Daily Wire host: “The Civil War kind of left us, in many ways, less free than we were”
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From the September 5, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Andrew Klavan Show
ANDREW KLAVAN (HOST): So the purpose is always — the target is always take away your guns. Take away the Second Amendment. Now, I want to be very clear that I strongly oppose political violence, especially in a place where there's still fairly decent elections. And the reason is political violence almost always leads to tyranny. It almost always makes things worse. The American Revolution is a very, very rare exception, and that too was a near run thing. If it hadn't been for George Washington, it also might have led to tyranny. So I hate the idea that we should ever have to shoot each other over a political issue like we did in the 1860s.
So much of what is tyrannical in this country arose from the post-Civil War amendments and the civil rights laws that have been taken over by the left and used to silence people and strip us of our free association rights. I'm obviously in favor of civil rights and that everybody gets treated fairly, but the left takes over every social issue, and the Civil War kind of left us, in many ways, less free than we were. So opposing political violence with all my heart, I still want to say that I believe the Second Amendment is as important today as when it was written. The Second Amendment was enacted because the states asked the question, if the federal government is going to have an army, how would we defend ourselves against the federal government? Right?