PJTV
New York AG Appeals "Red Flag" Rejections
- Title
- New York AG Appeals "Red Flag" Rejections
- Runtime
- 22:47
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- New York Attorney General Letitia James is appealing several rejections of the state's Extreme Risk Protection Order statute after multiple judges have ruled the law violates the Second Amendment rights of residents; setting up what could be a major court fight over the constitutionality of the "red flag" law.
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- Rahimi Case on the SCOTUS Hot Seat
- Runtime
- 32:43
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- California Rifle & Pistol Association head and 2A attorney Chuck Michel is back with details on a Ninth Circuit panel's oral arguments over the state's Handgun Roster scheme, as well as a look at the first briefs filed with SCOTUS in the Rahimi case.
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- Armed Citizens Want to Patrol the Streets of Hartford
- Runtime
- 22:51
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Connecticut's draconian gun laws haven't made a dent in Hartford's homicide rate, and now a group of community activists say they're ready to take to the streets and conduct armed patrols in some of the city's most violent neighborhoods; a move greeted with scorn and opposition from anti-gun activists and the city's mayor.
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- Why FPC's Top Legal Mind Is Bullish on Bruen's Impact
- Runtime
- 30:15
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Cody J. Wisniewski, FPC Action Foundation General Counsel and Vice President of Legal, joins Cam to talk about the upcoming Rahimi case, Bruen response bills, and why he's optimistic that many gun control laws currently on the books will disappear in the years ahead.
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- The "Public Health" Approach to Gun Violence Is Still About Gun Control
- Runtime
- 23:10
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A recent interview with Harvard professor David Hemenway makes clear that, despite attempts to portray a "public health approach to reducing gun violence" as separate from the agenda of the gun control lobby, the two are essentially one and the same.
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- California Scheming on the Second Amendment
- Runtime
- 30:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- California Rifle & Pistol Association legislative affairs director Rick Travis joins Cam with an update on the latest threats to the Second Amendment in Sacramento and the crippling impact one existing law is having on youth shooting sports in the state.
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- Massachusetts Gun Owners Rally As Anti-Gunners Recalibrate
- Runtime
- 24:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- While the Massachusetts legislature is out on summer recess, 2A advocates in the state are going on offense to educate the public about the dangers and threats to public safety inherent in HD 4420, deemed the Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act by Jim Wallace of the Gun Owners Action League.
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- Illinois' Latest Gun Law Is an Affront to More Than Just the Second Amendment
- Runtime
- 20:54
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Mark Oliva of the National Shooting Sports Foundation sits down with Cam to discuss the group's newly-filed lawsuit challenging Illinois' First and Second Amendment crackdown on gun makers, as well as the impending ATF rule on private sales and transfers of firearms.
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- Surprises in Store During Tennessee Special Session?
- Runtime
- 37:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- We're one week away from the start of a special session in Nashville, and John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association, joins Cam with a preview of what to expect and what gun owners should be doing to ensure the defeat of any anti-gun legislation when lawmakers return to the state capitol.
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- Cracking the Social Media 2A Censorship Code?
- Runtime
- 30:03
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Yehuda "The Pew Pew Jew" Remer believes social media is absolutely censoring pro-2A voices, but as he tells Cam, he may have found a way around the algorithms that allows his voice (and others) to still be heard.
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- Should We Be Concerned About SCOTUS and the Second Amendment?
- Runtime
- 35:11
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- California Rifle & Pistol Association head Chuck Michel joins Cam with updates on several lawsuits taking on gun control laws, as well as sharing his thoughts on the Supreme Court's decision to stay a nationwide injunction against the ATF's "frame or receiver" rule.
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- NC Gun Owners Fight Back Against Attacks on Right to Carry
- Runtime
- 28:25
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Grassroots NC head Paul Valone joins Cam with updates on a lawsuit challenging lengthy delays in issuing concealed carry permits in the state's most populous county, as well as a preview of Wednesday's meeting with firearms instructors pushing back against proposed regulations that could make it much more difficult to host training classes.
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- ATF Aiming at Private Sales of Firearms?
- Runtime
- 24:43
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Ammoland's John Crump joins Cam with news of another ATF rule change lurking on the horizon; this one aimed squarely at criminalizing the private sale of firearms.
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- Honolulu Chief Claims Progress in Processing Carry Applications
- Runtime
- 24:07
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Honolulu police chief Arthur "Joe" Logan says his department is making progress in processing concealed carry permits, with 175 licenses approved in the past two weeks. Still, with a backlog of about 600 applications more than a year after the state's "may issue" licensing regime was ruled unconstitutional, many gun owners are rightfully wondering what's taking so long.
