Mass Shootings: An Unpopular Opinion
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- The national conversation about mass shootings in the wake of the El Paso and Dayton tragedies is important, but it’s also important to consider some things that are uncomfortable to think about. So here is my unpopular opinion about them.
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My name is Brandon Herrera. I'm the owner and operator of The AK Guy Inc, a 07 Firearm Manufacturer based out of Fayetteville, NC. I also co-own Stark Media Group, and designed the rifle known as the AK-50.
I've started to dedicate this CZcams channel above all to have fun, but also as a way to document my entrepreneurial journey for the next few years as I try to grow my companies. Hopefully, people can learn from my example, successes, and failures.
Either way, I'm having a lot of fun with it so far, and I hope it's just as fun to follow along!
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Fully expecting to lose subscribers over this one. It was an uncomfortable video for me to film, but it sounds from the comments like it’s giving a few of you something to think about, so that’s a success in my mind.
One thing I would like to point out: Saying mass shootings happen more than other methods like bombings, car attacks, etc is a logical fallacy. To use that as an argument has an unstated assumption: That if those shooters didn’t have guns, then the attacks wouldn’t have happened and they would’ve lived without acting on those feelings. That does not appear to be true. Not at all.
Brandon Herrera It takes courage to stand up and say what most people don’t want to hear. I know because I’ve learned that by losing much followers and business from it. But fuck it. Someone has to have the balls to face the music.
Keep it real, Brandon. 🇺🇸
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Well done
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Got it and thank you for this video.😁👍
"The most dangerous creation of any society is a man who has nothing to lose."
Very true. People like that are fucking deadly. The only thing that can stop them is death. Maybe something to live for. But usually it is only death that can stop people like that
Are you a feminist against mens' rights? Jk, this is the sad truth.
People who has never been in an evil or dark mindset will never understand the reasons why. Plenty of people get to that point. It's what those people do that makes the difference, do they step back and re evaluate. Or end it all.
Corollary: A man has no greater enemy than one who believes he is right with God.
ShanghaiedAgain true and that’s a fucking terrifying thing as when they have nothing to lose everything around them becomes meaningless and human life becomes nothing but trash to be discarded or collateral damage
A child who never felt love from the village will burn it down to feel the warmth
Oof
Damn...i am writing this down
That’s fucking poetic
@@abhishekgourav6144
It's not a new thing, but if this is your first time learning of it then I certainly hope that it put some inspiration in you and others that are new to this saying.
@@abhishekgourav6144 it was a African Proverb i believe,
I didn't quit my security job when people were shooting.
I didn't quit my security job when people were making firebombs.
I quit when I saw the first truck drive full tilt into a Christmas market.
This is 100% spot on.
thought of the same thing.
force will allways be mass times velocity.
Driving home for christmas~
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After what happened in Uvalde yesterday, I think this video needs to be re-uploaded and shared everywhere.
Fs
yessir
yeah.
Actually though.
Amen brother, over here from Sutherland springs area and sending nothing but prayers for yall, that much pain and loss is hard to have, much less with it being kids... i hope this sort of thing stops, or hell at least slow down like fuck man...
I think the mass shootings should stay local and the news should quit giving them notoriety
General Sherman 100%
Yes
Oh yeah, totally.
General Sherman yes because that encourages copys
True
Most conversations worth having are not easy ones.
in order to have an honest discussion,
you risk being offensive
@@friedhelmwinter1237 as a liberal, there's a great quote from Corey Taylor's book "America 51", relating the idea "when everyone is unique, no one is unique" to "when everything is offensive, nothing is". A central theme of the book comes down to the idea that, we as Americans, no longer talk but yell opinions into the void believing/ not seeing each other to not be human, almost a reverse straw man fallacy. But I recognize i don't know that much about guns (outside fps shooters), and I'm trying to learn. I don't want guns to be illegal. I just want more registration and to try to curb some of the violence (not letting spousal abusers buy them, or anyone with violent convictions or extreme mental illnesses (not all mental illnesses, that's just gonna blanket ban every human)). Anyway, my point is, while I'm not going to agree that gun rights for everyone should still be a right, I'd like to have a conversation, a real, civil dialogue about the shit that's tearing our nation apart. Thank you.
Tl;dr wanna talk bruh?
Too true
@@0-5-74 this is for the record, the more things change, the more they stay the same. the enemy of my enemy is truth and compromise, captain price. Btdubs love how you knocked me out cold in mw2. (Just noticed your name. Couldn't help it.)
Man, I just stumbled upon this video. God damn man this is a great video. I’m from Colorado and I was in school for Columbine. It was fucked up but I learned a lot about those shooters because my dad was a cop and he came home and had some hard conversations with me. Thanks for the video brother.
Thanks for your input and thoughts on this. I lived in Japan for 10 years - where folks say there’s low gun violence due to lack of guns. Sure. But they have folks dropping anthrax bombs in subways. Guys running into schools and using a knife to kill 20+ children. Folks take a bus and roll through a crowded street killing 40 people. Bombs in nightclubs. There’s still mass killings.
its the amount of mass killings dumbass. americans have alot of mass shootings. A FUCK TON OF MASS SHOOTINGS these things happen rarely in japan
Yeah, less gun violence.
Doesn't mean all violence is gone.
@@thefiresworddragon927 yeah. In fairness japan DOES have an overall very low violence ratio. Though that has to do with the culture. You almost never get petty crime or muggings. But you do get crazies that follow you home and eat your cats while you sleep.
Same time Philipines, Sweden, Thailand and a few other countries … all have huge gun cultures and yet very low gun crime (in fact Philipines almost no civilian gun crime. Cause the government going around murdering people and drive by)
mass killings in Japan are extremely rare no matter what the method mass killings in America happen on a weekly basis using firearms or not it is just an unsafe country in general
@alecubudulecu It is not the Philippine government. It is about drug syndicates, that have stockpiles of arms; as well as insugency groups like ISIS and the NPA.
I agree 100%. Also, in my opinion, these mass shootings would go down a fair amount if the media quit doing bios on the people that commit them. Don't release the name of the individual and don't give them any spot light. We all know that a lot of these are people are copy cat criminals that want to be remembered, even if they are remembered as mass murderers.
they like the catchy headlines. this is why the discourse surrounding these events is way out of line, and most likely motivated purely by clicks, money, and political agendas.
