1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,600 your support. So there's been an arrest and now the guy, 10 00:00:31,719 --> 00:00:35,520 the suspect, got his bond set. This twenty year old 11 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:41,240 punk arrested days after a party up in Katawba County 12 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 where one person was fatally shot eleven others injured. The 13 00:00:46,119 --> 00:00:50,960 Kataba County Sheriff made the announcement that Garroon Nathaniel Killian 14 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,320 couldn't see that coming anyway. Of Lenore, or as I 15 00:00:56,359 --> 00:01:00,560 call it, Lenoir was charged with attempted first to murder. 16 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,480 So I'm not sure why it's just attempted at this point, 17 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:07,760 but additional arrests, the Sheriff's office said, will be coming. 18 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,719 Law enforcement responded Saturday at eleven pm to a noise 19 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:17,200 complaint at a house in southwest Kataba County's Mountain View community. 20 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,159 Less than two hours later, they then had to return, 21 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:26,840 where to reports that there was a shooting and it killed. 22 00:01:27,359 --> 00:01:29,959 The shooting left a fifty eight year old man dead, 23 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,799 Sean Patrick Hood. He apparently played for the Crawdad's baseball 24 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:40,840 team long time ago. Sunday's party had been advertised in 25 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:46,400 a social media post as a quote topless pool party. 26 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:48,959 I'm going to be very interested to know all of 27 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:55,359 the details surrounding this event, okay, because like the aerial footage, 28 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,640 I guess they sent a drone up to shoot video. 29 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,560 I mean, this was a large house, seemed to be 30 00:02:02,599 --> 00:02:06,040 a nice house with a big pool in the backyard 31 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:12,599 on a really large piece of property, and cars were 32 00:02:12,599 --> 00:02:16,039 parked all over the you know, really large lawn and stuff. 33 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,400 And I gotta tell you, the first thing I thought 34 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:22,360 was that this is well, the first thing I thought 35 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,400 when I heard house party, like, I just think, okay, well, 36 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,159 these are the types of parties I used to throw 37 00:02:27,199 --> 00:02:30,560 when I was in college. You know, we had hundreds 38 00:02:30,599 --> 00:02:34,360 of people at our That's not a humble break. I'm serious. 39 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:41,639 We had hundreds of people, maybe thousands. Look, the fraternities 40 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,319 would cancel their parties when we held ours. Okay, that's 41 00:02:45,319 --> 00:02:49,000 how big our parties were. So like, I know a 42 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,639 thing or two about this from a you know, an 43 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,400 event planning standpoint, and so the first thing I thought was, okay, 44 00:02:53,439 --> 00:02:57,919 probably like a bunch of young people with a you know, 45 00:02:58,199 --> 00:03:01,120 rental or something. But when I saw the size of 46 00:03:01,159 --> 00:03:04,520 this house, I started thinking, is this is this like 47 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,520 an Airbnb? And then you hear that they're advertising it 48 00:03:09,599 --> 00:03:12,919 on social media. They're charging twenty bucks at the door. 49 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,520 We never charged that. I mean inflation, I understand and all, 50 00:03:16,599 --> 00:03:20,080 but like we would charge three bucks five if you 51 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,960 weren't wearing a costume, Like we weren't, you know, gouging people here. 52 00:03:26,599 --> 00:03:29,639 So there were videos that were shot from inside the 53 00:03:30,719 --> 00:03:33,039 pool party that were posted up on Facebook, which is 54 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,560 really bizarre because I didn't think like the twenty somethings 55 00:03:35,639 --> 00:03:38,520 used Facebook anymore. And that's who apparently was in a 56 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,240 lot of the videos. The Charlotte Observer pointed out that 57 00:03:42,479 --> 00:03:46,719 no one in the video was topless. So some false 58 00:03:46,759 --> 00:03:48,960 advertising there in order to get people to show up 59 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,680 at your party, I guess. But this thug named Killian 60 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,520 is being held without bond at the jail in Newton. 