To Give The Bar Some Competition

I mean, I need to show up to these places, and I need to get in their faces and make my opinion known in real time, because that's the only thing that really affects these people, is public pressure. You can send a private email, or you can call them on the phone all you want, but it's not going to have nearly the effect as making your voice heard in real time in the middle of the city council meeting. So I'm calling myself out as far as that goes, at least in recent years.

So anyway, don't overlook your locals, because they need even more. A case can be made, a very strong case can be made, that they affect your quality of life much more than anybody in D.C., and that's the way it was set up to be by the founders, in fact. Absolutely.

I've hosted the Colonel Mena show during the week a number of times, and he always says, you know, national impact requires local action. That's exactly what you're saying. We've got to be active locally.

It starts at the lower level and it's way up. So you're spot on with that. Stan, did you have a follow-up? Yeah, yeah.

So, you know, as I have been navigating and running for office and changing Florida law, I found out that, you know, one man can change the law in my case versus the state of Florida. Changed open carry, the open carry ban here in Florida, now making it legal to open carry a firearm. And we still have a few states left that haven't done that yet, but I think it's less than five.

So still a little bit to go on open carry for the rest of the country, but if one man can change the law, thanks to our beautiful Constitution, I think that the change really needs to be made are in what most people aren't talking about, and that is the judicial branch. And, you know, we see full accountability coming through the judicial branch. And I see these moves by the Texas first and now the Florida Supreme Court where, you know, they're creating this opportunity to give the bar some competition.