@@Scott-sx9qq yep I agree. After the last few years since posting this I have now come to the conclusion that our government is involved in some capacity after having my eyes opened to the complete corruption that exists. Learned a lot about MK Ultra and other psychological terrorism that our government has been using for some time on its own citizens and the rest of the world. The only way for them to get the people of this country to give up the 2A is create mass chaos with gun violence. Not to say all mass shootings are caused by this but I’m willing to bet a lot of them are.
Mr. Rogers said we should just talk about the people who were trying to help the situation and stop giving fame to the attackers
Agreed. Fox News said it was an illegal alien. While that turned out not to be true, it wasn't even relevant.
They should focus on the police who aided the shooter as the children kept screaming.
I've always said the most dangerous thing on the planet, is a man with a will to do harm.
Sinister Thoughts that’s very real
This is the most important point
No the most dangerous is a man that's creating an ideology with the intent to destroy
Jairo Pavon what about a man creating a harmful ideology and is willing to do harm to others and himself
@@jairopavon11 That's the same damned thing . smh
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that read "89,999,997 gun owners hurt nobody yesterday"
I cut my finger making taco salad. Does that count?
@@1991USsoldier I didn’t get the joke immediately, but goodness XD
@@grayefox-4425 that was the first thing to pop into my head lol.
I was like, well, I hurt myself by accident, but it was a knife not a gun lol
What needs to happen is a conversation about the pharmaceuticals the shooters are taking. The suicides also need to be looked at in relation to the number of pharmaceuticals in common. Blaming legitimate gun owners for a crime is wrong. Blaming the families or someone who once got told the person was saying crap. The facts are that a good guy with a gun typically ends the engagement at least 15 minutes earlier.
We saw this recently though with the Texas shooting, there were armed cops outside who never went in. That logic is right but only if they are immediately included in the the engagement and not responding
@@ne5152just happened again with the church shooting. The Texas cops hid in the stairwell 5 feet from the shooter while two armed security and one unarmed person took down the threat.
Dozens of officers on scene hiding and crying while real heros step up to the plate.
You’re one of the only people I’ve seen who’s mentioned the Bath School Disaster, which is still the highest loss of life of any school event, and not only was it not done with a gun, it happened in 1927
"Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.”
- Abraham Lincoln
--- stun zoo
“What happens when you take trucks, bombs, things like that.”
Or planes.
Ban planes
Fair point.
Ricky DJ Moore II except when a non Muslim does it,he is mentally ill and when a person with a Muslim name does it,its the religion.You are a idiot it seems.
Yeah. The deadliest attack on American soil was done with 4 airplanes and not one fired round.
@@anonymouslycrazy6343 That's the point DJ was making... He's mocking the fact that Islam is often called "The Religion of Peace"
Wow, I did not see that coming. I thought I'd heard every possible argument regarding gun violence and public safety on both sides, but not this. Everyone in American needs to see this video.
We were talking about possible terrorist attacks on a site I used to visit. We came up with over 15 things that were wayyy worse than a gun. A few were actually so easy and deadly that we agreed they should delete the thread and not talk about the ideas on any other threads.
4chan? Was it 4chan?
@@thelordz33 unless there was some kind of rightist there it can't be reddit, so 4chan.
guns still bad though
Evil will always find a way to harm others.
@@komrade_kam why do you think I'm married
Like September 11,2001
@@dr.catmilk hah, that's hilarious
I don't believe the majority of these shooters were evil. Society doesn't provide any way for people who don't go along with the norms to exist.
For Better or Worse, where there's a will there's a way...
Wakes up, turns on phone, see's title of video.
Oh boy, this is gonna be a doozy
Release The Kragle nice gas mask
@@IMCproductions Thanks man! Its a Czech Gas Mask of some kind.
Release The Kragle xd
Here it is October 2021 and unfortunately this video has been forgotten about.
I truly appreciate the brutal honesty and heart felt conversation on this difficult subject.
The depth of this topic starts with with mass shootings and descends into the distinct human ability to consciously create prolonged and painful suffering with every day objects.
Its my firm opinion 90% of these shootings would have been otherwise suicides, except we have copycats due to the infamy.
With or without that notoriety there is a certain rare sort of person that feels suicide doesn't go far enough and that it doesn't get "revenge" on the society they feel made them get to that point. That said yeah a hell of a lot could be solved by less media attention.
Einzelfeuer _ but as you said it is pretty rare to have a person that wrong in the head
Pretty hard to suicide and take so many other souls without a bomb and if you shoot a weapon that isnt a suicide:)) and also with a knife i dont think the kill ratio can be as good as with an AR or w/e weapon :)) so people saying guns are ok are just fucking brain dead and think coronavirus is spread due to 5G and Earth is flat :))
I think local publication for shootings should be all. I don't want victims you be down played, but televising shootings and new of shootings nationally and across the media well only attract copy cats. Because it brings attention to the person doing it along with the victims.
@@andreistoica8142 You're missing the point when they say that. A gun is a tool, legally usable by any nonfelon adult. The issue is "Man shoots people, so the gun he used". How it needs to be is "Man shoots people because he feels trapped, how do we help other who felt like that so we can prevent this". If a person wants to kill massive amounts of people, its not hard to do. With our without firearms. He even listed some. You know what good a firearm can do in this situation? Man brings rifle to concert (as an example). Someone sees him raise the rifle, and they draw a pistol and can make a citizens arrest. Why don't we see this happen? Because not enough people are properly educated on firearms. Instead some people would rather ignorantly go "guns = evil. Ban them all" and civilians no longer have a good way of defending themselves.
I really hate to say that this aged well.... feels like you literally could be talkin about the one that just happened and you are 100% correct
It will always age well, so long as there are mass shootings that are not using worse methods (bombs, trucks etc)
This aged like a fine wine
"Makeshift molotov cocktail"
Wait isn't that already a makeshift incendiary device?
no, you have to use Finnish Army manual recipe to make the real one
@@temba92 ah okay thanks
@@temba92 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail
@@sumvs5992 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail
By definition any of these combinations are a molotov cocktail and are thereby incendiary devices whether exactly following the initial Finnish recipe or not.
