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Nobody has a problem with the object "gun/s". People have a problem with easy access to guns.
And I can agree they are to easy to get that I back
Also lots like the UK ban small hand guns as they can be Hiden far to easily and be used in dishonest ways
@@MichalNemet I'm from the Eastern block too. Oh, obscenely rich ppl are beyond bastards, they're money hoarding leeches
@@MichalNemet I'm not an American, but that's an incredibly naive point of view. Bad people do not procure guns the same way a normal person does. Gun control will do nothing to those who buy guns illegally, it will only curtail the ability of the populace to defend itself. The problems of violence and instability stem from a multicultural/multiracial society and all the problems associated with it.
@@MichalNemet Well how many death by guns do you have in the so free USA? How many in Europe??? start thinking Reseach and answer
If I HAD to live in the US, I'd consider it a punishment.
Yet, most Americans actually believe everyone wants to live there.
First time I went to the USA was an accident (my aeroplane to Australia from France malfunctioned and I had to be re-routed through LA), majorly confusing having to pick up luggage and the 5 of us being re-routed this way were under armed guard as we had no visa. The armed guard was a bit grumpy but not too bad. The two toddlers in the group were especially scary I think. The second time to the US I was coaxed to visit family in Seattle. I especially do not like their airport staff at LA they are rude, shouty and nasty. Lots of homeless in Seattle. We have homeless in Australia but no where near the amount as there. Otherwise Seattle was better than what I thought it would be but I have no desire to visit again. However, I really want to go back to Vancouver in Canada, a short drive from Seattle. I had a great time there many years ago.
@@playlisttarmac I'm surprised they didn't send a whole SWAT team considering you were armed with toddlers!
It is actually really sad that you can't even comprehend how sad and weird it is to be baffled that cops anywhere might not have to be armed like Rambo 24/7.
Sir
I am german and to make a long story short: I am age 62 and i needed an operation on my left arm. So after staying in hospital for 7days, including operation x rays medication etc, I met an american friend who wanted to donate 200 us dollars( WHAT a great move), since he thought i am absolutely broke because of medical bills. Now when i showed him my total bill of 70Euros( total, everything was paid by german universal healthcare) he had to read it 3 times to believe me, and only after some other friends told him that this is true, he started believing me.
Well i am living now for 62 years in germany, there was NEVER a situation for guns, and i lived in big cities. I have never been threatened or robbed. If it is true that guns make a country safer, USA is the savest country on this planet,right????
And Sir i am just saying my opinion, there is NO way i am going to judge or offend USA, at all
Nicely written, greetings from Munich
100% correct! same here in italy!
Ready to have your mind blown?
One of my friends is in the police and a few years ago he was asked to join the armed response squad. He told me that if he ever discharged his weapon in the line of duty he would be expected to surrender his weapon and would be suspended on full pay pending an investigation that determined that he lawfully discharged his weapon and took the shot.
Not only do UK police have to be trained in firearms but they have to have psychological tests regularly and if they do fire their weapon it better be justified
Same here in Germany: Every single bullet fired by a police officer draws an official investigation whether the use of gunfire was appropriate or not. Their ammunition is counted and logged. A cop's gun stays in the police station after end of his shift.
Yes, it's not only that, if they kill someone that will cause the cycle of anniversary riots similar to what happened in Greece.
Also in the event of a weapon being discharged, fatally or not, the officer/officers are given extensive counseling.
Same applies for the Netherlands.. If a cop would shoot.. there will be an investigation about it.. and actually.. that shooting will be in the national news
Same in Sweden and Finland, and cops tend to be anti-gun here, the cops say it helps keep them safe since if the cops do not carry guns the criminals do not feel the need to either, so there is almost no worry that anyone will get dead in conflicts between cops and criminals.
to answer your scenario of "what happens if you come across a criminal with a gun" well.... this scenario is so incredibly uncommon over here that its just not a point of concern or consideration. on the rare occasion that you might need that then we do have a Specialist armed response unit called SO19, they don't see a lot of deployment to be fair but they exist all the same. I do find it interesting that USians seem to really struggle to understand this concept of simply not needing firearms, like yall will continuously come up with hypothetical scenarios and then ask "well how do you deal with this without guns" and the rest of the world is like.... "we don't deal with that, guns just aren't a factor in the equation for us so that hypothetical scenario isn't something we come across"
"What if the cop doesnt have a gun to defend himself".
Guns are not for defense. they're for offence..
That's not true when someone brakes into ur house and you shoot them That's defense. If someone's gonna kill you and you shoot them thats definitely right
@@DudeSaysThings Surely wearing some kind of armor/Kevlar would be defense. Shooting is an attack. its the difference between a block, and a counter attack.
@@DudeSaysThings Mind you, its kind of splitting hairs (on my side), "A stong defence is a good offence" must be achknowledged, so I guess a gun 'could' be seen as a defense. Take medieval shields for example, sure, thats defence, but they are also weapons in their own right.
@@DudeSaysThings Health & Safety Laws dictate that even if someone is up to no good (trespassing with intent to steal for instance) they must be able to do so in a safely maintained environment. To shoot anyone in any circumstance would be regarded as overkill. Claiming self defence under such circumstances probably would not fly. Keeping a loaded gun so handy that it could be used it at moments notice is inexcusable (UK). Cheers from the North of England.
@@MazzaEliLi7406 Also North of England here. Would it be weird to suggest that those who are in the act of intentionally breaking the law, should not be given the protection of the law?
In Germany, and for most of Europe, and I dare say, the rest of the world, you actually can get sued, if you KNOW CPR, and do NOT administer help. Obviously, if somebody better qualified is already doing it, you don't have to push them out of the way to get your turn at helping (duh, obviously). But if you can administer help without putting yourself in any kind of appreciable danger, and neglect to do so, THEN you can get sued. In German it is called "unterlassene Hilfeleistung" / "neglected administration of aid". Even if the outcome is worse than the original situation, you won't be sued.
Again, obviously, if you start applying chest compressions to a perfectly healthy person, who rigorously tries to get you to stop, THEN you might get sued for assault. But then you obviously didn't know when to apply CPR correctly. The laws may be complicated in Germany, but the final intentions are most often based on a pretty clear cut principle of common sense.
That someone would sue their savior because they couldn't afford the hospital bill AFTER being saved from death is another slap to the face of the US healthcare system.
Nearly ALL the civilized world has one or another approach to a universal healthcare system where healthcare is not only very good but affordable for virtually everyone. In many cases it is (virtually) free for anyone.
Only the US has found a way to wrangle the last drop of money out of a patient for saving their lives. That is coercion, not healthcare.
Or in Mafia terms: "I'll make you an offer you can't deny."
THAT is the reality of the US health business. Because it is not care; it is a BUSINESS, geared toward making profit from people who can't afford to say no."
In my country, it is a felony to not help a person in danger (any kind of it) only if you are either 1. Obligated by law to provide a help to that particular person. If you're medic, cop, firefighter, lifeguard, etc., you fall under this category. If you're parent, nanny, teacher, you also fall under this category, if the person you're working on is in danger. 2. You are the one who caused the danger. Driver who hit a pedestrian falls under this category, for example. In all other cases it is not a felony to just pass by.
It’s called the Samaritan Law, part of the laws devised by the Geneva Convention, in which the US also follows… “funny” how the US healthcare is so “fucked” that patients who can’t afford the hospital bill need to sue the EMTs (like for a cracked rib caused by administering CPR) thinking they can get some money out of the situation, but they never win in court.
It is specificly if people are severely injured or die because of your inaction.
If someone better qualified is allready attending your inaction does not make the situation worse, so you are fine.
But if you see someone drowning and the person trying to pull them out or whatever can not manage alone and your refusal to help leads to the victim dying anyway, you can go to jail. For a surprising long time as well.
