Daily Wire host: “Gun rights are not absolute”
Matt Walsh: “There are obviously scenarios where a person should lose their gun rights”
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From the September 8, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): On the one hand, I support the policy, the suggested policy, or I should say I support it in theory because gun rights are not absolute. I mean, that's the first thing. I know gun rights people — and I'm a gun rights person. I have multiple guns. I'm a big Second Amendment supporter, but, you know, gun rights supporters can sometimes talk about gun rights as if they are absolute. Right? As if, like, anyone has a right to own any gun they want, period. End of discussion. But that obviously — and that's not, you know, that's obviously not what everyone thinks, but that's the way it's talked about sometimes. But it's — that's obviously not the case. You know, no rights are absolute. The right to life is not absolute. You could be executed as we just talked about. You could be legally shot if you break into somebody's house, unless you do it in California or, you know, a place like that. But still, rights are not absolute. There are scenarios where you can lose certain rights, up to including, again, the right to life.
And there are obviously scenarios where a person should lose their gun rights. A convicted murderer should not be allowed to legally purchase a firearm. Now granted, in my opinion, a convicted murderer should not be out of prison in the first place, but we do let murderers out of prison all the time, unfortunately. And, no, I don't think they should be able to walk into a gun shop and buy a gun. You know, what it — it's like a — this should be really be a one strike and you're out type of deal. I mean, you use a gun to kill somebody, to murder somebody, then you shouldn't be allowed to get a second gun after that. Or if you use any other weapon to to kill someone, you shouldn't be allowed to buy a gun. I also don't think that we should be selling guns to delusional schizophrenics. I mean, if I walk into a gun shop and I'm talking to myself and acting erratic, and then I announce that I am Genghis Khan and I need to purchase firearms because I'm raising an army in Central Asia to go invade China and bring down the the Jin dynasty or whatever, then, no, I don't think they should actually sell me the gun. I don't think the guy behind the counter should say, well, OK, Mr. Khan. Go right this way. And I think that should all be pretty obvious. If you murder someone and you lose your gun right, permanently, if you're a delusional schizophrenic, if you're actively in the middle of a psychotic break, then you should not be able to buy a gun. I mean, that's, I think, a pretty reasonable position.