It's terrifying how much damage you can do with Highschool chemistry knowledge and effort.
I dont know what you are talking about, i heard that back in the day an idiot decided to shake a sample of mercury and managed to spill it over himself.
He was fine, since none fell on his skin, but he couldnt enter the lab anymore afterwatds
@@Ferrari255GTO Have you heard of TNT? In high school, I was taught methods to produce TNT.
Aside from that, they teach us also how to prepare acids, alkalies, Hydrogen etc which can be used for these kinds of crime
I mean shit. Couple 55 gallon drums set up with a mix of kitty litter and bleach with the right wind path in the right place and you can kill thousands.
@@imperialenforcer2271 I am calling huge bullshit that your school tought you how to make TNT
You dont even need a hs education to know gasoline burns and rocks break glass
Great video and great message, brotha. Stay the course. Glad we have people like you to get people thinking about the broader issues.
This is exactly what people need to hear. Thanks for speaking your point. This is the only way we solve problems is by discussing them not arguing about them
This aged extremely well.
@kipskip_
He was saying that the video is still a good point of view even after political changes
@Baraggan Louisenbairn
Everything got even more anti gun
@@sam8742 I mean they tried, then the AWB in Cali got outright shot down.
@@sam8742 nah. not texas atleast🤣.
i guess if u consider a huge boom in mass shootings "aged well" then yeah🤦🏽♂️.
WE NEED TO GET YOUNG MEN INVESTED IN SOCIETY AGAIN INSTEAD OF HATING IT!!
Young men are told they are disposible its to late to go back
I am currently a 15 year old in 10th grade and I stand with the 2nd amendment. I try to tell everyone at my school and they just scream at me like I was the shooter myself. Do you guys have any advice for how to get our message out there?
@@aidanforrest7602sadly: nope. I live in NY. My 18th birthday was the day of Parkland. I bought a shotgun. I had the police called on me. They took my guns and made me get evaluated by a doctor and refused to return them until after I got evaluated (NY Safe act has a red flag law written into it). Took months and hundreds of dollars to get my gun back. I missed my graduation ceremony. No warrant or court order, just 6 armed state police officers in an unmarked van used to block my driveway at 9pm who wouldn either leave with my guns or me in handcuffs. No threats, just purchased a gun on my birthday which so happened to be the day of a shooting. My biased advice: don't let anyone know what you do or don't support or own.
@@aidanforrest7602 Tell them what does happen when you surrender your arms to the government. Tyranny. Venezuela, North Korea, Nazi Germany. History will repeat itself. The key is not to be blind.
Young men need a women and children to temper themselves.
Hats off to you ! All sucks ! It's a mental health issue not a truck rental issue , fertilizer issue , dynamite issue , nor is it a gun issue ! It's just horrible !
💕 Takes a lot of balls to say this man. 💕 Thank you for talking about this and showing another side of this situation. I didnt even think of this.
Brandon. I'm late to view this, but I want to thank you. Being a memelord shitposter is a personality. Running a business and honing a craft is a passion. But offering an honest and heartfelt opinion on such an inflamed and as stated tragically misread situation takes courage.
You will never lose people by being honest. Whomever disagrees will hopefully do so on principle, and even then one would hope they would have faith enough in their convictions to not only engage you in debate, but to accept your perspective as your own and valid.
We live in an age of hyperbole and echo Chambers. And as much as you hit in on the head with masculinity needing some maintenance and care, the human condition needs it more; we need to fight. We need to have these arguements. Letting things fester and allowing the most irrational or loudest voices rule the stage is only teeing up for another 20th century period of suffering and loss.
Keep your conscience. Stay honest. And listen to the world. You're in a position where you can help push us toward that balance between stagnation and chaos.
And I honestly believe we need that now more than ever.
Damn I never heard something so deep yet so true
We need people like him and you in society personally me being a youth I really dont have alot of understanding about this but I do know is you have to be messed up to do something like that and I definitely dont have the courage to speak my opinion but I always have agreed with the seccond amendment and I do believe they should do extensive mental health and criminal records before an assault weapon purchase
Good man. I wish there were more people like you today, the world in which we live would be a far more civil one.
They took our jobs
I agree whole heartedly. When things become stagnant, the voices of reasonable men are overshadowed by those who follow the status quote or majority.
"Media should focus more on the killed then the killer"
-anonymous
That was advice given out by the FBI. Their criminal psychologists figured out that by giving out the murderer's name and their "kill score," they inspired other people to try and beat that score. By preventing the media from displaying the person and the number of people killed, you can reduce the number of mass killings tremendously.
@@joshuareed8243 And the media flatly ignored that advice in favour of shocking headlines and traffic/advertising.
They want views not what's actually good for the people. I'm afraid it's all politics, sir.
@@josephfong4580 or rather, the unholy matrimony of politics and money
@@joshuareed8243 so is it a choice between giving them notoriety, or inspiring others through public "killscore"?
Columbine is a great example for this, and I'm glad you mentioned it.
It was horrible. It changed so much of my schooling... But if those bombs went off, so many more lives would have been lost.
but lives were still lost. bombs are illegal guns are not but it would be harder to get a gun if they were illegal. than a bomb because you cant make a gun easily
Here's the thing. We don't even successfully uphold the laws that exist around guns.
A ban won't change that ability to actively and successfully uphold future bans with our current force and methods. Ideally, we would be able to model other countries with less gun violence and uphold any laws we have. But we don't have that infrastructure and it's only become more obvious in the two years since I left my comment.
The truth of the matter is that in many cases, bombs WERE the more-casualty threat even though they are illegal and were illegal when made.
The core issue is the mental health aspect here in America. Even those rich enough to have access are hesitant to seek it out due to ridiculous views on mental health.
its not an easy fix but we should work towards banning guns there is no oint in owning them look at australia and the uk one mass shooting and they banned guns no more gun violence.@@katieb.1184
Very heavy subject but conducted brilliantly. Fair play for putting this out there and being real. CZcams needs more content that deals with difficult subjects over the life is perfect and you can do it to type stuff. I take my hat off to you for putting this out there. 🤜🤛
I'm not from the US but I've thought about this too... specially after the Easter bombings in my country.
