The Trump Shooter was Wearing My Shirt...| DemolitionalRanch | History Teacher Reacts
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- The shooter who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump was spotted wearing a shirt from popular gun-tuber Demolition Ranch @DemolitionRanch . Naturally, this has prompted him to respond to this. As a fellow RUclipsr, it made me think how I would feel if something like this happened with someone wearing my merch or was an avid viewer of my content. Should there be liability and/or responsibility for content creators? Mr. Terry shares his thoughts.
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What, if anything, could make a content creator responsible for the actions of their fans?
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That guy just bought his merch he can't be responsible for that
Demolition Ranch? He hasn't earned his Darwin Award yet???
A shoutout in the manifesto, or watching content directly related to the action that fan took. Tim Pool, for example, has shown up in a few mass shooter watch lists where the content isn't entirely unrelated to the mass of bodies they dropped.
@@MrTerry direct calls to action. If you post a vid saying "you should do X" and someone does it, you bear some responsibility for the outcomes. Anything else, no.
Check out Brandon hererra’s ballistic breakdown of the shooting it was released today. Not necessarily for content, but for your own knowledge
No one is responsible for the actions of people who happen to buy their merchandise.
Unfortunately human stupidity has no end to it.
Exactly it's exactly like the satanic panic
Some will disagree, the swatsika is considered verboten because of who influenced it (most recently), US confederate flag in the same way. etc. gang colors and so on. In extreme situations this has become the case. I doubt cancel culture will come after this guy atm, but he likely posted such a video because this might be the case.
BTW I do NOT agree with 'cancel culture'... but not sure where I stand on putting blame on certain VERY TOXIC influencers that radicalize their patrons.
@@neezduts69420I blame the grilled cheese sandwich
@@pdraggy i don’t think so. The Bad German Pinwheel is associated with millions of deaths, horror, and suffering, while the Dixie flag is associated with a lesser number of deaths, plus slavery, plus the whole seceding from the Union thing.
This little munchkin is associated with one death, his complete failure in the game of life, and will forever be known as “Ree Tardy Oswald.” There will be following for him, and he will be lost into the obscurity of failures in time.
They’re not the same.
I’ve been watching Matt’s channels for about 8 years
His channel has never been about violent use of a gun. He is a guy who genuinely loves the “gun hobby”. Just shooting and having a good time. He always makes sure everybody is being safe in his videos.
Probably one of the most wholesome family friendly gun RUclipsrs.
I honestly don’t even think he swears in his videos. I could be wrong, but I honestly can’t think of a time.
From what I understand he swore on the internet once, and it was on Unsub.
@@sierramike0913 yeah I remember that.
The boys have gotten him less than sober and he's slipped a few gosh darn and golly jees
Which is literally what you call a on the fence guy who doesn't voice politics and opted to be himself and keep his private life away from his content.
I feel so bad for Matt. In case you didn't know, Matt (Demolition Ranch), actually owns Bunker Branding who makes the merch for other RUclipsrs including Brandon Herrera and The Fat Electrician. So you have more of a connection to him than you think.
Why? Are you 14? I think matt posting a video highlights how stupid he thinks his viewers and other people see him, like seriously matts video explaining everything should not have ever been uploaded. Its just cringe.
He should be an adult and not even acknowledge the people who are too stupid to do any research of their own.
Matts channel was never in any shambles and him thinking it was shows how “woke” he feels he needs to be, dude needs to use a bit more common sense.
And lastly, its not like he needs anyones sympathy, dude has it made, you feel bad for him then cry in his favor and give the dude some money someway, thats all its about in the end anyways.
@@chazbarns1410"Stop having empaty!"
@@chazbarns1410 So your reason for not feeling bad for him is your jealousy of his wealth? Lmao ok.
@@chazbarns1410You can’t just ignore it when major news channels are talking about you.
@@chazbarns1410 Bro wrote a whole paragraph on why you shouldn't care about someone's feelings. Maybe have some common sense before criticizing someone's video about not condoning murder.😂
What's worse is he is an actor in a corridor video series called tiny guns, and it's based in ww2. Of course, he was cast as German and had posted pictures from the set, so he got hate for that too.
Which is ridiculous, did anyone get mad at actors playing the Germans in any ww2 based Hollywood movie?
@@dekulruno Given the fact that people got mad at the actor who played Jeoffrey in Games of Thrones, probably yes.
@@dekulruno apparently the actor for jigsaw claimed when he was at a diner, a waitress when she saw who he was shrieked and refused to serve him, so I'm fairly sure actors being blamed or mistaken for things they did in their roles has happened for ages. A more recent one was Anthony Starr in the 3rd season of the boys, acted so convincingly as Homelander when pushing Ryan off the roof that he got tons of hate tweets for pushing a child off a roof, he had to tweet and tell people that what they see on tv isn't real
@enigmaticnasser9335 He's even had to remind people to not treat him like Homelander in person because he's tired of being treated like a psychopath for a television character, people just have no respect or want to live in the fantasy world that the characters are involved in by blaming or treating actors/acteesses like said character. One of the worst things in our society.
he was in tiny guns? Man I remember watching that when it first came out...I feel old as hell now.
