Dc Dispatch Special - Schools under Siege: Why Every Campus Needs Armed Protection

Well, we just saw another devastating school shooting in Oregon where a teenager killed three children and a teacher before an armed parent and a heroic teacher stopped him. Meanwhile, Democrats are continuing to push to defund ICE and soften policing. So good afternoon. This is DC Dispatch. I'm Christy Lee. And today we are actually going to run Get Free from earlier this week, where we are talking about this case and how we support the good cops, protect kids, and reject The defund agenda. We have another good guy with a gun story to share and you need to hear it. So don't go anywhere. Hope you enjoy this episode. A hero dad in Oregon has been identified as the bystander who stopped a deadly school shooting. He pursued the gunman and fatally shot him after hearing his daughters were in danger. Police also praised a teacher who threw her phone at the attacker, tackled him and fought for his weapon, saying both actions saved lives. President Trump called him a great hero who took care of business. Joining us now to discuss is Jared Weisfeld, a school I'm a school safety advocate and co-author of the children's book Special Agent DJ. With Devarjay D.J., Daniel, the young cancer survivor who has been sworn in by thousands of law enforcement agencies and recognized by President Trump. Jared is a producer, literary representative, and former entertainment executive who worked with artists like Old Dirty Bastard and created shows for VH1, MTV, and more. So, welcome, Jared. Honored to have you here to talk about this important subject. We've seen so much violence. And instead of blaming the perpetrators, who just coincidentally seem to almost always be leftists or gender-confused individuals, they blame the weapons themselves, right? Yeah. First off, thanks for having me and allowing me to talk about this important subject. So what we have here is we just have a lunatic parent that bought her 16-year-old kid a gun. And special ed student that decided to go back and start killing kids. The issue is, is how this kid actually get into the school, right? We have to harden schools. And so it's, you know, I understand people are out there, the left, especially talking about gun control. But if there was gun control, this gentleman wouldn't have had a gun on him and wouldn't have been able to. kill the psychopath that was killing kids and a teacher. So the issue is that these schools don't spend enough money on hardening. So for example, this particular school district in 2024, believe it or not, there was a kid with a loaded gun on campus, not at this school, at the middle school, and the kid was disarmed by an SRO officer. Now that SRO officer just happened to be at the school at that time. So they went back and they did a report, a 2024 report, and the school said that they were going to have more SRO officers throughout the school district. They let it be publicly known. Unfortunately, this school, for some reason, the SRO officer is one to six to seven schools. So not every school has one. So here you have a district that said, we have a problem. We need to have police in every single school. But they didn't follow through on what they said they would. And the school's budget is over $500 million, so it's not like they can't afford it. It's just they don't want to do it, which now obviously has backfired tremendously, and people have lost lives. Let's not forget, not only did kids lose lives, the teachers and students and the parents are going to have PTSD and ramifications for a lifetime. Every time a car backfires, right? No matter what it is, these kids are traumatized forever. Yeah, it's so sad. And instead of recognizing it for the tragedy it is and coming up with solutions, it's just used as a political pawn in the game to Gun grab. Education Week is tracking 27 school shootings with injuries or deaths so far in 2026. From your work on school safety and with DJ's story, what practical steps actually work to protect kids? Hardening schools. You don't have to spend that much money to harden a school. My school district in Berkeley Heights, we have six schools and we only have four SRO, three officers. So there's two schools that aren't protected. But the crazy part is it's a $62 million budget and it's about $80,000 per, not even per SRO officer or per SRO officer. It's 40,000 each. So it would cost them $80,000 extra to protect the schools and they don't want to spend the money on it. So the question is, is like budget-based security doesn't work. So parents really only care. Well, sorry, I should say sane parents only really care about two things. Your kids go to school and they come home safe. And unfortunately, they get the school part down, but they don't always come home safe. And it's because budget based security doesn't work. You can't put a number on a kid's life. And, you know, to me, the solution is and I've been. Calling for it. And it, you know, people think I'm crazy, but I think the federal government should stop giving states money unless every single school has a security guard inside of it. That would be the easy solution. That makes