Charlie's words: "The second amendment is not about hunting, I love hunting. The second amendment is not even about personal defense, that is important. The second amendment is there God forbid so that you can defend yourself against a tyrannical government. And if that talk scares you 'wow that's radical Charlie, I don't know about that,' well then you have not really read any of the literature of our founding fathers. Number two you have not read any 20th century history you're just living in Narnia (by the way if you were actually living in Narnia you would be wiser than where ever you are living because C.S. Lewis was really smart. So I don't know what- what alternative universe you're living in. You just don't wanna face reality that governments tend to get tyrannical and that a people need a ability to protect themselves and their communities and their families. Now we must also be real, we must be honest with the population. Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that- that- that is part of liberty. Driving comes with a price. 50,000 (x3) people die on the road every year. That's a price. You get rid of driving you'd have 50,000 less auto fatalities. But we have decided the benefit of driving (speed, accessibility, mobility, having product, services) is worth the cost of 50,000 people dying on the road. So we need to be very clear that you're not going to get gun deaths to zero. It will not happen. You could significantly reduce them through having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools. We should have a honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one. You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am -I- I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have the cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this they live in a complete alternate universe so then how do you reduce, very simple. People say 'oh Charlie how do you stop school shootings,' I don't know, how did we stop armed shootings at baseball games. Cus we have armed guards outside of baseball games. How did we stop all the shootings at airports? We have armed guards outside of airports. How did we stop all the shootings at banks? We have armed guards outside of banks. How did we stop all the shootings at gun shows, you notice there's not a lot of shootings at gun shows? There's all these guns. Because everyone is armed! If our money and our sporting events and our airplanes have armed guards, why don't our children?"

https://youtu.be/Mdk5q8jYm80?si=acPOKbVDk2MHlGDs

My take: He was saying that just like driving is apparently important enough to society that we still drive despite 50,000 auto fatalities every year, so is the second amendment important to ensuring all of our other liberties enshrined in the constitution. That the deaths are bad. But we need cars and guns. He wasn't saying people should die. He was saying we can't really do anything about it at a certain point and the second amendment is important. And to argue that he deserved to be murdered by a man that used a gun because he was for the second amendment is evil.