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80. Next news at 9.30, breaking news when it happens anytime. Another hour with Bob Lonsbury. Starting now on News Radio AM 1180. Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that. Good morning, Americans. Hello, my friend. Like always, it is a delight to be with you. Last week sometime, we add on, if you recall, but the sheriff of Onondaga County on here, a man by the name of Toby Shelley, great sheriff over that way. But he has called for a change in state law. And he said that level one sex offenders, their names aren't posted and available for you and me to look them up. Say you're hiring a babysitter. Say you're hiring somebody to come do some work at your house. Say you're curious about your neighbor. If that neighbor is a level one sex offender, you're not going to be able to find that out. Now, the fact that they were arrested on a sex crime. That's a public record. The fact that they were convicted of a sex crime, that likewise is a public record. But you're going to play Mary Hell finding it. And New York State is going to do everything it can to conceal that information from you. Now, there are three levels of sex offender in New York. Level one, determined by a judge using some sliding scale to be the least likely... to reoffend. Level two, a greater likelihood for reoffence. And level three, the greatest likelihood for reoffense. So that's what you have. Level one, two, and three. um in forty one states anybody put on the sex offender uh registry their name and information is public by information uh what level they are and um um uh where they live So that's in 41 states. Now, here's a deal. New York's online sex offender registry only lists level two and level three. If you're a school and you're hiring somebody, there is a large nationwide database which accesses all the state databases. And if you're a school or a hospital or a daycare or any sort of place where, you know, you're concerned about we don't want any sex offenders working here, they use this national system to see this guy or gal right here. Have they anywhere in the country ever committed to sex crime and be put on a sex offender registry? Because if so, we don't want to hire them here. And at your school, at your hospital, at your daycare, quite obviously, or amusement park, whatever it might be, obviously that's a useful tool. But what is it least to say about computers, garbage in, garbage out? New York, again, does not list level one. So your school...

your hospital, your daycare can do its due diligence, and I appreciate them doing so, but they can look up, okay, this guy is applying for a job, let's go to this database, and let's see if he's been convicted of a sex crime anywhere in the country, and he may very well come back clean on that background check. even though he is a level one sex offender in new york state and so people who are sex offenders who have been convicted that information will not be known to a school or a hospital or a daycare or anywhere else they might apply for employment And what that does is it fails to protect potentially people who might be victimized by that person after they receive employment in that situation. Now, again, in 41 other states, everybody who's convicted of a sex crime ends up in the registry and ends up in the database. That lets people in those 41 states know. There are, however, this is not going to be a surprise, nine Democrat states where lower-level sex offenders don't make the registry. And that creates a situation where, again, if this metric is useful, these are people who are least likely to reoffend. However, when we had the Syracuse Sheriff on, the Onondaga County Sheriff, he told a horrifying story there where a level one sex offender lured some little girl. out of the bushes with candy, she just, I think, less than five. And as they investigated, he was discovered to have allegedly molested others. And he was protected by this New York State policy. There, like I've said, was this call from, you know, the sheriff down the road to change New York's position on this. But at the legislature, not trying to be partisan or political, but in the New York State legislature dominated by Democrats, there is no interest or desire in changing this. Now, that may well be the attitude of Democrat politicians, but it's hard for me to believe that that is the thought and the opinion of Democrat moms and dads. right i this to me i don't see why this one is partisan or political i don't see why the need to defend criminals extends to this particular type of criminal