61 00:03:56,759 --> 00:03:59,039 He did get a bond. I think today. I think 62 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:00,719 I just heard in the NewsCap it was like a 63 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,919 quarter of a million dollars or something like that. According 64 00:04:03,919 --> 00:04:07,319 to a Hickory Police news release, Killian was charged in 65 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:15,240 April in an unrelated shooting. Wait what in April? That 66 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:21,560 was like two It's like four weeks ago. What do 67 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:26,160 you Police responded to Cataba Valley Boulevard early in the 68 00:04:26,199 --> 00:04:30,160 morning on April sixth, where shots had been fired into 69 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:35,480 a crowd during a fight. No one was injured. Police 70 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,079 charged Killian and another man with seven counts of attempted 71 00:04:39,199 --> 00:04:44,040 first degree murder. You have seven counts of attempted first 72 00:04:44,079 --> 00:04:48,160 degree murder on you and you are out. You can't 73 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:52,519 even blame the juvenile justice laws, right, you can't even 74 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,639 say that this is something you know legislatively. Oh, we 75 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,279 can't because even then, if it's attempted first degree murder, 76 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,319 you can try them as an adult. You can hold them. 77 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,800 Why is this guy out on the street with seven 78 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:09,839 counts of attempted first degree murder, seven counts of assault 79 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,959 with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, going armed 80 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,480 to the terror of the public, and discharging a firearm 81 00:05:16,519 --> 00:05:20,480 in the city limits. What do I keep saying? This 82 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,079 is a choice. I don't know who the DA is 83 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:26,519 up there. I don't know what judge heard this case. 84 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,639 I don't know any details. But all I know is 85 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,560 what's right there. You got seven counts of attempted first 86 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:34,800 degree murder, seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon 87 00:05:34,879 --> 00:05:38,839 with intent to kill. You should not have bond. There 88 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:43,399 should be no chance that you get out. No chance. 89 00:05:43,879 --> 00:05:46,759 I understand the point of bond. I understand it's that 90 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,199 you know, to make you show up for your court appearances. 91 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,759 This guy is a threat to the community. He opened 92 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,319 fire in a crowd, and now I'm supposed to be 93 00:05:56,439 --> 00:05:59,920 surprised that lo and behold. Six weeks later, he opened 94 00:06:00,199 --> 00:06:05,920 fire into another crowd. No, somebody like somebody who has 95 00:06:05,959 --> 00:06:08,879 the mindset to do that kind of a thing, to 96 00:06:09,079 --> 00:06:13,399 just start firing indiscriminately into a crowd of people is 97 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:18,439 a menace to all people. He doesn't get to enjoy 98 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:23,800 freedom while he stands trial for these charges. And now 99 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:28,920 a man is dead because somebody didn't want to hold 100 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,759 him without bond. I don't know who that somebody is 101 00:06:31,879 --> 00:06:34,360 up in Catawba, County. God knows what's going on up there. 102 00:06:34,759 --> 00:06:37,959 I got we got our own problems down here. Like 103 00:06:38,079 --> 00:06:41,600 down here, we got Sheriff's office employees stamp in each 104 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:47,720 other at the arrest intake area. How do you even 105 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:56,000 get a knife into this area? WBTV reported a Mecklinburg 106 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,480 County Sheriff's office employee has been arrested after she allegedly 107 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,279 stamps you have a co worker multiple times on Monday. 108 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:07,160 You know there are cameras there, right, You know there 109 00:07:07,199 --> 00:07:10,560 are cameras. This is the arrest processing center. You know 110 00:07:10,639 --> 00:07:13,959 they got cameras. And you are in a jail. You 111 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:18,199 work in the jail. This should be a constant reminder 112 00:07:18,319 --> 00:07:21,800 to you of what happens when you do bad things. 113 00:07:23,439 --> 00:07:28,360 Okay I said that, and now I'm realizing, actually no, 114 00:07:28,639 --> 00:07:31,399 probably not. You could probably stab some people and not 115 00:07:31,519 --> 00:07:34,279 go to jail. In Mecklinberg County, the Sheriff's office said 116 00:07:34,279 --> 00:07:37,240 the stabbing happened to the happened at the arrest processing 117 00:07:37,279 --> 00:07:41,720 center during a fight between employees. Here is the press 118 00:07:41,759 --> 00:07:46,439 release from Gary not my Fault McFadden's office. For some reason, 119 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,560 this press release did not have the massive photo of 120 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:51,680 him at the top of the page, like takes up 121 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,279 a third of the of the page on the press release. 