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David Rutherford Show: 85% Spike in Terror — A SEAL's Warning on How to Prepare
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David Rutherford
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David Rutherford
Hey, it's Howie Mandel and I am inviting you to witness history as me and my How We Do It Gaming team take on Gilly the King and Wallow. Two six seven million dollars gaming in an epic Global Gaming League video game showdown. Plus a halftime performance by multi platinum artist Travy McCoy. Watch all the action and see who wins in advances to the championship match right now@globalgamingleague.com that's globalgamingleague.com in partnership with Level Up Expo. Traditional crime rates are at an historic low. However, political and extremist violence is popping off today on the David Rutherford Show. I examine what I believe to be a new threat paradigm. What that means is there's a shift in consciousness so how you should be looking at your vulnerabilities and how to attack those in a more positive way based on everything that's going on around the world. Oh yeah. Welcome back Everybody, in the last few weeks we have seen absolutely two crazy things taking place at once. First off record, crime is at an all time low. That's violent crime, that's homicides. And I'll get into those statistics in a minute. But on the flip side of that, what we've also seen is these crazy incidents that have been taking place pretty regularly in the last several months and including, you can integrate last year as well too, right? We saw the, the guy from Senegal open fire at a bar in Austin killing two. We saw a convicted ISIS supporter shot up a university classroom at Old Dominion until ROTC students attacked the guy and one stabbed him to death and killed him. We need to give that dude a bronze star with valor. We saw a man drive a truck packed with improvised explosives, a ton of fireworks and stuff drive into a synagogue in Michigan while there were 140 kids inside. Now luckily the appropriate response happened and local guards took care of the threat immediately. We saw two men from Pennsylvania, like a middle class Pennsylvania neighborhood, they were of Afghan descendants, brought homemade bombs to a protest in New York City and tried to detonate these in the crowd. And that's 12 days, essentially four attacks. And the government also has been telling you that radicals and Islamists and cartels and all this have become a heightened threat across the domestic landscape. Now what I'm going to try and do is help you decipher this on a geopolitical level, a global level, a domestic level, and then finally what I think you might be able to do as a result of these emerging threats. All right, now you got to understand for the better part of 15 years of my life, my job within special operations in the SEAL teams, working for Blackwater and then working at the Central Intelligence Agency, my, my job was essentially to understand intelligence, to understand areas of operation, to understand the cultural aspects of those we were fighting against, to understand the ideological impact of those we were fighting and why, and then also to understand how those threats would immediately affect the operations that I was engaged in at the different, in the different places I was operating in. So I have a little bit of background in this. I also have been paying close attention over the last five years or so to domestic issues fate that have to deal with crime, violence and radical ideologies that seem to be engaging in more political violence or, or, or more international crime syndicates and the violence in the types of crime organ and what they're doing domestically as well too. Now I began to recognize obviously I started pre 911 while I was in the teams post 911 is where things really started to kind of shift, I think, and including over the last decade or so, really around 2020, I believe, after the George Floyd protests, right, you had basically this emergent, illogical reality take place that, that cops are bad, that cops are the reason for people being unnecessarily killed or convicted or violently attacked. We saw people on the street during the BLM protests and the George Floyd protests, and they would ask how many, you know, unarmed black men were killed by police officers, law enforcement last year. And people would say stuff like 5,000, 10,000, when the truth number was, you know, between, you know, in the low 20s and that's it. And this is with several million police contacts every year in multifaceted ways. In fact, we way more people are dying from self inflicted gunshot wounds. I mean, you know, exponentially greater than unarmed people against police officers. There were more white, unarmed white people that were killed by white cops than there were black people. So we can see how when information is manipulated in some capacity, we can be driven into a state of, of I don't know where we believe the propaganda. We saw that post 911 as well too, right. We saw attacks taking place in London, attacks taking place around the world, and that, that shot into this really dramatic Islamophobia that believe that every single person that was of Muslim descent was out there to blow us up or try and kill us. And we saw that with the post George Floyd riots as well too. Now where I really started to notice a dramatic shift, right, because there was definitely a fall off, you know, 2017, 18, once the civil war and Syria kind of quieted down and then it kind of petered out. Well, you know, during