Posted on 10/08/2025 6:47:16 PM PDT by DoodleBob
… In this country, guns are symbols of freedom. The right to bear arms is enshrined in the Second Amendment of the Constitution. For many, this right is more than historical; it is existential. It guarantees self-defense, deters tyranny, preserves sovereignty over government, and empowers citizens to resist oppression. This is why the U.S. has an estimated 120 firearms for every 100 people—meaning there are more guns than people in this country.
The tension between freedom and safety sits at the heart of our next live debate, which we’re putting on with support from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). On November 5 in Chicago, we will ask: Would America be safer without the Second Amendment?
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And we could not have found two more formidable voices to face off. Dana Loesch, a former National Rifle Association spokeswoman and host of The Dana Show, has been one of the movement’s most visible champions. Her 2014 bestseller, Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America, made her a household name and one of the most prominent gun-rights advocates in the country.
On the other side is Alan Dershowitz, one of America’s foremost lawyers as well as a constitutional scholar and passionate advocate for gun control. To Dershowitz, the Second Amendment is “absurd”—a relic that, if he could rewrite the Constitution, he would eliminate altogether.
Free Press founder Bari Weiss will moderate the debate. It will dig into whether the right to bear arms today is at odds with the common good, or if it is as necessary now as it was in 1791.
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Alas, he remains an abortion-loving, gun-hating leftist.
Although safety is an important issue, it’s not the only issue. An isolation cell in a maximum security prison is extremely safe. Do you want to live there?
I thought this guy was supposed to be smart. Can’t he just look at other countries without any type of 2nd amendment and see what absolute criminally infested shyte-holes they are?!
When gun Prohibitionists talk, I point to prison.
You would THINK that Prison would be the safest and most crime-free place on the planet…no drugs, no weapons, no booze, people living in cages with only the police armed and ready.
Bubble Boy needs to study the Moops more.
But, he’s OUR abortion-loving, gun-hating leftist. I admire his honesty.
Intelligence is relative and contextual. Angelic beings possess intellect far beyond any human and have been gathering and processing knowledge from the moment of their creation, and yet a full third of them still thought rebelling against an omnipotent God was a good idea.
“Free Press founder Bari Weiss will moderate the debate.”
I’ve never seen an actual conservative moderate a debate.
“Safer”??
Before, during, or after the civil war?
Fact: According to DOJ crime statistics, guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year or 6,849 every day. Most often, the gun is never fired and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.
Source: http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf, page 21.
Doesn’t matter what he thinks. We HAVE the second amendment and we aren’t giving it up. After the communist BLM abs antifa riots, at least 45 million foreigners living in America, after Dearborn, after feral black depredations on white people, with mass release of criminals during covid, with the FBI turned woke and criminal, with the militarization of the police, with the authoritarian government actions during covid, with democrats openly calling for the elimination of the white race, with 750,000 trannies created in the past decade, with gold over 4000 and the dollar crashing, with DC waiting to shoot Tomahawks into Russia and planning their way with China… and with discussions of bringing Gazans to America… NO. WAY. IN. HELL. do I give up my guns, no matter what law they pass.
The second amendment does not give me a right to firearms, it recognizes my pre-existing god-given right as a human being to have effective means of self-defense.
Dershowitz can go back to Epstein island. He’s a snake and I don’t trust him.
Not to mention the transsexuals and homosexuals are shooting up schools, stores, malls and churches every couple of weeks.
No Alan. I’d like to see this prick talk about gun control and argue against someone who lived in a Jewish kibbutz on October 7th and escaped. It was extremely difficult for settlers to get firearms, and very strict ammunition restrictions. Fly an October 7 survive around and have them stand there and debate him.
I object to this entire debate. Everything debated and discussed eventually happens. She should’ve never even participated in this debate moderators by a liberal
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Dershowitz may support abortion and be against the second amendment but he supports our Constitution. He would argue in court against abortion and for guns if he thought they were a constitutional right. Just like he has represented very unpopular or hated people because in this country they have a right to have representation. He has received a lot of grief from the left for his honesty.
Its safe only from one perspective. If a fire breaks out you’re trapped, not safe. If no one feeds you, you die, not safe.
Moot point anymore. 400 million firearms in the U.S. Move on.
To Hell with him. This os my number one issue, go away slimeball.
The Constitution is not about “the common good”, it is about individual liberty. And Dershowitz can never be trusted.
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