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your support. So there's been an arrest and now the guy,
the suspect, got his bond set. This twenty year old
punk arrested days after a party up in Katawba County
where one person was fatally shot eleven others injured. The
Kataba County Sheriff made the announcement that Garroon Nathaniel Killian
couldn't see that coming anyway. Of Lenore, or as I
call it, Lenoir was charged with attempted first to murder.
So I'm not sure why it's just attempted at this point,
but additional arrests, the Sheriff's office said, will be coming.
Law enforcement responded Saturday at eleven pm to a noise
complaint at a house in southwest Kataba County's Mountain View community.
Less than two hours later, they then had to return,
where to reports that there was a shooting and it killed.
The shooting left a fifty eight year old man dead,
Sean Patrick Hood. He apparently played for the Crawdad's baseball
team long time ago. Sunday's party had been advertised in
a social media post as a quote topless pool party.
I'm going to be very interested to know all of
the details surrounding this event, okay, because like the aerial footage,
I guess they sent a drone up to shoot video.
I mean, this was a large house, seemed to be
a nice house with a big pool in the backyard
on a really large piece of property, and cars were
parked all over the you know, really large lawn and stuff.
And I gotta tell you, the first thing I thought
was that this is well, the first thing I thought
when I heard house party, like, I just think, okay, well,
these are the types of parties I used to throw
when I was in college. You know, we had hundreds
of people at our That's not a humble break. I'm serious.
We had hundreds of people, maybe thousands. Look, the fraternities
would cancel their parties when we held ours. Okay, that's
how big our parties were. So like, I know a
thing or two about this from a you know, an
event planning standpoint, and so the first thing I thought was, okay,
probably like a bunch of young people with a you know,
rental or something. But when I saw the size of
this house, I started thinking, is this is this like
an Airbnb? And then you hear that they're advertising it
on social media. They're charging twenty bucks at the door.
We never charged that. I mean inflation, I understand and all,
but like we would charge three bucks five if you
weren't wearing a costume, Like we weren't, you know, gouging people here.
So there were videos that were shot from inside the
pool party that were posted up on Facebook, which is
really bizarre because I didn't think like the twenty somethings
used Facebook anymore. And that's who apparently was in a
lot of the videos. The Charlotte Observer pointed out that
no one in the video was topless. So some false
advertising there in order to get people to show up
at your party, I guess. But this thug named Killian
is being held without bond at the jail in Newton.
He did get a bond. I think today. I think
I just heard in the NewsCap it was like a
quarter of a million dollars or something like that. According
to a Hickory Police news release, Killian was charged in
April in an unrelated shooting. Wait what in April? That
was like two It's like four weeks ago. What do
you Police responded to Cataba Valley Boulevard early in the
morning on April sixth, where shots had been fired into
a crowd during a fight. No one was injured. Police
charged Killian and another man with seven counts of attempted
first degree murder. You have seven counts of attempted first
degree murder on you and you are out. You can't
even blame the juvenile justice laws, right, you can't even
say that this is something you know legislatively. Oh, we
can't because even then, if it's attempted first degree murder,
you can try them as an adult. You can hold them.
Why is this guy out on the street with seven
counts of attempted first degree murder, seven counts of assault
with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, going armed
to the terror of the public, and discharging a firearm
in the city limits. What do I keep saying? This
is a choice. I don't know who the DA is
up there. I don't know what judge heard this case.
I don't know any details. But all I know is
what's right there. You got seven counts of attempted first
degree murder, seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon
with intent to kill. You should not have bond. There
should be no chance that you get out. No chance.
I understand the point of bond. I understand it's that
you know, to make you show up for your court appearances.
This guy is a threat to the community. He opened
fire in a crowd, and now I'm supposed to be
surprised that lo and behold. Six weeks later, he opened
fire into another crowd. No, somebody like somebody who has
the mindset to do that kind of a thing, to
just start firing indiscriminately into a crowd of people is
a menace to all people. He doesn't get to enjoy
freedom while he stands trial for these charges. And now
a man is dead because somebody didn't want to hold
him without bond. I don't know who that somebody is
up in Catawba, County. God knows what's going on up there.