122 00:07:54,439 --> 00:07:56,439 For some reason, they didn't put his face on this one. 123 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,079 I don't know why. The Mecklinberg County Sheriff's Office arrested 124 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:04,319 Lakeisha after an altercation on June second at the processing center. 125 00:08:04,759 --> 00:08:07,000 She produced a knife, had you get the knife into 126 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:11,120 the jail, sheriff had that happen, and stabbed a fellow 127 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,240 employee multiple times, resulting in serious but non life threatening injuries. 128 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:21,439 The Sheriff's office staff immediately responded, restraining her. Easter was 129 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,639 a fingerprint examiner at the Arrest Processing Center hired on 130 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:30,800 April eighteenth, twenty twelve, terminated June second as a result 131 00:08:30,839 --> 00:08:35,720 of the incident, taken into custy by CMPD without further incident. 132 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,440 Charges our forthcoming and will be announced once formalized. I've 133 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,840 not seen that yet. And then there's this at the 134 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:45,919 end of this press release. This is an isolated and 135 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,639 extremely unfortunate event. We are grateful for the quick actions 136 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:54,600 of the Meckleberg County Sheriff's Office staff, which likely prevented 137 00:08:54,679 --> 00:09:00,519 further harm, said Sheriff McFadden. Quote. No one expects violence 138 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,399 to erupt in their work in their place of work, 139 00:09:04,279 --> 00:09:07,440 and yet incidents like this remind us how critical it 140 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:14,279 is to identify and address warning signs early. Well, how 141 00:09:14,279 --> 00:09:18,240 do you think you did on that score? Gary, how 142 00:09:18,279 --> 00:09:22,320 do you think you did there? Identifying and addressing warning 143 00:09:22,399 --> 00:09:25,840 signs early? Did you say could you say you missed 144 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:27,919 something there? No? No, I know It's not your fault. 145 00:09:28,879 --> 00:09:30,759 I got you, not your fault. All right. If you're 146 00:09:30,799 --> 00:09:32,559 listening to this show, you know I try to keep 147 00:09:32,639 --> 00:09:34,360 up with all sorts of current events, and I know 148 00:09:34,399 --> 00:09:36,799 you do too. And you've probably heard me say get 149 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,799 your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how 150 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,440 you detect media bias, which is why I've been so 151 00:09:43,519 --> 00:09:47,759 impressed with ground News. It's an app, and it's a website, 152 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,200 and it combines news from around the world in one 153 00:09:50,279 --> 00:09:53,720 place so you can compare coverage and verify information. You 154 00:09:53,759 --> 00:09:57,320 can check it out at check dot ground, dot news 155 00:09:57,799 --> 00:10:00,919 slash Pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. 156 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:03,600 I started using ground News a few months ago, and 157 00:10:03,759 --> 00:10:06,320 more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate 158 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,679 because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered 159 00:10:09,759 --> 00:10:12,679 and by whom. 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You know the illegals are criminals, 169 00:10:45,919 --> 00:10:48,080 and instead of calling ice, you dump them back on 170 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:52,360 the community. Yeah, I agree, Russ says the shooter and 171 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:57,399 Hickory ties into the cricket dispersing moonbats from the first segment. Personally, 172 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,480 I lean more towards firearms and ammo vending machines on 173 00:11:00,519 --> 00:11:04,200 every corner. But those who show negligence, malice or cause 174 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:10,360 harm should be severely punished severely. They keep passing gun laws, 175 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,480 but the same folks that advocate for those laws are 176 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:16,240 the first to drop charges or show leniency when a 177 00:11:16,279 --> 00:11:19,519 bad guy gets caught with a gun. Yeah, like this 178 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:24,360 is this is the gas lighting. We need more gun 179 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,600 laws like right now today, and I'll go back and 180 00:11:27,639 --> 00:11:31,080 watch it later as part of my three hour workday. 181 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,159 By the way, that's a reference to a caller yesterday. 182 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:41,080 So anyway, I'll go back and watch this this floor 183 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:46,759 debate that was had over I believe it was permitless 184 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:52,600 carry or universal conceal I forget. Look, I have a 185 00:11:52,639 --> 00:11:57,440 concealed carry permit, and I will probably always keep my 186 00:11:57,759 --> 00:12:00,919 like I will try to keep my permit even if 187 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,120 I don't need the permit to conceal carry, I will 188 00:12:03,159 --> 00:12:04,759 still do that because if I want to go to 189 00:12:04,799 --> 00:12:08,440 a different state, I want the reciprocity in that other state. Okay, 190 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,480 So I will always keep mind. Now, some people don't 191 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,759 want to, they don't travel or for whatever reason. Doesn't matter. 