The 4th Amendment prevents police from conducting searches without a warrant. There are criminals who are going to escape detection because of that, and there are known criminals who go free because of that, and every year some of those criminals are going to commit murder and other crimes that they would not have been able to commit if it weren't for the 4th Amendment. And the 4th Amendment is not the only other amendment in the Bill of Rights that makes it harder to catch and prosecute criminals.

Is it worth it to have a cost of some deaths every year so that we can have the Bill of Rights? Yes, it is. If you think that makes me callus, you need to develop a thicker skin.

> If you think that makes me callus, you need to develop a thicker skin.

Since GP also made the typo, I don't know if/to what extent a joke was intended here.

(The adjective, here intended to mean "emotionally hardened", is "callous". A callus (noun) is a region of literal thickened skin. Although "callous" can also literally refer to skin which has calluses.)

Then perhaps people who share that point of view need to develop a thicker skin now that Kirk is part of the cost.

Do you think the same thing about "give me liberty or give me death?"

"...cost of unfortunately..." Is that not clear? The context was he was responding about a question about the 2nd amendment. clearly the first order thinking would make it clear it's not the rule, it's the purpose of the rule that's important.

The purpose is so you don't get arrested for some social media comment or other rights, like what is happening in the UK right now.

Well now he's one of those unfortunate sacrifices. I guess it had to happen, nothing we could do about it besides send hopes and prayers I guess.

I didn't like or respect the guy but really that is probably the most reasonable thing he ever said (other than release the Epstein Files), if you believed the 2nd Amendment is important to have then you are essentially arguing for some gun deaths every year.

Note: I believe the 2nd Amendment is really the proof that the founding fathers weren't the super geniuses the mythology has them as, but hey, too late now.

Pretty much everything out of the guys mouth was either stupid or horrible. This just happens to be one of the most relevant to the current conversation

The only reason we look at the 2nd Amendment as we do today is because of the NRA.

The founding fathers had vastly different ideas for drafting the 2nd.