Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 1, 2026
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. Common sense. And then the gun owners say, "The gun was in his hand. It's his responsibility. That's the end of the conversation." Who's right? Well there's a weird hybrid going on here. I believe that gun owners are rationally irrational. Here's what I mean. The moment you say, you know this isn't an absolute, we're going to say there are gun safety rules and responsibilities and stuff but use…

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d their safety and well-being and their education especially. And as soon as the Democrats crossed that line and said, "You know how about we educate your children the way we want to? And by the way we're going to turn them against you. We're going to tell your children that you're a racist, your parents. We're going to tell your children that you're a racist and you don't understand science and climate change and everything else." That's the red line. Everything on the other side of the red line is different from everything on the other side. Everything on the other side, a little bit flexible or at least maybe not willing to fight for it. Everything on the other side of the line, that's game over. That's game over.

So in my opinion 2022 and 2024 are largely already decided because the Democrats, you could call it an overreach but that really would be minimizing how big of a problem this is. The Republicans are now squarely the party that's going to

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protect your kids as well as their own. There's no question about that now. And not only that but they have the perfect opening to partner with the black American public to fix schools because everybody wins then, right? So I you know of course it's always dangerous to make predictions more than a day in advance, and even that's dangerous. So lots of things could change between now and elections,…

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