{"id":142708,"date":"2026-08-13T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/el-sayed-argued-against-the-second-amendment-in-unearthed-social-media-videos-142708"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:49:41","slug":"el-sayed-argued-against-the-second-amendment-in-unearthed-social-media-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/el-sayed-argued-against-the-second-amendment-in-unearthed-social-media-videos-142708","title":{"rendered":"El-Sayed argued against the Second Amendment in unearthed social media videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A controversial progressive Democrat who has campaigned with high-profile socialists and is running to be the state&#8217;s next U.S. senator from Michigan responded after hidden videos on his YouTube channel trashing the <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/category\/us\/personal-freedoms\/second-amendment\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Second Amendment<\/a> resurfaced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Abdul respects the Second Amendment, and also believes that access to healthcare is a right,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/abdul-el-sayed\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Abdul El-Sayed<\/a> spokeswoman Roxie Richner told Fox News Digital when reached for comment about comments made in the now-secret videos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What if we tweaked the Constitution, amended the amendment, and instead of the right to bear arms, we change it to the right to have health care?&#8221; he said in a YouTube video posted on April 6, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed altruism in the proposal, saying more people would live. In that video, El-Sayed said that stripping Second Amendment rights and implementing a right to healthcare policy would lead to &#8220;fewer people dying by gun and more people living because they have health care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/media\/michigan-senate-candidate-abdul-el-sayed-dodges-question-whether-he-still-supports-defunding-police\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MICHIGAN SENATE CANDIDATE ABDUL EL-SAYED DODGES QUESTION ON WHETHER HE STILL SUPPORTS DEFUNDING THE POLICE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube offers a feature to hide videos previously posted publicly without deleting them.<\/p>\n<p>Though the hidden videos can&#8217;t be viewed, rough transcripts can be found on an internet archive site first revealed by CNN in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/08\/11\/politics\/el-sayed-youtube-videos-fireworks-2nd-amendment\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Monday report<\/a>. The outlet reports that El-Sayed hid about 100 videos before launching his Senate campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In one video from May 26, 2022, the transcript of which was viewed by Fox News Digital, El-Sayed made the argument that the Second Amendment does not apply to individual Americans, and only applies to a regulated militia. He claimed that the stipulation written in the key constitutional right &#8220;couches the entire idea of not infringing on the right to bear arms in the idea of maintaining a well-regulated militia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He argued against <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/politics\/civil-liberty-lawsuit-illinois-state-police-foid-gun-law\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">individuals owning firearms<\/a>, instead suggesting that only designated community based groups, like <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/media\/michigan-senate-candidate-abdul-el-sayed-dodges-question-whether-he-still-supports-defunding-police\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">police forces<\/a>, should be issued firearms. Paradoxically, El-Sayed has also argued in favor of defunding the police.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/politics\/unearthed-clip-exposes-more-anti-police-rhetoric-el-sayed-gets-grilled-deleting-social-media-posts\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>UNEARTHED CLIP EXPOSES MORE ANTI-POLICE RHETORIC AS EL-SAYED GETS GRILLED FOR DELETING SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That argument against the Second Amendment was roundly rejected in a famous Supreme Court case from 2008, <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/category\/us\/personal-freedoms\/bill-of-rights\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>District of Columbia v. Heller<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia,&#8221; the nation&#8217;s highest court decidedly held.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed&#8217;s campaign did not respond when asked which, if any, of <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/politics\/inside-trumps-unprecedented-battle-plan-expand-second-amendment-rights-justice-department\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">his views on the Second Amendment<\/a> had changed since posting the 2022 and 2023 videos.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many other hidden videos, El-Sayed also raged against <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/opinion\/trumps-immigration-crackdown-may-hitting-legal-workers-need\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s closed borders policies<\/a>, argued against the use of fireworks and compared the &#8220;ethos&#8221; of football to slavery.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat candidate has campaigned with socialist darling streamer Hasan Piker, known for saying &#8220;America deserved 9\/11,&#8221; praising Mao Zedong and Communist China, arguing that capitalists should be murdered in the streets and spewing a litany of antisemitic bile.<\/p>\n<p>The two palled around at a pre-primary election day party earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/el-sayed-argued-against-second-amendment-unearthed-social-media-videos\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/el-sayed-argued-against-second-amendment-unearthed-social-media-videos <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial progressive Democrat who has campaigned with high-profile socialists and is running to be the state&#8217;s next U.S. senator from Michigan responded after hidden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-142708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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