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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Dan Caplas Show with Well Kundy Sheriff
Speaker 2: Steve Raims sitting in in as the guest host. I'm
Speaker 2: going to get my mouth working here in just a second,
Speaker 2: but this is day three of three and my Friday
Speaker 2: and probably many of your Fridays as well as we
Speaker 2: get ready for this fourth of July holiday. So Happy
Speaker 2: Independence Day to all of you as you roll into
Speaker 2: the holiday weekend. This is my favorite holiday of the
Speaker 2: year by leaps and bounds, because we get to blow
Speaker 2: stuff up and celebrate America. What more could you want.
Speaker 2: Earlier in the week, we had some breaking news. I
Speaker 2: think it was Monday that Representative Ryan Armagos announced that
Speaker 2: he would be stepping away from the state Legislature from
Speaker 2: the HD sixty four seat and he was going to
Speaker 2: be pursuing greener pastures and his words to accept a
Speaker 2: job down in Arizona. That sparked a little bit of
Speaker 2: interest in people wanting to run for his seat. And
Speaker 2: yesterday we had a candidate honor, a person who identified
Speaker 2: themselves as a potential candidate for that seat. And today
Speaker 2: we're going to have yet one more. And again, as
Speaker 2: I said yesterday, it doesn't matter where you're at in
Speaker 2: the state of Colorado, every legislative seat down at the
Speaker 2: Golden Dome is important, and you want to retain every
Speaker 2: one of those that you can as a Republican seat
Speaker 2: because they all matter. At this point, HD sixty four
Speaker 2: is a pretty safe seat in Republican territory unless you
Speaker 2: get the wrong person in there, and then that can
Speaker 2: think cause things to go haywire. So with us on
Speaker 2: the line is a young man named Scott Slaw. He
Speaker 2: is going to be jumping into that race and throwing
Speaker 2: his hat in the ring. And Scott, are you on
Speaker 2: with us? Good to have you, Scott. I know that
Speaker 2: you've shown some interest. I saw your announcement on Facebook
Speaker 2: that you're going to be throwing your hat in the
Speaker 2: ring for EAHD. Tell the listeners why you're interested in
Speaker 2: a little bit about your background.
Speaker 3: Well, thanks, Steve, appreciate the opportunity to talk and appreciate
Speaker 3: being able to talk to some other folks earlier today. Steve,
Speaker 3: I'm a fifth generation in Colorado. I've lived in House
Speaker 3: District sixty four my entire life. Bind us some army
Speaker 3: service that's taken me away as an Army Reserve officer,
Speaker 3: you know, some church service where I've been away a
Speaker 3: little bit, and some college. Other than that, this has
Speaker 3: always been home.
Speaker 4: And anybody who.
Speaker 3: Knows knows that loyalty is a huge thing for me,
Speaker 3: and I just I care so much about House District
Speaker 3: sixty four and said, if you saw my announcement, I said,
Speaker 3: it's not just my house district. This is my home district.
Speaker 5: And as an.
Speaker 3: Army officer who's got a lot of specialties that are
Speaker 3: in the protection realm, you know, I want to protect
Speaker 3: the liberties and the rights and that people of this
Speaker 3: district from a lot of crazy things that have been
Speaker 3: going on, and want to make sure that anything that
Speaker 3: we are looking at happening in Colorado is going to
Speaker 3: be the right thing for the people and for the citizens,
Speaker 3: and especially for this district. For me as a representative
Speaker 3: of the district. Soldiers and thanks I've let in the past,
Speaker 3: would confirm with you, confirm to you that I would
Speaker 3: stand toe to toe with anybody, including general officers. At
Speaker 3: times that's happened that I've backed them up and said,
Speaker 3: hey sir, hey ma'am, this is not right.
Speaker 5: We need to do this.
Speaker 3: And I would do the same for anybody as a
Speaker 3: representative here in Colorado.
Speaker 4: And I think we need that.
Speaker 3: There's so much fight that we need, you know, but
Speaker 3: statesman like fight down and down at the Capitol. But
Speaker 3: I have been looking forward to doing that when Ryan
Speaker 3: was moved out of office. I expected that to be
Speaker 3: in two thousand twenty eight, and had been talking to
Speaker 3: folks about that for a few years since I was
Speaker 3: ryan district chair when he was running at first.
Speaker 2: And so you've been eyeing the seat for a little while.
Speaker 2: I mean you had a plan to run for this seat,
Speaker 2: is what you're saying.