that time, really starting in 2020, we had this massive wave of immigration come into the United States in, into also Europe as well too. And these people were from where pretty much all the areas that we had been engaging in either covert operations around the world or overt operations, SOCOM operations, special operations, you know, in all these different war torn countries, we had this massive refugee crisis. We had a lot of support from international aid organizations that were flowing in. And then we saw domestically within the Americas, we saw a ton of criminal organizations flood into America as well too. Somewhere. Some estimates it's, you know, 10 million high estimates it's 30 million people came in from 2020 to 2024 or 25 when Trump essentially shut down the border. Now here's some of the interesting statistics about regular crime that I think you need to know, right? As I said before, it's at an all time low. Now you know, we're going to know definitively how impactful when the FBI releases its crime data at the end of the year. But what we have seen so far is that the homicide rate has dropped to 4 people per 100,000. And this is the lowest ever recorded in law enforcement history. And this, this is public health data dating back to 1900. Right. It's the single biggest drop in a homicide rate in the American history. Right. In 40 major US cities studied by the Council on Criminal justice, homicides dropped 21% from 24 to 25 and 922 people, fewer people were killed over that time span. Robberies were down 23%, carjacking's down 43%. Gun assaults down 22%. Right. New York City record the fewest shooting victims and shooting in incidents in its history in 2025. Now what do you think? Is, is it an anomaly? Is, is it bizarre? Is this some kind of bizarre parad? Well, major city, the Chiefs association representing 67 law enforcement agencies confirmed homicides were down collectively cross Nation by 19%. In fact, Adam Gelb, who is the president of the Council of Criminal justice said it's not just a drop, it's a historic collapse in the homicide rate. Now why is that taking place? Well, some people believe, well, Trump gets in office, there's a resurgence in support for law enforcement, more dollars, more benefits, greater support from Homeland Security from, as well as FBI support, local agencies kind of having their, their own, that, that self government governance taking off, saying, well, if I go after a criminal, I'm not going to be indicted for a wrongful death, a wrongful shoot, you know, a civil trial, that's go bury me financially. And so people are out there doing their jobs. You can also attribute this to the border getting shut down. Right. You know, the real awareness in that I think is the, the massive drop in fentanyl overdoses that took place last year from the board, you know, because we went year after year for about four years, three or four years straight that 100,000 people in America were dying from fentanyl overdoses. Now that directly correlates to what cartel organizations and their ability to bring fentanyl into the country as well as human trafficking, that type of thing. So, you know, you shut that down. Of course, all this stuff drops as well as there was a massive threat. We saw it on the streets in Minnesota, we saw it in Los Angeles where ICE was going out and arresting violent criminals. And the, the FBI has some pretty amazing Data on just how many people. Jordi, would you bring that up for me? Bring up Cash Patel's recent statements about how many violent criminals, weapons have been taken off the streets in the last year, if you could. All right, now, now here's the flip side of that, which is kind of this other threat that's emerging, the paradigm shift and where violence is coming from. So here's some statistics. In the first six months of 2025, 5, there were 520 plus incidents of terrorism and targeted violence in the United States. A 40% increase over that same period in 2025, 96 deaths, 329 injuries, incidents recorded in 48 out of 50 states. All right, now there's a separate data sheet that's tracking terrorism specifically. And here, here you go. So there were 154 terror plots and attacks in the first six months. Right. That's an 85% increase in terrorism incidents with a 343% increase in deaths and a 789% increase in injuries from those attacked. Right. Hell, we, we've seen the US Capitol Police investigate over 14,000 threats against lawmakers in 2025, up from 9,000 in 24. There's been threats and active assassination attempts against federal judges. Those are up. Threats against local law enforce local officials. A documented spike of a 9% increase in the first half. So why is this shift taking place from traditional crime to, to more a radicalized ideological type of violence? Now, my personal beliefs and opinions, and that's why you follow me on this show. And again, there's a lot of other people out there that'll give you different ideas. But I believe it's, it's really responsible for essentially two main things. First and foremost, it's the massive wave of immigration and that's unvetted personnel from countries, states, organizations that we have let into the country that were unvetted. The other side of that is our new geopolitical strategy that has emerged beginning last summer with the strikes against Iran. And I go back to those, those first acts we've seen in the last few weeks of lone ideological nut bags trying to kill people. Whether it's targeting Jews, whether it's targeting Christians, whether it's targeting random people. There seems to be this massive uptake.
