All right, welcome this Tuesday afternoon in the tri State back loud Proud and
Sassey the Great American coming up in a minute or two. Here is going
to be Brian Hamrick down to City Hall prowling around the hallways. There's a
big committee hearing going on with maybe a vote tomorrow. Also later on is
Rob Sanders, the man who controls Kenton County with an iron grip. You
may know that Governor Basheer is being inaugurated and he gave everyone a day off
no work. So if you live in northern Kentucky, just say boss,
I'm taking off. I'm celebrating Andy Basheer and Tony Bender's walking out of the
studio as I speak. But until then, Brian Hamrick, welcome again to
the Bill Cunningham Show. You man, have to keep your voice down a
little bit, but tell me what's happening in the committee hearing about guns,
guns and more guns. Thanks again, mister Gunningham. Yeah, well,
we're down here at City Hall just trying to, you know, kind of
get a grip on what's going on with you know, really where this whole
thing starts right now and what we're seeing a lot of these car break ins
seems like a kind of a crime that doesn't really mean anything. It didn't
used to car break in people looking for cash or change or whatever. But
what's happened recently and talking to the last year or so, it's really started
to develop and really picking up our car break ins. And they're looking for
guns and they're trying to and what happens is then they send these guns,
sell these guns, or use them, and they are finding these same guns
that are being stolen from cars from you know, regular citizens are now being
used in murders and hold ups and robberies and aggravated assaults everything. So that's
what's happening. And just this, I mean, this is how bad it's
getting. Just in the last couple of days over the weekend over at Covington,
they had around twenty. They're not even sure they're still putting together the
numbers on it because they had so many. They're still trying to figure out
how many breaking into cars, finding guns, finding whatever they can. But
they're really looking for these guns. And then just out literally within sight of
city Hall over the weekend during the Bengals game, one witness told us that
there were they were there during the Bengals game. They said between fifteen five
to fifteen were broken out right near the all. It's the Cincinnati Fire Museum,
those parking lots and the ones near City Hall over there, and you
can go over there. I was over there yesterday and there were like one
window after another after another, the glass still laying in the parking lot there.
You can see where it had happened. Yeah, I tell you what
happens on these scout cars. I used to represent a group of burglars and
breaking artists. They'll get a pair of binoculars, set up a site,
and then what they'll do is watch people as the eggsit the cars. And
if you're going to a Bengals game, that means you're gone at least three
to five hours. And so you know, if you listen to the radio,
as everyone does, especially AM radio, you kind of know that the
game is ongoing and this person is not coming back. And don't they have
like a model of a kind of car that a person would drive that will
more likely have valuables in them than somebody else. Well, we're hearing from
you know, police on the street who are telling us they are profiling these
vehicles they're looking at things that uh people. So one thing they're looking for,
like pickups for runners, These tend to be people that are more likely
to be gun owners. Uh, so they're going to look at those cars.
They're also looking at anything you might have on the car. Let's say
you have a sticker I support police, You're more likely a gun owner any
of these kind of things. If you have, you know, like Second
Amendment stickers on your car, you're more likely to be a gun owner.
They will look for that, and you will be a target when you're in
these in these parking lots. Uh, and it happens. Will I just
talked to a guy he was at church over here at Saint Peter Chains and
as same thing he saw the King comes back, windows broken out. And
sometimes you know it's just random. Sometimes they don't you know, they don't
care. They're just looking and they think maybe it's a good choice and they
bust the windows out. But you know, even if they don't get anything,
even you don't have anything, you know, here are all these folks
that are you know, I talked to the guy who were at Jack's Glass
over in Covington right there, you know, right across the bridge there.
It's just along my fourth street. He says, I have so many of
these, I can't even take care of my They are coming in so fast
that it's hard to get the glass to put into the cars immediately to get
them rolling out. He says, it takes it there or two sometimes to
get these things fast through because there are so many of these right now.
