A Simple, If Extremely Difficult Solution: Reduce The Number Of Guns
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I read a comment that said we should call schools 'wombs' so that the GOP will protect the kids...
go figure. as soon as people get even a little educated, the GOP stops caring about their lives.
If these were all pregnant women they will still defend their guns at all cost!!
Sounds like a good idea.
Homewomb is the start of the day…
Love the fetus Hate the child
“It’s about mental health,” says the party that consistently votes against improving mental healthcare (and literally every other kind of healthcare).
I want to be 100% honest here.
I have a diagnosis of Mass Homicidal Ideation.
I have never committed a crime. I have never been committed. I have never been adjudicated to have my rights taken away.
I can still legally get a gun in Oregon.
I sent death threats just 3 weeks ago.
I immediately called my crisis team. They did the threat assessment. I am not a threat because I don't drive. I don't have the means to get mass killing weapons as I am beyond poor.
And my targets were over 25 miles away.
But PEOPLE WITH MY DIAGNOSIS SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET GUNS.
The current laws state that basically I have to attempt a killing before the taking away of my rights. That shouldn't be a thing.
That sets up people to actually do a killing spree.
I am seeing my shrink today for a scheduled visit. I am gonna ask how we take my gun rights away.
Cause nobody with a diagnosis of Homicidal Ideation should be allowed to buy a gun.
Exactly 👍🏼
And every other thing that could actually help anyone in America.
Well it is about mental health. It's crazy that we don't do anything about guns. The sane approach is to address mental health AND gun access as though both contribute to the problem.
@@oracleofdelphi4533 yes you’re right, but my point is Republican do neither of those things. The mental health argument is partially true. But it’s a joke to see Republicans lean on it time after time; they’re the ones who gut funding for access to healthcare at every opportunity.
I’m Australian, we haven’t had a mass shooting since 1996 when the Port Arthur massacre happened in Tasmania. Following that our prime minister at the time introduced strict gun reform laws. I’m a primary/elementary school teacher and I cannot even imagine that kind of terror!! We watch what happens in the U.S in utter disbelief!! Such a tragic loss of lives and totally preventable. Sending so much love, strength and peace, from Country Victoria. Australia 🇦🇺 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
As another Australian here, you cannot compare Australia to America in this regard. As far as I was aware, school shootings were never an issue here. There should have been a Royal Commission after Port Arthur. Too many un answered questions.
Interesting to note, home invasions were non existent before 96. Now they are common. Also New Zealand who didn’t follow our lead have also had no mass shootings apart from the Christchurch shooting which was committed by an Australian. Lots of countries have guns (like Canada) and don’t have shootings like the US where shootings are a problem. There is something wrong in that country but please don’t compare Australia to America in that regard. There is NO comparison
@@fortunateson7852 No country has guns like the US. Every other country has sensible gun regulation. Only the US treats guns like a common every day tool in the shack. And by "guns" I mean military grade assault rifles. That's the problem.
Dunblane Massacre for the Brits. I can't believe money has such a hold over the GOP that they will overlook the murder of children. Unless that child is inside a womb still, in which case all hands on deck to murder the woman's mind if anything happens to that unborn child.
Once your government took your gun right away they no longer needed to pull off anymore false flag attacks. They accomplished their mission.
@@RavensFlock9592 What utter rubbish!! You can keep your guns, but how is that working out for you, really!! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
I served 15 years in the U.S Army and part of my job as an Armament Chief Warrant Officer was to investigate negligent discharges. I can tell you right now that if you give firearms to teachers, you're going to start seeing negligent discharges in classrooms, because if it can happen to combat servicemembers then it can definitely happen to anyone else. Arming teachers is a bad idea unless you want them to have the possibility of killing your children by accident even when there is no active shooter. There is no way that teachers are going to receive enough training to be safe around kids. I don't even trust cops or infantryman to use their weapons properly without endangering bystanders., so why would I trust a teacher with a lethal weapon?
15 years in the Army? Ok, so is it true that your regular serviceman can walk around the base with handguns and rifles while not on any duty? They can leave the base with those weapons, too, and it doesn't matter how much ammunition they take out of leave with when they are on duty, right?? RIGHT??? Oh, that's NOT the case? Well, if we won't trust the military to wander around town with guns then why do we trust a fat, drunken, white supremacist who thinks there are deer in a classroom?
