Dr. Sam Harris

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1,893 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2024 last heard 23 Aug

Dr. Sam Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I mean, these were just awful killings that were, I mean, the pretty one was interesting to me because
It was awful in precisely a way that the right has been worrying about or pretending to worry about for as long as I've been alive.
I mean, here was a case of a legally armed citizen who did nothing wrong.
I mean, certainly nothing provocative in the moment that warranted his manhandling, much less his execution.
And yet, he was killed.
And the amazing thing was that
to a man and woman, everyone in the Trump administration began speaking about this killing, not only as though it were justified, et cetera.
He's a domestic terrorist.
He's an assassin.
He was bent upon massacre.
All of these are just an avalanche of lies, patent falsehoods within moments of this becoming public knowledge.
But the most shocking thing to me was that
all of them disavowed the Second Amendment explicitly.
You literally had Kash Patel, the head of the FBI, speaking as though the Second Amendment didn't even exist.
And yet we have in this country millions, probably 10 million at minimum, people for whom the Second Amendment is just the central plank of their political religion.
When you ask proper gun nuts why they have guns and why they need so many,
and why they train with them and fetishize them and think about them day and night, why it really is a center of their culture and their politics.
It's not for home defense.
It's not because they're worried about the spikes in crime in their area.
It's always a story about
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