Why America (Still) Loves Guns
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Why Is the United States the Most Homicidal Nation in the Affluent World? Robert Roth
The Story of Violence in America, by Kellie Carter Jackson
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Saying guns is part of the colonization culture doesn't explain why guns have special status in America. The British colonized ALL of North America with gun, but some how USA citizens recognize gun ownership as a right while Canada recognizes gun ownership as a privilege.
Also your explanation of the revolution is wrong. The main factor that caused the revolution is slavery.
Imagine living the past 4 years and still believing the government will protect you.
The weirdest thing for me was seeing some of my progressive friends saying we were inching towards fascism in 2020-2021, only to then go back to being anti-gun as soon as the next president took office.
I’m not even conservative, either. I just don’t understand some people’s thought processes. If you don’t trust the government, it doesn’t make sense to want to give them more power.
@@scottbogen1168 They don't believe anything they say. It's all gaslighting.
Ong bro
@@scottbogen1168The same people will tell you about how Israel has lasers they can use as weapons...but the boat that took out that bridge, is a conspiracy.
100 years*a
e: actually like literally all of history but we're just chronologically close to a lot of good examples. never forget wounded knee
"Hello American, I am conducting a survey on behalf of the US Government. Do you have any guns?"
A flawless means of collecting valid statistics.
No, I don't.
Nope not at all, can’t stand those fully semi-automatic grenade launchers
Lol is pew government funded? I didn’t know that
It’s a bit irrelevant, honestly, seeing as the number is 120 guns per 100 citizens… all it means is the actual number is likely much higher
@@garrett3108the actual number is definitely higher, though it's worth noting, at a large scale there's 2 fairly distinct groups of gun owners: people who own one gun (a handgun or shotgun in a drawer/closet for defense), and people who own a lot of guns (enthusiasts, collectors, etc.)
"Do Americans really love guns?" while showing a MP5. Yes, yes we do. Give me a MP5.
real af 🍻 u a real one
Your not a real American if you don’t enjoy your guns period point blank
Ww love our guns
❤
Why America loves German supermodels.... I mean mp5s😂
Mid-video ad was for a gun holster. After-video ad was for the Sandy Hook Promise organization.
Ugh, that Sandy Hook Promise ad comes up so much. Ambulance chaser disgustingness.
CZcams plays all sides, what can I say?
It’s about the duality of man.
Show me your war face
@@rockstarofredondo that AJ lawsuit money putting in work
Oh boy , I cant wait to read all the wonderful and civil comments this video will bring...
just wait for the completely sane person to argue that having assault rifles at home does in fact not raise risk for kids "you just have to educate them early enough" 😂😂😂 delusional
@@michaelbecker2693 unsafe because they are out in the open all of my firearms are in a attic in a gun safe all with barrel and trigger locks and empty mags in another location and ammo in another locked location.
@@michaelbecker2693youre actually wrong tho 😂. Youre so arrogant.
@@wtice4632and so it begins 😂
@@wtice4632 elaborate
$12 in 1850 had the buying power of $465.26 in todays value. 18 cents in 1900 had the buying of $6.55 in todays value
also, there are way more people than back then... waaay more technologies and hunger and stuff like that... its not "everything is expensive now"
Everything else about money has changed, too. If I need to come up with $500 by the end of the week, I have a lot of options. I can sell something on FB Marketplace, or take out a loan, or put it on credit, and so on. If I’m living in 1850, coming up with $13 could be an impossible task.
_I’d buy _*_that_*_ for a dollar!_
Also don’t forget that a big part of a guns cost, is all the costs of the red tape needed in the production. Such as lawyers, federal permits, auditing, unreadable taxes and further costs.
The other thing he did was compare apples to oranges. 22LR firearms are almost always less expensive than firearms that shoot a heavier load, this is because less pressure is involved. A walker colt revolver needs to be much stronger thing than a 22lr anything. Also, if you look at all of the earlier colts, he was tooling up to produce them, which costs money. New tech is more expensive than old tech, we all know that. He was producing cutting edge firearms and demanded cutting edge prices.
Horses fails to note that there is a widespread belief that there are many more gun owners than is recorded by pollsters since owners have become increasingly wary of discussing such matters with random callers.
Also, many of those "viol3nt" stats are from good people stopping bad guys.. Yet it shows up on the statistics as if it was a bad thing, when it's not.
@calholli Absolutely correct. Also, if you take the liberal cities with the strictest gun control measures out of the equation, then the violent crime rate is miniscule. Horses made himself an extremely biased, manipulation of the facts here. It just goes to show that even someone intelligent like this creator, can be badly brainwashed in leftwing colleges
Very much correct. Also if you take away the blue cities with the strictest gc measures, the crime stats are actually extremely low
@@calhollithat is completely false. There are been countless studies that show a very small percentage of total gun deaths are in self defense.
@@patricknowak7509 PoI^ce shoot^ngz aren't considered self def3nse-- yet it's nearly always taking out bad peopl3 and saving lives.. granted, they make plenty of mistakes also.
thank you for convincing me to pursue a career in gunsmithing
That’s awesome dude, wish you the best of luck
@@dannydanumba2619yea he going to need it I would personally wait until Bidens out and see if a gun friendly president comes because a man who did literally nothing but buy gun parts is resting in a cell right now in New York FJB but this is a free country just be careful of the crazy uncle in Washington he found the mushrooms again😂
Sonoran Desert Institute. Sorry, I watch too much Garand Thumb.
@@madlad_dad Ha, I'm in that boat, saw this and my mind was immediately thinking SDI
@@amhuman5138 it’s funny how Mike crops up in your brain when you least expect him to. lol
Guns are a huge part of american culture. Like they are integral to the national character. Firearm possession is literally enshrined in their founding documents, their nation was built on rebellion and revolution, which would not have been possible without guns. So asking them to give up guns is like asking them to give up everything that makes them American. In Europe, firearms arent a significant part of their culture. Barely a part of it at all. Thats why its so difficult for non-Americans to understand the fascination. Thats my interpretation as a British person anyway. Its the fundamental aspect of their identity, the American way of life, maybe the most important part.
Idk, wasn't the UK "saved" (built) on weapons during the two world wars? Built on violence and force with colonialism? Why isn't your society's identity based on them? What perpetuates the idea that America needs weapons but the UK doesn't?
This was said perfectly and is likely the only sane comment here. My boyfriend (Who is also from the UK) said pretty much the same thing many times. Freedom of Speech and Expression as well as the RIGHT to own Firearms is what makes the United States what it is and it is a complete and total fluke that we are still able to practice such individual freedoms in our modern age of government over reach and control. I hope we still are able to do so long into the distant future.
