The lobbyists have convinced the American public that *any* gun regulation is more horrific than the stagering amount of avoidable gun deaths (and crime). 🎉
Profit before people! Convenient that they have forgotten the "amendment" refers to a trained militia armed with muskets to protect their country and government - not, the right to have a gunfight to see who's faster should be an everyday event! Life's cheap?
@jenniferharrison8915 and the irony is because there is so much crime and guns are so freely* available - the state (Federal) has had to constantly increase its armouries to keep up. Making it unlikely that a militia could reasonably fight an oppressive state if it ever came to it. This is why local police stations have armouries the size of small countries 🙄 It's looks even more crazy looking at it from the outside. I can not imagine the feeling that the people all around me in their homes have guns - my neighbours are....strange 😕
@@williamwillaimsno that’s because your 18000 police agencies are at war with US citizens. They aren’t cops anymore, just hired guns defending wealth against the oeople
@@williamwillaims The US government has nuclear aircraft carriers, 5th generation jet fighters and drones. What do you think a bunch of Steve's who formed a militia with their AR-15's is going to do against that? The 2nd amendment is outdated.
It's really not that nuanced. Every other country on the planet has decided human lives are more important than the need inadequates have for a murder weapon. Nobody outside the US can understand why Americans would rather lose their children than their guns. Even in Yemen, the US is seen as lawless and violent.
I've been saying the same for years. It's not just about kids dying by gun violence. I have asked the following question to many Americans and the answer was always the same. The question is : "If you had a gun in your hand and saw a robber running down the street with your TV in his arms, would you shoot him in the back? " Americans always answered "yes". The only conclusion I could with is that Americans care more about their belongings than any human life. Human life comes cheap in America.
@@robertsmith4681 You do now that most of the weapons smuggled into Mexico is bought legally in the US right! The only thing that is important in the US is the the greens over lives!
@@robertsmith4681Do you know that the guns in Mexico are for the most part smuggled from the USA like from Texas? The power of the drug kartels is mostly based on gun sales in Texas
Its quite simple. Every country that has suffered a mass shootinh has restricted guns because they value kids lives over owning guns. Except one. One country decided that shredding young kids to bits with bullets is ok as long as they can keep guns. And that is one reason the world hold's that country in utter contempt.
It’s quite ridiculous if you think gun control will prevent somebody killing others. If they were going to do it with a gun they will do it with anything else. Owning guns is important so people can protect themselves and their families. More gun control never reduces crime or murders. Either after gun control is passed the crime stays the same or gets worse. It’s the opposite when gun control is taken away. You wouldn’t know this because you haven’t researched anything at all.
@@gabecollins5585 it's easier to kill someone with a gun. go check the murders rate in western europe, in my country (italy) last year there were 330 murders out of a population of 60 millions people. Multiply this number by 5.5 to compare it to the population of the united states (about 330 million) and you have 1650 murders. compare these numbers with the data in the video, just the number of gun murders in the U.S. is incredibly higher than the total number of murders in Italy
"What a controversial subject" something only an American can say about logical and sensible gun reform, without a hint of irony. Even someone as sensible and relatively well educated as Ryan.
Keep in mind that every illegal gun in the US once was a legal gun. Someone legally purchase it and then either lost it, sold it to someone else, or had it stolen from them. You do not get many illegal guns in a country where it's hard to own a gun legally. Guns usually are not stolen from the manufacturer or the store (much higher security), they're stolen from private owners.
i dont know if this is true to get illegaly guns harder, in the netherlands or germany its absolut no problem to get a gun on the blackmarket and let us not begin with eastern europe there it is way easier as in west-europe...if you want a gun you get a gun no question
Actually tens of thousands of guns were made illegaly in the US. MAyby even hundreds of thousands. those guns were never legal. So most illegal guns were once legal yes, but not every illegal gun was once legal.
@@vbp8756 The difference is your illegal guns mainly come in over the borders (and with land borders unless you have 20m high razor wire and guards every few metres you'll never keep tight secure borders) whereas in N America the illegals guns in the US often find their way into Canada and Mexico (apparently the Mexican authorities have complained publicly about the number of illegal guns entering the country from the US) causing problems in other parts of America as well as the US.
@@vbp8756 No problem? I certainly don't know how to get a gun. To get a gun, you would have to know the "right" people. If that is no problem for you, I would say we have another problem here..
@@AlbertZonneveld Gund were made illegally? As in illegal gun factories? That seems a bit odd.. Especially since it's so easy to get a "normal" gun, why bother with producing them.
My brother and I were bored one day and decided to do some math. Here goes. In the time frame of 2014 to 2022, USA, population 332 million, had 4011 shootings. In that same time frame, Serbia, population 6.8 million, had 5 shootings. If the USA had the same rate of shootings as Serbia, yall would have had 244 shootings in that time period. And vice versa, if Serbia had the same rate of shootings as USA, we would have had 82 shootings in that time period. USA has a problem, and it baffles me.
More Americans have died due to guns in the last 60 years 7:25 than the total number of US military deaths since the foundation of the USA in 1776 , fact !
@@LeSarthois The serbs are basically wannabe-russians that frequently forget how small and insignificant their country is. So yeah, it's actually a very good comparison.
I used to be friends with an American, who was a fun fisherman and hunter and was once severally attacked (online) by this gun lover‘s wife for my reasoning against guns. She insisted that she SHOULD own guns. Her explanation left me speechless. Her own mother was shot by her grandson and nephew of the woman - by the name of Karma! (not Karen, but should have been Karen) - and, if I‘m not mistaken, by a gun he stole from her mother… I have not been in touch with them ever since. These people are out of their minds… As are many Americans when it comes to this discussion…
Me, a European: wait, what is a automatic gun and a semi-automatic gun and what't the difference to an normal gun? At 1:27 Ryan, a typical US citizen: makes a detailed explanation about all types of guns, loopholes in gun laws...
The difference is automatic firearms (those actually capable of automatic fire and not just scary looking) have been banned in the US first in the 1930's, then double dare banned in the 1980s. None of it reduced violence in any way. Semi automatic is basically most "normal guns" sold today ... Nobody uses 1920s bolt actions anymore, they use 1950s semi automatics such as the AR15 platform of rifles.
Automatic: You pull the trigger, a continues stream of bullets comes out. Semi-Automatic: Every trigger pull one bullet comes out. Non-Automatic: Some additional action is required between trigger pulls to load the next bullet. For example pump-action shotgun, where you manually eject and load every shot via the 'pump' motion.
True. I wonder why the US has so incredibly many illegal guns, compared to any other developed country. You dont suppose it could be because it is so easy to buy a legal gun there?
exactly, therefore there should be very limited amount of legaly owned guns (basicaly exceptions for like gamekeepers, some security jobs, etc) ie. very strict laws to acquire a gun.
In Canada you have to pass a gun safety test to be allowed to TOUCH a gun outside of a safety course. Rifles are almost the only legal guns, as those are what hunters use and the other types are mostly for killing humans. It helps with controlling crime as just the existence of a handgun means the cops can arrest them. Our biggest flaw in our gun control is that the USA is a big neighbour with plentiful guns. So, if the USA controlled handguns it would be way more effective for both them and us.
Looking at this neighboring situation from Europe, the fact that there is no free border crossing between Canada and the US is astounding. I wonder which side is more eager to keep up the controls, but since Canada has more reasonable laws in many ways, as far as I know, and a more reasonable population, I bet its Canada.
@@grahvis Criminals doing what criminals do and nobody wanting to do anything about it are the problem, lawful Canadian gun owners (about 3 million of us as of this writing and growing) are already much less likely to be involved in "Gun violence" than the general non PAL holding population, yet we are the only ones targeted or harmed in the process of "getting guns off the street". Mexico basically bans all civlian gun ownership, and people flee it to come to the US ...
@@robertsmith4681 . We don't have a gun problem in the UK, yet I have known several gun owners. There are very strict requirements before you can get a firearms certificate.
I am Lithuanian and my brother just got a gun. He had to go through training, medical assesment, mental assesment etc. It took him roughly a year to get throuth everything to get it. And he'll have to go through mental assesment every few years
You might want to look up „list of countries by intentional homicide rate“ USA 6.4 per 100k per year Germany 0.8 And now think about how 1.2 guns per capita in the USA ply into this. 🤔
Look even closer too mate because 6.4 is very very generous to the USA because there are pockets of no violence. In the USA there's over 65 cities with homicide rates ranging 12 minimum to 150 per 100,000 people. London England for example is 1.2 per 100,000. Search 65 cities homicide rates
Yes, I noticed that in that page 22:08 Ryan browsed, the gun-related death rates were computer "per 10k" instead of the international standard of "per 100k". And even with that trick, the average for major cities was 0.8 (i.e. 8 per 100k), and the worst city, Saint Louis, was above 8 (i.e. 80 per 100k).
@@robertsmith4681 Again, comparing with Mexico and more southern countriies, which are way less developed, more poor, etc. Why you don't compare with developed and rich countries? You could even compare with your neighbour up north! ;)
What I find wild is when the 2nd ammendment was drafted the guns they had were muskets. I don't think they would give everyone the right to bear arms if they could see the firearms that are around now. To us Europeans your gun laws are nuts and although I quite like guns, I find your gun culture bonkers. You see nutters at protests with assault rifles, why civilians need assault rifles is puzzling...
The real problem is that so many in the US feels the need to have guns, whether for self-defence or to protect against the government or whatever. That to me suggest there's a much deeper, fundamental problem with the fabric of society in the US for so many Americans to feel the need to have arms. For me, the real problem I see in the US is having such a weak social system across the board in everything from health care, workers rights, food standards and countless more, and this all boils down to this individual nature over the collective working together, the US is the odd country out of all the modern countries and even many developing countries that isn't moving with the times in so many areas and the American are paying a high price for that in areas that most Americans don't even realise because of ignorance of the rest of the world, it's kinda sad to see, but shocking at the kind of arrogance some Americans show of others outside the US. Basically, the US can't really solve its gun problem without solving many of its other problems in society, because a lot of the issue are intertwined together in American society, in other words, you have to fix many of the issues to fix the core issues, and that isn't going to be easy as many of those issues are big and honestly, I don't think the US can do it without a major revolution for change, something Europeans and many other modern countries got after the second world war, but the second world war was a major impact that forced change at a political and public level and now Europeans and other modern countries are benefitting from that, the US not so much.
Yes. The whole "gun culture" in the US goes against their own rhetoric of "Number One!". If you so desperately need a gun for your own protection, then you in effect believe you live in a failed state, because the number one responsibility of a state is guaranteeing the security of its citizens. And if you so adamantly need a gun (or several) to protect yourself from "government tyranny", then - despite what you may boast over and over again - you don't actually believe you live in a democracy. It's funny/slash depressing how they miss the incoherence of that. But I guess that's the whole point of incoherence...
US culture is so much about competition. If you're not the winner you are a looser... Relax! - If you want an example how to handle private guns with less accidents/crime/suicides: check out Switzerland.
@@Bakers_Doesnt The United States has some of the highest STD rates in the developed world. The United States had a gonorrhea rate of 123 per 100,000 people in 2015-the highest in the developed world at the time-which increased to 188.4 cases per 100,000 people in 2019. The U.S. also posted the third-highest rate for chlamydia in the developed world with 475 per 100,000 people in 2015, which increased to 552.8 per 100,000 in 2019. STD rates increase in the United States for many reasons, including decreased condom use among vulnerable groups such as young people and men who partner sexually with other men. Additionally, state and local programs have experienced budget cuts, resulting in clinic closures, decreased screenings and care, and reduced patient follow-up. The US has the 4th Highest numbers of actual cases, just behind Brazil and a fair bit behind India and China. So well within the top 10, unless you are looking at per capita, then some African countries and Island nations leap ahead of them.
@@Thurgosh_OG 🤣 I knew someone would refute that! Please, please tell me you're an American sore at the implication of not being in the top 10 countries. That would be just too funny! I guess not, as you said STD instead of STI.
During the summer between the end of high school and the beginning of the first semester of university, a good friend of mine went missing from our little clique. After not seeing him around the campus for a couple of weeks I encountered a mutual friend who told me why Bob was not around. During that summer Bob took a cassette recorder and left a message explaining how he felt and what he planned to do. Bob then took his father's shotgun, put the barrel in his mouth and blew off his head. He hadn't turned off the recorder. Now imagine being the first family member who played that tape. After the shotgun blast there must have been the ultimate, seemingly eternal, period of silence imaginable. Silence with the possible exception of the slow sound of moist dripping.… Goodbye, Bob, I'll never forget you even though it's been over 55 years.
