The “price of freedom” cost 45,222 Americans their lives at the hand of a firearm in 2020 (CDC)… but does it have to be this way? How do other countries manage to celebrate private gun ownership while also keeping gun deaths low? Can the United States actually learn something?
In Episode 2 on our series on crime we take a deep dive into the history of gun ownership in the United States, as well as the roles that the NRA and the American gun lobby has taken in shaping modern gun legislation. But to better understand how different our gun laws are and gun related outcomes are compared to the rest of the world – this video offers up international comparisons from the Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Canada and Switzerland.
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00:00 Intro
02:06 The “Myth” About The Founding Fathers & Gun Control
07:08 National Firearms Registry : Czech Republic vs. USA
12:19 Mental Health & Gun Ownership in Germany vs. USA
16:49 Universal Background Checks in Japan vs. USA
19:53 Assault Weapons Ban in New Zealand (and in the USA!)
24:33 Concealed Carry in Canada vs. Constitutional Carry in USA
28:12 Stand Your Ground Laws in Switzerland
24:15 Debunking Common American Anti-Gun Control Arguments
41:49 On the Next Episode…..
43:52 A sobering end.
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Why are you saying at 35:37 that only 3% of active shooters are stopped by a good guy with the gun, while 99% of shootings take place in gun-free zones? Theoretically there are no good guns there!
How does the author consider appropriate for the Militia to be regulated by the Government, while by the Constitution it is supposed to overthrow the same Government if the later becomes tyrannical?
Ok, so clearly you dont understand how those two clauses are meant to be read. First of all, regulated did not mean regulated by the government. It simply meant in good order and discipline. Secondly, notice the in the second clause of the amendment it dousnt mention militias at all it specifically says the right of the PEOPLE. Because this wasn't an amendment that allowed the rights, it was one that prevented the government from taking them away.
Also, if you take out 3 cities, we aren't even in the top 100 for gun violence.
Firstly, camparing the US to Europe is already an apples to oranges comparison. Secondly, people get arrested for social media posts in European countries, so I already assume your morality is bankrupt.
You are using Germany and Japan as a basis, the same Germany that disarmed Jewish people only to go on and commit mass genocide of the same Jewish people.The same with the Japanese.The hole point of the 2nd amendment is to make sure that the people can defend themselves against a tyrannical government. Our forefathers just fought a war against a tyrannical government so that's why it is so important.
This girl has zero idea what she’s talking about.
Regan started his political career as a democrat dont forget that fact and look at what is going on in Germany and most of the other countries over there. hint its bad
Since the comment I made earlier today wasn't posted, I'm pretty sure this one won't be posted either . Our problem with gun violence in the United States is that the people committed the crimes are being set free for the most part, instead of doing time. Most of them are breaking the law by having a gun to begin with and using it to break more laws. Our government could make a thousand new laws and sign them into effect and all you'll have is a thousand pieces of paper with signatures on them. These people are not going to care. All you are going to have is the law abiding population unarmed and unable protect themselves or you when you find yourself in a position to need someone to protect you against one of these gun wielding criminals.
Are we not going to talk about when DC outlawed handguns and gun crime ballooned immediately? Or Kensington that made it a law that you had to own a gun and violent crime went down immediately?… 24:05 New Zealand is an island. You can take all of the weapons off of an island and then there's none. You cannot do that when there's borders
A nice slick presentation but very unrealistic of the nature of criminal use of guns in USA. You sound like a nice person but very naive.
1st all humans have a natural right of preservation with the most effective tools. Self defense is not a fair duel gun fight. When someone needs defense police are rarely present. 2nd private law abiding citizens currently own more guns than ever and criminal gun violence is at all time low in communities not destroyed buy gangs, drug, cartels and ghettos that resulted from Progressive welfare programs designed to keep dependants on the "plantations". 3rd you initial arguments that only (government) militia has the right to arms is false. Most adult males were armed in defense of family and states. In fact the Fed govt required them to be armed and responsible to defend. 4th without exception national gun registration in countries has led to confiscation or restrictions that force them to be unavailable for defense.
