Guns and Mental Health by Walk the Talk America

Colion Noir is a Houston native, but for the past eight years he has made Dallas his home.  While attending law school, a friend invited him to the local gun range to shoot for the first time.  Being scared of guns, every fiber in his body urged him to decline but he accepted.  That was the day that changed his life and the lives of millions of his followers who have grown with him on Instagram, YouTube and Facebook.  His trademark has become the use of unique and colorful prose in his firearm videos to describe the guns that he so appreciates for their beauty, mechanical engineering, defensive properties, and embodiment of American freedom.


While his library of videos showing him on the range doing what he loves to do continues to grow, his driving passion is generating his biting and brilliant commentary videos.  His aim is to educate all Americans, no matter their station, as to why the 2nd Amendment recognizes an essential, individual liberty worthy of being jealously guarded against encroachment.  Many would argue he has become the leading voice in the never-ending battle to preserve gun rights and the right to self-defense.


This voice, conveying complex arguments in a way that makes them simple and entertaining, has been heard by the most powerful political leaders of our time.  He is a regular guest on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight and Fox & Friends.  He has had the courage to face down the brash Bill Maher on his own HBO show and has had fun talking with his buddy Joe Rogan on his world-famous podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. 

His goal from the beginning was to reach the masses with his message and he has achieved it.  However, the battle – and the fun on the range – continues.

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Kenyon Gleason is the president and secretary of the National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers (NASGW), and has been with the organization since 2015. 

He is an award-winning journalist and has worked in television, radio, and print newsrooms across the upper Midwest. Gleason has over 25 years of media, communications, marketing, public and government relations, and political experience in a variety of industries including healthcare, education, transportation, agriculture, and shooting sports. Kenyon also the owns Connect Consulting, LLC, a management consulting company based in South Dakota.

Prior to leading NASGW, he was the vice president of development and field operations for the American Road and Transportation Builders Association in Washington, D.C., focused on U.S. transportation-related issues, legislation, and advocacy.

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Jose Fierro was a fighter pilot for the US Marine Corps and serves as a WTTA board member. In this episode he explains his passion for helping veterans and preserving gun rights, discusses some really cool technology related to drone capabilities, and explains why he does not have any social media (spoiler alert: it's good for your mental health). 

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Randy “Miyanovich” Miyan is the full-time Executive Director and co-founder of Liberal Guns Owners: a 501(c)4 organization which supports firearms ownership rights, the mitigation of firearms-related violence, and firearms ownership participation for the left-leaning.

Randy is a former remodeling and renovation business-operator who worked within the parameters of Green and Eco-sensitive building projects for 17 years. He has a substantial connection to the world of mental and physical health improvement through his 25 year dedication to Buddhist meditation, Buddhist psychology, and Chinese forms of mind-body exercise like Tai Chi and Qigong. For over five years, Randy taught Tai Chi and meditation to both the senior citizen and HIV /AIDS community.

Randy’s gun perspective is unique in that he was involved in firearms as a kid but walked away from them for over two decades. He returned to guns from the world of dedicated non-violence due to an increased need for self-defense in relation to his family.

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Eddie is a social worker out of North Carolina who grew up in the firearm competition world and holds multiple national shootings titles. As such, he believes that he is uniquely positioned to help bridge the gap between the mental health and the firearms communities. Eddie also has a background as a first responder and is open about his past struggles with PTSD, as well as the struggles between being pro-second amendment within the mental health world. 

He is a proud supporter of WTTA and its mission to reduce suicides across the world.

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If you ask him, he'd tell you that he is just a guy.  However, spend a few minutes with him and you will soon find out that he is all of the aforementioned. His passion for advocacy is directly related to the love he has for his family. Making sure the world is a safe place for them to live their lives is paramount for Aaargo Jay. 

Find out more on his website or follow him on all the usual social media platforms.

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Shauna "Doc" Springer is a psychologist who has worked for a long time with veterans on their posttraumatic stress and has written extensively about the subject, including in her book, Warrior:  How to Support Those Who Protect Us . In this encouraging conversation she covers a lot of ground, but chiefly an emerging practice that alleviates PTSD (or, more accurately, PTSI) with a simple anesthetic injection and some outpatient talk therapy.  

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For more than a decade and a half Sherman Gillums, Jr., has continued serving this country's disabled and paralyzed veterans after he spent a dozen years serving as a marine. 

On this podcast he discusses his tireless efforts as an advocate for paralyzed veterans, his own disability, and being a father, along with veterans policy matters and getting their mental struggles treated without infringement upon their gun rights.

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One of WTTA's most important efforts involves training mental health professionals in firearms culture. This competency training helps clinicians better understand the foundational principles of why people own guns so that they can create a more welcoming, non-judgmental environment for those who want mental health care to get it without nervousness or suspicion.

The classes will be a full-blown certificate course in three parts, with this summary covering part one and its last four iterations. Jake and Mike discuss the benefits, the purpose, the increasing attendance, and what the gun community can do to support the ongoing efforts.  

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Myra Fukuno has an intimate relationship with suicide and firearms; her boyfriend of five years took his own life with one.  Today, she still advocates fiercely for gun rights and shares openly some of her own struggles in pushing through the pain and overcoming the loss.  

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