Mexican from Mexico City here, despite de bad press about México, it feels very foreign to me, my family and circle to have guns, I cant find a single good reason for a person to have a gun of any kind, automatic, semi automatic or otherwise. I have the great fortune to live in a semi rural area where my neighbors' kids can still play safe in the street or in my garden or any other neighbor's house garden. I feel really distubed when I see the news about a kid finding his parent's gun and "unliving" a friend or taking it to school to "look cool" and causing an accident. It is very akward and a bit of cynical that the Kinder Surprise candy were banned in the US, but they cant agree to ban guns. Yes I know a mexican saying that feels the same way with all of the cartel and stuff, but believe me, normal people, good people do not carry nor need guns.
In America if you leave your house, get in a car, go to a shop or anywhere else you are likely to encounter someone, possibly with an everday appearance and demeanor, who is carrrying an armed gun! 🤔 How likely is it that every armed person you encounter can control their emotions and be rational? The only safe way to defuse any dispute is conversation, empathy and law! 👍
i was very suprised at that, how we had to defend the falklands, on our own, that was huge fight, it was not till the para's went in that we won, i know this, it was after the falklands, by brother became a para, and trained by the guys that were in the falklands, he finished as sergent major in the paras, he joined up 1987
60,000 gun deaths in the USA last year 25 in the UK Need I say any more. Just ban guns what's the problem? We ban medicines and drugs and things that kill us so why not firearms. And the channel has 20 million subscribers|(M20)
The United States banned Kinder Surprise Eggs (those chocolate eggs with a little toy inside), because they thought they were dangerous. How many children do you think have been hurt or killed by Kinder Surprise Eggs... all-time, worldwide? Almost none. Forks are probably considerably more dangerous than Kinder Surprise Eggs. Meanwhile, it's difficult to keep track of all the children who have been killed by guns... in mass shootings alone. Despite this, the Republican Party is extremely resistant to consider any restrictions of any kind to firearms, including automatic weapons. The United States is far and away the worst country in the first world, almost exclusively because of the Republican Party. This is my opinion.
Okay, actual question to Americans: We often hear the argument that "most guns used in crimes are illegal, therefore regulation wouldn't help", but then you also have the statistics from the ATF that always say that a vast majority of illegal guns, like 80% or something, are bought from official, but corrupt, gun dealerships. So the "illegal" guns are bought from the legal shops that the regulation would crack down on and force to have better supervision. So how would regulation not affect the illegal/trafficked gun purchases? It seems you could get most illegal guns off the streets without even touching the 2nd Amendment for most people, just by enforcing the laws and supervision that is already legally in place but all the gun dealerships just ignore
It is kinda pointless to ask such reasonable questions to a people that is raised on hypocritical propaganda. The second amendment was never written for personal gun ownership, not even the militia was intended to bring the service guns home, because even back then it was clear to fairly reasonable leaders that this would cause avoidable problems. But in the last 50 years the NRA has done an amazing job corrupting lawmakers and the media on that issue. Its good business.
You would, but then you would not be fabricating a need for huge three letter agencies and vast law enforcement budgets ... Lax enforcement becomes a self serving vicious cycle and the ones being deprived of their property are the people who follow the laws as they are written and harm no one with their guns.
@@fee6362 It is very clear what the second amendment means, they just finished fighting a war which they won because even though they had fewer guns and heavy weapons than their government and professional military foe. The colonial's guns were much much better than mere 'military grade", they won in larghe part beause of superior equipent and the people who wrote the Constitution were unanymous that it was a lesser evil to ensure it would always be that way than to risk goverrnment turning on the people yet again.
In Germany we have a 50:50 rule according suicides. 50% of train drivers experience a so called "person accident" on the tracks and 50% have to stop working because of PTSD after that. So there are some advantages that americans commit suicide with their guns at home.
@@robertsmith4681 plz get out some statistics of train pushers internationally and gun deaths locally (US) so we can put a number to your "sometimes" for additional context. Maybe those numbers would suggest we need to ban any form of transportation and only guns are safe to use?
Also an advantage of not having as much public transport I suppose. I do wonder about the stranger/family exposure consideration factor though. Likely for most not all that much part of whatever reasoning one does at that point.
@@jenniferharrison8915 Australia has always had a very macho patriarchal society, regardless of our immigration. I think that is actually changing though, which will be for the good. On immigration, my thoughts are that people who come here usually do this to escape oppressive conditions.
@@jenniferharrison8915 No, quite the opposite. The Australian homicide rate (0.87 deaths per year per 100,000 population) remains historically low. There has been a 52 per cent REDUCTION in homicide incidents since 1989‒90, indicative of a long-term DOWNWARD trend in unlawful killings.30 Apr 2024. The proportion of Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander (TSI) femicide victims that were killed by an intimate partner (75.4%) was higher than both Caucasian (54.2%) and Asian (51%) femicide victims that were killed by an intimate partner.
@@ticktock7483 That's a romantic view! Maybe 60 years ago! In the main they come here to make money, and many lately just to make trouble! Few new migrants make any effort to integrate or accept our values now and they create communities based on their traditional lifestyle, which usually includes violent repression and punishment!
ok i asked google 2022 in usa 17.310 deaths by gun (sucide not included) in germany 155 deaths by gun...wow almost a war zone in usa i am shocked...i mean 155 is high but usa omg clearly the best country in the world ^^ maybe usa needs more guns to safe the sitiuation ^^
And to put it into perspective: the US only has 4x as many inhabitants. So with the same # of inhabitants, Germany would have around 620 deaths by gun, around 28x less.
@@Dr_KAP Some countries (including both mine and Germany) use comma's and periods the other way around. So 17.310 would be 17310, while 17,310 would be around 17 + 1/3rd. In this context it is obvious that the person refers to 17310.
@@DomorVerbeuk it wasn’t “obvious” to me lol else I wouldn’t have commented. Thanks for setting me straight though I appreciate it. I’ve learned something new ! ❤️
In the EU/EFTA, Switzerland sits at the high end of the in regard to gun ownership, others include the relatively thinly populated Nordic countries like Iceland, Sweden, and Finland. Most men in Switzerland do military service which includes refresher courses every year or so until the age of about 30. During this time, they keep their army issued weapons at home (usually a handgun and a rifle). It is relatively easy as well to hang onto your army-issued weapons after that (you have to show that regularly train with them). Probably a consequence of this is that Switzerland has a rate of suicide by gun roughly twice that in many other EU/EFTA countries. The majority of those suicides are carried out with army-issued weapons.
I think the bad thing are the high numbers of suicides and the high numbers of gun related deaths, but the percentage of how many people used a gun to kill themselves is not that important. Yes maybe it's easier with a gun and therefore you have more suicides that's a point, but banning guns is not the solution for suicides. This people need more help in general. There are of course many other reasons to restrict firearms further or banning them at all. I think just this point isn't matching.
Many people who want a gun would say they are a "good guy", but what really makes a good guy? Mental health, trained perception, trained gun security, emotional co trol, stress resilience, goid judgement...??
The only thing I'd have on guns is that a really comprehensive course for gun safety should be mandatory. For the rest, in my country they ask the local police if that guy should be allowed to own a firearm. If they know the guy in a bad way they will say no, usually they say go ahead.
That is basically the way it works inn the US as is, each state does it slightly different but in the end all states regulate what guns are allowed to own and by whom, at the federal level firearm transfers are recorded and approved by police aka "the ATF" at the point of sale.
Really glad we don't generally have easy access to guns here. As someone who stuggles with bouts of depression, I'm pretty sure there have been a couple of times I would have come close to, if not actualy done something. As far as US and gun control goes, Swiss model needs to be looked at. People are encouraged to own and practice shooting but the legislation is strict and training is mandatory and high quality.
Well ,easy access is not good but I think some access is better than no access that many countries have. Countries like Australia , England ,ban all weapon access by civilians , that's not good. You should have the right to get a firearm to protect your home and family from criminals!
@@dzigizzzz yup and protecting your family is not a good reason. But we also dont have a robbery/homeinvasion problem. Probably because not everyone have guns, only real criminals that need them for opps, not just any desperate junkie can get one cause you need money and some contacts.
@@gregorygant4242 Guns aren't banned in England and Aus.. you just need to conform to the legislation.. Don't know a farmer without a shotgun and rifle over here. Also, we don't consider stopping robbery to be worth murder.
The Falkland Islands are British territory that was invaded by Argentina in 1982. This led to the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina which lasted for approximately 3-4 months. The British defeated Argentina at the cost of some 255 British deaths and 649 Argentinian deaths. Another consequence is that it made the British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher popular with the public, before the invasion she was widely hated in the UK. This helped keep her in power until 1990.
A gun is a gun. Whether automatic or not. Life in the states is cheap. Must, hold up the second ammendment, and be able to defend ourselves. This was true 150 years ago. Not now. An English man's home is his castle, yes we want to protect our families and homes, that's why we have the police and courts.
But the statistics show clearly that relatively speaking most firearms related incidents are in the south. And I would guess that most of those are with legally owned firearms, and in big cities such as Chicago with illegal weapons.
I would say the gun law in chicago is more restrictive in the rural areas around chicago not so much. In the rural areas the guns would be legal. Easy to buy them there legally and bring to Chicago illegally.
@@mweskamppp Big city criminals require big boy weapons and illegal goods, naturally they are illegally imported too! There is more personal injury and neighbour disputes in the South not real criminal gun issues!
...and those 'illegal' weapons in Chicago were bought legally in indiana and only become illegal because they were bought with the intention to be used in Illinois. Or in other words, they are 'illegal' because of an administrative rule and not because they were smuggled into the country or stolen.
This is only a "Hugely Controversial" topic, if you're an American who's got an addiction to guns. The rest of us (everyone who is not American) think owning a gun is INSANITY!! Future Americans will look back at "the right to own a gun" with the same "Shame" as the legalisation of slavery.
2:02 Gun safety is more than how to safely use a firearm. Safety protocols includes how to safely store or secure your gun, and an awareness of potential misuse,, for example, from an innocent child that may stumble upon a gun sitting on a bedside table.
The issue with guns in the USA is all about the culture. There are many other countries that have lots of guns, they are just not as ignorant and irresponsible as americans. Honestly, your entire society is brainwashed in weird ways. For example, your ''freedom eagle sound'' is actually a red tailed hawk, not an eagle. Also, we can't just go to a Walmart and buy a gun without a permit, we have some form of control
The saddest thing is that these statistics even exist. Gun laws in the UK and Australia were more relaxed at one point but all it took was 1 mass schoolshooting in each country and everything changed witin such a short space of time it was staggering. It shows that it can be done The difference the the mindset of the people. I find it sad that people will put their rights to own a gun, over the right for a child to live safely or to live at all. Shameful.
The numbers says it all... USA: 120 civilian firearms per 100 people and 12.2 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(4.4 homicide/7.3 suicide) Canada: 34.7 civilian firearms per 100 people and 2 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(0.5 homicide/1.5 suicide) EU: 18 civilian firearms per 100 people and 1.49 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(0.23 homicide/1.12 suicide) Australia: 14.8 civilian firearms per 100 people and 0.88 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(0.15 homicide/0.72 suicide) UK: 4-5 civilian firearms per 100 people and 0.23 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(0.06 homicide/0.15 suicide) The numbers are from pre-pandemic but they should still be fairly similar now. For those with sharp minds that see the homicide and suicide numbers dont add up to the total then I can say that it is because a small number of the firearm-related deaths are undetermined or accidents and such.
Hello. As European, I think it is related to culture. In Europe, you basically rely on the governement to deal with the security whereas in USA you may hear sentence like "Governement is not the solution, it is the problem." By the way, another sentence heard in Europe is "If owning weapons helps for safety purpose, America should be the safest country in the world. And it isn't" Actually, I'm sorry for you, folks.