I got we got our own problems down here. Like
down here, we got Sheriff's office employees stamp in each
other at the arrest intake area. How do you even
get a knife into this area? WBTV reported a Mecklinburg
County Sheriff's office employee has been arrested after she allegedly
stamps you have a co worker multiple times on Monday.
You know there are cameras there, right, You know there
are cameras. This is the arrest processing center. You know
they got cameras. And you are in a jail. You
work in the jail. This should be a constant reminder
to you of what happens when you do bad things.
Okay I said that, and now I'm realizing, actually no,
probably not. You could probably stab some people and not
go to jail. In Mecklinberg County, the Sheriff's office said
the stabbing happened to the happened at the arrest processing
center during a fight between employees. Here is the press
release from Gary not my Fault McFadden's office. For some reason,
this press release did not have the massive photo of
him at the top of the page, like takes up
a third of the of the page on the press release.
For some reason, they didn't put his face on this one.
I don't know why. The Mecklinberg County Sheriff's Office arrested
Lakeisha after an altercation on June second at the processing center.
She produced a knife, had you get the knife into
the jail, sheriff had that happen, and stabbed a fellow
employee multiple times, resulting in serious but non life threatening injuries.
The Sheriff's office staff immediately responded, restraining her. Easter was
a fingerprint examiner at the Arrest Processing Center hired on
April eighteenth, twenty twelve, terminated June second as a result
of the incident, taken into custy by CMPD without further incident.
Charges our forthcoming and will be announced once formalized. I've
not seen that yet. And then there's this at the
end of this press release. This is an isolated and
extremely unfortunate event. We are grateful for the quick actions
of the Meckleberg County Sheriff's Office staff, which likely prevented
further harm, said Sheriff McFadden. Quote. No one expects violence
to erupt in their work in their place of work,
and yet incidents like this remind us how critical it
is to identify and address warning signs early. Well, how
do you think you did on that score? Gary, how
do you think you did there? Identifying and addressing warning
signs early? Did you say could you say you missed
something there? No? No, I know It's not your fault.
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get to some messages. Mark says, how about knowingly releasing
criminals back into the community. You know the illegals are criminals,
and instead of calling ice, you dump them back on
the community. Yeah, I agree, Russ says the shooter and
Hickory ties into the cricket dispersing moonbats from the first segment. Personally,
I lean more towards firearms and ammo vending machines on
every corner. But those who show negligence, malice or cause
harm should be severely punished severely. They keep passing gun laws,
but the same folks that advocate for those laws are
the first to drop charges or show leniency when a
bad guy gets caught with a gun. Yeah, like this
is this is the gas lighting. We need more gun
laws like right now today, and I'll go back and
watch it later as part of my three hour workday.
By the way, that's a reference to a caller yesterday.
So anyway, I'll go back and watch this this floor
debate that was had over I believe it was permitless
carry or universal conceal I forget. Look, I have a
concealed carry permit, and I will probably always keep my
like I will try to keep my permit even if
I don't need the permit to conceal carry, I will
still do that because if I want to go to
a different state, I want the reciprocity in that other state. Okay,
So I will always keep mind. Now, some people don't
want to, they don't travel or for whatever reason. Doesn't matter.
But the whole gun debate is being had now. We
got gun violence Awareness Month. You know the proclamation last
night that was used as a cover story basically for
these left wing activists to drop a whole bunch of
crickets in the chambers of the Mecklelberg County Commission. But
it's one of these things where the same people of
the left that demand stricter gun laws then don't prosecute
the gun law violators. Why is that? Why is that?