Those who want to do evil will always find a way..
are you from the UK or Ireland
Time Tellers Union i think it was sri lanka
arcticfilms oof
I agtee
Sri Lanka is a third would country
The explosions in the middle East always scared me more. You can’t even react and then can be gone or lose a limb. That’s some scary shit to think about.
And 100% chance that you will die from it, gun has like 50% chance to die from it since it require direct hit
Everything I believe one of the victims at columbine Patrick Ireland was shot 3 times with I think a shotgun and the other weapons they used and survived. I think this shows that whilst the amount of time you’re shot matters it also matters how quickly you get medical treatment and how good that treatment is.
I realize this is over 3 years later but Thank You Brandon, It takes a REAL MAN to show his own views that are correct, NOT in just his own eyes.
This was an amazing video, an exemplary way of strongly putting an argument forward, well articulated and without relying on cheap rhetoric.
Well done Sir, spoken like a gentleman.
I like that no one is arguing back.
He's basically persuaded all of us.
Magic.
Philip Homburger it’s because he’s not trying to bash anything through our skulls he’s calmly explaining his view.
...because we know guns arent the actual problem? Like yeah thank god its not 50+ McVeighs running around.
It’s the hair
It's because people that agree with him watch him. Why wouldn't it be like that?
I mean to be fair he's preaching to the choir here.
Brandon: Out society is failing to raise real men.
The media:ItS vIdEoGaMeS!¡
Dude send a s.w.a.t team my grandma just played candy crush and she threatning to shoot us in our feet and crush us with her car
knine1833 Wow, chill ya boomer.
knine1833 Videogames are a form of entertainment. Just cause a guy plays videogames doesn’t make him an incel school shooter.
@knine1833 know what he was implying was your age he was assuming that you are a middle-aged Boomer which is another sad part here always got to boomer or Millennial Bash however the problem isn't so much as socializing it is that we've become so lawsuit happy in this country that we are so afraid of socializing that would be better to just socialize on the internet but it's morphed into words is toxic mass of sjwism that people just can't socialize anymore that's why you have this type of anti-social Behaviour
Boomers, boomers everywhere
When it comes to mass killings, outside of combat, guns don’t even make the top ten. Someone with those intentions will come up with a way to accomplish their goal with or without a gun.
Didn't go to Afghanistan thinking that our objective will be to kill. It was simple. We went on each mission with the main objectives to find the threat, positively identify the threat, and eliminate the threat. ROE my guy.
Banning guns works. The government wouldn't bother with gun criminalization if it was ineffective. It's true that with enough determination most people could build a gun or a weopon to get the job done but the fact of the matter is most people don't have the will. The argument shouldn't be that banning guns doesn't reduce gun related homicide. The argument should be that only a fool would trust the government with a complete monopoly on violence. No military no matter how well equipped can continue to suppress an entire armed population that is resisting and this is a safe guard that is extremely important.
Very well done. Outstanding video. You brought up some very important things that aren’t really talked about much. This gets to the actual heart of the problem. These lost souls need to be reached and helped before they find a way to hurt others, because with, or without a firearm, they will find a way.
how to stop shootings: stop putting the shooters on the news
I know real example of demartyrofication of suicidal terrorists by media. Media simply showed pictures of dead filthy bodies of terrorists without any farther comments. Lot of people want to become a martyr, but no one really see himself as this torn cold piece of meat.
So the problem is not the news. Problem is how beautiful and refined picture they show.
Дмитрий Д no most of the shooters do it to get famous
Damnatio memoriae is the correct solution....erase them, act like they never existed, I feel like alot of these guys would commit suicide but want notoriety
@@Twinnerwinner-1554 also yeah. They all are suicide guys, so every shooting is a big fuckup of school psychologist. It takes years to push someone this far.
It also works for your covid-19 cases. If you stop testing you'll see a 100% drop in you confirmed cases
You have a great point Brandon, and you worded it fantastically
I heard of the cadence but never got to call it or say it.
Wow I was sitting here thinking this was new video but it was uploaded 2 years ago
Sad but true
Well said sir. Thank you for posting this, and encouraging some real thought behind something I've felt for a long time.
The problem is people don’t value human life anymore. America is losing its morals and just doesn’t care about the well being of others.
Teach people they come from animals and that’s how they act
@@latenttweet wha-...that has no logical backing. Either way man is pretty much the earth's smartest creature, man should value his fellow man for we're part of the supreme damn species wether it is by the hand of God or the hand of evolution.
No I think it's just specific people I dont think its America
@Mr. Villain because they can give their lives meaning. It's similar to giving things like plants and objects symbolic meaning
@Mr. Villain it can be silly, but it's good either way
I am more afraid of a man with a knife and nothing to lose than I am of a man with 100 guns and a stable mind
The issue is when you have a man with nothing to loss and a 100 guns
Shit I'm more afraid of a man with a knife and nothing to lose than a man with a gun and nothing to lose getting stabbed hurts like a motherfucker
@@freki3545 yes fr much slower and more gruesome
@@Steph.98114 the issue is the common denominator, a man with nothing to lose. There are many tools that can drive a nail, not just a hammer. As Brandon pointed out, there are many 'worse' ways to cause mass loss of life. This is clearly a case of a failing society from a mental and sociological standpoint. Not guns, not knives, not any physical object. It's the commonplace acceptance, and embracing of mindsets that 50 years ago where unheard of combined with the general disconnection of moral values, imo.
@@Steph.98114 He still can use only one gun at once (or 2 handguns) so the other 98 doesn't matter.
It's been 4 years, I'm late to the party, but I only started watching Brandon's videos recently (which, I'm sure, is the only reason this particular video was recommended). This stuff is still happening and we're still having the same circular, unproductive conversations about it that we've been having since the Columbine shooting in the 90's. I'm leaving a like and a comment because this be seen by a lot more people.
Thanks Brandon, for not only bringing a relatively new perspective to the table, but also doing it with courage and conviction.
Four years in the future fan comment. This is probably the most well thought out and compassionate video you've ever made young man.
Whew, thought this was gonna be “I support the 2nd Amendment, but...”
