Spencer Pratt Reveals the Gun Rights Issue That Made Him a Republican
“I know people don’t like guns, but LA was dangerous if you’re hated. So I got a gun. My wife got a gun. And then we needed CCWs.”
Spencer Pratt’s campaign for Mayor of Los Angeles is going viral, but the public still doesn’t know much about him as a person. During a recent interview on CNN, Pratt explained the issue that led him to become a Republican.
You might not be surprised to learn that it had to do with becoming a legal gun owner.
Townhall has details:
In an interview with CNN, Pratt explained that during the height of his time as a reality television star, when he was widely hated by the public, he received a significant number of death threats. Although he had hired personal security, he said they had also encouraged him to purchase a firearm for self-defense. According to Pratt, Republicans were the only political party that supported that right to self-defense, and for him, the issue was as simple as that.
“Why are you a Republican?” CNN’s Elex Michaelson asked.
“Well, you want to break some news here?” Pratt replied.
“Sure.”
“It’s in my, you know, I’ve told this before, and this is the only time I’ve ever said this, so this is breaking news. Everyone’s gonna freak out,” Pratt said. “When I was a hated reality star, I got so many death threats. I had so much security and police, and what did they tell me to do? Get a gun. This is real, I know people don’t like guns, but LA was dangerous if you’re hated. So I got a gun. My wife got a gun. And then we needed CCWs. The only people that supported a CCW was the Republican.”
“That was what I aligned with my safety, my personal safety, my family’s safety,” he said. “I know people don’t like guns, but when people are threatening your life and your own security is telling you you need to have home protection, trained to, it’s not like just, I went to the, you know, go through the proper steps. That was my, that’s it.”
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WATCH: @spencerpratt explains why he became a Republican:
"When I was a hated reality star, I got so many death threats… The only people that supported a CCW was the Republican." pic.twitter.com/PDakVj6ZJK
— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) May 21, 2026
People on the left are always pushing for greater gun control with little to no understanding of how difficult it already is to become a legal gun owner, and of course, becoming licensed for concealed carry is another issue entirely.
Years ago, I worked with a woman who was politically liberal but was against gun control because she had inherited an antique gun from someone in her family and had to jump through hundreds of hoops to merely possess it.
It’s funny how a situation like that can change a person.
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I can hear her now. “But, but… I’m different, not like those bitter clingers…”
It was probably one of those old-fashioned shootin’ irons, the type that the Second Amendment protects. Not one of those black guns with the folding stock, a barrel shroud, and a flame thrower on the muzzle.
Those old fashioned “shootin’ irons” as you call them were state of the art at the time they were introduced. It’s about defending yourself against people who have modern firearms, and you don’t do that with musket.
I have one of those old fashion winchester shooting irons made in 1892, it still shoots as good as my henry made in 2025
The Second Amendment is the only right “endowed by our Creator..” that we, today, have to get permission from government to exercise.
You appear to have forgotten the Scamdemic.
Regarding our natural rights, government has no authority to know if, how, when, or where we may be exercising any of them, much less asking it for permission.
You rail against black guns with folding stocks and then you say the government has no authority to regulate those rights? What side of this issue are you on?
You must be new here.
He’s on the side of the Second Amendment. What he wrote upstream was sarcasm, which you failed to detect.
That’s on you, not him..
“People on the left are always pushing for greater gun control with little to no understanding of how difficult it already is to become a legal gun owner”
Just ask Mark Kelly.
Ask him. Every chance you get.
Years ago, I worked with a woman who was politically liberal but was against gun control because she had inherited an antique gun from someone in her family and had to jump through hundreds of hoops to merely possess it.
So, did she become a Republican, or just bitch about it?
Most likely, just bitched about it. I teach CHL in New Mexico and I run a lot of democrats through my classes. When the governor and the roundhouse get particularly stupid with new laws, they all piss and moan but they don’t change their voting pattern.
A perfect example of the old adage:
Freud was right….. fear of firearms was/is pathological… a true phobia. At the turn of the 20th century, people would not enter newly electrified homes for fear that the electricity would jump out of the switches and sockets and kill them. One psychologist stated that the trigger pulled the finger. Guns could focus and gain evil power on their own.
Two of my guns and I went shooting today. They tell me they had a great time.
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