NO NO NO you are falling in to the same linguistic trap that many do "well regulated" at the time of the founding had nothing to do with government regulation as we know it to mean today. What it meant was to be functional like if you had a watch and you cleaned it oiled it and kept it wound your watch would be well regulated. Before the founding those laws weren't ours but those of England. According to the first gun control law that came into being happened after the Cruikshank ruling in 1876 which made it legal to pass laws that barred cittern individuals from owning firearms laws mostly passed to keep the newly freed slaves from having them. If you go back to the ratification of the US constitution it presumes people will own cannons as in Article 1 section 8 gives Congress the power to issue Letters of Marque and Reprisal to citizens giving them the authority to capture enemy ships becoming a legal pirate. The fight that kicked off the Revolutionary war was the British were marching to seize an armory to deprive the colonist from having their guns. So lets go back to the beginning of your argument that the 2nd is only meant for a Militia who is the militia well I'll quote George Mason 'I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.' We know what the founders thought about the constitution and the bill of rights it's all written down in the essays they wrote in the Federalist Papers that you can get a digital copy from AMAZON for free.
@33:50 is my whole issue bringing up these Euro/AUS country laws. It's completely biased for this to even be mentioned. "You can't just walk up to someone that's unarmed and shoot them"…like you can't legally do that in America either. The Zimmerman call was a bad call 100% but that's just a case that got WAY too much media attention and that doesn't happen a lot, if nearly 1% of all court cases about these situations.
Who are you lady to interpretation of the law of the land that we the people have in our land??? You know nothing about constitution interpretation or law application here in the united States' of America. When you know more about our law and get to be part of the supreme court of the united States' of America then you can try to give your opinion or misinformation. "We the people" have a government of the people, by the people for the people. Shut your dirty mouth lady.
Talk about mental gymnastics and either a lack of real-world understanding or a whole lot of intellectual dishonesty.
Yawn. Same old nonsense. Get some new material. A. “Well regulated” refers to training, not statutory oversight or control and certainly not that of the federal government. B. State militias have been effectively subsumed by the federal government into the national standing military which, far from being an argument against the necessity of the 2A, is the strongest argument FOR a strong 2A and the establishment of 50 militias being necessary to the security of free states FROM the federal government which used to be reliant upon the states for its security.
A well edited video. Too bad it's loaded with so many inaccuracies.
Florida – violent crime plummeted after passing their concealed carry law
Your reasoning of a good guy with a gun quote. The mass shooters weren't stopped by a good guy with a gun BECAUSE they occurred in gun free zones. Places where good guys aren't allowed to carry guns.
The reason the Brady bill wasn't renewed. It didn't have any effect on violent crime.
Illinois passed an assault weapons ban years ago. Why? To stop crime. The result? Almost no change in violent crime. Why? None of this nonsense about pre-existing guns, or guns being brought from other states. The reason is more crimes were committed with claw hammers than assault weapons. At the time the law was passed. That didn't include crimes with knives, clubs, pipes, baseball bats.. just claw hammers.
Switzerland – not only is military service required. One in three reserve members are required to have a firearm with them at all times. So they actually arm their citizens.
You cherry pick your countries for comparison. What about Brazil? Violent crime out of control. When they made their gun laws less restrictive violent crime plummeted.
What was one of the first actions taken by Ukraine after Russia invaded? To arm the general public.
What are you using laws and regulations that existed before 1776 for the U.S.A. we didn't exist then.
And Germany as an example on what to do for any gun law or crime prevention. Let's think about that. Both world wars had one major contributing factor. Can you think of it? Short answer Germany. Long answer Germany started both world wars murdered millions of people. Why would we want to follow their example?
What did well regulated mean in 1781? You are absolutely wrong on all counts. Do your research not reading excerpts taken out of context. There were no gun control laws in the founding era. There were laws against using guns for crimes. There were a few fire prevention laws about storage of gun powder. Read the militia act of 1782. All able bodied males 17 to 45 ( except for some government officials ) were required to have a rifle of military quality and bring it and 60 rounds of ball and black powder each month to militia drills. ALL MALES 17 to 45. Do you really think our founders that just fought a revolution against the world's best superpower using citizen soldiers and their private weapons would now want their citizens to remain armed? The Bill of Rights was not added to take away or limit citizens' rights; it was added to limit the government. The operative clause is "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Read NYSYRPA v Bruen SCOTUS case. SCOTUS defines what the Second Amendment meant. They relied on the text as it meant at the time of the founding, the history at the time of the founding: any laws at that time, the traditions of gun ownership at the time of the founding. Not any nonsense antigun people think they meant. Text. History. Tradition. Period. They searched for what eas said and for any laws. Antigunners have been searching too. They haven't come up with anything.
And just for your information the CURRENT US Code defines who is in the unorganized militia and the organized militia. So even your militia false argument, most males are in the militia. I think a good argument could be made able bodied females who wanted to could also be in the militia.
10 U.S. Code § 246 – Militia: composition and classes
(a)The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1)the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2)the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
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32 U.S. Code § 313 – Appointments and enlistments: age limitations
(a)To be eligible for original enlistment in the National Guard, a person must be at least 17 years of age and under 45, or under 64 years of age and a former member of the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, or Regular Marine Corps. To be eligible for reenlistment, a person must be under 64 years of age.