Speaker 3: You know, if you looked at my Strategic Excel spread
Speaker 3: seat Plan of life, it would you would see it
Speaker 3: on there in the twenty twenty eight. So it's absolutely
Speaker 3: been on the mind for over three years now. But
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty, this is what.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3: And you know, Mike Tyson said, everybody's got a plan
Speaker 3: until they get punched. In the mouth, and I didn't
Speaker 3: it punched in the mouth, But hey, plans are, plans are,
Speaker 3: and sometimes they change and you have to adapt.
Speaker 2: Well, So you mentioned that you did for it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you mentioned that you and Ryan Armagust Representative Armagust have
Speaker 2: a friendship, that you've known each other for a while.
Speaker 2: Is that leading to an endorsement from mister arma Gust
Speaker 2: or have you guys had that discussion yet?
Speaker 3: You know, I talked Ryan on Monday afternoon when I
Speaker 3: was when I was driving back from Colorado Springs, and
Speaker 3: Ryan's I don't think Ryan is ready to endorse anybody
Speaker 3: right now. That was that's bored for word what he said.
Speaker 3: He knows, you knows myself, he knows Colin and yet
Speaker 3: on yesterday, you know, and I don't have any ill
Speaker 3: will towards anybody. We're all we're all trying to do
Speaker 3: the same thing, and we're all working hard to make
Speaker 3: sure that we're accomplishing the same ends meet And so
Speaker 3: I don't right now. Ryan hasn't said he was going
Speaker 3: to endorse.
Speaker 4: I hope for that to change.
Speaker 3: I know Ryan knows that I've been looking at it
Speaker 3: for a long time and I have a lot of
Speaker 3: the same opinions. We're both apparently am living in Johnstown,
Speaker 3: though I'm building a house.
Speaker 4: In Berthed, so you know, we're both birth at Heights at.
Speaker 3: Some point in time. And I'd love to have Ryan's endorsement, Okay,
Speaker 3: I think that would mean a lot.
Speaker 2: So you spoke a little bit about your military background,
Speaker 2: and I think you're still currently in the military. What
Speaker 2: what makes you different from any opponent that you might
Speaker 2: enter and why should voters lean into you versus the
Speaker 2: the person we had on yesterday or anybody else that
Speaker 2: might jump down. What distances you from all those others esteem?
Speaker 3: I think if you're asking about the military side of
Speaker 3: it a little bit, and then what differentiates me that
Speaker 3: experience that I've had and even started before that as
Speaker 3: a as a youth and as a boy scout and
Speaker 3: learning about leadership there and then being able to follow
Speaker 3: on and serve in the military as an officer and
Speaker 3: as a leader. I believe in leadership. I taught leadership
Speaker 3: classes that u NC, you know, a decade and a
Speaker 3: half ago. I was a teacher there, and I believe
Speaker 3: in leadership. It's an important thing. And I've got a
Speaker 3: lot of experience in that, and you.
Speaker 4: Know, don't we don't go to war at the Capitol.
Speaker 3: We're not at the House. DISC sixty four is not
Speaker 3: going to war with anybody. So, you know, my my
Speaker 3: strategist background and war plans background from working at the Pentagon,
Speaker 3: it's not going to really do a lot for me
Speaker 3: other than we do go to more metaphorically down there.
Speaker 3: There's a lot to try to protect people from down there.
Speaker 3: Think there's things that pass every year. It seems like
Speaker 3: recently that.
Speaker 5: I wish we just.
Speaker 3: Had more more people not supporting you know, all the
Speaker 3: Second Amendment stuff that's changed this year. The first time
Speaker 3: I got really interested in running and then I wasn't
Speaker 3: able to was in twenty thirteen. I was going to
Speaker 3: run in twenty fourteen, but I was deployed. I was
Speaker 3: in East Africa, and another fine guy jumped in, and yeah,
Speaker 3: another fine guy jumped up and did it and supported
Speaker 3: him and he did great, ran a great campaign. Didn't win,
Speaker 3: but you know, it was a good candidate too. But
Speaker 3: I think I've got the leadership and the ability to
Speaker 3: work with other people and to see the big picture
Speaker 3: of what needs happened, and to be able to communicate
Speaker 3: why the big picture matters, even people who may not
Speaker 3: necessarily see it the same way that I do.
Speaker 2: Sure so, Scott, I will kind of end with this.
Speaker 2: But has has it been cleared up yet as to
Speaker 2: how that appointment is to be made? I know there
Speaker 2: was a little bit of uncertainty because the vacancy committee
Speaker 2: hadn't really been established. It's not going to go back
Speaker 2: to a vote of the people. We know that, But
Speaker 2: what does that vacancy naming process look like or vacancy
Speaker 2: filling process look like?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Sure so Scott James is the House Social fifty four
Speaker 3: Central Committee chair, and he will have to establish the
Speaker 3: Vacancy Committee. And the Vacancy Committee will be made up
Speaker 3: comprised of all the precent committee people and other representatives
Speaker 3: from the district, including the officers of the district and such.
