Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1106 - Colion Noir
Uploaded: 2018-04-19T01:24:23.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1106 - Colion Noir' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-04-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1106 - Colion Noir' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-04-19. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1106 - Colion Noir

how do i pronounce your name coleon noir coleon yeah okay yeah now there's a
conspiracy out there
okay um i made this name up yeah we'll talk about that we'll talk about that we're
live already
how'd you do that so quickly oh you're a wizard uh what's the conspiracy about
your your name is
coleon noir yeah what's the conspiracy about your name that i made it up to
hide who i really was
oh some cia type yeah like i'm like everybody gets to have like pseudonyms
except for me when you're
talking about guns you don't get to have pseudonyms did you have a different
name yeah my name's collins
oh okay so you did change your name yeah i did but there's a conspiracy behind
you changing your name
but that's not real you just decided you wanted a different name i got into
guns and i wanted to
start watching gun videos and so i wanted to make a youtube channel and i didn't
want to use my real
name because i thought that wasn't cool enough and so i said you thought your
name wasn't cool
enough no that's such uh african-american thing yeah pretty much yeah i mean i
know comedians would
change their names like earthquake you don't know who earthquake is fucking
hilarious comedian man he's
hilarious but a white dude couldn't call himself earthquake yeah you could nah
you could but nobody would
a wrestler that was a wrestler named earthquake but that's different yeah that's
different that's
probably a big giant guy right so what's your original name what's your actual
full original name
i'll give you my first name okay i just i just don't want to make it easy for
people to show up at my
house um collins collins is my real name yeah that's a fine name something
wrong with that name no there's
nothing wrong with it why'd that name bother you to the point where you didn't
want to have it on uh
no i just i just thought it'd be more fun to just come up with a pseudonym for
my youtube channel
like i didn't start my youtube channel thinking all right i'm gonna start this
channel and i'm gonna build
this whole brand behind it right no it was just you did it for fun yeah my
friends called me one of my
friends he called me um killer coleon right that was kind of a little nickname
that i had and so i was
like okay we'll just use going on and then i'm like i'm always in black why do
you call you killer
coleon i have no idea i talked to him to this day and i still don't know why he
called me that yeah
there's nicknames man that just happen sometimes now there is a rapper in houston
by that name
killer coleon yeah oh okay yeah um so i don't know if maybe he listened to him
and then my name collins
and then he called me so forth and so on yeah so so how did you get wrapped up
with the nra so
we should kind of we should cover a couple of things here the origin story yeah
so you're kind of
like a spokesperson for the nra not official spokesperson not official unofficial
no do they
you are a member of the nri do they recognize you do they appreciate you like
how does that work okay so
the way it started do you i mean i'm going to start from the beginning okay all
right so um i had a
friend of mine a good friend of mine who called me up one day and was like do
you want to go shooting
and i was like because at the time i really wasn't pro-gun and this was about i
was around 23 24 i'm 34.
so this is 10 years ago yeah and i hesitated a little bit because my background
growing up like
i didn't grow up with guns in the house um no one in my family had a gun and
for me the idea and the
notion of being a young black male with a gun it's always i always saw it
exactly through the lens of
you know gangbanger drug dealer so forth and so on so that's the mindset i had
when with respect to
firearms um unconsciously right i didn't even realize it wasn't even conscious
of it until
i started getting into this very heavy and realized okay wow i was thinking
like that didn't realize it
and so but at the same time i told myself
why am i afraid of essentially what is an inanimate object right so i think to
myself i'm like all right
i really don't want to go i'm a little terrified but you know what i'm going to
go ahead and do it
and so i remember getting to the range we get to the range and we walk into the
door and then i hear
the door for where the actual bays are and i hear the pop pop pop go off and i'm
like holy crap this is
actually happening and so i kind of had this nervousness but i'm with my friend
right and so
i don't want my friend to feel like okay you're acting kind of like a bitch
right so i kind of kept
it to myself we get to the counter we do all the paperwork that you know requisite
paperwork
liability forms all that um and he has his gun we get some ammo we go to the
lane i remember it was the
very last lane it was uh maybe the range was top gun in houston and so we go to
the very last range
he gives me kind of like a brief instruction about how to shoot the gun how to
load it so forth and so
on and so at that point i remember picking up the gun terrified not knowing
what to expect not knowing
what was going to happen so i remember picking it up it was a little taurus pt
11 pt 111 millennium
and 40 caliber and this was a subcompact probably not the best first time
shooting it's a big
gun well the gun itself was small caliber exactly yeah a lot of kick exactly so
my experience if anybody
who watched that as a gun person would be like oh this is not going to end well
so i remember standing at the bay and taking the gun and pointing it and
shooting it and i remember
just this the concussive force the explosion with the gun dancing in my hand
and i was like holy crap
that was terrifying then i shot it again i'm like i like this shit
and and the weird thing is it and not in the way that most people think the nerdy