Matt is a genuinely nice guy. He’s a devoted family man, keeps his videos very wholesome and family friendly. I’ve met him a couple times in person, and he’s just as nice and wholesome in person as he is in his videos. Such a good dude, and I hate that his name is now gonna be tied to this act.
I never watch Demolition Ranch. I have no interest in guns. But I used to watch Vet Ranch. Matt was always so caring and wonderful caring for animals.
He still is that caring.
I have been watching all of Matt's stuff for years, he is a down to earth wholesome guy. He only has positive energy for everyone. Just like you do.
I've watched him for about 6 years he keeps it PG and tries to keep it educational.
The Demoltia is a bunch of good hearted people 99.9999% of the time. Matt is a great guy who was put in a shitty position
One way to think about Matt is he is also an educator. When he was doing Vet Ranch the content was more educational then anything else - it was more towards helping people understand what a vet does and what it's like. He does a lot of the same with his firearms content - he just has more fun with it (in a safe way).
Best historical guntuber is Forgotten Weapons with Ian McCollum
Seconded. Forgotten Weapons would be a veritable gold mine for this channel.
Thirded!
Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history is my favorite.
@@GameOver-226 Certainly one of the two best on the historical gun front
I genuinely feel bad for him. I’ve been a fan of him for many years and he has always been a good guy. His videos do feature firearms but the videos are about learning and having fun in a safe way. He is always safe with what he does. His other channels are about family and friends caring about others and getting hard work done. He always makes sure to show that love is always better than hate. And he genuinely loves his fans he never wants someone to do something hateful. He believes in loving others. His message he spreads is good and I fully agree with him. Being loving and kind to others is the way to go.
I feel bad the most for the family of Corey Comperatore and the parents of the shooter. Knowing what their son did also I bet some idiots are going to harass them for what their son has done.
sadly they've already had vandalism occurring at their home and harassment wherever they go people really are that stupid
I actually feel bad about demolition ranch. Regardless of your opinions about guns and whether or not you should own them (im a fan or guns so maybe I am biased a bit) he just makes fun content. Usually the most political his channel can get is "will cookie dough stop a bullet" or "what army helmet will stop a bullet"
The most political his channel gets is when he tests some cheaply made armor from China.
@@chugachuga9242 then there's always the Hi-point videos
There's a video coming out tomorrow I believe called Tiny Guns 2, it's a WW2 comedic style skit video about *gasp* tiny guns! In the video he's playing a WWII bad guy in uniform and he posted himself in that uniform basically teasing towards the release of the video, and around that time the shooting happens and now people are calling him a "national socialist" because he's depicted in the bad guy uniform while completely ignoring the context in which he posted that picture. The internet and media will find any reason to bury you, including taking pictures out of context so they can point the finger and cry wolf.
Blaming him for this is about as dumb as blaming Iceberg salad because an iceberg sank the Titanic!
What shoes was he wearing so we can go after them as well? How about his undies? Like what is people's logic. Damn I guess we can't wear clothes now.
Yeah, like seriously
@@MadotsukiGamingdont forget the brand of ladder and cell phone carrier.
Are a significant number of people going after demolition ranch? The video is basically "this sucks" which is absolutely true but he didn't mention people going after him for it
@@slyder6821 Multiple "news" groups are coming after him for being the "leader" of an "alt-right" "militia", so yes, they are coming after him.
in terms of implied endorsement I feel like the examples you gave are not even close to the same league as t-shirts. Makes me wonder if you think you actually made a good point here.
Honestly, I can't help thinking that rather than being a fan, the kid just looked up the most popular gun-tuber on the website and bought some merch to use as a disguise of sorts.
But that's just a gut feeling, obviously not much is known about the kid in general at this point, let alone his taste in RUclips channels.
That's the first thing I thought, every single assassin has to blend in if they have a chance of being seen, wearing guntuber merch was probably a disguise, or maybe he got the idea and started watching guntubers and actually liked Matt's content because of how nice he is (if the bullying is the actual reason he did it). Either way it's a tragedy, something that shouldn't have happened, and Matt deserves as much support during this time as anyone else.
So far, they have said the deceased dirt bag had a minimal social media presence. I find it incongruent that despite that, he was a big Demolition Ranch fan. I wonder if they have been able to review his RUclips viewing history to see if there are any patterns. I wouldn't be surprised that he's not an avid viewer of DR videos.
I have a similar gut feeling as you do, it was part of his camouflage to blend into the crowd.