I don't know anything about the two different political philosophies, which would make sex crimes less significant to one political philosophy than the other. And I'm not sure why one political philosophy would be less interested in protecting society from reoffence by sexual criminals than the other. It does not make sense. Except, and this is going to sound like I'm a conspiracy nut. But if you read Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, who, you know, is the philosophical father of the progressive world, he says that ultimately the way they defeat... capitalism is by creating social decay and chaos so that people are desperate and that there ends up being a literal revolution and capitalism is overthrown and a collective socialist central government can take over now that sounds like conspiratorial mumbo jumbo but that's what carl mark said had to happen and you know it strikes me as as not necessarily a coincidence that persistently Folks from that political side of the world, from the Marxist side of the world, they promote policies that lead to chaos and social upset, to a social disorder where the criminals kind of have the run of the streets and the people are concerned about their safety. Anyway, I'll shut my mouth. Whatever you think about all that mumbo-jumbo, we're all against child molesters, right? Right? We're busting the gut, as we should over this Epstein guy. Why do we not have a similar antipathy towards others who have been convicted of sex crimes? These are not accused people. These are folks who have been convicted, proven in a court of law, right? So, any rate, we have a sex offender registry in New York, kind of, and you can find out who's on it, kind of, and running a background check at the daycare of the school or the hospital will protect your children, kind of, but only kind of. Take a break. Back with you at a moment, 2211R, 1180, our number. This is News Radio, Wham 1180. There's a lot of talk about... This is an endless war. American boots on the ground, crashing the economy. Until even when it happens, it's just tall, talk, no action. It happens here. You'll find out. Use radio. Wham, 1180. Hey, Rochester Highbridge is, again, part of the dental practice of the wonderful folks at Elmwood Dental. For granted a lot, I got the wrong piece of paper here in front of me. But Rochester Highbridge, again, part of the Elwood Dental group folks.

And it is what I say every day, dental implants. Now, I hope that you have no need whatsoever for this. But tomorrow things might change. If you lose teeth, your loved one lose teeth, something like that, and they're gone, they're not coming back. Well, you can get teeth just like them thanks to dental implants from the wonderful people at Rochester Highbridge at the Elmwood Dental Group. I kid you not, you drive by the strip malls and you got these places and they'll have implants, the big sign up above their door. And I don't know whether that's boobs or incisors. You know what I'm talking about? I don't know. But Rochester Hybrids at the Elwood Dental Group, I know what that is. That's high quality dental implants. And I want you to learn more if you've lost teeth. Do that at their website. It's Rochesterhighbridge.com. H.Y.B. the spelling there. Rochesterhybridge.com 4602767 and the 585. It's Rochester Highbridge at the Elmwood Dental Group. Jim Salmon here. The best decision I made. There was a talk at the Marion Central School District last night, school board meeting, presentation by the superintendent and others. They've been talking about whether or not to get a school resource officer. It will cost them a little bit more money on their taxes to have, again, a school resource officer. It's hard for me, and I'm not being disrespectful. I love Marion. It's an outstanding community and a very strong school district. But it's hard for me sometimes to engage this topic without sounding like I'm a disrespectful smart ass. Could I see a show of hands who doesn't want their children protected at school? Just raise your hand. Just go ahead. Raise your hand. If you don't give a damn about the safety of your kids up at the school, could you raise your hand now just so we can see? We'll get a rough count some noses here, see what we're thinking. I just can't comprehend in this world, in this day, someone who does not want a defender there to protect the school their children attend. I just can't. Well, Bob, I tell you what, the police are triggering and they have guns and badges and uniforms and they give children nightmares, Bob. Police are the same as ice, Bob. They're very bad. We know we know it's bad. It's a school to prison pipeline, Bob. My mind can't process that stupidity. And believe you, me, my mind is really good with stupidity. It's kind of my natural language. Dear Marion, the answer is yes. Get a school resource officer. And the notion of a warrior to defend your school is one aspect of a school resource officer.