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- California Judge: County's COVID-based Closures of Gun Stores and Ranges Was A-OK!
- Runtime
- 30:35
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- U.S. District Judge Consuela Marshall says Ventura County's 48-day shutdown of gun stores and ranges as "non-essential businesses" during the early days of the COVID pandemic didn't violate the Second Amendment rights of county residents; a decision that could have far-reaching consequences, potentially leading to even more open-ended shutdowns based on "public health" emergencies in the future.
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- What Is TN Gov Hiding From 2A Advocates About Upcoming Special Session?
- Runtime
- 26:10
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- We're less than three weeks away from an expected special session in Tennessee where "dozens" of bills will be introduced dealing with firearms, mental health, juvenile justice, and more, but good luck getting ahold of the text of any of these measures. As Cam details, Gov. Bill Lee is still keeping a lid on details of the session in the face of mounting opposition from many Republicans and Second Amendment advocates.
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- Operation Ceasefire Already Having an Impact in Virginia
- Runtime
- 38:35
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares joins Cam to talk about the early success of Operation Ceasefire in the state, including the nearly 100 repeat violent offenders who've been indicted and programs underway to help steer youth away from heading down the wrong path.
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- Ohio Democrats Push Gun Control as Major Midterm Issue
- Runtime
- 28:41
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Ohio Democrats are mounting a full-scale push to make gun control a top issue for voters next year, blaming the state's "liberalized" gun laws for an increase in crime in cities like Cleveland and Columbus while downplaying the damage done by their own soft-on-crime policies and practices.
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- Massachusetts Anti-gunners on the Defensive
- Runtime
- 38:33
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Gun control activists and anti-gun politicians in Massachusetts are scrambling to save their sweeping legislation obliterating the right to keep and bear arms after ferocious pushback by gun owners, law enforcement, and even some mayors. Gun Owners Action League executive director Jim Wallace shares the latest, including a surprising new development in the state Senate.
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- Michigan Firearms Instructor Hosting Massive (And Free) Gun Training Event
- Runtime
- 35:56
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Legally Armed in Detroit's Rick Ector joins Cam with a preview of a huge gun training event for women taking place this upcoming Saturday and Sunday in the Detroit suburb of Taylor, Michigan. Two local ranges will be hosting hundreds of women with volunteer instructors providing a basic gun safety course free of charge for all those who attend, and Ector is hoping to train some 1,500 individuals over the course of the weekend.
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- Top 2A Attorney Concerned About Post-Bruen Abuses By Judges
- Runtime
- 31:39
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- California Rifle & Pistol Association head and 2A attorney Chuck Michel joins Cam with updates on several cases pending before U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, the half-dozen lawsuits challenging Illinois' ban on 'assault weapons" and "large capacity" magazines, and what he sees as a disturbing trend among some judges to misapply or ignore the Supreme Court's decision in NYSRPA v. Bruen.
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- Anti-gun Activists Complain About Small Town Songs, Ignore Big City Crime
- Runtime
- 20:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- While anti-gunners like Shannon Watts are taking aim at country singer Jason Aldean for singing in praise of pro-2A small towns, they're ignoring the failure of their gun control agenda to stem violence in cities like Washington, D.C., where kids as young as 11-years-old are being arrested on a regular basis for armed robberies.
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- San Jose's Anti-gun Stunt Is Off to a Slow Start
- Runtime
- 19:06
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The editors of the San Jose Mercury News are starting to realize what gun owners have known for months now: the city's mandated insurance requirement and annual fee for most gun owners isn't a serious attempt to fight crime, but a political stunt meant to generate headlines for the anti-gun politicians who put the ordinances in place.
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- Opposition Mounting to Massachusetts "Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act"
- Runtime
- 40:59
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The Gun Owners Action League's Jim Wallace joins Cam with an update on HD 4420, the nightmare gun control bill GAOL is calling the Lawful Gun Owners Imprisonment Act. With Democrats trying to ram the bill into law at breakneck speed, Wallace says HD 4420 could get a vote on the House floor without a single public hearing, even as a number of police chiefs in the state are joining the growing chorus of critics.
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- Hawaii's New "Public Nuisance" Law Aims to Put Gun Makers Out of Business
- Runtime
- 27:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The National Shooting Sports Foundation's Larry Keane joins Cam with an update on the anti-gunners' efforts to do an end run around the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act through "public nuisance" laws, including a newly-filed challenge to Hawaii's recently enacted statute targeting the firearms industry.