@@MichaelScheeleNah. The kid's classmates all said nothing about this is surprising. He'd always been a gun obsessed little freak
Yeah it's an interesting question on the relationship between someone with a platform and their audience. He seems like a pretty chill dude, and you can tell that he felt embarrassed as well as sad that he had to make that video in the first place.
I'm from UK and am politically/socially left, so my stance on guns is probably predictable - I think gun culture is stupid, I think the 2nd amendment and its modern interpretation is stupid, I've never fired a gun, I would never want to fire a gun, I have no family members who were in the military or the police, I think there is no reason for someone in the UK to own a gun for pretty much any reason (if the gun is in working order, so obviously museums and collectors that decommission the firearm don't count), and every time something like this happens I feel sympathy for Americans but I also feel grateful that we do not have US-style gun culture in this country. We recently had an incident in London where three women were killed by a man using a crossbow, and it started a discussion about whether crossbows should be legal to buy in this country or how much they should be regulated. I didn't even know you could buy a crossbow. But it's always funny to me that everyday Americans have access to some of the most efficient and brutal killing machines ever developed by man, and then are surprised/appalled when someone uses them. It's insane to me.
BUT, I will admit that I am guilty of seeing guns and gun culture as a partisan issue, mostly because of things like the NRA, and I like to think that I don't assume that everyone in the US who has a gun or is interested in guns is a maniac who intends to kill people, but honestly I probably do. I mean, you guys still have some pretty dangerous wildlife to deal with, which we don't in the UK, and this dude is from Texas and seems to be somewhere pretty rural so I could accept the argument that it's not only lawful that he owns and knows how to use guns, but it's actually sensible. And yes, if y'all are going to have guns, then it probably is a net benefit to society that YT channels exist that teach people how to use guns safely, that teach trigger discipline, that teach a healthy respect for the killing power of guns etc., although that said I'm sure there are plenty of "guntubers" that are just doing it for the thrills or to be subversive and to get a bunch of kids excited about how cool and edgy they are. So I can admit that my own bias might mean that I would be more likely to assume that a guy who runs a YT channel about guns (excluding historians) is Republican, is more likely to support Trump, and more likely to be a 2A nut job from an ex-Confederate state, with more cousins than teeth and more pick-up trucks than brain cells. But I can also acknowledge that that is not always going to be the case, and this guy is the proof of that. I feel bad for him, although obviously I feel more bad for the family of the gunman and for the victims.
American gun owner here. Regardless of our opposing political beliefs and ideas regarding use/ownership of firearms, I can respect your opinions and I understand why you have them.
Frankly, it is people like said shooter who give guns/gun owners a bad rep and it’s quite possible he acquired one legally simply because as a young adult he hasn’t racked a criminal record yet.
I do also want to add that while there are such maniacs that frame the gun community in America as reckless and extreme in some cases, especially to those in countries where firearm ownership is practically almost nonexistent, an overwhelming majority of gun owners in America are not as gung-ho as more extreme and entertaining examples portray. Frankly, a lot of us normal gun owners tend to avoid such behavior and are weary of anyone who behaves as such.
I say without arousing a political debate that I do very much believe that the right to bear arms is essential, especially in modern terms. That being said, it is on the bearer of arms to assume the responsibility of owning such lethal weapon through respect and awareness of oneself and others in regard to its use.
Nah, I completely disagree. He doesn't have to make this video. It is frankly ridiculous that he has to take this step. Had the shooter worn an L.A. Lakers shirt, would you expect anyone from the Lakers to make a video about it? No? Why not? The shooter was wearing their merch, what happened? What if it wasn't a gun channel but maybe something like food channel, would a video be expected then?
Seems like a tiny bit of a false equivalency. The dude didn't try to assassinate the former president using a basketball, did he?
I love how you addressed firearms being not as partisan as many people believe. The anti-gun movement was actually a right-wing position in the 70s and 80s largely to disarm the Black Panthers. Personally, Im left-leaning in many ways. But I support the proliferation of firearms in the public. My argument for this is historically based where you can add up the body counts of disarmed societies versus armed societies, and suddenly armed societies seem 10x safer, especially when they have the same type of weapons as the agents (military or police) of the state do. However, many anti-firearm people bring up school shootings, mass shootings, and suicide. And these are absolutely concerning elements, and I may not agree with their position, but I know it comes from a place in their heart of meaning well. It really isn't as cut and dry as many people with more traditionally partisan beliefs make it out to be.
12:15 every guntuber i know, Brandon Herrera in specific, preaches gun safety.
they show the correct way of handling a firearm, and show why you shouldn't do certain things, and clearly make the statement "i did this sketchy thing, so you don't do this sketchy thing"
all of these guys try to keep people entertained and SAFE. Matt recently opened a gunrange, desperado range, where they offer classes on gun safety and firearm basics.
they do open range days for their subscribers and have highly qualified ex-military Range Safety Officers everywhere, to keep people safe, while having fun shooting guns.
and that's the thing they teach the most, have fun, but be responsible. as Brandon says "guns are cool, idiots are not".