sense. Now, as far as personally, why is this something that you became passionate about school safety being an advocate? What's your personal story that brought you to this place? So in my instance, in the school district that we were at, a kid brought a box cutter to school. It was confiscated that day. And later on that day in social studies class, he started jabbing a girl with a pencil and a boy literally just asked him to stop. And he wrote down on a piece of paper, bucket list and killed the two kids. Right. And later on that day, he went on a school issued Chromebook and typed in not killing anyone. And they just never told the parents of the boy that was on a kill list. And so I found out, and parental rights is very important to me. And I made a stink about it. I talked about it publicly. I asked the school to address it. They said they wouldn't. I said, if you don't, I will. And I did. And then from there, my life kind of was torn upside down. The school issued a statement saying that I was a liar. And it turned out they leaked my emails to the media. And I wound up having to sue the school. And at the end, they had to say that, you know, everything I said was truthful. They didn't know that I knew it was a box cutter. They thought I just thought it was an inappropriate item like they had told me. But I got a chance to even see the kill list. And, you know, it's just it's insane knowing that your kid goes to school. And. There's like no parental contact to tell you. I mean, they let the kid in school for days. It wasn't until I got involved that the kid was removed from school. So it took a lot and they were more concerned over, you know, how much it would cost to put this kid somewhere else or their, you know, the kids didn't feel safe in school. So their point was, well, let's remove the kids and move them to another class to accommodate this little psychopath. And I just called them a woke joke, and I didn't stop. And now, you know, the school's a safer place. What do you think the motivation is for the schools? Does it ultimately come back to money, you think? Because, I mean, there's many of us parents who experienced different levels of being ostracized by the school or downright persecuted by the schools. I'm I remember just a few years ago, going we had a couple parents arrested on a Friday night that to go dared to speak up in a school board meeting. ahead I was one of those parents that was Speaking out about the perversion of the books, like there was literal. and get Pictures of pornography in one book called gender queer had pictures of pornography started. and you try and just speak up and raise awareness and say, why is pornography in our school libraries? And it's just astonishing the levels these school boards and administrators will go to, to attack you, the parent or attack a student, as opposed to just making the classrooms more safe and educational. So it just always brings me back to what motivation do they have? Yeah. Motivation is so basically, right, the Board of Education are like glorified PTO moms and PTO dads that just want like, hey, I'm on the school board, but they have like no real experience, which is a problem. And their only employee is the superintendent. So they try and go above and beyond. And then they start like trying to take over curriculum towards whatever their agenda might be. And that's not what their purpose is. So I'd say, you know, elect better board of education members, more sane ones, and fight for what it is you believe in. I'm going to be honest with you, going to a board of ed meeting is probably one of the most pointless things you could do because nothing ever gets through to them and they just don't care. They ignore your emails, right? All they do is they chastise you. They try and publicly shame you for having a belief, which a parent's right. Parents are taxpayers. They pay for their kids to go to these schools and other kids to go to school, right? Like if you don't have any children. And so you should be a stakeholder. You are a stakeholder and they should treat you like one instead of treating you as though you're an outsider and you're not part of their little clique. Yeah, absolutely. Hakeem Jeffries just called for defunding ICE and said Democrats won't give a dime to what he calls Trump's violent Mass deportation machine. How does that rhetoric affect support for law enforcement overall, local police, ICE, all of it? Well, what you see is there aren't SRO officers and SRO officers in schools, mainly because the Board of Eds, A, don't want to fund it, and B, they don't want to hear from parents that don't want their kids around the police. So that's a problem. And I do believe they are going to try and defund ICE and defund the police, which is extremely scary. DJ was lucky enough to be sworn in as an ICE agent. Um, and got some time to spend, you know, you spent some time with ICE. Um, I think if we had more kids that were like DJ that looked up to the police and respected the police, um, we'd be in a much better place now, you know, kids don't grow up anymore and they want to be police officers. They want to be politicians. They want to be firefighters, you