America is one of the safest countries on it's' own continent, also by far the most heavily populated, it also shares a land border with one of the most violent countries in he world, Mexico, which does has very strong "gun control". The problem with comparing the US with Europe is that the US is so large and populated that there is nothing in Europe to compare it with. I could claim that all of Europe is a bad place based on the murder statistics of Latvia for example. Reality is that the homicide rate in the Americas is 3 times more than it is in the US. The US has about 6 "'intentional homicides" per 100 000 while the average in the Americas is about 15 per 100 000 In Mexico it is about 26 per 100 000.
@@robertsmith4681 The EU shares a border with the Eastern Bloc, Asia and is just a short boat trip from Africa. The criminal groups there are certainly active on the European continent, as are the local ones. However, the whole thing is a smokescreen from the start, since the Mexican cartels are not responsible for the everyday violence in the USA. And although the security situation in EU countries varies, none has anywhere near the same homicide rate as the US. And of course you can always find worse examples of gun violence. The only question is how undignified you want to choose the comparison just because you cannot compare yourself with the domestic security standards of the rest of the developed world.
@@robertsmith4681 You say one can not compare the US with Europe. You said: The US is so large (9.834.000 km²). Almost identical, but indeed Europe is a bit larger: (10.530.000 km²). Population US: 333,3 million, Europe: 746,4 millionen - so even far higher populated. It seems you are a victim of your school system. So tell me how is it not comparable? And there is war in Ukraine..Nevertheless, the killing rate of civilians during the war in Ukraine is just twice as high as the average in the USA (in peace). Have you even watched the video? Husbands kill their wives, more than 50% suicides...what does this have to do with Mexico? According to you, Mexicans must come to the US with their wives, kill the women and then themselves... just to increase the killing rate in the US. What a nonsense. Then you bring Latvia into play. A small country, less than 2 million, one of the worst in killing rate ... still the killing rate is about 50% of overall USA. And before it was you who said one can not compare the US with Europe. You lose by far when comparing the worst of Europe´s country with the average of USA!! Then you compare the US with Americas. The best country on earth, a first world high technology country vs. some of the worst countries regarding killing rate. Shouldn´t you better compare with equally high standard countries? Yeah you are the best in a swimming competition. Your opponents were: one without an arm and the other has died a year ago. Congratulations!
@@marcromain64 Narrowing Europe down to the EU is a mistake as it cherry picks which "nations" within Europe yields results that you like. Remove the ten worst (all long term Democrat led) cities in the US the same way you weed out Eastern Europe and you end up with a "country" that has simmilar if not lower homicide numbers than Europe does, and still about the same population size as the EU. The bulk of the violence is fueled by lawlessness south of the border pouring in.
@@robertsmith4681 I am sorry, but this still a bad argument. Saying "others are worse" doesn't change anything about you. And it doesn't not change the fact, that better regulation would save people.
As someone who's deeply suicidal I don't see the "disturbing" nature of people using them to kill themselves. It seems like a good way to go to me and I'm happy those people don't have to suffer anymore
Yeah, but sure is a fun present to leave behind for their loved ones to find. Had a friend who had to clean his fathers brains and gore from the wall after he commited suicide with his service gun. Not only did the poor guy have to deal with his father killing himself but then cleaning up the mess. Needless to say he himself has been in therapy since. Doing some research and taking the right kind of pills is going to be a lot less traumatic for those that have to deal with the aftermath
don't give up, i don't know your problems but i've been there and i can assure you that there is still hope, even if you can't see it right now. i know it seems empty words but one day you'll find something worth living for. i can't hug you from behind the screen, but my thought is with you because i know how painfull it is and no one deserves it
According to the U.S. Department of Justice 40% of guns used in criminal acts were obtained illegaly (staying stable around 40% for decades now). It is a big chunk, for sure, but most crimes committed with guns are done so with legal guns. 80% of all murders in 2021 were committed with a firearm involvement. 55% of all suicides were done using a gun. PS. As others have pointed out, "illegal" does usually not mean filed off serial number and bought at a corner, it most often means, "taken without permission from someone who owns a gun legally".
The weirdest part to most people outside the US is THAT there is a controversy, but I‘ll go for a different Angle: How to go and do stupid stuff: Option one: A knife, needs to be close, people can run. Two: a vehicle: you‘ll get a few people, but the rest can dodge and your chances to get away are usually quite bad, also registered and expensive as hell Three: bomb/sabotage, needs continued anger to prep and planning to commit, also needs skill A gun: has range, fairly cheap to get, bad to nonexistent registry, not suspicious per se to own and sometimes even carry in the US, most bang for buck, easy enough to use. Now, how to get one: buy from a licensed store legally, do illegal things: takes a waiting time, you may not have a criminal record. Buy from corrupt store: take your pick, but illegal for both on its face, thus usually pricey. Steal from store: pain in the ass, gun serial number probably registered as stolen soon. Steal from random home: risky, not much choice in what to take. Buy at gun show: in many states perfectly legal with no checks and thus no risk to seller, thus low crime markup Buy privately; usually also completely untraceable and legal. Smuggle a gun into the us? Lots of hurdles, when plenty of legit guys can do it legally, why bother… And in the end, sadly, the most effective way to stop people from shooting other people seems to be getting guns out of the hands of people and stopping the people from just giving guns to unknown people (being held legally responsible for example would be a deterrent to just giving guns to someone you don’t trust, raising the odds, the guy gets stopped before committing a crime)
How is it easily trafficked? You don't need to. It's much harder to get them across the border when you can easily go to gunshows and have loopholes to buy every gun there or ask the nice shady dealership, buy a gun, register ist and have the rest sold to you so you can scratch off any indicators.
The reasons that people convince themselves they need a gun vary by area. Mostly it's self-defence. They believe that they could get a gun out of the gun safe and use it to stop a home invasion. Other places have stuff like open carry, where you hear crazy ideas like they could pull out that gun and stop a mass murder spree. When you ask about the guns used for mass murder, they don't have reasons. They just yell that they have a RIGHT to own one just 'cause they feel like it.
@@Rachel_M_ To be more detailed 1/ FEAR that someone else might have a gun and use it against them 2/ FEAR that someone might invade their home and wanted to kill them 3/ FEAR that the government might do something they don't want and there for have to be able to fight off the government with their handguns and rifles to over throw the government who only have attack heli's, battle tanks, Rangers, Marines, drones and cruise missiles
It heavily depends on area. In some places I actually understand it, I watch some people who do homesteading and off-grid living in America in different places and there you sometimes need a gun on you for coyotes etc. In Europe we sometimes forget that the US has places that are actually in the wild and far far away from others. But yeah, other than these rare cases the majority of the US shouldn't need or have guns but if others have guns you need guns, is the idea. Mutually assured destruction mindset
yeah numbers are wild. i remember seeing some from 2021. each year you had 49000 gun related deaths. thats 20x your casualties in iraq. in 5 years same amount as casualties in the vietnam war. do you still think guns is a good thing in the hands of civilians ? there are war zones safer than US.
My brother lives in rural Crete. He says there are guns of all types, even the local priest has one! The Cretans don't go around shooting each other though.
Germany has lots of guns but the owners of them are mostly collectors and competition shooters aswell as some hunters. Its fairly easy to get a small caliber rifle like a .22 if you join a "Schießverein". You cant take it home if you dont have a licence for it though so you can only shoot it at the range. Edit: Oh yeah and we have a festival called "Schützenfest" where people get drunk then take turns shooting a shotgun at a wooden bird until the last piece of it crumbles off and that guy is then the new Schützenkönig (shooter king?) for the year
From the statistics I know, we have 941.697 registered gun owners in germany, who own around 5 mio. guns. Our around 400.000 Hunters normally have at least 5 guns each, 2 handguns and 3+ rifles. The handguns are used for killshots in traphunting, to kill animales that are heavily injured in car accidents or if for some reason the rifle shot from hunting didn't kill it. For hunting you can use different rifles depending on what you hunt. Sport shooter normally don't have more than 5. And then there are the collectors, somewhere I've read that 100 gun collectors in germany have more than 65.000 guns together (more than 650 per collector). And these numbers of legal owned guns add up. The 15 Mio. on wikipedia includes around 10 Mio. unregistered guns which is just an estimate, some other sources I've read go up to 20 Mio. or even more unregistered guns. I don't know what to think of these numbers, since we had weapon collection campaigns, where people could turn in weapons even illegal weapons without fear of punishment for owning these weapons. And the amount of weapons turned in, was really small. Which let me to the believe that these estimates are way to high.
@@Rafaela_S. Honestly, I believe the 10-20 million illegal firearms estimate is about right, you have to remember that until the "neues Waffengesetz" from 1972, you could even order small caliber single shot and semiautomatic rifles in the mail. Those were pretty common to have back in the day, for garden plinking and pest control, same as (now also restricted) high-powered air rifles. And for self defense in the more rural areas. Pretty much nobody turned those in, but they never had any real relevance in criminal activity, and essentially no black market trading either. Still turn up regularly when old folks pass and the relatives find those old rifles in the basement or, more often than you might think, behind the wardrobe just somewhat hidden from plain sight. Quite possibly many of the current "owners" aren't even aware they have multiple rifles rotting somewhere in their basement. Edit: If you do find one of these when cleaning out the house of a passed relative, under no circumstance bring them to the police on your own. Call the police and request them to come by and pick them up, even if they tell you to just bring them to the station you are still not allowed to transport them and risk facing criminal charges. Insist the police come by and collect them.
@@BenjaminGerfelder Could also be possible, but even if we go with an estimate of 4 weapons per household, we are still talking about 2,5-5 mio. households and more than 50 years. If there are really 10-20 mio guns still out there I would expect way more guns found and turned in each year and way more informations about this topic available. And way more reports on this topic. For me it does not seem logical for such an big amount of weapons, that reports about discoveries of them seem so rare.
It's probably because of clichés / stereotypes, but I would definitely be more scared of an American with a gun than a German with a gun... Sure, there are crazy people everywhere, but in general, I trust my German neighbours to be much more responsible in how they're handling guns than most people in the US.
Here in the UK we just don't feel the need to own guns. We are not afraid of our neighbours, or of the Government. Everyone having access to firearms makes people afraid of each other, to the point of paranoia. More murders are committed because using a gun is so easy, & can just take a moments madness, other forms of murder are more difficult. The highest proportion of suicides here is among farmers, who are much more likely to have & use guns. The more guns the more deaths by guns. The US also has a high murder rate through knife crime than here in UK, & higher crime levels overall. Alaska probably has many gun suicides.
Not actually true as I know lots of legal firearms owners and many of them have multiple guns . the licence is a process of jumping through ever higher hoops and anything can be used to remove them from you should you do anything the cops don't like mostly without any compensation for the loss of your expenses property ( mostly without even a criminal conviction). you need to do some research or visit a local club or gunshop to find out some facts and maybe try having a go
To be quite honest, you seem to have a serious issue with people being stabbed to death on a regular basis over there in the UK. Not judging, we are trying our best to catch up here in Germany as it would appear. Just saying, citing gun control regulations as a reason in that context is naive at best. Even in the US, you have to wonder why the most gun violence is concentrated in the states with the most restrictions on firearms ownership. In fact, some of the US states with the most relaxed gun control laws interestingly enough have average homicide rates that are a lot lower than those in Germany or the UK. Or comparing to our direct neighbors in the EU with less strict gun control, Germany does pretty poorly on homicide rates.
@@BenjaminGerfelder I often here Americans using this argument when defending their gun culture but, It's statistically not true. The USA (per capita) has more stabbing homicides than the UK. Stabbing deaths in the UK do tend to generate more headline news.
@@HelenMills-wh3vf Comparing the US with the UK, a literal island nation on another continent about the size of a single US state, is simply ridiculous..
@@HelenMills-wh3vf That is the point, the US doesn't really have a firearms problem, it does have a general problem with violence, and the statistic you cite actually proves it. If you stick to Europe, the UK does have nearly double per capita homicides compared to Germany, even though Germany has much more relaxed firearms laws. Germany itself again does pretty poorly in homicide rates compared to some of our neighbors who have even more relaxed firearms laws. Access to firearms isn't a factor, that is backed by statistics, it is mental health of the general populace and economic factors. As far as the US is concerned, I'd argue that economic factors are playing a major role with the overall epidemic of violence. When visiting there, I was honestly shocked seeing the sheer poverty large parts of the population are living in, hard working people in one of the richest countries of the world mind you.