An amazing case in the US where two police officers watched a man drown and refused to help. The family sued them and lost since the police DO NOT have a responsibility to save someone's life.
All I carried as a police constable was a wooden truncheon, a pair of handcuffs, a radio and my wits. I had one minor gun incident in 2 years, 1978/80.
To live in fear every second, is no freedom for me. Greetings from Germany
It's true that most cops in the UK (and Ireland, and New Zealand, and Norway, and Iceland, and Botswana, and three quarters of countries in the South Pacific) do not routinely carry guns. The main reason for this is lack of threat. In most places you need a license to own a gun, and you need to prove you can be trusted to own, store, and transport a firearm without endangering anyone else. (In NZ, where I grew up, as part of the process of applying for a firearms license, police interview your coworkers, friends, family and exes to see if anybody has a problem with you owning a gun. If they do, your application will be on hold while police investigate.) I currently live in a city of 2 million in the UK that has a history of gang related gun violence. My fear of getting shot is essentially zero. I do worry some about getting mugged, and I do exercise caution in certain places, but guns in the hands of the random criminals I might encounter is so unikely it's not worth thinking about. I would be very hesitant to travel to the US, just because of all the stories of gun violence (including by cops.) I realise that the media probably makes it seem worse than it is, but multiple gun massacres every year are NOT normal anywhere else.
I've been attacked with weapons 2 times in my life neither been with guns. Ur right the media does make things worse but I also can't deny that to many bad people have them. I like how you guys do it in NZ that's a really smart idea
Every cops in the north of Ireland, especially here in Belfast carries a gun . machine guns and side arms and ride in bullet proof cars and small bomb proof land rovers... ✌🇮🇪
@@brendanmaguire4134 Very true (my Dad actually served in the Army in NI during the height of the Troubles) but even so when I said "most cops in the UK" that was correct.
@@michaelnolan6951 I actually laughed at your "...multiple gun massacres every year..."
Look it up...the US has on average over 365 mass shootings per year.
Yes...more than one per day. And that's just mass shootings.
@@samfetter2968 It's worse than that. In 2021 there were 693.... not far from being two a day. So far there have been nearly 200 this year alone and it's not even the end of May.
In Austria everybody who is able to help MUST help. If you can't breathe and I watch you suffocate or leave without doing the best that I can to help, then I can get in troubles.
That sounds like such a great law. I suppose it reduces things like kidnapping and domestic violence/abuse too does it?
@@Tiger89Lilly Kidnapping is not a very big thing here, so I can't tell.
But with domestic violence I'm afraid I have to say no... It doesn't help.
You can't be sued if you "haven't heard" the screaming from the next appointment. 😔
It's more a first aid thing.
For example... If you want to get a drivers licence you must do a first aid training. So if you witness a car accident, you should be able to help.
Sure, there are a lot of idiots, who just stopp to stare, but for this you can be fined.
@@andi4022 I was just trying to think of something that might require assistance. That's so interesting I love learning about other countries
In most of Europe you are required by law the help a person in danger and you'll be prosecuted if someone dies because you refused to help.
Same in Finland.
It’s true. U.K. every day cops don’t carry guns, even though they are some that are firearms trained.
Our armed cops are only used if the criminal has a weapon.
Most of our cops just have a collapsible baton, pepper spray and some carry tasers.
American student speaking here. I'm currently in high school and you can actually see a lot of these things everyday in our highschools. (At least mine) My friends and I are so terrified of missing school for anything. The classes move so fast and if you miss just one day, it could take you about 3-4 days to catch up. I've seen fellow classmates literally choosing school over their health just to make sure they get good grades. Only if they have something contagious or super serious do they not show up. I've had friends, and myself included, force ourselves to go to school even if we have a rapidly declining mental health or have a cold. The schools give out certificates to students with perfect attendance at the end of every school year and almost every kid that had received one had at least gone to school twice sick or feeling massively depressed. They are rewarded for ignoring their health just to come and learn. It's so sad. And It is true that we are taught to run in a zig-zag pattern and other ways to survive a literal attack when we are young children. At least this is my experience. I'm not going to talk for the entire country. This was very shocking to me, watching this video and finding out how people in other countries are able to afford and take care of their health. I hope you all have a great day!
From which country in America?
@@elpacho....9254 The USA. Sorry. Should've mentioned that.
@@Lei1600. it’s the U.S OF A jelly. Everybody forgets the preposition OF.
You seem like a good person jelly. The powers that be have been trying to change the name of the country for a few decades via the public school system, the main stream media,and Hollywood. They have people referring to the United States as America without people even realizing what just happened.people point out that the difference between the country is America, and the continent is North America, but really the whole continent was named after Italian cartographer Amerigo Vespucci in 1507, not north or South America. I wish you a good life jelly.
The detail in the "guy gets sued for life saving" story was important - The saved woman could not afford her hospital bills.
There was also a similar story going around shortly ago of a woman having to sue her nephew to make the insurance pay for her bills of an accident.
These are last resorts. The women weren't the AHs here, it were the insuance companies and medical corporations (there's no way to call them 'hospitals')
The next bit even was connected to this.
Yeah, five years ago I would have probably thought its because It's the US, everyone sues all the time. After watching a couple of videos on US Healthcare, my first thought was she couldn't afford the hospital bill.
It's tragic.
Yea I think I read somewhere that they aren't actually sueing the person? That the persons medical insurance pays it or something crazy it basically like they only do it under legal pressure or some crazy shit
I saw an interview with the woman and the little nephew. The insurance company wouldn't pay for her medical bills unless there was someone else to blame. She had to sue the little nephew and win for her bills to be covered. She didn't want to but had to, to get the bills paid.
I've lived in the UK, australia, New Zealand, and here in the United States. In the UK and the countries I mentioned above, when a police officer or officers get a call out, there's usually a description what the call is about. If a gun is mentioned. They send out a special armed team, not just regular officers. The special team is highly trained with weapons. But is also highly trained with de-escalation of the situation. If a call is unclear and an office that comes upon a scene and realizes there is a gun involved. They step back and call for the special weapons team.
You don't go to the doctors telling them what you want. You get what you need, as apposed to what cost the most.
As to freedom. There are lists of countries ranked by freedom. USA is currently around 15th in the world. not in the top 10.
UK is currently 14th. Mind, this can change as the lists are constantly updated.
Yes the USA tied with Japan and Germany for 15th place. Canada ranked 7th for example. It does change but the USA hasn’t been number one in a long time, if it ever was since they started ranking. (I haven’t looked at every year)
The USA being “The land of the free” is largely propaganda.
@@webzentertainment Was it ever in the top ten? I’ve seen 16th, 19th, 23rd, 17th etc I haven’t been able to find all the years. I found another list that under democracy it list the USA as a flawed democracy last year. By contrast Canada was listed as stable democracy in that category. Interestingly, the UK was also listed as a flawed democracy.
I found this quote from 2016 "Human freedom is a social concept that recognizes the dignity of the individual. The declining performance of the United States, once considered the bastion of liberty, is worrisome," Ian Vasquez, director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and co-author of the study, said in a press release. "We should all be concerned with the impact on liberty of the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the decline in the rule of law and economic liberty in the United States."
When did they break top 30? They have been 36th in freedom for a decade.
If you're scared that cops don't need to carry guns,
You're really effed up.
And I mean that in the most respectful way,
Cops bring the tools they need,
If there's any danger they call for backup and stall for time.
Here most cops are extremely pacient.
I saw a drunk tourists spit in a cop's face,
The cop just wiped it off and calmly said:
"Are you done yet? Cuz you just provided legal grounds to arrest you,
So if you do that again I send 1 SMS
And you'll be blacklisted in all bars in the entire country."