192 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,960 But the whole gun debate is being had now. We 193 00:12:18,039 --> 00:12:23,440 got gun violence Awareness Month. You know the proclamation last 194 00:12:23,519 --> 00:12:28,200 night that was used as a cover story basically for 195 00:12:28,279 --> 00:12:31,879 these left wing activists to drop a whole bunch of 196 00:12:31,919 --> 00:12:36,559 crickets in the chambers of the Mecklelberg County Commission. But 197 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:41,000 it's one of these things where the same people of 198 00:12:41,159 --> 00:12:47,000 the left that demand stricter gun laws then don't prosecute 199 00:12:47,039 --> 00:12:51,559 the gun law violators. Why is that? Why is that? 200 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,559 Because the issue is never the issue, right, the issue 201 00:12:56,639 --> 00:13:01,919 is always the revolution. You destabilize a society by tearing 202 00:13:02,039 --> 00:13:08,480 at the infrastructure that preserves order, and with the opposite 203 00:13:08,519 --> 00:13:12,879 of order, chaos. You create the chaos, so people clamor 204 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:17,200 for a restoration of order, and they will let you 205 00:13:17,279 --> 00:13:22,080 then do almost anything. Why do you think people, why 206 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:27,159 do you think people's attitudes on deportation have changed so 207 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:34,000 radically over the last ten years. Like I remember, even 208 00:13:34,039 --> 00:13:35,960 on the right, there were a whole bunch of people 209 00:13:36,039 --> 00:13:37,559 that were like, well, you know, we don't need to 210 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,759 deport all of them, you know, just the criminals, and 211 00:13:39,799 --> 00:13:44,039 this the attitudes have shifted. Why is that? It's because 212 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:48,799 the chaos created by the open border policies now prompts 213 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:52,159 the reaction. We need to restore order, and so now 214 00:13:52,159 --> 00:13:54,440 it's like, we don't care. Get somebody in there who's 215 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,360 going to do it all for us. And this is 216 00:13:57,399 --> 00:14:00,679 what democrats are running up against as they try to know, Oh, 217 00:14:00,759 --> 00:14:03,799 the Maryland manned and now they've got another Massachusetts man 218 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:06,639 who was like a child rapist, Like, you guys picked 219 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,600 the worst people. Yeah, I'm supposed to be now all 220 00:14:10,639 --> 00:14:17,120 outraged that the the terrorist from Egypt that set Jews 221 00:14:17,159 --> 00:14:21,279 on fire for Palestine, I'm supposed to be sad that 222 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:29,200 his family now just got deported to they're all illegal aliens. Also, sorry, 223 00:14:30,519 --> 00:14:34,320 like maybe your dad because he said he told authorities. 224 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:37,000 I waited until my daughter graduated high school before I 225 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,279 did this. Okay, y'all can go, all, y'all can go. 226 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,559 You're all out, sorry, like, oh, the sins of the 227 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,720 father kind of thing. No, Like, there isn't any more 228 00:14:48,799 --> 00:14:53,639 quarter to be given none. We're done. And so now 229 00:14:53,679 --> 00:14:57,799 we're talking about gun control. How dare you allow people 230 00:14:57,879 --> 00:15:02,200 to conceal carry you without a permit? Don't you know 231 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:06,360 it's going to make things dangerous? Did you know that 232 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:13,200 criminals already concealed carry. I know it's true. I would 233 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,559 never have guessed it either. Somebody who makes a habit 234 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,200 of violating all sorts of laws does not adhere to 235 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:24,639 that law. It is really a brain buster, but it's true. 236 00:15:24,799 --> 00:15:32,960 It's the research is clear. Meanwhile, as we ramp up 237 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,720 for gun violence prevention Awareness month or day or week 238 00:15:36,799 --> 00:15:43,200 or whatever, and everybody's wearing orange, right, you're going to 239 00:15:43,279 --> 00:15:51,279 hear a citation of a CDC data point, which is 240 00:15:51,279 --> 00:15:55,519 that guns are the number one killer of children. They've 241 00:15:55,559 --> 00:15:57,799 been saying this for a couple of years now. I've 242 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,000 been pushing back on it every chance I get because 243 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,200 it is a misrepresentation. I'm not sure that they know it. 244 00:16:05,679 --> 00:16:07,559 I'm sure a lot of people in the you know, 245 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:12,000 the leadership of these organizations that are advancing this this lie, 246 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,840 I know they know it. But the people who just 247 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,679 you know, regurgitate it and haven't done the research, they 248 00:16:21,679 --> 00:16:24,960 don't know it. Which is why I am going to 249 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,559 give credit where it is due to the Charlotte Observer. 