Also in many places teachers are undergoing annual training in so man other aspects of teaching that it is insane to expect them to also be armed guards.
Great points. Lots of collateral damage. It is a insane idea..
Also, it's basically painting a target on teachers, since shooters will have to take the teachers out first to avoid getting shot themselves, and I doubt many teachers got into the business for that.
Your point applies to everyone, not just teachers.
It’s a “right” to own a weapon of war but a “privilege” to have healthcare to save you after you’re shot by one of those weapons. This country is sssooo screwed up.
Oh God that means that any of the kids that didn't die and any of the ones who did die at the hospital their families are now stuck with a medical bill they probably can't fucking pay. And you know that the insurance companies are not going to give them any fucking leeway and the government isn't going to help them at all. So not only did the shooter destroy families by taking away children and loved ones. He's now doomed those who survived long enough to be at the hospital and those who were hurt but not killed face crippling medical debt that will probably fuck over their families completely. You know what I started to think that maybe the NRA needs to start picking up the tab for these mass shootings better yet we could have universal health Care but till that happens yet the NRA needs to start paying out the fucking medical bills of every fucking person injured in a mass shooting or killed in a mass shooting I'm including the fucking funeral cost too
Yes, and people like you would destroy the constitution along with our righs. Free sppech next on your list?
It’s better living in most other third world countries. Except when you’re part of the elite.
I thought it was pretty amazing today when Admiral Stavridis explained the ar15 is 40% more deadly than the guns used in vietnam. Wandering around the US could be more dangerous than Vietnam! Screw Texas, until they get a brain.
But apparently Americans need guns to protect themselves from their government. Must be great to live in that "democracy". I'm happy I don't
As a teacher myself, I can tell you, most teachers would WALK OUT IN PROTEST, and go on strike, with full support of the union if you even tried to FORCE them to HAVE A GUN IN THE CLASSROOM. There was an armed guard at that school in Texas, it did no good. The gunman shot 2 policemen when they got there in fact, and did not go down when initially shot. It took 4 policemen to take him down. So if a teacher had a gun, it would NOT have made any difference at all, so if you're arguing with that logic, it's full of holes and ALREADY DISPROVEN. Oh!, and the gunman was in body armor, had two assault rifles, and 230 rounds. No 18-yr old should be able to access all that so easily.
Do it anyway.
A gun in the hands of a trained teacher (myself) would have been quite a deterrent, or even the solution to saving 21 lives. Or do I need a blue uniform? 🤔 And I'm not afraid to die protecting my students from evil. People that do these things usually target unarmed and unsuspecting crowds.
@@goodguy...badrep. Do not let this person ANYWHERE NEAR a child!
I was thinking today that the unions should organize a nationwide strike which would also include kids and parents. It should go on indefinitely. The nation may join in.
Maybe if you guys walked out in protest and went on a strike asking for better gun laws you'd get better results?
It’s so exhausting going through this every single time.
Not just Remove Guns , but destroying them , and Automatic life sentences for criminals caught with a firearm.
Kudos to Beto O'Rourke for challenging Greg Abbott
I stand with gregg abbott if you know what I mean XD
We're all Beto O'Rourke now. 💙💙💙
I watched their exchange live during my lunch break. Disgusting that the mayor of Uvalde called Beto "a sick son of a b****" for "making" the issue political. If mass shootings aren't political, then why are Republican politicians speaking about any of them in any way? Republicans are the only ones saying these events are apolitical, and it's clearly to shift focus away from the culture they've created and how their policies in combination with said culture keep enabling these tragedies.
The most disgusting part was the idiot on stage, who started cussing and said it was BETO's fault. WTF!
A million time over! I so hope he walks all over that creep Abbott this fall.
It’s weird how the same people who were claiming that surgical masks were killing our kids don’t seem to think that firearms are that dangerous.
Spot on!
ONLY an idiot would say a gun is not dangerous, but the science supports the truth that mask harm kids ability to exercise and learn. Its not the least bit weird how people like you can see the truth of one side and not the other. Yea, guns can cause harm, but so can a rock. Do you want to ban rocks? What about bricks? Tree branches? IF someone wants to kill others, there are plenty of weapons to do so.
