Elon Musk fears the risk of 'being shot' is quite significant, says not hard to kill somebody

Elon Musk thinks he may be at the risk of being killed. The world's richest man, Elon Musk on Saturday said that his personal safety is at risk during an extensive discussion about free speech.

During the discussion, the SpaceX boss also spoke about his views on free speech, changes he plans on bringing in on the microblogging platform for Twitter and more.

The Tesla chief said that it’s not hard for someone to kill someone, if they wanted to.


"Frankly, the risk of something bad happening or literally even being shot is quite significant,” Musk said, adding that he was not going to be travelling in an open air car.

I'm definitely not going to be doing any open air car parades, let me put it that way," Musk said during Twitter Spaces discussion.

"It's not that hard to kill me if somebody wanted to, so hopefully they don't, and fate smiles upon the situation with me and it does not happen ... There's definitely some risk there," the 51-year-old added.

The new boss of Twitter further stressed about the importance of free speech and his plans for the social network's future.

The businessman said that throughout history, people had to fight hard for free speech.

"Throughout history, free speech has been highly unusual, not common. So we have to fight really hard to keep that because it's such a rare thing and it's by no means something that's default," Musk said, adding "Controlled speech is the default, not free speech."

"As long as you're not really causing harm to somebody else, then you should be allowed to say what you want, the new Twitter CEO said.

The world's richest man's remarks come a day after inaugural instalments of the Twitter Files, what has been dubbed as an unfettered inside look into corporate communications at the microblogging platform over the last few years.