Are you aware that to be a police officer in the UK, you have to have certain educational qualifications? In some cases degrees from University.
@@iriscollins7583 Well yeah,
I'm not from the USA,
So obviously I'm used to cops having high education requirements
If required we can have an armed response unit on the scene fairly quickly, depending on proximity to a major city / the mainland etc. Some cops carry a Taser in bigger cities, all cops carry a retractable baton and pepper spray. Armed cops are a permanent fixture in some airports.
Here in one of the new cities there is an armed unit that doubles up as traffic unit. The boy racers do get a bit twitchy when they notice that the police who have pulled them over have a sidearm.
Here cops at airports only carry weapons when there's been a terrorist attack somewhere in Europe.
Not because it's necessary, but because it helps keep the xenophobic crazies at bay.
Just imagine if you were a cop in America, those ppl own massive amounts of guns, I'd be scarred to even breathe there, let alone be a cop , or being on the other side of the gun. I'ts the weapon that you can get and use, whatever, ppl are monsters, and they should be forbidden to use firearms
8:40 I love in the capitol of Germany, Berlin. Crime definitely is a problem here in some smaller areas (and btw, berlin is the biggest city in germany, 4m people, with the most problematic areas in germany), but i never once saw a single person having a gun, or knew a people having a problem with anyone involving a gun, and i'm mid 30s. If you can't let your kid go outside by himself, because something would happen, its DEFINITELY a huge problem. Guns are totally legal in germany, BUT you have to go through a lot of paperwork before doing so, even have a psychiatric evaluation if you're younger than 25. There are regulations on how to store your gun, how to store and keep away your ammunition. They're not illegal. They're just regulated, as it should be.
There is racism everywhere but other countries don’t prefix with ‘African’ ‘Mexican’ etc, we don’t get why you need to create a distinction between black and white people in terms of nationality, ....British are British, French are French, German are German etc
I find that so weird, specially being from Latin America, they really think everyone is brown (and Mexican) a lot don't even know there's black and white Latin Americans too 😂
I feel safe walking the streets of England.
Me too. I live in Nottingham which a few years back had problems with gang violence to the point that the media dubbed us Shottingham, but I have never felt scared walking the streets, even at night.
The only times I have seen police in England carrying guns are when there was a heightened terrorist threat and I would see them in some busier areas in the city and at train stations. There are usually armed police in Airports as well. But apart from that, I never see them just walking around for no reason with guns. The reason guns are so tightly regulated is because of the Dunblane massacre where 16 kids and their teacher were killed in Scotland. This caused all private handgun ownership to be banned. The threat of guns is so low now that we don't need to worry about police not having them. Gun violence in the United States seems unbelievably high to me. Depending on how you classify mass-shootings, supposedly there have been 198 of them this year alone which is about 11 per week.
Oh and "fun fact":
It is WAAAAAY cheaper for german healthcare to fly you out of the US with a special plane to Germany instead of letting you stay in a US Hospital.
Let that sink in!
It's funny how that lady didn't have the money to pay her hospital bills but has money to pay a lawyer
Lawyers leach off the profits, it is often an 'no win-no pay" system, but if she would win say 100.000 the lawyer would get 30%
Yeah lawyers work pro bono and only take money if they win the case, The American's call these parasites Ambulance Chasers.
It's not about banning guns. It's just American gun regulations are joke.
Other counties don't have these problems cause it's highly regulated. ( background check and ect.)
alot of people thinking banning guns is smart those are the people i was talking to i agree they are way to easy to get
@@DudeSaysThings Reasonable people can have a gun everywhere in Europe. It is highly regulated, but not "banned". "Banning guns in America" is gaslighting you into thinking that no one could have one. That's not even here in Europe the case. And we have almost no mass shootings at all, whereas you have more than one a day! So, we seem to do something right, don't we?
@@DudeSaysThings my father is hunter. In my country according to the law he must renew his license for owning an firearm every few years. He is going every time through mental examination and police background check and he must prove that he is able to use the weapon. The issue with US gun ownership is the fact that everyone can buy it but not everyone is able to use it.
also, the argument that "the criminal can always get their hands on a gun on the black market" is ridiculous. Image guns are highly regulated, and not as easily accessible, the black market prices skyrocket and guns cost thousands... so a lowly criminal can't afford a gun to rob some purses...
@@gonium1337 you don't need a gun to rob somebody if your victim is unarmed, lol.
Here’s another example. I’m from Ireland and when my parents were travelling the world in 1991 (this was three years before I was born) my dad had to make a few phone calls back to Ireland. There were obviously no cellphones back then so he had to use public phones. When they were in Chile he didn’t have to pay for the phone call until after he was done calling the person, but when they were in the US he had to continuously keep feeding coins into the machine to keep phone call going. 🤦🏻♂️
That is probably one example of how the US is somewhat degenerate. 🙄 Don’t mean to offend your country I just think it’s important to be honest.
You Americans seem to be the only ones who pledge an elegance to their flag. Never done it in the U.K.
1939 - 1945 German children were expected to do something similar.
UKIP, ERG etc (Nazis UK) may salute a flag.
I don't have proof, bu i'm sure in Russia, China and North Korea, something similar happens each morning
And before 1942 they never put their hands over their hearts -- they used a Nazi salute instead
@@michieldame701 no, in Russia and Belarus it's not (but something similar was in USSR). BUT they are close to bringing it back to forcefully make people to be patriots. And this is mental and normal people think this is madness. Here it's not symbol of patriotism but of autocracy and repressions.
I can only speak for where I live in Wales, but people do have guns, it's just that you need to provide a reason as to why you need one, have an interview at your local police station (I think?), and a few other things. Home defence isn't considered a valid reason, but if you're a landowner lets say and you need a shotgun to protect your chickens from foxes? Sure, that would be fine. Most gun owners around here are farmers, and they mostly have shotguns. Besides that almost no one has a gun. The only time you see them in public is if armed police are walking around, which is super rare and only seen in cities unless something awful has happened in the area. I agree with you on guns, as someone who grew up around them in a rural area. People don't need to be scared of them, we just need to make sure only responsible people get them and make sure people don't treat them like toys.
In Sweden, when you go to any health clinic for whatever reason, let's say you visit a GP for a bad cough, you only pay ~20 bucks for your appointment. The cap is at $20. If you, on the same day need to visit a podiatrist about pain in your ankle as well as a psychiatrist, because your bad cough and your troubling ankle is making you feel down, you will not have to pay anything more than that first $20. It is rough around here though - It used to be only ~10 dollars up until a few years ago. ;)
1:25 Do you know which country did a similar thing to that pledge of allegiance thing? Germany. Between 1933 and 1945.
7:20 Ok There's something you have to understand: The wild west behaviour of the US police is unnecessary if people don't have guns.
Let's have a look at some data: The US police killed 1055 people in 2021. The german police (our police officers do carry guns btw) killed 7 people. The entirety of the German police force fired less than 100 gun shots in 2018. By comparison: In the USA there are oftentimes more shots fired by the police in one engagement and shootout with criminals than the entirety of the German police fires in an entire year.
Having so many guns everywhere makes everything dangerous, it protects the people from nothing. This also affects the immense rate of police killings - the US police is so afraid that people they encounter might carry firearms that they follow a "shoot first ask later" policy.
10:35 That's called "indoctrination" and is a very common tool used in absolutistic, autocratic and fascist societies. Should make US americans think about their country and how thinks are represented.
People in other countries do own guns. There's a lot of gun owners here in Germany. However it is heavily regulated who is allowed to own a gun. And, even more important, next to no one is allowed to carry a gun around.
To own a gun you need a Waffenbesitzkarte - if you have one of these you are allowed to buy and own a gun. It also regulates which type of gun you are allowed to own - people who are allowed to own a specific type of gun because they compete in shooting sports are not allowed to own a hunting rifle for example.