They weren't sad about kids dying in the pandemic (because of a lack of masks) and they aren't saddened by children being killed by firearms. I think I've learned that it takes a certain kind of monster to be a politician. How do you appeal to someone who lacks a moral compass?
MTG and LB showing picks of themselves and their kids with assault rifles and the American flag. If that owning high powered weapons is patriotic. It certainly is not. Who are you going to shoot with those weapons? Other Americans, your neighbors, a poor or desperate person? It's not about making firearms illegal however an 18 year old kid with obvious mental problems should not be able to buy a machine gun. My friend got in an argument with a guy at the bar. It went from words to the man shooting him in the course of a couple minutes. I'm sure he would have wanted guns to be illegal.
Seems like you'd have to stay in the womb to keep Republicans caring about a kid. SMH. Positive vibes from New Hampshire, remember to be kind to each other and yourself during these trying times
“We need trip wires and man traps!” Yeah, that’s so much more practical than better gun laws. Yikes. People are creative.
That's the kind of BS purchased by millions of dollars directly deposited into the bank accounts of the corrupted politicians.
A change in lobby dollars limit by NRA will change that tune quickly.
yep..
Creative wasn't the word that sprang to my mind it was far more derogatory
As a teacher: the idea of arming teachers is insane. Among other reasons that I have deep respect for SWAT teams is the amount of skills, expertise, and training that they have in order to handle the most dangerous situations. It's a full-time job requiring extensive training, not some side hustle we could be trained for in a professional development day, or even over an entire summer. Given that the amount of official training that we get for most things is perfunctory at best, how realistic is it that most teachers, even if they *were* willing, would be able to get the proper amount of training and attain the necessary knowledge and experience in order to be responsible and confident with a weapon in the most chaotic of circumstances? I've heard the idea put forward that we could have a comprehensive weapons course, but even if enough funding for and availability of such a course were somehow made available to everyone (and bear in mind that our schools are so underfunded that most of the money spent on classroom supplies is our own,) could we be expected to learn all we would need to know in order to handle what would amount to a war zone in the hallway, *while* protecting our own students?
I could go into other complications, including the (in)feasibility of storing a weapon in such a way that it would be quickly accessible to a teacher but inaccessible to any troubled or mischief-minded student. I could explain the consequences if those security measures were breached even for a moment. I could talk about the total number of hours there are in a year (even if we included summer) and the sheer number of responsibilities teachers have to juggle even on a good day, but I suspect I would be preaching to the converted in this thread.
Suffice to say, this kind of idea is typical of those who think they know all about education despite never setting foot in school except as a student or parent -- which is to say, full of ideas about how it can be done better without understanding how schools actually work. All moral questions aside -- and there are many -- from a practical standpoint, this idea would be a disaster.
and how many teachers already know how to handle a gun...dumb comment suggesting that teachers cant learn..and who would announce who has guns and where they were...stupid
If you're not familiar with the channel 'Beau of the Fifth Column' he has made a couple of videos on this topic, including one today.
He's ex-military/ intelligence contractors or something related (he doesn't say) & his videos are succinct, informative, & rational. I'd recommend checking it out.
He's got a bit more passion than his usual factual presentation on this subject.
I'm happy to know that most teachers like us realize that turning us into pseudo law enforcement is an absolutely horrible idea.
@@MasterSkyrim1000 It's a pretty much useless idea. A school shooter will be prepared with body armor, ESPECIALLY if he knows there might be armed teachers. A teacher with a handgun will make little difference on someone with an assault rifle.
@@gmun2248 I second the Beau recommendation.
"WHY ARE YOU MAKING IT POLITICAL?!"
Me: Why aren't you?
I’m from India, 4 times the population of the US and much poorer, and not exactly the safest country in the world. For everything that we admire about the US, the gun culture there is something we simply don’t understand. The fact that someone on your news is even suggesting that you have to arm teachers is like something off a post apocalyptic movie.
Just how you cannot enforce basic gun restrictions, which even work considerably well (barring illegal exceptions) in much more larger and more diverse and poorer country like India, is beyond me.
