It’s sad but getting into an accident or having something happen during a getaway is more likely. The stress alone can get to people. Happens a lot more than you think. You always hear about someone doing something very stupid and finding out they have a bunch of drugs on them or just did a burglary, or killed someone… that’s the second layer where cops catch people, the first is during the crime for level of stupidity
Naaa. I am sure it was just one of those new fangled self-incendiary hedges - and little Simon running around with a bunch of matches at the scene of the crime is just pure incedence.
I did laugh out loud at the “I love your ice tea Arizona” - I believe unloading a firearm to scare a family is definitely illegal all over the US. Yes, even here.
@@EvanDizasterousDefinitely at the least its a negligent discharge. But it's almost certainly a more serious charge.. especially cause it isnt accidental or 'negligent'. Just drawing or even flashing your gun to someone without a valid reason.. is a felony if im not mistaken.
All of social media sucks. At least here on yt you can choose what to watch. For some reason Reddit Facebook and Twitter just expose you to the deepest darkest depths of stupidity.
And yet Simon uses Twitter. I don't understand why people hate FB so much. I have tons of real-life friendships formed from FB. The format allows for regular interactions. It allows for long-form discussions about serious issues. Twitter is just strangers being mean to each while everyone else tries to one-up each other with witty one-liners.
As an American, I find your poor grasp of American geography to be exceptionally entertaining. Never change. EDIT: Everyone misinterpreted my comment. It was literal, not sarcastic or judgemental. I have no problem with Simon not knowing American geography. Why should he?! I get genuine enjoyment from this, and legitimately don't want him to change in this context.
Simon: The hedge caught fire we don't know how.. also Simon 5 minutes later.: I loved blowing stuff up as a kid ...Hmmm wonder how that hedge caught. :/
You can either be right. Or you can be happy. The choice is yours. Also, don't hose your spouse or murder your children. These little things will go a long way
Callum might be the only guy who is more “savage” than Simon These are the best Callus’s scripts are hilarious and Simon is always funny so together they are epic
They really are! Simon always apologizes for his tangents but they (along with the truly top-notch research and writing, and his decision to refrain from reading the occasional excessive, gory details) are the reason why this is the only crime channel on which I watch every episode. You guys are the best!
Texan here. As parents we are well aware that the kiddos will very likely come across less secure gun storage methods at other people's homes (I have been at a friend's grandfather's house where there was a gun in every room; it wouldn't surprise me if they were loaded). We are also aware they will likely want to go hunting. Teaching gun safety and how to properly handle a firearm is a defensive and proactive move.
Thank you, I'm tired of his one track mind of "who give guns to kids?" My brother kept a loaded shotgun behind his dresser where my 4 year old niece could get it. Irresponsible IMHO but teaching her age appropriate gun safety was absolutely needed. Would I keep a loaded gun where my toddler could get it? HELL NO. But if Simon took 2 mins to research he'd sound a lot less stupid when it comes to that.
@@H-uz8qp Well you see if I kept my shotgun unsecured I could be arrested and my shotgun would be removed and the gun store would be politely informed that this guy is not getting a new one for like a year. You see precisely because a child could get to it. It is the gun owners responsibility to secure the weapon. That is the Nr.1 requirement to own a weapon in Non-America. It's like teaching kids how to deal with a shooter. Like Jesus... a lot had to go wrong so you need to explain to your kid when Timmy shows up with an AR you have to hide etc... In a warzone ok a peaceful democracy? The fact it's necessary to teach kids gun safety means the system has already failed. If they wanna hurt, guess what that's when they learn gun safety. It's not for me but I do get it. Hunting is popular here. Very popluar. Shotguns free for sale at 18. So much for Europe takes your guns away... nah. Just has to be stored safely and you do have to show you're not a total psycho. Not shotguns though. They are considered "part of a home" like a car or bike or TV.
Yea, his response sounds like 'Why give kids sex education, can't we just not let kids have sex until they're 18? Can we?!" Yea, in an ideal world that would be great Simon, but I hope you don't follow that logic because you're going to be sorely mistaken when your kid gets pregnant or someone else pregnant because you felt like teaching them about something that can be risky wasn't appropriate.
And the humor, don't forget the humor. I watch a ton of true crime and history stuff but Simon (& Danny) always bringing the stories and the funnies. Is Danny or Callum the writer for this channel?? I don't remember 🤔
I was 11 or 12 when I first took a class on gun safety. Honestly, it was really good. Really drilled the rules into our heads and gave us a healthy respect for the things, but not fear.
I also learned gun safety as a kid/pre-teen. Of course I was never allowed to handle a loaded weapon until I was about 18 (other than a bee bee gun). It started with just learning the rules without being able to touch the gun. When I got older, I was allowed to handle an unloaded weapon, as a teenager I was allowed to shoot a bee bee gun, and at around 18 I was allowed to fire a real pistol at a gun range while under extremely close supervision. If you just hand a gun to a 21 year old who has zero training, they're likely to do something stupid like point it at someone or lay their finger near the trigger. You want to start teaching the safety rules *before* someone is old enough to handle the gun. That way, when they're old enough to actually fire one, they've already not only learned the safety rules, but made them a habit. Also, if the kid is growing up in a household with guns around they need to be educated so they don't do something stupid if they come across one. My parents kept their guns in a safe, but sometimes mistakes are made and it's better for the kid to be educated than ignorant.
Same here. I am always legitimately interested to hear the perspectives of people who didn't grow up around firearms, especially Simon's. It's something that I take for granted, I guess. My family has guns, I have guns, all of my neighbors have guns. We live in a rural area, and it's just a tool for protection (humans and wildlife). The last gun-related crime in this area was years ago.
@@bacongod4967 Formal classes definitely aren't needed if a parent or someone like that knows and respects best practices. It's really not that complicated. You need to know your gun, and beyond that the basics apply to everything about the same.
I'm slightly concerned that my feels good hobby craft doll making subscription and my gruesome murder podcast have collided... Is this a sign of more spooky dolls outside of Halloween?
@@jrbcnchz It doesn't help when things are taken from native names, because english isn't already enough of a mess. I hope this doesn't sound racist, I'm canadian and my friends say the same thing about the french names of places
Simon, fun (?) fact, it’s actually really hard to tell when somebody died. Rigor mortis varies from person to person, along with temperature after death and even bacteria. We think it’s an accurate science because CSI and court lawyers make it seem so, but it’s actually fairly difficult and ends up being a pretty wide guess. If you wanna know more, I’d recommend Stiff by Mary Roach, it’s a pretty fascinating book about what happens to bodies after they die, with everything from body farms to water cremation to weird science experiments. (P.S. I’m not a forensic pathologist or anything like that, I just am interested in forensics, so I might of phrased things badly or repeated information incorrectly, take what I say with a grain of salt)
I will now be pausing CC to find that book. Thank you kind sir/ madame for a very interesting book plug. Edit: for any other curious ppl, she's called "America's funniest science writer" and also has a book called Gulp, Adventures of the alimentary canal. Looks fun!!
I think because of those things they tend to look for brain activity because due to the legal definition of death being no or very limited brain activity. You can still have a heartbeat and all your other vitals but if there's no brain activity for a sustained period of time there's no way this person can carry on living because theres no coming back usually from zero or minimal brain activity
@@ozzyd2679 yeah, thats pretty accurate for hospital situations. I just mean when someone died when they weren’t being monitored, such as they were murdered or they had a stroke in their sleep, it’s hard to tell when they died. So say someone was murdered, and the main suspect was in the area around 9:00. The body may only be able to be estimated to have died between 3:00 and 9:00. Or even just estimated to have died that day. A good defense lawyer could argue against that, and call it circumstantial evidence. It gets really tricky really fast.
If you are interested in those things and haven't stumbled upon her channel yet, you might want to check out "Ask a Mortician" on RUclips. She has a dark yet great sense of humor while remaining serious and respectful when needed (that's just my opinion of course).
As an American, I know far too many people who suck at British accents. However, most foreign English speakers can do our accents so well. Simon, your southern accent is BRILLIANT!!
@herrikudo the words are a lot alike. However, Creole has lots of French in it. Plus, the southern drawl is a challenge. I've been told I have a Californian accent, although I can't hear it. Even after living in Southern Utah for seventeen years.
@richardcranium3579 I did not say Southern Utah is the South. I was just specifying where in Utah I lived. Now to be more specific, Santa Clara on the border of Saint George, in the county of Washington.
Dude, being a US Navy Seal is tough. I trained, and was sworn into the Royal Marines in England. The training was quite literally the hardest thing I will ever do in my whole life. It's not just physical, it's mental. Imagine being locked into a cage a bit larger than a coffin and having Rudyard Kipling's poem, "Boots" at ear-splitting volume on a loop. You should do a podcast on it.
Thank you for your sacrifices on behalf of all of our freedom. As a cousin from across the pond, I'm especially grateful for the support the Royal Marines gave us in the GWOT.
I've only listened to a bit of that boots poem ONCE and if I had to listen to it like that, I either would have disassociated so hard I forgot my own name, or I would have clawed my way out and gone on a rampage. Either way, you have to be made of stern stuff to tolerate the bs yall get put through, so props to you guys.
@@TheCasualCriminalist This is honestly my favorite concept of how to tell your stories. Personally, BB is a bit over the top at times, while the other channels sometimes lack a bit of personality. This is the perfect mix between the two for me, keep up the great work!
Simon: *clearly reads that the man goaded a dog into atacking his dog, giving him an excuse to shoot the other dog* Also Simon:*seemingly didn't understand what he jsut read and thinks the man killed his own dog, and then gets confused when the dog is brought up again*
Firearm safety is something that should be taught to all children as early as possible to stop the chance of them playing with one if they ever come in contact with one at a friend's house. It's much easier to know that they will respect a firearm and know what to do properly than to have to be that parent getting the call about their child. Edit: It's very illegal to fire a firearm into the air because what comes up must come down.
Despite living on a farm in Bumfuck Nowhere, Montana, my dad would spend the winters in Mesa, Arizona, and according to the story he told me, kids really do need gun safety there. In middle or high school, he took a class that included gun safety and he was the only one in the room who knew to always treat a gun like it is loaded. That lesson resulted in everyone but him nearly going deaf after the teacher discharged the gun after showing it was empty and sneakily sliding a live round into it. So, maybe a kid gun-safety course is a good idea, especially if one is in the house or you go hunting often. Edit: It was a blank and not a live round in the mid-70s in a class about outdoor living and survival.
@@chriskolb3105 It was Arizona in the late 60s to early 70s. I remember the story of the teacher loading the rifle with a trick of the hand to where people couldn't see and my dad telling me that since he learned early on back home in Montana to always treat a gun like it was loaded, he had a feeling the teacher would discharge the rifle and he did. It could have been an after school class or something, either way, the point is that he was the only one in a room of kids from the city to know to ALWAYS treat every gun as if it is loaded along with never point it at something (even if you believe it is unloaded) unless you plan on shooting it, thus making gun safety courses for kids (especially those who have them in the house and often go hunting) a good idea.
no, that never happened in mesa. not at school, not during school hours, anyway. I've been here since '66, I would have heard. maybe during ffa or boy scouts,. my next-door neighbor shot herself in the leg when she was out riding her horse. i personally murdered a carpet in chandler, but that was the cop's fault. he showed me wrong how to decock a pistol. damn carpet was a week old.
We had gun safety awareness - not getting to hold or shoot them mind you- several times in grade school. Similar to the fire & weather safety bits and the DARE (or what ever it was called then) presentations. This was in the 70s/80s in Minnesota. We also had actual gun safety class for the NRA, scouts and FFA that would be on school grounds but not technically a class in school. Although, that distinction might not be made by lots of people in their memories.