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David Rutherford
All right. Now obviously, when I take evaluate this stuff, what am I looking for? I'm looking for the experts, so to speak, the people that have a pulse on real time data, or I should say real time information. That's, that's, that's collected information from the streets, from the signal analysis. Right. Of, of monitoring people and their communications online, covertly monitoring their communication, electronic communications. Right. It's setting up people to be assets inside these organizations and to report back at what's going on. Now, I think one of the biggest testimonies that I paid attention to recently was on December 11th when Joe Kent, the former National Counterterrorism director of the National Terrorism center, testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security. Now, some of the key points he brought up, and I want to quote him here, he said one, quote, despite the progress we made so far in the Trump administration, the threat posed by terrorists of all brands remains very high right now. All right, now he's also referring to other warnings he gave us where he said, quote, we just recently put out a warning of heightened risk of terrorist attacks posed to the homeland by terror terrorists pretty much of all stripes, but in particular ISIS and al Qaeda. Right. And that's what kind of one of these core threats, internal hell. We had the, the press secretary essentially, or someone came out and said there was a threat of a possible drone hit out in California, to which the press secretary meanly came out and said, no, no, no, no, that's not true. Right. And I remember I got bombarded at this point saying is it possible for us to get hit by drones? And I said do you have any idea how many numbers of foreign munitions operators terrorists are in Mexico or have come through Mexico and have paid Mexican cartels that don't have any allegiance to anything other than money to come in to the United States? Right. There's even John Ryan reported that they're had someone on his show that talked about shoulder fired missile systems that were meant for Ukraine or, or over in Ukraine that had made their way over to Mexico and potentially made their, their way into the United States. Now here is some numbers and this what I found. One of the really interesting things by Mr. Kent quote so far NCTC has identified around 1800-018000-18000 known and suspected terrorists that the Biden administration let come in the country. These are individuals who under normal circumstances would never be allowed to enter the country because of their ties to jihadist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda. Yet the Biden administration not only let them in the country in many cases facilitated their entry into the country. Right. He went on to talk about other people that potentially had come in. One of the interesting, he said we've identified 2,000 of that group of, of 18 who have direct ties to terrorist organizations. All right, this, this stuff is pretty remarkable. Right. This is just a couple months ago. And then he said this and then we invaded Iran or didn't invade but we, we began strategic, a strategic airstrikes in this campaign. I don't think they're quite calling it a war yet. It's a more of a focused strategic initiative with our partners in Israel. Now you know, one of the thing is obviously, you know, if you, if you pay attention to Sarah Adams and we had her on the show, I thought she was really smart. She's paying really close attention to the, the chat rooms, the postings, the behind the things, the offline analysis that she was trained to do at Central Intelligence Agency. And, and what she believes, I think that coincides with what Joe Kent and his personnel believe is that you know, these are going to be attacks from either a lone actor or small cells. Now one of the things we've heard just non stop over since this conflict in Iran began was that Iran the potentiality or the activation of Iranian proxy cells, either Hamas cells, Hezbollah cells or a cell we don't even know about, that's on the radar now is, has been essentially been given the green light to begin to start these, these, these attacks. All right, so saying all that to say this we have right, one Group of law enforcement, police personnel that are saying yeah, we're killing it. We're at all time traditional crime statistics, violent crime statistics that we haven't seen. And I think mainly because we saw such a huge spike in the hands off, don't police phase of the Biden administration. Right. And so all these carjackings were going 1700% increase in carjackings in Philadelphia in 21 or 22, whatever it was, with the average age of that being 13 to 15 year old