SHERIFF DAVID CLARKE SPEECH AT THE 2015 NRA NASHVILLE CONFERENCE

Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr is the 64th Sheriff of Milwaukee County. In 2002, Clarke was appointed to a vacancy by Governor Scott McCallum, and later elected that same year to his first four-year term.

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the

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thank you so much what a pleasure it is to be here and I really mean that

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a just listen to Rick Santorum on a guy I've met him on several occasions

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among them reasons I like your viewers cowboy boots like I do

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one of the reasons I do is because

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great americans work oh boy boots some white heroes John Wayne

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who ronald reagan

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the

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but I want to correct senator Santorum on something he said

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you mention havent but twenty two thousand dollars to run a race and he

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said you can hardly

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when a dog catchers race with that much money

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and I thought if you have the NRA behind you

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it's doable

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what a pleasure it is to be here with you in Nashville Tennessee

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the National Rifle Association's annual meeting we are after all fresh

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of a bar defeated Michael Bloomberg and his second amendment

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force the mayor's against guns

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Bloomberg tried to take me out with his wallet and my reelection a share for

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Milwaukee County

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and only because I'm your help was I able to

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check him out of Dodge so to speak with his tail between his legs

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leaving him still in search of a signature win

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to rally around together

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you when I told him not today

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not here nice try

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and again I wanna thank you because

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if not for your efforts and help with the NRA Michael Bloomberg probably

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prevails

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he

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I think I was strategically placed

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in the lineup here many the people here today

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political speeches I don't have a political speech

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but this is where I want to be

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standing shoulder to shoulder with you

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God loving freedom-loving patriots who support the United States Constitution

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which includes

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the right to keep and bear arms

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or as President Barack Obama calls those

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better clinger's he says that when things don't feel right

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that we cling to our guns in our religion to which I replied

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damn right we do mister president don't you forget it

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the

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and to the liberal media will become the propaganda wing a

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leftist politics don't tell me that I can't say that about the president

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yes I can yes i'd

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did and yes I will probably do it again

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the

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now let me say this about being one of those

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better clinger's there's nothing else I would rather hold in my hand when

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fighting government tyranny

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been a Bible in my left hand that I used to swear to uphold the Constitution

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and in my right hand a Winchester rifle a symbol of freedom and liberty

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and the United States of America

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in fact I propose that we change the Great Seal of the United States you know

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the one

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with the American bald eagle holding an olive branch in one cloth

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and arrows in the other which you take those payrolls though the Eagles claws

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and replace them

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with a semi-automatic rightful in

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preferably one that shoots am 855 ammunition

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what do you think is the most in on the floor all in favor say aye

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commotion carries

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90 that many the speakers invited you today

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a running for something they want something from you

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not all of them but most me on the other hand I don't want anything from

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I came to give you my thanks

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it's on now running for anything right now

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Co

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the

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that's to keep the left undertows

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in fact I'm here simply wanting to be a foot soldier

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in the fight to beat back the anti-gun anti second-amendment forces

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these tyrants are well-organized

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well-funded and have a never-say-die attitude

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we have to match that in fact we have to be

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EE prepared to preserve our god-given right to keep and bear arms

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that's why we're here for the next couple days to send a message to that

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anti second-amendment force that we too

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are well-organized and we true we'll fight

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as I like to say with the ferocious this about junk yard dog to preserve that

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which they have no white to take from us the

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to the American Left hate to disappoint you

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but you are not gotten that include you Michael Bloomberg he so how do we do

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this what's the plan

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first have to stay together

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may have to stay organized just because the republicans

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control congress we shouldn't take a breather

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political class unfortunately has let us down before

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look at how some achieved on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in

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Indiana and Arizona

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was highly disappointed in that want to remind you

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don't trust politicians trust the National Rifle Association

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number question on this

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topic when it comes to congress

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the constitutional cherry reciprocity act has been introduced that would allow

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anybody with a concealed carry license and once the

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to have that honored in any other state

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I think about this for a moment a crook

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to commit a crime in one state cross into another state and all of his

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constitutional freedoms

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follow him right Fourth Amendment

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fifth amendment 6 the moment 14th amendment we want that

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but I also want the same for you law-abiding folks

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when you cross out your state line the jerk constitutional freedoms

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follow you as well and that includes the second amendment to the constitution

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so I wanna know and I need your help on this to keep the pressure on Congress to

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get this thing done

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they started this new session in January removing and April

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how much longer

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you when I finance the NRA because the NRA

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spends 24/7 attention to what is going on on capitol hill

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an in-state legislatures you and I also know that the Second Amendment forces

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are sneaky and they work behind the scenes like they did trying to ban AR 15

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ammunition

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to protect our 2nd Amendment freedom

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cost money big-money keep reminding Michael Bloomberg has committed

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fifty million dollars have his personal wealth to

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chill of the second amendment as for the Bullet Band

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the anti-gun frauds tried to slip it past us another disingenuous

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effort to protect law enforcement officers let me say this

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last week I met with Boston Police Officer John morning hand

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at the rehab center in the Boston area that he'll spend

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some time trying to recover in please keep them in your prayers

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for speedy recovery officer morning and took a shot

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to the right cheek at point-blank range from a suspect

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armed with the 357 handgun

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any bullet

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can kill a law enforcement officer not just an ar-15 ROM

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I don't blame the gun

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I blame the subhuman behavior of someone who would shoot another human being

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without legal justification

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in closing here's my challenge to you

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make a commitment to

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upgrade your NRA membership do it here

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I know you're busy human nature being what it is

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as we go home we get back into our routine in our lives and starts to

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slip away from us our best intentions start to slip away from us

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so do it before you leave Nashville I recently upgraded my own

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membership from a life membership to an endowment membership because I believe

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in putting my money where my mouth is

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will do it while you're here and when you go back home

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get a new member to join as I like to say at the end of all my

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personal safety announcements back in Milwaukee

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can I count on you here

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ladies and gentlemen thanks so much for being in Nashville Tennessee

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thank you again can't say it enough for your help because without you are

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probably not prevail

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against Michael Bloomberg don't have is kinda wealth

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but I had the NRA behind me and I remember conversation I had

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with Chris Cox as my

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election protein we found out Michael Bloomberg Bloomberg was getting involved

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in any

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sheriff's primary Milwaukee Wisconsin

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with six figures I couldn't match

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and I remember that conversation I had with Chris Cox

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usage share of we do not leave our friends behind

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and he proved it

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so again thank you god bless you and may God continue to bless the United States

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of America

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