The video is hugely disliked bcz right-wing gun nutz, trolls and bots hurriedly down vote any video that doesn't recite NRA propaganda chapter and verse.
what i find amazing, is how little they know, about there own country and guns, i can tell you, in the uk we banned guns after 1996, after dunblain, but i can tell there, there has been no mass shooting since i can tell you that 200k children at school in the US i have seen gun violence in school in one form or another since columbine(spell check) i can also tell you, your 80% more likely to die from police shootings, because you have the 2nd amendment, to open carry in many states but you will die. you might die because of defective headlight, and you reach for documents asked for The reason, you give guns, to police, who have criminal convictions, untrained, have no idea of the law, they do 26 weeks training, off you go which is 6 months, it takes 5 years training to be hairdresser, it takes 5 years for lawyers to learn the law it takes years to learn a trade but it takes 6 months, to learn how to use a gun, make people dance in the street, to see if they had a drink, the tech is out there, but will not be used, because of corruption and money, every arrest is subjection, not proved, 70% are thrown out in court Lets get onto the dogs, the shiffer dogs are broken, they hit every time, nothing ever found america is corrupt, its out of hand, and becoming whites only, who else wanted the perfect race
There have been a number of mass shootings since dunblane in March if 1996. November 1996, Barmill Scotland March 1997, Camberwell, England There were 2 more in 2020, 3 in 2021 including the Plymouth one. 2 more in 2022, 1 in 2023, and one this year on May 29th.
If I imagine all the crazy people in my neighborhood would have easy access to guns I would be terrified, and get a gun too. And since there are no "defence rifles" I'd settle with an "assault rifle" 😆
The Texas one I did know, purely because a friend is from Texas originally (not any longer, now lives (lived, he was a doctor and a COVID statistic unfortunately) )in Ireland and was more than happy - pleased in fact - to abide by our even stricter regulations for the many guns (hunting only) he kept in his incredibly secure gun safe. Interestingly the graph I found for state with the most deaths and weakest gun laws showed Wyoming at the top, Arkansas next and then Alaska.
As a french I really like that guy, smiling and chilly with a good attitude with te videos. But truly from my heart the more videos i see on the defferences between america and other countries or just how america work, the less i want to even touch that cursed land. Don't get me wrong, there is good thing, the second amendment and being able to have weapons for self-defense IS good. (in france we have some problem between "no gun no kill" and the fact that the "reals guns" are anyway illegally use by gangs and that kill people disarms.
I live in Russia (not a safer place on earth to be honest). Our government regularly saying that school shooting became a big problem. We already have 14 of them (in entire history). Tragic, but USA have over 250 of school shooting EVERY YEAR!!! 😮 It's only in schools! Mind blowing! And people still talking that their right to own firearms is "for safety".
Henry Rollins loves traveling so when he is not working he travels and he always picks places the the news in the US declares dangerous he has only bin in fear for his life 2 times both times were in the US just think about that
Wow, I guessed Alaska right! After the question of the deaths by suicide, I wondered if maybe the lack of hours of light in Winter (and maybe the lack of social life because of the cold weather and in some areas potentially not having many people living close by) made people more depressed during those months and more likely to make that sad decision. But I have no idea, I wish they gave a more detailed explanation.
What are the statistics for "home invasions" in the US? It seems what Americans fear most, and is the reason quoted for all those bedside guns. In the UK this crime seems unlikely, burglars know to work empty houses.
I once heard someone on a radio show say that the most dangerous thing a woman can do is live with a man. I think it is true no matter what country she lives in. The statistics on mens violence against women is shocking.
I live in Norway, I have guns. No handguns, but a semi 22LR. The rest is bolt action rifles in 6,5, 308 and 30-06. And a couple of 12G's. For hunting, we don't need guns for self protection over here. I grew up with guns, my father was an intelligence officer in not te army, it's more like milita grups "under" the army, short of. We had fully automatic weapons in the house. All in these groups do. It's a long time ago, so it was a AG3 and a MP5. Point being, I grew up with gun safty. Of course guns can be dangerous, that is short of why they are made. BUT, so is driving a car. Everything is dangerous if you, or others around you don't know what they are doing. But they are heavily regulated here, the last gun I applied for was a German Mauser from 1938 in 30-06. It took 8 months!!! And that was far from my first gun. :)
Yes! Cars are also dangerous! That's why we need to pass tests of our driving skills etc to get a license. In Sweden it's about the same to get a license for rifle.
@@nilov71 It's the same here in Norway. I have a hunting license, and I'm a member of the local shooting...thing? Don't know what it is in English. And the last gun I bougth, a German Mauser from 1938, I waited 8 months. :)
For rifles I don't need to be a member of a hunting team or shooting club. I need to pass a test, and then I'm allowed to get four rifles. Since last year semi automatic rifles and silencers are allowed, so an AR15 with silencer is ok. I'm taking the test in July. For pistols it's a little more difficult. Besides proving your skills in precision shooting, you must be a member of a shooting club and that club must vouch for you to get a license. When you finally get the license your first gun must be a .22 gun. Then after 6 months you can get any caliber you'd like.
I'm sorry Ryan, maybe I misunderstood your take on gun safety, so apologies in advance if I did. Gun safety is not just about how to operate a gun safely. It also encompasses the proper and safe storage of a gun and about controlling who has/hasn't access to it.
I've recently watched a very interesting video comparing gun regulation in Switzerland and the USA, and I think you might like it. I don't remember the exact title or the channel, but I know there are several people and a Swiss flag on the thumbnail. Could probably find it by searching "switzerland guns" or something like that
2:16 If you don't control guns and ensure that people who for instance have documented mental health issues that might impair their judgement don't have guns you don't *have* gun safety, so yes, it's very much the same issue... It's about ensuring that guns don't cause harm, either through ignorance or accidents or intentionally because people either don't think straight or just doesn't care about their fellow citizens...
@@robertsmith4681 But it's not illegal to sell them weapons without a background check if you're a private individual. Nor are the background checks that *are* done comprehensive enough. Often ignoring things like that. You should not be able to enter a store and buy a gun the same day like people do all over the US. Even if a background check would be clear same day sales is just a recipe for suicides and other rash decisions. And it's best if people make such purchases over time giving them time to calm down if that's their motivation. And so one and so forth. Also, it's legal to move around with weapons that's easy to conceal (so excellent to steal and use for a crime)... And there's no laws about requiring weapons ro be locked down and locked safely away from ammunition when not in use for the intended purpose. So keeping a gun safe in the car or house etc. So again, easy to steal... The majority of weapons in Europe originates from either the USSR or the US because of the lack of regulation in both countries. The USSR at least had s excuse, given that the country was literally falling apart... What's Americas excuse?
One of the "reasons" I hear most often for owning a gun is to defend against a home invasion. I don't know the statistics, does this happen that often? However, I would also be afraid of a stranger breaking into my house if I lived in an American house: they seem so fragile to me! Probably with one shoulder the entrance door comes down (and probably also the wall around it).
You're right about the partner murders, even the suic!des... that's not really because of guns. But of course, if there's a gun right in there in the drawer.. the path between thought and action is significantly shorter.
15:02 I thought it could be but doubted, and then checked it out, it's in fact, NOT Hawaii, maybe it was in the past, but also doubt it, though didn't bother to check, depending on how you want to acess US deaths, it can be Rhode Island or Puerto Rico, they have MUCH lower rates than Hawaii.
The Supreme court made a ruling on the bump stock ban. Clarence Thomas made the ruling that by using a bump stock, the trigger still had to be "pulled" for the bullet to be fired. Even though you aren't pulling the trigger, the trigger has to be repeatedly pulled for multiple shots. A machine gun on the other hand, the trigger only has to be pulled once for multiple shots. So to Thomas' logic, a gun fitted with a bump stock isn't a machine gun and therefore legal. As of today (or yesterday) bump stocks are fully legal in America. Only time will tell on how bad this ruling is.
It's why gun control needs to be wider scale. A CITY can't do gun control well. A country can. And if a continent does, you see amazing results. (Related: the USA is the last country in North America to implement gun control, so...)
It's sad to think that American's feel the only way to be safe is to own a gun. It's a terrible way to live when you think of it that way. What is also sad is that people go about their day and don't know if the person next to them is carrying a gun and are they happy today or are they depressed and easily triggered to use that gun.
Alaska is what I was thinking of. Or Alabama. Any A, lol. Must be all them westerns. Texas was a wringer for sure. It's a big state with lots of guns and gun enthousiasts. But also strict laws and law abiding citizens.
The lobbyists have convinced the American public that *any* gun regulation is more horrific than the stagering amount of avoidable gun deaths (and crime). 🎉
Profit before people! Convenient that they have forgotten the "amendment" refers to a trained militia armed with muskets to protect their country and government - not, the right to have a gunfight to see who's faster should be an everyday event! Life's cheap?
@jenniferharrison8915 and the irony is because there is so much crime and guns are so freely* available - the state (Federal) has had to constantly increase its armouries to keep up. Making it unlikely that a militia could reasonably fight an oppressive state if it ever came to it.
This is why local police stations have armouries the size of small countries 🙄
It's looks even more crazy looking at it from the outside. I can not imagine the feeling that the people all around me in their homes have guns - my neighbours are....strange 😕
@@williamwillaimsno that’s because your 18000 police agencies are at war with US citizens. They aren’t cops anymore, just hired guns defending wealth against the oeople
@@williamwillaims The US government has nuclear aircraft carriers, 5th generation jet fighters and drones. What do you think a bunch of Steve's who formed a militia with their AR-15's is going to do against that? The 2nd amendment is outdated.
@@williamwillaims beter get a gun to protect yourself. 😅
It's really not that nuanced. Every other country on the planet has decided human lives are more important than the need inadequates have for a murder weapon. Nobody outside the US can understand why Americans would rather lose their children than their guns. Even in Yemen, the US is seen as lawless and violent.
TRUE! 💯👍
Have you asked Mexico who has some of the strongest gun control in the world about it ... ? Seems the US has the right idea in the end.
I've been saying the same for years. It's not just about kids dying by gun violence. I have asked the following question to many Americans and the answer was always the same. The question is : "If you had a gun in your hand and saw a robber running down the street with your TV in his arms, would you shoot him in the back? " Americans always answered "yes". The only conclusion I could with is that Americans care more about their belongings than any human life. Human life comes cheap in America.
@@robertsmith4681 You do now that most of the weapons smuggled into Mexico is bought legally in the US right!
The only thing that is important in the US is the the greens over lives!
@@robertsmith4681Do you know that the guns in Mexico are for the most part smuggled from the USA like from Texas? The power of the drug kartels is mostly based on gun sales in Texas
Its quite simple.
Every country that has suffered a mass shootinh has restricted guns because they value kids lives over owning guns. Except one.
One country decided that shredding young kids to bits with bullets is ok as long as they can keep guns.
And that is one reason the world hold's that country in utter contempt.
It's really not limited to children's deaths but yes.
It’s quite ridiculous if you think gun control will prevent somebody killing others. If they were going to do it with a gun they will do it with anything else. Owning guns is important so people can protect themselves and their families. More gun control never reduces crime or murders. Either after gun control is passed the crime stays the same or gets worse. It’s the opposite when gun control is taken away. You wouldn’t know this because you haven’t researched anything at all.
@@gabecollins5585 it's easier to kill someone with a gun. go check the murders rate in western europe, in my country (italy) last year there were 330 murders out of a population of 60 millions people. Multiply this number by 5.5 to compare it to the population of the united states (about 330 million) and you have 1650 murders. compare these numbers with the data in the video, just the number of gun murders in the U.S. is incredibly higher than the total number of murders in Italy
"What a controversial subject" something only an American can say about logical and sensible gun reform, without a hint of irony. Even someone as sensible and relatively well educated as Ryan.
Educated ?
Keep in mind that every illegal gun in the US once was a legal gun. Someone legally purchase it and then either lost it, sold it to someone else, or had it stolen from them. You do not get many illegal guns in a country where it's hard to own a gun legally. Guns usually are not stolen from the manufacturer or the store (much higher security), they're stolen from private owners.
i dont know if this is true to get illegaly guns harder, in the netherlands or germany its absolut no problem to get a gun on the blackmarket and let us not begin with eastern europe there it is way easier as in west-europe...if you want a gun you get a gun no question
Actually tens of thousands of guns were made illegaly in the US. MAyby even hundreds of thousands.
those guns were never legal.