Speaker 3: And they will have an assembly and they will vote.
Speaker 3: It'll be it's a secret ballot, the bilaws say it's
Speaker 3: a secret ballot vote, and it will vote until they have,
Speaker 3: you know, a simple majority winner. And it probably won't
Speaker 3: take more than one vote.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I mean, sure would be impressive for it to be
Speaker 3: a tie more once or more than once, but that's
Speaker 3: that's the basics of how it works. And I understand
Speaker 3: how you know that vacancy committee's not performed and ready
Speaker 3: necessarily to jump and out of a meeting right now?
Speaker 3: Did that exact same job that Scott had three or
Speaker 3: so years ago, And you know, we would have never
Speaker 3: expected that we were going to have a vacancy. We
Speaker 3: were always prepared to move on it and create a
Speaker 3: vacancy committee, but we didn't have it on the shelf
Speaker 3: ready to go at the moment. Yeah, and so I'm
Speaker 3: sure that Scott will have it handled soon well.
Speaker 2: And in fairness, Representative Armagost has not as not planned
Speaker 2: to step down until September one, so there's a little
Speaker 2: bit of planning time to make all that happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, they have some time.
Speaker 2: Scott. I appreciate you coming on and kind of giving
Speaker 2: the listeners a little bit of your candidacy, and we'll
Speaker 2: wish you the best. It sounds like there's going to
Speaker 2: be a little bit of a arm wrestle and may
Speaker 2: the best person.
Speaker 3: Win, absolutely, and then maybe we all support whoever it
Speaker 3: is and try to make the right things happen down there.
Speaker 2: Thanks for all you do too, you bet, Thanks, Thanks Scott.
Speaker 2: Have a good evening.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 2: So, as we talked about yesterday the day before, you know,
Speaker 2: each one of these House House districts, Senate races, and
Speaker 2: whatever it may be down at the Golden Dome, they
Speaker 2: are vitally important to the state of Colorado, especially in
Speaker 2: light of some of the extremely bad legislation that's getting
Speaker 2: pumped out of that place, and any any Republican pushback
Speaker 2: that you can get right now to deal with that
Speaker 2: majority or super majority that exists down at the state Capitol.
Speaker 2: Like I said many times before, it's it's absolutely necessary
Speaker 2: because we can't let the Democrats run unfettered. It's it's
Speaker 2: just important that we get a good person in there.
Speaker 2: And you know, in my opinion, the last couple of days,
Speaker 2: we've had two good candidates step forward, and excellence breeds excellence,
Speaker 2: and a little bit of competition breeds excellence. And we'll
Speaker 2: see what happens with these two. So if you want
Speaker 2: to call in and make comments or syntex about the
Speaker 2: HD sixty four race, you're welcome to do so. You
Speaker 2: can text Dan at five seven, seven, three nine or
Speaker 2: call in at three O three seven one three eight
Speaker 2: two five five, And again you can call in about
Speaker 2: whatever you want. Alex has already sent us a couple
Speaker 2: of text messages and we'll get to those here in
Speaker 2: just a little bit. We'll go to break first. When
Speaker 2: we come back, we'll set up the second half of
Speaker 2: the show and kind of switch gears a little bit.
Speaker 2: And I really want to get you guys engaged, because
Speaker 2: we're going to have a very special guest on, a
Speaker 2: lady named Laura Carno, who many of you know from
Speaker 2: the group Faster Colorado. She helps to train folks in
Speaker 2: weapons training for protecting our school kids out there and
Speaker 2: making sure the teachers who are allowed to be armed
Speaker 2: in certain school districts can do just that. They can
Speaker 2: carry armed and protect their students on a day to
Speaker 2: day basis. But we'll get to her in the second
Speaker 2: half of the show, or the second half of this segment,
Speaker 2: and we'll do that right after this break. So you're
Speaker 2: listening to Dan Kapli Show here with well kind of
Speaker 2: Sheriff Steve Riims as your guest host.