Right? The most important one, but school resource officers also can be positive role models for the young people. They can be a listening ear. And also for youngsters who may elsewhere in their life be being abused or neglected, it is an opportunity and a comfortable place to reach out for help. A school resource officer is a resource, an important one. And also, on that very bad day, when the crap really hits the fan and evil decides to come to your school, you want a warrior who will fight to the death to protect your kids. Right? You do. Yeah, Bob, listen, we got, the troopers are just 20 or 30 minutes away. It's okay. And the deputies, they'll get, Bob, they'll get here. Don't worry about it. It's close. Plus, well, I think we could get DEC cops to get here eventually, Bob, it's not necessary. Well. Yeah, it is necessary. I mean, if you love your kids, you're necessary. And so the superintendent had, well, if you look at this, we've done an opinion, Paul, and it was a majority, but not a very large majority. And so shut up and hire the cop. Okay? You can do it. You can cut something. You can raise taxes. Hire the cop. Put a cut. Anyway, I'll shut my mouth. John, glad you called, sir. Welcome to News Radio Wham 1180. Well, John hung up. You know why? Because he probably was overcome with tears after my keen insights relative to the Marion Central. I was briefly on the Mount Morris Village Board. And there are only two things that I got nothing accomplished whatsoever. It's a complete failure there. But, you know, that's how village boards are set up to be. All right. But anyway, two things. I want a school resource officer up there. And I also said I want a rifle in the trunk of the cop's car, okay? Because cops need rifles. Anyway, that was my agenda. But, yeah, school resource officer. There is, again, more talk about Chad Campbell. And he murdered Cynthia Lewis and Curtis Rizzo back in 1990. She was 15. Chad Campbell raped her. And Curtis Rizzo was 17 months old, being babysat by beautiful Cynthia. And because the baby cried as Cynthia was being raped and then brutally stabbed the death. Chad stabbed the baby to death, too. Six times the baby. Stammed him. Anyway, Chad's out now because this is New York.

and they can't find a place. First, they're going to put him in Brooklyn. And here's the thing, not to be negative, but Brooklyn, which I think most of us understand to be an open sewer, Brooklyn wouldn't take him. Smart move, kids. So it was, we could put him back in Wayne County. Wayne County said, you've got to be out of your mother frigging mind. And so they put him in Erie County, and Erie County finding out about it. A little bit late in the game says we don't want him. Here's the deal. No place wants a rapist and a murderer, a child murderer, right? And no place should have to have him. Brooklyn doesn't deserve him. Wayne County doesn't deserve him. Erie County, Cheek Tawaga doesn't deserve him. He should be in prison. More correctly, he should be in a grave. He should have been executed some many years ago. Right? But he wasn't. And so he should be behind bars. His sentence was 18 years to life. He's still alive. He should still be locked up. He shouldn't be a curse being bounced from one town to the next. It's time for news with Joe Lasky on News Radio Wham 1180. The Save America Act. Show a photo ID to vote. Making it harder to vote. Hear about it. Prove that you're a citizen. To vote with an ID to vote. Talk about it. Millions of illegal. Here. You know they're going to vote. News Radio. Wham 1180. Lacey and Bellevilla, Rochester's local car accident lawyers. 8888, 8,000. Allens Creek, Rochester. Sort of, at least legislatively. So Governor Kathy Hochul has a new plan for restricting your Second Amendment rights. She came out yesterday with we're fighting gun violence like she does. And she says it's the 3D printing, 3D printing, 3D printing, 3D printing. And, you know, 3D printers and ghost guns and all that stuff. Okay, fine, well, good. But what affects reality here? There are two things. Kathy Hochul says that she wants to pass legislation, which will require the manufacturers of 3D printers to assure that their 3D printers can't be used to make firearms components. Now, I'm not smart about 3D printers. We have one in our house. My two sons are making stuff constantly. What it is is a device which is programmed to print things out, laying down little bits at a time to create, you know, three-dimensional objects. They had the state championships for Odyssey of the Mind last weekend in Syracuse, and one of my sons and his teammates.