Haha same i thought it was the guy from always sunny in Philadelphia talking about more gun control
I was afraid of the same.
Yeah i got scared... Not that i would hate him i just would have been like damn it, we lost another one.
To be honest, gun control would possibly help as well. There are a lot of male suicides, which are often done with guns. There are states like Missouri where access to guns are less restricted than say maybe the state of Connecticut.
By the way, I'm using the current book I'm reading as the source I used to claim that, which would be Dying of Whiteness by Johnathan Metzl.
I know the book does sound a bit biased due to the author's language, but he does acknowledge how guns are part of American culture in a way, at least in certain regions. Like many cultures have dangerous traditions, it's best to not have everyone gain access to a potentially harmful weapon.
As for the video, I think he has a good point yet at the same time, I also thing this whole gun issue dives into deeper issues, which he fails to mention. I also think he could have done more research or provided sources? I'm not any good either, I mean I provided one book. If anything, I might have to repeat the video because I wrote the comment while typing this comment.
Also, besides just controlling guns, they should make it more accessible to have healthcare, especially with mental health too so young men can get out of the darkness they are stuck in.
@@juliathefast
It's a nice thought, but controlling guns only hurts the law abiding.
Criminals will always find another way. Look at the knife crime in the UK. They're running a "save a life, turn in your knife" campaign and trying to outlaw knives with sharp points... Something anyone with a piece of concrete and 10 minutes of free time can make out of any rounded tip knife.
The same goes for suicides.
Guns are convenient. One pull of the trigger and there go your brains well over the wall... But they're not the only way to kill yourself.
There's knives, glass, sharp stones, poison, drugs, rope... I can go on.
Those who have reached the point where they truly want to kill themselves are going to find a way to do it, guns or not.
Banning (or further "restricting") guns only makes the law abiding less safe. It is counter productive to the overall well being of the nation.
We have an entire generation of people who don't believe in anything and have no reason to live.
Some just decide to take others with them.
Buckle up buckaroo. The ride is just starting.
I think you hit the nail square on the head with this one.
@Zach cash if you aren't happy in our messed up world you just need drugs. Drugs make you feel better.
Does your kid have mental issues? Are you still trying to help them with therapy?
Now you can just put them on hard drugs and forget about it!!!
@@ishitrealbad3039 I was going deeper down then you are.
This started way before socal media.
@@wolfwind9658 no you just need to put yourself out of it without taking others
The most dangerous person is the one that thinks they feel worse than you.
That person will do anything to show you, including hurting you and mocking the pain to demonstrate their familiarity with it.
It's a very difficult subject to talk about more so to actually put into words but you're exactly right.
This may be an unpopular topic to talk about it amongst the anti-gun community. But the firearms community has understood these concepts for a very long time. Yesterday a man pulled into a bank parking lot near my home and was carjacked by a man who had just rob the bank. The victim was driven to an empty parking lot and murdered. People in my community are demanding and calling for stricter gun laws. However the The attacker was released from prison one month ago he was sentenced to a life sentence for armed robbery with a firearm. The courts decided to reduce his life sentence to 20 years and this scumbag serves 16 of it. I find it extremely comical that people are demanding for guns to be more regulated when we are ready knew that this person was a threat to public safety.
What we have in the United States as a culture issue. Stemming from broken families, mental health issues, and people that don’t know how to deal with the stresses of life. Unfortunately these exact same issues have been occurring since the beginning of time. All we can do is try to identify the pre-event indicators and make sure that we are ready if it ever happens to us.
Great video Brandon I support you and what you’re doing.
Wait you're telling me the dude didn't even get charged for murder? Where did this even happen.
@@MrYotosun I think OP was saying that the perp was originally sentenced to prison for armed robbery, got out after only serving 16/20 years, and then committed another crime which ultimately ended with murder. That murder could have been prevented not by stricter gun laws, but by recognizing that the perp was a dangerous individual based on his history.
Totally agree with you statement but I would like to add the sense of victimology from “modern society”. NONE of these anti gun people seem to have a sense of self defense or think of themselves as the one defending others. They want police to do it for them but they don’t understand that POLICE TAKE TIME to get to you so. 100% of the time if you’re in a life or death situation the only person you can rely on is yourself.
Personally I never understood why people what to take away guns. People like me in rural areas HAVE TO BE self reliant because the cops take 45 min to an hour to get to you. But people in urban areas do not think of us because they think we’re all just a bunch of backwoods dumbasses (I have a college education) . When in reality some of the smartest and richest people live in rural areas for privacy. Anyway I’m not going to ramble any more lol PEACE!!!
What I see is that everyone wants to blame government regulation as why they aren't safe and not just stepping up and accepting that to actually be safe they need to take control and protect themselves. The government cant balance a budget and you want to have a private security team on call...? It doesn't help that we dont blame the criminal and society.
Tampa Carry 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 agreed
This is not an unpopular opinion. It is actually very popular, but it is SILENCED by media. Awesome video. You got my sub.
Gadfly “unpopular” = CENSORED.
Doesn’t matter how many people see logic or reason, the talking heads on the mainstream have an agenda to push. Anyone depending on ANY mainstream source for TRUE information deserves whatever they have coming when they find out what’s really going on.
@@ScottGrow117 Well said.
I've been saying it for 2 years now. What happens when they ban guns, and some kid walks into their school with a homemade flamethrower made from a pressure washer and a propane torch? It would be too easy to do. Put the fuel tank in their backpack and tuck the nozzle into their jacket. Walk into a classroom and spray burning fuel on their peers, and burn the whole school down in the process. People who want to kill will kill no matter what. Limitation breeds creativity.
Agreed, got my sub as well.
@@zealot8904 well thats false. everyone constantly brings up the fact that a criminal will get guns no matter what. these people WANT to SHOOT people. its not just about killing people, its about the precision mass shooting. you know the saying, shooting fish in a barrel.
took me a while for me to get around this video. in part because of all of the other videos you have and also in part due to the subject. ( was not sure we were going to come down on the right side of the issue but was pleasantly surprised. ) I think you did a great job with this production and covered the issues in a very good format. Will forward this one on to my little circle of trusted friends.
Well said brother. Very well thought out, very well articulated. God bless you and yours.
"Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create hard times."
If this quote holds true, let's at least be optimistic for the future.
History proves that the cycle continues. The huge number of naturally more moderately conservative teens who look at their mushy parents that didn't have any challenge in life and they're taking their own reins and pulling themselves out of the mindlessness and educating themselves and seeing the real truth of the world. But the hard times we face will harden them. The "greatest generation" grew up in the depression. They knew hardship. And they stepped up when asked. They made life better for the next few generations. Now things are collapsing 100 years later and the cycle is seen continuing.
KGG 95 hard times are coming up very very soon
Seriously though, what does an American citizen know about hard times?
@@s_t_r_e_l_0_o_k818 Do some research
S_T_R_E_L_0_O_K do you really think that all Americans have perfect lives? Ever heard if the Great Depression?
The Rwandan Genocide was largely perpetrated by machete.
It’s not just single deranged killers, that evil can also be awakened in movements, gatherings, and mob rule.
Machetes and garden tools, and probably one of the worst mass loss of human life in the second half of the 20th century
Thank you Brandon for a very Sincere video i think we can all see how hard this was for you to speak about
Brandon, you have articulated something here that I have known and felt for a very long time, in a way that I would not be able to properly convey. And you've done it with more reach than most of us will ever have, which is a brave thing to do in the divisive world we live in. I've lost many loved ones and can relate to the anguish of the ones who have lost people in these horrific events. You are correct in many things you stated here, a father's role being important, 'mass killings' are the issue not 'mass shootings', these individuals are distributed and will find a way to achieve their ends. This is a very hard topic to comment on, let alone publicly, and an even harder topic to try to find answers to, especially in a world that overly politicizes everything. Open and honest discussion is the first step, and I commend you for trying to open that dialog a little further. From myself and many in our community, thank you.
Boston bombing. 2 pressure cookers, 3 dead 260+ injured.
9/11 some box cutters almost 3000 dead including some of my family members
@@masterhacker7065 I'm so sorry. A lot of people lost family and friends. I was 1 or 2 at the time and couldn't know. I never felt that direct connection to it. I can't imagine what that's like.
@@ruthlessrubberducky5729 it's ok I was about 2 years old but it was my grandpa who died and now I wish I was older at that time so j could join the military to destroy the people who murdered my grandfather.
@@masterhacker7065 But we never went to war with Saudi Arabia.
@@masterhacker7065 There hasn't been another 9/11 that I can think of... I wonder why...
I love how it takes one guy to make a difference in my opinion on a topic I have strong feelings about. You give points, facts, reasons and it complels me to look at my opinion and I thank you for this. Thank you for having the balls to say this.
2 years ago this is a validated argument was unpopular and now is it relevant. thanks AK guy.
Algorithm seems to be doing it's job.
*Love or hate Brandon, he’s speaking straight facts*
I love Brandon and firearms in general, but the conclusions were wildly naïve. A more logical argument than the more nutbag owners come out with, and with a greater appreciation of the complexities of the situation than the abolishionists realise, but still only one very limited interpretation of some of the facts.
go away pewds
@@Andrew-pr9xv Agreed. Truly some half baked takes in this video.
now i know what kind of monster you really are.
Rational, calm and actualy using logic to adress this heavy subject. Glad you said it and its sad I cant subscribe twice.
This video, now more than ever, needs to be shared and spoken about.
I know it's an old video but.
My respect for you got higher from these thoughts of yours.
As a european citizen, watching the gun policy and mass shootings in the USA from a distance, I couldn't agree with you more.
We just had our memorial in Norway from the mass shooting on 22th of july 2011, where 77 people were killed from a firearm and a car bomb.
As the great Michael Caine said: "Some men just want to watch the world burn"
It doesn't matter how or which tools to use. The drive will not dissapear by restricting gun usage, it will probably make it worse.
Supporting mental health and focus on citizens well-being and fight poverty will in my opinion have a better effect.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts Brandon.
@Paul Martin
The mass murderer named Anders B. Breivik is serving his 21 year sentence in a high security prison here in Norway.
Although high security in Norway just means isolated from other inmates and no escape options.
All prisons in Norway are very nice.
Its like a nice hotelroom, and he has his computer, playstation, access to education, access to workout facilities and is fed well and healthy.
He has nothing to complain about honestly.
He has actually complained about not getting permission to buy the new playstation console generation. And made complaints about having the same officers guarding him. He got tired of the same faces.
Right now, he is using Norway's resources to complain and appealing in court and making the case longer and longer and appealing for a re-evaluation of his mental health and has also threatened to go to court about human rights voilations in the prison.
A real scumbag, driven to the extreme mass murder of 77 people, from a dangerous ideology that caused it all.
If we remove the firearms, the ideology doesn't go away. He would have found a different way to do the same crime, for his ideology.
@Paul Martin
And just like that, some asshole here in Norway just proves my point by going berserk with a bow and arrow, killing five random people on the street.
I don't think I can link it here, so just google "man kills five in Kongsberg, Norway with bow and arrow"
@Paul Martin Yeah. Arming the police in Norway with lethal weapons is not common. So when it happens, we know it's serious shit going down.
It’s less about being glad they’re using guns, but more about being glad they’re not sane enough to plan beyond just pointing and shooting
At first when you said unpopular opinion, I was thinking that I wasn’t going to agree with you, though I agree 100% with you. I am so glad that someone has the exact same opinion as me, and you explained it very well. Thank you for making this video
What Brandon said was an idea I had that never materialized into a thought (I never explained it to myself I guess) and this makes a lot of sense. I agree with this too.
Brandon - From a long time subscriber in the UK, this is by far the most interesting and relevant video I have seen from you and frankly the most thought provoking of any I have yet seen on the subject. Thank you for taking the chance to put this out there highlighting a rational perspective that isn't party biased but is human focussed. I would love to see further discussion of the subject examining how civil liberty can be maintained while limiting the potential for mass killings. A sweeping question I know and quite off-brand but of anyone in this space and in the public eye you could be one of few who could approach the topic rationally and do it justice.
Watched a ton of you’re videos. By far the best and most honest thing I have heard in a while
"I'm glad it's guns." It scares me to think what some imagination and effort can do with turning mundane items into bombs. A gas grill's full propane tank in any crowded setting would be horrible. Thanks Brandon for making this video.