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- New Regs for NC Gun Trainers Would Wrap Them in Red Tape
- Runtime
- 31:02
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The head of the 2A group Grassroots NC is warning that new regulations imposed (potentially in violation of state law) could lead to fewer concealed carry courses and an invasion of privacy for gun owners who do undergo the training. GRNC's Paul Valone joins Cam with the details, as well as an update on the group's lawsuit challenging needless delays in issuing carry permits in the state's most populous county.
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- GOA Sues Over ATF's Gun Store Shutdowns
- Runtime
- 27:42
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The ATF's "zero tolerance" policy on gun store inspections is leading to the revocation of federal firearms licenses for even minor paperwork errors, according to Gun Owners of America. GOA's Erich Pratt joins Cam to detail a newly filed suit in federal court alongside a North Dakota gun shop that's been targeted for closure by the agency.
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- Ten Rounds is Too Many for the Gun Grabbers
- Runtime
- 30:51
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- What exactly is a "large capacity" magazine? Depends on who you're asking. In California it's 10 rounds, while in Colorado it's 20. And in Massachusetts, a coalition of gun grabbers are demanding Congress enact a new ban on so-called assault weapons and all ammunition magazines that can hold more than five rounds; a move that would gut the Second Amendment's protections for arms that are in common use.
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- Kansas City Mayor Blames Lack of Local Gun Laws For Murder Spike
- Runtime
- 25:38
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Homicides in Kansas City, Missouri are up nearly 20% this year, and Mayor Quentin Lewis says the state's firearm preemption law is partly to blame by blocking local gun control ordinances. But as Cam notes, there are plenty of cities around the country that are seeing big declines in murders, even in states with firearm preemption and permitless carry laws in place.
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- Legacy Media Downplaying Armed Citizen Stories?
- Runtime
- 19:34
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A self-defense story out of Chicago has received scant attention from the local legacy media, and it's not the first time in recent weeks we've seen media and officials downplay or ignore armed citizens protecting themselves and others from violent encounters.
- Title
- Philly DA Scapegoats the Second Amendment
- Runtime
- 32:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner says an "absurd interpretation" of the Second Amendment is to blame for the city's high violent crime, including the mass shooting on Monday, but his blameshifting ignores his own policies and practices, which have returned many violent offenders to the streets after charges were dropped or sweetheart deals were handed out.
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- San Diego's 'Red Flag' Push Fails to Bring Down Crime
- Runtime
- 22:33
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- San Diego's aggressive use of "red flag" laws has led to hundreds of firearms being seized from individuals deemed by a judge to be dangerous, but it doesn't appear to have made an impact on violent crime, with a new report issued by the county documenting a 56% increase in firearm-involved homicides and an even larger spike in gun-involved crimes.
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- The Unfounded Panic Over Permitless Carry in Florida
- Runtime
- 24:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Blood in the streets. The Wild West. Absolute anarchy. For gun control activists, Florida's new permitless carry law is apocalyptically bad news, but as Bill Cawthon of the Second Amendment Society of Texas explains, data shows permitless carry doesn't lead to a surge in violent crime anymore than universal background check laws reduce homicides.
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- Future of California Gun Law in Doubt after Ninth Circuit Hearing
- Runtime
- 31:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals appeared highly skeptical of a California law that restricts speech supposedly aimed at enticing minors into purchasing and possessing firearms at a Wednesday hearing, and attorney Anna Barvir of Michel & Associates joins Cam with an inside look at why the court appears ready to strike down the statute.
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- Richmond Wastes Time and Taxpayer Dollars on Bogus Gun 'Buyback'
- Runtime
- 22:59
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The city council in Richmond, Virginia, has unanimously approved a plan to waste some $80,000 in stimulus funds on a gun "buyback"; part of a broader strategy focusing on "root causes" of crime instead of cracking down on violent offenders.
- Title
- Massachusetts Gun Bill a Monstrous Infringement on 2A Rights
- Runtime
- 29:10
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Gun Owners Action League head Jim Wallace joins Cam with the details of what he's calling the "Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act"; a new bill in Massachusetts aiming to gut the Second Amendment rights of residents, from live fire training requirements before purchasing a firearm to mandatory registration of all firearms and magazines.
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- Illegal Drugs, Not Guns, Top Concern of Seattle Residents
- Runtime
- 21:54
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- While Washington State Democrats have made gun bans and other restrictions aimed at legal gun owners their top legislative priority this year, a new survey of Seattle residents shows far more concern over illegal drug use than "gun violence", including among younger residents in the city.
- Title
- 2A Week in Review with Cam and Stephen Gutowski
- Runtime
- 40:46
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The Reload's Stephen Gutowski joins Cam to break down a busy week in 2A news, from Hunter Biden's plea deal to the next Second Amendment case to come before the Supreme Court for consideration.