Because the issue is never the issue, right, the issue
is always the revolution. You destabilize a society by tearing
at the infrastructure that preserves order, and with the opposite
of order, chaos. You create the chaos, so people clamor
for a restoration of order, and they will let you
then do almost anything. Why do you think people, why
do you think people's attitudes on deportation have changed so
radically over the last ten years. Like I remember, even
on the right, there were a whole bunch of people
that were like, well, you know, we don't need to
deport all of them, you know, just the criminals, and
this the attitudes have shifted. Why is that? It's because
the chaos created by the open border policies now prompts
the reaction. We need to restore order, and so now
it's like, we don't care. Get somebody in there who's
going to do it all for us. And this is
what democrats are running up against as they try to know, Oh,
the Maryland manned and now they've got another Massachusetts man
who was like a child rapist, Like, you guys picked
the worst people. Yeah, I'm supposed to be now all
outraged that the the terrorist from Egypt that set Jews
on fire for Palestine, I'm supposed to be sad that
his family now just got deported to they're all illegal aliens. Also, sorry,
like maybe your dad because he said he told authorities.
I waited until my daughter graduated high school before I
did this. Okay, y'all can go, all, y'all can go.
You're all out, sorry, like, oh, the sins of the
father kind of thing. No, Like, there isn't any more
quarter to be given none. We're done. And so now
we're talking about gun control. How dare you allow people
to conceal carry you without a permit? Don't you know
it's going to make things dangerous? Did you know that
criminals already concealed carry. I know it's true. I would
never have guessed it either. Somebody who makes a habit
of violating all sorts of laws does not adhere to
that law. It is really a brain buster, but it's true.
It's the research is clear. Meanwhile, as we ramp up
for gun violence prevention Awareness month or day or week
or whatever, and everybody's wearing orange, right, you're going to
hear a citation of a CDC data point, which is
that guns are the number one killer of children. They've
been saying this for a couple of years now. I've
been pushing back on it every chance I get because
it is a misrepresentation. I'm not sure that they know it.
I'm sure a lot of people in the you know,
the leadership of these organizations that are advancing this this lie,
I know they know it. But the people who just
you know, regurgitate it and haven't done the research, they
don't know it. Which is why I am going to
give credit where it is due to the Charlotte Observer.
I know for real, Charlotte Observer, seriously, thank you, kudos,
good job because they printed an opinion piece. An opinion
piece from David Mastio, who is a national opinion columnist
for McClatchy and the Kansas City Star. He's a former
deputy editorial page editor for the liberal USA Today and
the conservative Washington Times. He's worked in opinion journalism as
a common editor, editorial writer, and a columnist for thirty years.
He was also a speech writer for the George W.
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So seriously, thank you to the Charlotte Observer for publishing
if it was their choice, but for publishing a column
by David Mastio. He says, with Robert F. Kennedy, make
children healthy again with that effort, the report under attack.
Democrats are worrying about a politicized public health system selling
snake oil to the American public. Now, I would point
out a Govco health ministry has been obliterating trust in
this industry for a while on its own. So he says,
there was a time when public health officials simply made
up the claim that staying six feet apart would help
stop the spread of COVID, and the time top officials
and scientists conspired to falsely debunk concerns that the coronavirus
was released from a Chinese lab. And then there were
times when public health advice was politicized, like when public
health officials said gathering in groups was unsafe, except if
you were protesting the death of Saint George Floyd. They're
not just about COVID either. Remember the great kerfuffle over Flint,
Michigan's lead problem. The people who were telling you that
black kids were poisoned forgot to tell you that their
own data showed blood level of blood lead levels in
the poisoned quote unquote kids were actually much lower than
a decade earlier when nobody was talking about poisoned kids.
This weekend, you'll be treated to another misinformation campaign that
comes with the impremature of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention in the National Institutes of Health. It's time
for the annual Gun Violence Awareness Week. So you'll be
hearing gun deaths are the number one cause of deaths
of American children and adolescents, or guns are the number
one killer of kids. Right. However, guns are actually not
the number one killer of children at any age between
zero and twelve, or what I would consider to be kids.
