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This has been debunked many different times. If this was true, why is it that violent crime in Gary, Indiana, which is poorer than many neighborhoods in Chicago, which is lower cap. Lower, lower income per capita than many neighborhoods in Chicago, have far less rates of violent crime despite having more gun ownership per capita than Chicago? So what Senator Dick Durbin is trying to make, the argument is that in Chicago, despite the strictest gun laws in the entire country, it is basically illegal to own a firearm in the city of Chicago. There are zero gun stores in Chicago proper. That's right, zero. They don't even have firearm repair shops. You have to go out into the suburbs of Cook county and anywhere in Cook county, the second largest county in the country, it is next to impossible to own a firearm. I know it. I grew up there. And hello to all of you listening on AM560. The answer. But in order for Senator Dick Durbin's argument to be correct, in order for that to actually have some sort of empirical backing, wouldn't the crime rates of Indiana also be out of control? If it's true that all of a sudden these gun shows were leading to widespread regional crime and violence, why is it that Indiana has stable crimes of. Stable rates of violent crime, of gang violence now? They still have plenty of problems in Indianapolis. It's nowhere nearly as bad as Chicago. And the answer is very simple. It's because in Indiana, you can legally own those firearms. A armed citizenry is a safe country. You take the tale of two cities, Chicago and Houston. Houston, on average will have about 180 gun deaths per year. We'll get the most recent numbers, but I just read off the Chicago crime statistics. Why is it that Chicago has 573 people shot and killed just here in 2020? Just in October, 23 people shot and killed. 138 people shot and wounded. 161 people total shot with 24 total total homicides. Reason number one, there has not been a Republican mayor of Chicago since 1931. It's one party rule. There is one cartel that runs the city of Chicago and that party has intentionally made sure that the population of Chicago is illiterate, that police are not welcome in certain neighborhoods, that black fathers are not in the home, and they took away anyone that wanted to defend themselves. Capacity to legally own a firearm. So if you take away the freedom to legally own a firearm. Who's still going to own a firearm? That's right, the bad guys. However, a bad guy is far less likely to engage in widespread public and blatant criminal activity if the citizenry is armed. You see this in states all across the country that are open carry. States such as Texas, Houston and Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada. Yes, they still have plenty of issues at times with gang violence. However, it is not as widespread in Chicago. It is killing fields in Chicago that Senator Dick Durbin oversees. He's acting as if this is just a stated fact. They come here with these gun show loopholes. And first of all, the gun show loophole has been completely debunked. It's been debunked multiple times. That according to federal law, it does take a processing background check of some sort that if you are a felon, if you have some form of a violent record, it should register in a national gun database. Should. And it's up to the firearm dealer to go through that. What Senator Durbin is really getting at though is that he wants the entire region of the Midwest to embrace the failed gun control policies of Chicago that result in hundreds of black people getting murdered every single year. I know this is a complex argument for the anti freedom, pro control Democrats, but actually when you allow people to protect themselves, violent crime goes down. When you allow police to go into neighborhoods and to do their job, then all of a sudden violent crime goes down. And here's a question I have for Senator Dick Durbin. Senator Dick Durbin is marching alongside BLM Incorporated. Senator Durbin alongside Lori Lightfoot and Senator Tammy Duckworth from Illinois were very quick to say that we should challenge police officers. I don't know if they went as far to say that they should defund the police, but I'm sure that they were, they were cozying up to those that wanted to defund the police and that they were allowing that to go unchallenged. In the city of Chicago, they allowed BLM Incorporated to riot, to loot, to steal from 600 black owned businesses. Here's my question for Senator Dick Durbin. And the Democrats cannot answer this question. So they want, they don't want law abiding citizens to be able to own firearms. He's making that very clear. And they also don't want the police to have firearms. Who on earth do you think should have firearms? Dick Durbin? Who's gonna go take all these guns away from the bad guys if they're there? If there's no police and at this moment you kind of see the Democrats all of a sudden contradict themselves. It's, we actually want to regulate the amount of firearms in society, but we also want to get rid of the police. I'll tell you who's gonna fill that void. When there is a power