boys. By the way to now where the major threat that we seem to be facing is coming from international crime syndicates, I. E. How why we've designated cartels around the the country in the Americas as terrorist organizations. And then the potential of radical Islamic organizations, isis, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, all vying to be able to get in and, and commit these attacks. Now on March 18, just a few days ago, we had on Capitol Hill we had a massive hearing with our top intelligence officials in the United States. And that was Tulsi Gabbard Radcliffe for the CIA, Patel the FBI and the head of the dia, the Defense Intelligence head agency. And one of the interesting things that I've come to realize is that when intel personnel get brought up on Capitol Hill, we get a lot of. It's very difficult to get straight answers out of these people. And it doesn't matter if it's who's ever in power, if it's the Democrats in power or it's the Republicans in power. I mean just under the Biden administration, we had Victoria Newland asked by Senator Marco Rubio, are there bioweapons labs in, in Ukraine? To which she said yes. And then it was like it went away and that was it. And I remember, you know, all the briefings on the Iraq war under the Bush administration, do they have weapons of mass destruction? And you know, initially it's like absolutely 100% guaranteed we have it. And then it's like well no, we didn't find anything. So you know, as a person that's, you know, been on the down river, the downstream results of these top brass and the intelligence that they're operating offer to offer to conduct geopolitical strategic initiatives or in domestic terrorist policy, whatever it is, or law enforcement, we don't always get what we, we, we think we need to or what we deserve to hear as American personnel. Right. We have the right to know what the degree of, of the threat level is without even compromising how they know it or why they know it. We just, we deserve to have legitimate answers but we also know that we don't get those answers because it might, what, it might impede public opinion, which would be potentially catastrophic if it were an election cycle, which 2026 is an election cycle. Right. I, I thought it was interesting on this because there were a couple key components. Right. One of them was Tulsi Gabbard was directly asked about last year, last summer and asked, you know, did the strikes, was it the opinion of the, the intelligence agency? And she sits atop all 17 intelligence agencies. So she has the highest access to the real time intel. Right. That there is. And they asked her, did we destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities? Obliterate was the word. And she said, yes, we did. And so obviously that comes into question the, what we were being told over the last several weeks of why Iran was an imminent threat. Some people were saying it was because they had ballistic missiles that were nuclear or they were 90% of close to being able to take their enriched uranium and put it into nuclear weapons, which I, I, I found kind of problematic. Once we were told that last summer they were, the whole, the whole program was decimated. All right. Now one of the interesting, she omitted the part of her testimony that said Iran had restarted its Iranian enrichment. This is interesting. And then, then she was asked why and it was said basically to save time in the test, the amount of testimony that needed to take place. I thought that was interesting. Now, all right, before I get into the next testimony that took place on Capitol Hill, I just want to give a shout out to our new partner. This is a company that I have so much faith in, I'm so excited about, and that's Revival Nutrition. Now what makes Revival Nutrition different than all the other supplement companies out there? Well, three things that are real easy to understand. First and foremost, it's better science. Right. I take 13 to 15 supplements a day through pill or powder, and guess what happens during that? My bioavailability. When that pill or powder hits my gut, I lose the grand majority of that supplement being absorbed into my system. Well, with Revival Nutrition's products, it's delivered through a technology called liposomal delivery. 