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Using research and statistics, experts examine America’s history with guns, the real-life impacts of gun violence and what can be done going forward to mitigate the problem.
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1 15 Year Olds Caught With Full Auto Guns Proves Gun Control Won't Stop Criminals From Getting Guns
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2 I Bought an Assassin Pistol… and I Totally Regret It…
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3 Detroit cop fights off two men trying to steal his gun at gas station
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4 Debunking the Viral Gun Control Propaganda: Why the Swiss Love Their Guns More Than Americans
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5 States With The Most #Gun Deaths
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6 Facing skepticism, Democrats eliminate dozens of ‘sensitive spaces’ from gun control bill
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7 Gun Rights And Morality: Study Uncovers Complex Views On Self-Protection
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8 Democrat Judge Exempts NRA Members From New Gun Rule
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9 Colorado Republicans call state gun control bill unconstitutional
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10 Hear GOP lawmakers speak on gun laws after Nashville shooting
This is such a dishonest a report
Thankfu** here in Australia we have literally zero access to guns. We don't have school shootings or anything
They want us to kill each other, that’s the CULTS AGENDA
Stop putting toxic chemicals in our food and drinking water and that would help, THE CULT GOVERNMENT IS 100% RESPONSIBLE! Wake up!
Epidemic?? I’m surrounded by retards… Society is a product of the environment, the environment is a product of the government.
Blame the CULT GOVERNMENT!!!!
The writers and producers of this article aren't interested in any actual solutions or insights. This is rife with some of the most baldfaced poor statistical manipulation and interpretation I have seen. Openly. One of the worst spots? The "realization" that in a gun owning household that gun based suicides quadruple. they kept hammering it. Avoiding the obvious question and only stating gun suicides. Not even occurring to ask "Why suicide?" or something similar. Just the observation guns = over quadrupled suicides. What? So when someone sees a gun in a house they suddenly think, "Ahh! There's a gun! I MUST KILL MYSELF!" Correlation is not causation. Yet through this whole report correlation = causation ABOUNDS! When not committing THAT logical fallacy they just throw out any logic and simply appeal to emotion. If I wanted vacuous empty headed emotionalism, I would hit the nearest Church.
This whole article isn't looking for any real answers. It just deep dives into confirmation bias and correlation equaling causation and then condescendingly noting when someone dies it affects more than just the person. It "affects the persons friends and family". Let's just stick a pin in that under the "DUH!" column. Here, let me put that into perspective. When anyone dies of cancer, it impacts the friends and family. When anyone dies of an auto accident, it impacts the friends and family. When anyone dies of old age, it impacts the friends and family. When anyone dies of heart disease, it impacts the friends and family. When anyone dies of suicide by jumping of someplace high enough to kill them in the falls impact, it impacts the friends and family. When anyone dies of being bitten by a rabid dog and dying untreated, it impacts the friends and family. When anyone dies of loneliness, it impacts the friends and family. (But not much… Hence the loneliness!)
Do a search on here every morning with these 2 words shooting in and then look and see if that city has a democratic mayor .
? Can you tell in detail which racial demographic is causing the largest illegal and violent gun use behavior???
This is AMERICA and gun violence is the most known AMERICAN DREAM to have
I still think more gun control is bullshit.
Funny how in the UK we banned handguns after the dunblaine school massacre and guess what? We've had barely any gun problems since apart from a few gang people shooting each other which is no loss to the world. Americans say "well you have loads of knife crime in the UK"…yea in parts of London and some big cities but the only "gun crime" I know of in my area is people shooting their neighbours cats with BB guns because they're stealing their cats food, that's how safe it is here. We don't have to worry about our kids being shot at school or our people being robbed and killed by blacks. America is the third world, I just don't think a lot of them realise it.
https://youtube.com/shorts/hMYhFWc5mXU?feature=shared
Sick f country, armed. America the ridiculous. USA – you shot again?
So much wrong with this…
1:28 If "reducing gun violence" was the goal they would stop pretending that anyone that used a gun to commit suicide is "Gun Violence". That alone would reduce the number by more than 60%. They deliberately WANT the number as inflated and scary sounding as possible. It' helps their narrative. No other form of suicide is "method-used violence" only guns. Why?
3:00 That's because the Democrats started pushing gun control at that time, and it became a partisan issue. The Republicans really had no choice other than to go along with it.
