Matt Walsh: “I do think that bringing duels back would actually make a lot of things better”
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From the January 14, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): So all that to say, am I suggesting that you should risk jail or serious injury just to protect your honor and your dignity, and more importantly, the honor of your wife or your fiance? Yeah. I mean, that's what I'm saying.
And there was a time in this country when that would not even be controversial. Like, of course. Your honor and your wife's honor, your fiance's honor, that's worth something. It's not nothing. And, I mean, there was a time when people fought duels for this exact reason. They risked getting shot. I mean, they volunteered to have another man shoot a pistol at them from 50 yards away — or 50 feet away. They're not 50 yards — you know, for the sake of their honor and their family's honor. I'm not saying that you should challenge them to a duel. You know, I do think that bringing duels back would actually make a lot of things better in some — but, you know, that's — I'm not suggesting that. And I'm not even saying you necessarily have to end up getting into a fight, but you gotta get in the guy's face and get him to back down and apologize.