So most illegal guns were once legal yes, but not every illegal gun was once legal.
@@vbp8756 The difference is your illegal guns mainly come in over the borders (and with land borders unless you have 20m high razor wire and guards every few metres you'll never keep tight secure borders) whereas in N America the illegals guns in the US often find their way into Canada and Mexico (apparently the Mexican authorities have complained publicly about the number of illegal guns entering the country from the US) causing problems in other parts of America as well as the US.
@@vbp8756 No problem? I certainly don't know how to get a gun. To get a gun, you would have to know the "right" people. If that is no problem for you, I would say we have another problem here..
@@AlbertZonneveld Gund were made illegally? As in illegal gun factories? That seems a bit odd.. Especially since it's so easy to get a "normal" gun, why bother with producing them.
My brother and I were bored one day and decided to do some math. Here goes.
In the time frame of 2014 to 2022, USA, population 332 million, had 4011 shootings. In that same time frame, Serbia, population 6.8 million, had 5 shootings.
If the USA had the same rate of shootings as Serbia, yall would have had 244 shootings in that time period. And vice versa, if Serbia had the same rate of shootings as USA, we would have had 82 shootings in that time period.
USA has a problem, and it baffles me.
More Americans have died due to guns in the last 60 years 7:25 than the total number of US military deaths since the foundation of the USA in 1776 , fact !
An interesting comparison since, if I'm right, Serbia has quite a high level of gun violence compared to the rest of Europe.
@@LeSarthois The serbs are basically wannabe-russians that frequently forget how small and insignificant their country is. So yeah, it's actually a very good comparison.
I used to be friends with an American, who was a fun fisherman and hunter and was once severally attacked (online) by this gun lover‘s wife for my reasoning against guns. She insisted that she SHOULD own guns. Her explanation left me speechless. Her own mother was shot by her grandson and nephew of the woman - by the name of Karma! (not Karen, but should have been Karen) - and, if I‘m not mistaken, by a gun he stole from her mother… I have not been in touch with them ever since. These people are out of their minds… As are many Americans when it comes to this discussion…
Me, a European: wait, what is a automatic gun and a semi-automatic gun and what't the difference to an normal gun?
At 1:27 Ryan, a typical US citizen: makes a detailed explanation about all types of guns, loopholes in gun laws...
The difference is automatic firearms (those actually capable of automatic fire and not just scary looking) have been banned in the US first in the 1930's, then double dare banned in the 1980s. None of it reduced violence in any way. Semi automatic is basically most "normal guns" sold today ... Nobody uses 1920s bolt actions anymore, they use 1950s semi automatics such as the AR15 platform of rifles.
Automatic: You pull the trigger, a continues stream of bullets comes out.
Semi-Automatic: Every trigger pull one bullet comes out.
Non-Automatic: Some additional action is required between trigger pulls to load the next bullet. For example pump-action shotgun, where you manually eject and load every shot via the 'pump' motion.
Somehow it's unconstitutional to make people take a test for guns but not for cars...
@@nilov71 Sommehow it's legal to posess a car physically capable of going above the speed limit (including when you throw it off a cliff)...
@robertsmith4681 yeah... so?
Almost all gun crime is committed with legally owned guns.
True. I wonder why the US has so incredibly many illegal guns, compared to any other developed country. You dont suppose it could be because it is so easy to buy a legal gun there?
And how 90% of illegal guns and acquired? They are stolen/lost legal guns.
That's because criminals can legally own guns
exactly, therefore there should be very limited amount of legaly owned guns (basicaly exceptions for like gamekeepers, some security jobs, etc) ie. very strict laws to acquire a gun.
Do you consider suicide a gun crime?
In Canada you have to pass a gun safety test to be allowed to TOUCH a gun outside of a safety course.
Rifles are almost the only legal guns, as those are what hunters use and the other types are mostly for killing humans. It helps with controlling crime as just the existence of a handgun means the cops can arrest them.
Our biggest flaw in our gun control is that the USA is a big neighbour with plentiful guns. So, if the USA controlled handguns it would be way more effective for both them and us.
Hand guns are the big problem, statistics show that rifles only represent a very small percentage of gun deaths.
Looking at this neighboring situation from Europe, the fact that there is no free border crossing between Canada and the US is astounding.
I wonder which side is more eager to keep up the controls, but since Canada has more reasonable laws in many ways, as far as I know, and a more reasonable population, I bet its Canada.
@@grahvis Criminals doing what criminals do and nobody wanting to do anything about it are the problem, lawful Canadian gun owners (about 3 million of us as of this writing and growing) are already much less likely to be involved in "Gun violence" than the general non PAL holding population, yet we are the only ones targeted or harmed in the process of "getting guns off the street". Mexico basically bans all civlian gun ownership, and people flee it to come to the US ...
@@robertsmith4681 .
We don't have a gun problem in the UK, yet I have known several gun owners. There are very strict requirements before you can get a firearms certificate.
@@grahvis Rental trucks plowing into crowds on the other hand ...
Sad that a supposed civilised society values the right to own a gun above the safety of their children. And that's a fact !
Plenty more where they came from. 'Every life is sacred' expires outside the womb and guns drive capitalism. It's no contest, really!
And that is why you should be allowed to have a gun before being born.
It's dangerous out there!
I am Lithuanian and my brother just got a gun. He had to go through training, medical assesment, mental assesment etc. It took him roughly a year to get throuth everything to get it. And he'll have to go through mental assesment every few years
You might want to look up „list of countries by intentional homicide rate“
USA 6.4 per 100k per year
Germany 0.8
And now think about how 1.2 guns per capita in the USA ply into this. 🤔
Look even closer too mate because 6.4 is very very generous to the USA because there are pockets of no violence. In the USA there's over 65 cities with homicide rates ranging 12 minimum to 150 per 100,000 people. London England for example is 1.2 per 100,000. Search 65 cities homicide rates
On the other hand we know that very bad things happen when lots of Germans get hold of guns ...
@@WookieWarriorz Remember that the continental average is about 15 in the Americas ans Mexico to the south of them is at about 25 ...
Yes, I noticed that in that page 22:08 Ryan browsed, the gun-related death rates were computer "per 10k" instead of the international standard of "per 100k". And even with that trick, the average for major cities was 0.8 (i.e. 8 per 100k), and the worst city, Saint Louis, was above 8 (i.e. 80 per 100k).
@@robertsmith4681 Again, comparing with Mexico and more southern countriies, which are way less developed, more poor, etc. Why you don't compare with developed and rich countries? You could even compare with your neighbour up north! ;)
You dont need to be a gun expert when you see those horrible numbers, just need more then 2 brain cells.
What I find wild is when the 2nd ammendment was drafted the guns they had were muskets. I don't think they would give everyone the right to bear arms if they could see the firearms that are around now.
To us Europeans your gun laws are nuts and although I quite like guns, I find your gun culture bonkers. You see nutters at protests with assault rifles, why civilians need assault rifles is puzzling...
The real problem is that so many in the US feels the need to have guns, whether for self-defence or to protect against the government or whatever.
That to me suggest there's a much deeper, fundamental problem with the fabric of society in the US for so many Americans to feel the need to have arms.
For me, the real problem I see in the US is having such a weak social system across the board in everything from health care, workers rights, food standards and countless more, and this all boils down to this individual nature over the collective working together, the US is the odd country out of all the modern countries and even many developing countries that isn't moving with the times in so many areas and the American are paying a high price for that in areas that most Americans don't even realise because of ignorance of the rest of the world, it's kinda sad to see, but shocking at the kind of arrogance some Americans show of others outside the US.
Basically, the US can't really solve its gun problem without solving many of its other problems in society, because a lot of the issue are intertwined together in American society, in other words, you have to fix many of the issues to fix the core issues, and that isn't going to be easy as many of those issues are big and honestly, I don't think the US can do it without a major revolution for change, something Europeans and many other modern countries got after the second world war, but the second world war was a major impact that forced change at a political and public level and now Europeans and other modern countries are benefitting from that, the US not so much.
Bravo!!! So True😢and sad !
Yes. The whole "gun culture" in the US goes against their own rhetoric of "Number One!".
If you so desperately need a gun for your own protection, then you in effect believe you live in a failed state, because the number one responsibility of a state is guaranteeing the security of its citizens.
And if you so adamantly need a gun (or several) to protect yourself from "government tyranny", then - despite what you may boast over and over again - you don't actually believe you live in a democracy.
It's funny/slash depressing how they miss the incoherence of that. But I guess that's the whole point of incoherence...
US culture is so much about competition.
If you're not the winner you are a looser...
Relax! - If you want an example how to handle private guns with less accidents/crime/suicides: check out Switzerland.
Switzerland in comparison, by The Daily Show:
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Funny how U S Americans are always pumped to be No.1 - even if it is in a terrible way as seen by other nations.
Pshaw! USA is not even in the top 10 countries with the most STI's. Amateurs!
@@Bakers_Doesnt The United States has some of the highest STD rates in the developed world. The United States had a gonorrhea rate of 123 per 100,000 people in 2015-the highest in the developed world at the time-which increased to 188.4 cases per 100,000 people in 2019. The U.S. also posted the third-highest rate for chlamydia in the developed world with 475 per 100,000 people in 2015, which increased to 552.8 per 100,000 in 2019. STD rates increase in the United States for many reasons, including decreased condom use among vulnerable groups such as young people and men who partner sexually with other men. Additionally, state and local programs have experienced budget cuts, resulting in clinic closures, decreased screenings and care, and reduced patient follow-up.
The US has the 4th Highest numbers of actual cases, just behind Brazil and a fair bit behind India and China. So well within the top 10, unless you are looking at per capita, then some African countries and Island nations leap ahead of them.
@@Thurgosh_OG 🤣 I knew someone would refute that! Please, please tell me you're an American sore at the implication of not being in the top 10 countries. That would be just too funny! I guess not, as you said STD instead of STI.
@@Thurgosh_OG USA! USA!
the USA does NOT lead the world in gun violence.
USA: "Everyone has a gun, therefore everyone needs a gun!"
Impeccable logic 😊
During the summer between the end of high school and the beginning of the first semester of university, a good friend of mine went missing from our little clique. After not seeing him around the campus for a couple of weeks I encountered a mutual friend who told me why Bob was not around.
During that summer Bob took a cassette recorder and left a message explaining how he felt and what he planned to do. Bob then took his father's shotgun, put the barrel in his mouth and blew off his head. He hadn't turned off the recorder. Now imagine being the first family member who played that tape. After the shotgun blast there must have been the ultimate, seemingly eternal, period of silence imaginable. Silence with the possible exception of the slow sound of moist dripping.…
Goodbye, Bob, I'll never forget you even though it's been over 55 years.
Mexican from Mexico City here, despite de bad press about México, it feels very foreign to me, my family and circle to have guns, I cant find a single good reason for a person to have a gun of any kind, automatic, semi automatic or otherwise. I have the great fortune to live in a semi rural area where my neighbors' kids can still play safe in the street or in my garden or any other neighbor's house garden. I feel really distubed when I see the news about a kid finding his parent's gun and "unliving" a friend or taking it to school to "look cool" and causing an accident. It is very akward and a bit of cynical that the Kinder Surprise candy were banned in the US, but they cant agree to ban guns. Yes I know a mexican saying that feels the same way with all of the cartel and stuff, but believe me, normal people, good people do not carry nor need guns.
That there have to be a police presence in schools is pretty telling.
it is said, that if people have a weapon, there is a high risk that they will use it in an argument at some point.
In America if you leave your house, get in a car, go to a shop or anywhere else you are likely to encounter someone, possibly with an everday appearance and demeanor, who is carrrying an armed gun! 🤔 How likely is it that every armed person you encounter can control their emotions and be rational? The only safe way to defuse any dispute is conversation, empathy and law! 👍
You said you’ve never heard of the Falklands ….its a British overseas territory
I'm quite sure he reacted to at least one video about the war there...
i was very suprised at that, how we had to defend the falklands, on our own, that was huge fight, it was not till the para's went in that we won, i know this, it was after the falklands, by brother became a para, and trained by the guys that were in the falklands, he finished as sergent major in the paras, he joined up 1987
The Argentinians and the French surely remember it!
of course he has heard of it
@@lukespooky you sure, he did not seem to, his words
About the 58% killed women - you may imagine it could be caused by the availability of a gun at home.