To be allowed to actually carry a gun you need a Waffenschein which is extremely rarely issued to private persons - it's basically limited to professional purposes. It is important to know that a Waffenschein does NOT allow you to buy and own a gun. This means it can be necessary to have both a Waffenbesitzkarte and a Waffenschein. A special case is the so-called Jagdschein, which is the required license for professional hunters.
27:25 Like yes. When Australia banned in 1996 the vast majority of Australians turned in their weapons to the authorities. And guess what - since 1996 there hasn't been a single mass shooting in Australia. The state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) here in Germany declared an amnesty for all owners of illegal weapons from 2017 to 2018 if they turned in their weapons - and roughly 9600 people did just that.
27:45 Sorry but that's nonsense as is prooven around the world. Criminals will always be able to organize guns for themselves by buying them from smugglers on the black market - that's no different here. However the argument that having a gun at home offers any form of protection is wrong. The amount of burglaries per capita is so much higher in the USA.
Here in Germany there's 44.2 burglaries per 100,000 population. In the USA it's between 257.2 in New York (lowest) to 887.3 in New Mexico (highest). But not only do the large amount of weapons not protect people against bruglars, it actually leads to a vastly higher amount of homicides as well because people get shot during burglaries - and its oftentimes not the burglars who get shot, it's the home owners, and sometimes with their own weapons.
So I can disprove that with pure experience guns 100% offer protection before I was born someone broke into my Dad's house he was in his bedroom he lived alone and heard a window brake and his dog going at his door he fired bullets ended up hitting the guy and called the cops for them to pick the guy up who was armed. My dad and his dog could have died that night so to day that guns offer no protection is crazy.
As far as criminals being able to buy them off the dark web that's true and exactly why taking guns form good people is a horrible idea do better screening on who should have a gun 100% make it more difficult yes but taking people guns is gonna get ppl hurt fact and gonna give criminals who have untraceable guns a field day
@@DudeSaysThings Disagreed.
You only have to look at the data. The USA is one of the least safe countries, and that includes many developing countries.
All in all only countries in open warfare and some other american countries are worse in terms of murders per capita and crime rates per capita than the USA. And all of that is a direct consequence of the lack of gun regulation.
You also might reconsider your black and white "good" people vs "the criminals". Many people commit crimes not because they're bad people but because they don't have another choice. This is particularly true in the USA, a country where the ultra rich do everything they can to push the vast majority into even more extreme poverty.
If you're looking for criminals - you'll find lots of them in the ranks of the ultra rich, including former president Trump.
@@DudeSaysThings Sorry, but that is purely anecdotal evidence. Only one example, yes, from your parents. Not a study revolving around an average or reliable data. Guess what? Other people here in Europe have fought off burglars with a long chefs knife, because they knew that only extremely rough home-invaders would DARE to bring a gun to a non-violent crime.
Also a question: why did your dad fire the gun? Was he directly under threat? From what you said, no. Yeah, the guy may have been armed, but he had not yet directly threatened your dad with violence, not even a gun. It took the cops to find out the guy was actually armed. You did not even say if the guy had been armed with a gun; it could have been a knife.
So it was not your dad seeing that the burglar was armed, it was the cops. Your dad simply fired a gun at someone who was not threatening him. So your dad's response was escalating a situation from POSSIBLY threatening to DEFINITELY DEADLY THREATENING, for ALL involved.
Because drawing a gun on someone ALWAYS raises the stakes. Your dad's gun instructor should have told him, never to draw a gun unless you have no other choice. And once you draw a gun, better be prepared to use it, because you have left the other side no choice but to use any weapon at their disposal to take you down, as well.
You have been so indoctrinated to see guns as the solution to a problem that not yet exists that you first instinct is to actually USE and FIRE the gun before seeking any other solution. To the rest of the sane world THAT is a sick, immature child's mindset. You have just demonstrated again the typical American arrogant ignorance of not even possibly THINKING about a reason why shooting a gun in such a situation would be hellishly dangerous, no, you simply claimed that the "notion of guns offering no protection is crazy".
You simply wiped away any further reasonable argumentation by declaring that statement as crazy.
Well, I just demonstrated to you, probably with a high amount of success, how that arrogant ignorance of another person's argument comes across, by saying that you have been indoctrinated, and are arrogant and ignorant. It is as invalid, because you know as little about the other's situation than I did about yours. You (as did I in this case) jumped to a conclusion based simply on indoctrinated emotions, not on facts.
What you have said in your comment is the perfect repetition of the NRA propaganda that has been shoved down your throat since the early 1930's. That was the turning point when the second of two major cases and previous rulings of the SCOTUS on the 2nd Ammendment was overturned.
Allowing anyone not only to own, but to use guns in any case of seemingly apparent danger, as per the defending person's perception. No matter how unrelated that fear of imminent danger was to reality. Which results in the rash of homicides that plagues the USA since then. In comparison to the next three countries on the list, the USA has more homicides per year per 100 000 inhabitants than the next three countries put together.
THAT is the direct result of the unregulated access to guns, as well as to the mindset of "use it or loose it" that has been preached to the public, as well as shown in virtually ALL TV shows and movies over the decades.
You have to wake up to clear, obvious facts, not listen to propaganda.
You demonstrated people in different countries in different situations acting a different way I'm talking about in America.
How do people in Europe affect what a American should do fact is for us criminals already have and use guns it would put good people at a huge disadvantage to not have the right to own guns here.
As far as my dad I can't speak to much for him other then saying if it was me I'd probably do something very similar because when you come into my home I'm going to assume the worst and ur life isn't important to me the life of me my family is if the intruder died its on them for being where they don't belong. Admittedly I'd warn them to clear out before shooting (my dad may have unsure) because I don't want to kill anyone but if it comes down to it I'm going to make sure the people and animals I care about live.
As far as the stats you brought up I'd be happy to look at a source if they are based in America and not based in a country where criminals aren't already using guns. If they are based off somewhere else it's irrelevant because here criminals use guns.
It is sad that you have to think like you do here but fact Is here If someone invades ur home it's life or death alot of people have died due to intruders here and if those people had guns that they where ready and able to use they wouldn't have died.
This is gonna sound mean as hell and I'm sorry but when your braking into someone's home and trying to take there stuff in that moment ur a bad person. Also in that moment ur probably very on edge and likely to do things you normally wouldn't. I've done alot of stupid shit in my life I can say in those moments I was a bad person I turned things around now but back then I was.
I wish things where different I do but banning guns are only gonna take guns form people who never had intentions on hurting ppl badguys or criminals don't play by the rules and they are already accustomed to using guns so instead of banning guns do better screening to make sure idoits don't have
America will never be like the EU so we can use ur laws we need to find a better way to deal with the cards that we are delt. I respect how you guys have things but in America it just wouldn't work
In Italy you can go to jail if you don't help someone that is in danger
As for racism, obviously it varies and there are racists in every country. But honestly it manifests moreso in Europe as cultural xenophobia than racism specifically at least in my experience. It's more about where you were born and your culture than anything else, but in general it is definitely less than the US.
In my experience Europeans don't mean to be xenophobic,
But they're not used to going out of their way to accommodate foreign people
So they end up being unwelcoming anyways.
Agree 👍 There is culture division, some will keep to themselves, their own language, schools Etc. I've known women who have lived in the UK over 40 years, brought up families,who cannot speak English. Her Sons I see often, polite and courteous Men.At least many of the children are more inclined to adjust than they used to. That is one community there are several others communities,who are not that much different to us, when you get to know them, and they get to know you. It's usually the person we don't like, not their nationality or colour. The same with all societies.
Yeah, it's rather the anti-globalist mindset, not wanting the conserved culture to be distorted by other cultures or conflicting cultures and so on.