I feel so bad for this guy. I can only imagine how it feels to just be thrusted into something like this.
This is very unfortunate man
Interesting point about the partisan stuff. I'm British and pretty firmly on the right in general but I like our strict gun laws here, and for most people on the right here our restrictive laws just aren't simply an issue for them in the UK. The British rightists that are pro-2a and anti UK laws tend to be the ones who have podcasts they are aiming at a US market
Meanwhile London having more murder and NYC
@cgmason7568 Not true, New York reported 438 homicides and London recorded 109 in 2022. Also, saying that is stupid. Getting ride of guns of course won't mean it gets rid of murder but it's the factor that a gun as the capacity to kill from a distant/at rage, can fire multiple rounds, it's harder to defuse someone with a gun than with say a knife etc. But it doesn't matter because you didn't even get your statistical facts right.
@@FilmNerdy there were like 3 years in a row where London had more
@@FilmNerdy you've never used a gun, you've never been a police officer or in the military
@cgmason7568 No, it never has been the case. If it has, then thats never run by the UK Government which I use to work for. I use to do a lot of cross data analysis with Commonwealth, North America and European counterparts. New York has always had higher homicides rates. New York murders were:
319 murders in 2019
468 murders in 2020
488 murders in 2021
438 murders in 2022
420 murders in 2023 (preliminary data)
London:
149 murders 2019
126 2020
135 2021
109 2022
110 2023 (preliminary data)
So no your wrong, soz mate. And also, I have handled a gun. I got a shotgun licence which I use for target shooting and is one of the small list of Guns you can have under strict, licence controls. So sorry, wrong again my friend.
Matt Carriker is a "stand up" guy.
I think it is fair to bring up the fact that It is heartbreaking and deplorable for any good human being to be associated in any way with the violent atrocities of others. All throughout history including current events there have been good people that have condemned the monsters in their own communities who commit racial, religious, and geopolitical violence against others.
the problem is not so much who takes responsibility for the merchandising sold, but the media who must inform themselves well before carrying out a journalism report. In June there was a story on the national network regarding 3 RUclipsrs (one of whom I follow) accused of fraud. Service done with even experts on the subject. It was fake news circulating on the internet, but this doesn't justify the 30 second apology at the end of the news after they noticed the fake news and shoveling manure for 10 minutes
It’s always a wild time when two unrelated RUclipsrs that I watch end up in the same video
Matt has nothing to do with a mentally ill person buying his shirt or watching him in general. The shooter could've been wearing an anime shirt for all I care, doesn't mean Dragon Ball is responsible for influencing someone like that.
brandon just uploaded a video recreating the shots on trump and on the shooter, may be too graphic for the channel but its a very good watch if you do.
Forgotten weapons has a great video on a revolving cannon from 1719 called the Puckle Gun
Discontinue the shirt immediately, change the logo/design, keep as many old shirts as you can. These shirts could become a historical collectible one day.
I love your arcade systems in the back! Especially the tmnt one! It reminds me of yhe mini teenage mutant ninja turtles sets and stuff when i was young.
I clicked on this expecting the shooter was wearing Mr. Terry's shirt.
Oh this SUCKS for him. And anybody who doesn’t understand RUclips is gonna go after him. Oh my gosh, the heart drop he must have felt when he heard. This is just so sad.
Matt shouldn't even need to be making this video, he's one of the more family friendly Guntubers. It's a shame people/media connected him to the shooter, but that's the way it goes, especially with something like this. I hope the best for him
He’s good friends with every buddy from unsubscribe podcast
It’s worth watching a few more of his videos - I think you’ll find the contrast in tone very telling. Being even tangentially linked to that event hit Matt *hard*.
I have an inkling about his politics; they don’t align with mine, but he seems a genuinely nice person who makes fun and light-hearted videos I’ve been enjoying for years. Really rough that this was the way he got known to the mainstream.
I’ve watched that guy for years. They just shoot different guns, calibers, targets. It’s a 14 year old country boys dream. No political angle. Not even any 2A talk. He’s buddies with Brandon Herrera and several RUclips creators. They are just a bunch of dude’s having fun.
Mr Terry don't attribute him wearing the shirt as him being a fan of Carricker. It could be just as easy he hated firearms and wanted to throw them in the worst light. The same for registering republican (as well as screwing with the primary - which has been happening for more then a decade). The fact is we don't know the reasons he used for doing things. It's the age of false flags. More then one incident was done because the shooter hated firearms and wanted to make them look as evil as possible.
LMFAO. The question about mental health being on the waiver is not because they care about your mental health - it's a cover your ass because the insurance company will come for you. There is a correlation between mental health and suicide - but we don't know if there is one for mental health and mass incidents. In all honesty the question being there is stupid because people who need treatment lie about it because they enjoy the stress relief of shooting.