know, they grow up and they want to be social activists. It's a completely different, you know, twist on. On life. And I'd like to get it back to where, you know, kids show respect for the police. They play kickball. Police aren't more involved in the community because the community wants them to be more involved. I think that's part of the problem is that people are pushing the police away from kids away from the police and telling kids that police aren't good. They're going to arrest you in schools. They're going to do. They're just not going to. Right. Yes, sure. You know, there are some police officers. that have done bad, but 99.999% of them, right, are there to help you. Just like there's bad lawyers, well, a lot of bad lawyers, but bad doctors, right? You have bad in every field. It doesn't mean you punish everybody. If a doctor gives you a bad diagnosis, right, does that mean you're not going to go to like another doctor? Of course not. So I just hope that we could get back to the place where, you know, people realize that they need police. And by the way, the defund the police people, they're the first ones to call 911. So I, you know what I'm saying? The first ones to call 911. And if it takes a cop, let's say two minutes to get to their house instead of a minute 30, why weren't you here quick enough? Right? So it's a complete double standard and all these politicians, right? They don't go Don't go anywhere without security. So if they're gonna defund ICE and defund the police, they should defund their own security detail and see how they like it. Well, I mean, I was curious as you were talking what your opinion is on designated school police. Like, Such and such ISD, you know, independent school district, like police that are designated to a school district, because in my skin, my experience, those have been the very worst of the woke police, if you will, in my former school district, they just used those officers as their tools to bully the parents who were speaking out and trying to. Thank you. Thank you. Trying to protect their children and so it was these very policemen Thank you. Thank you. that they would use to to haul out parents speaking and exercising the First Amendment rights in school board meetings. So it ends up being almost a catch 22 because it's like you go and you're like, wait, we're the ones that are defending you and and trying to. You know uphold the law and you don't even know the constitution like you're just being you're just being used as a pawn like any opinions or thoughts on that? Yeah, so I'm a big believer in FLEO officers which are retired police officers. So if there's a police officer that's retired in the state of New Jersey and they qualify meaning like they know how to deal with children you go through courses and training. Then I'm a big believer in former law enforcement or former military, um, that qualify to be in those schools. Um, I don't believe we should just give like a science teacher or a gym teacher a gun, right? Like their job is to protect that. Then who's going to protect the kids that are in their class. So I think the answer is like, we literally get former police officers and former people that were in the military. And, you know, give them jobs. Right. These aren't just, you know, these aren't like high paying jobs. Right. We're talking about like forty, sixty thousand dollars a year. And they just the schools either don't want to fund it or they have like like coward superintendents like like I have in my school district. So, you know, that don't stick up for the board and be like, hey, listen, like kid safety matters. And it's unbelievable to me because they're always talking about equity. Right. So I call it equity of opportunity, where every kid should have the same opportunity. They should have the same textbooks, same Chromebooks. Whatever the school gives out, every kid should have the ability to have, right? Not every kid is going to be six foot five and play in the NBA. Like that's never going to happen. Not every kid's going to get an A in English, an A in math. It's unachievable. But what is achievable is every kid feels safe in school. And so if you have six schools and you have four FLEO officers, right, then how is that equitable to the two schools that don't have any security? It's not. So the point being is like there's equity that you could actually achieve, but they don't do it in hopes that they could achieve equity that is unachievable, if that makes sense. 