U. S. Constitution is the word drug mentioned and according to the ninth and tenth amendments if it aint listed in the constitution as powers of the federal government anything they do on this subject is void a ab anecio, thats how black lives matters and defenders of the bill of rights, you in this room, can get together. Thank you. Thank you, neil. Thank you, neil. And thank you, again, allen. Great. Im going to bring up my next panel. Get my cheat sheet for it had is outreach in a brave new world. And our participants are phil watson, senior project director of the Second Amendment foundation who helped put together our shoot on friday so many of you probably got to meet him. Brian hartung and Andrew Gottlieb the newest member of the saf team, director of outreach and development. Im here to tell andrew that, yes, you can work with your parents. So, well let andrew start it off with about eight minutes, andrew. Hi there, everybody. So, i got a question for all of you to start. How m
These essential tools, knives that millions of americans use every day at home, at work, at play, are also arms, protected by the Second Amendment. It is an essential right. For six years now, i have been coming to grpc to share this message, that the Second Amendment doesnt save firearms. Knife rights is the second front in the defense of our Second Amendment. The good news is that people all over america are getting the message. Our success is translating into both respect and new opportunity. We are being covered by major media, including in many instances left wing media such as new yorks the Village Voice and mother jones. Its all positive. Knife right success and our effort to roll back the absurd antiknife laws and to pass preemption is also introducing the Second Amendment to an entire group of folks who have never considered the Second Amendment their own. And many of them have been antiSecond Amendment. As a result of the tragic incident with freddie gray, knife arrest in bal
Do you believe that theyre ignorant . Are the efforts ignorant . They are ignorant. But theyre not stupid. We cant confuse the two. Theyre ignorance is that they dont get it. But theyre not stupid. The efforts to take away our rights and oppose our rights are meticulously effective. Its strategic. They know what theyre doing. And the effort to try to minimize the voice of women will not work. But we have to help amplify the voice of women, because whats the tactic . The tactic is emotion. Stories. Guess who has lots of stories, guys, that this world is not hearing . Women. Stories of strength, courage, fierce protection of their family. There are some incredible stories that we need to be sharing and we need to have the communities hear these stories. Our response typically is statistics. Numbers. From my cold dead hands, thats what we hear. Is that accurate . Yes. Is it effective . We need stories. We need to tap into the emotion of this topic. We need to be focusing on the stories of
Do you feel like were doing enough to get these 60 nations engaged in this battle of good versus evil that were engaged in . I would like to see other nations engaged. We need more. Its good to have political support, youre right. Its good to have widespread political support. Just about nerve the world recognizes that isil is bad but theyre not backing up words with deeds and we need more in there swinging with us and that applies particularly to those countries that reside in the region itself. And were concerned and doing our part and theyre not there. I know its not totally your lane for that component but i think we need to put more pressure on state department or whatever to gain more support physically from our allies. A quick question if i can, general dunford, for congressional notifications of guantanamo detainee transfer decisions. Have you or general dempsey before you nonconcurred with any of those . I have not. Ive only had two cases since ive been a chairman and i concur
Single most neglected group of gun owners in the country. [applause] of thee are sort redheaded that child in the child in step the basement and that needs to change. Alliancehe nsa freedom is that organization. It has become increasingly more important with the explosion of the sale of suppressors, that is firearms,tegory of even though none of us would consider them firearms, that has been the one area of the firearms industry that has exploded and that is part of why i believe the Freedom Alliance is so necessary. Probably the biggest growing and fastestgrowing segment of the firearms sales market, currently. Since starting the organization last october, we have had a record of success. Nsa billsssed for pro in four separate states, and you think, what does the nsa have to do with state law . Many of the states have duplicate of laws, for instance, one of the most Amazing Things is when i was doing research before the Freedom Alliance, i found out that in the state of past tense, it