~ A Pro-Gun LGBT person
The nation was also built on genocide. Very important omission there.
hyperconsumism culture... thats the problem, usa has no real culture, but capitalism and consumerism
Yes sir, but it is the right that all other rights are built on. The second amendment was written to protect us against government oppression, which is a reason we can have funny memes on our phones and yall can’t.
I appreciate that the 2nd Amendment acknowledges that the government should not have the monopoly of force.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Our ancestors thoroughly understood that and thus wanted the playing field to be even. An armed society keeps the government in line.
18:17 The passage talking about gun violence increases between 1958 and 1968 mention Glock being introduced the the civilian market. Glock didn't start manufacturing firearms until 1982 and they didn't hit the American market until 1986.
Yep
Horse is a Left winger, its no suprise he uses bad data
It’s sad the politics are clearly getting to him
Rofl, two facts not necessarily the same fact. Lol reading.
@@sunnohh pills. Now
When youre settling the apalachian mountains a gun is in fact needed for defence against wild animals and such. You cant use a hatched as the law guy said
Yep, Greetings from WNC, a couple years ago we had a really bad bear problem. Bears are usually a lot more scared of you than you are of them, but imagine waking up with a mad or sick one on your porch or getting trapped inside your fenced in yard with 3 cubs and a protective mom. Guns are a must, my nephew has hit two dear and had to humanly put them outta their misery. Everyone in my family carrys a rifle and a pistol with them at all times. Shall Not and Will not be infringed.
True, everyone who makes anti-gun arguments, i have noticed at least, are not real outdoors people who LIVE there. They might visit or go hiking or something, btu they've never had to build their own cabin or hunt for their food or survey their own land. If they were, they'd know how important a firearm can be for your survival in these situations. City people think that they're so protected from these scenarios, but society is very delicate, and someone might not always be there to sell you food, you might have to grow or obtain it yourself 1 day. Plus, there is no reality where I'm gonna walk through say, the Smokey Mountain wilderness, without being armed. Bears and Mountain Lions are common.
Also, self defense against highwaymen and fending off attacks by Native Americans was ABSOLUTELY what was in mind for those colonists. Not just "warmaking". Ridiculous.
@@thekamotodragonI sincerely doubt you, either, have "built your own cabin" or live off the grid. Lol
@thekamotodragon Also how often do bears and mountain lions kill people in the Smokey Mountains? Not even one a year.
A well balanced breakfast, being necessary to the productivity of a healthy person, the right of the people to cook and eat bacon, shall not be infringed.
Finally, some said what needed to be said
I don't know if this is satirical or not, but I unironically agree.
Oy vay goy, it's not kosher
2 delicious slices of the bacon
Is the due of every human on the earth (on the earth!)
2 delicious slices of the bacon
Is what we get instead of social justice (justice!)...
NOBODY NEEDS A DOZEN EGGS
2:03 "The majority of America believe gun ownership is a Right"
It IS protected under the Right to bear arms so maybe a better sentence would have been "The majority of Americans support gun ownership as it's historically been protected under the 2nd amendment"
Maybe he should have included the rapid change in guns from way back then to now. They weren’t necessarily granting them the right to a firearm that could load and fire in seconds lol
@@stuffystuffsityas6302 the second ammendment protects ARMS, not firearms, but ARMS in their entirety. It's clear that the principle behind it was to ensure americans could be armed, own and bear weapons. And for context, many americans owned war-ships and cannons at the time of the founding, which were used to fight the revolutionary war. You also need to keep in mind that even though muskets are slow, the military had the same slow obsolete weapons that the people did. Allowing the people to be armed with muskets at the time of the founding would be no different than allowing modern citizens to be armed with M249s and M16s
@@mccad00 "many"
Which many, dude.
@@BrorealeK what do you mean which “many”? What I’m trying to say here is that private citizens owned war-ships and cannons which were used in the revolutionary war
@@stuffystuffsityas6302 The puckle gun, averaging 9 shots per minute (3x faster than conventional muskets) and with an 11 round magazine , was created in 1718 and used as ship guns by the British. This was included in "arms"
The Ferguson rifle was a breech loading rifle the British used literally during the revolutionary war against them, was also way faster than a musket and "light infantry troops could continue loading and firing without breaking cover, even when lying prone". Like a modern gun, able to be quickly loaded and held prone while remaining concealed.
The Belton Flintlock was a repeating flintlock rifle presented directly to the Continental Congress in 1777 and could fire 8 shots before reloading. Literally a repeating rifle in 1777.
A century or more even before this they had guns with multiple barrels that could fire as many times as there were barrels, or could fire a devastating 8 .50 caliber rounds at once.
And within the founding fathers' lifetime percussion cap repeating weapons more similar to what we have today, and are in fact still used today, were born (1820s, ~40yrs after 1776).
Yes. They. Did. Know.
As a Georgian, many people here have a similar attitude towards gun ownership. Even though we have pretty strict (and frankly, foolish) concealed carry laws, many civilians still have guns, often more than one. Gun ownership, as well as the right to bear arms of any sort, have a history that dates back centuries here. Ironically enough, the only time in its history when Georgians were made to give up their arms was in 1917 (we all know how that fairytale went lol). Even that happened after a brief war against the Red Army. There's a street named after the young Junkers who fought the Russians in the capital Tbilisi.
Nowadays, the legality of gun ownership has become a much more politicizes issue, even in Georgia, with most opposition parties trying to revert the current government's gun laws and allow concealed carry after passing a psych evaluation. If it does materialize, Georgia will be the first post-Soviet country to legalize cannabis AND civilian gun ownership. Funny how things can change in a realtively short period of time
Idk why but i thought you meant Georgia The state at first and became confused when you started talking about The red army 😂
You are on the right path. Communists and fascists alike, are both very pro gun control. I'll stick with the opposite
@@gurgel1746 lol
"Georgia. Sweet sweet Georgia on my mind"
@@gurgel1746 We really should rename Georgia the country to Sakartvelo in English.
The first battle of the Revolutionary War was about gun confiscation. Colonists had been talking about revolution for many years. It wasn't until the British rode to Concord, MA to take our cannons that we met them in Lexington and stopped them. That was OUR military (we were British colonists) trying to take our guns. The Battle of Lexington and Concord was April 19, 1775.
2A was supposed to guarantee that no government, foreign or domestic, can never point a bigger gun at us than we can point back, if we can afford it.