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You had a rabbi, a young rabbi, got stabbed with a syringe. Um, and their arm, like the tingling in the arm and this person, you know, was offered bail and bond. And it's absurd that there's even a potential that a psychopath like that could be on the streets. So if you were a police officer, why would you arrest somebody that, you know, is going to be out on the street and, you know, six hours or 12 hours is going to get bail or Like, why would you want to do that, knowing that? You know, there's people filming every single thing that you do. So my understanding is the police, right? Unless you fix, you know, this bail reform that we have going on, cops are going to be less inclined to arrest people that they know are going to be out on the street. Because you have some of these people that are arrested 20, 30, 40 times and they keep getting out. So, and judges have no discretion, right? They can't look at this person and be like, yeah, you're going to do it again, aren't you? Well, you know, we're holding you without bail. That doesn't exist anymore, really. It's insane. At least in New York, it doesn't exist, which is sad and dangerous. And hence why, you know, besides the fact that, you know, New York smells like a big pile of marijuana, nobody, you know, really wants to go to the city anymore because it's dangerous. Yeah. Your book, Special Agent DJ, which you have behind you, tells the story of how three police officers helped DJ's family during Hurricane Harvey with something as simple as a slice of pizza and inspired him to want to be a cop. So why did you and DJ want to tell that story for kids? Because we both have the same goal. We want kids to respect the police and we want kids to, you know, want to become police officers and know that it's okay to ask for help and let them know that it's okay, you know, when they're in school that they could, you know, go up to a police officer. If they're lost in the grocery store, they could, you know, ask a police officer for help. DJ's story is interesting because DJ and his two brothers were displaced during Hurricane Harvey and they were running around and police officers, you know, asked and playing and police officers asked if they wanted some pizza. And, you know, ever since then, you know, he's wanted to help others because they helped him. And so that's what he's been doing. I mean, he's he's very he's not a healthy child. Right. He's very sick. He's. He's dying, but he's out there every weekend getting sworn in, and you couldn't ask for a nicer kid. We were exchanging text messages through his father of images of the book and the story of what we were putting together, and unfortunately, because of all of the treatment that he's gotten, DJ's reading is not the greatest, so he's literally on like a third or fourth grade reading level. Um, which made it extra challenging, but we wanted to get the book out so he could actually like hold it in his hands and see what he's accomplished. And, you know, he's, he's really a good kid, a special kid. And, and he told me, he called me up when the, the book, um, when he saw it and he said, you guys did good. Um, that was, that was very, uh, I was happy to hear that. Oh, this is sweet. And as you said, DJ has been sworn in by thousands of agencies now and honored by President Trump. What has that journey shown you about the relationship between law enforcement and communities, especially kids? It's, you know, it's so important that kids and law enforcement have a relationship. You know, I remember, I don't know if you remember growing up, even the firefighters, they'd give you like that sticker to put in the window so that they knew where you were, so they can come up and save you. And, you know, you used to play kickball with the police and, you know, whatever it may be, like that doesn't exist anymore, really. And so what the book taught You know, as many kids that we can get, like parents and grandparents, to instill in their children how important the police are in their lives, the better we will be as a society, because a society is only as good as the people in it. And, you know, we still need criminals to go to jail, no matter what anybody thinks. Like, you need them in jail. If not, right, like, it's the old saying, right, is that You know, if somebody complains to you about, you know, ice or whatever it may be, right, just ask them, why do you have a fence in your backyard, right? You have a fence in your backyard because you don't want anybody coming inside of your backyard. So why do you have a wall at the southern border? Because you don't want people coming into your home, right? It's the same purpose as a fence. It's just, I think, you know, there's a different agenda going on. But like, if, you know, we have fences, right, to protect our family. So I wish that people would get over the fact that, you know, ICE is there to protect people, which is the truth, and they're not there to, like, harm anybody. Like I said before, you always have that few bad apples, but, you know, DJ's an ICE officer. He spent the day with ICE. Like, you wouldn't put a, you know, 14-year-old kid in harm's way, especially one that, you know, the president loves, right? Yeah. So, you know, like we need to just get back to respecting people and respecting our, our laws and, you know, going about our day. Like nobody's looking, you know, like I remember like DJ, I think was on the street saying ice ice baby or something when he was with ice, um, or something similar. Um, but he loves everybody. He doesn't care who you are as, you know, as long as you want to help people, um, DJ Daniel supports you. And DJ Daniel, arguably, in my opinion, in my lifetime is the biggest advocate the police have ever had. Cause you have a 14 year old kid that wants to be a police officer and he's dying and that's