aspect of my brain
kicked in right i'm like holy crap like i'm taking this project down i'm
launching it right several
feet um and i just because the second shot allowed me to realize what just
happened i just contained an
explosion in my hand right i'm like if you don't find that amazing you don't
have a pulse
it's amazing the the thing that people are bothered by is what comes with it
and how people use it and
um i think an analogy that's a fair analogy but people reject is driving cars
and a lot of these
fucking psychos that have been running over people in the street i mean it just
happened again berlin yeah
somewhere somewhere in germany some guy ran a bunch of people over and then
blew his brains out
it's it's an object right it's a thing that you use and i'm a huge car guy too
i am as well yeah i love
cars i mean if someone said we have to ban cars because people started running
people over with
cars they'd be like well okay i think we're dealing with a whole bunch of
problems and there's there's
a bunch of things that i think we could probably agree on one of the things we
can agree on is all these
mass shootings are horrific absolutely they're terrifying it's it's an evil
terrible thing
that here's another thing no nra members are doing that that's one of the
things that's really kind
of fucked up about people getting angry at the nra yeah we've never had a mass
shooting ever i i that
that i can recall that was done by an nra member i looked i tried to find one i
can't find a mass
shooting that was perpetrated by an nra member and i think it's so the biggest
problem that a lot of gun
owners especially nra members have is people like the conversation that's being
had is basically
coloring or actually forgetting the human element behind those three letters
like the nra isn't like
this demigod that just sits in the cloud of olympia and it is just one big guy
that's just orchestrating
this entire thing yeah it's you're talking five million people yeah right like
i'm a i'm i'm a member i'm
a gun owner right that that's who i am along with five million other people who
are that way and then
there are a ton of other people who think they're nra members and aren't and
then a ton of other
people who probably don't mind being nra members they just haven't gotten
around with doing it and
getting a membership yeah um and the vast majority of those people and i'm
saying that just to be safe
they're good people i think there's quite a few good people um the people that
have perpetrated all
these mass shootings are definitely not good people but what's wrong with them
well i'll tell you what's
not wrong with them guns it's not guns that are wrong with them they use the
guns to express what's
wrong with them you know and everybody wants to look at the object which i get
what's easier well it is
easier and it's it's something that everyone's pointing to like why do you need
an ar-15 why do you need
of this why do you need that these are good questions why do you need these
things why do i need that
samurai sword over there i don't yeah you know it's like what do you need yeah
okay and that's another
thing too though like and i've said it before i think we are a victim of our
own success in this country
right i do think this is the greatest country in the world but the problem with
that is is this country
was built on an ideological foundation that i think it aids in that our ability
to be as great as we are
but we live in a world now where people don't see the necessity for something
that was never
that was never supposed to be seen through the lens of necessity in the first
place
the second amendment doesn't give me a right it preserves something that
already existed but what
happens is we have a culture of people who don't who look at the second
amendment as a privilege
not a right they look at it as a privilege so that's why they say well why do
you need that well
why do you need more than 10 rounds why do you need this why do you need that
and i'm like first of all
we're framing the entire conversation under need when that's not what the
second amendment is about
it's a right that i've already had it's a natural right that i had the moment
that i stepped foot
on this earth as a person the right to self-defense is is universal yeah and
you know people say okay
it's a right but obviously there's a problem so we have to do something about
it so you're gonna have
to give up your guns this is this is the common conversation and it's very flippant
and it's not well
thought out and there's no no consideration whatsoever to mental health issues
i think
just i think this is the service i think that's the primary problem yeah i that's
i've been saying
this from the get-go i think it's the primary problem i think it's a mental
health issue and
people say oh that's simplifying it i don't think it is i think it's the
opposite i think it's it's
ignored yeah look it's a there's something wrong when you have this many people
on mental health
medication and then when you look at the number of mass shooters it's almost
universal almost every
single one of them is on some sort of psychiatric medication but that's not a
part of the narrative
that's not a part of the conversation the conversation is always get rid of
guns
now i don't want crazy people to have guns and i don't think you do either no i
don't so
outside of taking away the rights to have guns from normal law-abiding people
like yourself and myself
i have guns what what do we do okay so first of all i think we need to frame
the conversation and
into specifics right you're a lawyer right i am okay so you understand bills
and amendments and
law okay yeah and so i think one we're lumping the entire conversation into one
category right
if we're going to talk about school shootings let's talk about school shootings
okay right so
first thing i say is because one thing a lot of people on the side like to say
is well you guys just
don't want any any gun laws and you say no to everything but you have no
solutions true but and
to stand up for that it's because all they want to do is take away the guns
yeah they they're saying
let's take away the guns you're saying we're n