In Mexico Article 10 of the constitution allows any civilian to own firearms that are deemed "acceptable" by the government (Hint, none of them are), but even with that restriction already in place, more draconian laws were implemented in 1972, 4 years after the government had massacred students in Tlatelolco for the crime of assembling (They weren't even protesting at the time). No one spoke against gun control and now we live in a country where organized crime is free to kidnap and rape our families while corrupt military and police institutions look away and also engage in crimes against their own citizenship. If you give away your gun rights you are condemning your people to live in a dystopian anarcho tyranny.
Drugs flow north into the US, guns flow south into Mexico. Been like that for decades but I do wish some of those guns would find their way into the hands of the citizens instead of the cartels.
@@cruisingscenesandtakingbea4197 only because of the atf lol. cartels dont need american guns, they manufacture and import their own just fine.
"This thing happened. Then this thing happened. Thing 1 made Thing 2 happen. I proveded it."
@@BrorealeK If you seriously don't think Tlatelolco + El Halconazo + the subsequent guerrilla movements that formed inside the country aren't what moved the government to pass that law then you suffer from a mental disability.
pinning all that on just “they took guns away” is so reductive it’s actually stupid
what the ACTUAL FUCK is on top of that AR-15 in the thumbnail they damn near put the whole hubble telescope on it
That’s what I’m saying it looks like shite and no sane man would have that
The very large objective lens scope was popular as a tactical item In the 80s and 90s due to the large field of view it provides. Sunlight tubes were similarly popular, and is just a plain tube 2 or 3 inches deep that threads on the front of the scope to act as a visor.
They're actually pretty nice to use, weight and bulk aside.
Yeah my uncle used to have a 20x magnification optic on his fixed carry handle AR. After he gave it to me I replaced it with a 3x magnification prism. It’s so much easier to use now lol.
@@Recreationaltrespasser I don’t think it would be very useful though. 5.56 only has an effective range up to about 600 yards.
Im a huge gun enthusiast and collector. Honestly i think it comes down to Poverty and Mental Health. Theres no good way for inproverished or mentally ill people to get help leading them to a life of crime. Time and time again its shown that poverty that breeds crime and mental health not being treated is another issue.
also lack of empathy in big cities.
@user-mn8lz7gf6d the issue on Big cities is poverty and unchecked mental illness. We as a nation are heading down a similar path of Japan. A lack of Human connection as well is going to breed mental illness and anger unlike ever seen before
@@user-mn8lz7gf6dthis as well. I visited boston from kansas and it's a whole different way of talking to each other there
Agreed, even when i used to be very liberal/leftist, i never promoted gun control. I always said we needed better mental health care and other social services that would help those in need/at risk to get bare necessities and have a safe place to be so they dont get drawn into crime.
Crime breeds poverty, not the other way around.
One statistic that I think would have been interesting to include is violent crime with any weapon across countries. My intuition would say that we’re not much more violent than other countries, we just use guns as the weapon instead of a knife or a club or something
Oddly enough, developed countries like England and Australia have significantly higher rates of violent crime than the US.
I mean, we do have a violence issue, but yeah, anytime I hear someone say "gun violence," I stop caring about what they have to say, because it's such a blatant manipulation of data. Knife attacks are just as horrific as gun attacks. Dying is dying. I think the other problem is how many people don't realize just how dangerous knives are.
And the section of this video where Horses talks about how you had to think about it, and there was a barrier of entry to violence is so dumb. Many of the worst atrocities in history predate guns. People have willingly and gleefully murdered with knives, axes, clubs, etc for all of human history. The difference was that a handful of psychopaths who were strong enough could keep getting away with it, and everyone else had to live at their mercy. Guns simply allowed the less strong to have the ability to kill as well. Now, any psycho can kill, but additionally, any normal person can protect themselves.
But yeah, another note regarding your thought on "gun violence" stats is well founded, because it also includes self defense cases, self inflicted deaths (which alone account for two thirds of gun deaths), and police shootings. It's disingenuous to say the least.
Your intuition isn't really correct at least on a quick comparison to European homicide rates (ignoring method of homicide). US is >5x higher than UK, Germany, France, Spain, etc
@@Tmanownshe literally put homocides per 1000 in the video and USA still ranks fairly far above other well developed countries, theres no blatant misinterpretation of data here, your just deafening yourself to the facts that guns are dangerous.
@mortalakira I literally said we have a violence issue in general. All I was saying was the phrase "gun violence" is a litmus test on whether someone is just interested in the guns, or interested in the root causes.
Why Americans still love guns:
“The tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants from time to time.” - IDK some famous guy
Gay
It's funny to hear that said and then never see a follow up. Most patriotic gun owners don't believe a single thing they actually say.
@@LifesizemortalHere we go again.
Tyrants and patriots.
Owning a gun is the number one indicator for how a person votes. And they aren't voting for non-authoritarians.
as an American, I too earned my love of guns from playing fortnite and Nerf Guns with my friends.
Lil older so Halo Combat Evolved and of course nerf guns, however I was drawing them earlier than that.
For me it was handling an sks and thinking "why does this work" and now I can fix most anything.
the new age wild west
@stepbrochungus7722 I used to own a Norinco. I wish I had never sold it. 😪 Hope you still have yours!!!
@@noahblack5647 its chinese but appears earlier model. I didnt manage to get a norincho but i do have an orignal daewoo k2.
The term "Well-regulated" in the 2nd amendment means "sighted-in and regularly trained" not "regulated" in the modern sense of being controlled by the government. Old shooting manuals will talk about the "regulation of the sights" which means getting the sights zeroed in. Now, in old England, it was standard to require every Englishman to regularly practice with the long bow, as it was crucial in times of war to have plenty of well-trained archers. In the US, while no lesser a personage than Ben Franklin Himself said that training in the bow might be best, it was generally recognized (and more and more so as gun technology advanced) that it was a good thing to have plenty of trained shooters on tap in case of war. So when the US became a country, the founders made it very clear that everyone (may not apply if female or POC) who wants one may have a gun because this way there would be lots of trained shooters. I personally may or may not agree with this, but this is how we got here.
@@S1ipperyJim Wrong!
@@S1ipperyJim wrong. in 18th century vernacular "well regulated" means "functioning properly" and has nothing, what so ever, to do with government oversight. my favortie example is a man writing to his brother celebrating his watch being "returned to a well regulated state.".
not to mention supporting clauses in no way limit or restrict subject clauses.