A study by the CDC came to the conclusion that a gun in the home constituted a health hazard.
60,000 gun deaths in the USA last year 25 in the UK Need I say any more. Just ban guns what's the problem? We ban medicines and drugs and things that kill us so why not firearms. And the channel has 20 million subscribers|(M20)
The United States banned Kinder Surprise Eggs (those chocolate eggs with a little toy inside), because they thought they were dangerous. How many children do you think have been hurt or killed by Kinder Surprise Eggs... all-time, worldwide? Almost none. Forks are probably considerably more dangerous than Kinder Surprise Eggs.
Meanwhile, it's difficult to keep track of all the children who have been killed by guns... in mass shootings alone.
Despite this, the Republican Party is extremely resistant to consider any restrictions of any kind to firearms, including automatic weapons.
The United States is far and away the worst country in the first world, almost exclusively because of the Republican Party. This is my opinion.
Ryan was joking when he pretended not to know what M means
Okay, actual question to Americans: We often hear the argument that "most guns used in crimes are illegal, therefore regulation wouldn't help", but then you also have the statistics from the ATF that always say that a vast majority of illegal guns, like 80% or something, are bought from official, but corrupt, gun dealerships. So the "illegal" guns are bought from the legal shops that the regulation would crack down on and force to have better supervision. So how would regulation not affect the illegal/trafficked gun purchases?
It seems you could get most illegal guns off the streets without even touching the 2nd Amendment for most people, just by enforcing the laws and supervision that is already legally in place but all the gun dealerships just ignore
It is kinda pointless to ask such reasonable questions to a people that is raised on hypocritical propaganda.
The second amendment was never written for personal gun ownership, not even the militia was intended to bring the service guns home, because even back then it was clear to fairly reasonable leaders that this would cause avoidable problems. But in the last 50 years the NRA has done an amazing job corrupting lawmakers and the media on that issue. Its good business.
You forgot to add that, those same statistics show that it has been 'legal' guns that caused the most deaths and injuries, not the illegal ones.
You would, but then you would not be fabricating a need for huge three letter agencies and vast law enforcement budgets ... Lax enforcement becomes a self serving vicious cycle and the ones being deprived of their property are the people who follow the laws as they are written and harm no one with their guns.
@@madrooky1398 As far as I know, it is a bit unclear what the second amendment meant. In anyway, was written before semi automatic / modern guns.
@@fee6362 It is very clear what the second amendment means, they just finished fighting a war which they won because even though they had fewer guns and heavy weapons than their government and professional military foe.
The colonial's guns were much much better than mere 'military grade", they won in larghe part beause of superior equipent and the people who wrote the Constitution were unanymous that it was a lesser evil to ensure it would always be that way than to risk goverrnment turning on the people yet again.
In Germany we have a 50:50 rule according suicides. 50% of train drivers experience a so called "person accident" on the tracks and 50% have to stop working because of PTSD after that. So there are some advantages that americans commit suicide with their guns at home.
sure, but im sure those train drivers dont take their families with them
@@johnsmith99997 The people on the tracks sometimes do ...
And the people who have to clean the homes, often family, don't have PTSD after?
@@robertsmith4681 plz get out some statistics of train pushers internationally and gun deaths locally (US) so we can put a number to your "sometimes" for additional context.
Maybe those numbers would suggest we need to ban any form of transportation and only guns are safe to use?
Also an advantage of not having as much public transport I suppose.
I do wonder about the stranger/family exposure consideration factor though. Likely for most not all that much part of whatever reasoning one does at that point.
In Australia, gun violence is not the same issue, but unfortunately the statistics on the murder of women remains the same.
That has been increased by the large amount of immigrants from particular countries though, it's definitely not indicative of Australian culture!
The ratio is the same, but the total number of murders is lower there.
@@jenniferharrison8915 Australia has always had a very macho patriarchal society, regardless of our immigration. I think that is actually changing though, which will be for the good. On immigration, my thoughts are that people who come here usually do this to escape oppressive conditions.
@@jenniferharrison8915 No, quite the opposite. The Australian homicide rate (0.87 deaths per year per 100,000 population) remains historically low. There has been a 52 per cent REDUCTION in homicide incidents since 1989‒90, indicative of a long-term DOWNWARD trend in unlawful killings.30 Apr 2024. The proportion of Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander (TSI) femicide victims that were killed by an intimate partner (75.4%) was higher than both Caucasian (54.2%) and Asian (51%) femicide victims that were killed by an intimate partner.
@@ticktock7483 That's a romantic view! Maybe 60 years ago! In the main they come here to make money, and many lately just to make trouble! Few new migrants make any effort to integrate or accept our values now and they create communities based on their traditional lifestyle, which usually includes violent repression and punishment!
ok i asked google 2022 in usa 17.310 deaths by gun (sucide not included) in germany 155 deaths by gun...wow almost a war zone in usa i am shocked...i mean 155 is high but usa omg clearly the best country in the world ^^ maybe usa needs more guns to safe the sitiuation ^^
To end stupidity? 🧐 I believe it was at least 42,000 suicides! 🤨
And to put it into perspective: the US only has 4x as many inhabitants. So with the same # of inhabitants, Germany would have around 620 deaths by gun, around 28x less.
17.3 deaths by gun?? Lmao
@@Dr_KAP Some countries (including both mine and Germany) use comma's and periods the other way around. So 17.310 would be 17310, while 17,310 would be around 17 + 1/3rd. In this context it is obvious that the person refers to 17310.
@@DomorVerbeuk it wasn’t “obvious” to me lol else I wouldn’t have commented. Thanks for setting me straight though I appreciate it. I’ve learned something new ! ❤️
In the EU/EFTA, Switzerland sits at the high end of the in regard to gun ownership, others include the relatively thinly populated Nordic countries like Iceland, Sweden, and Finland. Most men in Switzerland do military service which includes refresher courses every year or so until the age of about 30. During this time, they keep their army issued weapons at home (usually a handgun and a rifle). It is relatively easy as well to hang onto your army-issued weapons after that (you have to show that regularly train with them).
Probably a consequence of this is that Switzerland has a rate of suicide by gun roughly twice that in many other EU/EFTA countries. The majority of those suicides are carried out with army-issued weapons.
I think the bad thing are the high numbers of suicides and the high numbers of gun related deaths, but the percentage of how many people used a gun to kill themselves is not that important. Yes maybe it's easier with a gun and therefore you have more suicides that's a point, but banning guns is not the solution for suicides. This people need more help in general.
There are of course many other reasons to restrict firearms further or banning them at all. I think just this point isn't matching.
Exactly, in this day of "assisted suicide" being more or less norrmalized, other than cutting out the middle man what exactly are people upset about ?
Mental health of gun owners is something I wasn't expecting from this video, and is something we all should reflect upon.
Many people who want a gun would say they are a "good guy", but what really makes a good guy?
Mental health, trained perception, trained gun security, emotional co trol, stress resilience, goid judgement...??
The only thing I'd have on guns is that a really comprehensive course for gun safety should be mandatory.
For the rest, in my country they ask the local police if that guy should be allowed to own a firearm. If they know the guy in a bad way they will say no, usually they say go ahead.
what country do you live in?
@@KOBRA___ Finland.
You can make that demand when it comes to driving a car, but for some reason not when it comes to guns...
That is basically the way it works inn the US as is, each state does it slightly different but in the end all states regulate what guns are allowed to own and by whom, at the federal level firearm transfers are recorded and approved by police aka "the ATF" at the point of sale.
You wouldn't give a gun to someone who is mentally unstable. What does the desire to own a gun say about your mental stability?
I'll never will understand why would someone want guns to be legal! For me it's surreal!
Really glad we don't generally have easy access to guns here.
As someone who stuggles with bouts of depression, I'm pretty sure there have been a couple of times I would have come close to, if not actualy done something.
As far as US and gun control goes, Swiss model needs to be looked at. People are encouraged to own and practice shooting but the legislation is strict and training is mandatory and high quality.
Well ,easy access is not good but I think some access is better than no access that many countries have.
Countries like Australia , England ,ban all weapon access by civilians , that's not good.
You should have the right to get a firearm to protect your home and family from criminals!
@@gregorygant4242you are wrong, they don't ban all the guns, you can get a firearms licence, you just need a good reason to own a gun.
@@dzigizzzz yup and protecting your family is not a good reason. But we also dont have a robbery/homeinvasion problem. Probably because not everyone have guns, only real criminals that need them for opps, not just any desperate junkie can get one cause you need money and some contacts.
@@gregorygant4242 What kind of enemies do you have???
@@gregorygant4242 Guns aren't banned in England and Aus.. you just need to conform to the legislation..
Don't know a farmer without a shotgun and rifle over here.
Also, we don't consider stopping robbery to be worth murder.
The Falkland Islands are British territory that was invaded by Argentina in 1982. This led to the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina which lasted for approximately 3-4 months. The British defeated Argentina at the cost of some 255 British deaths and 649 Argentinian deaths. Another consequence is that it made the British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher popular with the public, before the invasion she was widely hated in the UK. This helped keep her in power until 1990.
A gun is a gun. Whether automatic or not. Life in the states is cheap. Must, hold up the second ammendment, and be able to defend ourselves. This was true 150 years ago. Not now. An English man's home is his castle, yes we want to protect our families and homes, that's why we have the police and courts.
But the statistics show clearly that relatively speaking most firearms related incidents are in the south. And I would guess that most of those are with legally owned firearms, and in big cities such as Chicago with illegal weapons.
I would say the gun law in chicago is more restrictive in the rural areas around chicago not so much. In the rural areas the guns would be legal. Easy to buy them there legally and bring to Chicago illegally.
@@mweskamppp Big city criminals require big boy weapons and illegal goods, naturally they are illegally imported too! There is more personal injury and neighbour disputes in the South not real criminal gun issues!
...and those 'illegal' weapons in Chicago were bought legally in indiana and only become illegal because they were bought with the intention to be used in Illinois.
Or in other words, they are 'illegal' because of an administrative rule and not because they were smuggled into the country or stolen.
@@PDVism OMG, only one state in Australia would dare change our national gun laws! Horrifying!
Chicago is my favourite southern american city
This is only a "Hugely Controversial" topic, if you're an American who's got an addiction to guns. The rest of us (everyone who is not American) think owning a gun is INSANITY!! Future Americans will look back at "the right to own a gun" with the same "Shame" as the legalisation of slavery.
2:02 Gun safety is more than how to safely use a firearm. Safety protocols includes how to safely store or secure your gun, and an awareness of potential misuse,, for example, from an innocent child that may stumble upon a gun sitting on a bedside table.
The issue with guns in the USA is all about the culture. There are many other countries that have lots of guns, they are just not as ignorant and irresponsible as americans. Honestly, your entire society is brainwashed in weird ways. For example, your ''freedom eagle sound'' is actually a red tailed hawk, not an eagle.
Also, we can't just go to a Walmart and buy a gun without a permit, we have some form of control
The saddest thing is that these statistics even exist. Gun laws in the UK and Australia were more relaxed at one point but all it took was 1 mass schoolshooting in each country and everything changed witin such a short space of time it was staggering. It shows that it can be done The difference the the mindset of the people. I find it sad that people will put their rights to own a gun, over the right for a child to live safely or to live at all. Shameful.
The numbers says it all...
USA: 120 civilian firearms per 100 people and 12.2 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(4.4 homicide/7.3 suicide)
Canada: 34.7 civilian firearms per 100 people and 2 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(0.5 homicide/1.5 suicide)
EU: 18 civilian firearms per 100 people and 1.49 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(0.23 homicide/1.12 suicide)
Australia: 14.8 civilian firearms per 100 people and 0.88 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(0.15 homicide/0.72 suicide)
UK: 4-5 civilian firearms per 100 people and 0.23 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(0.06 homicide/0.15 suicide)
The numbers are from pre-pandemic but they should still be fairly similar now. For those with sharp minds that see the homicide and suicide numbers dont add up to the total then I can say that it is because a small number of the firearm-related deaths are undetermined or accidents and such.
Hello. As European, I think it is related to culture. In Europe, you basically rely on the governement to deal with the security whereas in USA you may hear sentence like "Governement is not the solution, it is the problem."
By the way, another sentence heard in Europe is "If owning weapons helps for safety purpose, America should be the safest country in the world. And it isn't"
Actually, I'm sorry for you, folks.