Speaker 6: Now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Reims setting in in the passenger
Speaker 2: seat or the driver's seat, whatever you want to call
Speaker 2: it driving the Dan Caples show down the highway here,
Speaker 2: but just a pleasure to sit in and take over
Speaker 2: the show for these three days. Anytime you get a
Speaker 2: chance to cover for Dan, it's always a little fun
Speaker 2: and it's a change of pace for me. Gave me
Speaker 2: an opportunity to ride my motorcycle down to the studio today,
Speaker 2: which it's a little hot out there, especially when you're
Speaker 2: only doing about three miles an hour on the highway,
Speaker 2: but you know it's still out in the wind, and
Speaker 2: it's better than sitting in a car. So good time
Speaker 2: coming down. Going to a couple of text here, one
Speaker 2: from Alexa, and I've kind of scratched my head on
Speaker 2: this one all day today, it says Sheriff frames any
Speaker 2: thoughts on the Diddy verdicts seems to be a little
Speaker 2: bit of a conflict between guilty on transportation for prostitution
Speaker 2: but not guilty on sex trafficking. Kind of wants my
Speaker 2: perspective on the Diddy outcome. And it seems so weird
Speaker 2: to even be talking about this on radio, because what
Speaker 2: a disgusting, what a disgusting display we've seen from mister Combs.
Speaker 2: But the best way I can explain it to Alexa
Speaker 2: or anyone who cares to cares to listen to the
Speaker 2: issues with the Sean Combs trial. From what I can tell,
Speaker 2: what I can gather from the jury's perspective is it
Speaker 2: seems as if they believe that the people who were
Speaker 2: willingly there were there either because they were being paid
Speaker 2: to be there, or they were just being paid, or
Speaker 2: they were just there because they enjoyed the party. So
Speaker 2: the trafficking charge would have required people basically to have
Speaker 2: been brought there, brought there against their will. And I
Speaker 2: know there was some arguments made. There may have been
Speaker 2: some testimony that, you know, people didn't feel as if
Speaker 2: they were free to go, But the evidence seemed to
Speaker 2: explain that mister Diddy's, mister Combs's girlfriend could have left
Speaker 2: many times over if she had chosen to, but she
Speaker 2: kept coming back. And I think that's what kind of
Speaker 2: caused the cause the jury to not really have a
Speaker 2: lot of sympathy for the trafficking charge. But then there
Speaker 2: was there was obvious evidence of prostitution, people being paid
Speaker 2: to come in and have sex. So that's the difference.
Speaker 2: Still very significant charges, and it's my understanding he can
Speaker 2: still faced quite a few years in prison. I don't
Speaker 2: think he will, but that's to be decided at a
Speaker 2: later date. I would be surprised if he gets much
Speaker 2: more than credit for time served. And you know, money
Speaker 2: buys a lot of influence, and I'm sure mister Combs
Speaker 2: has spent a lot of money on his defense. So
Speaker 2: we'll see how it plays out. But from what I
Speaker 2: heard on the news today that that sentencing won't happen
Speaker 2: till the fall, and he's going to sit and jail
Speaker 2: the entire time, which means every bit of time that
Speaker 2: he's set there he'll basically get credit for. And that's that.
Speaker 2: From there, I think I want to skip over here
Speaker 2: to Tim down in Trinidad. He's been waiting for just
Speaker 2: a little bit. He wants to make some comments on Colorado. Tim,
Speaker 2: how you doing. I'm great. It sounds like you're fired
Speaker 2: up at little bit. What do you got for us?
Speaker 5: Well, no, no, you know, I was listening. As soon
Speaker 5: as I got in the car. I always turned on
Speaker 5: Dan and I know he has some liberal listeners, you know.
Speaker 2: Because they called in.
Speaker 5: And they disagree with them on things. But right as
Speaker 5: I got in the car, you were talking to the
Speaker 5: gentleman who's reading.
Speaker 3: For HDC that's being vacated.
Speaker 5: And you were talking about the supermajority under the Golden Dome,
Speaker 5: and that is one question that I have yet have
Speaker 5: any Democrat, whether it's moderate Democrat, part of the Democrat.
Speaker 5: We do have a supermajority, the Democrats do in the
Speaker 5: state of Colorado. Sure, so if their policies in leadership
Speaker 5: is so great, then why are we in the mess
Speaker 5: that we're in in this state.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question. I mean it's a rhetorical
Speaker 2: question on these airwaves, but yeah, yeah, I asked myself
Speaker 2: that every day, and as a person who works in
Speaker 2: the law enforcement circle, I can tell you that what
Speaker 2: they've done has not made our state any better. I
Speaker 2: mean it's it's made it drastically worse. I mean, we're
Speaker 2: the second worst state in the nation for crime and
Speaker 2: you live in an area that neighbors the first worst
Speaker 2: state in the nation for crimes.
Speaker 5: Yes, exactly, thank you. And that's like he ties in
Speaker 5: And I wanted to listen to you yesterday and you
Speaker 5: were talking about the death penalty and now it was
Speaker 5: taken off the table in the Idaho uh the state
Speaker 5: murder case. Yes, and we did the same thing in
Speaker 5: this state. Nathan Dunlap, who was the Chuckie teeth killer,
Speaker 5: was sentenced to death by a jury and kick and
Speaker 5: Looper took that off the table.
