Joe Rogan - The Truth About the NRA

It covers a couple of things here, the origin story, yes, so you are like a spokesperson of the nrn, not an official spokesperson, OTT, official, unofficial, no, today you are a member of the NRI, do they recognize you, do they appreciate you , how does this work? Okay, so the way it started, I mean, I'm going to start from the beginning. Okay, I had a friend of mine, a good friend of mine, who called me one day and asked me: Do you want to go shooting? and I said, oh, because that time I really wasn't pro-gun and it was about I was about 23, so I'm 34, so this was 10 years ago, yeah, and I was a little hesitant because My background grew as if I didn't grow. at home with guns, no one in my family had a gun and for me the idea of ​​being a young black man with a gun is always something that I don't exactly see through the lens of gang drug dealers etc. and so on, that's the mentality I had regarding firearms, subconsciously true, I didn't even realize I wasn't aware of it until I started getting into this really heavy and I realized, well, wow , I was thinking like that, I didn't realize. and so on, but at the same time I thought to myself why am I afraid of what is essentially an inanimate object, so I think to myself, okay, I don't really want to go, I'm a little terrified, but you know. which I'm going to go ahead and do it, then I remember getting to the range, we get to the range and we walk in the door and then I hear the door where the actual bays are and I hear the pop-pop-pop.

Go away and I think like shit this is really happening and that's why I was a little nervous but I'm with my friend so I don't want my friend to feel good you're acting like okay hmm so I kept it to myself for me, you go to the counter, we do all the paperwork, you know, log the paperwork, like Billy calls on the phone and he has his gun, we get some ammo, we go to the lane, I remember it was very In the last lane, maybe the shooting range was the best in Houston, so let's go to the last shooting range.

He gives me a sort of brief instruction on how to shoot the gun, how to load it, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. At that moment, I remember grabbing the gun terrified, not knowing what to expect, not knowing what was going to happen, so I remember grabbing it. It was a small Taurus PT 1151 11 Millennium in 40 caliber and this was a subcompact that probably isn't the best for first time shooting. big sun well the gun itself was small caliber for example yeah okay exactly so my experience if someone who saw that as a gunner would say oh this is not going to end well so I remember standing in the bay and taking the gun and pointing it and I fired it and I remember just the concussive force, the explosion with the gun dancing in my hand and I was like shit, that was terrifying, then I shot it again like I like this and , I miss it, isn't it in a way that most?

People think the nerd aspect of my brain kicked in. I'm like shit, like I'm tearing this project down. I'm throwing it from several yards and just because the second shot allowed me to realize what just happened, I just held it back. an explosion in my hand, right, I think if you don't find it surprising, you know, a pulse, it's surprising, what bothers people is what comes with it and how people use it mm-hmm and I think it's a analogy. A fair analogy, but one people reject is driving cars and many of these psychopaths who have been running over people on the street.

I mean, it just happened again in Berlin, yeah, somewhere in Germany, some guy ran over a group of people and then blew his brains out. It's an object, right, it's something you use and I'm a big car fan, same thing too, yeah, yeah, I love cars. I mean, if someone said we have to ban cars because people started running over people with cars, they would be Well, okay, I think we're dealing with a lot of problems and there's a lot of things that I think We could probably agree. One of the things we agree on is that all of these mass shootings are horrible, absolutely, they are terrifying.

It is an evil and terrible thing. Here's another thing no NRA member is doing. That's one of the things that really bothers people when they get angry at the NRA. Yes, we have never had a mass shooting. I like that, I can remember it. It was made by a member of the NRA. I looked, I tried to find them. I can't find a mass shooting that was perpetrated by an MRN R member and I think that's the biggest problem many gun owners have, especially NRA members. Look, the conversation that's being had is basically coloring or forgetting the human element behind those three letters mm-hmm as if the NRA isn't like this demigod that just sits on an Olympian cloud and is just a big guy who just is orchestrating this. everything, yeah, you're talking about five million people, yeah, right, like I'm a member, I'm a gun owner, right, that's what I am, along with five other million people that were that way and then over there.

There are a lot of other people who think they are honorary members of our and then a lot of other people who probably don't care to be members of our a, they just haven't managed to do it and get a membership, yeah, and the big one Most of those people and I say just to be sure are good people. I think there are enough good people. The people who have perpetrated all of these mass shootings are definitely not good people. What's wrong with them? Well, me. I'll tell you what's not wrong with guns, it's not the guns that are wrong with them, they use guns to express what's wrong with them, you know, and everyone wants to look at the object, which I understand, which is easier, well, it's easier and it's something. which everyone points out like why do you need an ar-15? why do you need this?

Well, I don't need these to be good questions. Why do you need these things? Why do I need that samurai sword over there? you know, you know, it's like what do you need, yeah, okay, and that's another thing too, and I've said it before, I think we're victims of our own success in this country, right, I think this is the greatest country in the world. world. But the problem with that is that this country was built on an ideological foundation that I think helps our ability to be as great as we are, but now we live in a world where people don't see the need for something that was never nice before.

It was supposed to be seen through the lens of necessity in the first place the Second Amendment doesn't give me a right it preserves something that already existed but what happens is we have a culture of people who don't look Secondly, women are a privilege, not a right, they see it as a privilege, so they say: well, why do you need that? Well why do you need more than 10 rounds? Why do you need this? Why do you need that? First of all, I want to say that we are framing the entire conversation around necessity, when that is not what the Second Amendment is about, it is a right that I already had, it is a natural right that I had the moment I set foot on this earth As a person the right to self-defense is universal yes and