Scott Mann
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And now I think what we should be talking about is mitigation and how do we have responsible conversations at state and local and federal levels about what we do about this.
And what I'm seeing, honestly, I'm not seeing either administration talking about it enough, and I'm not seeing the media talking about it enough.
And I hope that something that comes out of this maybe will be some folks just going, man, look, let's just, you know, could we actually have a pre-9-11 conversation instead of a post-9-11 conversation?
Yeah.
We were going to go.
We're trying to work that right now.
Alabama has shown some interest.
We talked to State Senator Jay Collins, former Green Beret, about it.
I mean, at this point, it's mostly been anecdotal responses to interviews that you've done with Sarah or me.
And then a couple of where we've reached out and through contacts have actually gone into...
but the office of Governor DeSantis and sat with him and his chief of staff and had the conversation.
It's not that many, I mean, honestly.
And it's because if you stop and think about it for a second, everybody is running 100 miles an hour at every level focused on their job.
political thing, whatever the flavor of the day is, that's what they're focused on.
I mean, even when we've talked to some of the state and local politicians, they're so busy with all this other stuff.
And so you try to elbow your way into the room and, hey, you know, I'm a GWAT veteran and I'd like to talk to you about, you know, the re-emerging terror threat from Afghanistan, how you like me so far.
It's not like people are hungry to do that or to hear that.
And it's like I said when we started this interview, we have a very short memory
I mean, that's like, if I saw that, I'd be like, that's our guy.
I think there's a range of...