Speaker 2: Hicken Looper wouldn't sign the death warrant. He didn't have
Speaker 2: the courage to sign the death warrant. Yeah, right, basically
Speaker 2: gave a part.
Speaker 5: Yeah he did. And I went into Nathan then Stern
Speaker 5: Creational Center, Stern Creational Facility. We went up there to
Speaker 5: assist in a shakedown. And the man has zero remorse.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's arried right, right, and.
Speaker 3: And that's that's what we create.
Speaker 5: And that in my opinion, you know, it's just my
Speaker 5: opinion that if you brought back the death penalty, and
Speaker 5: me just my opinion, I would make it public.
Speaker 2: Well certain, as a kid who grew up in Texas,
Speaker 2: you know, I never witnessed, you know, a death sentence, obviously,
Speaker 2: but I can remember as a kid, and I don't
Speaker 2: remember what night of the week, I want to say,
Speaker 2: Friday nights. But they would towards the end of the programming,
Speaker 2: you know, when TV wasn't twenty four hours a day,
Speaker 2: they would actually scroll the names of the people who
Speaker 2: were going to be put to death. And you know
Speaker 2: that may not seem like much, but it was just
Speaker 2: a name and what their charge was. From what I
Speaker 2: can remember, I was pretty young, but that's pretty impactful.
Speaker 2: And I can't help but think that, you know, if
Speaker 2: that was happening today, Mike changed a few people's minds.
Speaker 5: I think. So I go back to Anti in a
Speaker 5: long tournament.
Speaker 2: I don't say we're coming up on a hard break,
Speaker 2: but hey, I appreciate you calling in. I couldn't agree
Speaker 2: with your comments more. The dims are wrecking our state
Speaker 2: and we got to bring it back. After this break,
Speaker 2: we'll have Laura Carno with us. You're listening to The
Speaker 2: Dan Caplis Show with Steve Raims. Well, Kenny Sheriff is
Speaker 2: your guest host.
Speaker 6: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Dan capless Show with Well can
Speaker 2: you Shriff? Steve Riems as a guest host today, And
Speaker 2: this is day three of three and just coming off
Speaker 2: of vacation and going back to work and then coming
Speaker 2: down here and doing the radio show. I can tell
Speaker 2: you I am ready for a weekend, and it couldn't
Speaker 2: be a better one than the Independence Day weekend, fourth
Speaker 2: of July. Call it whatever you want, but the chance
Speaker 2: to go out and launch fireworks and have a cold
Speaker 2: beer and enjoy the weekend. I think that's what better
Speaker 2: way to celebrate America. But I have a special guest
Speaker 2: with us for this next little, next little time. Many
Speaker 2: of you may know Laura Carno. She's with Faster Colorado
Speaker 2: and Laura is known for helping to create a system
Speaker 2: for getting teachers weapons training in those schools that are
Speaker 2: smart enough to say we want to arm our teachers
Speaker 2: and let them fight back against anyone who may want
Speaker 2: to do harm to our kids. And on the line
Speaker 2: with us is Laura Carno. Laura, how are you doing?
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm great, Sure, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2: You bet it's always a pleasure, you know. For the
Speaker 2: listeners that don't know exactly what your school is all about,
Speaker 2: or what your program is all about, can you give
Speaker 2: them kind of a quick rundown about Faster Colorado and
Speaker 2: kind of the what was the driving force behind that?
Speaker 4: Sure thing? So it has been legal in Colorado for
Speaker 4: about twenty years for schools to make a decision to
Speaker 4: have armed staff programs and rural schools were obviously the
Speaker 4: early adopters, and so there have been schools out there
Speaker 4: that are armed. What we do at Faster Colorado is
Speaker 4: they have these schools have training requirements, which is good,
Speaker 4: and we help to provide that training. So their insurance
Speaker 4: company says, you've got to do all this training every year.
Speaker 4: You've got to get qualified on a firearm, just like
Speaker 4: law enforcement does. And so we with our law enforcement instructors,
Speaker 4: provide that training that meets the needs of their insurance company.
Speaker 4: And we've been doing this savor in our ninth training already.