Considering the shooter's dad is the one who owned the rifle, and does competition shooting and stuff, it's reasonable to believe that the shooter's dad was the one to buy the shirt and the shooter happened to wear it without evevn knowing what it is. I knoe personally I own a few pieces of RUclipsr merch, and my dad might take a shirt from time to time not even knowing it's merch. It's funny because sometimes people would comment on it and he would have no idea what they're talking about.
Matt isnt even really active with the Gun- Content recently, but if you seen a Brandon Herrera Video lately, you seen him most likely on Matt's Range, which he provides often for his Friends, and many Guntubers know eachother and there are many Friendships.
Nick aka The Fat Electrician also was very recently a Guest at Matts Range, together with Brandon, Donut Operator and some others.
He's just a kind Man, and you really believe when he says this Crap shocked him.
Matt is one of the nicest guntubers out there. I don't watch his content very often, though. It's not what I'm looking for in firearms content. I look for practical reviews like Honest Outlaw, or educational content like Paul Herrel.
He always seemed like a decent guy and it isnt surprising a shooter was a fan of a gun channel. There was never any politics or violence in his videos. The media really need to do a little research first but what are the chances of that ever happening?
You do a fine job of staying away from political stuff Mr. Terry n I for one very much appreciate it. Honestly it’s nice to have a place or 2 u can go to get away from that crap.
Can you imagine a RUclips channel making a video titled "The Shooter was NOT Wearing My Shirt..." and it was about how they'd have to respond if the shooter _had_ been wearing their merch
Mr Terry you should cover Brandon herraras emergency gun meme review. He also covers Matt's shirt being on the shooter and he has something to say.
The worst part is it will be put on record in the history part of it
The shooter was not a fan that was just costuming himself as the people he hated. Don't know matt personally but other then the gun ocd he's just a normal dude.
Honestly, Matt shouldn't be scrutinized just because the shooter happen to use his merchandise, especially just for a shirt. He has no control whether or not that shooter would use his merchandise on any heinous acts. If the shooter was wearing Nike shoes, the company wouldn't bat an eye...
It reminds me of an incident from years ago... i think it was a shooting near a church, where the shooter mentioned the youtuber Pewdiepie. I can't remember exactly if he was using Pewd's merch or that he screamed something relating to the RUclipsr. Of course Pewdiepie released a statement, prompting for his followers to stop doing ridiculous stunts just to promote his channel, in which this happened during the "Pewdiepie vs. T-Series" era.
What i feel is being neglected in this debate is that we seem to not be isolating the issues of political abuse and intimidation which you can find very handsomely online with the issue of Gun control. Abuse and all that is nothing new in politics but just the idea that you can easily get access to a powerful piece of machinery that can pierce through someones flesh in rapid succession is just so questioning for me.
It isnt just about language but it’s about gun control, and it’s about inadequate security that went on with Trump. And sadly, like most times we see gun violence, its getting lost and drowned out by other topics.
As someone else said about the UK, here in the UK, we have restrictions on guns here. And its weird how people are saying "well the last time someone attempted to assisnate a head of Government (i.e. the President) was in 1981 with Reagan" well in Britain the last time it was attempted to assassinate a PM with a gun was in early 1900s.
I do think this has been largely overshadowed the context with what the issue is. Gun control. At least you shouldnt get someone access to an assault rifle and before someone says "oh well its to protect from foreign invaders and the Government" those institutions have accesss to fighter jets, tanks, nukes etc.
Yeah I'm from UK as well and I agree, that always seems to be the topic that American mainstream media struggles to discuss in a nuanced way, but it's so anathema to us Europeans and how we live our lives. Now, in fairness, this dude is from Texas, and I think there's probably a few good reasons why you'd want to have a gun in certain areas of Texas to defend yourself from wildlife, whereas in the UK we just don't have that. Foxes piss on things and steal your slippers, and scream at all hours of the night, but they're pretty much harmless to humans. But in terms of the human impact of guns and humans relationship with guns and the culture, it's completely alien to us. Like, we had an incident in London recently where three women were killed by a man with a crossbow, and that started a debate about whether we should regulate or even ban crossbows (I didn't even know a person could just buy a crossbow. What are you hunting with a crossbow? Grey squirrels?), and that just doesn't seem to ever happen in America.
And yes in your last paragraph, well that is the ultimate fallacy and stupidity of the Second Amendment, isn't it. If the purpose of the 2nd amendment is to ensure, as Alexander Hamilton wrote, that there should be "a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to (the military) in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow citizens.", then surely this means that every American citizen is entitled to his own unarmed drone, or ballistic missile, or whatever arms the military uses and then ships to Israel or sells to the Saudis so they can use them on Yemenis.
To quote John Green, from the great Crash Course U.S. History: "It's almost as if Hamilton had no way of knowing that technology would one day advance past the musket."
