think if you're if you're If you're drafting a bill, whether you agree with it or not, if you're drafting a bill to ban TikTok, would it just be, okay, well, you're banning TikTok? It's pretty simple and straightforward, right?

I mean, right? How would it read? Like, oh, here, two full width. TikTok is shall be banned. Blah blah blah.

You know, wouldn't it it would be something along those lines, right?

Well, apparently it's being called the PATRIOT ACT For the internet.

So It is And Greg Price does have some screenshots. There's a number of sources. I'm looking, I'm actually kind of going through it right now, and I'll send this out to you in your prep. Email. Addressing information and communication technology, products, and services that pose undue or acceptable risk.

They get into imposing, enforcing any mitigation measure to address any risk arising from any cover transaction by any person or with respect to any property subject to the jurisdiction of the United States that the Secretary determines, blah, blah, blah. They get into desktop applications, gaming, mobile, payment, web-based applications, AI, machine learning, satellite payloads, wireless area network, software, hardware, cable access, wireline access, core networking, all kinds of stuff. Oh, it just goes on and on and on. If you're in violation, you can go to jail for 20 years, you can be fined a million, have your property seized, and they can determine that a foreign government is an adversary without even telling Congress that they think that the foreign government is an adversary and they are not. Uh they are protected from uh FOIA.

Freedom of Information Act requests. What does that have to do with any TikTok? Hi. This is some Uniparty BS, is what it is. This is because remember, Patriot Act was used against parents who spoke out at school board hearings, school board meetings.

The Department of Justice actually used what was given to them, the power allocated to them through the Patriot Act, to go after and target parents. Can you imagine this in their hands? Can you imagine? Who boy? This sounds like, oh, we see a need for something.

We are going to... Immediately Get involved in this. and exploit it and try to get more Power. Hmm. Wow.

This is rough.

So for all the people sponsoring it, Chuck Grahessley is a co-sponsor. Shelly Moore Capito. Oh man, there's a lot of Republicans on here. Oh. Lindsey Graham.

Tom, tell us. Yeah, Chuck Rassley. And I like Chuck Rassley. Uh John Thune. Mm, let's see who Joe Manchin.

Uh Jerry Moran, Kansas. Uh Dan Sullivan, Arkansas. Susan Collins, Maine. A lot of Republicans on here.

So that seems to be kind of uh problematic, you think? Little problematic here. I um This is one of the reasons why I was so critical of the Patriot Act because I thought this goes above and beyond. stated purpose. And this is the same thing.

You're not going to be able to ever, you can't trade your liberty for security because you'll get neither. I mean, this is troubling. And, like I said, I will, I'm going to put this information. Up on Substack as well.

So make sure you go to chapter and verse and subscribe. Links are available all over on my social media profile. But Yeah, this is bad. This is uh The banned TikTok, and there's a reason why you got Democrats and Republicans that are totally like all in on support. There's a lot of stuff in here everybody likes, including, I mean, it's basically a giant, it's like government surveillance.

This is even I mean this takes what TikTok is and makes it worse. Of all your favorite talk hosts, one of these is not like the others. The Dana Show. Today, we renew our call. for common sense gun safety legislation, including a ban on assault weapons.

This is An epidemic. Golly, I would not have played that amazing Zeppelin song for her. Randy Weingarten, America Federation for Teachers. The epidemic is what is happening to kids who are being pumped full of hormones and being experimented on with medically unnecessary surgery because of what people like Randy Weingarten are protecting in classrooms, the brainwashing and the sexual sepicu essentially of children. That in addition to the CRT, DEI, all of that other stuff, and keeping classrooms locked down, etc.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. More developments are coming from this Nashville story. Apparently, the killer was angry at her parents. uh for their Christian faith and ab I mean, it does sound like that that um Uh they absolutely Absolutely were.