Speaker 2: That's amazing and believe that.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, we've seen over four hundred people so far
Speaker 4: in forty two of Colorado's school districts. So it's a
Speaker 4: pretty big program, much bigger than those folks.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, I agree, And without naming schools, I will
Speaker 2: say there are several schools in Weld County that adhere
Speaker 2: to the Faster program and arm their staff. And I'm
Speaker 2: grateful that they do so because especially in a rural area,
Speaker 2: you know, the old adage of law enforcement is only
Speaker 2: minutes away when seconds count, So having someone who can
Speaker 2: who can respond in a very quick way is obviously important,
Speaker 2: you know, one of the one of the things that's
Speaker 2: always said about, well, if you armed teachers, you know
Speaker 2: you're going to put a gun in the school and
Speaker 2: the students can take it away. Uh, what's your what's
Speaker 2: your response to those kind of comments?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, that's we've a frequently asked questions uh
Speaker 4: tab on our page faster Colorado dot org. That's one
Speaker 4: of the things we have there because we do get
Speaker 4: asked that question a lot. And the good news is
Speaker 4: is that hasn't happened ever in the history of armed
Speaker 4: staff programs across the country. But we also train around
Speaker 4: that because yes, it is a very real fear for
Speaker 4: a lot of people. But you know, the schools that
Speaker 4: are armed are concealed carry. So typically in a typical
Speaker 4: armed school, the public doesn't know who which of the
Speaker 4: individuals in the school are carrying, and they are deep concealment,
Speaker 4: so we shouldn't know, just like any other concealed carry
Speaker 4: person outside of a school, we shouldn't know. But we
Speaker 4: do report weapons retention training and those kind of things
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 2: So I mean, I think that actually adds an element
Speaker 2: of safety to the schools. One, yes, they're concealed carrying,
Speaker 2: but two not knowing for the public to not know
Speaker 2: exactly who's carrying and who's not, it's just one more
Speaker 2: layer that they got to try to overcome if someone
Speaker 2: does want to do harm to the school. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just smart in my opinion. One of the things
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk with you about was a house
Speaker 2: built twenty four DASH eleven seventy four was passed in
Speaker 2: the twenty four legislative session and went into effect on
Speaker 2: July one of this year, and some of the provisions
Speaker 2: of that definitely impact people who are concealed weapons carriers.
Speaker 2: It requires you to take a refresher course if you're
Speaker 2: already a licensed carrier, six months before you're ex diation date,
Speaker 2: so that you can go in and renew your permit.
Speaker 2: And if you're a first time applicant, you have to
Speaker 2: take a two day course now and in total of
Speaker 2: twelve hours, and you have to take that course within
Speaker 2: one year of applying to get your concealed weapons permit.
Speaker 2: Do you see that as a as a hurdle for
Speaker 2: these kind of programs? Does it benefit these kind of
Speaker 2: programs anyway? And I know that's a compound question, but
Speaker 2: one more tenant to that do you think this does
Speaker 2: anything to stop our lower crime in Colorado when it
Speaker 2: pertains to weapons crime.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So let's start with schools. So I mentioned that we've had,
Speaker 4: you know, four hundred or so folks come through over
Speaker 4: the last nine years, and the three hundred of them
Speaker 4: are rural people. So I've really gotten to know a
Speaker 4: lot of rural people all around this state of Colorado.
Speaker 4: And what I have learned is everything's harder when.
Speaker 5: You're a rural right.
Speaker 2: You mentioned you.
Speaker 4: Know, the response times for long or smar longer. This
Speaker 4: makes it harder for rural people. And here's why these
Speaker 4: classes may not be available around them. We've we've worked
Speaker 4: with rural schools that don't have any any instructors in
Speaker 4: nearby for them to get there and so carry permit
Speaker 4: at all, much less these these multiple day situations which
Speaker 4: would cause them to go closer to the metro area.
Speaker 4: Might they have to stay over It's just making it
Speaker 4: more expensive and more difficult. The other thing that happens
Speaker 4: in rural areas, as you know, a lot of people
Speaker 4: who work in schools have other jobs in the summer.
Speaker 4: They might sell real estate, they might might do other
Speaker 4: things for an additional job. They can't just take a
Speaker 4: bunch of time off to go do these things and
Speaker 4: have multiple days and leave their community to do so.
Speaker 4: So it's just making it more difficult, which my sense
Speaker 4: is that's the point. But it doesn't make it easier.
Speaker 4: It is a hurdle. And then your third question, does
Speaker 4: it make anybody safer? What we hear a lot from
Speaker 4: legislators who pass and vote for laws like this is
Speaker 4: we want everybody to feel safer. Well, you and I
Speaker 4: both know that feeling safer is very different than being
Speaker 4: being safer.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, and.
Speaker 4: These laws do nothing to make anybody safer. And you know,
Speaker 4: if armed staff in schools were a problem, there are
Speaker 4: thousands of them nationwide quietly carrying in school. We would
Speaker 4: know if they were a problem. They are not a problem.
