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Buck Sexton (0:00)
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Clay Travis (0:05)
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Buck Sexton (1:05)
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Buck I saw an interesting story over the weekend and it ties in with the story that I'm going to talk about here shortly. And it is we talked about positive the economy, great deal with the EU that appears to be in place. Trump is over in Scotland right now. I think he's still there. There has been and he's been meeting with the prime minister of Britain. All of that going on stock market again today hitting an all time high, or at least it was up a bit. But basically stocks at all time highs, economy, things are going very, very well. Feels like the first six months of the Trump administration now with the tax cuts embedded and with many of the trade deals in place that we're really prepared to really kind of go on a next level splurge in growth, particularly when the Fed, and I say when the Fed inevitably finally gets around to agreeing to cut interest rates, that's gonna just add on more gas. We've talked about the fact that the border is completely secure, more so than it has ever been in the life of anyone that is out there listening to us right now. But also crime. Big article in, I believe it was the Wall Street Journal over the weekend saying that we are maybe in the New York Times one or the other that we are headed for potentially 21st century crime lows. And they were saying, boy, we can't even figure out what's going on. And they said this is especially unbelievable because there's way more guns now than have ever existed in the history of the United States. This was one of the one of the lines in the article where liberals were trying to. I think it was the New York Times come to grips with why violent crime, notwithstanding the story we just told you in Cincinnati, why violent crime is declining precipitously all over the country in many different cities while police are able to do their jobs. But the article actually said, but there's way more guns on the street than ever before. It's not guns on the street that is the issue. It's guns on the street in the hands of bad guys. Guns on the street in the hands of good guys can actually make us significantly safer. And there was an awful story that happened over the weekend. And I was thinking about it because I just was up in Traverse City, Michigan, and I know many of you out there are traveling northern Michigan, it's beautiful in the summer. And I appreciate again, the guys who had me up there for several days. My wife's from Michigan. But this guy deserves a great deal of credit. There was an awful story guy went into a Walmart and just some sounds like is a psychologically unstable, insane person that had been known to authorities up there quite a long time, I believe. Stabbed 11 people in a Traverse City, Michigan area Walmart. And then in the outside in the parking lot. The stabbing suspect was restrained by several people in the parking lot, including a guy named Derek Perry, who is a former Marine. I know Marines out there say you're never a former Marine, but was in the armed services. And he had a gun on him. And he pulled that gun out and restrained this crazy person, ended the attacks. And we don't know what motivation this crazy person was acting under. But I do think that people like this, who are heroes and stop evildoers, perpetrators of violence, deserve to become famous in a way that the serial attacker who desires fame does not. We try to avoid sharing those people's names. But on the flip side, this is an example of somebody who saw a violent act happening. We were saying in Cincinnati, most people weren't doing anything. Here in Traverse City, this guy, Derek Perry pulled out his gun and stopped this attack from continuing. And I do think we can spend a little bit of time here saying, hey, we're letting police do their jobs again and also good citizens out there. There does seem to be a positive momentum overall in declining the amount of violent crime that is occurring all over the country.