250 00:16:30,279 --> 00:16:36,039 I know for real, Charlotte Observer, seriously, thank you, kudos, 251 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:42,399 good job because they printed an opinion piece. An opinion 252 00:16:42,399 --> 00:16:47,559 piece from David Mastio, who is a national opinion columnist 253 00:16:47,559 --> 00:16:51,039 for McClatchy and the Kansas City Star. He's a former 254 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:55,200 deputy editorial page editor for the liberal USA Today and 255 00:16:55,399 --> 00:16:59,600 the conservative Washington Times. 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Now, I would point 289 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:04,160 out a Govco health ministry has been obliterating trust in 290 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,200 this industry for a while on its own. So he says, 291 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,440 there was a time when public health officials simply made 292 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,400 up the claim that staying six feet apart would help 293 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,720 stop the spread of COVID, and the time top officials 294 00:19:16,759 --> 00:19:21,240 and scientists conspired to falsely debunk concerns that the coronavirus 295 00:19:21,319 --> 00:19:24,319 was released from a Chinese lab. And then there were 296 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,680 times when public health advice was politicized, like when public 297 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,319 health officials said gathering in groups was unsafe, except if 298 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:35,839 you were protesting the death of Saint George Floyd. They're 299 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:39,319 not just about COVID either. Remember the great kerfuffle over Flint, 300 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:43,160 Michigan's lead problem. The people who were telling you that 301 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,920 black kids were poisoned forgot to tell you that their 302 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:51,039 own data showed blood level of blood lead levels in 303 00:19:51,079 --> 00:19:54,400 the poisoned quote unquote kids were actually much lower than 304 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,240 a decade earlier when nobody was talking about poisoned kids. 305 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:02,319 This weekend, you'll be treated to another misinformation campaign that 306 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:05,680 comes with the impremature of the Centers for Disease Control 307 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,039 and Prevention in the National Institutes of Health. It's time 308 00:20:09,079 --> 00:20:12,440 for the annual Gun Violence Awareness Week. So you'll be 309 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,599 hearing gun deaths are the number one cause of deaths 310 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:20,519 of American children and adolescents, or guns are the number 311 00:20:20,519 --> 00:20:27,000 one killer of kids. Right. However, guns are actually not 312 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:32,680 the number one killer of children at any age between 313 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:37,599 zero and twelve, or what I would consider to be kids. 314 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:42,400 They never have been. Cars are the biggest killer. Who 315 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:47,839 says the CDC database, it's called wonder wnder. It's an 316 00:20:47,839 --> 00:20:51,519 acronym of some kind, and that tracks the cause of 317 00:20:51,559 --> 00:20:54,960 death in most US deaths and indexed by race, sex, 318 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,319 and age, among other characteristics. And for a number of years, 319 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,880 for a number of care kids, years of life, drowning 320 00:21:03,559 --> 00:21:10,920 or falls are the greater threat than guns. Here's what 321 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,839 the CDC says, quote, taking into account all types of 322 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:21,319 firearm injuries, including homicides, suicides, and unintentional injuries, firearm injuries 323 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,799 where the leading cause of death among children and teens 324 00:21:25,279 --> 00:21:30,960 ages one to nineteen. And what they mean then is 325 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,559 if you lump all the dead kids and teenagers into 326 00:21:34,599 --> 00:21:39,599 one gruesome pile and count how they died, the number 327 00:21:39,599 --> 00:21:43,640 one killer was guns. But that's only because guns kill 328 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:48,240 so many teens, a large number of them eighteen and 329 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,319 nineteen year old adult teens. Basically, it has nothing to 330 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:58,920 do with children's deaths, but by conflating the groups, they 331 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:03,480 get to make the emotional appeal. You know, this poor 332 00:22:03,519 --> 00:22:07,200 one year old toddler, you know has this greater than 333 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,359 you know, normal chance of being murdered with a gun. 334 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,440 And it's not true. So why would the CDC do 335 00:22:14,559 --> 00:22:17,200 something so misleading like this. Well, it goes back many 336 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:21,119 decades when reporting what the leading killer of children and 337 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:25,079 teens would do. It made sense at the time, right, 338 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,119 The killer was the same for all of them, and 339 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:32,200 it was accidents, mostly car accidents, and so they reported 340 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:36,480 that number all together because it didn't matter every single 341 00:22:36,599 --> 00:22:41,960 age group, every age category, it was always car accidents. 