Uh, she was targeting. She was targeting the school. And when she went through the church first, That sounded like You know, that I mean, she was targeting the church, she was targeting the, I mean, there was definitely, it was ab I mean, it was because they were Christian. I mean, there was no other way to, no other way to put it. But Apparently, as we told you, she was under the killer was under doctor's care for mental health issues.

There's always a there's always something. There's always, always, always. Warning signs There's not a single exception.

So, what were people doing? How severe was it? And what were people doing? In response. Hmm.

I want to make sure I get to some of this. I mean, there's a lot. I mean, this is going to be discussed for quite a little bit because Congress is now pushing it. They're uh I mean, I have tons of different cuts from lawmakers, etcetera, here. I wanted to play this.

This is Audio Sun by Three. This is MSNBC Nicole Wallace. This is another example of the press doing everything but blame the individual involved. Listen. Yeah.

And Frank, it's not just that we don't do anything. There are at least three Republican members of Congress who celebrate these weapons Mary's talking about, who wear AR-15 style pins on their lapels. We have something more than inaction. It's not a gridlock problem. It's an enthusiasm for the gun culture on the right.

Oh, geez, for the gun culture on the right. And then you should have heard what this guy had said. He said Republicans are fighting for murders. This like a Democrat operative. It's worse than doing nothing.

It's worse than being neutral on the issue. They actually fight to see these things happen. That's the bottom line. Look, you know, states have tried individually. Do the right thing, but until we have a national law that impacts the ability to access assault-style weapons.

What about a national law for murdering? We're not going to get our hands around one. What is assault-style weapon? These people are moronic. One of the things that Hallbrook had said is that, you know, this is what the Supreme Court uses as a determination, commonly owned.

In fact, it's something that Scalia touched on in his Heller decision. I've written about this quite a bit.

Some of the people at Slate really just butchered this a few years ago, but he was citing commonly owned firearms, commonly owned weapons. And one of the things that he had mentioned as an aside was the colonies rules on affrighting, which is old-timey brandishing back in the day, but with something that was uncommon.

So he's like, if someone's walking around maliciously with a headache, in a threatening manner, he said, the affrighting rule, that was a law that different colonies had on that. He said one of the reasons that it was elevated to such is because it was a headache. It was an uncommonly owned item at the time. He's like, and that's always been the litmus test for the Supreme Court, is the common ownership of said firearm. And so everything that he's saying right there is not only completely uneducated and ignorant and embarrassing, and I cringe for him, but it's just completely out of step with actual established law that we've had for, you know.

How many centuries? Like a couple centuries now. It's it's completely out from established law, the end. No, how about we just ban murder? Or how about we talk about What really is kind of at the core of all of this?

I mean, you had someone who was mentally disturbed to the point where they felt that they had the will to go and murder school children. actually go into an elementary school. Let's talk about that. Let's talk about what led up to that. This individual didn't feel affirmed enough.

So they went and shot kids. I mean, the media is like acting as though it's somehow justified. You remember when I said. that they love crying mothers and they lost their minds at me. Because it was true.

Because I was right. Because I still am right. It gets them ratings. They're never interested in solving anything. They're not interested in any solution.

If they were, why didn't Nicole Wallace push back on this clown? Even if I agreed with someone, I would have stepped up and said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. That's that's way over the line. You can't make your point without saying something stupid like that. What do you think about Hillary Clinton?

Which I'll tweet this out. Hillary Clinton's trying to get out there. She goes, We had an assault weapons ban and it prohibited the manufacturer of sale of certain use of semi-automatic weapons. It actually didn't really do that. It actually only targeted the cosmetic attachment.

She doesn't even know what her own damn bill did. She embarrasses Hillary Clinton, should embarrass all women that have more than one brain cell. She doesn't even know what her law did. It banned cosmetic attachments that had nothing to do with the rate of fire. It didn't change the function or performance of the firearm at all whatsoever.

She doesn't even know what her bill did. And then she falsely claims that mass shootings dropped during that decade. No, they didn't. They absolutely did not. The Department of Justice, I've told you, how many surveys?