As Iris said, it definitely happens on all sides, natives and immigrants alike, the biggest shift is generational, younger generations being more inclined to become a melting pot.
There definitely are racists everywhere, more so in the older generations and they mainly judge by stereotyping and generalization.
The Swedish EKG story where she paid $20, that was probably a contribution to the national health insurance. Nationals pay through taxation, visitors can choose to pay a small sum and if they get ill or injured they get treatment. Think health insurance but no Co-pay, no deductible, no out of network, no declined claim &c.
Re the feeling needing to protect yourself. I live in Melbourne Australia. I was out today, smiling at people who walked past, chatting to total strangers. If someone came around a corner and we bumped into each other, we’d usually smile and apologise at my local shopping centre.
I was talking to 2 policemen the other day, they were parked near where I was. Strange as I very rarely ever see police, we got chatting, friendly. Our police carry guns, but I’ve never seen a real gun, I told the cops, one laughed and said, well I’m not pulling it out of my holster to show you - I said “great lol, I don’t ever want to see one and I’m 68 lol”. We got talking about American police, the other cop said his friend was a cop in the USA and told him he was terrified as a cop in America.
There's nothing exactly Free about walking around being scared of loud bangs thinking your being shot at, and walking past people knowing they can shoot you at any minute, most people in UK are streetwise but not scared on a daily basis.........Great videos your doing like this about America, keep up the good work dude 👍
Cops are unlikely to "run into a criminal with a gun". If a gun or indeed knife is known or suspected to have been used or carried, armed response officers would be deployed. They are on regular patrol on cars but the guns are locked in a safe. They cannot self deploy, they must have senior officer authority to get their guns out.
Many cops are taser trained and carry tasers routinely.
Uk cops are trained to de-escalate situations including where guns are used
There are armed response squads for when the situation warrants it. There are strict gun laws to control civilian use, storage, ammunition etc. Most countries in Europe do not have gun toting cops.
I could tell you about January of 2013 when i ended up in the ER (high fever, feeling dizzy) in the city i was working in, passed out at the checkin and woke up 3 days later to being airlifted 600km (about 400 miles) to my homecity, where i spent 1 month hospitalized and most of that time sedated, got a surgery to remove my gallbladder. That entire experience, including food, medicines and surgery etc set me back around 60-70 bucks (mostly for the food i ate). That was about the size of the bill i got after that ordeal. No private insurance, all bills paid by the government. Also during that stay at the hospital, and the following 2 months for recovery, received 80% of my paycheck from the government too (first two weeks are paid by the employer, rest by the government).
"No criminal is going to give up their guns" - ironically, that's exactly what has happened in the UK... the criminals know that they won't encounter anyone else with a gun, and if they are seen/found with a gun the consequences will be so much worse, that criminals simply don't carry guns either. BTW, guns aren't totally banned in the UK, just very strictly controlled, licenced.... and limited to certain places etc.
Not going to lie my brother is a policeman in London and there have been times where he has arrested someone and they had a gun behind the sofa, but man power stopped the person before he had time to get it, they do have a special group of police called the armed response, I'm 38 and have known only 1 person in my life to own a gun. Personally i don't understand why people need to own a gun they belong at gun clubs and fired under strict guidlines only, I just see it as more guns in public the more likely a Wang will get hold of one.
Dang that's a crazy story I'm glad everyone's alright. But the protection alone is worth having a gun then if you like hunting for example is another reason but for me it's the protection ik between 2 guard dogs and a gun Noone will rob me or hurt my family. Responsible gun owners don't get guns stolen. I do agree that to many people aren't responsible and thats how idoits get guns
@@DudeSaysThings yeah if i was in America i can see why you need one, but also if most people don't own a gun like over here, we really dont need one, also we don't have many places to hunt in the same way you do over there. It's a really interesting conversation and i guess it's down to the culture of the place a lot
yeah thats true if i was in the uk i probably wouldn't want them
@@DudeSaysThings as you are ready to research things when you find something that blew your mind...try googling if, in the US, ya more likely to defend your self or others successfully against a gun while armed or unarmed.
Hint...there are about 1,2million instances of violent crime that involve a gun.
In less than 2000 of those someone is able to successfully defend him or others with a gun.
Take it from a veteran...the least effective tool for selfdefence is a gun. Guns are great for offense. They are shit for the opposite.😏
Outside of an imminent zombie appocalypse or an invasion a gun for selfdefence is literally worthless to a civilian.
And nobody wants to invade the US 🤷♂️
@@DudeSaysThings
"Responsible gun owners don't get guns stolen"
That's the thing, in America the responsible gun owners are far and few between.
The rest are irresponsible and shouldn't be allowed to handle guns, or even allowed to have the certificate that says they can.
Thats not just sweden with good healthcare, thats everywhere in the western world other than the US
Americans are funny when they come to Edinburgh. Was walking along princess Street amd the 1 o'clock gun went off and they started scream8ng. I had to explain the cannon at the castle gets fires at 1pm every day as it would tell the city to finish lunch and go back to work
In the USA you have the freedom to pay taxes and get nothing in return :D
Greetings from Germany
Well said. Since Brexit the same will soon be true in the UK. Before membership of the EU the UK was variously ridiculed as the poor man & the dirty man of Europe & was scathingly depicted as the 51st state of America (USA that is - no offence the continent of South America). The UK has reverted to the situation in the 1960/70s. The propaganda that funded the the press & politicians both during the Brexit Campaign & the Trump election originated from Putin enabled oligarchs. Trump is about to be impeached for the third time in the USA (the FBI also investigated Farrage - UK Far Right) & the incumbent UK Prime Minister is a Putin asset according to UK Intelligence Service. See 'HC 632 - Intelligence & Security Committee of Parliament: The Russia Report UK' which is available on You Tube in pdf format. This report was published late, is heavily redacted & is 55 pages long. The electorate on both sides of the Atlantic needs to start questioning their government policies & asking where the funding for political campaigns originate. Complacency is death. Excess deaths per capita in the UK are the result of decades of underfunding of the NHS & deliberate mismanagement of public funds during the Covid Pandemic. The UK has probably the worst record of excess deaths due to a corrupt government but the USA is not far behind. What price Capitalism & the almighty Dollar if it is wielded to make the the powerful more powerful & to ensure that the poor die young? Your country needs you - to find out what is really going on behind the rhetoric & to spread the word. Education is the key. Find out about how the rest of the World conducts business & how well different countries protect their workers against exploitation. Third world countries have a better record than the USA in many regards. Do your civic duty & do your bit to make the USA better for its citizens - you are in a prime position to make positive difference. Good Luck!
Funny that the independance was declared due to England's high taxes, ended up paying more haha
The 24 hour EKG is the Holter monitor. They attach sticky pads to you and you take it home and wear it for 24 hours. I think it cost me $25 after the medicare rebate.
Sweden isn't alone, sorry to tell you that is normal for all the developed world, the US is the only nation with out similar health care because yours is all privatized so they charge whatever they like. Most countries the government sets caps on prices or its run by the government. I've also had 3 C sections, all free.
PS. I'm Australian.
If i not mistaken, Japan is another county which doesn't have free healtcare. On a travel i had a colic. And i was lucky to have buyed international insurance because the medic visit and some intravenous painkillers would have cost me 600 bucks.
@@hantxo Well Google could be wrong but it says Japan has universal health care which is free for Japanese citizens, expatriates, and foreigners as well as non-Japanese citizens staying in Japan for more than a year. If you were just there for a short visit then you wouldn't be covered.