According to George Mason, "well regulated" meant of sound mind and body. If you don't know who George was, might want to learn.........
@@user-pj7di4zf8s Able bodied, yeah. Basically, let's not have a militia that's kneecapped by restriction and red tape.
This is exactly right. It was originally the intention of the founding fathers that the US exist with a militia alone and no standing army. For the miniscule federal budget of the time a militia was much cheaper, and they feared the possibility of a military takeover. They eventually realized that a standing army was necessary to secure American interests.
Kind of feels odd at 2:58 when gun homicides are compared to countries where they are illegal and not just all homicides committed
all of europe, north africa, much of the middle east and south asia rate better than the US using that metric also
@@stiofanmacamhalghaidhau765you might want to rethink the middle east aspect, they have a massive firearm culture there, and much more loose on safety than American gun culture. I've seen some videos.
@@a-dolphin do you really think the average person in the Middle East can buy a gun?
Yeah that's intentional.
Yes its quite easy and cheap
I am an immigrant and very happy gun owner. In my country of birth guns are strictly for police and military, yet we have insane gun crimes. Do not expect your government or police to save you.
In America, guns are everywhere and in the hands of everyone and they have insane gun crimes. Not sure what point you’re trying to make. The highest cause of death among children in America is also firearms, above car accidents and cancer.
@GlazeonthewickeR the "children" you mentioned are mostly 17-19 year Olds either killing themselves or killing each other in gang violence in places where gun control hasn't and still doesn't work
100% Brazilian comment
You’re entirely welcome here as well brother. I’m glad you know how to appreciate freedom 🍻
@GlazeonthewickeR That is 100% FALSE information
The leading cause of death for children is Accidental poisoning... followed by car accidents.
that m4 with a scope in the thumbnail is absolutely foul
Thought the same thing
I didn't notice that one, i was looking at the tec pointed at their arm...
@@dynomitejec#metoo
It's not an M4.. It has an A2 stock and looks like an 18" barrel... That, plus the fact that it has a long range scope says that it's most likely an SPR. That picture was taken before the M4 even existed.
@@calholli SPR's didn't exist and are typified by having free floated rails, stainless barrels. The one in the thumbnail is a 16" carbine gas with a non free floated handguard. The mk12, which SPR stems from, is 18" rifle gas with free floated rail.
The m4 isn't a commercial offering. however carbine stocks and gas systems have existed since 1965
The criminal under ground market of firearms has to be factored into our estimated statistics of American gun ownership. We have enough guns for every American with ~20 million to spare. Just imagine how much are out there that we aren’t are of. Criminals aren’t going to turn in their guns if a ban is passed.
So don’t expect me to turn in mine either. Stay strapped or get clapped.
I live on a rural area in America and from my experience it's not a love of guns that perpetuates their sale, its a mistrust of the federal government, the dissolution of law and order in metropolitan areas and the desire to defend one's self. When you look at what's going on in this country and elsewhere, it seems pretty sane to me my friend.
Wouldn´t it be better to do something against that dissolution of order and your quality of life?
@@tefky7964 Why would you make the assumption they dont? They're usually the most civic minded people who are involved in their communities and vote in every election. Real talk, what do YOU do?
Damn u should move sounds like it’s rubbish there
"perceived" dissolution of law and order in metropolitan areas. Actual crime and murder rates have been falling for decades - what you might be referring to is internet and cable news fearmongering.
11:25 The Spanish conquistadors considered firearms “extremely advanced” weapons, just like their swords. They were armed to the teeth with them when they conquered the Aztec and Inca empires. So saying that early Americans didn’t look at a gun as a weapon is ridiculous. They were “not efficient” weapons, sure. But they were weapons.
They were much more efficient when it came to production and training though. Also the conquistadors armed their allies, who were rival kingdoms and tribes to the Aztec Empire with firearms. They were really advanced to almost all of Europe during the times of the Spanish conquests of the Americas and were used to full effect in every battle.
It was efficient as part of a weapon system. Bayonets and other melee weapons were often used in conjunction with a musket
@@burtbiggum499it was used for individual self defense on a daily basis on the American frontier. So that argument is completely baseless
@@SchmuelGoldstein-mj8rk Did you even read my comment?
@@burtbiggum499 I’m referring to the video creator’s argument that it wasn’t used in self defense by individuals during colonial America
Gun ownership in America exists to protect the individual from overbearing illegitimate power structures. People advocating for civilian disarmament are either incapable of recognizing that fact or themselves benefit from those illegitimate power structures. Furthermore attempting to minimize the utility of common privately owned firearms by comparing them to weaponry owned and operated by power structures only serves to portray those power structures as illegitimate, therefore reinforcing the initial purpose of firearms ownership. I do agree that gun violence should be curbed, but through education, not subjugation. I'd love to live in a world without the need for weapons, but we are not there yet and won't be for a long time.
The issue with education is that it doesn't always produce the intended effect. Yes, it helps with gun accidents, especially for the young. In situations where death is a likely result, education is a must, but cannot be the only answer. Like many things, the best way to produce results is to implement a something that forces people to do things a certain way. In this case, stricter gun laws, delayed buying processes, no untracked private sales, no stand your ground laws, no concealed or open carry, marketing warnings (think cigarettes), required licensing of all owned firearms and ammunition with regular check-ins by government officials, police not able to carry firearms on their person (have weapons locked in safes in squad cars), etc. Some would say that that sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare; that's entirely the point.
Making it an inconvenience to purchase, own, and operate any firearm will naturally curb unneeded ownership and in-the-moment decisions (i.e. suicides, crimes of passion). If you're a hunter, you could easily make this process something you have to undertake to get your hunting license each year. If you're a sport shooter, there could easily be ways to avoid part or most of the bureaucracy by storing firearm and ammo at your shooting club. Farmers could have an audit period after harvest time.
For a succinct illustration: lowering the speed limit on a road doesn't actually make people slow down. Enforcing the speed limit with automatic cameras or by implementing road infrastructure that forces slower driving, like narrower lanes or chicanes, does make people slow down.
Your government subjugated you in last 20 years like most other Western nations. Still, you get to LARP in the woods that your some vanguard of freedom.
