Anti Gun does not equal Anti Violence Friday night edition

All right, it would help if I added myself to the stream so y'all could hear something, but hey, we'll pretend I did that unintentional, like that was on purpose. So anyway, um, here's the deal. Governor Lamont has put forth a whole bunch of bills that are supposed to reduce gun violence. Unfortunately, the truth of the matter is very few— hey, Mr. Peter Estrada, I need to tell you, I'm just going to tell you straight up right now because you need to know this. I went to the gun store yesterday, as you know, because you hooked me up to go do that. But tonight I went to a birthday party, and you know what I did at the birthday party? I made everyone at the birthday party submit testimony. That was not the plan. I don't know how that happened, but, um, We started talking about it. I said, oh yeah, yesterday I was at the gun store doing this. And then one of the ladies whose house it was at, oh, I'll bring my laptop down. And then we got everyone at the party to submit testimony. So just because some folks yesterday at the gun store said, I did not know how easy it was, um, I'm popping on tonight really to help show people again. Now tomorrow, and I realized I didn't put the link in this. Because I'm amazing. That is true. Um, and part of me is feeling guilty because I'm going to be in training all of the day, but after I'm done at 5 o'clock, I'm gonna go straight to, uh, the Capitol, and I will testify if I can. Um, hello, Vanessa Kitty. So, um, so I submitted testimony, I helped show people how to at the gun store yesterday, and so now online I'm going to do my best to show you all how to do this. Because people keep saying, wow, I didn't know it was so simple and easy. Oh, what I started to say is, um, tomorrow, uh, Holly Sullivan and Mary Louise are going to be— good evening, G-Webs— um, are going to be doing a live. And after I get off this, I will try to go put the link under here because they're going to actually talk about more in depth. Tonight is supposed to be just a quick video to show you just how easy it is. So the first thing I want to share with you is the actual, um, the governor's press release. All right. So the press release from Governor Lamont is much easier to read than the actual bill that is going forth. So, um, basically if you read this bill, um, obviously the link is down below so you can click on it so you can actually read it for those of you who are like on your phone or something. But basically, uh, the bullet points help, which is investing $2.5 million in community violence intervention programs. So that is actually legit because the intervention and prevention programs are what make a difference. However, the rest of these banning open carry, limiting handgun purchases, updating the state's ban on ghost guns. None of those things make a difference in violence prevention. Now, here's the fun part about— now, statistics show that Connecticut remains one of the safest states in the country, and violent crime has been decreasing here over the last several years. But even one shooting is too many. So we're already a crazy safe state. And, um, he just wants to pile more stuff onto us. So how do we fight this? We go to our Connecticut General Assembly page and we click on— good evening, DJ. Um, we click on a— oh wait, sorry. Huh. So I'm on my laptop, so sharing my screen is a wee bit more challenging. So give me a second. But we go to our Connecticut General Assembly page and I have to pick that so you guys can see it. So hold a moment. Um, again, on when I have two screens, way easier because I don't know how to share well. All right, well, I'm just gonna go with— oh crud. All right. We're going to see how to find your legislator. Not that one. All right, here's our homepage. Here we go. Okay, so here we are. Wait, I gotta share it to you guys. So, oh, I did share it to you guys. I must be getting better, but I will get rid of me so you can see more of it because it's already little. Um, when I go here, the bill that we are watching is going to be in Judiciary. And this is sort of thing that you go to, um, Connecticut Citizens Defense League, ccdl.us, which I should have somewhere but I did not. When I get here, I'm going to Committees. When I click on Committees, I have the drop-down box. All right, hold on, I made it too big, but I want you all to see this. So Committees, it's going to be in Judiciary. You click on the Judiciary Committee. It brings you to this page. You are going to submit testimony by clicking on the thing that says Submit Public Hearing Testimony. Once you are here, you put in your first name. Here, I'll just do the autofill thing. If you have a title, you can put it if you like. Some people put taxpayer, some people put mom. You know, if you're president of some gun club, go ahead and do that. Hearing date and time. So we're talking about Monday's hearing on 3/6 at 9 AM. We are going to oppose two bills, not just one. So right here it's highlighted addressing gun violence, and then you hold the Control key and you also oppose microstamping. Click on the I am not a robot Over here, you click in Type in My Testimony, and then you can put in anything as simple as, uh, let's see, laws, right? Yeah, don't stop criminals. So once that's done, I'm not going to submit this one because I actually have to write my own testimony. That's not it. When you click on submit testimony, there's going to be another— um, actually, I guess if I hit submit testimony, it's going to allow me to cancel, right? Because please be aware that all submitted testimony is public record. So depending on what you put in there, this gives you the opportunity to say yes, please put this up, or no. If you do not get this window, your testimony is not being submitted. You must hit the OK. Um, and like I said, I'm not going to do that for right now. So what happens next? You submit that, another thing comes up. Hello, Mike White. Um, and it says, congratulations, you've submitted. Do you want to submit any more? And most of us say no. The two bills are the governor's bill, which is one gun a month um, getting rid of concealed carry or open carry, and a whole bunch of other things. Um, I have that, I have a list here. So here's the deal about submitting testimony. It doesn't have to be difficult, it doesn't have to be hard. As a taxpayer, I want our towns and our cities to be putting money towards things that prevent violence. Unfortunately, most of The governor's gun violence prevention programs have nothing to do with stopping violence prior to anyone getting their hands on a gun. The community violence intervention, yes. The rest of this, no. Um, I did print out the governor's bill. It is 74 pages. Good job, Fiona. Here, wait, I'm gonna at least click on that one for you. Um, So yes, Fiona submitted her testimony today. I'm still working on mine because mine's going to be long because I'm usually there in person. So it's that simple. I know this video is already way longer than I wanted to be, but it's that simple. The, um, whatever you call it, the links I have in the description, whether you're watching on YouTube or you know Facebook or YouTube, the links to the press release are the easiest things to read, much easier than reading the actual bill. I do have the link to the actual bills in here. The microstamping one is actually relatively easy to read. It is just simply that you install— have something installed within a semi-automatic firearm that microstamps every case that's fired from that gun. However, it's pretty useless because people can pick up brass and reload and all sorts of— there's all sorts of reasons why that has nothing to do with violence prevention. So with that, we've got a quick— we try to keep it on 10 seconds— 10 minutes now. Um, so that's how you do it. cga.ct.gov, click Judiciary, pick, uh, March 6th. You all have till Sunday the 5th to submit your testimony. And maybe I will see you on Monday. Alrighty then, I'm out of here. I want to make this quick and short, so I will be dropping more of this tomorrow, and I'll be talking about how I'm writing my testimony. Good night, everybody. Happy Friday.