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And when you get to my page, if you like what you see and you want to buy a couple of these products, there is a buy one and get a vitamin C package free with it. And you'll also get a 20% discount if you punch in my promo code when you check out. And that's David, just put that in as you're checking out. You'll get that 20% discount. So hit the link below or just punch in revivalnutrition.com rut and begin to revive your health today. Hoo ya. You know, Radcliffe came out on the other side of basically what Tulsi Gabbard said and basically said, yes, Iran is an immediate and imminent threat, right? Absolutely. Same axis as Tulsi Gabbard. In fact, Tulsi Gabbard is above Radcliffe and the way the hierarchy works. But he was unequivocal in his stance that Iran posed an imminent threat to America and Americans. Right. Now there were several other people that were in the room and one was the Defense Intelligence Agency director, who is a general, and he was asked a couple questions about how they source data, how they source information, where they get it, and whether or not that that data might have been kind of outdated data as a result of allegedly an Iranian school, girls school being targeted not with one, but with two missile strikes that apparently allegedly were American missile systems to which he said he would defer. Hey, we'll discuss this in a classified briefing. That's the other tactic that they use when they're in these. I can't say it overtly because then I would jeopardize sources and how we collect it and what we think because that would give the enemy insight. So in a classified briefing over here, I'll tell you, right? Which I always love that answer. It's the right answer. You know, you have to protect your intelligence for sure. You know, because that's essentially how we're doing it. However, however we did elect Congress. They are the representatives of the American People. And so when they ask direct questions in a public forum, we would, we would hope that they would get direct answers. The reality is you're never going to get what you think you want to hear. It's just not going to happen. Another interesting side note that was taking place on the 18th as well was there was this SOCOM. Several Admirals and generals from SOCOM got up and briefed Congress as well as the state of socom. And one of the thing is they all said is there's going to be an increase. Their prediction is there going to be an increase in pressure on mission sets that are traditionally waged by SOCOM assets. That's Special Forces, that's SEAL teams, that's marsoc, that's, you know, all these intelligence collections within the dia, that's avsoc, all these Predators. And they basically said they were operating about 80 different countries around the world. They talked about problems that were taking place in Africa with some of our traditional partners not wanting to partner us anymore. But they said the primary focus of challenges that they foresee in the, in the future is going to be within the Middle east region. Ha. Go figure. You start waging a war or multiple fronts in the Middle east, that's going to be our area of focus. Now, I will say I didn't hear any testimony, I didn't get to listen to it long enough to see if there was any testimony about Ukraine and some of what they believe in terms of Russia challenges, if they were integrated or dealing with that in terms of training or anything. But I, I, I, I'll go back and check on that. The other aspect is that they said that we needed to con, stay up with the requirement for technology, technological advancements to, to move in with attritional skill sets of special operations. Right. Because they basically said the modern battlefield is changing rapidly. And then one of the other one is, is to really, they need to maintain key access with strategic partners in these regional areas. Now, if you're not familiar, one of the main aspects of the SOF community or SOCOM is to conduct FID missions to work with local, with regional entities, governments, whatever, to work with their military forces to be able to maintain that access. And you heard Clay Martin talk about that in a show I did re just the other day. All right, now I hear all these things and I, I sit back and I say to myself, okay, everybody's saying that the threat is real and the threat is elevated. The data shows it, it's elevated. So what does it actually look like from inter in, in, inside especially what does it look like from lone gunmen or small terror cells acting independently or decentralized from some type of strategic command, Right. They're trained in Afghanistan or in Africa. They get hooked up with the Red Cross, they come across, they, they partner with a cartel, they're giving weapon systems, explosives, drones, whatever. They facilitate them into every aspect into the United States. How is it, especially if they've been trained for counter surveillance or counter espionage, how is it that our people are, whether it's homeland, FBI, local law enforcement, we all know local law enforcement is usually the ones caught in these crossfires because they don't have a lot of preparation or a lot of interagency operability or threat reporting. Right. What they have is on the street monitoring of these different groups. And if, you know, but again, they have to have just cause or, or probable cause to go initiate surveillance tactics or, or wiretapping or anything like that. Right? The, the, the FISA things come for more on the federal level. All right, so again, I want to just go back to the reality that, right, a gunman wearing an Iranian flag t shirt kills two in a Texas bar. Response was great. 