The Auron MacIntyre Show - November 12, 2026


The Second Amendment Delusion Is Dangerous For Conservatives | 11⧸12⧸26

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Length

9 minutes

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173.35

Word count

1,584

Sentence count

83

Harmful content

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9

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00:00:12 During a speech after the massive electoral victory secured by Democrats after the 2026
00:00:18 midterms, the newly minted Senator Abdul El-Sayed announced,
00:00:23 I'm honored to be the next United States Senator from the great state of Michigan,
00:00:26 which, of course, I know we're in D.C., which, of course, is the capital of the United States,
00:00:32 but Michigan is the capital of Arab America.
00:00:36 El-Said is far from the first to boast about the rising concentration of Muslim populations
00:00:41 in states like Michigan, Minnesota, and Texas.
00:00:45 Americans have routinely criticized Europeans for their lack of action
00:00:49 as their homelands are colonized by Muslim invaders.
00:00:52 They've often stated that a similar phenomenon could never occur in the United States because the population is well-armed due to the Second Amendment. 0.98
00:01:01 Despite these confident declarations, Americans are watching passively as Muslims celebrate control over major cities and even states with no serious opposition. 0.94
00:01:12 Conservatives are using the Second Amendment as a security blanket to comfort themselves as they slowly lose control of their own country. 0.99
00:01:20 People often talk about their red pill moment when they recognize that the reality of politics is not what it seems.
00:01:27 For me, that moment was the migrant crisis sweeping Europe in 2015.
00:01:31 The fallout from Middle Eastern conflicts destabilized several Muslim countries,
00:01:35 and refugees from those conflicts were seeking new homes in Europe.
00:01:39 At first, many Western countries were welcoming to the new arrivals,
00:01:42 but it quickly became clear that most were not really war refugees.
00:01:46 Women and children were certainly present, but the migrants were overwhelmingly single, fighting-age men looking for economic opportunities, or in many cases, just government handouts.
00:01:56 Many Muslims didn't stop at the first safe country they entered, but continued traveling until they arrived in the European countries offering the most lucrative benefits. 0.86
00:02:05 They were going shopping. 1.00
00:02:07 In addition to the economic drain, Europeans discovered that their new immigrant populations were far from ideal guests. 1.00
00:02:14 Muslims did not integrate. 0.98
00:02:15 Instead, they formed ethnic enclaves where police often refused to go.
00:02:19 They were politically active and pushed for separate justice systems under Sharia law.
00:02:24 Muslim men were especially violent, committing acts of terror 1.00
00:02:26 and treating European women as subhuman sex toys to be raped and discarded. 1.00
00:02:30 The general population of countries like Germany and the United Kingdom 1.00
00:02:33 may have initially welcomed these people,
00:02:35 but they were quickly souring on a refugee operation which was clearly becoming an invasion.
00:02:41 The voters may have come to the realization that Muslim migrants didn't benefit European countries,
00:02:45 but the politicians refused to listen. 0.98
00:02:47 Leaders shamed their populations as xenophobic and Islamophobic bigots. 0.96
00:02:51 In many cases, like the Muslim grooming gang scandal in the UK, 0.86
00:02:55 the government covered up the crimes of the migrants and punished Englishmen who attempted to defend their daughters. 0.67
00:03:00 Voters in country after country attempted to install politicians who would reject Muslim immigration,
00:03:06 but they were routinely betrayed by the candidates they supported. 0.98
00:03:09 It seemed increasingly clear that there was truly no political solution to the invasion. 0.96
00:03:15 As Muslims molested English girls or burned ancient buildings in France, 0.93
00:03:18 the response from American conservatives was, 0.99
00:03:20 well, that's what you get for giving up your guns.
00:03:22 That'll never happen here because we have the Second Amendment. 0.89
00:03:25 Even when the men of Europe attempted to stand up against the Muslim invaders and their own governments, 0.98
00:03:30 they were ultimately just disarmed and unorganized mobs. 0.93
00:03:33 It seemed like exactly the same kind of hopeless situation the Bill of Rights was created to avoid.
00:03:39 Despite the bluster around owning firearms, 1.00
00:03:41 the Second Amendment seems to have done very little to halt America's own Muslim invasion. 0.99
00:03:46 After 9-11, George W. Bush was joined by the rest of the GOP 0.84
00:03:50 as they warned Americans not to blame Islam for the attacks that had just occurred.