To be fair it’s a lot easier to hide a gun in a crowded area then a propane tank
@@ejj9956 Yeah, you might have to do some crazy spy shit like put it in a box, wear a cheap uniform, and wheel it around on a dolly.
Look up the defcon talk "steal everything kill everyone cause total financial ruin" by Jayson E. Street CIO of Stratagem 1 Solutions
@@OspreyKnight that’s already more work then putting a gun in your belt loop and wearing a t shirt untucked 😂
@@ejj9956 Whats your objective. Go out there without a plan and get a couple pops off before everyone runs away and hides.
Or is your objective to get a high body count because you spent an extra hour at a thrift store the day before?
Spontaneous rampage shootings usually end with 1-3 people dead and the shooter taking their own life.
Planned attacks leaves dozens of people dead and sometimes the asshole gets away to do it multiple other times.
In Japan a man attacking an anime studio with a gallon of gasoline and a backpack of knives killed 33 people.
Yes, a gun is a ready made weapon that can be concealed. Reality is that it is not made for mass destruction. Even a machine gun isn't that effective at creating a big body count unless people are trapped in the line of fire. See the vegas shooting.
@@OspreyKnight the deadly combination is easy and accessibility mixed with opportunity…. The gun makes it way too easy for people to kill a lot in a short time span without any prep. You can definitely do something that causes more death but it also requires more time and effort. The majority of the mass killings are with guns because it’s something a person can do on the drop of a dime and romanticize it in their heads knowing they also have the tool to end their own lives on the spot as well. The fact is guns allow quicker killings with less work and that’s good enough for a lot of people. Bringing up Japan is actually a great example, they have a HIGH suicidal rate unfortunately but you don’t see anywhere near the amount of mass killings because they don’t have guns… if they had guns as easily as we do mixed with the amount of people wanting to end it all we would see a LOT more mass killings (thank god we don’t)
Colonel Cooper had some good comments on this subject. Well said Brandon.
“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”
- Jeff Cooper, Art of the Rifle
“Weapons compound man's power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having no will of their own. Thus we must regard them as servants, not masters - and good servants to good men. Without them, man is diminished, and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.”
- Jeff Cooper
RIP Col. Cooper. I had the good fortune to meet the man once. He talked the way he wrote. I wish he was still around...
sounds like a great guy
Agreed freind.
I wish there were a way to save youtube comments...
U.S. Marine and a huge advocate of the 10mm caliber!
Thanks for approaching this from a place of soft spoken seriousness, honesty and humility. It's a serious subject that calls for serious thought. Not for snap decisions. If more people would offer their thoughts and opinions this way we would have solved a vast number of the worlds problems.
Four years later and this video got in my FYP
In the past 48 hours, the US horrifically lost 34 people to maas shootings
On average across any 48 hours, we also loose
500 to medical errors
300 to flu
250 to suicide
200 to car accidents
40 to homicide via hundgun
Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data
Im sory if I misspelled something im 14 and From South Africa 🇿🇦
You at least gotta give credit to the original author of this statement, Niels Degrasse Tyson
FastAFBoi Sorry 😐
Ur good bro. Move here some day!🇺🇸
Ironically, vox made a whole video about how people make decisions based on emotion as opposed to data. Then they posted like 8 videos trying to promote gun bans.
::Facepalm::
You missed that mark, with the exception of the homicide stat. The other statistics are irrelevant to any form of debate on this topic and water down the severity of these shootings.
In Iraq I witnessed the aftermath of hundreds dead by bombers at markets. You are 100% right.
Thats fucked up man that must of been scary im 15 and can imagine shit
@@carlwaters4518 i forget the documentary title but there was one done as they went into the camps at the ending of wwii. A market bombing would be no doubt something one could not forget. It would mess with a man's mind seeing that. That documentary though paints a picture of what cruelty we are cable of with the right motivation. Look it up and check it out. I'm sure a google search will find it. Just know the current day bombers and the nazis back the have one thing in common. They were doing what they thought was right.
@@blueovalfan23 thanks ill look it up
blueovalfan23 I’m going to disagree on a key point. That is motive. The Nazis did great evil while convinced they were doing right. Many of these mass murderers today are in it for notoriety because of just how evil they know their deeds are. If you look at their journals and such you’ll see statements along the lines of “now, I’ll make them all notice me” or “I’m going to hurt them as I’ve been hurt.” That’s the typical manifesto of the lone gunman societal reject type. Conversely, there are also political and religious motivated terrorists. These groups do share that common ground with the Nazis in believing their purpose is just. These are 2 very distinct types of groups who will respond to opposition very different. The terrorist will not stop until they are killed for their cause. The societal reject will usually stop shooting and commit suicide at the first sign of opposition. The societal reject will commit suicide by police. The terrorist will often use tactics to kill as many police officers as possible or may even allow themselves to be captured in the case of the political terrorist in order to write books and attempt to spread their political manifest as far as possible. These are very different types of murderers, and as a sheepdog, it is important to recognize the difference and know which tactics to use to stop each. Jihadist terrorists as we see in Iraq and Afghanistan will often use complex attacks where they may combine IEDs and small arms fire. One will initiate the attack in an attempt to drive or trap people inside a kill zone. The political or religious terrorist is often much more trained, organized, and tactically efficient than the lone gunman. Motive makes a difference in the overall psychology and influences their entire decision making process.
curiosityuniversal what conflict are you talking about? I surely hope not Iraq. If so you should seriously research your claims. The US Military does not, and has not for years, conducted carpet bombing.
This video has aged incredibly well. Great job!
they have been so many more mass shootings it has not
This just showed up on my recommended feed. I remember watching this when it came out,, crazy the algorithm knows it's still relevant.
i don't fear someone with a gun. i fear that one of these broken people will know a bit of chemestry and have some kitchen cleaner.
You can make explosives by the use of fecal matter/ urine.
Mandatory low proteine diet would be the only counter to that XD
but you need chemistry training to be able to do that and its not easy. i do chemistry as a hobby and its really hard to do right and get enough to actually have an effective explosive. where as a gun all you need is a bit of paperwork and a trip to bass pro shop
@@communisttrash8590 explosives are 1 thing you can do with house hold items.