342 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:46,440 So they just put them all together as kids car accidents. 343 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:52,440 But when guns overtook car accidents during the Biden administration, 344 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,039 they just kept doing the same thing they had always done. 345 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,359 Gun control groups loved it because it lets them make 346 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,519 the claim that children are dying left and right from guns. 347 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,680 That scared concerned parents into backing their agenda and coughing 348 00:23:07,799 --> 00:23:12,599 up donations. The Biden administration CDC did not seem to mind. 349 00:23:13,519 --> 00:23:16,559 But there's more to the story. Remember, guns are the 350 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,720 number one killer of teens. But are guns a threat 351 00:23:18,759 --> 00:23:25,119 to your kids? Probably not, He says. Guns are not 352 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:30,839 the number one killer of female teens, White teens, Hispanic teens, 353 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,480 Asian teens, Native American teens. In fact, the only group 354 00:23:35,759 --> 00:23:39,279 for whom this claim is true is black teens, which 355 00:23:39,319 --> 00:23:45,279 is statistically troubling. Why, he says, if your goal is 356 00:23:45,319 --> 00:23:48,720 to raise campaign donations and build a national political movement 357 00:23:48,759 --> 00:23:53,599 to restrict gun rights. Stats don't matter. Scaring parents whose 358 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,440 kids are not at risk by fudging the issue, well, 359 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,799 now that works pretty well. If your goal is to 360 00:23:58,799 --> 00:24:01,640 get Congress to fork go for millions in research grants 361 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,000 on the problem of gun violence. It works great to 362 00:24:04,039 --> 00:24:06,839 make Congress think that the bullets are flying everywhere and 363 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,960 the blood is flowing on rural, suburban, and urban congressional 364 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:14,119 district streets alike. But if your goal is to actually 365 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:18,400 solve the problem, then it really does matter just who 366 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,599 is dying and why. Only when we face the answer 367 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,160 to that question, can we focus resources where the problem 368 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,200 is and come up with ways to do something about it. 369 00:24:29,279 --> 00:24:31,160 And it would be nice if the CDC made that 370 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:35,799 a priority. Again. This was by David Mastio at the 371 00:24:35,799 --> 00:24:39,480 cd or sorry, at the Charlotte Observer. He's a McClatchy writer. 372 00:24:40,079 --> 00:24:42,519 The CDC says guns of the number one killer of children. 373 00:24:42,559 --> 00:24:45,759 Here's what's really true. I've said this for years, ever 374 00:24:45,799 --> 00:24:48,400 since The Washington Post did a deep dive trying to 375 00:24:49,039 --> 00:24:54,599 get at the the stats on gun deaths, and the 376 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,119 reporter who did it said she went in there with 377 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,039 one mindset gun grabber and came now with the exact 378 00:25:01,079 --> 00:25:06,000 opposite when she saw the data the number one gun 379 00:25:06,039 --> 00:25:09,960 death cause you know number one is well, now I'm 380 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:11,960 going to so I know the top three. I forget 381 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,400 if the number one is suicide or domestic violence. I 382 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:21,079 believe it's suicide. Number two is domestic violence, and number 383 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:28,200 three is street crime. All three of those require different responses. 384 00:25:29,839 --> 00:25:32,359 And so if you're constructing some sort of a policy 385 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:38,119 to reduce gun deaths without differentiating what you're actually targeting, 386 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,160 then you're not actually interested in reducing gun deaths. You're 387 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,759 interested in grabbing guns. That's it, all right. So spring 388 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:49,400 is here a time of renewal and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, 389 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,440 anniversaries and the special days for mom and dad. Your 390 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,799 family's making memories that are going to last a lifetime. 