(b) To be eligible for appointment as an officer of the National Guard, a person must—
(1) be a citizen of the United States; and
(2)be at least 18 years of age and under 64.
No gun owner that I know claims that our founding fathers never believed or had gun regulation. I am not sure where you are getting this. I don’t know any gun owner that claims there should be no gun regulation. The debate is what is effective regulation.
You are making gun owners out to be ignoramuses. The fact is I find them, myself included, far more educated on the subject than non gun owners.
You are mistaking your opinion as fact when you discuss the second amendment only applied to militia. First, the militia clause is an exemplar. It does not limit the independent clause that follows. That is grammar. Second, if you read the Federalist papers, the intent of the 2nd amendment is discussed ad nauseam.
Ok, three very important things to aggressively consider.
America has lived with the idea of our constitutional rights being very important when it comes to preventing our constitutional republic from disappearing and /or being replaced with a dictatorship or communism. The most important part of that statement concerning this video is that constitutional rights have been a part of our country since day one. That can make it difficult to get anything useful when comparing statistics with countries that were not founded with a 2nd amendment being guaranteed to its citizens.
A list that includes the information of every gun owner and every gun owned being accessible to the government can possibly result in horrific outcomes.
The biggest thing that most, if not all gun control activists seem to ignore, or refuse to accept is that an immediate implementation of the strictest gun control law's imaginable will never be able to prevent a criminal who wants a firearm from obtaining one. So any laws considered or implemented will make it impossible for a law abiding citizen to get one, but criminals will still be abe to get one.
Available data doesn't give you the information needed to know if any gun control laws are actually effective or making things worse.
This person has never bought a gun before and is trying to tell you why you shouldn't. Don't listen to posers, go see for yourself.
Just out of curiosity, how exactly did new zealand enforce their “assault weapon” ban? Im guessing it was probably through an implied threat from people with, wait for it…assault weapons
Point blank, nobody has the right to tell me i cant have a gun because they said so, if we cant then cops cant either but yall dont want that hypocrites yall think yall are just with unjust laws makes me sick
No.
You are not correct and you do not know how to read. One year after the US Constitution was ratified the word 'militia' was defined as a man 16 years old with gun, powder and bullets should report to the militia and be ready to defend the United States. There is no place in the US Constitution that says the ONLY time the gun could be used was to defend the United States. Able bodied man over the age of 16 was to have a gun, powder, bullets to help defend the United States. The best defense for someone who is trying to hurt someone was another person with a gun to take care of this issue. Your point of view is slanted and not fully informed. I would suggest you continue your discovery of what that word 'milita' means and stop trying to take away my right to be able to defend myself.
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Shut up lol
pipe bombs can do so much more damage than guns if you want to kill lots of people.
ok. all guns are totally removed from the United States. what about knives? UK is trying to keep knives off the streets. so we do knives. what about pencils, pens, pots and pans, hammers, bats and pipes and tree branches do we get rid of trees? when does it end?
4 minutes in and nothing but propaganda, goodbye!
Its clear you just don't like guns or make this video because you know people will watch your video . For population with the amount of gun owners compared to other gun owning countries we are ranked 28th in gun deaths and majority of those is suicide . So those people would find other ways to kill themselves with or without guns . And some of those countries you think has a better system literally have higher ratios to gun death / shootings … only about 15% of mass shootings use AR15 . I know people like you like to use the AR15 as the boogie man . But do some homework before you blame assualt weapons instead of scum bag humans . Or the fact that people who are anti guns are majority the same people who wanted to defund the police . None of you see the issue with this? And you sat its not cherry picked giving the "facts" about concealed carry shootings but you guys also alwaysssssssss leave out the amount of crimes /murders prevented because of responsible people with guns . So pleased dont pretend to be an unbiased video and only give the negatives . I could go on but it will go unread….also 32:40 you act like many states here dont have the same exact law . And in NY it took me over anyear to get my handgun permit (thats not even the right to carry . Thats just to own one) so again i guess you didnt do much research before you compared "the big differences"
You are completely wrong about the second Amendment. The second Amendment is for both the individual and a right for a well regulated militia, not just for a militia. And everything you are trying to say in this video is a bunch of B.S. you need to read what the US Supreme Court has said in Heller, and Buren . I know that you are a gun Control fanatic, and if you did get rid of guns it would not solve the crimes and death from guns. The problem with your so called gun crimes is because of judges don’t put and keep the criminals in prisons. Most crimes and deaths are caused by the same people repeat offenders. Gun laws do not work because criminals do not abide by the laws, they will not follow the law, that why they are criminals. So STOP TRYING TO TAKED MY SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT WAY FROM ME YOUR LAWS WILL NOT WORK. Out law guns and only OUTLAWS WIL HAVE GUNS.