Arizona resident here: It’s absolutely insane how terrible many of the gun owners safety is around here. I have many friends who have taken safety classes, or handle firearms often and still don’t treat the weapon with the proper respect. Someone I used to know once held a revolver to my other buddies chest and continually pulled the trigger. The gun was empty, thank God. When I told him to knock it off, he laughed, put it to his head, and continued to pull the trigger repeatedly. He was also high as shit...
Simon, in free states like AZ, you have to be 21 to buy a handgun, 18 to buy a long gun. But refusing to teach a kid about gun safety until it's old enough to buy one without you is like refusing to teach a kid about where babies come from until the second grandchild.
@@Yog-slagunarYeah but that's a bigger risk if they somehow DO end up accessing the firearms. Its better to familiarize & normalize childeren with guns, to teach proper safety rules.. But to mainly remove the mystery & curiosity to avoid them wanting/trying to sneak around and play with guns. Cause thats when most of the child related accidents happen.
Give me chlamydia once… shame on you. Give me chlamydia twice… shame on me. Give me chlamydia thrice… then oh my god I should probably stop texting you when I’m drinking -true words of wisdom from Callum
By Federal Law, anybody under 18 can't be in possession of a firearm unless supervised by an adult. Many states have firearms safety classes for young people who want to hunt with their parents. They are generally considered to be very worthwhile. In most cases, murder is not a federal crime. However, the charge of Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution is a federal crime and allows the FBI to be involved in the manhunt.
The main reason kids get shot by other kids is that they found a gun and treated it like a toy since they were never taught gun safety. Start teaching them as soon as they can understand such concepts.
Simon- I live in Arizona and I remembered when this happened. My friend actually lived down the street from the house. Also, 2 things. 1- I worked with someone who was friends with the family and even attended the same church. He said that Robert was a nice man, but there was something off about him, which we all know now. 2- Arizona brand tea isn't from Arizona. It's made in NY.
23:45 I've never been a "kid person", not before I became a mom or after, but I love my own. I definitely get it. The love I have for my children is so intense that I wouldn't hesitate to charge full steam ahead into the scariest scenario I can imagine if that's what I had to do to save them. It's not that my fear would disappear, but rather it would be totally eclipsed by the fear of something bad happening to my children. That fear trumps the rest and can make you act in ways that are almost superhuman.
Lol about Callum escaping. I have binge watched every CC episode and was sad when I realized there wasn’t more and then started wondering if more were coming cause it had been a couple of weeks.
Who says he didn't? Simon surely has an excellent security system in place, but Calum is a smart guy. I can see him being at large for 3-6 days, which would interfere with production.
Gun safety for kids isn’t about teaching kids to use guns. It’s about teaching them how not to shoot themselves or their friends or something by accident. I guess it’s possible for some kids in the US to not come in contact with a firearm and have no adults around. But I don’t know where or how. It’s almost a certainty that a gun will at some point end up in the hands of one of their friends and if nobody actually knows how to safely handle it and make it safe the newspapers are going to be printing the story of a tragedy. Kids should not have access to firearms without adult supervision. But they’re not supposed to be drinking liquor and smoking cigarettes either. The reality of firearm proliferation means doing what you can to make a bad situation as safe as possible.
Growing up without unattended contact with guns isn't that rare, I don't think. I grew up in a generic US small town in an otherwise rural area and while most of my friends' families had guns in the house (my mother wouldn't allow it for us), we never had the chance to so much as hold one without one of the dads around. In that environment at that time at least, long guns were a lot more common than handguns and those were harder to gain access to. I don't think I handled a handgun before I was 25 or so. All that said, while it's hardly inevitable, I do agree that the risk of kids gaining access to firearms is high enough to warrant training.
Yeah - I started shooting when I was about 6. With the total supervision of my parents, beginning with BB guns/pellet guns/bows and moving up to more 'real' firearms, not like handing a 6 year old a 12 gauge and telling them to go have fun xD but courses like that are a great way to build the foundation of gun safety even when the guns in a household are handled safely and properly (we had a gun safe that only my mom/dad had the key to). I'm absolutely not down for letting children own or freely use guns, but in communities where guns and hunting are very common, teaching them to respect firearms from a young age isn't a bad idea imo
Callum's chlamydia joke was genuinely hilarious 😂 P.S that Wells Fargo driver who took off with 7 million and vanished for over 3 decades is my Hero!!!! I'd say many people have thought about it but he actually pulled it off!!!
Hey Simon, One of the points of teaching gun safety to children is so they know what not to do if they encounter one. Also, love your commentary and narration in general.
I for one find it hilarious that almost everyone appears to be a hypocrite. Ideological lines only appear to influence the direction of the hypocrisy, not so much its magnitude. For instance, to the dispassionate rational observer who has no prior indoctrination, the exact same argument applies to teaching both sex and gun safety. The latest iteration of this (again in 'murica) appears to be bodily autonomy, where both "sides", if you can call them that, insist on the government dictating what people do or don't do with their bodies in one instance, while being absolutely adamant that it shouldn't in another. They keep on reframing and rationalising ad infinitum, claiming to stand for some grander issue (education, bodily autonomy, freedom of expression, etc.) so as to make themselves sound principled, but really it's down to fractured ideology, a sprinkle of personal experience and a dollop of wishful thinking. All of a sudden it's not so funny any more :(
@@233kosta this. I used the same example about teaching safe sex in my explanation for why gun safety should be a course offered by all high schools and maybe even younger
Ya, "if you're old enough to pick one up, you're old enough to know what not to do." My sister and BIL keep theirs under lock & key except when teaching their kids how to not hurt themselves or anyone else
@@jacquelynsmith2351 What happens when you do that is you create artificial desire just by denying access. There's no good reason not to go to the range and have some fun every once in a while. It's also a better way to teach how to be safe and responsible.
I laughed for a minute straight at the assertion that Arizona is next to Alabama. I’m not on Twitter but it’s my fervent hope that someone tweeted a map of the US with Arizona and Alabama circled at Simon.
@ConfusedOilPainter i do. it would be disconcerting to wake up in Alabama. waking up in Arizona is bad enough, of course at my age, just waking up is an accomplishment.
@ConfusedOilPainter - I think you need some more chocolate in your life. You seem awfully pissy for no good reason. Go hug a family member or friend. ❤️
@@bluepvp900 - nope! 😁 Not in the slightest. I don’t get why y’all’s reaction was so negative. I thought it was hilarious that Whistler got this mixed up. If I did something similar to England’s geography, I’d laugh just as hard at myself. This was not bashing on Fact Boy - I’m one of his biggest fans. I am subscribed to every one of his channels and love watching him. I was laughing WITH Fact Boy bc it was a funny mixup. No hate here. Now go eat some chocolate, y’all, and pet your dog. It’s all gonna be good, promise. ❤️
The gun safety for kids thing is usually a class for children in a home where someone owns a gun. And it is mostly focused around keeping the child from shooting themselves or others if they find the gun out for some reason. Basically, it has been found if you keep the gun locked up and don't let the child even touch it, if (or when, kids being kids...) they do find it, or the keys to the gun safe, or whatever, they are likely to play with it. The gun safety course for children is to demystify the firearm so they don't -have the urge to find and play with it outside of controlled circumstances.
Also just instilling leasons such as barrel awareness, checking to see if it is loaded, and knowing about different safeties at young ages makes for good habits when they get older.
I have four children half have an interest in guns, half don't, either way they all know the 4 fundamental rules of firearm safety. They also know how to drop a mag and unload the chamber, regardless of rather they want anything to do with them, knowing how to take the danger out of the equation is a must in my book.
My dad has taught Hunters Safety classes--officially, to adults as well as children, on a bona fide shooting range. I grew up knowing how to handle, clean, and be safe with a firearm. While I was recovering from my brain injury, the family went out to practice shooting; I don't remember what happened, but it was determined that I can no longer handle a firearm safely, and since I did at one time know how to do so, and since I'm painfully aware of my problems with impulse control, I agree.
I'll bet the family of the woman that was shot by Alec Baldwin wished he'd had a gun safety class or two. The classes are a necessary evil that goes along with the necessary evil of the gun. And yes, kids should be taught gun safety as well, considering it is all too easy for some to buy guns on the street and you can't possibly hover over them 24/7. I have also taught my children about drugs so they are not so enticing when I'm not around them.
Hot Take: Gun Education for children is a good thing. I generally lean a little left, including on gun control. I spent my school days in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. On more than one occasion, I got to learn about gun safety (muzzle/trigger discipline, common sense for those who lack it, dealing with range mishaps and emergencies), gun cleaning and maintenance, various fire arms related groups (regulatory and sport), and obviously everyone's favorite part, I got to shoot .22cal rifles. I learned to respect fire arms as a tool, not get giddy about them as a toy. I think a fire arm is most dangerous in the hands of someone who doesn't respect it. I personally believe that widespread firearm education, even for youth in some scenarios, could be beneficial. (This is youtube and ill probs get death threats for this comment, but if you are interested in discussing views rationally, I'd love to hear from you!)
Personally the gun culture in the US horrifies me (as an Aussie), however I reckon you are right Austin. If such a culture is prevalent and gun ownership is relatively common (as is portrayed in parts of the US), then absolutely, appropriately supervised gun safety (such as in Scouting or other organisations) should be encouraged (if not mandated). Just like road safety and "stranger danger" is taught from an early age, I think age appropriate gun safety is a responsible approach to harm minimisation when the fact remains that, while I understand legislation is in place to protect minors from accessing firearms, the reality is that careless adults do not always ensure that is the case.
30:16 For me, killing animals, especially pets, is similar to killing human children. Both love you, are dependent on you, and can't usually defend themselves very well against an adult human. So, those factors compound to a cowardice and malice inherent to the killer that really pisses people off.
I wonder what effect on society being removed from a daily routine in slaughtering of animals for food. Im not a vegetarian or anything but I can absolutely tell if someone is dispassionate regarding the welfare of animals. Even relatively minor dispassion like not understanding that dogs arent meant to be thrown outside in some shitty backyard their entire lives. I also find it hard to believe that kids are getting satisfaction from killing animals randomly(like in the allegedly psycho way.) It seems more about curiosity than anything. granted i dont know any serial killers or known any kids that have killed something like a pet dog. yeahhh now im thinking its more than just especially pets now that i think about it. We kill animals for food & We euthanize pets out of compassion or other reasonable justifications so the killing itself doesnt seem to be the issue, right?
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 It might seem counterintuitive, but a farmer who slaughters their meat animals can be very compassionate toward animals. Their animals live wonderful lives, they just have one very bad day at the end. It's totally different from someone torturing animals. The former does their best to ensure the animal does not suffer while the latter enjoys the suffering of animals.
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 Dahmer started out by killing animals out of curiosity I think. Still, I agree that there are more children out there killing animals and they aren't necessarily all psychos, but I do believe that is an indicator that their parents didn't teach them compassion to living things.
The Simon/Calum combo is a favorite of mine. Excited to listen to this one. Not for the story (makes me sad) but more for Simons tangents and opinions😅
"Every child should have a gun when they're born." should be a bumper sticker in your store. I guarantee you'll sell a ton to people who don't understand the joke.
the image of the neighbors fighting the fire back with a garden hose … it’s not super crazy. like, you absolutely couldn’t put out the house on fire, but you can wet your own house down, so sparks don’t ignite anything. 🤷♀️
Yeah, most people refuse to use logic. They'd rather just state their opinion on how ridiculous something is. Plus and I'm sorry for this. But people like this dude running a True Crime channel is just kind of disgusting. You can't argue that this channel is for anything other than Revenue. That's why he runs like 8 at one time. Or voices them. I'm ok with people making money off true crime, but it's nice when they actually care about the victims and the families and even donate to the different things set up in a lot of these victims names. But. Nah. This dude just uses other people's trauma to make himself even more rich.