vacuum, hierarchies will still exist and really bad people will fill those vacuums. Mostly gang leaders, cartel leaders, and people that do not have society's best interests at heart. And so you also go down to the root causes of crime. In Chicago, it was the destruction of black owned businesses. In South Chicago, it was the deindustrialization movement, because Senator Dick Durbin and many other people alongside him were very happy to cozy up the Chinese Communist Party, where good, strong manufacturing jobs that employed millions of black people across the country were shipped overseas to Wuhan. And instead, black people, I mean anyone who worked in the manufacturing sector were given a little bit of severance and they were given government benefits in exchange. Senator Dick Durbin is acting as if Amy Coney Barrett should know this because she lives in Indiana. Indiana is abundantly more safe and peaceful. Infinitely. Not infinitely, but it is distinctly more safe than the city of Chicago. It's because they allow legal ownership of firearms. And also in Indiana, they've had much better governors and much better politics than Illinois. Illinois is $205 billion in structural debt. Illinois is now entertaining another tax hike. JB Pritzker, the spoiled brat that runs the state of Illinois. He was born on 30, thought he hit a triple. He's never done anything meaningful in his life. He inherited the Pritzker family fortune and now is destroying Illinois as his new hobby. Spent $111 million to become governor of Illinois so he could run it into the ground. His net worth has gone up. He's doing quite well because of the lockdowns. His crowning achievement now is legalizing marijuana in the state of Illinois and allowing Chicago to become a scene of black on black crime, the likes of which our country has never seen before. And so Senator Dick Durbin opens up a topic that I don't think Democrats actually are prepared to interface on, which is urban violence. Democrats run all the cities in our country, absent one or two that have a very rare Republican mayor. Democrats control these inner cities and the Democrats in power continue to get rich while their citizens, while the people they oversee struggle. There's a great quote by Sun Tzu. It says an evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground just to rule over the ashes. That is Senator Dick Durbin. He doesn't care what happens in Chicago. He wants the country to be completely disintegrated as long as he's in control. Same with Nancy Pelosi. Same as Senator Kamala Harris. All they want is power. They don't care if everything that was created before them that had meaning, that had value, that gave people dignity. They couldn't care less if the country around them disintegrates or vanishes. In fact, Senator Dick Durbin has done absolutely nothing to address black on black crime in the city of Chicago. And he's acting as if Amy Coney Barrett should just know, as a matter of fact, that the gun shows are contributing to this. It's not true. It has been widely debunked, repeatedly. In fact, I've written multiple essays on this. And the issue of guns hasn't exactly been on the forefront of the American zeitgeist in the last seven months. But I will tell you that American, that there have been over 1,900,000 new gun sales just since the Chinese coronavirus lockdown in our country. That's actually a very good sign for Donald Trump, by the way. Very good sign. I can't imagine that a lot of those people are going to go out of their way to go vote for Senator Kamala Harris. The Democrats are very afraid that there will be a revolt on their hands of black Americans, Hispanics and middle class Americans that actually might start to challenge the Democrat power complex. If you want to keep a citizenry down, if you want to keep a population controlled, keep them illiterate. If you look at where the Democrats have the most amount of power, it is the most illiterate, unsafe and fatherless populations in the country. There has not been a Republican mayor of Atlanta since the 1800s. And so if you dive even deeper into what is driving these cities and why this is happening, it is because the Democrat powermasters are unafraid to demagogue based on race. But they do nothing to actually solve the structural problems in the inner cities of our country. Nothing. In fact, they actually make it worse. Lori Lightfoot panders to the worst aspects of society. You see clearly how Democrat policies have ruined once great American cities and Chicago's just one of them. You now look at New York, you look at San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles. These cities are crumbling underneath us. Democrats are trying their best to attack Amy Coney Barrett. She's doing it with no notes. In fact, they asked her to hold up what she's been referencing throughout the hearing and she holds up a blank piece of paper. Joe Biden needs a teleprompter to introduce his wife. By the way, I guess Joe Biden is running for the Senate. I don't know if you guys heard about this. Let's play tape cut number five. As our team pulls it up, Joe Biden announces that he is running for the United States Senate. Play tape.