391 00:25:54,799 --> 00:25:57,559 But let me ask you, are all of those treasured 392 00:25:57,599 --> 00:26:00,319 moments from days gone by? Are they hidden away on 393 00:26:00,319 --> 00:26:05,519 old VCR tapes, eight millimeter films, photos slides? 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Located in mint Hill, just 404 00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:43,680 off four eighty five. Mail orders are accepted to get 405 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,839 all the details at createavideo dot com. Got a bunch 406 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:52,599 of messages. Let's check the inbox here. Jay says, I 407 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,000 let my carry permit expire in twenty seventeen, and when 408 00:26:56,039 --> 00:26:57,759 I went to renew, I had to take the class 409 00:26:57,799 --> 00:27:00,039 all over again. And then not my fault, mcfatten. It 410 00:27:00,079 --> 00:27:01,440 took over a year and a week to get my 411 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,720 permit to me. Guns are the number one killer of 412 00:27:03,799 --> 00:27:06,799 children only if you include the sixteen to twenty one 413 00:27:06,839 --> 00:27:09,759 age group. Drowning is the number one killer of well, 414 00:27:09,799 --> 00:27:11,960 it depends on the age category. But yeah, like it's 415 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,240 not guns. It's you only get that stat if you 416 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:21,920 include eighteen plus, And it doesn't mean that those deaths 417 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,960 are any more tragic or less tragic, I should say, right, 418 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,319 it's simply to say that they're juicing the stats. They're 419 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:36,519 using this misleading conflation for political purposes. Regarding taxes, these 420 00:27:36,519 --> 00:27:39,799 are emails from the entire program for over the last 421 00:27:40,039 --> 00:27:43,279 two and a half hours or so. What about the 422 00:27:43,319 --> 00:27:45,920 thousands of additional properties that have been built in Mecklenberg 423 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,440 County the last several years. City council never mentions that 424 00:27:49,559 --> 00:27:52,359 or considers that in relation to property tax increases with 425 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,640 all of the additional properties, there should be no need 426 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,720 for additional taxes. This is one of those things. I 427 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:02,279 remember having this argument with city leaders there's twenty years 428 00:28:02,319 --> 00:28:05,880 ago when they kept saying growth doesn't pay for itself, 429 00:28:06,599 --> 00:28:09,519 and I said, well, then why do we want to grow? Right, 430 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,359 If it doesn't pay for itself, why would we want it? 431 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,039 And they were like, oh, well you don't want to 432 00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:18,960 be shrinking because that's even worse. Oh I see, so 433 00:28:19,039 --> 00:28:22,319 there isn't a scenario where taxes don't go up. Well 434 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,920 that's convenient, Dennis says, My hat's off to you, Pete 435 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,960 for taking your time to keep an eagle eye on 436 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,000 our stalwart stewards. Of Mecklenburg. That board of Commissioners has 437 00:28:32,039 --> 00:28:35,720 blown more money each year on unaccountable projects, and I'm 438 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,359 glad I have eagle eyepte to explain the state of 439 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:45,279 the madness carry on a ego, thank you, sir. Mark 440 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:51,039 rate juggling aside. Let's do a comparison of reassessments. Most 441 00:28:51,079 --> 00:28:54,839 went up seventy percent last time, and the prior reassessment 442 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,319 up over forty percent. And these are of course higher 443 00:28:58,359 --> 00:29:01,680 than most other counties near by. Right, So when they 444 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:06,599 did the revaluations, they jacked up everybody's property values. They 445 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,599 assess them at higher values. So therefore the rate you 446 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,640 were paying now means more dollars out of your pocket. 447 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,960 The rate may have stayed the same or even declined, 448 00:29:16,079 --> 00:29:21,000 but because your property is being assessed at a higher value, 449 00:29:21,559 --> 00:29:24,960 you're paying more actual dollars out of pocket. I have 450 00:29:25,039 --> 00:29:27,839 rentals and my own in the county. That experience that 451 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,720 many elderly folks in areas like Weddington etc. Are being 452 00:29:31,759 --> 00:29:35,160 taxed out of their homes reminds me of reconstruction preaching 453 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,119 to the choir. But almost half of that goes to 454 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,920 the failing CMS schools, which keep sucking up the money 455 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:47,680 with zero accountability, not to mention staggering bond funds. Correct 456 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,319 me if I'm wrong. But Dana Diorio, longtime county manager 457 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,359 that did just retire, came from New York, loves big budgets, 458 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,559 tax more, etc. I don't know if she came from 459 00:29:56,559 --> 00:29:59,440 New York, but her accent would indicate it. And of 460 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,119 course with that hard hitting social services degree all over 461 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,559 strict financial management and ability to push back on excessive spending. 