Simon, I'm a fan of all your channels, but The Casual Criminalist is my favorite. Your personality shines through, we get to hear your inner monologue when Callum gets into the gritty details, and Jenn is a gifted editor with an awesome sense of humor. Great teamwork, keep it up!
The case of Malcolm Naden would be a great topic for Casual Criminalist. He was Australia's most wanted fugitive for a while. I think it was the biggest manhunt in Australian history. He evaded capture for 7 years living in the Australian wilderness. My workmates happened to be staying at the same hotel where the police task force where stationed on the night of his capture. They knew something was up when all the cops suddenly rushed out of the restaurant halfway through dinner and sped off in a convoy.
I love seeing RUclipsrs I have been watching for a while blossom into something huge like Simon has. I remember watching Simon in TopTenz when he was clean shaven and stood in front of a blue background and averaged ~50k views depending on the content and maybe 700k subscribers. I got busy stopped watching for a while. And now with well over 1 1/2 million subscribers I came back to him and his channels sporting a glorious beard. He also just looked different. Better. Like he went from an amatuer of RUclips to an expert. It was so polarizing and even had me questioning if he was even the same person. Then I find out he has different channels like Biographics and Geographics. To Business/Brain Blaze and more. It's just nice to see a RUclipsr that is basically just starting out and then they actually become something. I wish I was able to see the entire slow transition of it. But just knowing that Simon became as successful as he is, it's nice. Well done Simon.
I took a gun safety class when I was 12, it's there because it's very common for kids to go hunting with their dads and participate in sports like trap shooting. You can't actually buy a gun until you're 18-21 depending on state and type.
Yeah I actually think it's pretty smart to teach kids who grow up in households with guns in them some gun safety and the fact that it's not a toy. Even if you don't plan on allowing them to handle a gun outside of the class it's still good for them to be knowledgeable enough to not do anything stupid should they ever accidentally get their hands on one without you knowing.
It’s like the case of John List. He justified himself by saying he was sending them to heaven now to prevent them going to hell later, but really he was killing them because he thought he was losing control.
@@phyllisdevries5734, divorce is a sin, so, no, I'm not wrong. Killing to avoid divorce is not uncommon. And please don't say "real christians" don't see divorce as a sin, or some variation of that. It's just a logical fallacy.
In case you're interested Simon, children can't have guns registered in their name but they can still have gun safety training. I had my daughter start going to safety training when she was 9 because I had guns and, while they are always locked away in a safe, I wanted her to have that training simply because the guns were/are in the home.
As someone who has never even been in the same room as I gun, I’m gonna ask something really ignorant. Is safety training learning how to shoot a gun somewhat safely? Or is it more, teaching kids that guns are dangerous, never point one at someone, kinda just general being safe around guns?
@@mckennariggins I can't speak for all instructors or what all parents teach their kids but when I first took my daughter it was to teach her what we would see as common sense... don't touch the gun, if you do touch a gun then don't point it at others, keep your finger off the trigger at all times, etc. The instructor we use is a retired navy seal, retired police officer, and now a retired DA investigator. He encouraged me to eventually teach her how to work a gun as well which I did. He gave a number of reasons why this is a good idea for households with guns, the main one being if I was to be incapacitated and she needed to defend herself. Since I first purchased a gun because we lived in a high crime area, I was a single mom, and our house had just been broken into, it didn't take much convincing to continue her training as she got older. She's 17 now and knows how to handle hand guns and rifles and we go target practicing when we can. We've never had a safety issue and I always keep our guns in a safe. She doesn't have the combination so we don't need to worry about friends getting access to them or anything like.
Even as someone without guns in my house this sounds smart. Thinking of a case where a child accidentally killed his friend because they picked up a gun and were playing around with it.
@@Jus.Keep.Swimming Oh, okay! I get it now. Thank you for explaining it so kindly, people are kinda mean on the internet sometimes when you ask about this kind of stuff :) I don’t feel comfortable using a gun myself or keeping one in my house, but your reasons make a lot of sense.
Sadly they updated the listing for him on the Most Wanted List. "He was removed from the List. "November 3, 2021, after it was determined that he no longer fit the criteria for inclusion on the List."
I moved into an apartment that shared a wall with neighbours where domestic violence was an issue. The first time I heard the guy yelling and things banging I called 911 because it really sounded like he was going to kill her (you could barely hear her, but could hear him very clearly). The maintenance guy (who let the cops in) then told me to call him first if it happened again (he knew it would). She'd been offered all sorts of help, programs, etc but refused so there was nothing anyone could do. It was extremely anxiety inducing to live next door to!
Nah, Putin is more buff and his back is good enough for diving, riding and other macho stuff. Also, he is way more competent, do you really think a former KGB boss couldn't successfully have faked a gas explosion? I would look around moonshine distillers who's still often explodes instead of leaders of powerful nations.
This case reminds me of several family annihilator cases, but especially that one in Great Britain where a Muslim father with a secret alcohol addiction burned down his house while his family slept, although he didn't get out in time. He was also severely burned, so he died afterwards. The sole survivor, a son who was in the hospital with terminal cancer at the time, refused to go to his father's funeral and died soon afterward. Family annihilators/domestic murderers are generally narcissists, and they either need control and kill their family when it looks like they won't be able to maintain it, including sometimes killing just their partner or the kids when the partner tries to leave them, the kids especially in cases where they might lose or are losing custody, because they'd rather kill their kids then let someone else have control of them, or they are trying to get out of the marriage without the expense and social stigma (in religious circles especially) of divorce, or they are just following a "the grass will be greener somewhere else" mentality. They're always selfish, they never take responsibility for their crimes, whether in writing or in person if they don't take themselves out, and they always blame others fro their crimes. "My partner made me do it, she was going to take the kids away!" stuff. If they take themselves out, it's just to avoid capture and punishment, a final act of control, but many are too selfish to do it. They often think that they're so brilliant no one will see through their amazing scheme/lies.
I had a teacher in highschool who called me side track. "Can you get the answer on the blackboard without getting sidetracked, side track?" Don't ever Stop your rambling!!! Legend, absolute legend!!
Simon was in detention for 9/11, that's kinda funny. I was home, suspended from school myself. It was pretty crazy though, because I was 12 and I was alone, and I tuned into the news inbetween the first and second plane. Also, how'd this whole thing come up on a true crime show about a guy who killed his family in a fire? Simons random tangents, that's how. I do love your adhd side storys simon, never change buddy, never change.
@@marenawheatley5260 yeah, now thag you mention it, I do. I'm kinda sad he didn't make his side story longer and tell the whole story like he normally does.
Gun safety classes - for normal people - are to make sure your kid knows they're dangerous and not to mess with them, if you happen to have a gun in the house. We have cougars and bears in the back yard so while we have a shotgun, it's locked up. When we go camping, we don't fire guns in the air (it's super dangerous), we sit around, the spouse drinks beer and watches movies, and I paint or knit. The kid - who's had a gun safety class - plays video games and gets cooking lessons. #HardCore He really does look like half the bellends who live around me.
Simon every child should understand the purpose and dangers of household tools. A chainsaw, knife, electrical outlet, ammonia, bleach, and firearms. They are in fact children and due to the romanticism the media has placed on firearms, it’s one of the most important things that a safety class would surely apply to. I love your Channels btw. I used to wonder how in the hell you can keep another new channel interesting while handling the 354 ones you already have but then, I watch and you find a way man. I admire that kind of organizational expansion. Something I couldn’t figure out.
As a lifelong Arizonan, watching Simon talk about Arizona is simply incredible. The line “If all the men in Scottsdale […], than the city has bigger problems than we’ve got time for today” had me cackling because the poorer parts of the Phoenix metro area talked so much shit about Scottsdale. My area called it “Snotsdale” and other areas of the city said “Snobsdale”. That is so very irrelevant, but that was all I could think about the rest of the video. Throwing shade at Scottsdale. 😂
I grew up in California in the 90s, we had a lot of earthquakes. I slept through a pretty bad one and woke up on the floor once... rattled right out of my bed.
One night I heard a banging on the wall and yelled at the cats for rampaging. It was only when it kept banging I realized it was a fairly hefty earthquake. Yup, the 90s. Only in neighboring Oregon.
I can't imagine why anyone would dislike this enough to hit the thumbs down button. Y'all are great! Your storytelling is so fun and interesting. It's the best way to spend a work day.
*Gun Safety* is a must to teach kids if they reside in areas where firearms are present. You wouldn't want little Johnny finding his parents gun, and then accidentally shooting themselves. Yes, the kid shouldn't have access to said gun, but anything can happen. Point being it is a must for youngers to learn the safety of firearms so they do not end up hurting themselves or someone else out of ignorance. Kids do not just run around with guns, and gun safety is just as much about not using the gun as it is for using it. Imagine a kid finding a gun in a ditch or somewhere tossed out by a criminal. If the kid knows gun safety, he would be less likely to pick that gun up knowing it could be loaded, and is dangerous. Failing to teach the kids about firearms, and well... Curiosity kills the cat.
@ConfusedOilPainter You must not of read my comment clearly. No, kids shouldn't have access to guns, but learning about them isn't a bad thing. Where I live we get a Certified Hunter Education card to show firearm safety. I got mine at the age of 11 before going hunting for the first time. Not once did I touch a weapon during the course. They had one for show, but the kids didn't handle the weapon. The course is to teach the proper usage of a firearm, and how to be safe with it towards yourself and everyone around. To call all "people" in America stupid just goes to show your own level of intellect. I personally do not own a gun. I have 2 boys of my own. I am going to get one for personal safety because I live out in the middle of nowhere where robbery happens often. I have chased people away in the past. Also for when we go hiking. Bear and coyotes are a problem in this area, and I need to be able to defend myself and kids. I choose to wait until both boys are old enough to learn properly, and obey the rules I make better. This is my opinion, and I know many gun owners who have safes for their weapons, and the kids have no way to get in the safe other than by code which is kept from them. To think it is pointless to have a child learn how to handle a weapon safely is just practicing ignorance.
@ConfusedOilPainter Also to add I will be getting a non-leathal home defense pistol the Byrna HD XL Orange, and a normal pistol for hiking. Both will be secured with gun safes of their own. Just owning these though, I will teach my boys that they are not toys, and the safes are NOT to be messed with what so ever. When they get older, then they can start practicing with the Byrna and other air guns.
I live in an area of the uk where a lot of people have firearms. We have legally mandated gun and ammo lockers at home (you get an inspection from the police)and I honestly can't remember the last time a kid got hold of a gun accidentally. Same in countries that have decent gun laws and high firearm ownership, ex Switzerland. Just because that's how it has to be in the weird dystopia of America right now don't think its how it has to be. Always find it interesting when people speak as if there is no other alternative. Kids do have firearm lessons (I could be wrong but it used to be from about 14) but it's designed around learning to shoot and general gun safety everyone gets and not because they might find them or need to know.
Canadian here, grew up in a rural area where there was usually a rifle somewhere near the door in case a bear came by that needed chasing off. And I know that when I was a kid, if one kid knew where an adult had a rifle stashed, then pretty much every kid did. In any case, for both our kids, we started to teach them gun safety (with like little springloaded bb pistols, or an Airsoft one, or even their Nerf guns, not real ones) pretty much as soon as they could walk. Taught them the basic parts to them; taught them muzzle control ("Never point your gun at anything you aren't trying to kill"); taught them trigger control ("Never put your finger on the trigger until you're ready to shoot"); taught them to *always* assume it's loaded unless YOU YOURSELF have checked it over (or had it shown to you step by step if you don't know how to do it; basically it's take out the ammo, open the chamber, look and make sure it's clear, *feel* that the barrel there is empty with the tip of your finger (because a bullet can be jammed partway in and be hard to see), and then, if you're using military rules, point it in a safe direction in case of accidental discharge, pull the trigger, cycle the chamber, and pull the trigger again-- and if that had been followed then Alec Baldwin would not have been handed a loaded gun, and also he would not have believed it to be empty just because he had been told so. MASSIVE failure there!!). They know that they are NOT allowed to touch any guns they come across. They know that if they come across one outside then they are to stay and guard it so no other kids get into it, and send someone back for an adult, who will bring in the police, because no one leaves their guns around outside if they haven't been up to stuff. But also, if they DO come across one, at least they have an idea of just how dangerous they are, and know how to keep themselves and their friends safe. We even enforce muzzle control with their Nerf guns. There's this point of view I've seen in some parents that teaching little kids to swim is actually more dangerous and likely to lead to their drowning, because then both you and the kid are likely to be overconfident in their skills, and not pay as much attention around water as you should, because, hey, they can swim, right? Our own take on it is that ignorance is *never* the answer to a potential danger.