@StefanWB I like how this subject and travel has been going because you opened up other areas of debate. And I think sadly this has been lost whenever a topic of Gun control or Gun Reform as I think we should say in Americas case. It gets so lost by the bi partisanship in America. If you support gun control you are boxed as being on the left, liberal but if you support the amendment rights as unquestionable and intangible rules then you are labelled as right, Fascist or Gun nut. But really, it's the innocent and human suffering from the victims that suffer. And sadly, the whole politicking on the individual/personality rather than the questioning the tools and instruments they want to use is being ignored.
And you make a sound argument on places like Texas and the South that feel the need to have guns. Heck, I support Gun control/regulation, but if I ever moved to a place in America where there is a high circulation of guns then I would buy one. Not that I want to have it, I would have to have it just to have that protection but I also know that i would be part of the problem on circulation. But I don't think we should be putting our weight on the individual as I know it's the system that is at fault. I'm sure there are many Americans who have guns who like me if I so happened to move to America and purchase a gun with my above example don't really want to have one. But that's how broken the system is. I especially question why someone would need a heavy piece of machine with hundreds of bullet magazines, rapid firing, good sight targeting needs to have a weapon purely for self defence. So I think small movements could be made by if we can't question the guns themselves at least question the type of guns accessible.
That last paragraph ties nicely to the recent crossbow incident which I also saw and was also like you puzzled...why is this allowed, what need or use does a crossbow should be allowed to be used. It's not even used as a sport etc.
And also the military industrial complex is of course as your leaned into such a driving factor. But I do think we need to reset the narrative and with this shooting happening on Republican turf maybe, just maybe, some Republicans might not feel the issue isn't just isolated to just a topic that is was seen as just a Democrat issue.
@@FilmNerdy I mean I said this in my own post, but I'm probably guilty of seeing the debate as a partisan one, and of sometimes lacking sympathy or making judgements about people in US who use/promote guns, and I have very strong personal feelings about gun culture and the gun reform movement that are aligned with the political/social left. But your point is a noble and human one, it is always the system that is ultimately to blame, and it does make me believe that real reform can only happen if there is open and honest dialogue and not just endless blaming or bad-faith arguments. It probably is helpful for the Republican cause that they can paint Democrats as the anti-constitutional nanny-state commies who want to take away their guns. And yes, the debate has to start with banning assault rifles and automatic guns that are clearly designed for warzones and/or to kill humans at range in high numbers. People can still have their single-shot hunting rifles, or small handguns with 7-10 round magazines. That seems to me a reasonable starting point.
And I learnt in the aftermath of the crossbow incident that it is indeed a sport, albeit a niche one, and that sports/hobby shops are the kinds of places where people are able to buy a crossbow. And that makes sense to me, I mean archery is still in the Olympics, but I was completely ignorant of this fact, until of course some nutjob decided to buy one and use it to kill people. Sad.
And on the military industrial complex, it's interesting to note, on the subject of partisanship, that the specific term was used by a Republican president - Dwight D. Eisenhower. He saw the path that America was going down, and tried to warn them. If only they'd listened, I guess.
As a American I don't agree with this. Isn't about left or right for what I'm about to say.
If you believe that just because the government has nuclear weapons, aircraft, warships, tanks, etc that means we can't fight a tyrantical government is ridiculous. You cant nuke your own population, jets and tanks can only be used in open fields (aircraft less likely but unless you want to bomb cities with possibly hundreds of thousands of collateral that'll give fuel to the rebels.) Tanks do not do well in urban warfare. Look up the recent Russio-Ukranian war. Rn the US stands at 1 million service members in all branches (including nation guards) compared to the hundreds of thousands of Militas that dot the US and knows the lands generally better than a average service member. It'll be guerilla warfare. I don't need to tell you how well we did when our adversary used those tactics. Vietnam.
As for why you need such "machines" it's a great equalizer. I get the British doesn't understand because their empire died in the 90s so now they're stuck as the size of one of our states. But you don't give someone a fair fight. That's not how you win. In fact that's how you will easily die. Someone tried to stab me I'm hitting him with .45 caliber rounds. A person won't drop dead from a single bullet. Hell rarely you can survive a headshot. Bullets and humans are weird. They do weird stuff and what should "kill" us sometimes is survivable. Now to go back. Adrenaline, possible drugs in the system. Will make you much tougher. You don't shoot once to wound because then the person can charge at you despite having a hole. It's all over the Internet. Trust me I seen it on many occasions. Also the reason we shoot to kill is the attacker can sue us and take our money that way, then we get charged, and lose our rights. It happens a lot.
Now for the reverse. Britain, Scotland, Ireland, and Prince of Whales (I believe that's all that makes the UK) have very restricted gun laws. Yes I'll give you that gun crime is non existent. Yet knife crime is out of control. You cant even buy a kitchen knife without needing to microchip it to "prevent crimes". You also have very crappy laws with self defense. In fact you legally can't. Because if you went "too far" you are charged instead.