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you more. And every time I
Speaker 2: hear this stuff, you know, the emphasis from these legislators
Speaker 2: is that basically, well you know these crazy can stilled
Speaker 2: carry permit holders. You know, they're the ones that are
Speaker 2: out there using their gun and brandishing their gun and
Speaker 2: committing all the crime. And there's just not data to
Speaker 2: back that up. But they make comments or they infer
Speaker 2: comments and pass laws like this to make it sound like,
Speaker 2: you know, the law abiding citizen who wants to carry
Speaker 2: a weapon for their own protection is the problem, and
Speaker 2: that can be further from the.
Speaker 4: Truth, right, And if folks aren't familiar with crimeresearch dot org,
Speaker 4: which is the website of the Crime and Prevention Research Center,
Speaker 4: they've got so much research. When you say the data
Speaker 4: doesn't back it up, they do all of that research.
Speaker 4: And one of the pieces that a lot of people
Speaker 4: point to, including me, is that can still carry permit
Speaker 4: holders are the most law abiding segment of society, even
Speaker 4: more law abiding than law enforcement as a population, and
Speaker 4: so we should feel good about our neighbor being a
Speaker 4: constilled carry holder instead of being fearful about that. It
Speaker 4: makes everybody safer, and they are extremely law abiding.
Speaker 2: You're hitting every point I wanted to make you know.
Speaker 2: In Weld County when I took over, we had about
Speaker 2: eleven thousand concealed permit holders in the county. We're up
Speaker 2: almost twenty eight thousand now. But one of the things
Speaker 2: that we saw right before the effective date of this
Speaker 2: house built twenty four eleven seventy four going in was
Speaker 2: on Monday, which was the last day of June one
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty people coming through the building to try
Speaker 2: to renew or get their permit to beat the deadline.
Speaker 2: We normally deal with about twenty five to forty people.
Speaker 2: As of the new law going into place, because there's
Speaker 2: so many hurdles to jump through, we're getting like one
Speaker 2: or two a day, and I suspect that's going to
Speaker 2: be the way it is across the state for quite
Speaker 2: some time. That can't be good for making Colorado safer.
Speaker 2: Would you agree with that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And Steve, we have some instructors outside of Faster
Speaker 4: who help get people ready to come to faster. Our
Speaker 4: Level one class is not a beginner class, and a
Speaker 4: number of them have said, we're not doing consiled carry
Speaker 4: permits anymore. We want to help the faster students, but
Speaker 4: we're not doing consil carry permits anymore because there's just
Speaker 4: too much to do and I'm not set up for
Speaker 4: that right So, so it is, it is reducing the
Speaker 4: number of people that are doing that. Certainly they are
Speaker 4: going to so be folks doing that, But those those
Speaker 4: Faster Essentials instructors, you are kind of split on those
Speaker 4: who are going to continue to do it and those
Speaker 4: who aren't, and that just it's basically the legislature making
Speaker 4: it harder for a business to do business. And again
Speaker 4: I think that was by design, but it's not fair
Speaker 4: to law abiding people. It's not fair to people in
Speaker 4: the higher crime areas of Colorado who need to be
Speaker 4: able to have those choices to protect their family with
Speaker 4: a firearm if that's what they choose.
Speaker 2: One hundred Well, let's end with this. Laura. I know
Speaker 2: your program has plenty of followers and there's plenty of
Speaker 2: people to have interest, But if people want to learn
Speaker 2: more about Faster Colorado, where do they go and how
Speaker 2: can they How can they get more information?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they can go to Faster Colorado dot org.
Speaker 4: And we are a five oh one C three So
Speaker 4: if folks would like to help us out with what
Speaker 4: we do, we'd be happy to talk to anyone who
Speaker 4: wants to support the mission. And if you're a school
Speaker 4: that's looking at this, check us out. All of our
Speaker 4: information is there in the classes and our team and
Speaker 4: reach out to us. We were happy to help schools
Speaker 4: through the process.
Speaker 2: And as a testimony, I will say that Laura's done
Speaker 2: her program at one of my shooting facilities and hopefully
Speaker 2: we'll be doing it at our new shooting facility soon,
Speaker 2: and we're going to do everything we can in Weld
Speaker 2: County to make sure your program and the teachers who
Speaker 2: want to get engaged with it are successful. So thanks
Speaker 2: for coming on the show, Thanks for what you do,
Speaker 2: and hopefully the listeners out there will lean in and
Speaker 2: try to make sure that their school districts are also
Speaker 2: using your program.