his number one dream. And even though, you know, he's dying every single weekend, he gets out of bed and he gets sworn in no matter where it is. That's so awesome. When people talk about solutions for school shootings and crime, it often turns into, of course, gun control arguments. So what are the actual solutions you advocate for? Training, hardening, culture? I mean, you said hardening, but support for officers. What are the solutions that actually work other than, oh, we just need gun control? The things that work for a school is very simple. First off, it starts at home, right? You don't let your, you put your gun in a safe, right? You don't let your little psychotic son or daughter get control over your gun, right? That's number one. Number two is teachers need to speak up when they see a disturbed child. Don't be afraid. Speak up. Second, you know, thirdly, right? We need to put cheap bulletproof glass. That costs $1.80 per square foot on all the windows and doors so nobody could shoot in. We need to have the Raptor system so nobody can get into the school without providing a license. We need to have school resource officers. All doors need to be locked at all times. Simple stuff like that will give the police more time to get to the perpetrator and save lives. We need panic alarms in rooms, right? So a teacher could call a lockdown drill from her room. There's, or his room. So there's tons and tons of things that you can do. You can use a walkie talkie system, intercom, right? Unfortunately, I mean, we live in a world now where there's lockdown drills, right? All this stuff is there to help kids and teachers in a time of need. And also do, and not with the children, but do active, you know, shooter drills with the teachers, you know, have the teachers know what is in their surroundings and things that they should look out for And then, you know, hope that the administration, the superintendent and the board of education, you know, have the teacher and students back. Like my district, I don't think they do. I don't think they have the kids or the teachers backs. They did, right? They spend $80,000 more a year in SRO officers or FLEO 3s. So fight, fight, fight for an officer in every school, a retired military, a retired police officer. fight for them to be in the schools because the guys that you want with guns are the ones that are trained. Um, the ones that aren't trained are the ones that are getting into these schools and just shooting. Um, you know, we, we had that one incident a couple of months ago where the principal, you know, disarmed, disarmed the kid and sat on him and the principal got shot. Well, I mean, it's not really up to principals and teachers. To protect the students, right? I mean, it is through other means, but they're not trained to take away a gun. You want a police officer, or like I said, retired military, or retired, whatever it is, right? You want somebody that knows how to do things. It's not about guns, right? I would bet you that if you said to the NRA, like, hey, do you want a 16-year-old kid having access to a shotgun whose special needs? They would say, what are you, crazy? So the point is, it's not about gun control. It's about parental control, like control your kid. Everybody knows that one or two or three kids that are like potential psychos in your school, right? The teachers all know who they are. Right. It's not like the old days where like they'd stick the kids in like one classroom and they'd be chewing on glue like that doesn't, you know, it doesn't exist anymore. They put those kids in the regular classes and they try and mainstream them, which is also a problem because then you have kids that want to learn, right, who aren't able to because you have kids that disrupt the class and they don't want to put the kids that disrupt the class in the old classroom. They don't want to feel as though they're isolated. Right. So it's a it's a trickle down effect. But the question that nobody really seems to talk about is the thing that nobody seems to talk about on the left side. Right. Is like, why is this happening in like white suburban towns? Right. Very wealthy towns. It's not happening in Newark. It's not happening in Camden. Not happening in Compton. Right. It's happening in really like nice areas. I'm not saying those areas aren't nice, but I'm saying, like, it's not happening in the inner city, right? It's happening in the suburbs. And the question is why. And, you know, there's many reasons, right? There's access to more video games, more violent video games. There's more access to the Internet, you know. And it's just things like that that are, you know, concerning to me is that those are the schools that don't want the police. Right. They're the ones that can afford it. And they're the ones that should have it. So, like I said, my idea is to stop state funding until every single state mandates a police officer in the schools. That's the real answer. Yeah, no, that sounds good. What kind of feedback are you getting? Like, do you have any sense or feeling or have you heard that stories like DJ's are helping to counter that narrative of the Democrat agenda that police are the