Your entire premise from the beginning is flawed. "Gun violence" is not an exclusive problem to the US. Simply just by scratching the surface in this research deems your video dishonest. Not to mention your interpretation of the Second Amendment, and the history and laws surrounding it. The courts have consistently held that gun ownership is an individual right, not a collective right for the military. Please at least make an attempt at honesty. This is not
4:06 "well regulated militia" didn't have anything to do with government regulation. Well armed and well trained is well regulated. You could argue that 2A requires the government to arm and train every capable citizen. But not that the people should be disarmed if a standing army ever forms, because that army could be turned against us, like it did 16 years earlier. The first battle of the Revolutionary War was the day OUR government was riding to Concord to confiscate our guns and rob us of our right to ever say no again, and we met them in the next town over to unalive them (Battle of Lexington and Concord, 1775).
16 years later, James Madison wrote 2A to guarantee that would never happen again. 2A makes it out civic duty to defend the constitution (2A) to the death against a government that would try to take our guns again.
Not picking sides here but regardless of which side you are on, both pro-gun and anti-gun people seem to always find "statistics" to support their argument and they often contradict with each other….. its hard to trust any of them cuz they both seem to have their own agenda.
Nice to see some data-based informations! My opinion on this is that- yes, the state should not govern people, but there must be conditions for the use of some services and privileges. Like when you want to build a house, you must ask for a permit and meet certain conditions so that your right does not override the rights of others. Every weapon must be registered to someone who must be legally responsible for it, if it ends up in the wrong hands, the person to whom it is registered must bear the consequences, especially the private retailers. If they sold it to someone who didn't pass the check, they have to be held accountable. And the agencies that have own financial interest in any subject must not be included in the discussion about regulations and lawmaking process. Lawmakers have to do their jobs independently. But first the USA has to limit and regulate "political contributions" because this is just legalized corruption.
1:15 Because it is far too easy to own and buy weapons. Section 2 of your Constitution was written in 1776, and it was not to allow anyone living in the United States to carry an automatic weapon in a shoulder strap. That addendum, i.e. addendum 2, should be deleted.
Your crime with weapons will then, as in other countries where people come walking with automatic weapons, or other firearms, however manufactured, be labeled as terrorist.
Those who don't want to hand over their weapons just go to jail. It has been done in other countries and the crying snowflakes and their NRA speech must shut up or apologize for the thousands of dead people their imaginations NEVER stopped.
Your laws are a joke and should have been changed MANY years ago.
Europe live without gun’s.
The word “regulated” in the second amendment has nothing to do to do with government regulations. It is a military term from the time period. It meant making sure members had the tools and training to fight.
❤❤We still have daily shootings and death caused by people using guns here in AUSTRALIA ,,there is plenty of unregistered guns in Australia ,over a million because although Australia brought about sudden ridiculous gun laws ,,,many oeople hid them and never handed them in .. why dont you in the USA not hear this ,,,because the aussie government stops all media coverage leaving the country …
the militia was not run by the government ,,the militia was the people who got all there rifles and bits and bobs and wet up against the biggest army in the world .
in the USA you have so many many many more freedoms than what Australians do ,,dont give up any of your rites because as soon as the people loose there arms they will loose there freedoms .
to you zoomers ,,get into history and you will find every people who had there guns taken away from them soon after millions were erased ,,,look at the Jews with Hitler ,,gun control is Racist and is not working as there are thousands of laws already on the book and none work,gun controls just control,can you imagine how bossy this woman would be if you gave her power ,,,omg .
get to the real problems ,mental health care for all ,stop school bullying and end the poverty and homelessness in America and the gun issue will disappear ,,,,,
every state has mandatory back ground checks .
Wrong. These were local militias. Of the people to protect the people of the community. They were NOT CONTROLDED BY THE GOVERNMENT! Private people were REQUIRED to have a firearm in church! Private people were required to have firearms for public gatherings. You need a deeper look into history and not your biased opinion.
You lost all credibility the moment you began advocating for a registry.
Re-read the constitution as you clearly don't understand it. None of this is even debatable anymore. The scotus & federal courts have cleared this up multiple times. Just because something sounds good in your head dosen't make it real. No matter how long you drag it out.
Absolutely worthless video. Now talk about knife attacks and deaths in Europe.