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- NY Congressman Wants 5,000 ft 'Gun Free Zones' Around Every School in U.S.
- Runtime
- 22:47
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Rep. Ritchie Torres is proposing to expand the federal Gun Free School Zones Act's current 1,000-feet "gun free zone" around schools to 5,000-feet around every public, private, charter school and "early childhood education centers"; a move that could result in millions of lawful gun owners inadvertently breaking federal law and potentially serving years in prison for simply bearing arms in public.
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- Hunter Biden and the Double Standards at DOJ
- Runtime
- 29:48
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Want to avoid prison time for being an unlawful user of drugs and a gun owner? Easy... just be the son of the sitting president. For everyone else, however, prison is definitely a possibility. Armed American Radio's Mark Walters joins Cam to dive into the plea deal for Hunter Biden and what it means for Joe Biden's anti-gun agenda going forward.
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- New Orleans Arrests Are a Textbook Case for Constitutional Carry
- Runtime
- 23:10
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Carrying a firearm you can legally own without a government-issued permission slip isn't a crime in more than half the country, but thanks to Republican leadership in Louisiana, the non-violent possessory offense is still on the books and is being used more often than ever in New Orleans, though the Times-Picayune reports that while police are making more arrests, prosecutors are dismissing more of the cases outright.
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- Anti-gunner Bashes High School Clay Target League
- Runtime
- 24:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Clay target shooting is one of the fastest-growing high school sports in the nation, and it's especially booming in Minnesota, where 350 of the state's high schools are fielding teams. It's hard to find anyone critical of teaching high schoolers how to be safe and responsible with firearms while having a great day at the range... unless you talk to gun control activists who despise the idea of teenagers learning real gun safety and having fun doing so.
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- Biofire and the Politics of "Smart" Guns
- Runtime
- 34:42
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Biofire founder Kai Kloepfer joins Cam to discuss the launch of the company's "smart gun", its outreach to gun owners, and whether it can pick and choose its battles in the gun control culture wars.
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- Circuit Split Could Lead to a SCOTUS Showdown over Prohibited Persons
- Runtime
- 32:02
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Are individuals convicted of non-violent felonies (or misdemeanors in some cases) still a part of "the people" who possess the right to keep and bear arms? The Biden administration says no, and a three judge panel on the 8th Circuit has agreed, but a 3rd Circuit decision rejecting the DOJ's argument has led to a circuit split and could result in the Supreme Court soon weighing in on the issue.
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- Anti-Gunners Aim at Missouri Preemption Law
- Runtime
- 21:26
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- There's a new push underway in Missouri to undo the state's firearm preemption laws and allow counties and the city of St. Louis to impose their own restrictions on legal gun owners; not through legislation (which is likely to go nowhere in the GOP-controlled legislature) but through a voter referendum, which would only require a simple majority of voters to undo this critically important protection for the right to keep and bear arms.
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- Sixteen Months for a Carry License?
- Runtime
- 23:21
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The number of concealed carry applicants is plunging in at least one New York county in the wake of the Bruen decision, while those who are trying to exercise their fundamental right to bear arms are being subjected to unconscionable delays of 16 months or more in many cases.
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- Gun Control on Trial in Oregon
- Runtime
- 31:53
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Are ammunition magazines "arms" protected by the Second Amendment, or just an accessory that can be regulated or banned without infringing on anyone's rights? As Cam details, that's one of the questions at the heart of the federal trial over Oregon's Measure 114 taking place this week.
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- Illinois' Intolerable Act
- Runtime
- 25:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Democrat lawmakers are making it harder to challenge their unconstitutional infringements on the right to keep and bear arms with a new law limiting where those legal challenges can take place; forcing downstate residents to travel hundreds of miles to the state capitol of Springfield or Chicago in order to defend their fundamental civil liberties.
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- Clyde: House Could Soon Vote on Pistol Brace Resolution
- Runtime
- 27:07
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) joins Cam with an important update on H.J. Res 44, a resolution that is designed to put a halt to the ATF's new rules on pistol stabilizing braces. After Clyde revealed on Friday that GOP leadership tried to tie a vote on the resolution to Clyde's support for the debt ceiling agreement, the congressman tells Bearing Arms that leadership is now feeling the heat from 2A groups and gun owners across the country.
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- Protest to Ban Gun ownership Off to a Slow Start
- Runtime
- 22:41
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Anti-2A activist Saira Rao declared that tens of thousands of her fellow gun prohibitionists would flood the state capitol in Denver, Colorado at 5 a.m. Monday morning to demand Gov. Jared Polis sign an executive order banning gun sales and gun possession in the state, but hours after the sit-in began in earnest, the crowds had yet to materialize in the numbers she predicted.
