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Hey folks, Gary here with Paramount and I hope everybody out there is doing well. I know at least, you know, half of our nation is in mourning and I think the entire nation is trying to process all of this regardless of what side of the aisle or ideology or whatever else that you come from. Uh, it's a lot to take in. It's a lot to process. And the other thing that I think most people are wondering is like, where do we go from here? What is the national political landscape going to look like going forward and potentially even the, I don't know, the rules of discourse.
Um, I think we need to continue to honor Charlie Kirk's example and and approach everything the same way that he did. And what that means specifically, because I think part of this gets lost, is the fact that, uh, he didn't allow lies to exist. So, we need to continue to speak out. We need to be respectful. We need to be kind to our opponents. But what we don't do is allow people to propagate lies. We push back on them and we force them to exchange ideas so that we can, uh, expose just how silly what they believe is. And that's that's why they want to shut people down. That's why they don't want to debate. That's why they want to destroy people.
Now, with all that being said, there's obviously some good news. Um, today is September 13th. The primary suspect, Tyler Robinson, has been captured. And even that is overshadowed by just tragedy. You know, his father, knowing that he was facing the death penalty, turned him in. That's courageous, but it's also very heartbreaking. As a father, I can't even imagine what he's going through. So, you know, multiple families are destroyed in all this. It's all needless. The the nation has been affected in a way that I don't know we've been affected since, you know, probably JFK or something along those lines.
But I did want to make a follow-up video to the video I released the other day, "Charlie Kirk, What Really Happened." If you haven't seen that, make sure you go check that out so you understand what's going on here. Now, in that video, based on the information I had, I outlined what I think happened. That was a round striking the top of his body armor, deflecting the round upward, which explains a lot of the physics and the ballistics and some other things going on with that entire event.
Now, several hours after I posted that video, several people were sending me pictures like this one right here. Now, as you can see here, it clearly shows the outline of Charlie's nipple, and that presents a problem with the idea that he is wearing some sort of body armor. As a matter of fact, I was receiving these pictures just moments before we were doing a live stream to discuss some of these things, and I showed everybody this picture and I said, "Hey, look. You know what? I think I might have got some things wrong on this, folks."
Now, right after that live stream, I went through some new footage that was coming out and some additional information, and I actually ran into some problems with the no body armor theory. And look, folks, um, I don't mind being wrong. Well, I mean, I don't want to be wrong. And we, I spend a lot of time making sure that we're putting together good information and present it to you so that you can trust us. You know, I'm not going to let my ego get in the way of integrity on this channel. That's the intent here, right? So, if I am wrong, I will happily come out and say it and correct the record and give you the most up-to-date information that we possibly can. But, as I started looking at some of these pictures, there were some problems that presented, and I just want to kind of show you those issues that I ran into, and you can tell me what you think down in the comments.
First problem that I ran into is I don't know where these pictures came from or at least when those pictures came from. Um, there is no real continuity of footage. There's a bunch of different individuals with, you know, iPhone footage and things like that, and we're getting into different times. You know, when we were analyzing different photos and pictures from Butler, Pennsylvania, the attempted assassination on President Trump, we had continuous footage from multiple different news organizations that allowed us to put those smaller snippets from people's cell phones in time, right? Sync everything up to know when things happen. Currently with this event, we don't have this. I don't know how long Charlie Kirk was up there speaking. I don't know if there was a break. Maybe people there can kind of fill us in on some of that information. I don't know if something changed with security where his security team pulled him off, took him to a bathroom or something like that and said, "Hey, look, we want you to put body armor on." And I have asked the people that sent me these screenshots to send me the corresponding footage so I can get a better grasp on that. And no one has it. And that's an issue, too, because what I can tell you is that this is either a picture and or video footage that I can't find anywhere. And it is a clearly a completely different perspective than the footage that most of us have seen. This one, you can see right here, this is a screenshot not even a second before he shot. Not only is the person that whoever took this picture or the video footage much closer to Charlie, it is clearly much further to his right. All right, or as the viewers left. So, it's a completely different piece of footage, uh, that we have no time frame for. So, I just don't know if something changed in between there.
Now, I do think it would be at least a little unlikely that he would go out there without body armor and then they would pull him off stage and then he would go put body armor on. Um, but it's not out of the realm of possibilities. And given that right now we don't have any continuous footage, we don't know if that happened or didn't happen. If you were there and you have information, please send us an email services@tactical.com. I would love to interview some people that are there and to get your story and to get your perspective of what happened outside of even this.