Simon, you are the voice in my head! Please continue to be the epic RUclips hero we need! Please do an episode on the disappearance of Susan Powell. It's a pretty crazy story!
I for one enjoyed Simon's slept through an earthquake tangent. In 2005, I decided to sleep through Hurricane Katrina because if I was going to die I wanted to be asleep for it!
"THERE IS NO BREAKFAST FOR NAVY SEALS" sounds like a bumper sticker on a Ford f150 that would cut me off to get into the McDonald's drive thru before me
People who don't have children haven't experienced the incredible fear of waking up the first time your first child sleeps all the way through the night as you run for their crib/room to check to see if they are still breathing.
I experienced that with taking care of my mother for almost 10 years who eventually succumbed to Congestive Heart Failure and non-Alzheimer's Dementia.
@@curiouslyme524 I had forgotten ... what that was like also, my apologies. Lost my mother 4 years ago to rapidly moving liver cancer, mercifully only experienced that for days not years.
My kids are trained in gun safety. Not because they own one 🤣.... But because not everyone is a responsible gun owner. I want them to assume all guns are loaded and no gun is a toy (unless it's by Nerf). Gun safety should be taught because they could come across a gun outside our home. But none of our kids actually own a gun. Just to clarify ... 💯✌️
Hey Simon...First off let me say I love your vids! I do want to say as someone that has grown up in a gun culture. One of my earliest memories is going hunting with my dad with a cap gun, to help me learn gun safety at an early age. Then learning to shoot a 4 10 shot gun behind dads mine, then spending every Thanksgiving week with my cousins and great uncle, before my dad could join us, hunting. All this was before I was 13.... I only keep one gun in my house nowadays for personal defense, but I've trained my daughter on how to properly handle a gun, hopefully she never has to. Long story short, it's never to early to learn how to handle a firearm.
Dad gave me a .38 when I left home. I'm much better with a rifle, but I could use the pistol, if needed. There were times, in my younger years when I often lived in rough, remote places, that I carried it.
I am absolutely not critisizing anyone, but this just sounds so alien to me (Im from Finland). I took a moment to think about this while watching this video, but I really cant recall ever seeing a real gun, any kind of gun, in my life. There is hunting of course, but if you are not doing that, there really isnt much of a chance to even see, let alone handle a gun. The idea of having to learn anything about gunshas never entered my head.
One thing a lot of people ignore when discussing this issue is that teaching children to safely handle dangerous things (firearms, knives, power tools, heavy equipment, etc.) imparts a sense of responsibility in a person which is otherwise much more difficult to teach. It's also a damn sight better to have at least some idea what you're doing if/when you encounter something dangerous out in the wild. This is also why every driver ought to be taught how to handle their vehicle at and past its limits, but the Karens seem to own that particular space, so instead the second most people are faced with some type of emergency they default to being unqualified idiots in charge of a murder weapon.
@@vilmiira You guys have long standing motor sport traditions, don't you? I seem to recall TV segments showing 14-15 year olds racing around a dirt track in old bangers... and handing Captain Slow his arse :P Guns in 'murica are seen more or less the same way. Most typical Americans wouldn't dream of putting teenagers in busted up old cars and sending them rallying around a dirt track. Or driving in the snow, for that matter... It's "dangerous"... But teaching your kid how not to blow his/her toes off (beyond screaming at the top of your voice that _the gun_ is "evil" and never to be touched) seems pretty sensible. Now, I'm not asserting for one moment that Finns have this type of Karen attitude towards firearms (the British do though :|), frankly I don't know enough, but the analogy works pretty well the other way ;)
@@233kosta As far as I know the motor sports are thriving :) But I don't have much knowledge or experience of that myself. But we call speaking English with thick Finnish accent "the rally english" so that says something. I wouldn't personally put my child driving anywhere before driving age, which is 18 here btw, and I havent heard about such things myself but thats no guarantee it's not happening. My opinion about firearms is that the army, police and the hunters have them and no one else needs them, really. And those guys have strict rules about how to handle and store them safely. Overall it makes me feel a lot safer that neither I nor anyone around me has access to guns. All the guys have to go to the army for a 6 month to one year service, so they'll learn to handle guns there, I'm sure. But I'm happy to never see a gun, personally, and I dont need one since I have no reason to expect to have one pointed at me either.
If you want to switch up the Southern accent for different areas of the US South, here are two accents from TN: 1) West TN: you can shorten vowels to just connecting consonants so you can make the sounds smoothly 2) East TN: emphasize the sounds for whatever is most pressing while clipping all the sounds around them short
I SWEAR my neighbor is Robert Fisher. Looks JUST like him, right age, their voices are similar, and he used the weirdest phrasing when telling my mom he had no family. "I was the only one that survived", he said.
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@@chicoblanco3423 k
He didnt shoot his dog. You read off that "he got a dog to attack his dog so he could have a excuse to shoot it"
It’s sad but getting into an accident or having something happen during a getaway is more likely. The stress alone can get to people. Happens a lot more than you think. You always hear about someone doing something very stupid and finding out they have a bunch of drugs on them or just did a burglary, or killed someone… that’s the second layer where cops catch people, the first is during the crime for level of stupidity
Simon: “I don’t know why the hedge burned down”
Also Simon: “I loved starting fires as a kid”
Bahaha I thought the same thing. Just brunt down for some reason???
Naaa. I am sure it was just one of those new fangled self-incendiary hedges - and little Simon running around with a bunch of matches at the scene of the crime is just pure incedence.
Maybe Simon's got a case of suppressed memory?
(just kidding)
Let’s just … throw a nice little “allegedly” in there, shall we? Theeeere we go. Yes.
And remember the rules and especially rule one. Don't admit your crimes. So....
"Burning things is nice." I think I know how that hedge caught fire.
Exactly what I thought 😂
I was thinking the same thing. Simon, I have a pro tip for you. Telling your crimes on RUclips is worse than writing down your crimes!
@@georgeemerson699 hahaha!
ALLEGEDLY.
IN MY OPINION.
SOME PEOPLE SAY.
No wonder your memory of this is "fuzzy"....
"Imagine living with someone for a decade and finding out they were Canadian.!" I'm dying laughing.
We are sneaky like that 🇨🇦
Canadian? They would be so lucky!
Terrifying, isn't it? LOL
It happened to someone I know in Minnesota 😰
You can tell by the amount of apologies they issue.
I did laugh out loud at the “I love your ice tea Arizona” - I believe unloading a firearm to scare a family is definitely illegal all over the US. Yes, even here.
Negligent discharge at worst
@@EvanDizasterousDefinitely at the least its a negligent discharge. But it's almost certainly a more serious charge.. especially cause it isnt accidental or 'negligent'. Just drawing or even flashing your gun to someone without a valid reason.. is a felony if im not mistaken.
Yeah most states consider it brandishing at the very least.
“Facebook sucks.” - one of the most factual sentences I’ve heard on this channel. 😂
All of social media sucks. At least here on yt you can choose what to watch. For some reason Reddit Facebook and Twitter just expose you to the deepest darkest depths of stupidity.
Tee hee, the cage just rattled.
And yet Simon uses Twitter.
I don't understand why people hate FB so much. I have tons of real-life friendships formed from FB. The format allows for regular interactions. It allows for long-form discussions about serious issues.
Twitter is just strangers being mean to each while everyone else tries to one-up each other with witty one-liners.
As an American, I find your poor grasp of American geography to be exceptionally entertaining. Never change. EDIT: Everyone misinterpreted my comment. It was literal, not sarcastic or judgemental. I have no problem with Simon not knowing American geography. Why should he?! I get genuine enjoyment from this, and legitimately don't want him to change in this context.
To be fair, many Americans have an equally weak understanding of US geography.
I was just going to say, I AM an American with a fairly poor grasp of our geography...
Yeah, but when non-Americans do it, it's funny. When Americans do it, it just makes me really sad about our education system.
Honestly same lol. I love the culture shock that he goes through in trying to understand America.
Hope your grasp of UK geography is better, then. ;)
Simon: The hedge caught fire we don't know how.. also Simon 5 minutes later.: I loved blowing stuff up as a kid ...Hmmm wonder how that hedge caught. :/
Allegedly.
He blocked it out of his adult mind lmao
Simon knows the rules! But he still spoke about his crimes... (8
Hahahah there was a solid 10 year gap between those things :D
@@TheCasualCriminalist allegedly...
Simon's tips and secrets to a long and happy marriage:
"I'm almost always in the wrong."
"Just buy a Porsche." (Simon told me to do it darling)
Seems like good advice to me.
@@TheCasualCriminalist compared to brutally killing your family it's a no brainer!
And don't turn a hose on your spouse in malice, only in jest.
@@JohnCooper-gm6mn "Chill out honey. It was just a prank bro."
You can either be right. Or you can be happy. The choice is yours. Also, don't hose your spouse or murder your children. These little things will go a long way
Callum might be the only guy who is more “savage” than Simon
These are the best
Callus’s scripts are hilarious and Simon is always funny so together they are epic
They really are! Simon always apologizes for his tangents but they (along with the truly top-notch research and writing, and his decision to refrain from reading the occasional excessive, gory details) are the reason why this is the only crime channel on which I watch every episode. You guys are the best!
I really like how Simon stops reading his script throughout these videos to give us his thoughts, then continues.
As an Arizonan, I don’t think I’ve laughed so hard during your one of your videos. *applause* BTW Arizona ice tea originated in Brooklyn , New York.
delicious tea tho. thanks arizona!
Yeah, we're next to Alabama really got me.
of course it did. lol.
@@HenningBoerstad 999999999
The tea is from New York...that's just sad
"It caught on fire, I don't remember why "
Simon, I think your subconscious might be showing.
I like how 5 minutes later he recalls how he and his friends would explode aerosol cans. What a mystery.
Dammit, stupid subconscious.
@@TheCasualCriminalisthey Simon and CC crew, could y’all do en episode for Bradford Bishop? Love this channel! Thanks!
@@TheCasualCriminalist lol.
I read somewhere recently that, “A person will try to control you when they can’t control themselves.” This case is a perfect illustration of that.
I've always heard, "If you don't control yourself, someone else will."
I suppose it could always be bit of both.
That's a great saying.
Texan here. As parents we are well aware that the kiddos will very likely come across less secure gun storage methods at other people's homes (I have been at a friend's grandfather's house where there was a gun in every room; it wouldn't surprise me if they were loaded). We are also aware they will likely want to go hunting. Teaching gun safety and how to properly handle a firearm is a defensive and proactive move.
Thank you, I'm tired of his one track mind of "who give guns to kids?" My brother kept a loaded shotgun behind his dresser where my 4 year old niece could get it.
Irresponsible IMHO but teaching her age appropriate gun safety was absolutely needed. Would I keep a loaded gun where my toddler could get it? HELL NO. But if Simon took 2 mins to research he'd sound a lot less stupid when it comes to that.
That’s how my family is. Kids are raised around guns and taught gun safety starting early.