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@@ColeTrainStudio I stopped reading at "forces". You're probably being genuine so I'll be genuine with you. The entire purpose of enshrining private firearms ownership is so that people cannot be *forced* to do things. By placing power over civilian firearm ownership in the hands of the power structures against which those privately owned firearms exist to be used against you are negating the entire principle of civilian firearm ownership altogether. I understand that there are many policies and procedures that have been proposed to address gun violence, but any of those policies and procedures that attack the root and purpose of civilian firearms ownership is a non starter. There are no easy fixes to any social, political, or economic issue.
okay so i agree with this but i think as much as from your view chastising people who own guns is bad and creates a bad ripple effect the same happens in my opinion from how defensive people get about the second amendment. i appreciate your views and do believe education is the key to solving most of these arguments. however everytime i’ve tried to have a nuanced argument about it with most second amendment supports it’s always gone really poorly. it’s like on the left where people aren’t using critical thought to understand how to effectively curb gun violence, the same happens on the right with everyone fear mongering that the government is gonna take over and guns are necessary. for a general sense of safety i agree guns should have easier access as it is in my mind kind of akin to freedom of speech. we don’t need to practice it all the time but the ability to do so should be something we possess. that however is a very delicate line that most in this country cannot walk straight regardless of which side of it they are on
If someone tells you that “you don’t need a gun,” then you need a gun
Stats on this topic are often skewed by suicides. Between 1/2 to 2/3 of gun deaths are self inflicted. And while this is tragic, I feel it’s necessary to address it as a separate issue than gun violence.
He won't do that because this video is designed to get likes, not to educate.
Glad you mentioned this. A lot of people overlook this or just are unaware of it. Good info to put out
Idk, suicide with a firearm is pretty violent. Also suicide is almost always an impulsive decision one which is made a lot more rash by easy means, ie the presence of a firearm.
Except that the presence of guns is itself a driver of self-inflicted unaliving (S-IU).
Unalive people are unalive people, no matter who pulls the trigger.
Self-inflicted unalive shouldn’t be discounted. There is strong evidence that suicidal impulses often last mere hours-so the proliferation of a device that makes it incredibly easy to end oneself within seconds of having the impulse directly increases the S-IU rate.
This also disproportionately harms men. We live in a culture that undervalues male mental health interventions while simultaneously promoting male ownership of a device that dramatically increases the odds that a single episode of S-IU impulse will result in tombstoning.
Most S-IU attempts with any method other than firearms are survived. They simply take too long to end your life, and extend the window of survival. Firearms don’t. Firearms are the only S-IU method that is fatal in over 50% of attempts.
This is why firearms make up a minority of attempts, but supermajority of fatalities.
Guns are lethal. Owning one significantly increases the odds that a single bad day will result in the owner grievously wounding or unaliving themselves or others.
You’re also much more likely to use a gun you own on yourself, your family, or your friends than ever even experience a situation where it would be used for self defense.
This platform doesn’t play nice with links, but I will still cite my sources. All stats and claims in this post can be verified by viewing the CDC’s most recent S-IU and flatline by violence, accident, or misadventure statistics from 2022 and (when fully available) 2023.
(Language adjusted to attempt to address auto removal-I know it’s dumb and I really dislike that the edit worked.)
This is an important statistic but I feel it is often only referenced when it is time to discuss gun control or mass shooting issues. We should address both the mental health crisis with free mental (and physical) health care for all and the mass shooting crisis with extensive gun control and banning of assault weapons and handguns, in my opinion.
He didnt speak on how the first and second world wars, or even korea and nam, changed firearms form factor and braought on a new age of semi and fully automatic firearms. This was a big change to the culture, similar to the change from muskets and flintlocks to revolvers and lever guns. I appreciate not talking in length on the wars, though something may be said about americas veiws towards guns and violence in general during vietnam.
I fully advocate gun ownership, but i comes down to the individual to be smart, aware, safe and ready. No one derserves to die for someone else, dont put yourself on either side of a gun in a violent or stupid mindset, but be the good guy with the gun, get training, and i cant stress it enough, dont be stupid.
Ps. Remember, violent felons "arent allowed" to own guns!!👍
The "don't be stupid" part is certainly the hardest.
@psterud but the most necessary.
The National Firearms Act was enacted in June of 1934 in response to the perceived threat of the mob's use of Thompson submachine guns. Before this act, you could buy a Thompson through mail order and have it delivered to your home...that being said, most of the people buying Thompson submachine guns were homesteaders who needed it to protect livestock and property from vermin and predators....not the Chicago mob.
Spot on. Common sense and individual smarts are hard these days
How is all that being said by a furry
if guns were prohibitively expensive in the 1700s then why were there laws saying every house had to have one
Soldiers for most of history were expected to purchase their own equipment. It’s simple: the government mandated that people spend a ton of money on a thing.
That part was funny to me for a few reasons
"You're going to jail!"
"Why?"
"For not having a gun!"
"I shouldn't be in trouble for that!"
"What the fuck are you going to do about it without a gun? Bitch."
@@captainjules6033 Now that's not Prohibitively expensive then is it
@@universome511 what? No something being very expensive does not mean that people can’t be forced to buy it anyway. Health insurance is prohibitively expensive and it’s illegal not to have it
hey, how dare you notice a contradiction in this "unbiased" video!!! just drink the koolaid!
As a “gunlovin American” I boil it down to this. I believe people will always have guns, whether or not they are illegal. Therefore I want guns to defend myself.
At this point it's pretty much impossible to keep hands out of ther american public like i mean i could go down the hardware store and buy the stuff to build shotgun.
as an Australian who was abducted at gunpoint from my own home, I can confirm you're 100% correct.
@@alyssarichardson2544 sorry that y’all’s government did that to a beautiful country
@@jdbearden8435 Thanks mate, means a lot...
@@alyssarichardson2544 i pray for your people down there. your government is full of tyrannical goobers.
the supreme Court didn't enshrine the right to keep rifles in 2008, way before that in fact.
Those 3 kids in the thumbnail have better trigger discipline than 95% of adults.
Going to have to agree with you on that one
3:36
There is no need for a justification.
There is nothing wrong with people wanting to own guns just for the sake of it.
Comes naturally with the hobby. You're gonna get curious how different platforms work. It's just not always wallet friendly though...
@@frug5629 I mean, do people ever do anything for the sake of it?
@@frederiksrensen6116 Yes some people out there most likely do. as to the validity of that claim that i do not know. but it wouldn't surprise me at all to say the least.
The rest of the world looks at you and laughs, poor Americans, how funny. Once the power of the world flails and tears.
@@k__k___ i'm german you bozo
I really like the 4:3 aspect ratio the video took. It’s an interesting form that just has a different tone to it. Keep up the work and thanks for an informative video and not misleading information
“By the mid 19 century guns were clunky and unreliable” my hawken from the 1830’s is one of if not the best rifle I’ve ever owned
yep, you can tell this video was made by someone with little firearms knowledge.