462 00:30:06,319 --> 00:30:09,559 Of course, three hundred K plus payoffs do add up. 463 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,359 So just general malaise. Now, I do have a bunch 464 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,880 of emails from yesterday that I did not get to 465 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,119 because we were having such a good time chatting with 466 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:27,039 the various callers on education funding, specifically teacher pay right 467 00:30:28,119 --> 00:30:29,599 and so I did not get to these, but I 468 00:30:29,599 --> 00:30:31,160 feel I need to read them because there was a 469 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,200 lot of pushback to the three different teachers who called in, 470 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,039 and I got to say, did not exactly present themselves 471 00:30:38,079 --> 00:30:42,039 as the best ambassadors for their positions. But I'm not 472 00:30:42,079 --> 00:30:44,200 going to go into the arguments. I don't have enough time, 473 00:30:44,359 --> 00:30:46,920 so let me just read a couple of messages. Sean said. 474 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,559 Where I work, no one is full time, so they 475 00:30:49,559 --> 00:30:51,839 don't have to provide insurance or any other benefits. My 476 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,839 hourly rate is the same as when I started five 477 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,279 years ago. No merit raise, no cost of living raise ever. 478 00:30:59,119 --> 00:31:00,759 Eddie said, I just wanted to give you a pat 479 00:31:00,799 --> 00:31:02,960 on the back for today's show. I enjoy hearing arguments 480 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,319 one with truth and common sense, and you killed it today. 481 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,279 I thoroughly enjoy your show in all things WBT, Thank you, Edie. 482 00:31:08,279 --> 00:31:11,119 I appreciate it. Benway Katz said, everybody keeps talking about 483 00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:13,400 the eight weeks of vacation teachers get in the summer. 484 00:31:13,559 --> 00:31:15,640 Don't forget they also get two weeks of Christmas a 485 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,160 week in the spring, in addition to numerous other holidays 486 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,720 that are only observed in education. Timoteo said, I was 487 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,400 a welder for thirty six years. My last three years 488 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,119 were twelve hour shifts twenty eight days straight with two 489 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,400 days off a month. I wore my body out. Everything hurts, 490 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:36,279 scars everywhere, lowered kidney function from repeated nsaid use, I 491 00:31:36,319 --> 00:31:39,119 don't know what that is, and lowered oxygen saturation from 492 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,680 damaged lungs. I'm wishing I had been a teacher instead. 493 00:31:42,799 --> 00:31:47,640 Oh well, life choices, Vector said, I did not get 494 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,559 a raised from the state from twenty thirteen when the 495 00:31:49,599 --> 00:31:52,799 General Assembly reforms took place, through my retirement in twenty twenty. 496 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,000 Veteran teachers had longevity pay rolled into their salaries. In 497 00:31:56,039 --> 00:31:58,079 the years that followed. Their pay was the greater of 498 00:31:58,119 --> 00:32:00,400 the payscale salary or their sal How are you when 499 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,119 the reforms were implemented, No raise for me as a conservative, 500 00:32:04,119 --> 00:32:06,079 I was disappointed, but I sucked it up. By the way, 501 00:32:06,119 --> 00:32:08,240 I spent twenty eight years in the private sector before 502 00:32:08,279 --> 00:32:11,000 teaching to love your program. Thank you, Vick, appreciate it. 503 00:32:11,279 --> 00:32:14,119 Just a sampling of that's about half of the emails 504 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,279 I got in opposition to those that we heard from 505 00:32:17,319 --> 00:32:21,880 at length yesterday. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 506 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,960 Thank you so much for listening. I could not do 507 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,160 the show without your support and the support of the 508 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,240 businesses that advertise on the podcast, So if you'd like, 509 00:32:29,359 --> 00:32:31,480 please support them too and tell them you heard it here. 510 00:32:31,599 --> 00:32:34,119 You can also become a patron at my Patreon page 511 00:32:34,279 --> 00:32:37,839 or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so 512 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:45,279 much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.