Stewart: Guns Mostly Protect the Speech of the People Holding the Gun

EXCERPT:

STEWART: "Guns don’t protect our free speech. Our free speech is protected by the consent of the governed laid out through the Constitution. It’s not based on the threat of violence. It’s based on elections, organizing referendums, a judicial system. Our social contract offers many, many avenues to remedy these issues, and allows sides to be heard and adjudicated. Guns, from what I can tell, seem to mostly protect the speech of the people holding the gun! It’s a tool of intimidation.
(Cheering and Applause)
And if I may finish — listen, mother[bleep], I am not done! It is a tool of intimidation, and one that I think is being irresponsibly and recklessly invoked because some people in your crowd think they might have been 'shadow-banned' by Facebook. I mean, for God’s sakes! You guys are in Butler, Pennsylvania! The whole reason you’re there is because some [bleep] asshole with an AR-15 tried to permanently litigate his vision of this country’s free speech. That is why you are there! The whole point of a society is, guns don’t decide it. I would prefer at this moment not to trade in a government that offers me many remedies for my concerns, legitimate or illegitimate, for a situation where my rights are determined by how many militia members agree with me.”