He said, he comes in on Monday morning and he can expect to have
a dozen to maybe fifteen cars with broken windows people. And this is like
on a regular basis. He told me he had nine hundred this year so
far. Nine hundred. Yeah, people that had been victims of people breaking
into their the thing. Now he gets them from Cincinnati and from Covington and
from all around. But that's a lot. You know, there's you know,
it's happening out in Boone County. It was Kenton County. I mean,
we've had reports down in uh uh, down in Independence here in the
last couple of days. Uh So, these are happening all over. There's
really no place that it isn't happening. Right. Well, let's let's talk
about what council wants to do. So tell the American people this afternoon,
the committee meetings meeting then tomorrow Wednesday tends to be city council itself, and
the law is passed. So well, how do they want to victimize the
victims of crime at city council. Well, here's here's the plan. What
they're hoping to do is they're they're trying to figure out something to do.
They're limited on what they can do because you know the Second Amendment, you
can't just make a gun law in the City of Cincinnati, and then you
know it's going to be challenged no matter what. But what they're doing is
is they are if you leave a gun and what they're calling irresponsibly, And
they gave a couple of examples, like so one person left their gun on
top of a car and drove off and it fell off. Another guy got
off his pocket in a restaurant. So they were using those examples as if
you're careless with the gun and this sort of thing is they're calling irresponsible.
So what they're saying is they're saying they're gonna make it. First of all,
you have to report your gun lost or stolen, and and and if
you don't, that can be a fine, it can be a misdemeanor and
a finement seven hundred and fifty dollars if you don't report it lost or stolen
immediately, like in the immediate Apple ord. Now there's a couple of problems
there. They didn't really define what immedia is, you know, and then
they also said at the same time, they said, well, the other
part of this program is this in order to get the gun return to you,
because the police have to do ballistics, they have to you know,
keep it in your property room, they have to handle it. So what
they entered into their computer system that takes personal They said they figure it to
be about two hundred bucks a person per gun to do that. So they're
going to charge you the two hundred dollars to get the gun back. Now,
they said, we're not going to do that if you've been a victim
of a crime. But if somebody breaks into your car. This is about
breaking into cars. So we haven't really heard what that definition is. So
I'm sure this is going to be challenged. I'm sure going to be people
to say, wait a minute, you know I got my gun stolen.
I'm a victim. I'm a victim. I'm not surprised, Yes, right,
and so at this point that well, we're going to have there's about
ninety governmental institutions within the sound of my voice, ninety of them. And
the Supreme Court is kind of ruled the local municipalities, counties, and states
cannot infringe upon the right to keeping bare arms, which means the involvement of
government must be slight at best. And so is this too intrusive? Is
this to say to those who drive from Boone County, get on the bridge,
come across four or five different jurisdictions, get off the bridge, spend
some time on I seventy one. Coming north, you go through Cincinnati,
go through Norwood, you go through Columbia Township, go through Sycamore Township.
And the idea is you can't have different gun laws as someone travels. And
so constitutionally, I would imagine the Solicitener's office is saying, this is somewhat
suspect because you have an undue burden. Now is the burden undo? I
don't know what the hell that means in each circumstance. And so what they
want to do is make it undue burden, make it light enough not to
arise to a constitutional violation, but strong enough to keep people from not breaking
into cars because they're going to do it anyway. But those who carry weapons
or have their wallet left in the car, those are the people. Those
are the victims of this thing. And so the real problem is not a
legal gun owner not properly strowing a gun, which I think ninety nine percent
of us do anyway, it's the occasional person that a gun is taken from
who commits a crime. And then the person responsible is the perpetrator, is
not the victim of a car breaking or a homebreak in, which could happen
to anyone. And I can't think of any you've been around a long time,
has any other jurisdiction never tried to pass a law like this one to
your knowledge, not that I know of. But I have a feeling this
is based on some other ones in other places where maybe they've done this,
because I have a feeling that usually when they by the time it gets here
and it's an issue, they've already done somebody else that's had the problem,
and they look at, you know, what can we do? You know,
I think a lot of it is just a matter of, look,
we don't know what else to do, because you know, if you look
at the wall, and I mean basically they're talking about targeting these guns,
these break ins to cars. It doesn't really relate all that well, you
know, I mean it could be, but the things that would relate might
not be something that they can get through these They might this, this might
be more likely to hold up to a challenge than one of, you know,
one of the other things. That would retain more to what exactly they
want to do, if nothing else. I think they like to get they
like to get the idea, and you know, we're doing stories on it,
and everybody else is is you know, just make sure you don't leave
your gun in the car, because I know from the police perspective, there's
like we we have seen eternities and we're seeing them being used in crimes,
and they've gotten a bunch of them back. Well, I mean, the
sheriff had her gunstolen and then used in a crime, you know. So
it happens, and it happens to people you know of you know. So
I think what the police their main thing is, let's try and at least
get the message out there that you can't And I've talked to the police,
and I talked to the guys in Covington. Uh uh and uh. Lieutenant
Bradbury over there told me, he says, hey, your car is not
a gun safe, you know. I mean, like, let's you know,
just secure the web weapons. And so these guys are pro gun.