If the person who use the guy can't get a gun then the person is not the issue. Easy access to guns IS the issue. The reason other countries do not swim in guns is because they made it harder to own one which also stop people from ending up in a situation where they use a gun. Access is allways the issue. It also solve the issue of wrong people having a gun.
right but my whole point is banning guns is stupid making a better way to give out guns thats a smart idea but fully banning them is not
I don' t think we live in a world where we can ban guns. But what is in the US today is obviously not working at all. There must be some inbetween where opertunity is skyhigh now and instead make it harder to own a weapon by background checks, real background, like in my country where you haev to apply for a weapon license at the police office.
Mind though i am not saying that my country don't have issues we do for sure, just that the restrictions make less opertunities and that is what is important imo.
There are around 30 gun deaths per year in the whole of the UK, so that's Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England combined has less gun deaths in one year than the city of Chicago has in one month,. Also a lot of UK police are trained in fire arms and do have them in the car but can only deploy them when authorised and on top of that there are specialist fire arm units but the everyday cop has no gun and probably goes their whole career never needing one.
Every cop in the P.S.N.I/R.U.C carry side arms. And some carry machine guns.
Although this is a bit private, but it illustrates very well how our health insurance is here in Germany:
My wife and I had to seek medical help to have a child. Our health insurance covered 100% of the costs for artificial insemination. We're talking about costs of up to €3,500. And they finance you 3(!!!) tries. You only have to pay for everything yourself after the fourth attempt. It worked after the second try. The cost of childbirth: €0.00. Just the thought of it that, in the US, you have to pay money to hold your own Baby after childbirth cannot be surpassed in terms of perversity and greed for money!
I always feel kinda bad when people talk about IVF and the likes. Having offspring is the literal purpose of every form of life!
Hope everything went well!
@@VRDejaVu Yes, thank you. Our son will be 4 this december
Thanks dude! Just one guestion like to everybody: what do you think that the 150 mass shootings just by the end of April 2022 has effected the victims/families/friends/communities etc. opinion about guns? Ps. The Englis police have access to guns if necessary. The difference is that they do not shoot you first and ask later.
If u got the choise between laughing and crying, chose laughing it made the nicer folds,
im a handicaped woman living in the centre of amsterdam, the Netherlands, at first glance everybody can see that im vunerable but i can be outside by myself 24/7 and be totally safe, off cause we have bad people here too and not every area in the city is safe but for the most part i dont have to be bothered in looking over my shoulder all the time
The argument, that guns don't kill but people do is so dumb... i am really tired of hearing it, to be quite honest. If you allow the average Joe not only unlimited access to guns but also give them the right to carry said gun openly in public, it is no surprise that people actually use them in cases of road rage, school rage, any rage you can imagine. This logic around guns is just nuts.
If I shoot someone who goes to prison me or the gun. The issue is people not being screened correctly not the guns themselves
@@DudeSaysThings You going to prison doesn't help the people you shot or their families. You shouldn't have been able to shoot someone in the first place. Death cannot be taken back, and your right to carry guns should not be as important as someone elses right to live.
True thats why when someone brakes into my house having a gun is a good thing because that gun can save my life. the issue is guns in the wrong hands not guns in general
@@DudeSaysThings Agree to disagree: If someone breaks into your house, the only situation where you would actually need a gun to defend yourself would be if the intruder had a gun, too. So, guns are somewhat the issue as well. In Europe I can be fairly sure that, if I am attacked ever at all, it will not be with a gun. Which levels the playing field somewhat. It makes the world a safer place for one simple reason: it is much easier to do heavy damage to another person through using a gun than it is with most other forms of weapons. A knife, for example, requires you to get close enough to do real damage. Of course, that can still happen but it is so much harder and requires a whole other level of aggression. So, honestly, I also hate guns - just because they are a tool that makes it so darn easy for people to seriously hurt each other. And, as others pointed out before me, there are tons of studies that show (even in the US!) that it is far more likely a gun at home harms one of your family members than some random intruder.
Mind you, I have lived in the middle of nowhere in Germany, in some cities in Germany and now in the capitol of Sweden - and I never experienced gun violence or violence involving weapons. I also never saw a real gun except for once at a film set (and it was a non-functioning prop).
With all due respect I really don't want you to take this the worng way but how you experienced things in Germany doesn't affect America because here realistically they probably do have a gun and personally I'd rather shoot someone then die. Also another thing alot of people don't seem to understand is there are places in America where ir would take the cops 20plus minutes to get to ur house. And I'm 20 minutes alot can happen. When you add the wild animals around America that can kill you. I'd rather keep gun's. Also let me say this I don't think it's perfectly set up I don't think there needs to be better education on how to correctly secure a gun. And education on how to disarm someone properly and even ways to talk people down. If you wanna lower murder rates that's what you do
Great reaction again, greetings from Austria 🇦🇹 ps: nobody is angry abput ya opinion, everything ok 👍🏻
I'm from Scotland, UK. Regarding the medical expenses. I had a hernia in 2012. Doctor consultation, specialist for a sonogram, pre check with the surgeon, outpatient surgery, home visit from a nurse to take out staples, follow up with my surgeon. My cost was fuel to drive to the appointments.
Had to have a tooth pulled about 5 years ago, called the phone line, they gave me the emergency dentist on call for that day, walked in, got it done in 30 minutes, cost was £16 (~$20 USD)
Hi i'm living in het Netherlands and i used to own a couple of guns for shooting at a gun club but to own a gun in the Netherlands you have to have a clean police record otherwise you can't even be a member at a shooting club but if you have you have to be a member for over a year and then you can ask the club if they allow you to own a gun and now we're talking about small caliber guns 6mm if the club agree you can buy a gun but you have to left it in the store and you only get the numbers from the gun and at the club they fill in a paper with those numbers, then you have to make a apointment with the police to check the paper and you leave some photo's behind for your license if you license is finaly ready you can pick it up at the police station and you can get the gun at the store but within 2 weeks you have to let the police check the gun because they want to make sure the numbers on the gun and on your license are matching, if you have finaly a small caliber gun you have to own that gun for a year and after a year you have to folow that procedure again for a large caliber gun that's how it goes in the Netherlands and you have to go minimal 18 times a year to the shooting range to prove that your skills are good enough to own a gun and i hear you a gun itself isn't dangerous leave it on the table and nothing will happen and if the wrong person pick up that wapon it can be dangerous and every american have a right to own a gun even if you're blind....and if you don't have a police record you can buy a gun easaly but there are so many guns in the states that many wrong persons can get one that's why there so many murders in the states i thing the highest in the world of one of the highest and that have to open some eyes that the policy in America isn't a great one but that's my opinion great video btw and greetings from the Netherlands
I've kind of watched these vids out of chronological order, and I knew America was fucked up, I'm fairly knowledgeable on your healthcare (or lack of) systems and limitations, but it really hits home how bad you guys have it when an intelligent young man is crying in a pharmacy because his breathing medication is free. and he couldn't afford it in the US.
I have asthma, my medication costs around $10 for a 100 doses, I saw somewhere that same cheap mass produced medication costs $250-$350 in the US.
I know guns are a massive issue, but I'm starting the realise the biggest killer in the US is the healthcare system.
Fuck me guys, what next, are you going to charge people for breathing air? Better not give them any ideas.
Air Tax coming soon to a town near you lmaoo I shouldn't joke like that but you made me laugh with that one
Fun fact: there is an air tax in Austria. It's when you have a sign outside your store, you need to pay for the room it takes up, I believe
Only Authorized firearms officers carry a pistol in the UK, and they are only usually deployed if a suspect is believed to be armed. There is no ‘shoot if you believe there is a threat’ mentality here either-even firearms officers rarely draw and even more rarely fire a gun,and firing even one bullet, justified or not, means the firearms officer is instantly taken of duty and loses the right to carry.
