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Oklahoma State Sen. Nathan Dahm engaged in a debate with the comedian-cum-political commentator, Jon Stewart on gun control. The debate was about curbing gun violence but soon it drifted away into different topics from ‘fatherless homes’ to restricting children from attending drag shows. The aforementioned debate, especially Stewart’s opinion gained a lot of traction on social media and even drew a reaction from the Los Angeles Lakers superstar, LeBron James.

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However, James giving take his take on the comedian’s opinion was seemingly disliked by fans. In response to the Lakers forward’s take, they took to Twitter to express their disappointment.

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LeBron James reacted to Jon Stewart’s comments in the debate

In the latest of The Problem with Jon Stewart, the comedian disagreed with the viewpoints of Dahm, and therefore, to drive his point home, he pivoted to another two topics from the main topic of curbing gun violence. The two topics were voting right and drag shows. While speaking about drag shows, the now 60-year-old asked him what’s the leading cause of death among children, hinting that it’s not drag show reading to children. Dahm agreed and said he was presuming that Stewart gonna say it was firearms.

In reply, the comedian said, “No, I’m not going to say it like it’s an opinion. That’s what it is. It’s firearms. More than cancer, more than car accidents, and what you’re telling me is you don’t mind infringing free speech to protect children from this amorphous thing that you think of, but when it comes to children that have died, you don’t give a flying f*ck to stop that because that shall not be infringed. That is hypocrisy at its highest order.”

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James took to Twitter and reacted to Stewart’s comments. He wrote,  !!AT ITS HIGHEST ORDER!!‘ (emojis) @jonstewart

Judging from his tweet, the 19x All-Star seemingly agreed with Stewart’s take.

Fans appeared annoyed after coming across James’ comments

Fans flooded the comment section of Twitter not long after James posted the tweet. They seemed to be annoyed and many of them expressed that he should get off Twitter and focus on basketball as soon as possible. While a few other users appreciated his tweet.

Here are some of the reactions of the fans:

LeBron James is currently out with an injury for at least two-three weeks. Therefore, fans would not be able to see him on the floor and have to make do with seeing him on social media.

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