57 seconds. Local law enforcement, right? ISIS inspired men arrested with homemade explosives. My favorite is the cop from New York tackling the dude and dumping them. Thankfully, those bombs were, were poorly made. Right? A man with a terrorism already conviction opens fire in Virginia classroom, who takes them down. ROTC personnel takes him down right in the moment. Lebanese born man with supposed Hezbollah ties drives a school into a synagogue, right? What happens? Local security takes him down. So, you know, what I want you to begin to recognize is that as these terror threats grow or these political violence grows, whether it's some of the antifa or these, these Marxist radicalist groups or whatever it is, as these things grow, what happens? It puts more and more stress on local law enforcement, more and more stress on regional law enforcement, more and more stress on state law enforcement, more and more stress on federal law enforcement to be able to keep track and evaluate all of these people that want to do harm inside the United States of America as well as. You also have to have consideration that Americans traveling overseas are definitely a target as well too. Right. So what do we have? We have an intelligence challenge, right? And that intelligence challenge comes at a multitude of levels, right? The intelligence is a challenge, real time intelligence, operating overseas. Reading through that intelligence, who we're getting it from, how we're getting it, I can remember multiple times where I was operating overseas and we were using intelligence that we thought was accurate, that turned out not to be accurate. There's literally, you know, thousands of these stories on all these operator podcasts or operators getting interviewed or former CIA personnel or whatever it is, where they talk about how they got bogus intel as they were relying on outside agencies. The real magic happens when they would conduct their own information, collection their own intel, develop their own intelligence networks like Green Berets do so wonderfully, or some of these other special missions unit or, or special activities units, right? They're out there devising their own intelligence with local ground force so they know what's going on. Now how does that play a role for you? Well, guess what? The intel that your local law enforcement is or is not receiving is probably not fast enough to be able to stop or impede. We have seen the FBI do great, great work at stopping a bunch of terrorist attacks, right? We've seen a bunch go down. But we also, last year when we saw the attack in Washington, D.C. some random dude decides, I see two American soldiers, I'm going to go up and shoot him. Killed that poor girl. And we, we did say the one guy come back from his wounds who was at the State of the Union. Now what's taking place, I. What's taking place is there's a growing vulnerability for the civilian population. So based on my background and what I've do, what I've done and who I know and what I pay attention to, I guess the next thing is what recommendations would I give for you to be able to prepare yourself if this should happen, right? So I think one of the, the, the few ideas that you have to really start to think about is you have to think about, first and foremost, where do you live, right? Where do you live? What type of demographics are in your area? What types of populations? What types of rallies are taking place? Political rallies, ideological rallies, religious rallies. What are the sentiments of the people in these areas talking about? Right? Look, follow your local news, what type. Go to your police rep, arrest reports, or what types of case, legal criminal cases are being filed on a regular basis, right? This is generating, essentially you're creating your own intelligence network through open source information that's available to you all the time, right? Or if you want to streamline that, right, go make friends with a local cop, local law enforcement. Maybe you've got a friend who's in the FBI. Maybe you got, as a friend who's a DEA agent or, or a contractor, whatever that might look like. But it's incumbent upon you to understand your area, what the threats are and where they might take place. Now how do you do that? You got to first be able to assess what areas become targets.