@@H-uz8qp Well you see if I kept my shotgun unsecured I could be arrested and my shotgun would be removed and the gun store would be politely informed that this guy is not getting a new one for like a year.
You see precisely because a child could get to it. It is the gun owners responsibility to secure the weapon. That is the Nr.1 requirement to own a weapon in Non-America. It's like teaching kids how to deal with a shooter. Like Jesus... a lot had to go wrong so you need to explain to your kid when Timmy shows up with an AR you have to hide etc...
In a warzone ok a peaceful democracy? The fact it's necessary to teach kids gun safety means the system has already failed.
If they wanna hurt, guess what that's when they learn gun safety. It's not for me but I do get it. Hunting is popular here. Very popluar. Shotguns free for sale at 18. So much for Europe takes your guns away... nah. Just has to be stored safely and you do have to show you're not a total psycho. Not shotguns though. They are considered "part of a home" like a car or bike or TV.
@@H-uz8qp *Hunt not hurt. Autocorrect being funny and I can't edit my comment for some reason "If they want to HUNT..."
Yea, his response sounds like 'Why give kids sex education, can't we just not let kids have sex until they're 18? Can we?!"
Yea, in an ideal world that would be great Simon, but I hope you don't follow that logic because you're going to be sorely mistaken when your kid gets pregnant or someone else pregnant because you felt like teaching them about something that can be risky wasn't appropriate.
I love when Simon breaks script and gives us the fun tid bits of his own input but always getting back on track.
We need some casual criminalist merch that just says “Burning things is nice…”.
Don't write down your crimes ✍
Sincerely, The Casual Criminalist
Burning things is nice..... ALLEGEDLY 😎
@@Miss-Anne-Thrope THIS!
"They employed a special camera usually used for inspecting sewers..."
One way or another that camera is looking for a pile of shit.
Lol...So true
At this point, I think we all look forward to Simon's random stories, as much as we do the crimes.
Yes sir 🤣
Brain Blaze is leaking and it is great.
Only at this point? 🤨
@@osric729 😉
And the humor, don't forget the humor. I watch a ton of true crime and history stuff but Simon (& Danny) always bringing the stories and the funnies. Is Danny or Callum the writer for this channel?? I don't remember 🤔
Now I really want to see Simon attempting some sort of an army obstacle course... The amount of complaining would be glorious
But Hhonestly when are you crawling over logs that are 5 feet in the air??? Why?????
So much vomit from PT induced punishment
@@Loralanthalasto weed out the Simon's 😂
I was 11 or 12 when I first took a class on gun safety. Honestly, it was really good. Really drilled the rules into our heads and gave us a healthy respect for the things, but not fear.
I also learned gun safety as a kid/pre-teen. Of course I was never allowed to handle a loaded weapon until I was about 18 (other than a bee bee gun). It started with just learning the rules without being able to touch the gun. When I got older, I was allowed to handle an unloaded weapon, as a teenager I was allowed to shoot a bee bee gun, and at around 18 I was allowed to fire a real pistol at a gun range while under extremely close supervision.
If you just hand a gun to a 21 year old who has zero training, they're likely to do something stupid like point it at someone or lay their finger near the trigger. You want to start teaching the safety rules *before* someone is old enough to handle the gun. That way, when they're old enough to actually fire one, they've already not only learned the safety rules, but made them a habit.
Also, if the kid is growing up in a household with guns around they need to be educated so they don't do something stupid if they come across one. My parents kept their guns in a safe, but sometimes mistakes are made and it's better for the kid to be educated than ignorant.
Same here. I am always legitimately interested to hear the perspectives of people who didn't grow up around firearms, especially Simon's. It's something that I take for granted, I guess. My family has guns, I have guns, all of my neighbors have guns. We live in a rural area, and it's just a tool for protection (humans and wildlife). The last gun-related crime in this area was years ago.
Yeh, i never took formal classes but my dad did a good job of teaching me gun safety.
@@bacongod4967 Formal classes definitely aren't needed if a parent or someone like that knows and respects best practices. It's really not that complicated. You need to know your gun, and beyond that the basics apply to everything about the same.
I haven´t touched a gun in al my life and never seen one in real life either. But then again, i live in Europe.
Had to give a thumbs up for that incredible Southern accent. (Hello from a Texan)
My RUclips subscriptions are converging in a slightly concerning way. XD
Right?? I love him so much i joined allllll his channels
This is not the type of channel I expected to find you on LOL
I know right! Another Texan here and I was like, "well damn, that was pretty good."
I'm slightly concerned that my feels good hobby craft doll making subscription and my gruesome murder podcast have collided... Is this a sign of more spooky dolls outside of Halloween?
"Unhelpfully spelt Tuckson AZ." Best way I've ever heard someone explain how irritating it is when places aren't said they way they are spelt. Lol
English is the worst.
"Totally in the same page" 😉
@@jrbcnchz It doesn't help when things are taken from native names, because english isn't already enough of a mess. I hope this doesn't sound racist, I'm canadian and my friends say the same thing about the french names of places
I drive a Tucksun (Tucson) still a stupid word.
Better than Tsiukshan or the Spanish interpretation Tuqui Son I suppose :D
Simon, fun (?) fact, it’s actually really hard to tell when somebody died. Rigor mortis varies from person to person, along with temperature after death and even bacteria. We think it’s an accurate science because CSI and court lawyers make it seem so, but it’s actually fairly difficult and ends up being a pretty wide guess. If you wanna know more, I’d recommend Stiff by Mary Roach, it’s a pretty fascinating book about what happens to bodies after they die, with everything from body farms to water cremation to weird science experiments. (P.S. I’m not a forensic pathologist or anything like that, I just am interested in forensics, so I might of phrased things badly or repeated information incorrectly, take what I say with a grain of salt)
I will now be pausing CC to find that book. Thank you kind sir/ madame for a very interesting book plug.
Edit: for any other curious ppl, she's called "America's funniest science writer" and also has a book called Gulp, Adventures of the alimentary canal. Looks fun!!
Thanks for the great book idea. And for being honest about your qualifications. You have of course failed at interneting.
I think because of those things they tend to look for brain activity because due to the legal definition of death being no or very limited brain activity. You can still have a heartbeat and all your other vitals but if there's no brain activity for a sustained period of time there's no way this person can carry on living because theres no coming back usually from zero or minimal brain activity
@@ozzyd2679 yeah, thats pretty accurate for hospital situations. I just mean when someone died when they weren’t being monitored, such as they were murdered or they had a stroke in their sleep, it’s hard to tell when they died. So say someone was murdered, and the main suspect was in the area around 9:00. The body may only be able to be estimated to have died between 3:00 and 9:00. Or even just estimated to have died that day. A good defense lawyer could argue against that, and call it circumstantial evidence. It gets really tricky really fast.
If you are interested in those things and haven't stumbled upon her channel yet, you might want to check out "Ask a Mortician" on RUclips.
She has a dark yet great sense of humor while remaining serious and respectful when needed (that's just my opinion of course).
As an American, I know far too many people who suck at British accents. However, most foreign English speakers can do our accents so well. Simon, your southern accent is BRILLIANT!!
Tbf southern and english are NOT far apart to the point where british actors are encouraged to use a southern accent if they play americans
@herrikudo the words are a lot alike. However, Creole has lots of French in it. Plus, the southern drawl is a challenge. I've been told I have a Californian accent, although I can't hear it. Even after living in Southern Utah for seventeen years.
@@stevendrake3155that’s not the south. It’s Utah.
@richardcranium3579 I did not say Southern Utah is the South. I was just specifying where in Utah I lived. Now to be more specific, Santa Clara on the border of Saint George, in the county of Washington.
Dude, being a US Navy Seal is tough. I trained, and was sworn into the Royal Marines in England. The training was quite literally the hardest thing I will ever do in my whole life. It's not just physical, it's mental. Imagine being locked into a cage a bit larger than a coffin and having Rudyard Kipling's poem, "Boots" at ear-splitting volume on a loop. You should do a podcast on it.
Mr Ballen a medically retired Navy Seal has an amazing RUclips channel. Great storyteller.
Thank you for your sacrifices on behalf of all of our freedom. As a cousin from across the pond, I'm especially grateful for the support the Royal Marines gave us in the GWOT.
I've only listened to a bit of that boots poem ONCE and if I had to listen to it like that, I either would have disassociated so hard I forgot my own name, or I would have clawed my way out and gone on a rampage. Either way, you have to be made of stern stuff to tolerate the bs yall get put through, so props to you guys.
I love it whenever Simon tries to pronounce M' Night "Shamalamalam."
Shamalama-dingdong.
Maybe after a few more therapy sessions Simon will remember how that hedge ‘accidentally’ caught on fire… 😂
"Allegedly"
he LITERALLY told on himself 2 minutes later lmao
look for the paint can on the neighbors roof hahahaha
🙂👍
8:03 - Simon, I may have solved your mysterious hedge fire.
this is like the middle ground between "brain blaze" and your more docunentary stuff.
its a nice chill way to get horrific stories lol
Thanks, glad you enjoy it :)
@@TheCasualCriminalist This is honestly my favorite concept of how to tell your stories. Personally, BB is a bit over the top at times, while the other channels sometimes lack a bit of personality. This is the perfect mix between the two for me, keep up the great work!
@@TheCasualCriminalist you are welcome!
@@Effectlife this
Simon: *clearly reads that the man goaded a dog into atacking his dog, giving him an excuse to shoot the other dog*
Also Simon:*seemingly didn't understand what he jsut read and thinks the man killed his own dog, and then gets confused when the dog is brought up again*
Firearm safety is something that should be taught to all children as early as possible to stop the chance of them playing with one if they ever come in contact with one at a friend's house. It's much easier to know that they will respect a firearm and know what to do properly than to have to be that parent getting the call about their child.
Edit: It's very illegal to fire a firearm into the air because what comes up must come down.
Simon: I don't know how the hedge caught on fire
Also Simon: LOL I love fire
My love of Callum Howe grows daily. Possibly in direct proportion to his utter savagery. 😆
Same with Jen. She’s really coming out of her shell and it’s been so entertaining!!
Callum and Jen make this fact-boi presentation so much more fun.
@@catherinehaven7015 It's a perfect team. 🏆🏆🏆
The truly classy folks call the savagery "humor"
@@laurabustos6560 ... but ...I don't know any classy folks. 🥺
Despite living on a farm in Bumfuck Nowhere, Montana, my dad would spend the winters in Mesa, Arizona, and according to the story he told me, kids really do need gun safety there. In middle or high school, he took a class that included gun safety and he was the only one in the room who knew to always treat a gun like it is loaded. That lesson resulted in everyone but him nearly going deaf after the teacher discharged the gun after showing it was empty and sneakily sliding a live round into it. So, maybe a kid gun-safety course is a good idea, especially if one is in the house or you go hunting often.
Edit: It was a blank and not a live round in the mid-70s in a class about outdoor living and survival.
Sounds legit.
@@chriskolb3105 It was Arizona in the late 60s to early 70s. I remember the story of the teacher loading the rifle with a trick of the hand to where people couldn't see and my dad telling me that since he learned early on back home in Montana to always treat a gun like it was loaded, he had a feeling the teacher would discharge the rifle and he did. It could have been an after school class or something, either way, the point is that he was the only one in a room of kids from the city to know to ALWAYS treat every gun as if it is loaded along with never point it at something (even if you believe it is unloaded) unless you plan on shooting it, thus making gun safety courses for kids (especially those who have them in the house and often go hunting) a good idea.
no, that never happened in mesa. not at school, not during school hours, anyway. I've been here since '66, I would have heard. maybe during ffa or boy scouts,. my next-door neighbor shot herself in the leg when she was out riding her horse. i personally murdered a carpet in chandler, but that was the cop's fault. he showed me wrong how to decock a pistol. damn carpet was a week old.