Now, the other problem that I have with this picture is just because we can see his nipple doesn't rule out the fact that he could possibly be wearing body armor. All right, so this is an extra-large plate. And if I'm sitting just like Charlie is right there, and I have this centered, you still can see my nipple. So, that doesn't completely rule it out. And I also want you to notice that it does look like there, there's a little bit of a contouring effect going on. I would almost bet, regardless of whether or not he's wearing body armor or not, that he has some sort of thin compression shirt underneath his main t-shirt. Now, even with an extra-L large plate, you can still see the outline of a nipple, especially with Charlie Kirk. He's 6'5. He's a big guy. Uh, now they do sell in, when you're dealing with low-profile executive type protection like this, where you want the most amount of concealment possible, they do make much smaller plates. This is just a representation of an 8x10 plate. You can either get a SAPI cut, um, or even something like this. But you guys can see there's a lot of space between the plate and seeing my nipple. So, just because we can see the nipple doesn't necessarily rule out, uh, him wearing body armor.
Now, even I would argue against myself right here. If he was wearing some sort of plate or body armor in this particular picture, even if we could see the outline of his nipple, you would think you would also see the outline of some sort of body armor. Soft, metallic, plate, composite, whatever. But again, we don't know when this picture was taken, and we don't know if something's changed.
Now, when we look at this shot sequence at the exact moment everything took place, to me, we can clearly see a mass, some sort of vest or something like that underneath his shirt. Move upward and then back down. We can see a fairly distinct edge. It goes down and then it settles even lower at the end of this. So, as I see it right now, what we're left with is video footage and pictures that contradict one another. And there may be a very logical good explanation that we're just not aware of right now. But let's just say I got it completely wrong. Let's say he wasn't wearing body armor. We're kind of left in Bizarro world because there's nothing else that explains the physics and the ballistics that we see taking place in the video footage. And let me show you exactly what I'm talking about.
So, this, this picture right here, we see a couple things going on. So, first of all, well, first of all, I would say it sure does look like there is an outline of a plate there. But the thing I want you to really focus on here is the fact that the left side of his t-shirt collar is pulled up almost to his left ear. That is really, really hard to explain if he took a direct shot to the neck. Now, I've heard a lot of people try to explain this away as saying, "Hey, it was a direct hit." And what we see here is just this, uh, is caused by an air turbulence or a vacuum effect of this 30 caliber round with a direct hit to the neck. Folks, that's just nonsense. A projectile flying through the air, even a 30 cal projectile, which is fairly large, doesn't displace enough air to create some sort of vacuum effect or air turbulence that would even come close to explaining what we're seeing right here. But you don't have to take my word for it. Let's check out this video from Highspeed Ballistics. It's a really cool video. You should watch the whole thing. But this is them exploring the myth that a 50 cal creates so much of a vacuum effect that it doesn't even have to hit you to kill you.
"We are within a bullet's diameter of that flower. The tiniest wrinkle from the bullet shock wave in the tissue. It did something. It did something. So until it actually impacted a blind guard, nothing."
So, as you can see, even with a 50 cal, there is not enough air turbulence or vacuum effect that will even disturb a near miss of flower, much less explain what is going on with Charlie's shirt and this large amount of mass that looks like it's underneath his shirt moving upward and then coming back down.
Now, let's talk about the most significant problem with this idea that it was a direct hit to the neck. And that is the fact that if it was a direct hit to the neck, the neck is a very, it's fairly thin and it's, you know, eight to 10 inches, uh, it is not super dense. And even if that projectile hit his vertebrae, we would 100%, it's a 30-06. Any rifle caliber, doesn't matter. Even if it hits his vertebrae, we would see an exit wound. And there is no evidence. And folks, the exit wound would be significantly larger than the entrance wound. We would see just as much profuse bleeding from the exit wound as we saw from the entrance wound. That doesn't exist to me. That alone forces us to come up with some additional reasons as to what's going on with that projectile. And the only thing that makes sense is that whether it was a body armor, whether it was, I don't know, doesn't matter. That is that we have some sort of deflection that takes that projectile straight from this way up to that way. And I again, I told you guys in the last video, if you look at, and I'm not even going to show it, like that entrance wound is much larger than it should be. The neck is very, has a lot of elastic tissue. Typically what we'd see in an entrance wound is a very, very small wound, and probably, given the frame rate that we're looking at in the slow motion, we probably would, if it was a direct hit, we probably wouldn't even see an entrance wound at all in the video. But it opens up very large, very quick. And of course, we have extremely profuse bleeding coming from his neck. But I do believe the reason that we have such a large entrance wound is because we have a projectile that hits something, is deformed, is deflected upward, possibly even fragmented, and then we have a much more angular entrance like this, which makes the wound larger. But probably most importantly, that's the only thing that explains no exit wound with a 30-06. Like there is nothing that, there's almost nothing else that can explain that.
Now, I've also heard the explanation that it deflected off of his collarbone. Folks, that's nonsense. Not with a 30-06. You know, you have a projectile that's 140 grains up to 220 grains moving from 2500 feet per second to almost 3,000 feet per second. That collarbone isn't, the bullet's not going to even know the collarbone's there. It's going to smash through that. There is absolutely zero chance that the collarbone would deflect the bullet in that manner.