America is one of the safest countries on it's' own continent, also by far the most heavily populated, it also shares a land border with one of the most violent countries in he world, Mexico, which does has very strong "gun control". The problem with comparing the US with Europe is that the US is so large and populated that there is nothing in Europe to compare it with. I could claim that all of Europe is a bad place based on the murder statistics of Latvia for example. Reality is that the homicide rate in the Americas is 3 times more than it is in the US. The US has about 6 "'intentional homicides" per 100 000 while the average in the Americas is about 15 per 100 000 In Mexico it is about 26 per 100 000.
@@robertsmith4681 The EU shares a border with the Eastern Bloc, Asia and is just a short boat trip from Africa. The criminal groups there are certainly active on the European continent, as are the local ones.
However, the whole thing is a smokescreen from the start, since the Mexican cartels are not responsible for the everyday violence in the USA. And although the security situation in EU countries varies, none has anywhere near the same homicide rate as the US.
And of course you can always find worse examples of gun violence. The only question is how undignified you want to choose the comparison just because you cannot compare yourself with the domestic security standards of the rest of the developed world.
@@robertsmith4681 You say one can not compare the US with Europe. You said: The US is so large (9.834.000 km²). Almost identical, but indeed Europe is a bit larger: (10.530.000 km²). Population US: 333,3 million, Europe: 746,4 millionen - so even far higher populated. It seems you are a victim of your school system.
So tell me how is it not comparable? And there is war in Ukraine..Nevertheless, the killing rate of civilians during the war in Ukraine is just twice as high as the average in the USA (in peace).
Have you even watched the video? Husbands kill their wives, more than 50% suicides...what does this have to do with Mexico? According to you, Mexicans must come to the US with their wives, kill the women and then themselves... just to increase the killing rate in the US. What a nonsense.
Then you bring Latvia into play. A small country, less than 2 million, one of the worst in killing rate ... still the killing rate is about 50% of overall USA.
And before it was you who said one can not compare the US with Europe. You lose by far when comparing the worst of Europe´s country with the average of USA!!
Then you compare the US with Americas. The best country on earth, a first world high technology country vs. some of the worst countries regarding killing rate. Shouldn´t you better compare with equally high standard countries?
Yeah you are the best in a swimming competition. Your opponents were: one without an arm and the other has died a year ago. Congratulations!
@@marcromain64 Narrowing Europe down to the EU is a mistake as it cherry picks which "nations" within Europe yields results that you like. Remove the ten worst (all long term Democrat led) cities in the US the same way you weed out Eastern Europe and you end up with a "country" that has simmilar if not lower homicide numbers than Europe does, and still about the same population size as the EU. The bulk of the violence is fueled by lawlessness south of the border pouring in.
@@robertsmith4681 I am sorry, but this still a bad argument. Saying "others are worse" doesn't change anything about you.
And it doesn't not change the fact, that better regulation would save people.
As someone who's deeply suicidal I don't see the "disturbing" nature of people using them to kill themselves. It seems like a good way to go to me and I'm happy those people don't have to suffer anymore
Yeah, but sure is a fun present to leave behind for their loved ones to find.
Had a friend who had to clean his fathers brains and gore from the wall after he commited suicide with his service gun. Not only did the poor guy have to deal with his father killing himself but then cleaning up the mess. Needless to say he himself has been in therapy since.
Doing some research and taking the right kind of pills is going to be a lot less traumatic for those that have to deal with the aftermath
Hope you get help.
Without the gun I would assume going over the line will be harder, therefore that person can get help instead.
don't give up, i don't know your problems but i've been there and i can assure you that there is still hope, even if you can't see it right now. i know it seems empty words but one day you'll find something worth living for. i can't hug you from behind the screen, but my thought is with you because i know how painfull it is and no one deserves it
"I'll guess why this video is so disliked "
6seconds in *"gun control"*
We will never know why it is so disliked 😂
According to the U.S. Department of Justice 40% of guns used in criminal acts were obtained illegaly (staying stable around 40% for decades now). It is a big chunk, for sure, but most crimes committed with guns are done so with legal guns.
80% of all murders in 2021 were committed with a firearm involvement.
55% of all suicides were done using a gun.
PS. As others have pointed out, "illegal" does usually not mean filed off serial number and bought at a corner, it most often means, "taken without permission from someone who owns a gun legally".
You (Ryan) is really good at repeating NRA talking points - cudos.
The weirdest part to most people outside the US is THAT there is a controversy, but I‘ll go for a different Angle:
How to go and do stupid stuff:
Option one: A knife, needs to be close, people can run.
Two: a vehicle: you‘ll get a few people, but the rest can dodge and your chances to get away are usually quite bad, also registered and expensive as hell
Three: bomb/sabotage, needs continued anger to prep and planning to commit, also needs skill
A gun: has range, fairly cheap to get, bad to nonexistent registry, not suspicious per se to own and sometimes even carry in the US, most bang for buck, easy enough to use.
Now, how to get one: buy from a licensed store legally, do illegal things: takes a waiting time, you may not have a criminal record.
Buy from corrupt store: take your pick, but illegal for both on its face, thus usually pricey.
Steal from store: pain in the ass, gun serial number probably registered as stolen soon.
Steal from random home: risky, not much choice in what to take.
Buy at gun show: in many states perfectly legal with no checks and thus no risk to seller, thus low crime markup
Buy privately; usually also completely untraceable and legal.
Smuggle a gun into the us? Lots of hurdles, when plenty of legit guys can do it legally, why bother…
And in the end, sadly, the most effective way to stop people from shooting other people seems to be getting guns out of the hands of people and stopping the people from just giving guns to unknown people (being held legally responsible for example would be a deterrent to just giving guns to someone you don’t trust, raising the odds, the guy gets stopped before committing a crime)
How is it easily trafficked? You don't need to. It's much harder to get them across the border when you can easily go to gunshows and have loopholes to buy every gun there or ask the nice shady dealership, buy a gun, register ist and have the rest sold to you so you can scratch off any indicators.
You can also catch any small handgun with a mushroom on a fishing reel in any state south of Dixie
Question from a french guy : What are the top 3 reasons to possess firearms ?
Fear, fear, and fear, in that order.
America is driven by fear.
The reasons that people convince themselves they need a gun vary by area.
Mostly it's self-defence. They believe that they could get a gun out of the gun safe and use it to stop a home invasion.
Other places have stuff like open carry, where you hear crazy ideas like they could pull out that gun and stop a mass murder spree.
When you ask about the guns used for mass murder, they don't have reasons. They just yell that they have a RIGHT to own one just 'cause they feel like it.
@@Rachel_M_ To be more detailed
1/ FEAR that someone else might have a gun and use it against them
2/ FEAR that someone might invade their home and wanted to kill them
3/ FEAR that the government might do something they don't want and there for have to be able to fight off the government with their handguns and rifles to over throw the government who only have attack heli's, battle tanks, Rangers, Marines, drones and cruise missiles
It heavily depends on area. In some places I actually understand it, I watch some people who do homesteading and off-grid living in America in different places and there you sometimes need a gun on you for coyotes etc. In Europe we sometimes forget that the US has places that are actually in the wild and far far away from others. But yeah, other than these rare cases the majority of the US shouldn't need or have guns but if others have guns you need guns, is the idea. Mutually assured destruction mindset
@@PDVism thank you for that detail ♥ Can't deny I was too lazy to fill it in.
yeah numbers are wild. i remember seeing some from 2021.
each year you had 49000 gun related deaths. thats 20x your casualties in iraq.
in 5 years same amount as casualties in the vietnam war.
do you still think guns is a good thing in the hands of civilians ? there are war zones safer than US.
murica.... the only country that teaches children active shooter drills before they learn to ride a bike.
Now that's f###ed up
My brother lives in rural Crete. He says there are guns of all types, even the local priest has one! The Cretans don't go around shooting each other though.
Germany has lots of guns but the owners of them are mostly collectors and competition shooters aswell as some hunters. Its fairly easy to get a small caliber rifle like a .22 if you join a "Schießverein". You cant take it home if you dont have a licence for it though so you can only shoot it at the range.
Edit: Oh yeah and we have a festival called "Schützenfest" where people get drunk then take turns shooting a shotgun at a wooden bird until the last piece of it crumbles off and that guy is then the new Schützenkönig (shooter king?) for the year
From the statistics I know, we have 941.697 registered gun owners in germany, who own around 5 mio. guns.
Our around 400.000 Hunters normally have at least 5 guns each, 2 handguns and 3+ rifles. The handguns are used for killshots in traphunting, to kill animales that are heavily injured in car accidents or if for some reason the rifle shot from hunting didn't kill it.
For hunting you can use different rifles depending on what you hunt.
Sport shooter normally don't have more than 5.
And then there are the collectors, somewhere I've read that 100 gun collectors in germany have more than 65.000 guns together (more than 650 per collector).
And these numbers of legal owned guns add up.
The 15 Mio. on wikipedia includes around 10 Mio. unregistered guns which is just an estimate, some other sources I've read go up to 20 Mio. or even more unregistered guns.
I don't know what to think of these numbers, since we had weapon collection campaigns, where people could turn in weapons even illegal weapons without fear of punishment for owning these weapons.
And the amount of weapons turned in, was really small.
Which let me to the believe that these estimates are way to high.
@@Rafaela_S. Honestly, I believe the 10-20 million illegal firearms estimate is about right, you have to remember that until the "neues Waffengesetz" from 1972, you could even order small caliber single shot and semiautomatic rifles in the mail.
Those were pretty common to have back in the day, for garden plinking and pest control, same as (now also restricted) high-powered air rifles. And for self defense in the more rural areas.
Pretty much nobody turned those in, but they never had any real relevance in criminal activity, and essentially no black market trading either. Still turn up regularly when old folks pass and the relatives find those old rifles in the basement or, more often than you might think, behind the wardrobe just somewhat hidden from plain sight.
Quite possibly many of the current "owners" aren't even aware they have multiple rifles rotting somewhere in their basement.
Edit: If you do find one of these when cleaning out the house of a passed relative, under no circumstance bring them to the police on your own. Call the police and request them to come by and pick them up, even if they tell you to just bring them to the station you are still not allowed to transport them and risk facing criminal charges. Insist the police come by and collect them.
@@BenjaminGerfelder Could also be possible, but even if we go with an estimate of 4 weapons per household, we are still talking about 2,5-5 mio. households and more than 50 years. If there are really 10-20 mio guns still out there I would expect way more guns found and turned in each year and way more informations about this topic available. And way more reports on this topic.
For me it does not seem logical for such an big amount of weapons, that reports about discoveries of them seem so rare.
It's probably because of clichés / stereotypes, but I would definitely be more scared of an American with a gun than a German with a gun... Sure, there are crazy people everywhere, but in general, I trust my German neighbours to be much more responsible in how they're handling guns than most people in the US.
If the authorities in Germany get noticed that you use your guns drunk, expect a visit from the police to confiscate them..
Why have gun control, when you have "Thoughts and prayers"?
Here in the UK we just don't feel the need to own guns. We are not afraid of our neighbours, or of the Government. Everyone having access to firearms makes people afraid of each other, to the point of paranoia. More murders are committed because using a gun is so easy, & can just take a moments madness, other forms of murder are more difficult. The highest proportion of suicides here is among farmers, who are much more likely to have & use guns. The more guns the more deaths by guns. The US also has a high murder rate through knife crime than here in UK, & higher crime levels overall. Alaska probably has many gun suicides.
Not actually true as I know lots of legal firearms owners and many of them have multiple guns . the licence is a process of jumping through ever higher hoops and anything can be used to remove them from you should you do anything the cops don't like mostly without any compensation for the loss of your expenses property ( mostly without even a criminal conviction). you need to do some research or visit a local club or gunshop to find out some facts and maybe try having a go
To be quite honest, you seem to have a serious issue with people being stabbed to death on a regular basis over there in the UK. Not judging, we are trying our best to catch up here in Germany as it would appear.
Just saying, citing gun control regulations as a reason in that context is naive at best.
Even in the US, you have to wonder why the most gun violence is concentrated in the states with the most restrictions on firearms ownership. In fact, some of the US states with the most relaxed gun control laws interestingly enough have average homicide rates that are a lot lower than those in Germany or the UK.