We had gun safety awareness - not getting to hold or shoot them mind you- several times in grade school. Similar to the fire & weather safety bits and the DARE (or what ever it was called then) presentations. This was in the 70s/80s in Minnesota. We also had actual gun safety class for the NRA, scouts and FFA that would be on school grounds but not technically a class in school. Although, that distinction might not be made by lots of people in their memories.
Arizona resident here: It’s absolutely insane how terrible many of the gun owners safety is around here. I have many friends who have taken safety classes, or handle firearms often and still don’t treat the weapon with the proper respect. Someone I used to know once held a revolver to my other buddies chest and continually pulled the trigger. The gun was empty, thank God. When I told him to knock it off, he laughed, put it to his head, and continued to pull the trigger repeatedly. He was also high as shit...
This case had more twists than a pretzel made by a drunk pretzel maker. You did a good job with it. Simon.
Simon, in free states like AZ, you have to be 21 to buy a handgun, 18 to buy a long gun. But refusing to teach a kid about gun safety until it's old enough to buy one without you is like refusing to teach a kid about where babies come from until the second grandchild.
Well... many other countries make due with having laws that prevent children from getting hold of their parents (and other peoples) guns
@@Yog-slagunarYeah but that's a bigger risk if they somehow DO end up accessing the firearms. Its better to familiarize & normalize childeren with guns, to teach proper safety rules.. But to mainly remove the mystery & curiosity to avoid them wanting/trying to sneak around and play with guns. Cause thats when most of the child related accidents happen.
Americans are fucking mad. Dont give guns to kids and the mentally ill, pretty fucking simple.
Americans are fucking mad. Dont give guns to kids and the mentally ill, pretty fucking simple.
@@flexinclouds Well they don't happen here so we are doing something correctly :P
Give me chlamydia once… shame on you.
Give me chlamydia twice… shame on me.
Give me chlamydia thrice… then oh my god I should probably stop texting you when I’m drinking
-true words of wisdom from Callum
By Federal Law, anybody under 18 can't be in possession of a firearm unless supervised by an adult. Many states have firearms safety classes for young people who want to hunt with their parents. They are generally considered to be very worthwhile. In most cases, murder is not a federal crime. However, the charge of Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution is a federal crime and allows the FBI to be involved in the manhunt.
The main reason kids get shot by other kids is that they found a gun and treated it like a toy since they were never taught gun safety. Start teaching them as soon as they can understand such concepts.
Simon- I live in Arizona and I remembered when this happened. My friend actually lived down the street from the house. Also, 2 things. 1- I worked with someone who was friends with the family and even attended the same church. He said that Robert was a nice man, but there was something off about him, which we all know now. 2- Arizona brand tea isn't from Arizona. It's made in NY.
I love that Jen has a specific music track for tangents. I've started to listen for it, always makes me giggle when it starts up in the background
23:45 I've never been a "kid person", not before I became a mom or after, but I love my own. I definitely get it. The love I have for my children is so intense that I wouldn't hesitate to charge full steam ahead into the scariest scenario I can imagine if that's what I had to do to save them. It's not that my fear would disappear, but rather it would be totally eclipsed by the fear of something bad happening to my children. That fear trumps the rest and can make you act in ways that are almost superhuman.
very insightful! Thanks for that
Finally! I was worried Callum escaped from the basement somehow and didn't leave you a script, hence the total lack of Casual Criminalist last week
I was really thinking the exact same thing
Yeah, last week was a super sad week with no Casual Criminalist episodes. The CC is my favorite, even beyond the BB.
Lol about Callum escaping. I have binge watched every CC episode and was sad when I realized there wasn’t more and then started wondering if more were coming cause it had been a couple of weeks.
Who says he didn't? Simon surely has an excellent security system in place, but Calum is a smart guy. I can see him being at large for 3-6 days, which would interfere with production.
Exactly!!
Gun safety for kids isn’t about teaching kids to use guns. It’s about teaching them how not to shoot themselves or their friends or something by accident.
I guess it’s possible for some kids in the US to not come in contact with a firearm and have no adults around. But I don’t know where or how. It’s almost a certainty that a gun will at some point end up in the hands of one of their friends and if nobody actually knows how to safely handle it and make it safe the newspapers are going to be printing the story of a tragedy.
Kids should not have access to firearms without adult supervision. But they’re not supposed to be drinking liquor and smoking cigarettes either. The reality of firearm proliferation means doing what you can to make a bad situation as safe as possible.
Growing up without unattended contact with guns isn't that rare, I don't think. I grew up in a generic US small town in an otherwise rural area and while most of my friends' families had guns in the house (my mother wouldn't allow it for us), we never had the chance to so much as hold one without one of the dads around. In that environment at that time at least, long guns were a lot more common than handguns and those were harder to gain access to. I don't think I handled a handgun before I was 25 or so.
All that said, while it's hardly inevitable, I do agree that the risk of kids gaining access to firearms is high enough to warrant training.
it's like sex ed might coms in handy some day
Yeah - I started shooting when I was about 6. With the total supervision of my parents, beginning with BB guns/pellet guns/bows and moving up to more 'real' firearms, not like handing a 6 year old a 12 gauge and telling them to go have fun xD but courses like that are a great way to build the foundation of gun safety even when the guns in a household are handled safely and properly (we had a gun safe that only my mom/dad had the key to). I'm absolutely not down for letting children own or freely use guns, but in communities where guns and hunting are very common, teaching them to respect firearms from a young age isn't a bad idea imo
Nah there’s no reason kids can’t go squirrel hunting and shit with .22s and such, it’s American culture.
I never touched a gun until I was 32, which was 2 years ago.
Callum's chlamydia joke was genuinely hilarious 😂
P.S that Wells Fargo driver who took off with 7 million and vanished for over 3 decades is my Hero!!!! I'd say many people have thought about it but he actually pulled it off!!!
There is that guy who did that same thing and got like 3 million, but he got caught, and they made an excellent movie about it called Mastermind.
@@justalittleturtle5600 that's a hilarious movie!
I like how Simon does all these videos on psychos and serial killers, yet can understand why people think dogs are better than humans
Hey Simon,
One of the points of teaching gun safety to children is so they know what not to do if they encounter one.
Also, love your commentary and narration in general.
I for one find it hilarious that almost everyone appears to be a hypocrite. Ideological lines only appear to influence the direction of the hypocrisy, not so much its magnitude.
For instance, to the dispassionate rational observer who has no prior indoctrination, the exact same argument applies to teaching both sex and gun safety.
The latest iteration of this (again in 'murica) appears to be bodily autonomy, where both "sides", if you can call them that, insist on the government dictating what people do or don't do with their bodies in one instance, while being absolutely adamant that it shouldn't in another. They keep on reframing and rationalising ad infinitum, claiming to stand for some grander issue (education, bodily autonomy, freedom of expression, etc.) so as to make themselves sound principled, but really it's down to fractured ideology, a sprinkle of personal experience and a dollop of wishful thinking.
All of a sudden it's not so funny any more :(
@@233kosta this. I used the same example about teaching safe sex in my explanation for why gun safety should be a course offered by all high schools and maybe even younger
@@Faint366 Normally I'd argue both are the parents' responsibility, but seeing as good parents appear to be in short supply these days...
Ya, "if you're old enough to pick one up, you're old enough to know what not to do." My sister and BIL keep theirs under lock & key except when teaching their kids how to not hurt themselves or anyone else
@@jacquelynsmith2351 What happens when you do that is you create artificial desire just by denying access. There's no good reason not to go to the range and have some fun every once in a while. It's also a better way to teach how to be safe and responsible.
I laughed for a minute straight at the assertion that Arizona is next to Alabama. I’m not on Twitter but it’s my fervent hope that someone tweeted a map of the US with Arizona and Alabama circled at Simon.
@ConfusedOilPainter i do. it would be disconcerting to wake up in Alabama. waking up in Arizona is bad enough, of course at my age, just waking up is an accomplishment.
Would you know where Doncaster or Slough are on a map of the UK?
@ConfusedOilPainter - I think you need some more chocolate in your life. You seem awfully pissy for no good reason. Go hug a family member or friend. ❤️
@@bluepvp900 - nope! 😁 Not in the slightest.
I don’t get why y’all’s reaction was so negative. I thought it was hilarious that Whistler got this mixed up. If I did something similar to England’s geography, I’d laugh just as hard at myself. This was not bashing on Fact Boy - I’m one of his biggest fans. I am subscribed to every one of his channels and love watching him.
I was laughing WITH Fact Boy bc it was a funny mixup. No hate here.
Now go eat some chocolate, y’all, and pet your dog. It’s all gonna be good, promise. ❤️
The gun safety for kids thing is usually a class for children in a home where someone owns a gun. And it is mostly focused around keeping the child from shooting themselves or others if they find the gun out for some reason. Basically, it has been found if you keep the gun locked up and don't let the child even touch it, if (or when, kids being kids...) they do find it, or the keys to the gun safe, or whatever, they are likely to play with it. The gun safety course for children is to demystify the firearm so they don't -have the urge to find and play with it outside of controlled circumstances.
Also just instilling leasons such as barrel awareness, checking to see if it is loaded, and knowing about different safeties at young ages makes for good habits when they get older.
I have four children half have an interest in guns, half don't, either way they all know the 4 fundamental rules of firearm safety. They also know how to drop a mag and unload the chamber, regardless of rather they want anything to do with them, knowing how to take the danger out of the equation is a must in my book.
I should have read the comments before commenting.
My dad has taught Hunters Safety classes--officially, to adults as well as children, on a bona fide shooting range. I grew up knowing how to handle, clean, and be safe with a firearm. While I was recovering from my brain injury, the family went out to practice shooting; I don't remember what happened, but it was determined that I can no longer handle a firearm safely, and since I did at one time know how to do so, and since I'm painfully aware of my problems with impulse control, I agree.
I'll bet the family of the woman that was shot by Alec Baldwin wished he'd had a gun safety class or two.
The classes are a necessary evil that goes along with the necessary evil of the gun. And yes, kids should be taught gun safety as well, considering it is all too easy for some to buy guns on the street and you can't possibly hover over them 24/7.
I have also taught my children about drugs so they are not so enticing when I'm not around them.
Hot Take: Gun Education for children is a good thing.
I generally lean a little left, including on gun control. I spent my school days in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. On more than one occasion, I got to learn about gun safety (muzzle/trigger discipline, common sense for those who lack it, dealing with range mishaps and emergencies), gun cleaning and maintenance, various fire arms related groups (regulatory and sport), and obviously everyone's favorite part, I got to shoot .22cal rifles. I learned to respect fire arms as a tool, not get giddy about them as a toy. I think a fire arm is most dangerous in the hands of someone who doesn't respect it. I personally believe that widespread firearm education, even for youth in some scenarios, could be beneficial.
(This is youtube and ill probs get death threats for this comment, but if you are interested in discussing views rationally, I'd love to hear from you!)
Honestly I don’t see a problem here. Guns are just a tool. A dangerous tool that should be held by responsible trained people but a tool all the same.
How about firearm education for leftist Hollywood actors/executive producers?
I agree. With education and respect, there would be a LOT fewer accidents.
Well said.
Personally the gun culture in the US horrifies me (as an Aussie), however I reckon you are right Austin. If such a culture is prevalent and gun ownership is relatively common (as is portrayed in parts of the US), then absolutely, appropriately supervised gun safety (such as in Scouting or other organisations) should be encouraged (if not mandated). Just like road safety and "stranger danger" is taught from an early age, I think age appropriate gun safety is a responsible approach to harm minimisation when the fact remains that, while I understand legislation is in place to protect minors from accessing firearms, the reality is that careless adults do not always ensure that is the case.