There was on incident around 10 years ago where a man who was believed to be carrying a gun was shot,because he was later found to have no gun,basically the entire senior staff of the police department were forced to resign, and all the firearms officers on the operation were demoted and lost the right to carry. A similar situation happened when a gangster was believed to be carrying a bomb was shot in a train station-again no bomb, consequently all the police lost their jobs and it made headlines for weeks to come. There is no second chance when it comes to firearms officers in the Uk.
Subscribed ;) Cause I like the way you explain things with your own lifestory and share it with us. Most youtubers would be: yeees omg, totaly relates! that is soooo true! And be done with it XD 👍
I appreciate that!
@@DudeSaysThings It's also smart that you like and subscribe for the video you reacted to. Other reaction channels often don't and I'm thinking to myself "you want me to like your video but you don't do it yourself?". Good stuff 🥇
I live in the UK and never heard of anyone being threatened with a gun and I don’t know anyone who thinks about guns ever. It’s just a culture thing.
I live in the UK and the police do not carry guns. Guns here are highly regulated after the Dunblane massacre in 1996 the gun laws were changed in the Uk and there has not been a mass shooting since.
Every cop in the north of Ireland carries at least 1 gun ...
Hate access to guns, in the U.K. we culturally changed following the Dunblane massacre in 1996.....check out the videos on that. We are pretty safe from gun crime in the UK and so our police do not need to carry guns....our police are there to serve the community, not simply enforce the law.
Our police used to be to serve the community. I don't trust police these days.
I'm not 100% sure how it works but I believe here in Norway cops have their firearms in their police cars, and have to radio in to the station to unlock them, or something along those lines.
#Sweden.
When you visit the hospital in Sweden you pay $25 (the price has gone up a little since this video) This covers ALL treatment needed on that visit. (even if you need to stay)
If you are a resident on a temp resident permit or permanent they will send you an invoice if you cannot pay directly for some reason.
Finally your hospital visits as a resident are totaled up, including medication and once that total reaches $120 that year everything is totally free for the rest of the year. Ambulances are free.
And please mate. You seem like a nice lad. Listen to what people have to say before offering your opinion. Its hard for anyone older than 16 to watch you because you interject way to much and seem on the defensive rather than genuinely interested in other peoples prospective.
Show a positive opinion to learning by listening and you have a chance. - Mark these words my friend.
And for once try to make a video without cursing. You lasted 13 seconds this time. Is cursing necessary for expressing your opinion?
I'd love to see your reaction to Jim Jefferies on gun control, there are two parts and they are hilarious and although it may not be something you agree with I am sure you will see the funny side and it would be really interesting to see your opinion
About the EKG that 20$ is a flatrate for your visit. I had major surgery a couple of years ago. 4-5 days in the hospital with medication, food and everything. Payed the same 20$.
But....
My small town local hospital could not offer it so i had to go to the next larger town. So i got reimbursed 15$ for my travel expenses from the hospital. In the end i payed more in parking fees for my car during the stay than the operation.
In the US if your alowed a gun if you shoot your self with that gun you still pay for the medical bill . In the netherlands its ilegal to own a fire arm but if you acidently shoot your self with fhat fire arm your medical bill is still covered .
As a Brit, the more of these ‘what it’s like to live in the USA compared to other countries’ type videos I watch, the more sorry I feel for the American people. You are all being financially, morally and psychologically raped and brain-washed by your politicians, businesses, education system, health system and most of all…..your constitution. I know this sounds a really extreme comment to make, but seriously, you guys are being royally screwed over!
News headline this morning (5/25/2022) of yet another….ANOTHER mass shooting at a school in……yup you’ve guessed it….the good old US of A!!!
Leaves me speechless…..except for four words…..RIGHT. TO. BEAR. ARMS!!!!!
Some first class stockholm syndrome going on.
Just watched a few of your reactions and I want to commend you for how you approach things. You're open but sceptical, you fact check (albeit quickly) and you take the time to look something up if you're not sure. So often I see reaction youtubers be like "oh I wonder what that means / I can't remember this or that simple fact" and I'm just confused why they don't take a couple of seconds while they're paused anyway to look it up. It's so lazy.
"Oh I'm reacting to this non-english song, I have no idea what it's about but let's go." Well, have you taken a literal second to even translate the title to get an idea? No? Okay.
So I guess, thanks for not being lazy lol
Yes I was reading the comments just to say that also. And he is young and American. There is hope, afterall ^^
GG.
Pledge of allegiance is something they do in North Korea or Germany during the time Hitler was in charge.
I had a bit of an unfortunate year. Had a serious back injury at work, had a big cut in my finger that needed 12 stitches, was in a small car accident and broke my wrist and had a concussion. In total I missed about one and a half month at work, was in the hospital 3 times and had 12 physiotherapy sessions. I was payed throughout the whole thing and my bills total up to about 250euros. If I had lived in the USA, I would have been broke, out of a job and most likely living on the street.
I saw other reactors going on the same path as you are with those videos you check out now.5 out of 8 ended up coming to Europe.Two in Finland,two in England and one in Germany.Waiting for the moment you will consider doing it.
Lol the issue I'd have I'm not sure i could get what I'm after anywhere lol if I did I'd want to be In a warm climate that I could buy aleast a couple acres of land and have exotic pets aswell as bring my current pets with me. Really just 1 dog is mine but we have 2 family dogs who there's a chance would be coming with me. Plus even if I did find that place rn I don't have the cash to do that but maybe one day it's not something I'd say hell no to its just more of idk where I'd want to go and rn in my life I couldn't actually go
Also since I'm horrible with learning languages I've tried before failed horrible I'd need a place that speaks English
@@DudeSaysThings in Finland most people speak also english, just like in most nordic countries and all over in Europe. Maybe the older generations can't english that much, but it is common that people can speak also english. And learning new languages is eye opening experience, so I recommend it higly.
@@DudeSaysThings you should really concider some longer term traveling outside the usa to see what the real world is like.
On the issue over healthcare in the UK the universal healthcare system NHS is free at the point of service, paid for by taxes. So at the time you need care there is no cost, anything from seeing your doctor for a cold or flu to open heart surgery, hip replacements, cancer treatment….it’s all covered. That includes ambulances, they’re free too. The only services that cost, but small amounts, are eye examinations and dentistry. We bless the NHS In the UK! As for medication you only pay £9:35 (about $12) for ANY medication!
UK here. For situations involving firearms they deploy a special armed response unit, who do have guns. But regular cops dont need to carry them.
About the Freedom thing:
That was perfectly true 100-150 years ago. But nowadays with all the social wars, gun violence, unaffordable Healthcare, voter suppression laws and methods, unregulated price gouging, unregulated pollution and rampant workers abuse, the USA is one of the countries in the developed world with the least freedom.
Just think about all the things that you "just can do" elsewhere, but not in the US.
To put it in another perspective: How "free" do you think you are, if you have to constantly watch your surroundings, always being prepared to defend yourself?
8:43 In germany young kids playing "outside" does mean in the front yard. It means kids are going around throughout the town on their own or with other kids. They are just having fun with other kids (not causing trouble), but it's safe enough where a parent doesn't have to worry
Just be home before the streetlights go on lol.
If you get an EKG without insurance at a hospital, expect to pay approximately $500 to $5,000. The national average cost is around $1,500. However, some people, especially those in metropolitan areas, may charge way more than this.
yea you can't look up just the cost of a c-section. you have to include the time spent in the hospital recovering too. all the meds they give you before, during and after the c-section. the meds they give your baby if they need any. You have to pay for the surgeon. You have to pay for the anesthesiologist. Oh and they charge you just to hold your baby the day it's born.
I am 55 years old and I don´t remember that I heard a gunshot in my entire life, exept in Movies. Think about it. Greatings from Germany
The problem with guns in America is not the guns themselves... it's the fact you have had more mass shootings this year, than you have had days in the year.
As of June 5th or 155 days into this year the US has recorded 246 mass shootings.
