WATCH: Jon Stewart offers a masterclass in exposing GOP hypocrisy in this megaviral interview.
homicides and suicides. Stewart pressed Dahm about his factually incorrect argument: “We’ve got 400 million guns in the country. We had an increase, and gun deaths went up. So when, exactly, does this curve hit that takes it down? Would a billion guns do it?”
"Let's run those numbers," Dahm responds, before arguing that the actual problem is"the individual." But Stewart's final point is striking, because he has homed in on the absurdity of the statistical fact that there are more guns than people in America — and that, arguably, guns have more rights and protections than most of us, especially in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, which struck down Roe v. Wade.
“2022 is on pace to see the third-highest number of firearms sold since that number was tracked,” Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.,But freedom doesn’t ring — it’s a gunshot. If American freedom is symbolized by a gun, then, stripped of its parts, American freedom is nothing less than gluttonous consumer capitalism centered on a deadly weapon. This freedom, according to men like Dahm, can’t be regulated in any way.
But if the Second Amendment has been construed to signify American freedom, then what about the rest of the Constitution? What about the Ninth Amendment, which states, “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people”? That is, we have fundamental rights — about the freedom to control our own bodies, the freedom to move and the freedom to privacy — that are threatened by theFreedom isn’t the terrorization of the...
Marcie Bianco is a writer and editor based in California. Her first book,"Breaking Free," will be published on Sept. 5.
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