They built like a rack and pinion steering system and the wheels for a little car they used in their effort, and they made the components and everything on the 3D printer after they designed them and such. I'm not exactly sure how you make a 3D printer that won't make a firearms component. How does a 3D printer know that a certain body of code is a firearms component? Right? Also, one of the first projects that my young 3D printers engaged in was the manufacturer of a fairly significant arsenal full of rubber band guns. And I think other lads at church and various cousins have all been outfitted now with ample supplies of rubber band guns. And when people get together, there's that to be a rubber band gun war breakup. How does the 3D printer know the difference between a handheld object that shoots rubber bands and a handheld object that would be part of a firearm? And I'm not exactly sure how the state of New York, while we understand that we are the center of the universe and that our politicians are essentially gods, but will the 3D printer manufacturing world look at one law out of New York and say, oh, yes, please, we want to modify our global product in order to kiss your particular ass. I've never run an international company before, but my guess would be that's not a great likelihood. But that's just one. Another thing is that Governor Kathy Hochul's proposal would say that handguns, firearms, must be manufactured in a way that prevents them from being modified to a full auto. And this is probably a reference to those little devices that people have that will take a Glock and a semi-automatic handgun and essentially fire it in an automatic mode. And there are various little things similar to that that can be done to various semi-automatic firearms. So here's what the governor is saying. Inasmuch as you can fabricate a part which will make the Glock fire in an automatic mode, a Glock can no longer sell handguns in New York State, which would potentially be modifiable to fully automatic mode. So that's what she's proposing.

What that would say then to Glock is you must somehow re-engineer your product just for the state of New York, right? And Glock firearms are currently the most commonly sold handgun around the world, right? So you would have to say to this global firearms manufacturer, in order to kiss the ass of New York Democrats, you will have to change the design of your product. Now, Glock is going to say, sorry, which is, I suspect, the actual objective here. What they want to do, they being Kathy Hochul and her Democrat pals, what they want to do is they want to make it so, in effect, you can't sell Glock's here legally because the Glock company will say, listen, we're not going to redesign our product. Again, the most successful product in a world of its type in order to accommodate your latest political whim. And you'll get back to us next year with your next political whim, I suspect. And what this effect is intended to be, in my interpretation, is an effort to keep Glock and similar semi-automatic handguns from being sold in the state of New York. Can you come to any other conclusion than that? I can't. The deal is these folks... get up every day and they hate the second amendment and every day they try to find ways to separate it from you and you from it The deal is they're very ambitious, and there are a lot of other things they hate. Other liberties of yours they actively and maliciously pursue. But that is this year's assault on the Second Amendment. You've got the right to keep and bear arms. Absolutely, they'll tell you. But they have found one more way to keep one more product potentially out of the hands of New Yorkers. And, you know, it is, I would point out, the most commonly sold firearm in America for the past 20 years has been an AR-style rifle. The most commonly sold handgun in the world is a Glock-type semi-automatic pistol. They have already outlawed AR-style rifles in the state of New York, and functionally, with this proposal, they would similarly outlaw Glock-style semi-automatic pistols in New York. So you've got a Second Amendment. It's just that the two most commonly owned firearms in the United States are about to become...