It’s as shocking as all the killings in your country over sexism, heterosexual aggression, and the cast system. Every week some family beats their relative to death over there for coming out 😬 oneIndia news really opened my eyes. I used to respect India like New Zealand…
@@It-b-Blair Dude I never said India was perfect. Everyone knows we have our own shitty problems that we are dealing with. I even started the comment with the disclaimer “not exactly the safest country in the world”.
But the topic is on gun control, and that’s something we are definitely in better control than the US, despite all our deficiencies.
Deflecting the topic at hand with other issues does not solve the problem. Two wrongs do not make a right.
What we lack in excessive gun control we also lack in weaponized gang rape as a form of cultural punishment.
India has many religions and gods. But it does not have the American god, which is the gun, which people worship with fantastical ideas, just like any religion. Glad my parents immigrated to Canada, not the US.
@@zero11010 Yes, apparently rapes don't happen in US. Even worse, you are shooting little children while parading the AR-15s as a show of masculinity.
"We can't stop bad people from doing bad things" is pretty bold coming from someone who's currently under MULTIPLE! indictments.
Cops got Beto out faster than they went into the Uvalde school house!
My 7 year old sister fell asleep on my lap tonight after she told me that she's scared to go to school because someone told her about what happened in Texas. This broke my heart and made me cry.
I can imagine, I couldn't live in usa and have a single minute without being stressed and scared about all those mass shootings you have. Seriously, your sister should be just a happy 7 years old girl never worried about this stuff.. that happens only in america. What a shame.
@@jeffbicknell9971 I'm not american, that's why I couldn't live THERE. Did you miss Sesame Street?
This, I'm afraid, is life in this country. The Nation of Rifle Addicts. (More than just rifles, obviously, but you get my point.) These Rethuglicans yap on and on about their immigrant bogeyman, but our country has been taken over by something that is an actual threat to our lives: THE DAMN GUNS.
NRA top 10:
1. Mitt Romney, Utah: $13,647,676
2. Richard Burr, North Carolina: $6,987,380
3. Roy Blunt, Missouri: $4,555,722
4. Thom Tillis, North Carolina: $4,421,333
5. Cory Gardner, Colorado: $3,939,199
6. Marco Rubio, Florida: $3,303,355
7. Joni Ernst, Iowa: $3,124,773
8. Rob Portman, Ohio: $3,063,327
9. Todd C. Young, Indiana: $2,897,582
10. Bill Cassidy, Louisiana: $2,867,074
I’m so sorry. That is not the world she should have to live in.
Curious note about Abbott's suggestion. He wanted ex-police and servicemen to volunteer. He does not even want to pay them.
Downright socialism
Abbott isn't worth listening to on any topic, he's an obvious sociopath who advocated for old people to throw themselves under the bus to keep the economy going without pause.
@@erikbakker1639 In socialism they would get paid, when don't get paid it's slavery.
Didn’t Abbot also suggest the elder among us getting out and working during the beginning of the pandemic because they had lived their lives and were expendable?
Texas law enforcement was against Abotts and the Texas legislature decision to relax Texas gun laws. They know that is going to make their job more dangerous than it already is. The Tennessee legislature has done the same. It will come back to haunt them? Probably not, they don't seem to have a conscience.
Do these fools hear themselves? Gun laws need to change and pass the bill already.
"If trebuchets are outlawed, only outlaws will have trebuchets!"
"Laws are pointless' is a bold position for the Attorney General." Damn, that is a brilliant response!!!
Only because laws only apply to law abiding citizens. criminals dont care about them. Those with money to pay the fines are above them.
It IS ,however, the perfect answer as someone who believes in Law and Order. Don't understand the Law, you DO understand the Order - we order you to be shot at dawn for driving your wife to an abortion clinic...
So the Police are pointless, too...
@@TruckWick So there's this thing called "prison" that you may want to become familiar with. Also, Stephen's point was that an Attorney General is supposed to be the highest law enforcement official in the state, at least in theory. So to see HIM just shrug and say the laws don't matter is really weird.