We certainly deserve the right to privately own fully armed battle tanks. A tank crew, being more than one person and working in tandem with each other, is quite literally a well-regulated militia.
As always you create a thoughtful discussion, worthy of hearing out. I'm glad you did this video and I think the like to dislike ratio itself says quite a lot about the subject
I frequently go through periods where I want to delete my yt account and just switch it off for good. Then Horses posts a video and I have to watch it. It's worth keeping my account to stay subscribed here. Thanks for always posting videos that teach me something new and make me think.
Your videos are something I would save for later as a treat and get excited about to watch because they make me think. I like how long they are without being inflated for, good videos to watch while eating, You bring topics and ideas that I wouldn’t have really given much thought other wise, and I thank you for that. I like learning.
my biggest issue is that guns are not inherently dangerous
i live in the deep south, and almost everyone has guns, but we have a very low crime rate where i live, especially violent crime involving a firearms.
if you wanna do anything about gun violence you have to address the societal conditions that make people want to shoot others. ban guns and people that want to hurt others will continue to do so using other weapons.
The deep South has a higher per capita violent crime rate. Louisiana and Arkansas are two of the top, with more violent crime per capita than California.
This includes gun violence.
It’s a demographic problem.
The thing is is that it’s way easier to kill with a gun than with most other things
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@@TinyBearTim brain rot comment
I love watching these, I often end up deep diving and the videos make my week. Thank you
This was a terrific essay, thank you very much.
I'm pretty sure that @ 4:13 of this video it has established it will be presenting some inaccurate facts. When the settlers first came to the american continent they didn't bring rifles, they brought muskets. It was between the first settlers and the american revolutionary war when the colonists started to manufacturing rifles in Pennsylvania. It was one of the key reasons that the colonies won was due to the higher accuracy of the rifles over the british army muskets.
The presenter also missed a fact, in the UK there is extreme gun ownership restrictions. Normally UK citizens can not own a gun in the UK, yet there are still gun deaths in the UK.
The american revolution was not just about taxes and weapons confiscation but a list of grievances that you can read in the the declaration of independence.
The problem I have with this video is that it presents the anti-gun slant more than a neutral position.
The problem with modern reading of the 2A is that people can not read it in the language and nuances of 1789 when it was written. Then the writers of the 2A believed that if the people had weapons then the government would not tyrannous towards them and that the government relied on the states' and local militias as part of the defense of the country from invaders. Not until well after the civil war did the USA have a large standing army and state militias faded into the national guard, could defend the borders of the USA.
The NFA was created to restricted certain weapons that the military had access to from the US citizen. The truth of the matter is that a Thompson machine gun then and now costs a great deal of money to buy and the mafia, after getting rich off bootlegging, could afford them. The cops and the newly created FBI could not afford them.
"Cannot" is one word.
@@edwarddorey4480 “Can’t “Cannot” and “Can not” are all correct ways to write it
The reason why the colonists won the revolution wasn't because of more accurate guns, lmao. It was a guerilla war that exhausted the British and made keeping the colonies more trouble than it was worth. I'm sure if the Viet Cong were 10% worse shots, we'd still lose in Vietnam.
The whole point of this video is to present itself as "reasonable" and "unbiased" with the calm voiced narrative and The assurance from the narrator I'm not going to try to convince you that guns are bad.' All while the video continues to provide biased statistical data and outright fake history to demonize guns.
Why do people love cool fucking shit ? We will never know
Infant.
Your essays are excellent. Keep em coming
2 reasons:
1.) Guns are cool.
2.) Self defense is a human right
Self defense is a human right but not every human can express that right freely without a mountain of ridicule and disdain from the public/lawmakers anywhere on earth, in some cases it has the potential be classified as assault to fight back against an attacker during a robbery or physical attack on a person (this often happens in places where firearms are explicitly illegal anyways so you're mostly dealing with knife, car, improvised weapon attacks) which is a leap in logic in and of itself, this world we all live in is truly mad when you see it for what it is
If crazy people didnt get guns you would cut the rate of needing self defense while still keeping that right (aint no way gun control is based????)
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Tough topic to cover. Sensitive, thoughtfull and thought provoking as ever. Well played sir.
I grew up in a house hold with no guns. My first gun purchase was in college and man do I love sharing my passion for the 2nd amendment with others and helping them with their first firearm purchase
same here
Why is Columbia always so ignored in this observation? Isn't murder by gunfire the leading cause of death there?
Yes, Mexico is #1. They're skewed stats padded by sewerslides in the US.
Colombia* and you are absolutely correct. (If you meant the country) And guns are entirely illegal there.
Because they are poor and crime ridden to begin with it’s expected that they will have a massive crime/cartel issues
America for the most part isn’t that’s why people talk about the shootings/gun violence because it’s not normal for developed countries to not react when there is a obvious issue
@@patrickenos7206Colombians do have options to purchase/carry. It
depends on profession but its very
costly& limited calibers!
@@lorenzoalbertomedina6753 Look at all the gun violence those regulations have prevented! Oh
I'm from Ireland and live in Florida, never had a gun, shot one once back home. I got an ad for a holster during the video but then I get them everyday lately
You should get a gun. They're fun.
I think firearms related content only has a certain number of advertisers that want to run ads over it, and it would make sense that firearms adjacent companies would be ok with advertising on something tagged as firearms content.
I also think that geolocation plays a big role in what ads are served. I get all kinds of ads that seem targeted but for someone else. 😂
Sounds like you need a gun my man haha
That's a sign to buy one ;)
You can tell the scope of this video, in an effort to appear unbiased and based in historical context, has been narrowed and framed to the extent that it accomplishes neither.
He displays the text of the 2nd Amendment, declares it to be confusing, and moves immediately into vivisecting definitions in context of the era. For someone who seemed keen on providing context to the topic, he completely ignored the State Constitutions that have duplicate articles with alternate formatting.
For example, in Pennsylvania's Constitution from 1776: "That the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the state; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; And that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power." And again, it specifically mentions self-defense before anything else.
In Delaware's Constitution "person has the right to keep and bear arms for the defense of self, family, home and State, and for hunting and recreational use." Notice the same order of importance there?
Google is your friend, and I promise you that the English language has not changed all that much in 200+ years
He cites two clashing expert opinions as a way to frame the Gun Control Debate as an equally-matched logical debate, yet the anti-gun point is hilariously unfounded. "Cornell has indicated that the right to bear arms had almost nothing to do with personal self defense" Which had nothing to do with the header-text "Bear Arms" as those two words has intentionally wide scope. It's meant to cover *every* use-case of a firearm: armed combat, hunting, sport, self-defense, etc. as described in those original constitutions.