30:16 For me, killing animals, especially pets, is similar to killing human children. Both love you, are dependent on you, and can't usually defend themselves very well against an adult human. So, those factors compound to a cowardice and malice inherent to the killer that really pisses people off.
I wonder what effect on society being removed from a daily routine in slaughtering of animals for food. Im not a vegetarian or anything but I can absolutely tell if someone is dispassionate regarding the welfare of animals. Even relatively minor dispassion like not understanding that dogs arent meant to be thrown outside in some shitty backyard their entire lives.
I also find it hard to believe that kids are getting satisfaction from killing animals randomly(like in the allegedly psycho way.) It seems more about curiosity than anything. granted i dont know any serial killers or known any kids that have killed something like a pet dog.
yeahhh now im thinking its more than just especially pets now that i think about it. We kill animals for food & We euthanize pets out of compassion or other reasonable justifications so the killing itself doesnt seem to be the issue, right?
Many serial killers and mass shooters start out with abusing animals.
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 It might seem counterintuitive, but a farmer who slaughters their meat animals can be very compassionate toward animals. Their animals live wonderful lives, they just have one very bad day at the end. It's totally different from someone torturing animals. The former does their best to ensure the animal does not suffer while the latter enjoys the suffering of animals.
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 Dahmer started out by killing animals out of curiosity I think. Still, I agree that there are more children out there killing animals and they aren't necessarily all psychos, but I do believe that is an indicator that their parents didn't teach them compassion to living things.
The Simon/Calum combo is a favorite of mine. Excited to listen to this one. Not for the story (makes me sad) but more for Simons tangents and opinions😅
"Every child should have a gun when they're born." should be a bumper sticker in your store. I guarantee you'll sell a ton to people who don't understand the joke.
That's clearly insane. A newborn can't hold a gun. They should have a tiny adorable sturmgeschutz bassinet.
Grenades should come with pacifiers as pins get the kids used to it
the image of the neighbors fighting the fire back with a garden hose … it’s not super crazy.
like, you absolutely couldn’t put out the house on fire, but you can wet your own house down, so sparks don’t ignite anything. 🤷♀️
Yeah, most people refuse to use logic. They'd rather just state their opinion on how ridiculous something is. Plus and I'm sorry for this. But people like this dude running a True Crime channel is just kind of disgusting. You can't argue that this channel is for anything other than Revenue. That's why he runs like 8 at one time. Or voices them. I'm ok with people making money off true crime, but it's nice when they actually care about the victims and the families and even donate to the different things set up in a lot of these victims names. But. Nah. This dude just uses other people's trauma to make himself even more rich.
Simon, I'm a fan of all your channels, but The Casual Criminalist is my favorite. Your personality shines through, we get to hear your inner monologue when Callum gets into the gritty details, and Jenn is a gifted editor with an awesome sense of humor. Great teamwork, keep it up!
Every time Simon says, "pastor" I hear "pasta" and get momentarily confused.
The case of Malcolm Naden would be a great topic for Casual Criminalist. He was Australia's most wanted fugitive for a while. I think it was the biggest manhunt in Australian history. He evaded capture for 7 years living in the Australian wilderness. My workmates happened to be staying at the same hotel where the police task force where stationed on the night of his capture. They knew something was up when all the cops suddenly rushed out of the restaurant halfway through dinner and sped off in a convoy.
Everybody knows where they were during 9/11.
Simon: in detention.
Cracked me up xD
I love seeing RUclipsrs I have been watching for a while blossom into something huge like Simon has. I remember watching Simon in TopTenz when he was clean shaven and stood in front of a blue background and averaged ~50k views depending on the content and maybe 700k subscribers. I got busy stopped watching for a while. And now with well over 1 1/2 million subscribers I came back to him and his channels sporting a glorious beard. He also just looked different. Better. Like he went from an amatuer of RUclips to an expert. It was so polarizing and even had me questioning if he was even the same person. Then I find out he has different channels like Biographics and Geographics. To Business/Brain Blaze and more. It's just nice to see a RUclipsr that is basically just starting out and then they actually become something. I wish I was able to see the entire slow transition of it. But just knowing that Simon became as successful as he is, it's nice. Well done Simon.
I took a gun safety class when I was 12, it's there because it's very common for kids to go hunting with their dads and participate in sports like trap shooting. You can't actually buy a gun until you're 18-21 depending on state and type.
Yeah I actually think it's pretty smart to teach kids who grow up in households with guns in them some gun safety and the fact that it's not a toy. Even if you don't plan on allowing them to handle a gun outside of the class it's still good for them to be knowledgeable enough to not do anything stupid should they ever accidentally get their hands on one without you knowing.
It’s like the case of John List. He justified himself by saying he was sending them to heaven now to prevent them going to hell later, but really he was killing them because he thought he was losing control.
It's such a shame she didn't say "no" when he asked her to take him back.
If she were just as devout an xtian as he was described to be, she could only say yes.
@@natashaestes154 that's just wrong. Everything about this man wrong
@@phyllisdevries5734, divorce is a sin, so, no, I'm not wrong. Killing to avoid divorce is not uncommon. And please don't say "real christians" don't see divorce as a sin, or some variation of that. It's just a logical fallacy.
@@natashaestes154 I would never think to say that Christians don't divorce in fact they are over 75% as they are with abortion. Or actually anything
@@phyllisdevries5734, I didn't say that you said they don't, just that they say its a sin.
He didn't shoot his dog, he shot the dog that he baited into attacking his dog.
“We used to live in caves then we built houses because they’re nicer” I. Am. Deceased😹😹😹
In case you're interested Simon, children can't have guns registered in their name but they can still have gun safety training. I had my daughter start going to safety training when she was 9 because I had guns and, while they are always locked away in a safe, I wanted her to have that training simply because the guns were/are in the home.
As someone who has never even been in the same room as I gun, I’m gonna ask something really ignorant. Is safety training learning how to shoot a gun somewhat safely? Or is it more, teaching kids that guns are dangerous, never point one at someone, kinda just general being safe around guns?
@@mckennariggins I can't speak for all instructors or what all parents teach their kids but when I first took my daughter it was to teach her what we would see as common sense... don't touch the gun, if you do touch a gun then don't point it at others, keep your finger off the trigger at all times, etc. The instructor we use is a retired navy seal, retired police officer, and now a retired DA investigator. He encouraged me to eventually teach her how to work a gun as well which I did. He gave a number of reasons why this is a good idea for households with guns, the main one being if I was to be incapacitated and she needed to defend herself. Since I first purchased a gun because we lived in a high crime area, I was a single mom, and our house had just been broken into, it didn't take much convincing to continue her training as she got older. She's 17 now and knows how to handle hand guns and rifles and we go target practicing when we can. We've never had a safety issue and I always keep our guns in a safe. She doesn't have the combination so we don't need to worry about friends getting access to them or anything like.
Even as someone without guns in my house this sounds smart. Thinking of a case where a child accidentally killed his friend because they picked up a gun and were playing around with it.
@@Jus.Keep.Swimming Oh, okay! I get it now. Thank you for explaining it so kindly, people are kinda mean on the internet sometimes when you ask about this kind of stuff :) I don’t feel comfortable using a gun myself or keeping one in my house, but your reasons make a lot of sense.
@@mckennariggins No problem! And I totally understand about comments. There are WAY too many mean people out there. 😊❤
Sadly they updated the listing for him on the Most Wanted List. "He was removed from the List. "November 3, 2021, after it was determined that he no longer fit the criteria for inclusion on the List."
That "ah robert you selfish c...." at 20:14 was so hilarious.
I wanna see a "Callum reacts in real time to his first watch-thru of Simon's video" video.
Arizona iced tea is from Brooklyn, NY. The owners just wanted a snazzy name and picked it off a map lol
These family annihilator stories are absolutely wild. How can you murder the person you’re supposed to love, never mind your own kids!?!
"family annihilator stories"
dude.
@@TheCasualCriminalist you should do more of them. I can't stop watching the one you guys did on John List
@@ElPirato Yep, same. I had seen a bunch of tv docs and YT vids on John List but CC was best by far!!
@@ElPirato I usually put that one on when I'm ready to wind down and go to bed 😳 there *might* be something a little wrong with me 😅
I moved into an apartment that shared a wall with neighbours where domestic violence was an issue. The first time I heard the guy yelling and things banging I called 911 because it really sounded like he was going to kill her (you could barely hear her, but could hear him very clearly). The maintenance guy (who let the cops in) then told me to call him first if it happened again (he knew it would). She'd been offered all sorts of help, programs, etc but refused so there was nothing anyone could do. It was extremely anxiety inducing to live next door to!
I bet, but I'd still be calling the cops to at least have a report (in case it escalated to something else or one day she wanted out).
These are so sad yet unable to walk away. As in all your shows you and your crew do such an outstanding job
He looks like Vlad Putin. He tried to live an American life and couldn't have done it anymore. He decided to return to Moscow. BRILLIANT!!!
Nah, Putin is more buff and his back is good enough for diving, riding and other macho stuff. Also, he is way more competent, do you really think a former KGB boss couldn't successfully have faked a gas explosion?
I would look around moonshine distillers who's still often explodes instead of leaders of powerful nations.
@@loke6664 Have you ever heard of "tongue in cheek"??? No offence. ha ha ha
@@loke6664 Moonshiners? What does that mean?
@@SW-mv6fw People who make their own whisky, often of doubtful quality and in places far away from other people and the law.
"Spelunking For Nothing" sounds like a late 90s post-grunge Dire Straits cover band.
I do love Simon's tangents it adds a certain spice to the stories.
This case reminds me of several family annihilator cases, but especially that one in Great Britain where a Muslim father with a secret alcohol addiction burned down his house while his family slept, although he didn't get out in time. He was also severely burned, so he died afterwards. The sole survivor, a son who was in the hospital with terminal cancer at the time, refused to go to his father's funeral and died soon afterward. Family annihilators/domestic murderers are generally narcissists, and they either need control and kill their family when it looks like they won't be able to maintain it, including sometimes killing just their partner or the kids when the partner tries to leave them, the kids especially in cases where they might lose or are losing custody, because they'd rather kill their kids then let someone else have control of them, or they are trying to get out of the marriage without the expense and social stigma (in religious circles especially) of divorce, or they are just following a "the grass will be greener somewhere else" mentality. They're always selfish, they never take responsibility for their crimes, whether in writing or in person if they don't take themselves out, and they always blame others fro their crimes. "My partner made me do it, she was going to take the kids away!" stuff. If they take themselves out, it's just to avoid capture and punishment, a final act of control, but many are too selfish to do it. They often think that they're so brilliant no one will see through their amazing scheme/lies.
I had a teacher in highschool who called me side track. "Can you get the answer on the blackboard without getting sidetracked, side track?" Don't ever Stop your rambling!!! Legend, absolute legend!!
Simon was in detention for 9/11, that's kinda funny. I was home, suspended from school myself. It was pretty crazy though, because I was 12 and I was alone, and I tuned into the news inbetween the first and second plane.
Also, how'd this whole thing come up on a true crime show about a guy who killed his family in a fire? Simons random tangents, that's how. I do love your adhd side storys simon, never change buddy, never change.
Does anyone else want to know what Simon was on detention for?
@@marenawheatley5260 yeah, now thag you mention it, I do. I'm kinda sad he didn't make his side story longer and tell the whole story like he normally does.
Simon absolutely caught that hedge on fire so he could use the hose.
Allegedly
Gun safety classes - for normal people - are to make sure your kid knows they're dangerous and not to mess with them, if you happen to have a gun in the house. We have cougars and bears in the back yard so while we have a shotgun, it's locked up.
When we go camping, we don't fire guns in the air (it's super dangerous), we sit around, the spouse drinks beer and watches movies, and I paint or knit. The kid - who's had a gun safety class - plays video games and gets cooking lessons. #HardCore
He really does look like half the bellends who live around me.