problem? Yeah. So DJ's book is being bought by a lot of parents that don't have children. Oh, I shouldn't say parents. A lot of people that don't have children and they're donating it to their local library. So you're seeing a lot of that. You're seeing people that are fans of DJ. DJ's got a rabid fan base of people that just love him and follow him. So they love his story and they're buying their book for their grandkids or their own children or their nieces and nephews, right? So what we're starting to see is a lot of people that are buying this book don't have children. They're buying it for other people's kids that they know could benefit from this book, which is really important and special. Libraries aren't really picking up the book, which is also mind-blowing to me, because you would think every library in America would want a book from P.J. Daniels, you know, a very special kid. And, you know, it's just we're not seeing that yet. Hopefully we will. But right now we're not. We sold out over the first printing before the book came out and we're in a second reprint. So that's really cool. And I'm proud of the kid. And hopefully, you know, he lives a really long time and he gets, you know, to actually, you know, become a police officer when he's older. Yeah, that would be the ultimate. Wrap up to this story that's been such a cool story to document and watch his journey so far. Bringing it back to where we started with this case. Oregon, what role do parents, teachers or armed citizens play when those seconds count and either police aren't there or they're minutes away like we saw in Bend? What do you see as the role in parents, teachers and armed citizens? Well, if you're an armed citizen, right, and you're trained on how to use a gun and you feel as though you could help the situation like this gentleman did. Um, by all means do everything you can to protect the child. I mean, you know, very often we hear about people running like adults running away from the buildings here. We had a parent run towards the building, right? So we had a parent that was reactive. Um, so I mean, it's really, the schools really need to do a better job at protecting these children. Um, they just do. And we could throw out a million ideas, but unless they want to do it, um, they're not going to do it. And to me, that parent is a hero. And my first concern, to be honest with you, would, since this happened in Oregon, Oregon, um, that they were going to arrest them for having a weapon near a school. Um, I thought they were going to try and make an example out of them, but they haven't. And that obviously that's a really good thing. He saved a lot of lives. Um, I just wish we had more parents like him. And I wish, you know, you know, maybe, maybe the answer in the short term is like teachers get MMA training, right? Like, I mean, anything, anything to stop these, these kids from coming in and, and killing people. But at the end of the day, right, they, they know like kids, they go hide in closets, right? Like I used to have air raid drills growing up, they have lockdown drills every month. And that's just the way that the world is now until You know, we figure out a solution here and, you know, as Wayne Black, one of the greatest school security experts will tell you, nothing's really guaranteed in life. But the one thing that's guaranteed is there's going to be another school shooting. Got to take another quick break here. Do hope you will continue to listen to this interview with Jared Weisfeld. He is going to give his opinion on how he feels about cell phones in school. We know how he feels about the right people with the right guns, but cell phones in school as well as the two words he has for anyone on the fence about voting in the midterms, this coming midterms, so don't go anywhere. You know most people think water is just about filtration but in reality it's about balance. What gets removed, what gets left behind and how the water actually behaves once you drink it. Well many traditional systems focus on one thing removal. 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Sign up today for your free subscription to Freedom Talk magazine and join the new American renaissance. You know, it does have me thinking as well, like, based on the previous question about people that are armed and do want to be the good guy. If Democrats get in control again, do you think it's a legitimate concern that people don't step in and help? Because We've seen that happen in New York and other cases where a good guy steps in and then suddenly they're in court and having to spend all this money to defend themselves or taking an action to protect others. If you get where I'm going with this, I mean, do you think that we need to be concerned about that? Yeah, of course. I mean, it's the whole thing of the doctor on the airplane. When somebody gets really sick on an airplane, no doctor wants to help because they don't want to have to deal, you know, with getting sued. Do I think I think if if Democrats take control of the House and Senate. They're going to do everything they can to go after parents that believe in the Second Amendment. Thank you very much, Edmund. In fact, I