They never have been. Cars are the biggest killer. Who
says the CDC database, it's called wonder wnder. It's an
acronym of some kind, and that tracks the cause of
death in most US deaths and indexed by race, sex,
and age, among other characteristics. And for a number of years,
for a number of care kids, years of life, drowning
or falls are the greater threat than guns. Here's what
the CDC says, quote, taking into account all types of
firearm injuries, including homicides, suicides, and unintentional injuries, firearm injuries
where the leading cause of death among children and teens
ages one to nineteen. And what they mean then is
if you lump all the dead kids and teenagers into
one gruesome pile and count how they died, the number
one killer was guns. But that's only because guns kill
so many teens, a large number of them eighteen and
nineteen year old adult teens. Basically, it has nothing to
do with children's deaths, but by conflating the groups, they
get to make the emotional appeal. You know, this poor
one year old toddler, you know has this greater than
you know, normal chance of being murdered with a gun.
And it's not true. So why would the CDC do
something so misleading like this. Well, it goes back many
decades when reporting what the leading killer of children and
teens would do. It made sense at the time, right,
The killer was the same for all of them, and
it was accidents, mostly car accidents, and so they reported
that number all together because it didn't matter every single
age group, every age category, it was always car accidents.
So they just put them all together as kids car accidents.
But when guns overtook car accidents during the Biden administration,
they just kept doing the same thing they had always done.
Gun control groups loved it because it lets them make
the claim that children are dying left and right from guns.
That scared concerned parents into backing their agenda and coughing
up donations. The Biden administration CDC did not seem to mind.
But there's more to the story. Remember, guns are the
number one killer of teens. But are guns a threat
to your kids? Probably not, He says. Guns are not
the number one killer of female teens, White teens, Hispanic teens,
Asian teens, Native American teens. In fact, the only group
for whom this claim is true is black teens, which
is statistically troubling. Why, he says, if your goal is
to raise campaign donations and build a national political movement
to restrict gun rights. Stats don't matter. Scaring parents whose
kids are not at risk by fudging the issue, well,
now that works pretty well. If your goal is to
get Congress to fork go for millions in research grants
on the problem of gun violence. It works great to
make Congress think that the bullets are flying everywhere and
the blood is flowing on rural, suburban, and urban congressional
district streets alike. But if your goal is to actually
solve the problem, then it really does matter just who
is dying and why. Only when we face the answer
to that question, can we focus resources where the problem
is and come up with ways to do something about it.
And it would be nice if the CDC made that
a priority. Again. This was by David Mastio at the
cd or sorry, at the Charlotte Observer. He's a McClatchy writer.
The CDC says guns of the number one killer of children.
Here's what's really true. I've said this for years, ever
since The Washington Post did a deep dive trying to
get at the the stats on gun deaths, and the
reporter who did it said she went in there with
one mindset gun grabber and came now with the exact
opposite when she saw the data the number one gun
death cause you know number one is well, now I'm
going to so I know the top three. I forget
if the number one is suicide or domestic violence. I
believe it's suicide. Number two is domestic violence, and number
three is street crime. All three of those require different responses.
And so if you're constructing some sort of a policy
to reduce gun deaths without differentiating what you're actually targeting,
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of messages. Let's check the inbox here. Jay says, I
let my carry permit expire in twenty seventeen, and when
I went to renew, I had to take the class
all over again. And then not my fault, mcfatten. It
took over a year and a week to get my
permit to me. Guns are the number one killer of
children only if you include the sixteen to twenty one
age group. Drowning is the number one killer of well,
it depends on the age category. But yeah, like it's
not guns. It's you only get that stat if you
include eighteen plus, And it doesn't mean that those deaths
are any more tragic or less tragic, I should say, right,
it's simply to say that they're juicing the stats. They're
using this misleading conflation for political purposes. Regarding taxes, these
are emails from the entire program for over the last
two and a half hours or so. What about the
thousands of additional properties that have been built in Mecklenberg
County the last several years. City council never mentions that
or considers that in relation to property tax increases with
all of the additional properties, there should be no need
for additional taxes. This is one of those things. I
remember having this argument with city leaders there's twenty years
ago when they kept saying growth doesn't pay for itself,
and I said, well, then why do we want to grow? Right,
If it doesn't pay for itself, why would we want it?
