It’s ironic that the same people who want to defund the police also oppose your right to own and carry a firearm for self-defense.
The insanity of this was noticed by Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight star Jorge Masvidal, who said on Joe Rogan’s podcast that he thought “everybody should learn to use a handgun correctly.”
In a viral segment from the episode, both Rogan and Masvidal discussed the relatively permissive laws regarding carrying firearms in their respective states of residence — Florida and Texas — and noted that it was one of the reasons people were leaving California.
“It’s just not the same place,” Rogan, a former Los Angeles resident, said.
“I was there eight weeks ago, it’s different,” Masvidal replied, saying that it seemed like something out of the movie “Zombieland.”
The duo blamed it on liberal politicians in California.
“I don’t believe in those same, like, policies that socialism and communism spring up,” Masvidal said.
At the very least, Rogan understands “why people would think it would work because they think they’re going to be a better person and we’re going to make things fairer for people.”
“But the problem is, it just consolidates power in the top, and then they have everybody fighting over everything else, and it becomes chaos. It happens in every country, it happens in every city whenever they institute those kinds of policies — crime goes up, people get f***ed, they let more people out of jail.”
Then Masvidal pointed out that, while people in wealthy liberal enclaves may like the idea of taking power and money away from law enforcement, those who have to live in less affluent neighborhoods do not.
“I grew up in not the best neighborhoods. Believe me, you don’t want to defund the police,” he said.
“The people that will be alright is, like, you and me because I could hire a security team and so could you. But how about everybody else that can’t? They’re going to get f***ing murked [murdered], bro.
“Because there’s people on the other side that are really f***ing hungry that are for real bad guys. You take the police away, you take that filter away, you’re asking for trouble.”
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Now, granted, Masvidal has been an outspoken conservative for a while.
In 2021, the Cuban-American UFC star said of Colin Kaepernick that “cowards like this fool should be sent to live in Cuba see what they say after a day there” and has criticized the Democrats for thinking “that they’re entitled to the Latino vote. They think that we just have to hand it over to them.”
Of course, he was correct on both occasions, and he is correct here as well.
Those who advocate for police defunding do not live in areas where the thin blue line is the only thing keeping crime at bay. These same defenders are also upset when people are denied the ability to defend themselves by exercising their Second Amendment rights.
It’s no surprise, then, that as crime rates rise, people flee blue states.
As Jorge Masvidal correctly pointed out, it’s not rocket science.