Senator John McCain dies. The media rewrites history and a mass shooting takes place in Jacksonville. We'll talk all about it. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

A somber weekend with the death of Senator John McCain, dead at the age of 81. He died on Saturday. I found out about it right after Sabbath. I have a lot of thoughts. Also, there's a lot of fallout in the media sphere, in the political sphere. We'll get to all of that first. Let's talk about your gun rights. The reality is that law-abiding citizens ought to have guns in order to protect themselves from criminals and from folks who would want to violate their rights. This is why you ought to have a gun too. And this is your last chance, because if you'd like to hit the range tomorrow

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Senator McCain served for, I believe, 35 years in the Senate. He became famous not because of that, but because he did five years in a North Vietnamese prison.

And the man truly was an American hero, despite the fact that there are many who would say otherwise. He did five years in a North Vietnamese prison.

The man truly was an American hero, despite the fact that there are many who would say otherwise,

for no reason other than petty spite.

The fact is that anyone who serves in uniform and then does five years in a North Vietnamese prison and then gives up their opportunity to come home in order to maintain a solidarity with the troops who are

already there. That is an American hero. John McCain did two years in solitary confinement

under the North Vietnamese under the Viet Cong. When he came out, he had essentially been physically

crippled. His hair was completely white. Here is a clip of John McCain talking about his

torture at the hands of the

North Vietnamese. Historians have said that no American prisoner arrived at the

Hanoi Hilton in worse condition than McCain.

I broke my shoulder and hurt my knee again. But look, I don't blame them. I don't blame them. We're in a war look I don't blame them I don't blame them we're in a war I don't

didn't like it but at the same time when you're in a war and you're captured by

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