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Martha Stewart
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David Rutherford
I live in a very dense Jewish population. A lot of Jewish friends, kids go to school with a lot of Jewish kids. So obviously based on the just ridiculous amount of anti Semitism that's just seems to be growing and growing, growing at a, at a dramatic pace. Right. Do these areas become high threats or, or hard targets or soft targets? And that's how you have to look at it. Right. What is a hard target? A hard target is a church, a synagogue, a school where some person who's casing it or collecting intelligence or information on where its weak points are, points of entries, access, how it responds to different threats, active threats, permissive threats, call in threats, bomb threats, you name it. How does the response take place internally? Right. And if you see a hard response, a focused response with armed guards, armed personnel, people that in the school that are arm or in the churches as a synagogues that are armed, police officer stage, that becomes a hard target. What's a soft target? A mall. Right. An outdoor cafe. Right. Maybe some type of library or a public space, a park where mass people gather. Right. Maybe a movie theater. We've seen that before. Maybe it's, you know, places that have high density people that are seemingly not paying attention to their surroundings. That's the ultimate soft target. Right. And the dense population make it more attractive so you can have more bang for your buck. I know that's crude, I shouldn't describe it like that. But that's what the assailants are thinking, at least as I'm thinking about that. If I were to put my shoe myself in the shoes of a terrorist or radical or whatever, and how I'm going to assess or evaluate my target structure or system, that's what they're looking to do. All right? So create your own sense of information, your own intel network, be able to evaluate your surroundings in real time. And then the last one is to train. Right. Don't forget we're still the greatest country in the world for multiple reasons. Freedom of speech, we elect our people, that whole thing, number one thing in my opinion, is the second amendment right. I literally don't walk anywhere in Florida without a gun on me. It's just the way it is, right? If you see me, I've got a gun on me. Right? And backups too. So you have that. Right? But the problem is most people are very uncomfortable with that responsibility. So the only way you can work through that and I just took a good friend of mine shooting just a week ago because he's feeling the effects of these threats and wants to be able to carry. So I took him. We spent two hours at the range and started getting them dialed in. Right. Recently took my oldest daughter. Taking my oldest daughter and my wife here in the next few days. So I have. It's my responsibility as an expert in these types of things to get out there and train my community, my immediate communities, my family, my close friends, but also the general community as a whole. And so that's what you need to do, too. You have to exercise your Second Amendment constitutional rights, carry a weapon with you on all time, and then be able to develop what I call the offensive mindset. All right, I'm probably going to do a show on the offensive mindset here in a little bit to be able to really help you understand that. What that is. It's a really kind of a. A motivational talk, if you will. Remember, at my core, I'm a motivator, I'm a coach, I'm an instructor. I focus on human performance across a multitude of ways. One of the main ways, and I think what I'm best at is getting people to really assess their vulnerabilities from a safety and a. A security threat assessment ability. All right, so get out there and train. All right, now let's bring this all back together. Why do I think there's a new threat paradigm? I believe there's a new threat paradigm because there's a massive wave of immigration that has come into our country that's allowed people from a lot of different places with a lot of different nefarious ideas that are counter to what Americans believe as our way of life and what it looks like. And they want to hurt us because of either our actions overseas for the last multiple decades or just what we represent from a religious capacity, what we represent in terms of our freedoms or just our social structures, our progressive liberal ideologies are. Are antithetical to where their cultures and what they believe. All of these things play a role. And on top of that, are now back up into our new geopolitical policy. Waging a war in Iran, potentially our presence overseas, what we've done in other places, all of this is what is shifting this. So, yes, we are becoming better at tackling traditional criminal activity, a violent criminal activity. But no, being able to capture these lone gunmen or cells is much more difficult than we can fathom. All right, that's my ex explanation of the new threat paradigm. I hope you've appreciated this. My intention is never to scare the holy living bejesus out of you. But what I want you to do is have some context to what I'm thinking about what I'm paying attention to. Because my main concern is what? Is to really be able to positively influence those who choose to listen to the show in a way that not only heightens your intellectual understanding of a bunch of different issues, but also gives you the skill sets to perform better when it really counts. All right, if you've enjoyed this show, I would love it if you could, like, share and subscribe. Leave a comment Give us a rating on all the different platforms that were out there, all podcast platforms, fundamentally on YouTube. 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