Now, the other circumstantial evidence that I have is this direct message. I messaged this person on X, knowing that he was in contact with Charlie and his team, and this was his response: "Charlie wears his vest pretty much all of the time." Now, I have heard Erica insist, but he refers to his favorite vest as being stealth. When I have confirmed, 100%, I'll let you know. All right. So, you know, this video is not about me wanting to be right. If I'm wrong, I will happily come out and admit it. Um, I got no issues with that. I want to make sure that we put out the truth. But all I'm saying is that there's right now, with the information that we have, there's nothing else that explains what is going on with the physics and the ballistics, um, you know, during the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Um, and again, as soon as I get more information, I will come out and I will update you guys.
But I do think people want answers because we will look at this whole situation and it just feels off, right? That's why people are watching these videos. That's why people are staying tied to the news. There's a lot of strange things in and around this. And folks, if you watch any of my Butler coverage, I loathe, like, these weird conspiracy theories, multiple shooters, like all this stuff, right? But I do feel like there's some strange things going with this. And by the way, during our live stream the other night, we watched the news conference. This was prior to, uh, the shooter being apprehended. That was the most embarrassing and silly news conference I've ever seen. They released footage. There's some weird things about the footage, too. They released footage that looked like it had been filmed on a potato. And then during that news conference, instead of giving that footage directly to the different news organizations, you know, they were taking video of a monitor that had all kinds of glare things, like, like it was almost a clown show.
At the beginning of this administration, I was a really big fan of Cash Patel and Dan Bonino. And I'm still trying to give them some slack, but I was appalled about the fact that Cash Patel just walked up, made an appearance, and didn't give a statement. Neither him nor Dan Bonino. Real quick, I do want to point out some other weird things about that footage. So, they play that footage of the shooter running on top of the roof, getting off the roof, and then running over to allegedly a, a wooded area. And that was all shown on a pan, tilt, zoom camera that was tracking said shooter. Who was panning, tilting, and zooming? And are you telling me that there was a security person on the other side of that camera that was aware that there was a shooting taking place, which would make sense as to why that they ran to and started, you know, looking at this camera and they're tracking this person jump off of a roof, and they're not simultaneously reporting to local authorities or FBI? I think we need that question answered. Now, I don't know, maybe somebody out there that has a little bit more subject matter expertise in security camera footage, maybe they're recording, you know, 270 degrees and they're able to pan, tilt, zoom in, and post. I don't know. Somebody give me that information. I don't know. I'm just a little disappointed in the Cash Patel FBI when it comes to the Epstein files, when it comes to, uh, finding more information about J6, when it comes to finding more information about the Russia collusion hoax and and holding people accountable. Uh, there's just a lot of problems from the previous administration that I thought we would see more accountability being provided by this administration, and specifically Cash Patel and Dan Bonino. And maybe it's just taking time and we're all going to be be surprised in the end. Right now, I'm not impressed with that.
The last thing I want to address that I'm disgusted by is all the hateful rhetoric that we're seeing from the left from very prominent people on social media and celebrities and everything else saying that they're glad Charlie Kirk died. You know, a lot of people are even posting quotes from Charlie Kirk out of context and basically saying, "You got what you deserved." So, I continue to be disgusted, even saddened, but not surprised by the evil and the hate that the left continues to display. And what really drives me crazy is the false equivalency, uh, that we see. Like there's nothing to compare the majority of the right to the majority of the left. And I do think this tweet by Donald Trump Jr. kind of sums it up nicely: "Anyone else noticed that when one of our heroes was assassinated in cold blood in front of thousands of people, including his wife and young kids, that not a single store in America had to board up their windows? That tells us everything you need to know." And I, I think he's right.
All right. So, I don't know how much answers I provided to anybody, if any. Um, for those of you wanting to know what things look like in the future and are concerned and worried. Now, for those of you that continue to be worried about, you know, what's going to happen in the future, where our country is headed, I would say this. The reason that we're where we're at is because we gave up so much ground. We allowed ideologies to infiltrate our schools. We allowed people to demonize us and our beliefs to the point that most people were kind of cowed into silence. Well, you can't be silent anymore. We can't give up what we've given up. And I think again, a lot of that is the reason we, we let them, we let them become empowered. And the worst thing, the scariest thing, is that we allowed them to take our children and completely change the trajectory of their minds, of their lives, to where you end up with somebody like Tyler Robinson, which he seems to come from a really good family, but he has been so filled with hate and indoctrinated and convinced that someone like Charlie Kirk is an existential threat that he has to do something to end it. We, we can't allow that to happen anymore. We got to stand up. You guys got to get out there. Make sure your voices are heard. Fight for what you believe in. That's really what it comes down to.
All right, hopefully this was helpful. But until next time, stay armed, stay ready. We'll talk to you soon. [Music]