Now I said enough and about to go do some chores. I'll leave with this final.
Humans will always find ways to kill one another. Be it with sticks or nuclear weapons. You should never be restricted or willing to give up your rights for security. "If someone is willing to give liberty for security. They do not deserve neither" -Ben Franklin. We have the second amendment for a reason. It should never be infringemed. You can't back up your freedoms if your claws are dulled. It always annoyed me how European looks at us like we're gun crazy killers when they got much more issues, my ancestors escaped Ireland from the Irish Potato Famine and came to America for a reason. Freedom. But if we give up our firearms, how can we have freedom be ensured? I don't need to go far to show what a government will do to a unarmed population. If you think they won't. They will. China, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, I could go on. Do not respond until you read it, and reread it. This is the most civil I been involving my rights. Besides all that I enjoy this channel for not diving into politics. Good day.
@@StefanWB Alexander Hamilton most certainly knew that firearm technology would progress beyond the musket… because it already had by the time he was born.
Most people vastly underestimate how advanced firearm technology had become by the time of the Revolutionary War.
LMFAO the only history teacher I can remember is my "American History" junior year in 2007. The reason I remember him is because as a Chicago suburb he was Pimping Obama incredibly hard. I have Hereditary chronic migraine, so I missed 40ish days a year! That being said he seriously disliked me for bringing up Dr Ron Paul and his ideas. He would almost exclusively teach African American American history then he'd give you, his finale. A week before the end of the semester he would give his students a 50-100 page packet of the state curriculum that was needed to pass the state mandated finale! Another state mandated test was the US Constitution test, which I was the only student that year to get 100%! I failed US History in my junior year and was forced to retake it during summer school. Where I met one of my favorite teachers of all time, I knew 100% of the normal course. The summer school teacher pulled me aside and asked why I had failed; I explained my medical issues and what the first teacher had done. When I told the summer school teach what happened he immediately went quiet and excused me. My senior year I purposefully took law as my "history credit" to have that great teacher and passed with a low A. The cherry on top is 2 years later I learned what happened, the first teacher was fired and went on to be the ticket guy at the door of the local Sams Club!
There is a gun culture, and there is a violence culture in the US. Both aren't equal, most gun owners aren't violent people, and most violent people aren't gun owners
This is just as dumb as sueing Remington because their gun was involved.
Brandon films a lot of new stuff, at Demolition Ranch range.
If the guy had been a fan of cannibal corpse for a hypothetically and he had done this in a Cannibal corpse shirt...
Do we get angry at the band for the guy buying their merchandise...
Same here it's just an unfortunate circumstance
Brandon Harrarra just released a video about recreating trump’s attempted assassination
Would like to see a reaction
If you've watched Brandon Herrera him and this guy are really good friends you should watch his reaction to finding out the shooter was wearing his shirt
It's rather understandable but also insulting that he even needs come out and explain to the public that he isn't connected to the shooter. Should every person with their own merch brand have to apologize for the actions of some random idiot doing heinous shit that just so happened to wear it on that point in time? The answer is no.
The only reason hes being forced to make response video is because of the media slandering his name, brand, and the community around it. The is media eager to jump on any chance to promote anti 2nd amendment propaganda like they always do when some idiot does a school shooting and it just so happens that the shooter played a lot of COD, GTA, MW, Doom, Halo, etc.
Matt is one of the best dudes on RUclips. His channel is stuff like "what happens when you shoot a 50lb block of copper". The tee-shirt company is there for other creators to put out murch. So much more.
I hate that he had to put out this video. I get it. But if the shooter had been wearing a steelers jersey, would a rooney need to come out and say "killing people bad". No
Imagine someone tried to assassinate trump and finding out they were wear your merch
How does it feel to document history in real time? Like an historian archiving newspapers articles Because you know that it is important.
bro should make a "POLITICAL VIOLENCE IS CRINGE" shirt and wear it in his next video
THANK YOU for your nuanced interpretation EH!🍁🍁🍁🍁
You should check out his shooting contests 😂 he's super funny and everyone is light hearted. Hell him and Herrera are like the only non vets in the group. Well he's a vet but not a vet lol
Dr. Matt “Demo” Carriker is such a great dude and a wonderful Brother in Christ!
I dont feel bad for some gun youtuber, who never made it clear to his audience about violence, i feel sorry for the family of corey R.I.P
didn't his younger brother past away from cancer... I remember that video from matt..
His T-shirt company does the merch for Fat Electrition, Brandon Herrera, Angry Cops, and all the Unsubscribe podcast host
Please check out his content, even if it doesn't fit the theme of this channel!
No, he has no need of expressing any political view because as a 2A person he is considered Right Wing automatically!
