and he wanted his money back in the middle of us cooking orders. and started arguing with my server. it moved from there to her removing herself to the situation and came to me and asked if i would give him the refund, before i loo i knewt i looked up and he was in the kitchen and i got punched it happened very fast. ainsley: meranda, you have a conceal carry license. you had your gun. i know you talked to yours about about having that gun. it was 1:00 in the morning, right? you have to protect yourself. what was going through your mind? well, first of all, it s like there is someone coming in the kitchen, okay. and he was not he didn t look like he was playing any games with anybody. he wanted his money. but he didn t want to wait. like literally maybe a minute. and as soon as she said you can t come back here, that s when he punched her.
protect others and not be a greater danger to others. tucker: i think you speak for a lot of gun owners. and i mean there are people who have guns who shouldn t. probably a lookout of them. all the gun owners i know are very, very focused on safety and responsibility. so once you are trained, what do you plan to do with it? i thought about getting a conceal carry license. i have thought about, you know, potentially, you know, open carry. really the key thing for me is just knowing that at the very least i should know how a gun functions. how to act around a gun. how to handle myself. i have actually gone through, you know, safety drills, you know, when there an open shooter drills, i have done those drills. i understand that you run, you hide, and if all else fails, then you fight. but i think the same thing goes with guns is i don t view it as a necessarily a light gift. i don t think.
last thing we want to do is turn our teachers into guards. but, apparently there are dozens of schools scattered across the united states where they actually have teachers who are armed. ainsley: we interviewed that sheriff and he said i m offering free training to any teacher. and he has hundreds of teachers have signed up for it mentioned possibly giving them bonuses if they get their conceal carry license. pete: pardon my skepticism that the new york times may have talked to a certain particular set of teachers. i would know a lot of teachers love the ability to responsibly carry concealed. it s not just about defense. part of hardening is giving a good guy to ability to go on offense. listen to what the president said. unless you re going to have offensive capability. you re wasting your time. you re wasting your time. i want to end the problem. i don t want to have it where this happens again. unless we are going to have offensive capability, it s going to happen again and aga
done, and this reaction should never have happened and somehow, this police officer was acquitted. katie, what you think about this? that criticism is completely fair when you obtain a conceal and carry license, you are told to do exactly what this young man did with the police officer. he clearly gave the man two commands and panicked and this is the result. the fact that he isn t guilty of what happened, there are a lot of questions there. in terms of the criticism of the nra, the nra is expected to comment on every single thing that always comes up. this isn t about the left wanting to protect the gun rights of minorities. this is for the left attacking the nra, which they always make the villain. one thing that is very important to point out is the argument is being made that the nra doesn t care about the second amendment rights of minorities, which is garbage. a smear. the nra is an organization that supported chicago. they are the one who supported
though dealing with the police, don t mention the scary g-word of gun. use words like i m licensed to carry. this is not about your rights. this is about your survival. just that simple. we are legitimate members of this community. and not all the time do others always recognize that. they talk about martin luther king himself, he applied for a conceal carry license. many civil rights organizations carried firearms for protection. the black panthers were some of the reasoning behind some of these gun laws that were put into place. because we were utilizing our second amendment rights. we have been a part of this