00:03:55 In a moment where resistance to Muslim immigration should have been at an all-time high,
00:04:00 it was the Republicans who were responsible for ensuring it increased to record numbers. 0.97
00:04:04 After a tear attack explicitly performed in the name of Islam, the GOP fought to make sure the religion was imported en masse. 0.90
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00:04:26 During his first term, Donald Trump enacted a travel ban on several different countries, which he proudly described as his Muslim ban.
00:04:33 The measure had overwhelming support from his base, but was hated by establishment Republicans in the media.
00:04:39 The policy was heavily altered after several court injunctions and was repealed by Joe Biden in 2021.
00:04:46 Trump reinstated a travel ban in 2025, but expanded it to include countries like Chad and the Congo.
00:04:52 The Republicans spent much of the 2026 midterm elections warning of the Muslim invasion sweeping America. 0.57
00:04:58 Despite the very real threat posed by an increase in Islam, no major GOP candidate made banning Muslim immigration a central campaign issue.
00:05:08 No one ran on expanding the travel ban to include more Muslim countries, increasing the deportations of Muslims, or attempting to restrict their naturalization.
00:05:16 When it came to the creation of Muslim-centric cities in Texas or the rapid increase in the construction of mosques, the GOP had very little to say. 0.77
00:05:25 The city that had suffered the largest terror attack in American history in the name of Islam
00:05:31 now has a foreign-born Muslim mayor just like London. 0.98
00:05:35 The Second Amendment didn't do anything.
00:05:37 The right to bear arms is core to the American identity, and I fully support it.
00:05:42 I believe in it deeply. Trust me.
00:05:44 I would always prefer to have the option to defend myself no matter what the situation
00:05:49 and believe that Americans should also have that option.
00:05:52 But the Second Amendment has become an excuse for political impotence among conservatives.
00:05:57 The idea that one can always fall back on armed defense has become an excuse to avoid meaningful action to resolve pressing issues. 0.98
00:06:06 Once Muslims vote their way into power, they're not going to let you vote them out. 1.00
00:06:10 But the conservative can always tell themselves that they have the right to bear arms as a last resort. 0.99
00:06:15 So, you know, you don't have to fight for now.
00:06:17 There's always that firewall.
00:06:19 There's always that last thing that you can do, and so why bother with it now? Why fight now? I mean, ultimately, you can always defend yourself with a gun, right?
00:06:28 The total cowardice of conservatives during the COVID lockdown regime should tell you that when push comes to shove, the guys with guns, they don't do anything.
00:06:38 Sorry, it ends up being a lot of talk. At the end of the day, when your rights are taken, when you're locked in your home, you just don't do anything.
00:06:46 You close your churches, you put on the mask, and you sit at home like a good little subject. 0.70
00:06:51 It looks no different than Europe.
00:06:53 Look, I'm sorry, I know that's harsh.
00:06:54 This isn't meant to blackpill anybody, this isn't meant to demoralize anybody,
00:06:58 but this is just reality, and we have to live in the real world.
00:07:02 This is, again, what shook me from my delusion when it came to politics.
00:07:06 Watching the fact that all of this bluster about how we're armed and we have the Second Amendment
00:07:10 and it protects everything else, it was all nothing.
00:07:13 No one did anything. And that's when my shift in understanding politics changed. That's when I
00:07:19 realized that all this rhetoric was just completely incorrect and we needed to look at things
00:07:23 realistically. And realistically, we have to fight in politics now to stop what's happening
00:07:29 because ultimately when the time comes, the guys with guns are not going to rise up and do anything
00:07:34 about it. Many will say that rejecting immigrants based on their religion is a violation of the
00:07:40 First Amendment. And I don't care. Really, I couldn't care less. The free exercise of religion 0.99
00:07:45 was never intended to stop Americans from being able to decide who enters their country. No one
00:07:50 has an inherent right to become an American, and our people have every right to reject immigration 0.99
00:07:56 from anywhere for any reason. The First Amendment is not a suicide pact that requires us to import 0.98
00:08:02 foreigners hostile to our way of life. If the United States doesn't take action to defend
00:08:07 itself against Muslim immigration now, then the Second Amendment won't protect us from our 1.00
00:08:12 failure. Gun owners will simply sit at home as city after city, state after state is conquered 0.98
00:08:18 through demographics and the ballot box. 0.97
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