Simon every child should understand the purpose and dangers of household tools. A chainsaw, knife, electrical outlet, ammonia, bleach, and firearms. They are in fact children and due to the romanticism the media has placed on firearms, it’s one of the most important things that a safety class would surely apply to. I love your Channels btw. I used to wonder how in the hell you can keep another new channel interesting while handling the 354 ones you already have but then, I watch and you find a way man. I admire that kind of organizational expansion. Something I couldn’t figure out.
As a lifelong Arizonan, watching Simon talk about Arizona is simply incredible.
The line “If all the men in Scottsdale […], than the city has bigger problems than we’ve got time for today” had me cackling because the poorer parts of the Phoenix metro area talked so much shit about Scottsdale. My area called it “Snotsdale” and other areas of the city said “Snobsdale”. That is so very irrelevant, but that was all I could think about the rest of the video. Throwing shade at Scottsdale. 😂
I grew up in California in the 90s, we had a lot of earthquakes. I slept through a pretty bad one and woke up on the floor once... rattled right out of my bed.
That must have been terrifying. Hope you made it out of California with your sanity.
One night I heard a banging on the wall and yelled at the cats for rampaging. It was only when it kept banging I realized it was a fairly hefty earthquake. Yup, the 90s. Only in neighboring Oregon.
I can't imagine why anyone would dislike this enough to hit the thumbs down button.
Y'all are great! Your storytelling is so fun and interesting. It's the best way to spend a work day.
*Gun Safety* is a must to teach kids if they reside in areas where firearms are present. You wouldn't want little Johnny finding his parents gun, and then accidentally shooting themselves. Yes, the kid shouldn't have access to said gun, but anything can happen. Point being it is a must for youngers to learn the safety of firearms so they do not end up hurting themselves or someone else out of ignorance. Kids do not just run around with guns, and gun safety is just as much about not using the gun as it is for using it. Imagine a kid finding a gun in a ditch or somewhere tossed out by a criminal. If the kid knows gun safety, he would be less likely to pick that gun up knowing it could be loaded, and is dangerous. Failing to teach the kids about firearms, and well... Curiosity kills the cat.
Preach
@ConfusedOilPainter You must not of read my comment clearly. No, kids shouldn't have access to guns, but learning about them isn't a bad thing. Where I live we get a Certified Hunter Education card to show firearm safety. I got mine at the age of 11 before going hunting for the first time. Not once did I touch a weapon during the course. They had one for show, but the kids didn't handle the weapon. The course is to teach the proper usage of a firearm, and how to be safe with it towards yourself and everyone around. To call all "people" in America stupid just goes to show your own level of intellect. I personally do not own a gun. I have 2 boys of my own. I am going to get one for personal safety because I live out in the middle of nowhere where robbery happens often. I have chased people away in the past. Also for when we go hiking. Bear and coyotes are a problem in this area, and I need to be able to defend myself and kids. I choose to wait until both boys are old enough to learn properly, and obey the rules I make better. This is my opinion, and I know many gun owners who have safes for their weapons, and the kids have no way to get in the safe other than by code which is kept from them. To think it is pointless to have a child learn how to handle a weapon safely is just practicing ignorance.
@ConfusedOilPainter Also to add I will be getting a non-leathal home defense pistol the Byrna HD XL Orange, and a normal pistol for hiking. Both will be secured with gun safes of their own. Just owning these though, I will teach my boys that they are not toys, and the safes are NOT to be messed with what so ever. When they get older, then they can start practicing with the Byrna and other air guns.
I live in an area of the uk where a lot of people have firearms.
We have legally mandated gun and ammo lockers at home (you get an inspection from the police)and I honestly can't remember the last time a kid got hold of a gun accidentally.
Same in countries that have decent gun laws and high firearm ownership, ex Switzerland.
Just because that's how it has to be in the weird dystopia of America right now don't think its how it has to be. Always find it interesting when people speak as if there is no other alternative.
Kids do have firearm lessons (I could be wrong but it used to be from about 14) but it's designed around learning to shoot and general gun safety everyone gets and not because they might find them or need to know.
Canadian here, grew up in a rural area where there was usually a rifle somewhere near the door in case a bear came by that needed chasing off. And I know that when I was a kid, if one kid knew where an adult had a rifle stashed, then pretty much every kid did.
In any case, for both our kids, we started to teach them gun safety (with like little springloaded bb pistols, or an Airsoft one, or even their Nerf guns, not real ones) pretty much as soon as they could walk. Taught them the basic parts to them; taught them muzzle control ("Never point your gun at anything you aren't trying to kill"); taught them trigger control ("Never put your finger on the trigger until you're ready to shoot"); taught them to *always* assume it's loaded unless YOU YOURSELF have checked it over (or had it shown to you step by step if you don't know how to do it; basically it's take out the ammo, open the chamber, look and make sure it's clear, *feel* that the barrel there is empty with the tip of your finger (because a bullet can be jammed partway in and be hard to see), and then, if you're using military rules, point it in a safe direction in case of accidental discharge, pull the trigger, cycle the chamber, and pull the trigger again-- and if that had been followed then Alec Baldwin would not have been handed a loaded gun, and also he would not have believed it to be empty just because he had been told so. MASSIVE failure there!!).
They know that they are NOT allowed to touch any guns they come across. They know that if they come across one outside then they are to stay and guard it so no other kids get into it, and send someone back for an adult, who will bring in the police, because no one leaves their guns around outside if they haven't been up to stuff.
But also, if they DO come across one, at least they have an idea of just how dangerous they are, and know how to keep themselves and their friends safe. We even enforce muzzle control with their Nerf guns.
There's this point of view I've seen in some parents that teaching little kids to swim is actually more dangerous and likely to lead to their drowning, because then both you and the kid are likely to be overconfident in their skills, and not pay as much attention around water as you should, because, hey, they can swim, right?
Our own take on it is that ignorance is *never* the answer to a potential danger.
Loved Callum's diagnosis of the guy. Make me laugh out loud. Thanks guys, you made my day.
Simon, you are the voice in my head! Please continue to be the epic RUclips hero we need!
Please do an episode on the disappearance of Susan Powell. It's a pretty crazy story!
I for one enjoyed Simon's slept through an earthquake tangent. In 2005, I decided to sleep through Hurricane Katrina because if I was going to die I wanted to be asleep for it!
I love Simon's Southern preacher voice! Find a story with more use for it, please!
I come for the horrifying stories from Callum but stay for the random tangents from Simon especially about his babies 🥰
Low key fast forward when he does....
@@FernandoLopez-ji7wq that's unfortunate. I think they really add to the whole thing. The human touch to a tragic story. But nothing is for everyone 😊
@@kcnbt99 he's such a great dad; he doesn't even want to murder and incinerate his kids at all!
@@tanglewife 😂 after all the awful things we've heard, it's a shock!
How about another chanel with Simon giving fatherly advice while explaining he knows nothing about it.
"THERE IS NO BREAKFAST FOR NAVY SEALS" sounds like a bumper sticker on a Ford f150 that would cut me off to get into the McDonald's drive thru before me
Well done. Now, upon hearing happy light piano music while at the corner shop, I flee in panic screaming "Don't write anything dowwwwnnnn...."
i vote for simon to do an entire episode with his southern america accent. the ENTIRE THING.
He sounds like Yosemite Sam
Simon you legend, props to the whole team, best true crime podcast ever!
There's a certain courage in flat out identifying as a coward, Simon. Question is, do you do the right thing anyway, despite being afraid?
People who don't have children haven't experienced the incredible fear of waking up the first time your first child sleeps all the way through the night as you run for their crib/room to check to see if they are still breathing.
I experienced that with taking care of my mother for almost 10 years who eventually succumbed to Congestive Heart Failure and non-Alzheimer's Dementia.
@@curiouslyme524 I had forgotten ... what that was like also, my apologies. Lost my mother 4 years ago to rapidly moving liver cancer, mercifully only experienced that for days not years.
@@scottb4029 I'm sorry for what you went through. Thank you for your thoughts.
Those firefighters must have had such a nice day with Simon. A non-dangerous fire and giving a kid a fun day with the water house
My kids are trained in gun safety. Not because they own one 🤣.... But because not everyone is a responsible gun owner. I want them to assume all guns are loaded and no gun is a toy (unless it's by Nerf). Gun safety should be taught because they could come across a gun outside our home. But none of our kids actually own a gun. Just to clarify ... 💯✌️
Hey Simon...First off let me say I love your vids! I do want to say as someone that has grown up in a gun culture. One of my earliest memories is going hunting with my dad with a cap gun, to help me learn gun safety at an early age. Then learning to shoot a 4 10 shot gun behind dads mine, then spending every Thanksgiving week with my cousins and great uncle, before my dad could join us, hunting. All this was before I was 13.... I only keep one gun in my house nowadays for personal defense, but I've trained my daughter on how to properly handle a gun, hopefully she never has to. Long story short, it's never to early to learn how to handle a firearm.
Dad gave me a .38 when I left home. I'm much better with a rifle, but I could use the pistol, if needed. There were times, in my younger years when I often lived in rough, remote places, that I carried it.
I am absolutely not critisizing anyone, but this just sounds so alien to me (Im from Finland). I took a moment to think about this while watching this video, but I really cant recall ever seeing a real gun, any kind of gun, in my life. There is hunting of course, but if you are not doing that, there really isnt much of a chance to even see, let alone handle a gun. The idea of having to learn anything about gunshas never entered my head.
One thing a lot of people ignore when discussing this issue is that teaching children to safely handle dangerous things (firearms, knives, power tools, heavy equipment, etc.) imparts a sense of responsibility in a person which is otherwise much more difficult to teach. It's also a damn sight better to have at least some idea what you're doing if/when you encounter something dangerous out in the wild. This is also why every driver ought to be taught how to handle their vehicle at and past its limits, but the Karens seem to own that particular space, so instead the second most people are faced with some type of emergency they default to being unqualified idiots in charge of a murder weapon.
@@vilmiira You guys have long standing motor sport traditions, don't you? I seem to recall TV segments showing 14-15 year olds racing around a dirt track in old bangers... and handing Captain Slow his arse :P
Guns in 'murica are seen more or less the same way. Most typical Americans wouldn't dream of putting teenagers in busted up old cars and sending them rallying around a dirt track. Or driving in the snow, for that matter... It's "dangerous"... But teaching your kid how not to blow his/her toes off (beyond screaming at the top of your voice that _the gun_ is "evil" and never to be touched) seems pretty sensible.
Now, I'm not asserting for one moment that Finns have this type of Karen attitude towards firearms (the British do though :|), frankly I don't know enough, but the analogy works pretty well the other way ;)
@@233kosta As far as I know the motor sports are thriving :) But I don't have much knowledge or experience of that myself. But we call speaking English with thick Finnish accent "the rally english" so that says something. I wouldn't personally put my child driving anywhere before driving age, which is 18 here btw, and I havent heard about such things myself but thats no guarantee it's not happening.
My opinion about firearms is that the army, police and the hunters have them and no one else needs them, really. And those guys have strict rules about how to handle and store them safely. Overall it makes me feel a lot safer that neither I nor anyone around me has access to guns. All the guys have to go to the army for a 6 month to one year service, so they'll learn to handle guns there, I'm sure. But I'm happy to never see a gun, personally, and I dont need one since I have no reason to expect to have one pointed at me either.
If you want to switch up the Southern accent for different areas of the US South, here are two accents from TN: 1) West TN: you can shorten vowels to just connecting consonants so you can make the sounds smoothly
2) East TN: emphasize the sounds for whatever is most pressing while clipping all the sounds around them short
I SWEAR my neighbor is Robert Fisher. Looks JUST like him, right age, their voices are similar, and he used the weirdest phrasing when telling my mom he had no family. "I was the only one that survived", he said.