This is also founded upon Supreme Court Judge Scalia's official opinion, as mentioned later in the video.
Pistols were common and popular far before Samuel Colt. Blackbeard was famous for carrying 6 pistols, Colt simply gave people the same capability in the size of one.
Samuel Colt did what every modern company's marketing department does. It was not new at the time, and it's not going out of style anytime soon. Colt was successful because his designs were revolutionary in the industry. You also forgot to mention how popular firearms became with women of the era, as goes the phrase "God created man. Samuel Colt made them equal"
Gun Rights are Women's rights.
The video mentions that firearms were used to control the slave population, but fails to mention that non-whites were prohibited from owning firearms, which could be used to fight for their freedom. Another point against gun control, because it's also racist.
The framing on the phrase: "...Guns are used to 'settle disputes'..." is very belittling their importance. The lack of firearms historically leads to oppression, enslavement, and genocide, in that order, with every democidal Authoritarian government of the last century, be it the Nazis, Soviets, CCP (even today with the Uygher Muslisms), Cambodia, Iran, etc.
also the logical place to look at what the founding fathers meant would be the federalist papers in which it clearly says the militia is the people
Insurmountably based my good man well said
Well said
I find it extraordinary that I had to scroll so far to finally read a comment like this. I believe horses made an attempt to be unbiased in the making of this video but the framing in the script lets his biases bleed through.
Thank you, I thought it was preposterous when he stated that for DECADES the court did not view the 2A as an individual right. The courts always thought of it as an individual right. It was only after activist constitutional scholars and judges tried to subvert the 2A with their ridiculous "collectivist" interpretation that the Supreme Court felt the need to put that to rest with Heller.
Great video. Thoughtful and well presented as always.
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He slowly reaches over to show her his Cheeto dust encrusted phone, which looks like some kind of state fair food gone wrong, only to find her spot in the bed empty and cold. What did she say again? When was that?
Seconds tick by, maybe hours or even days, he’s not sure but eventually he gets another notification.
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absolutely
... nevermind, go back to sleep, he hasn't figured out the purpose for the second amendment.
Allowing private pwnership of guns was something that was uniquely British before it was uniquely American. The French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danes, etc did not allow it, preferring instead for their colonist to depend on their militaries for protection. Britain however incentivized colonists to protect their own land to have a firmer foothold on said land particularly in the frontier. So the idea that American see guns as a way of protecting "you and your own" us okder than the country itself
Gun statistics need to be separated from gang violence and radicals. Your average small town heavily armed America has little to no gun violence or violent crime at all
That's simply not true. Some rural counties, in the south especially, have just as much gun violence (per capita) as cities with serious gang violence.
Most nations start off violently that’s a moot point.
Most peoples throughout history settled disputes with violence, that’s a moot point.
If guns kill people, why don’t we put the gun on trial?
It’s always been no country for old men. To think violence is mostly firearm related or American centric isn’t honest. Freedom is a double edged sword and so is being capable of violence.
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@@stiofanmacamhalghaidhau765that is a non argument
So you're arguing that we should be okay with constant gun violence in the U.S. because "freedom is a double edged sword?"
@@connorlonergan4967Google FBI crime statistics for "murder by weapon" more people die to fists. the gun is here to stay, find out what the gun can do for you.
@@connorlonergan4967YES
This video convinced me to buy a gun today.
Any recommendations??
go watch paul harrels top 5 guns for home defense. good starting point
Yes.
Over 21? A micro 9mm handgun. So you can carry it. It’ll work for home defense too, but eventually you’d want to upgrade to a full size pistol, a shotgun, or a rifle.
If you’re under 21, then a good pump action 12 gauge can be had for 200 bucks. You can hunt with it, shoot clays for fun, and defend the homestead.
Just stumbled upon your channel. Love it! Keep it up!
Beautiful essay! I watched Pillboy's essay on gun culture around black gun ownership and together with your video I find it helped me a lot to understand the US gun culture (which is always a bit puzzling from a European perspective).
It’s extremely simple. It’s the same reason we love cars, planes and computers. Freedom and independence.
but guns dont take you anywhere or does anything, except kill..
@@noreaeron Guns save hundreds of thousands of people from death or harm, mostly without killing anyone. Car deaths are far more likely.
@@noreaeron They defend hundreds of thousands of lives a year according to the CDC.
Without the 2A, there wouldn't be a 1st amendment
An armed society doesn't mean a free society
@@bobafett_8922 It does.
@@otte385 yet in saddams iraq, people had open access to firearms, yet the people couldn't free themselves from saddam. In fact, some of the gun owning civilians join the massacres of the iraqi state themselves
@@bobafett_8922 Take meds
such an underrated yuotuber makes such interasting vids! keep it up!
So are we not going to talk about the main reason? To rebel against a tyrannical government should our social conventions and constitutional protections fail us and it comes into the hands of the wrong people?
pardon me for being forward but I LOVE YOU HORSEY MAN ❤🎉
amazing video, thank you for your content
such a great narrator and creator.
As a gun owner, I thought this was a great video. I really appreciate you keeping any opinions out of the video. I wish more youtubers were able to talk about the history of America and guns without spending half the video injecting their particulate stance on the issue. Most people seem to have a pretty strong opinion about the topic. Spending time on what's wrong and right will only alienate parts of the audience, no mater what side the opinions come from.
It's tough to find anything in general that isn't opinionated/biased.. especially when it's politically charged. We all argue amongst ourselves and only become further divided (it's what *they* want).
@@bigstinky5128"They" as if theres some grand narative out to get ya
@@janniboy2766 it's not as absurd as you'd hope.
he actually got a lot of it wrong and/or shoved a lot of negative biases in there.
@@user-mn8lz7gf6d examples being? genuinely curious
"If I didn't have this gun, the King of England could just walk in here any time he wants and start shoving you around, you want that? Huh? Do you?"
terrific and important video, thank you
“A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the RIGHT of the PEOPLE to KEEP and BEAR arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”
A recent attempt to redefine the legal understanding of what a Militia is...
