liberal republicans like john cornyn helped write it. so the question is , will the second half, will it makehe community safer? emphatically yes, said joe biden, quote, it s going to save a lot of lives. how many lives exactly when the characteristically modestct words of connecticutrd senator chris murphy quote, what we are doings will save thousands of lives, thousands then makes a kind of sense because now that we re going to have red flag laws in all l 50 states, laws that allow the government to disarm you byn force, that charging you withit a crime without bothering with due process. once we do that and we bith are doing it, mass shootings like the one we saw in buffalo this spring will never happen again. that s what they promised a us . and the media assured it wased true . every word of it. what they everwa mention was it was not only ridiculous and false, it was provably false. ybecause actually gun control does not stop bad people from usingon guns. it s not a tal
free spe but to the question of free speech, which really is the acid test, do you have free speech or don t you ?r it s a really simple test. you have free speech and you can say something that most people consider offensive or outrageous view that is held by very few people and not be punished for saying it. that s what free speech is . does brazil have free speech? well, earlier this year, perhaps the most popular podcast in the country, a guy known as mvrner played a thought experiment on his show in which he said, you know, even extremist parties should be recognizeded by law in brazil. not that i m b fore them, butld you should be allowed to have bt any political party you want because that s what freedom is . in response to saying this , the attorney general of brazil open an investigation into monaco. he was fired and kicked off of youtube. glenn greenwald saw this happen in real communist brazil. well, he s lived here for 17 years. he s an independent journalist with an indepe