I want to handle texas
"Laws are pointless" is also a weird take from someone who insists that they can end abortion by outlawing it.
laws are pointless unless the law is for a womans uterus
Anti-abortion laws aren't designed to reduce abortions. Their purpose is to shame, degrade, and punish women. If conservatives actually wanted to reduce the number of abortions they'd be in favour of contraception, comprehensive sex education, universal health care, paid parental leave, and subsidized child care.
@@wizardsuth and vasectomy which is reversible... but they don't want to regulate men's nutsacks only women's vaginas
No, but they could end women's lives with it, and THAT'S what they're after.
If he thinks laws are pointless, he should step down. Because he IS the law enforcement!
Good for Beto. Keep doing this.
"I imagine you're still trying to process yesterday's gun violence in Uvalde."
No. No, I'm not. What is there to process? A mass shooting happens every single day in America. We've already seen all of this before. We've seen hundreds of kids be slaughtered, and literally nothing has changed. I'm not "processing;" I'm PISSED.
I'm sorry, but if anyone were to tell me "I'd just love to volunteer to stand inside a school all day holding a rifle", I would not let that person anywhere near a school
Really good point.
Exactly that was my first thought.
facts!!!!
During almost all of the school mass shootings the security guard has hidden from the shooter just like the students and teachers!!
You are a sheep who has the option of equipping yourself with the claws and teeth of a lion to fight off lions, but you choose your sheepish herbivorous fear instead. You are a coward and you will live a long cowardly forgettable ineffective life
Beto O'Rourke nailed it I'll be voting for him in November because we need to have change enough is enough I don't want to hear any more about any kids getting killed it's heartbreaking it's heartwrenching and it breaks my heart you got to do something.
Fellow Houstonian. I will 100% be doing so as well 😎
Vote with your emotions and not your head! Only an idiot!
Beto is best left to nailing down other folks property via second degree burglary. His felony convictions should ensure he never owns a firearm. The man is so useless not even Biden/Harris were willing to make up a job for that moron.
Wow what a surprise a Colbert viewer voting for Dems 😅
@@karankapoor2701 What a surprise, a dem-hater having to comment where they aren't needed in the least.
Greetings from Australia. We had a "RECKONING" in the '90s after another mass shooting killed 36. We banned all firearms and allowed people with a legitimate need to get a license and keep them in a locked gun cabinet. The only mass shootings since have been criminals killing other criminals. Saved the justice system a fortune. If you want a gun in Australia you can get one. It's a rigorous process but you can have your gun. Nothing semi-automatic, but who needs a semi-automatic gun outside of war? a terrible hunter?
Statement A: "the police are under no obligation to help you"
Question A: "why do you need an AR-15?"
Answer A: "see Statement A".
Answer B: "it's called the Bill of Rights...not the Bill of Needs"
You are going to be finding out soon enough why citizens need semi-auto, and an actual "RECKONING". The framers didn't enshrine it so people could hunt ducks, in case you weren't aware.
@@ShastaBean But why do Americans always insist on their rights at the expense of others? You wouldn't need the police to protect if you if guns (especially semi-automatic) weren't so readily available. I knew one of the Port Arthur Massacre victims from university and it was utterly shocking to me to see on the news that one of my peers was killed so tragically. How do primary school children feel when they actually see it happen to the person who sits next to them in class? War veterans have PTSD - what are you doing to your children??!
@@cooldebt The events are generated from big PfhaRxma permanently altering the minds of people with their ridiculous twisted compounds, along with the media-hype and glorification of the perps creating attention-seekers. So, yah, PTSD. Ask yourself why the events basically didn't exist until the 90s? The guns have been in the country for a couple centuries+. Is that completely lost on people? It's the brains, not the weapon. A person has to have something extremely wrong with something like serotonin levels, or transmitter/receiver problems. It's not hard to understand what leads to that. Why did they seal the medical records of colomnbine shooters?? Leaving ourselves defenseless is what every criminal is foaming at the mouth to see. If people are motivated to do sick things, they don't need a particular type of weapon to do so. Look up the side effects of S/S-R-Is. Stop falling for the lies. Anyone that things the politicians are concerned about your welfare is a complete idiot.
@@cooldebt Also, go on another platform and look into the particulars of pretty much every one of the events. They aren't what you think. The corrupt elitists will do more than you might realize to be able to run roughshod over fools that believe their lies. They are more corrupt & evil and have capabilities far beyond any in history...which means the people need to be armed, more than any time in history. You are about to soon find this out, first-hand. buckle-up, Yarrakalgamba.