3:17 Now let's compare that to what the anti-gun side. Michael Bloomberg alone spends far more than that funding anti-gun groups every year. To the tune of hundreds of millions. Combine that with the liberal media using every tool possible to push misinformation (like this video). Cry me a river about the NRA's 28 million. It's a drop in the bucket compared to what the anti-2A is spending.
4:54 I'm all about doing the CDC research, and finding out exactly what the facts are. BUT… that research has got to be honest, and look at ALL aspects of the issue. This means looking at BOTH "Gun Violence" numbers, AND "Defensive Gun Uses" honestly. There should be none of this "Looking for statistics that support our argument, and ignoring ones that don't" like they are currently doing.
5:45 Everyone has access to knives… does that make every problem seem like one that can be solved with a knife to anyone? Me either…
6:00 In other news, there's also a correlation between people that own swimming pools in a area, and people that drown in swimming pools. I bet more people die in swimming pools in Florida than die in swimming pools in Alaska.
9:04 So taking potentially suicidal people's guns away results in 7.5% reduction in "firearm suicides". I notice they did NOT say that "suicides" dropped by that much. Just "suicide by firearm"… that tells me that the victims just found another method to kill themselves.
9:20 The current BG check system, and the current laws against selling to someone you believe cannot own a firearm privately is what "prevents anyone with a record from buying a weapon". All "Universal Background Checks" do is facilitate the need for a registration list that tells the Government who owns the guns, and what guns they own.
9:48 Making violent misdemeanors cause for taking away gun rights would probably do that alone. However… it also will disproportionately affect Police Officers who make up a big part of that demographic. Currently they stay Police by having charges dropped to misdemeanors on domestic's.
10:10 Indeed the data can help… but only if it's not "only the data that supports our position". ALL. THE. DATA. Or, it's a moot point.
10:24 That's because "Over 90% of gun owners don't realize the ramifications of it". If you ask 90% of gun owners the same question, but word it differently: "Do you think it's a good idea to give the US Government a list of who owns all the guns, and what guns they own?" You might get 1 or 2% that say "Yes".
The only way to "solve the problem" is to start paying attention to the root causes (people wanting to kill themselves, and urban socio-economic issues that cause gang and drug shootings), and stop pretending that the inanimate objects are to blame.
Gun violence is an oxymoron. Guns are inaninate and incapble of violence. Now, people are something else!
Population disarmament is a violation of people's basic human rights – the right to defend their lives, and their right to peacefully possess any tools or weapons they would like to possess in order to defend themselves. Outlawing possession of firearms by ordinary citizens means that the state will have a monopoly on legal firearm ownership. Governments and states are far too dangerous to be trusted with that kind of monopoly power. History has shown time and time again that population disarmament emboldens tyrants, since they no longer fear the population at large. Tyrants have murdered millions of innocent civilians following disarmament of the general population. Examples have included the Holocaust (Nazis), Stalin (communists), the Turkish genocide of the Armenians, Pol Pot in Cambodia, and many others. To allow the government to have a monopoly on firepower is absolutely irresponsible if one understands history. There is no getting around it: armed governments are FAR more dangerous than lone citizens in peaceful possession of firearms. If you want to disarm people in society, I would suggest you start by disarming the hundreds of thousands of civilian federal government employees who now carry firearms as part of their job duties. https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/6/Militarization_Report_v5.pdf
In the 1980s Ted Koppel on Nightline has an episode about gun violence and compared Detroit with Windsor, Ontario.
The crime and disorder in Michigan compared to the safe streets and better life in Windsor. Its not just not having guns,
it is a better social safety net. No guns and better social supports in a country mean less crime and violence and chances for people to better their lives. Something America can only dream about.
I myself am tired of hearing this same distorted video blaming "Guns" as the problem instead of addressing the real problem, the Criminal doing the violence in the first place. Why wouldn't Americans want the government to take care of those Who do the violence, the Evil people in our country that will use "Any" weapon to bring harm to another human being they choose to victimize. Nobody wants to address the real problem, the person doing the crime. The real reason the Government wants you to focus on the guns as being evil is because they want to disarm Americans so they can exercise Total control of you and force you to do what they want you to do, period.
And the odds climb of a drowning if you have a swimming pool!HAHA…
It's NOT "gun" violence it's people violence get over it!