think they're going to try and go after the First Amendment as well. So I think we really need to stay proactive and not reactive and really just drive home the fact that everybody needs to protect a kid. Right. That's our goal in life. everybody's goal in life should be able to protect each other when you can. And if you have the ability to do that, especially when it deals with the school, right? Like I believe that you have an obligation to, you know, try and disarm anybody that you possibly can. Because, you know, do we really want our kids, kids, kids to like grow up where they're hiding You know, a classroom closet door. Because, you know, nobody knows when the next school shooting is going to happen. I mean, we had an instance in our school where there was a school security consultant watching a lockdown drill when the principal of one of the schools got on there and said, this is not a drill, right? And all the kids were freaking out. And he waited till the end of the drill to say, oh, yeah, everybody, I made a mistake. This was just a drill. Right. So you have like kids freaking out for a good amount of time thinking that there's a real drill because the principal just told them that. Meanwhile, you've got a school security consultant right over there that's not telling the guy, hey, listen, get back on the thing and say this is not a drill. Right. This is a drill. This is a drill. Right. Like you don't want anybody being afraid. And they didn't do that. Right. So in my opinion, right, that was I mean, I wouldn't hire that school consulting firm after that. Yeah. You know, I personally wouldn't. Right. Because, like, I believe they should have told, you know, the principal, hey, get back on that microphone and say, this is just a drill. And, you know. We got a letter, we just got an email home saying that, you know, from the principal just saying basically like, hey, I don't know why I did it, but I said this is, you know, not a drill when it was a drill, right? So, I mean, it's stuff like that. It's stuff where, you know, like parents, you know, there was an incident also in the school where a teacher didn't lock their door during a lockdown drill and the police went around and the second time they opened up her door the second time and like the teacher didn't lock her door twice. And, you know, there was no ramifications. Right. So so parents just have to say to the school, hey, listen, like, you know, we need ramifications. Like if a child does that, they're going to get suspended. Right. What's the what's the punishment for an adult? You know, luckily in my school district. Right. Like the superintendent that leaked my emails and all that. Right. Like she's not in education anymore. She's in Myrtle Beach, you know, cleaning swimming pools. Now, as we are heading into the midterms, going into these midterms, we're now just a couple weeks away. I can lose track of time, but we're so close now with these midterms. For Republicans and independents who are feeling disillusioned, they don't. Necessarily, like everything about this administration, maybe they're upset over the Iran war conflict. Maybe they are upset that affordability wasn't hammered as much as they want. What message do you have for them in light of these ongoing attacks on police and ICE? What do you hope they take from your work and from DJ's story about the importance of this election and heading to the polls? Maybe even, you know, plugging their nose. Two words for you. We're safer. Yeah. We're safer. We just got even new data, a new data drop independent of the FBI. I wish I had pulled that, but I know that that just dropped that an independent Study shows that the crime is down even more than the FBI stats are reflecting because they factor in some of the crimes that don't get reported to the system and it's like over a hundred times even less crime than the official stats are showing. So there's really no questioning that at this point, is there? No, I think we'd be even safer if we had, you know, fixed some of these bail laws where people could actually go to jail and stay in jail. I think we'd be a lot safer. So, you know, New York City, for example, right? Like, stop letting psychos out of prison, right? Like, just keep them in there, please. For the sake of everybody, you know, I've seen people complain like there was a woman that was that stabbed a pregnant, like a woman who literally just got back to work from maternity leave, stabbed her and then was going at the police and the police tased her, right? Didn't work. She was lunging at the police and the police shot her. I've seen where people said, why didn't they shoot her in the leg? Why'd they have to kill her? Are you joking? Of course. I mean, if you shoot, I mean, that's the. Just think about that. Like, why, first of all, right, you shoot to kill. Secondly, like, why wouldn't you want that person on, you know, dead? They were going after the police. They just killed a pregnant woman. And like, why, you know, like, you're going to be able to rehabilitate her? Like, no, she's gonna be in jail forever. Right? Like, well, maybe not. She should be in jail forever, but that may not happen. But