You go, I put it out in the newsletter. Everybody's got receipts. Everybody has receipts. The Department of Justice study, they found that there was no evidence that any ban had any impact on gun homicide rates at all, whatsoever. A journal of a general internal medicine study concluded that the assault weapons ban had no impact on gun homicide rates whatsoever.

Rand Corporation, left-leaning, concluded with updates earlier this year that an assault weapons ban had no impact on reducing gun homicide rates at all, whatsoever. The New York Times, a thorough deep dive, concluded that assault weapons ban would have no impact on reducing gun homicide rates at all, whatsoever. PolitiFact study and fact check. Yes, it is true. An assault weapons ban would have absolutely no impact on reducing gun homicide rates at all, whatsoever.

The CDC even intimated as such when they had to hide their report showing that defensive gun usage greatly outweighed usage by criminals in illegal possession. Twice they had to hide it. And they had to choke back. that aspect of it. in two subsequent studies.

So, again. Are we going to be serious about this or not? Are we going to discuss actual real solutions? or not. I get the impression that people don't want solutions.

They want chaos. And then they act as though they have compassion. while doing absolutely nothing at all whatsoever to facilitate discussion. And these people, like these fools that we were just playing, they're not serious. None of those people are serious.

They keep going back to the same things that didn't work. There was a woman, I'm not going to play this audio, she took over a live stream. After they they ha she's not even a member of the community. Newsbusters called her out because she apparently When on this live stream, she was from Illinois, Highland Park, Illinois.

somewhere where uh it and she decided that She was going to take over that press conference and apparently speak for the people in that community and and Good heavens, she was identified as a mother in the community. By all the press. Yeah, Newsbusters has I was looking for my for I retweeted uh them on there. She was Yeah. That that to me is a little That's above, just beyond the line.

She was quote unquote on vacation, but she gave all of these conflicting Stories? She said she was on vacation, and then she said that she was there to meet a friend, and then some were wondering if she was, you know, 'cause she's like apparently an anti-gun activist. And Uh, she couldn't even couldn't get her story straight. And they were saying, oh, it's a mother in Nashville.

Well, she was from Highland Park, Illinois. and she apparently left where her family was and then went over there to the news cameras. And they were saying, Oh, she's speaking on behalf of parents. But and they called her a mother in Nashville. CNN.

called her that ever. I mean, but she wasn't But was she lobbying? Because she kept, again, changing her story. She said she was visiting her sister-in-law. Then she said she met someone online through similar interests, and she was there.

Then she said she was on vacation with her family. I mean It seemed incredibly insincere, and that makes people question the legitimacy of it. Um I have a couple of other things I want to get to while we have some time. And let's do that because I got some wokery for you. Because wokery is just.

So did you see the story New York Post had it? A man was left sobbing in a JFK airport because a TSA agent hit his testicles. It's a man who identifies as a woman. The unidentified flyer. took to social media to vent about the incident.

in which he said the agent humiliated him in front of everyone. They deleted all their posts. They said hi, so a TSA agent at JFK punched me in the genitals. They deleted their posts, apparently, when the airport started asking questions. Yelled at me for having a penis and humiliated me in front of everyone after I said please stop.

And he posted a photo of himself crying in the airport bathroom because that's what one does, immediately capture the grief, and then, you know. And they said that the agent followed them in the bathroom. Really? I don't believe you. I don't believe you.

Even, you know, because first off, Uh, no, it's JFK airport. JFK doesn't care. They want you in and out. They hate you. Get in and out.

They said that, excuse me, they said that the agent followed them into the women's bathroom.

So the man was in the women's bathroom. You know what? If you're a man in the women's bathroom, I'm going to talk mad crap about you, too. Yeah. You're preying on me and making me feel uncomfortable in my space.

And you're demanding more accommodation than me. which is sexist and patriarchal progressively.

Okay.