In 2021 in the U.S. there were 48,830 deaths from gun violence. In 2021 in the U.S. there were 42.939 deaths from fatal motor vehicle crashes. In both instances some are responsible and licensed, some are not for various reasons. In both instances there are those that are accountable and those that are victims. In both instances families suffer. It also makes sense that property damaged costs are higher with motor vehicle crashes than with gun violence. However, gun violence deaths seem to prioritize fatal motor vehicle deaths as far as an issue that needs to be resolved. I don't hear Biden talking about, passing laws, introducing bills, banning driving, etc. Why is that?
This contains so many fallacies and outright lies.
90% of gun owners do NOT support universal background checks, and there are no universal background checks in the U.S.
Every time she uses that term, she is probably referring to background checks. Someone that is actually knowledgeable on the topic and not just reading off a screen would not make that mistake unless they are trying to purposely mislead people. Its a very important distinction.
The major difference is that a universal background check can be reversed to create a registry that all NAZI supporters would love the government to have.
Correlation is not causation.
They also did not draw any parallel correlations to give any basis to their claims.
Access to guns makes gun suicide counts go up…
What they don't go into is how that impacts actual suicide rates.
Guns are a better too so of course having better access leads to more usage.
That doesn't mean that having more access to guns is having much of an impact on total suicides/attempts.
Same with other forms of violence. They are not showing how having a gun is increasing violence overall.
Just that if people have access to a better tool they will use the better tool.
They do not do any helpful comparisons. They don't even cover how many victims of violence owe their lives to some citizen with a gun stopping an attack.
Including how often people showing their weapon has led to aggressive people backing down from instigating physical violence.
So they just talk about having guns means more gun violence compared to not having guns… brilliant.
If bats were the best weapon, then having access to bats would increase bat violence.
However weaker people wouldn't be able to anywhere near as equally protect themselves with a bat as they can with a gun.
Making it far less apt to save someone's life than a gun vs an attacker armed with a gun.
Overall, this was a disgusting piece of propaganda
Even the opening statements. If gun violence was an "epidemic" then there being more guns than people would not allow hardly for anyone to go through life without facing gun violence first hand.
The numbers they present in this video clearly contradict their claim.
Either hardly anyone owns guns and it's an epidemic, or there are hundreds of millions of guns and its a problem… but not by any proportion that is close to being an epidemic.
Now I would agree in certain cultures, it is an epidemic… but that suggests cultural issues instead of the issue being the guns themselves.
The attempt to look reasonable while passing total BS is strong in this video.
Why is this even out there this thing is all lies Nana statistics the numbers on your even close to real why is there some chick on here that can't even speak English preaching to me about my second amendment rights she has no clue about Second Amendment never about hunting ever no American would say that stupidest thing I ever heard coming from a foreigner + 40000a year this number is ridiculous more than double what it normally would it's only 80% because the suicide's 20000 -16000 suicide number don't change without guns ….it's just absurd to keep those numbers now include black on black gang crime thats something that wouldn't change with guns going away this gets us down around 2500…! And some of those are accidents
I debunked over half of this video just by referring to the FBI stats. You people need to stop lying to people and at minimum provide citation backing your claims. And hiring airheads to deliver the message further destroys your credibility.
It will get so out of hand ,they won't have choice but to take action,war zone like
Homicides are the only gun deaths that matter to me
Schools had guns in them everyday before they were made gun free zones and we started having mass shootings.
Gun control will never ever work in America it will only restrict those who are lawful gun owners the criminals do not obay the law of the land and they will always get guns the biggest problem in America is Mental Health and the drug and poverty problem the gun is only a tool of choice
I love listening to Europeans talk about Gun Control. Even though their governments were mostly responsible for the deaths of MILLIONS during the early 20th century.
more guns than people…..good
Its decreased. These people are pushing propaganda. Firearms are a necessity for Americans. Guns sales are good and tax money is racking up for the economy. Plus, terrorists will rethink about committing terrorism because most people will exercise their second amendment rights. The constitution is a right thats meant to protect all Americans. NO ATF OR FBI will take away those rights not with our congress! Our congress will protect us!
Oct 12 , 1021
"It's my amendment it's my amendment…". They were very different times those amendments were written in. Think about the advancement of guns since that time period. We aren't using flintlock rifles anymore. Most certainly we are not in the 1700s anymore and there is no need for the average citizen to bear arms that are capable of mass murder in a very short amount of time. This is the problem with most society/religion these days. Keep up with the times we are living in 2023.