Speaker 4: Yes, definitely, thanks for having me on shore.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thanks Laura. With that, we'll cut the brake,
Speaker 2: and when we come back, we'll clean up this first hour.
Speaker 2: And I got to ask Ryan a few questions about
Speaker 2: his last guest because I'm pretty sure he had the
Speaker 2: President on. I mean just caught the end of it,
Speaker 2: but I saw these black limos outside and black blacked
Speaker 2: out cars. I didn't see the President leaving, but maybe
Speaker 2: he was even here in studio. I don't know. Let's
Speaker 2: go to break and when we come back, we'll get
Speaker 2: Ryan on and pinning down about how you got the
Speaker 2: President Online. You listen to the Dan Caplea Show here
Speaker 2: on six point thirty k high with Steve Raams as
Speaker 2: your guest host.
Speaker 6: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast back with.
Speaker 2: The Dan Capless Show with the Wild Kenny Share Steve
Speaker 2: Raams as your guest, and that was President Trump, also known.
Speaker 6: As Sean Ferrett.
Speaker 2: So I got to tell you, Ryan, I don't know
Speaker 2: exactly how you found that guy or how you got
Speaker 2: him on your show, but he is He's just so good.
Speaker 2: He just plays off of whatever questions you ask. And
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just he's amazing.
Speaker 7: I especially when I'm running my own board and Kelly's
Speaker 7: in here, I have to cut my mic or she's
Speaker 7: laughing in the background.
Speaker 8: Or I'm laughing in the background because.
Speaker 6: I got to play that like Dan Aykroyd's straight band character.
Speaker 8: I can't do it. No, it's it's impossible.
Speaker 7: But that exchange, right there was one of his finest
Speaker 7: and Sean the reason I found out about him, and
Speaker 7: I tell this story often.
Speaker 6: He was on in mar A.
Speaker 7: Lago with Buck and Buck Sexton did what I did
Speaker 7: and presented him like it was the President and didn't
Speaker 7: give it away to the audience, at least not till
Speaker 7: the end.
Speaker 8: I was doing some housework listening in on the show.
Speaker 7: It was two three, four minutes in and Shawn's just
Speaker 7: riffing doing his thing.
Speaker 8: I'm like, man, I'm like, maybe it's not, but it
Speaker 8: sounds like it is.
Speaker 7: And he's from Long Island, Shawn is he's got it down,
Speaker 7: just like President Trump is from Long Island. He's got
Speaker 7: the accent, the affect, the phrase is everything. He's actually
Speaker 7: auditioned for Saturday Night Live before, but there was a
Speaker 7: political problem there from him. He maybe didn't want to
Speaker 7: join the cast, and I think he had been introduced
Speaker 7: to Lauren Michaels. But as you can hear, he's a
Speaker 7: tremendous talent, very entertaining and that was awesome.
Speaker 2: He's one hundred percent better than any of the people
Speaker 2: they have doing impersonations on there with Yeah, he's I
Speaker 2: don't know what he looks like. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: google it and find out, but I'll send.
Speaker 8: You his link for his execution.
Speaker 2: He is. He's just amazing that every time you have
Speaker 2: him on, I have to pause and take a second
Speaker 2: and second listen. Is that actually him?
Speaker 9: Well, the first time he was ever on, I had
Speaker 9: scheduled it so Ryan and he can both do their
Speaker 9: Trump impressions because Ryan I don't handle the Trump impression,
Speaker 9: so and The first thing he said is you don't
Speaker 9: want to quit your day job.
Speaker 6: He says that every time he's with me.
Speaker 2: Now I heard.
Speaker 7: Real quick too. He was on with me while I
Speaker 7: was feeling over on KOA and that caused quite I
Speaker 7: remember that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were they thought that was the real deal too.
Speaker 8: It's like War of the World type stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh, Man, I don't know. Every time I listened to him,
Speaker 2: I'm like, now that I know he's a regular guest
Speaker 2: on your show, you know, I kind of got it now.
Speaker 2: But the first time about crashed my car, I mean,
Speaker 2: I thought I did good to get Homan on the show,
Speaker 2: But man, you get the president.
Speaker 8: Like, well, you actually got Tom Holman.
Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, I got the real guy. But Man's
Speaker 2: it's just always fun to listen to. So that'll close
Speaker 2: out the first hour. At the top of the second hour,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have a governor's candidate, Bryson Garrison, who's a
Speaker 2: brighton fire chief, so we believe he should be able
Speaker 2: to bring the fire in his interview. We'll get to
Speaker 2: him right at the top of the hour. But you're
Speaker 2: listening to Dan Caples show here with the Wellcounty Sheriff
Speaker 2: Steve Rams as your guest host,