So they've said all this stuff. They kept posting all these pictures of themselves in the bathroom crying and doing all this stuff. And I mean, it was just ridiculous. Yeah, he he was nursing his testicles in the women's restroom. Take some real balls to do this.

So uh they said th and then so they ended up deleting their tweets. I just don't believe this. The airport's like, well, we apologize for your experience. I know. What about making sure that your employees feel like they can be safe in the bathroom?

I just don't believe any of this. I don't believe it. Like they the Florida Panthers They were going at these two brothers because they didn't want to wear the alphabet warm-up jerseys during Pride Night because of religious beliefs. Why do why do you are you demanding That hockey players wear jerseys that affirm. the type of genitals that you like.

What does that have to do with them? It's a compromise. You're infringing on them. Why are you bossing people around, telling them what to wear? I mean, Golly, I wish If I could drive this train to where I wanted it to go, man, oh man.

But The idea that you have to have it affirmed. You don't affirm me unless you wear this, the colors of how I like to have sex in your jersey. And they were like very cool about it. They're like no judgment, no judgment on how anyone lives their lives, etc., etc. I mean, they couldn't be nicer, but they're like, we're just not gonna do this because, you know, we have faith too.

That's the one thing with militant activists. They act like no one else has, there's no freedom for dissent. And there's no freedom of association either. You're owned outright. Where the rage mob cometh.

We have a Today in stupidity on the way. Man, I tell ya, the day of rage is on April 1st. Or vengeance, whatever, same thing. Listen to the Dana Show Live on the Odyssey app. Weekdays noon to 3 p.m.

Eastern Time. Don't know any history of mental illness at this time, but we are looking at that as the investigation is ongoing. And I'm sorry. She identifies as a transgender man or woman. Woman.

Hmm. Remember how Did did you hear how the press asked that question? 'Cause that was the police chief. And there was a lot of like they We're kind of trying to go at him a little bit. To say that he made it confusing or something or that.

Oh, no. Did you hear the reporter ask it? Did did she identify as a transgender man or woman?

Well transgender man means you're a chick who identifies as a man. Transgender local. You know what? These are people who deal with facts, not whatever made-up language you want to use for your damn cosplay. He was like, Well, she identified as a woman.

So everyone's like, Oh, well, it was a man identified as a woman. And that's why there was so much confusion because of the stupid wokery. Can you imagine, like, you know? You're sitting here, sure, one nine. We got a bolo on a they, them.

Can you imagine? Burp burp We got reports of a they them here. who is jay walking across uh I nine five uh to they then perp over. Can you imagine? How can you tell us that they them?

Furb I'm sorry. The hell'd you say? Yeah. How can you tell if it's a they them? Purple, it's a it's a they them.

Over. How do you know? Verp, can you describe the suspect, please? Yeah, it's a to a person Over. Perfect.

Those are the details we're looking for. Do you see how this makes it so much more difficult? For reality. It's rid I mean come on. You know?

Uh yeah, one ninety it So Franken Beans involved. Frank and Beans over. Boop! It's the reality of our situation. Today and stupidity came.

Good lord.

Alright, we've got the harpies from the view. Listen to what these girls were talking about on the show today. They don't want patriotism to be hijacked. Listen. Sarah and I, we've had this discussion about the flag and that.

Oh, that's another thing. But I put my flag out because I don't want Republicans to think that they own the flag, okay? Yeah, I'm a liberal Democrat. That flag goes out applauding on my flag. And that's the issue.

It's something that makes them think that the notion of patriotism and the notion of America and the American colours. Do you believe that he said that? Green isn't a great color. I mean, that's my color. I love the color green.

I just can't believe he said that. I don't want you thinking that you own green. Good heavens. All I hear is bop bop bop. Yeah.

Alright, so tonight actually I think I'm going to be on Jesse Waters. It was a crazy day yesterday. Our prayers are still with Mississippi and Nashville. Folks, sign up for the newsletter. God bless.