Sam Harris

Vance, who seem far more ideological and on that level dangerous than Trump himself, it is hard for me to imagine the murders, right?

So tell me what you're referencing here and how far your imagination ranges.

A terrorist, an insurrectionist, bent upon massacre.

Yeah, yeah.

I did a section of a podcast on this already, but I remain astonished that the Second Amendment devotees in our country, the many millions of them for whom the right to bear arms is the central plank of their civic religion,

that they've been so acquiescent and really just so blind to the implications of the Preti killing, because what happened in the immediate aftermath of that killing, which we saw from at least three different sides, and you can see he never reached for his gun and his murder was totally gratuitous,

It was a pure repudiation of the Second Amendment.

And everyone from the president and the vice president on down to Kash Patel and Kristi Noem and everyone who got in front of a microphone in the aftermath of that spoke to the country as though the Second Amendment doesn't exist.

Right.

I mean, they basically said in so many words and more or less all of them said this, that if you are in possession of a firearm anywhere near federal law enforcement, that is very likely a death sentence.

You know, don't do that.

And that's not what something like

I would say at least 10 million Americans have been saying is the most important thing in our country for as long as I've been alive.

For as long as I've been alive, we've had millions of Americans over there on the right who have been buying guns, training with guns, cleaning their guns, talking about guns, coveting their neighbor's gun.

It's all been about guns, and it hasn't been about guns for home defense.

It's been about guns because at some point in the future, we could have a tyrannical government

that will begin to infringe upon our civil liberties, the most important of which is our ability to defend those civil liberties by recourse to the Second Amendment.

And here we had a guy who was practicing his First Amendment rights to assemble and speak freely against the behavior of ICE, and he was forced to the ground, disarmed, and then killed.

And then you had the director of the FBI, among others, get on television and speak as though the Second Amendment doesn't even exist.

Where the hell are the conservative gun owners on this?