When that many people who should never have gotten a gun are getting and using them to harm and/or kill people, the system has a major problem.
a Holter Monitor is a 24 hr EKG. They hook you up to it, and send you home with it.
(5:00) in Italy (don't know in the rest of Europe) if the medication Is under prescription, the 20% of the drug price Is refounded in your bank account at the end of the year.
Hey, I am German, born and raised in East Germany (yes, the Communist part). I kind of get your point that when you are told as a child that your country is great, you believe it eventually.
When the Wall came down it opened up a huge opportunity for me to discover the world. I studied adult education (no, not Porn, teaching adults whatever instead of teaching kids) and languages so I could live outside Germany and teach people there German. I worked as a teacher for years, now I'm in logistics, first express, now truck transport. I lived in Spain for a time, now I live in France right by the border with Spain and cross the border daily twice to work in Spain. So, think about it: My wife is English, I am German, I live in France and work in Spain. I think you can't be much more "European" than us.
I've been to France, England, Scotland, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, the Netherlands, Greece, Portugal and there is still more to discover. I left Europe and saw Tunisia and New Zealand.
When I was a kid, the government literally told me that I was living in the best country in the world because we were a "fair society with a place for everyone". Unemployment was like 1% (and those were the people who literally couldn't work or did not want to), but then I was queueing with my parents for 4 hours to buy a freaking watermelon because they only sold them once a year and each family could only buy one!
And let's talk about the elephant in the room, I am German. Since 1945 we have been told that patriotism is VERY bad, because it leads to fashism (I know I sound like Yoda, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side, but the little green guy has a point I believe).
Just imagine 100 Germans putting their hands on their hearts and sing the national anthem... Well, every German I know immediately thinks of 100 SS officers marching in unison lifting their right arm and doing the nazi salute... Now I watch football (,ya know, soccer) world cups and whenever Germany wins, I hope they don't show a Nazi on tv...
So, first thing is perspective. You get told your country is great, why would you wanna go and find out about other countries. They must be shit compared to yours, right?!
Next thing is scale, the USA is a bloody big country. If you are born in Berlin, you drive 150 km and you're in Poland, differnt language, different culture, different standard of living. If you're born in the middle of the US, you can drive for 500 or even 1000 miles in literally any direction and they will still speak your language, they will still give you your MC Donald's special meal. You can literally drive to see some of the wonders of the world (you might drive for some time) and after a trip to Yellowstone I can understand that an American says "why do I need to see the UK?". After a trip to Hawaii I can understan an American who says "why would I go to Thailand?". You don't need a passport to see some really great places, you don't even have to learn another language to enjoy those places. We as Europeans are a bit more open-minded. I mean you don't need to take a French course to enjoy your two-week trip there. But if you learn two or three phrases of French, the barkeep might be much more inclined to give you an extra round for free...
If you learn a few phrases of Spanish, your steak order might turn out a 500g steak instead of 250g (sorry, your measurements are weird, I can't be bothered to turn that into pounds, or stones or whatever) piece of meat...
Back to "Merika":
From my perspective you're obsessed with guns. I got into a street fight once or twice when I was younger, but I never feared for my life. The worst thing people would do to you after knocking you out was breaking your arm (and you would have to find a really messed-up dude for that to happen!!!). I was never menaced with a gun. No policeman has ever pulled a gun at me.
So, I understand that you feel that America is the greatest place on Earth but from my perspective it's a dangerous place too. So, by definition it can't be the best place in the world, full stop. You get into an argument with someone and the dude pulls out a gun. Sorry, something is wrong there!
I would like to visit the USA, because I'd like to see all the natural wonders you have to offer, but sorry, your gun culture sucks. You can argue that you need a hunting rifle to defend you from bears all day long, but my opinion is that you guys get a hard on if you're carrying. I would rather get pestered by an unarmed street-salesman in Spain who wants to sell me bad dvd copies than by some sicko who threatens to shoot me over a spilled beer.
Some of your laws are ludicrous, land of the free... But I can't walk around having a drink in public, I can't walk around without a shirt on, I can't safe somebody who is drowning without getting sued... When a condom rips my wife can't have an abortion because you gotta safe every unwanted baby as every sperm is sacred. Your healthcare is a mess, go visit the USA and if a bee stings you and you're allergic, you can chose between dying or selling your house to pay for the medical bills.
Sorry, long post, but it felt right.
I am not living a very luxurious life, but I own two motorbikes. I have seen and enjoyed the Pyrenees, Portugal and the Picos de Europa (a mountain range in Spain) on a motorbike. I met people whose language I didn't understand, but with hands and feet I still managed the camp-ground staff to charge my power banks and phones overnight. If I had ran in speaking only English, they would have just said "no comprendo, hasta luego"
I know alot of retired policemen most of them never had an incident with a gun and we are talking about officer that have 35 years service
It always amazes me that many Americans think that others disagreeing with them is loosing freedom.
Gunownership is currently one of the few freedoms not under threat in America. Your freedom is eroding elsewhere.
30:52 Yes it is free ,but like "Public" room = If You want privacy and TV etc. then that room is ca 50 - 70 euros per day.
I was in Türkiye on holiday and saw a drowning man on the beach, me and a German, French, Spanish dude all ran to help, it was a Russian dude drowning, no Russian helped they watched taking photos, iv never been so scared, i was covered in the dudes vomit, we tried for 20mins while the ambulance came, me crying as i was so stressed.... the man died... 15mins later a woman washed up same place... the exact same people turned up to help... the same turned up to watch..... there's a clear difference in culture.... the western Europeans helped... the Russians watched 2 of their own countryman die....
Still wondering, in the background: what's the thing with the little piece of cable coming out of the wall, looking like some impotent piece of equipment, unconnected to anything?
Tv cord
In the Netherlands cops do carry guns(pistol). but in my life(38 years) i have yet to see a cop draw his gun.. other then on tv
Because owning a gun in the UK is well regulated there is no need for the normal everyday police officer to carry a gun. There are people who have got their guns unlawfully but the chances of the police or an innocent member of public meeting them is remote. The knife is the most often weapon used in crime. There is a RUclips vid that does a very good job at explaining the UK gun rules.
1000 euros per semester is not the same as 1000 dollars per month for your US premium. it does also not include the additional cost of your 2500 to 5000 deductable.
In the UK they do have cops with guns. They have what is called Armed Response, which is sent in when needed, they are specially trained for this job
08:20 Hi from Portugal. This issue of children being alone on the street playing is also a problem for Brazilians who came to live here. And for children to go to school on foot or by public transport, it is difficult for Brazilians to trust them at first, but then they realize that it is not a problem.
24 hour EKG is indeed called a holter monitor, as you phone tried to tell you. You should've googled that name instead. They basically slap a bunch of electrodes on you and make you wear a harness with a device of a size of an old cell phone. Then you go home, live your usual life, come to the hospital next day, they take it off, download data from it and analyse, how your heart performs during your normal daily activities.
I was called by a neighbour who had fallen but couldn't get up, I was unable to get her up so I called and ambulance.
The ambulance crew used a special device to get her up and into bed. Being in the UK there was no thought of cost.
21:07 the HOLTER thingy is the device used for the 24h monitoring, whether is an EKG or an EEG. Now you know
In the UK we have armed response units who are called on when required.
I am Australian. I am 62. I have 3 adult daughters, one with disabilities. We have NEVER paid for anything medical. Ambulances are free. One of my daughters was on life support for two weeks then medical care for a few months later. Nothing. Well we DO pay just over $6 for our prescription medicines if we need them.
Once my daughters school went into lockdown... the kids were kept in class, but that was because a teenager was riding a bicycle really fast on the school grounds and rhey were afraid one of the little ones might get knocked over.
Hey, the holier monitor is a portable device you wear home to record your heart .