now she's dead, and for the better, if you ask me. Yeah. One final question I have before we wrap up. My children were homeschooled and then I did a couple years ago have to send them back into the public schools begrudgingly, but I felt they had at least a good core, you know, to make ready them for the situation will say I live here in Texas and here in Texas over the last year. This is the first year that they are unable to have cell phones. And on the one hand, I'm totally in agreement with that. I don't, I see cell phones as a distraction, of course, but on the other hand, I was conflicted because I, as a parent, went there with like, okay, well, what happens in the case of violence A school shooting or something like I want them to be able to call me. I want them to be able to contact me. I want to be able to contact them if they're in a in a situation that is unsafe at school. I also, you know, it was my children that were collecting evidence with their cell phones of when I was in the former school district that I left because it was so bad. They were using their cell phone to collect evidence of the things that. I ended up complaining about the school board meetings. So there was that catch 22 about the cell phones. It's like, on the one hand, I didn't, I know that they're a distraction, but on the other hand, like for the safety reason, I wanted that. So I was just curious if you had any opinion on cell phones in the schools when it comes to, I guess, an extra potential measure of safety. I'll tell you this is I was never, ever, ever a big fan of giving my kids cell phones. Until the police chief told me, you know, your kids need that. Why don't your kids have cell phones? They should be in their backpacks at all times. So I think cell phones should be in kids backpacks at all times. I think if a kid needs to call his parents, I don't think the kid needs to get out of the classroom, go to the main office, right? And beg to use the phone. I think the kid should be able to call his mother or call his father or whoever their guardian is at any given time if they feel as though they're threatened or in a dangerous situation. That's my belief. My belief is kids should always have their cell phones in their backpack, Just, you know, one zipper away from being able to call mom and dad. Well, that actually makes me feel better because although the rule is they're not like they can get in trouble if they have their cell phones out, they are allowed to have them shut off and in their backpack. So at least it's still accessible if they need it. So yeah, interesting. I really wanted to hear your take on that. Well, thank you so much for your dedication to this issue. And thank you so much for your wise words when it comes to. The midterms, like at the end of the day, you're safer, at least hang your hat on that. If you're not happy with other things, that certainly should be something that every voter should care about. So thank you for that as well. If people want to purchase the book or get more information from you, what are the best ways to follow you? Specialagentdj.com. That's the best way to find me. Or you could follow DJ Daniel on Instagram and Facebook. You'll love seeing his posts. Awesome. Well, we will put that in the description of the of the show. All right. Well, thank you again. Thank you so much. Have a great day. You as well. All right. And thank you to one of our sponsors, rncstore.com. That's rncstore.com. And our friends at Richardson Nutritional Center, rncstore.com, they use the medical protocols of Dr. John Richardson, MD, who treated thousands of patients for cancer in the 1970s with an all-natural metabolic protocol. And for that, of course, he was persecuted, but they have kept the receipts. So you can actually get a wealth of information on this to as well as protocols for yourself. 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I do have a verse of the day as always for you. And today I've chosen Psalm 82, three through four, defend the weak and the fatherless, uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed, rescue the weak and the needy, deliver them from the hand of the wicked. And again, that is from Psalm 82, three through four. And if you would like to dig into the Bible more with me, I try to hop on each morning at 9 a.m. Central, 10 a.m. Eastern time to my Locals channel, christyleetv.locals.com to do a devotional. Because I am a mom of five, some days I am unable to hop on. But for the most part, I try and hop on Monday through Friday at that time to just do a quick devotional, listen to a teaching or dig into God's word together. So check that out as well. So there you go. The message that we hope you take away from that episode is that if you're still on the fence about voting, at least you know that we are safer under this administration. And so that should be enough to get you out to vote. And if you enjoy this long form interview with our guest today, talking about school safety more in depth, then be sure to tune in to Get Free with Christy Every Tuesday at eight Eastern, uh, right here on Lindell TV. Thanks for watching. We've got America's mayor, Rudy Giuliani coming up next.