{"id":13853,"date":"2019-07-30T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=13853"},"modified":"2019-07-30T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T15:55:15","slug":"vegas-freedom-fest-spiel-does-anybody-here-care-about-guns-or-the-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/30\/vegas-freedom-fest-spiel-does-anybody-here-care-about-guns-or-the-second-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Freedom Fest Spiel: &#8220;Does Anybody Here Care About Guns or the Second Amendment?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ffflogo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6071 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ffflogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a>I was on the <a href=\"http:\/\/fff.org\"><strong>Future of Freedom Foundation<\/strong><\/a> panel at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomfest.com\/\">Freedom Fest<\/a> in Las Vegas.\u00a0 Jacob Hornberger, Richard Ebeling, and I had fun trying to rev (rile?) up the audience regarding the ongoing destruction of liberty.\u00a0\u00a0 What the heck &#8211; some audiences don&#8217;t like jokes about the TSA or hitchhiking. Folks did enjoy the gun control riff, including jibes at Rep. Eric &#8220;Nuke Idaho&#8221; Swalwell.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ongoing Destruction of American Liberty\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K20dZ5QC10k?start=1578&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is the final riff from that speech.\u00a0 It was a coin toss whether to include that spiel.\u00a0 Never trust a Vegas coin toss:<\/p>\n<p>This is the 40th anniversary of my first visit to Vegas. I got here in 1979 after hitchhiking almost 24 hours straight out of Denver. Almost didn\u2019t make it &#8211; came real close to getting arrested by a Colorado state trooper &#8211; me and Rodney Dangerfield &#8211; NO RESPECT. Way out in the sticks of western Colorado, where tumbleweeds were the only company, I didn\u2019t see any billboards announcing, \u201cBovard, don\u2019t hitchhike on the interstate\u201d so I figured maybe it was OK. Heck there were almost no cars on that road so there was no safety issue.<\/p>\n<p>Next car that comes along is a State trooper who pulled over with his lights flashing. What followed was another in a long series of \u201cWhat the hell is wrong with you, boy?\u201d moments in my early life. When that trooper started questioning me, I used the same \u201cdumb ass routine\u201d that proved invaluable when I was interrogated for hours 8 years later by East German border guards. I finally made it to the Colorado-Utah border where I hustled at a gas station and caught a 500 mile ride with a young businessman who was revved on amphetamines. He dropped me off here the next morn, where I savored a 99 cent steak and egg breakfast, spent a few hours sniffing around, and then hitchhiked on to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>It never occurred to me that I would be coming back to this city decades later to talk about freedom. &#8230;. FORTY YEARS down the road \u2013 I have less hair but I\u2019m better dressed now &#8211; except for the same ol\u2019 railroad engineer cap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jpb-screenshot-vegas-The-Ongoing-Destruction-of-American-Liberty.mp4_001566369.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13857\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jpb-screenshot-vegas-The-Ongoing-Destruction-of-American-Liberty.mp4_001566369.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jpb-screenshot-vegas-The-Ongoing-Destruction-of-American-Liberty.mp4_001566369.jpg 523w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jpb-screenshot-vegas-The-Ongoing-Destruction-of-American-Liberty.mp4_001566369-121x150.jpg 121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the Future of Freedom Foundation panel at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas.\u00a0 Jacob Hornberger, Richard Ebeling, and I had fun trying to rev (rile?) up the audience regarding the ongoing destruction of liberty.\u00a0\u00a0 What the heck &#8211; some audiences don&#8217;t like jokes about the TSA or hitchhiking. 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