that you can't have them in New York, that you couldn't buy new ones. So anyway, that's what the governor's proposed. Back with you in a moment on news radio, Wham, 1180. Spring weather. It changes its mind more than a squirrel. Trying to cross the road. Stay ahead of spring storms. Oh, he'll be fine. Use radio. Wham, 1180. You know, Burn a B-Y-R-N-A, it's a compressed air-powered defensive device. They call it a launcher. It looks like a semi-automatic handgun. Comes in three different models. One is, well, it's about four inches long and about as thick as two smartphones on top of each other. It's ideal for concealment. You could put it in your purse. You can put it in your pocket. You could put in your bra strap. You can put it at your ankle. You can put any place you want. And it will be ready there to protect you and your family. These launchers do not require a permit. They are not firearms by definition. They can be taken across estate boundaries. There is no waiting period. I get nervous for fear that the state of New Yorker is going to come after these, like they come after everything else. It kind of makes you think that maybe you should get while the getting is good. At the Sportsman's Warehouse, now by Marketplace Mall, they have an indoor range where for free you can test fire of Berna and see what you think of it. I think that for many people, this would be an outstanding self-defense tool. Learn more about it at the website, which is berna.com. Get the fastest local alerts and accurate 24-7 forecasts with weather bug. It's easy to use and provides real-time customizable alerts, so the weather never takes you by surprise. There were two control tower staffers, air traffic controllers, ground controllers in the tower. That is half the normal staffing number. However, at that hour of the night, 20 minutes to midnight, two is the normal staffing number. We learned yesterday that there wasn't a transponder on the fire truck. There doesn't have to be, but some airports have a system which will track all the vehicles that are on the ground of the airport, and it is to help avoid collisions between vehicles and aircraft. It has not been mandated. The prime responsibility rests with the controllers. The pilot was 30. The co-pilot was in his mid-20s. Those are our typical ages and experience levels for a flight crew of that sort. There was a nine-second warning that was radioed to the fire truck before the collision. The fire truck was cleared to cross the runway 20 seconds before the impact.

about 11 seconds after the clearance, someone in the tower, whether it's the same person or not, I don't know, recognizes the looming problem. And as we all have heard repeatedly, orders the fire truck to stop. There is no acknowledgement from the fire truck, however. And to be honest with you, I know that there are multiple frequencies that are used. And you have to wonder if the stop, stop, stop, was the fire truck still on that frequency? The fire truck had, as it requested permission to cross, it had very conscientiously and correctly used the radio. And you wonder, you know, 11 seconds later, you know, what was the deal? But it seems that... The fire truck somehow, some way, was not hearing the tower because, one, the fire truck did not respond to the radio call and, two, respond over the air, nor did the fire truck change its action, respond to the stop. So at any rate, that's the story there. The TSA thing continues to be a problem if you're getting on a plane at a very large airport. If you're getting on a plane at a smaller airport, you're a lot better off. If you're flying out of the Greater Rochester International Airport, the Frederick Douglas Airport, I think you're in great shape. because you're going to be able to board your flight in Rochester just like normal. Now listen, we're a spoke airport, a small regional airport, which means you have to get up very early in the morning. But other than that, you're processed rapidly, courteously, and effectively, and then you are in the safe zone. So if you've got to fly off to a big airport, it's all right. You've already been screened. You're not affected by this. You simply go to your gate. And that's tremendous. So flights origin, if you're an air traveler originating out of Rochester, you're good to your destination. You're not going to be affected by this. Now, where things can be different. is when you have to get back on your plane to return to Rochester. There, you'll be going through an airport that probably will be screened by actual TSA officers, and if it's a large airport, and the ones where the problems are, overwhelmingly, are places like Houston and Atlanta. But if you have to get back on the plane at one of those big hub airports, you know, you're screwed dude and tattooed. It's not going to be particularly fun for you. Speaking of this whole matter, Delta Airlines said that it will no longer, they have a service for some of your VIP people where they will walk you around security.

And members of Congress have had that courtesy extended to them by the airlines forever. But Delta has announced that due to TSA issues, that it no longer will be walking members of Congress around the long lines. And so, as they on Friday break up to go off for their two-week vacation, and every likelihood being that the poor TSA people will not have been paid by then and won't be paid until sometime after the congresspeople return, it might be good to take your favorite congressperson and put him or her at the back of one of those long lines that goes down into the basement and have them. spend their three or four or five or six hours standing there, maybe being spoken to by other members of the line. Music there means it's time to shut up. There is, as you know, a Rochester Music Hall of Fame, and they've announced this year's inductees. We're going to try to meet different ones of them, and we'll talk to one of them coming up after Joe Lasky's newscast. Joe Lasky, of course, is the voice of the Finger Lakes. And this station is, of course, News Radio, Wham 1180. News Radio, WAM 1180, and IHeart Radio Station, guaranteed human.

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