And they were like, oh, well you don't want to
be shrinking because that's even worse. Oh I see, so
there isn't a scenario where taxes don't go up. Well
that's convenient, Dennis says, My hat's off to you, Pete
for taking your time to keep an eagle eye on
our stalwart stewards. Of Mecklenburg. That board of Commissioners has
blown more money each year on unaccountable projects, and I'm
glad I have eagle eyepte to explain the state of
the madness carry on a ego, thank you, sir. Mark
rate juggling aside. Let's do a comparison of reassessments. Most
went up seventy percent last time, and the prior reassessment
up over forty percent. And these are of course higher
than most other counties near by. Right, So when they
did the revaluations, they jacked up everybody's property values. They
assess them at higher values. So therefore the rate you
were paying now means more dollars out of your pocket.
The rate may have stayed the same or even declined,
but because your property is being assessed at a higher value,
you're paying more actual dollars out of pocket. I have
rentals and my own in the county. That experience that
many elderly folks in areas like Weddington etc. Are being
taxed out of their homes reminds me of reconstruction preaching
to the choir. But almost half of that goes to
the failing CMS schools, which keep sucking up the money
with zero accountability, not to mention staggering bond funds. Correct
me if I'm wrong. But Dana Diorio, longtime county manager
that did just retire, came from New York, loves big budgets,
tax more, etc. I don't know if she came from
New York, but her accent would indicate it. And of
course with that hard hitting social services degree all over
strict financial management and ability to push back on excessive spending.
Of course, three hundred K plus payoffs do add up.
So just general malaise. Now, I do have a bunch
of emails from yesterday that I did not get to
because we were having such a good time chatting with
the various callers on education funding, specifically teacher pay right
and so I did not get to these, but I
feel I need to read them because there was a
lot of pushback to the three different teachers who called in,
and I got to say, did not exactly present themselves
as the best ambassadors for their positions. But I'm not
going to go into the arguments. I don't have enough time,
so let me just read a couple of messages. Sean said.
Where I work, no one is full time, so they
don't have to provide insurance or any other benefits. My
hourly rate is the same as when I started five
years ago. No merit raise, no cost of living raise ever.
Eddie said, I just wanted to give you a pat
on the back for today's show. I enjoy hearing arguments
one with truth and common sense, and you killed it today.
I thoroughly enjoy your show in all things WBT, Thank you, Edie.
I appreciate it. Benway Katz said, everybody keeps talking about
the eight weeks of vacation teachers get in the summer.
Don't forget they also get two weeks of Christmas a
week in the spring, in addition to numerous other holidays
that are only observed in education. Timoteo said, I was
a welder for thirty six years. My last three years
were twelve hour shifts twenty eight days straight with two
days off a month. I wore my body out. Everything hurts,
scars everywhere, lowered kidney function from repeated nsaid use, I
don't know what that is, and lowered oxygen saturation from
damaged lungs. I'm wishing I had been a teacher instead.
Oh well, life choices, Vector said, I did not get
a raised from the state from twenty thirteen when the
General Assembly reforms took place, through my retirement in twenty twenty.
Veteran teachers had longevity pay rolled into their salaries. In
the years that followed. Their pay was the greater of
the payscale salary or their sal How are you when
the reforms were implemented, No raise for me as a conservative,
I was disappointed, but I sucked it up. By the way,
I spent twenty eight years in the private sector before
teaching to love your program. Thank you, Vick, appreciate it.
Just a sampling of that's about half of the emails
I got in opposition to those that we heard from
at length yesterday. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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