They're just like, we got to try and get together on this and try
and get these guns out of the hands of the criminals. And Brian Hamrick
of the power of five. If you're in an EV or a mom's car,
you're less likely to be hit by a car breaking if you're in a
pickup truck like Tony Bender. He's got mudflaps, he's got chrome all over
his pickup truck. I'm looking at him saying, that guy's got six or
seven guns. He's going out to see a Bengals game. He's not going
to be here for three to four hours. He has a bumper star that
says I support the Second Amendment. He said, I shoot, I shoot,
I shoot, and it says you're gonna have my gun when you pull
my dead cold fingers off the trigger. That's a Tony Bender sign right there.
That's the guy. That's the guy right there. We got that guy
right there. We can sell that gun for five hundred bucks, get four
or five of them. He's got Oozy's, he's got three fifty sevens,
he's got nine millimeters. He's got them all in his pickup. And I'm
thinking, but if you're in a mom's car or an EV, you're probably
in good shape. Right, Yeah, that's true. You may you may
not. Although one of the cars that was being worked on yesterday was just
a SUV Mercedes. It was a Mercedes SUV new car. I wouldn't have
necessarily thought that would be a target. But something's in there. They broke
into it. Something's in there pretty good. And so the car alarms aren't
the car alarms suppers to go off and go nuts. Maybe not, yeah,
but I think yeah, I think they do. But people's response to
that is thirty seven to be lackluster at best. Yeah, because when you
hear that, you don't think, boy, we got a car breaking.
Turn that damn thing off and the other thing. It takes thirty seconds trying
to watch TV. Here, I'm trying to turn that down TV car alarm.
Yeah, everywhere you go. And Louis Vauton I talked to Joe Dieters
and frequently because he's up there in the Heights of Glory. But Missy Powers
tells me they still haven't located the the smash and grabbers at Louis Vauton and
the Kenwood Town Center. And this is happening all over the place, and
it seems the only way to handle this is sure and swift punishment and breaking
into a cars of pain in the ass for the driver of pain in the
ass. Oh yeah, it's it's it's a huge issue. You know,
you got well, first of all, you got to clean up the second
ball, you got the whole hassle of you know, now taking this down
and trying to get the guys at Jack's Glass to get it. You know,
that's the thing done. Line up, you know, because everybody else
is doing this. And then uh, and then the cost, you know,
it's it's not cheap. You know, it's several hundred dollars. I
mean, your insurance company may may pay for that, but you know then
you know you've got to mark against you on your insurance. You know,
it's a it's a headache, you know, just the logistics of getting it
done. We'll see what happens later today. The committee votes sometime later this
afternoon, then tomorrow's two wednesdays, the actual vote itself, and we'll see
what happens. I love it when foreign policies are put forth by Cincinnati City
Council. And now the we're going to infringe upon Second Amendment freedoms. I
guess we're still a sanctuary city, but nonetheless we should have a foreign policy.
And once again, Brian Hamrick, the great American says to you,
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and thank you for coming on the Bill
Cunningham Show. Thank you, Brian. Thanks again, mister Cunningham. All
right back into council. Let's see what they do if a line becomes available
five one, three, seven, four nine, seven thousand or pound seven
hundred and new at and T. I guess the solution is to drive an
EV or a mom's car, in which case you're less likely to get broken
into. If you're a pickup truck with chrome wheels and mudflaps, and you
can have my gun when you're probably my cold dead fingers off the trigger like
Tony Bender has, then that's a problem. You better be armed. Let's
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