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I think you were a little misleading on some points. Suggesting that Southerners, Prospecters and Xenophobic Urbanites are the only people who would have a gun seems to put people in a box. And suggesting the gun ownership primarily is a way to "settle dsiputes" is a little narrow minded. Guns are definitely used in that manner but that's not really the core of American Gun Culture. The best way to describe it would be more in line with romanticism around the revolutionary war. The more modern POV is more associated with Cold War survivalism, Anti-government sentiments, Distrust of the government, and popular culture. The idea that gun owner ship is more linked to racism, is a bit divorced from reality. As for the NRA, they have all but disintegrated. The real thing you should have addressed should have been the intent behind the creation of felonies as a way to disenfranchise minorities and strip them of voting and gun rights. The proliferation of Firearms is more or less linked in increased central federal power, and the subsequent incompetence to deal with the consequences of removing local powers over the subject. It is at this point though, and uncontrollable power as the equipent to manufacture firearms is readily and freely available without necessitating federal overwatch as making a gun is relatively easy. The path forward is likely a stalemate.
He's misleading on a bunch. This is their first shitty video I've seen. This is one of the worst videos about guns I've ever seen
it stated CLEARLY to keep and bear ARMS. IN ORDER to maintain a well regulated militia. what kind of militia would they be without arms? there is no need for speculation. its clear. they didnt stutter. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. not sometimes. SHALL NOT. period the end. I don't get where the lack of understanding come in. even if we're playing semantics. there is no way to twist SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
DC v Heller also proves a “well regulated militia” is well equipped independent citizenry, not the National Guard or police
@@haramsaddam238this, this this this. people think when fan hits the shit police and military will protect you. lol okay last i checked they might be part of the problem, a citizen population needs to be armed to rebel against tyranny
@@haramsaddam238it proved that 9 people made an arbitrary vote, not that a militia is just random citizens with guns
@@Midwestemoisme A SCOTUS case is anything but an “arbitrary vote”. If guns are so bad, why don’t you try to start taking them yourself instead of waiting for the government to do it?
@@Midwestemoisme A SCOTUS case is anything but an “arbitrary vote”… Someone didn’t pay attention in civics class
14:19 You forget to mention that, for just as many slavers, an equal amount of abolitionists and slaves took up arms against the institution, much of it in Bleeding Kansas. If individuals didn't own firearms, you'd still see hired or government armed guards at plantations, just like any other slave nation in history. At the time, there were many states that banned freedmen from possessing firearms, in fear that they'd foment a slave revolt, like John Brown almost achieved.
Earlier in the video, you also forgot to mention that the first gun law in history was that of punishing any colonist who knowingly provided muskets, powder, or musketballs to Native Americans. This is because, if Europeans were "proficient" at firearm usage, Natives were "advanced". Often they had better equipment, training, and tactics than European militia. Within a generation, the primary tool for resisting colonialism was the musket, and the tool the colonizers used to stop this was gun control.
Ultimately, any gun control is based around and achieves one vision. "Rich, mostly white, pro-government, pro-capitalist men as the only ones who can be trusted to enact violence." Guns will always be used to settle disputes; Government is nothing but the threat of violence written down on fancy paper. The only question is, who gets a seat at that negotiating table?
Great work as always
4:30 it’s also important to note here that not only colonial leaders required firearms ownership, but the Crown itself did as well. A major reason for the failure of the Spanish claims of North America was the nomadic tribes that were able to avoid the Spanish military. Since the Spanish troops could not be everywhere at once, and the Spanish explicitly barred its citizens from owning weapons in the New World, Spanish power in the Americas dwindled. The British solved this by encouraging hun ownership, thus reducing the military spending and logistics needed to manage such a massive claim. Their biggest mistake was assuming that this policy would’ve eventually backfire on themselves.
Boy i hope this video doesnt skip over the statistics of whos doing the vast majority of violent gun crime.
I really hope you mean criminals
Umm yes AMERICANS
@@angelomelo4488he means gang members and repeat offenders of violence not an average American citizen
@@Plate_carrier_Dayz Ahh so basically Dylan Roof, Adam Lanza, Payton S. Gendron, James Egan Holmes, Nikolas Cruz, Ethan Crumbley, Mark Barton, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold and people like that. Gotcha👍
@@angelomelo4488I think he meant people like Kevin Janson Neal, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Chris Harper-Mercer, Elliot Rodger, John Zawahri, Robert Card, Charles Roberts IV, Jeff Weise,
Saving this one for later Mr. Horses. I’m in the midst of struggling with grad school work and while your content is usually so intriguing it makes my cogs turn, this is one of those topics I will have to put aside for better days. Besides, I have a few of your videos to catch up to!
Horses, is your home just filled to the brim with books? Genuinely curious due to the fact that you have so many wonderful references!
I love guns because I think the history behind them and the way they work is incredible.
Same
Because why not? It's a birthright for individuals to protect themself. And they are simply crafted metal.
A nuclear weapon is just crafted uranium.
I appreciate your focus on "gun violence", your video is concise enough to stimulate discussion. That being said, I find that so many voices discussing "gun violence" seem to ignore the general function of "violence" in the rest of human society/history/nature. It starts to feel like violence is perpetuated by the gun exponentially; when the instances of "gun violence" can be seen to overlap with regular cycles of societal instability. I suspect that many people's opinions are swayed by their own shallow interpretations of the term, especially when we ignore the duality of it.
Surprisingly unbiased, very well done video.
It is safe to say America will always have an affinity to guns. What better way can the government convince its people to endorse mass weaponry and wars than to convince them they need protection .
What country do you live in and how much does America protect you?
What a dumb thing to say
Our government hates that people can own guns, what?
Well they make millions off of it so makes sense no?
Re your text @18:13 Winchester did not make handguns, and Glock wouldn't sell handguns for another 15 years.
Little nitpick, saying there were only long guns before colt is ignoring flintlock pistols and dueling that was common since the 1800s.
I like the focus on the historical precedent. People always forget to mention that when debating or discussing this issue.
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what?
The mythology of firearms is so prevalent that my firend who literally said "no one will steal from me becuase i have guns" and yet within a month of buying a gun the gun was stolen still was unshaken by his belief that guns inherently made his house more safe
How does a man get his gun stolen…
@@atenthunderbolt4215 contrary to gun owners beleifs theifs dont announce when they're on the way
Was it kept in a vehicle?..
@@BillyTheKidderthat’s my thought too
@@RockStock6that $100% happened, I was the thief
I am in a habit of watching your Tuesday videos lol. If you stopped posting I don’t know what I would do haha…
Who's committing the gun violence in America? Not the people who hold to your outlined mythology. They look like Baltimore and not Europe.
Must..suppress..crime..statistics...growing......weaker......