Or comparing to our direct neighbors in the EU with less strict gun control, Germany does pretty poorly on homicide rates.
@@BenjaminGerfelder I often here Americans using this argument when defending their gun culture but, It's statistically not true. The USA (per capita) has more stabbing homicides than the UK. Stabbing deaths in the UK do tend to generate more headline news.
@@HelenMills-wh3vf Comparing the US with the UK, a literal island nation on another continent about the size of a single US state, is simply ridiculous..
@@HelenMills-wh3vf That is the point, the US doesn't really have a firearms problem, it does have a general problem with violence, and the statistic you cite actually proves it.
If you stick to Europe, the UK does have nearly double per capita homicides compared to Germany, even though Germany has much more relaxed firearms laws.
Germany itself again does pretty poorly in homicide rates compared to some of our neighbors who have even more relaxed firearms laws.
Access to firearms isn't a factor, that is backed by statistics, it is mental health of the general populace and economic factors.
As far as the US is concerned, I'd argue that economic factors are playing a major role with the overall epidemic of violence. When visiting there, I was honestly shocked seeing the sheer poverty large parts of the population are living in, hard working people in one of the richest countries of the world mind you.
I am European. I can't fathom watching this and not thinking guns are the problem. Have you ever heard of Thomas Hobbes?
The video is hugely disliked bcz right-wing gun nutz, trolls and bots hurriedly down vote any video that doesn't recite NRA propaganda chapter and verse.
"Britain vs Argentina: Falklands War" by Historigraph
You should give it a watch, it's very very interesting.
Well I just learnt something new today. Mar a Lago is located on Palm Beach, which is an island off the coast from West Palm Beach.
Imagine being so tied to the idea of ‘freedom’ you limit other’s freedoms and security
what i find amazing, is how little they know, about there own country and guns,
i can tell you, in the uk we banned guns after 1996, after dunblain, but i can tell there, there has been no mass shooting since
i can tell you that 200k children at school in the US i have seen gun violence in school in one form or another since columbine(spell check)
i can also tell you, your 80% more likely to die from police shootings, because you have the 2nd amendment, to open carry in many states
but you will die. you might die because of defective headlight, and you reach for documents asked for
The reason, you give guns, to police, who have criminal convictions, untrained, have no idea of the law, they do 26 weeks training, off you go
which is 6 months, it takes 5 years training to be hairdresser, it takes 5 years for lawyers to learn the law
it takes years to learn a trade
but it takes 6 months, to learn how to use a gun, make people dance in the street, to see if they had a drink, the tech is out there, but will not be used, because of corruption and money, every arrest is subjection, not proved, 70% are thrown out in court
Lets get onto the dogs, the shiffer dogs are broken, they hit every time, nothing ever found
america is corrupt, its out of hand, and becoming whites only, who else wanted the perfect race
There have been a number of mass shootings since dunblane in March if 1996.
November 1996, Barmill Scotland
March 1997, Camberwell, England
There were 2 more in 2020, 3 in 2021 including the Plymouth one.
2 more in 2022, 1 in 2023, and one this year on May 29th.
Raoul moat didn't qualify and Dale Creegan used grenades.
@@Rachel_M_ ralph moat, i probably know a little more about that, than yourself, not to be funny, it was as it happened, but after,
@@Rachel_M_ the cpmplete ban did not come in till 1997, i said after 1996, if i got the order wrong sorry
@@Rachel_M_ camberwell was not considered mass shooting, 2 were shot, that targeted.
If I imagine all the crazy people in my neighborhood would have easy access to guns I would be terrified, and get a gun too.
And since there are no "defence rifles" I'd settle with an "assault rifle" 😆
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The Texas one I did know, purely because a friend is from Texas originally (not any longer, now lives (lived, he was a doctor and a COVID statistic unfortunately) )in Ireland and was more than happy - pleased in fact - to abide by our even stricter regulations for the many guns (hunting only) he kept in his incredibly secure gun safe.
Interestingly the graph I found for state with the most deaths and weakest gun laws showed Wyoming at the top, Arkansas next and then Alaska.
Clearly the crackpot notion that a gun is for self defence isn't working out too well, methinks!! 🥴
11:48 how much of that question is due to health care price issues and not wanting to be a burden on their loved ones?
Funny that americans are still eating and shooting like if they had free healthcare
As a french I really like that guy, smiling and chilly with a good attitude with te videos.
But truly from my heart the more videos i see on the defferences between america and other countries or just how america work, the less i want to even touch that cursed land.
Don't get me wrong, there is good thing, the second amendment and being able to have weapons for self-defense IS good. (in france we have some problem between "no gun no kill" and the fact that the "reals guns" are anyway illegally use by gangs and that kill people disarms.
No guns are hugely regulated in the US. Tgat's why you are the omly countrg with regular mass shootings.
I live in Russia (not a safer place on earth to be honest). Our government regularly saying that school shooting became a big problem. We already have 14 of them (in entire history). Tragic, but USA have over 250 of school shooting EVERY YEAR!!! 😮
It's only in schools! Mind blowing! And people still talking that their right to own firearms is "for safety".
Henry Rollins loves traveling so when he is not working he travels and he always picks places the the news in the US declares dangerous he has only bin in fear for his life 2 times both times were in the US just think about that
38,000 gun deaths in in 2016 but 43,000 in 2020, 2021 and 2022 with gun suicides reaching almost 27000 a year (on a total of 50.000 suicides a year)
There was one in a water park in recent days too.
Nowhere is safe in America.
Wow, I guessed Alaska right! After the question of the deaths by suicide, I wondered if maybe the lack of hours of light in Winter (and maybe the lack of social life because of the cold weather and in some areas potentially not having many people living close by) made people more depressed during those months and more likely to make that sad decision.
But I have no idea, I wish they gave a more detailed explanation.
What are the statistics for "home invasions" in the US? It seems what Americans fear most, and is the reason quoted for all those bedside guns. In the UK this crime seems unlikely, burglars know to work empty houses.
@@rosemarielee7775 I don't know, I'm Spanish 🤷🏻♀️.
The daily show made a fun video about gun culture in Switzerland 😂
I once heard someone on a radio show say that the most dangerous thing a woman can do is live with a man. I think it is true no matter what country she lives in. The statistics on mens violence against women is shocking.
8:00 That Germany is that high up on the list depends on you and how you sorted the list, you know?
I live in Norway, I have guns. No handguns, but a semi 22LR. The rest is bolt action rifles in 6,5, 308 and 30-06. And a couple of 12G's. For hunting, we don't need guns for self protection over here. I grew up with guns, my father was an intelligence officer in not te army, it's more like milita grups "under" the army, short of. We had fully automatic weapons in the house. All in these groups do. It's a long time ago, so it was a AG3 and a MP5.
Point being, I grew up with gun safty. Of course guns can be dangerous, that is short of why they are made. BUT, so is driving a car. Everything is dangerous if you, or others around you don't know what they are doing.
But they are heavily regulated here, the last gun I applied for was a German Mauser from 1938 in 30-06. It took 8 months!!! And that was far from my first gun. :)
Yes! Cars are also dangerous! That's why we need to pass tests of our driving skills etc to get a license. In Sweden it's about the same to get a license for rifle.
@@nilov71 It's the same here in Norway. I have a hunting license, and I'm a member of the local shooting...thing? Don't know what it is in English. And the last gun I bougth, a German Mauser from 1938, I waited 8 months. :)
For rifles I don't need to be a member of a hunting team or shooting club. I need to pass a test, and then I'm allowed to get four rifles. Since last year semi automatic rifles and silencers are allowed, so an AR15 with silencer is ok. I'm taking the test in July.
For pistols it's a little more difficult. Besides proving your skills in precision shooting, you must be a member of a shooting club and that club must vouch for you to get a license. When you finally get the license your first gun must be a .22 gun. Then after 6 months you can get any caliber you'd like.
I'm sorry Ryan, maybe I misunderstood your take on gun safety, so apologies in advance if I did. Gun safety is not just about how to operate a gun safely. It also encompasses the proper and safe storage of a gun and about controlling who has/hasn't access to it.
I've recently watched a very interesting video comparing gun regulation in Switzerland and the USA, and I think you might like it.
I don't remember the exact title or the channel, but I know there are several people and a Swiss flag on the thumbnail. Could probably find it by searching "switzerland guns" or something like that
2:16
If you don't control guns and ensure that people who for instance have documented mental health issues that might impair their judgement don't have guns you don't *have* gun safety, so yes, it's very much the same issue...
It's about ensuring that guns don't cause harm, either through ignorance or accidents or intentionally because people either don't think straight or just doesn't care about their fellow citizens...
It already is illegal for such people to acquire or possess firearms.
@@robertsmith4681
But it's not illegal to sell them weapons without a background check if you're a private individual.
Nor are the background checks that *are* done comprehensive enough.
Often ignoring things like that.
You should not be able to enter a store and buy a gun the same day like people do all over the US.
Even if a background check would be clear same day sales is just a recipe for suicides and other rash decisions.
And it's best if people make such purchases over time giving them time to calm down if that's their motivation.
And so one and so forth.
Also, it's legal to move around with weapons that's easy to conceal (so excellent to steal and use for a crime)...
And there's no laws about requiring weapons ro be locked down and locked safely away from ammunition when not in use for the intended purpose.
So keeping a gun safe in the car or house etc.
So again, easy to steal...
The majority of weapons in Europe originates from either the USSR or the US because of the lack of regulation in both countries.
The USSR at least had s excuse, given that the country was literally falling apart...
What's Americas excuse?
Wikipedia tells me Hawaii is number 4 on suicide and number 6 on homicide by gun.
One of the "reasons" I hear most often for owning a gun is to defend against a home invasion.
I don't know the statistics, does this happen that often? However, I would also be afraid of a stranger breaking into my house if I lived in an American house: they seem so fragile to me! Probably with one shoulder the entrance door comes down (and probably also the wall around it).
Nothing wrong with not being right, that's how you learn stuff
You're right about the partner murders, even the suic!des... that's not really because of guns.
But of course, if there's a gun right in there in the drawer.. the path between thought and action is significantly shorter.
15:02 I thought it could be but doubted, and then checked it out, it's in fact, NOT Hawaii, maybe it was in the past, but also doubt it, though didn't bother to check, depending on how you want to acess US deaths, it can be Rhode Island or Puerto Rico, they have MUCH lower rates than Hawaii.
Alaska has the highest gun death rate in the US. "But Alaska doesn't have very many people". Now, you know why.
Never heard of the Falkland Islands. 1982. The War between Argentina and the UK. Warships sunk and hundreds killed.
We Brits had a huge reform about 15 years ago when many school children were shot in a classroom at school.
Er... that was 28 years ago.
What are automatic and semiautomatic weapons used for in the domestic situation?
The Supreme court made a ruling on the bump stock ban. Clarence Thomas made the ruling that by using a bump stock, the trigger still had to be "pulled" for the bullet to be fired.
Even though you aren't pulling the trigger, the trigger has to be repeatedly pulled for multiple shots. A machine gun on the other hand, the trigger only has to be pulled once for multiple shots. So to Thomas' logic, a gun fitted with a bump stock isn't a machine gun and therefore legal. As of today (or yesterday) bump stocks are fully legal in America.
Only time will tell on how bad this ruling is.
Hadn't the SCOTUS just thrown out the ban on bump stocks, when this came out?
I hate cereal killers, I like good breakfast!
muh illegal guns is pure cope
It's why gun control needs to be wider scale. A CITY can't do gun control well. A country can. And if a continent does, you see amazing results. (Related: the USA is the last country in North America to implement gun control, so...)
@@tristanridley1601 Mexico has some of the strongest gun control in the world, it is also one of the most violent ...
I thought Switzerland was higher up on the gun owner list. Then again, they used to be neutral...
It's sad to think that American's feel the only way to be safe is to own a gun. It's a terrible way to live when you think of it that way. What is also sad is that people go about their day and don't know if the person next to them is carrying a gun and are they happy today or are they depressed and easily triggered to use that gun.
16:18 Nope. Not even close. Chicago is somewhere near #20 (per 100,000).
Alaska is what I was thinking of. Or Alabama. Any A, lol. Must be all them westerns. Texas was a wringer for sure. It's a big state with lots of guns and gun enthousiasts. But also strict laws and law abiding citizens.