I have to go to many safety briefs when I worked in stores on what could not be on the same skid and what would go wrong If they leaked.
No I will not explain more as I don't want someone to get ideas.
@@communisttrash8590 well only in the US
@@communisttrash8590 I believe what he was referring to was posion gas
You forgot the guy who killed 33 people and injured dozens more setting an animation studio on fire in Japan. He had a grudge against anime, took gasoline to the studio and killed 33 people. That's worse than the vast majority of our "mass shootings" with something everyone has access to on every street corner.
People love to blame the scapegoat, whether it be guns, video games, movies/TV, etc, but until people start looking at the actual causes, take a look at what has happened to society over the last 30 years or so to make these things more common, and actually pay attention to people who are obviously sick nothing will change.
A sade day for all the weebs all over the world, Kyoani made some great shows.
Filthy frank anime hunter
35. Two people died in the hospital. These arson attacks are very typical in China as well and several times the body counts exceeds most mass shootings. Even with a state run media that tries its hardest not to publicize the murderers (no pictures, last name only, motives are obscured as "revenge against society").
old.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/7zf64g/im_seeing_this_over_and_over_nobody_is/dupref9/
So your evidence is a one off event in Japan, which also happens to have one of the lowest murder rates in the world?
@@themadtitan4926 Evidence of what? He was simply giving an example of a recent mass murder that was committed with something that literally anyone can buy anywhere in the world 24/7.
I came here for the lolz and left with the knowledge... typically id be pissed, but today i am leaving fulfilled. An actualy dive into a real conversation about a legitimate problem.
Respect +++
Never thought about this side of things. Thank you, valid points.
I thought you were going to start shilling for gun control, you had me scared for a second.
Gonzo Price lol so did I
I avoided watching this video twice because of this exact concern.
@@wanderingcalamity360 don't ever hide from the truth
@@Noadvantage246
Indeed.
Explosives, medium duty and up trucks, and the scariest, bio/chem weapons, people should look at other mass killing events around the world for context
Bio/chem are the least of my worries... Specifically chem are not effective as shown in Japan with the sarin
@KGB you have to take a trip to Kazachstan, which is not easy for a high-school student, is it
@Otium Borealis In an enclosed area where the victims cannot escape, chemical weapons could potentially have very lethal effects. And even if they don't kill that many people, the disruption, panic fear, and massive number of injuries that a chemical attack could cause may make them appealing to terrorists. Thankfully, most people who decide to commit acts of terrorism and mass murder are not particularly intelligent or creative.
Those with the knowhow to manufacture and deploy chemical weapons generally have no interest in using them for terroristic purposes. Those with an inclination toward mass murder of innocent people generally lack the know-how to develop more creative means to do so.
As dingoman said, chemical weapons aren't as efficient or effective as other methods
@Cody Sonnet, you are absolutely correct, bolsheviks (primarily jews, including Stalin) genocided millions upon millions.
Thank you for helping explore this aspect of the issue.
i know this is 2 years late but one thing i want to add is its like trying to stop an addict because if you have a severe alcoholic once you take the booze away they're just gonna drink the mouthwash or to make it more relatable to the situation they're just gonna brew there own
"We did it guys! It took killing more than a third of the country and completely rewriting our constitution, but we finally managed to ban guns forever! No more senseless death!"
Dodge Ram: "Am I joke to you?"
Easy-to-acquire bomb ingredients: *"Am I a joke to you?*
BLACK MARKET: "Am I a joke to you?"
Grand fathered in guns: Am I a joke to you.
Human evil: you dare oppose me mortal?
Bleach and vinegar from a supermarket. Mass killing in Aisle 6!
Gasoline, glass bottle, rag, and lighter:
Hold my beer and watch this.
I don't just like you now Brandon. I respect you more as a man for this video. Tough subject and that took guts. God Bless.
This video is still relevant to this day.
Love your content AK guy :)
I think you approached the topic and this video in a good way. Level headed, stating facts and statistics. And in my opinion it's probably something a lot of folks needed to hear, It makes sense.
holy shit this was a little bit darker than i expected but yeah your right
it's so funny how Brandon and I can come from totally different political backgrounds but pretty much agree almost identically on gun laws. I think it has alot to do with being logically driven and brave enough to say something that challenges everyone around them and support it through the yelling and screaming from either extreme that you can't be a medium.
Logic has a lot to do with it, those not exposed to guns and taught about gun safety will fear what they do not know.
I’m one of those people who is on both sides. I completely agree
I slightly disagree with him however it mostly pertains to the ddl (destructive device license)
I think if people really started paying attention they'd see that the gun control debate isn't, at its core, left vs right. Maybe my experience is skewed because I live in Texas and know a lot of full on socialists (if you get your news from primarily hyper conservative media imma ask you to look the word "socialist" up because it does NOT mean what they keep saying it means) that own guns and go to the range more weekends than not. Like every other important and hard to solve issue politicians have chosen a the side they think their constituency want them to and then engage in brainless banner waving for their side for the sake of votes and donations. Its all a fucking play to them.
And if anyone reading this is defaulting to "the fuckin libs just want you dependant on the government!" You have swallowed their bullshit and the plate they served it to you on.
And if anyone reading this is defaulting to "republicans are just mouthbreathing psychopaths who don't care about innocent lives as long as they have their ARs with 100 round mags" that goes for you too, mother fucker.
We're all being manipulated by the ultra-rich for a fucking popularity contest so they can keep pulling in donors and getting richer while they have us all at eachother's throats over shit they never cared about to start with, and these stupid assholes on every side are falling for it over and over and over again.
Bravery, logic and numbers are not enough.
If you know that people will be triggered but care more about "being correct" (which kinda goes for Brandon's "thank God it's guns" as well) than convincing as many people as possible and, better yet, getting your solution to a problem across you might want to reconsider your priorities.
My extreme position is "Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary."
(Marx said it 170 years ago, before automatic weapons but also mentions cannons in the same paragraph.)
I'm surprised there aren't more dislikes on this video. This definitely needs to be a broader conversation for sure. Thank you for putting this out there!
Thank you for a different (and correct) perspective...