Oklahoma state senator on viral chat with Jon Stewart: ‘Not afraid of anyone or anything’

Oklahoma state Sen. Nathan Dahm (R) on Sunday responded to his viral interview with speak present host Jon Stewart, by which Stewart interrogated Dahm’s help for the Second Modification amid rising gun violence and gun deaths nationwide. 

“What you’re telling me is you don’t thoughts infringing free speech to guard kids from this amorphous factor that you simply consider, however in relation to kids which have died, you don’t give a flying f— to cease that, as a result of that shall not be infringed. That’s hypocrisy,” Stewart concluded in his interview with the Oklahoma lawmaker on “The Drawback With Jon Stewart” on Apple TV+, which racked up hundreds of thousands of views on social media.

Dahm, whose Twitter bio asserts he’s “Oklahoma’s most conservative State Senator,” instructed Tulsa’s ABC NewsChannel 8 that he took the interview as a result of he’s “not afraid of anybody or something.”

“I anticipated to be proven in a less-than-positive mild. However I attempted to take the chance to supply folks with the reality. How they select to make use of that’s as much as them. Folks on the left will say that Jon Stewart eviscerated me — that’s what they’re saying. Folks on the best will say, ‘he interrupted you each time you tried to reply a query,’ or ‘he was a bully,’” Dahm stated. 

Stewart had pressed Dahm on his unwillingness to help background checks and registration as a part of the method for buying firearms, regardless of weapons being the main reason behind loss of life for kids within the U.S. — and given his opposition to pull exhibits with a purpose to, he stated, shield kids. 

Dahm instructed NewsChannel 8 that the interview was “extra of a dialog” between the 2 males and lauded Stewart’s conduct. 

“There was that second when he obtained heated — which he truly apologized for afterwards. Earlier than and afterwards, Jon was very well mannered. We had a great dialog and the whole lot,” Dahm stated.

The state lawmaker had stated on Friday that he “enjoyed” the interview “a lot” that he urged it proceed “in a dwell & unedited format,” suggesting that conservative podcast commentator Joe Rogan host.