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...then I came across a video, either here or on X, where he is "debating" a student about guns and the Second Amendment. At one point he declares that we could prevent school shootings by having armed guards at schools and that mass shootings don't happen at sports stadiums because of the armed guards stationed there. This, of course, completely ignores the fact that mass shootings don't happen at stadiums (at least not so far) because the general public cannot enter with any firearms, just as they can't board a plane or enter a courtroom or govt building with one. He was clearly trying to advocate for 2nd Amendment rights without acknowledging all of the instances in which those rights are quite rightly limited and how that also prevents mass shootings.

He struck me as a smug idiot who was not as smart as he thought he was but was older and more media savvy and slippery than the young college students he was addressing. Another JD Vance in the making.