There isn’t anything that can be done people wear what they wear a social media influencer isn’t responsible for what people buy to wear just bc they make merchandise for people to buy and wear that kid could have easily bought that shirt at a thrift store for all anyone knows and if it was a planned thing it could have been worn on purpose we will never know until someone fesses up if that is the case and I doubt that would happen
Not only was demo ranch wrongly associated with the shooter, youtube is coming down hard on guntubers making content. Entertaiment and knowledge for 15+ years now frowned upon because of draconian guidelines. No word about the fixing spam chatbots in the comments linking to illegal content though.
Matt is such a cool guy and has a fun channel. Sucks to see this happen
Another gun issue is are u American or not. Im Australian and like Australian gun laws it works here. Jim Jeffery's is an Aussie in America that explains it well .
Not Matt's fault. Also they make good shirts. Super comfy lol
I was once cut off by someone with a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. I’ll never forgive Bernie.
To be fair, if they have Bernie merch they are indeed more likely to be assholes.
@@theconservativeknight1883 yeah. Champagne socialists very typically are assholes. Full of resentment and envy.
Why wouldn't you cover it? It's history in the making! People will talk about this event for years and I'm sure it will influence security protocols going forward in a big way.
Just wanted to let you know you misspelled demolition ranch in the title
The idea we are calling things guntuber where we are blurring powerful weapons as entertainment or fun is a bit disturbing imo.
Weapons, in the traditional sense, are not there for entertainment or fun. Its there for safety, defense or to assault.
The fact their is a community and calling themselves so gleefully as "guntubers" or "gunatainment" distorting guns for entertainment value is probably part of the "cultural" and "philosophical" problems when we are labelling weapons. I know its just a name and genre but come on.
I don't believe the scumbag was a fan of Matt's. I think he wanted to damage Matt's reputation
So what we in Germany still have the Iron Cross on our Bundeswehr vehicles.
Its not his fault.
Matt is just a dude who likes guns, loves his family and uses his success on RUclips to do videos he'd want to watch as a kid. Anybody who does accuse him or THE BULK of his fanbase in involvement is not doing their research or are biased or something
unless you said: go injure that person/ ruin their business/ make falls claims about them, you are not responsible for anything they do.
Demo is thee most wholesome and non political RUclipsr out there… which is weird considering stuff.
@4:14 100%!!!
I feel like I am missing some social nuisance here. Why was this video made? It seems pretty obvious that he has nothing to do with the guy or at the very least would claim he didn't if he did.
While I think his response was pretty good, Im pretty sure he has a hat that says “make politicians scared again”, which you would think is probably not the best message to send even if you try to say oh that wasnt the intention
Politicians should be scared not of violence but of being voted out which is why he wore that hat when his friend { the AK Guy} was trying to up seat an incumbent congressman in a runoff.
It was a Brandon Herrera hat during his campaign run. Because he's "just" a RUclipsr. The meaning is that you don't have to be a career politician to run for office and try to make a difference.
Matt of Demolition Ranch is close friends with Fat Electrian, Brandon Herrera and thr rest of the unsub cast.
Hi new here, am just watching anything that has to do with the shooting of trump, and there something u said about people that go to the shooting range and need to fill out a form, well my son was 21 and he was I guess subscribe to a shooting range here in Wisconsin and I didn’t know, he ended up buying a gun may 18 online and did store pick up on Tuesday may 21 and killed him self may 22, now I don’t know all this works, all I know all the information I got from he’s phone and with the email confirmation and purchase date and I went tru he’s room and found the receipt with the date he went to pick it up. He passed all the background check and what ever else is needed I don’t know am not interested in learning how to get a gun. My son had untreated ADHD, no drugs use, no alcohol use, no smoking. He was only a gamer that had just built hes own gaming PC and had a job that paid him 20 an hour, I don’t know how he passed the checks they do to get a gun and him having mental issues, he wanted Me to give him permission to have a gun in the house for safety reasons and I told him no because u r not mentally ok and u have a younger brother with autism. I miss him every day and I wish he didn’t pass them paper to be able to purchase a gun.
As someone with autism/ADHD this broke my heart to read. I am so sorry.
@@StefanWB thank u I’ve been doing some research trying to find answers or anything that can help me understand why, but I’ve found out that there a certain percentage of people with ADHD and autism that don’t commit suicide but there is that other percentage that does. I know He would be so hard on myself with any little task and I tried my best to understand him because I knew he saw things differently than me. We where on the process of getting our credit score better, we had plans for the future but I guess it just wasn’t going to happen
So, reaction to new TFE when? Freaking great
I haven’t seen any evidence of that chump being a fan of demolition ranch…
>Supports violence and guns for years
>Violence with guns happens
> 😮 noooo its not my fault 😢
Just another case of tigers eating faces
Brandon covered it in his emergency meme review. Which I'm guessing ylur reaction to it is coming soon.
Well this is an unexpected
So this guy is friends and business associates with Nick (the fat electrician). Matt’s company makes TFEs shirts.
Yo Mr terry how are you
Love ya mr Terry