Reduce the number of guns! Seriously? Not hold these gangs and law breakers accountable?
Why don’t we ban guns, and when the republicans/kkk/Nazis get upset about it, we will all send them our thoughts and prayers. If “thoughts and prayers” are good enough for people who have lost their children, it should be good enough for those that have lost their guns.
Bruh, get em!
That's good 😊
😳😂
Thoughts and prayers don't stop bullets
What a pathetic post. Republicans/kkk/ Nazis? Seriously? Look up the history. Democrats are the party of the kkk
I’m a veteran and very capable of pulling apart, firing, and doing basically anything I want with a weapon. You have to climb way down the list far before my reaction is “arm teachers and put me in a school with one”. The military and police (very different, but let’s keep pretending they’re the same thing) are defensive mechanisms.
If I’m your answer, you have an enormous problem and it’s bizarre that you think it’s not.
Well said.
All things wavy : I can and will protect every American without hesitation, but I don’t want to. An ability is not a necessity and I’m dumbfounded by anyone that doesn’t get that.
Too often violence is answered with violence. Words built my ability to convey any message, of any kind, including this one… let’s use those a bit more and me a lot less.
- SGT J 3-1 SFG (A) 2006-2014
wisdom
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Lol I think there are a few who can control their “itchy trigger finger” there Captain Quick-Draw Defensive Mechanism lol..Pew pew pew.
Teachers should just go out on strike until their workplace is made safe.
This country is turning into an open air mental institution.
“We need to look at mental health!”
“So you’re going to figure out how to get everyone healthcare?”
“No! Armed guards!”
They are fascists. When they say “we need to look at mental health” they mean when trump gets to be dictator the ‘degenerates’ are sent off to labor camps.
I especially love how they're talking about arming people who are both trained in the proper usage of firearms and also likely suffering from severe PTSD from their previous time as career firearm users.
Because children forcibly locked in a rule-driven environment for the same duration as a job aren't willing to do things to bother authority figures with no thought about the consequences or anything.
It's only "mental health" if the shooter is white passing or white. What a joke! Quit making excuses. But you'll never go after the cause of mass shootings, Nazi terrorists.
I don't understand how Republicans think they are going to prevent this kind of thing from happening again by addressing mental health issues?? Clearly this teen had severe mental issues but spoiler alert NO ONE KNEW!!! How the heck are you supposed to stop all the "mentality ill" people who own these kinds of weapons from mass shootings when you don't even have a clue who is actually capable of carrying out these murders. Maybe HOPE AND PRAY ALL THE GUN OWNERS ACT RESPONSIBLY??? That makes no bloody sense at all!!! Wake up America enough is enough!
Exactly. Perpetuating the idea that the ONLY solution is guns.
Hey Stephen. I'm from Australia. We have had sensible gun laws here for decades. I am a walking example of why gun laws work. When I was in school around the time of the Columbine shooting, I was a very unstable child. I was bullied and picked on, I didn't have friends, I had a social disability that I didn't understand or even know I had and it was a very hard time for me. Had there been easy access to guns here like there is in so many parts of America, we would have had our very own Columbine massacre. Because there are gun laws and because I didn't have access to those weapons, I was completely deterred from the plans I had (yes, I had plans for what I wanted to do). As a result I was given the opportunity to mature and grow up. I was given the opportunity to develop better understandings of my own problems and disabilities. I was given the opportunity to keep living life.
I wish I could get my message to people like Senator Marco Rubio who thinks that people will just go look for any other weapon to kill people with. It's just not true in the VAST majority of people. Guns provide an enormous ease of use and a detachment from the carnage they create. It's easy to dissociate from what you're doing when you can do it from a distance without any threat to you personally. Guns make such acts viable for the far less "determined". If you take away guns from those people, you take away their willingness to commit said atrocities. Not only would that stop the senseless murders happening constantly in America, it would also give those potential shooters a chance to grow up and become stable and learn to understand themselves and the world around them. It gives them a chance to grow up. It's not just the victims of the shootings that gun laws protect, it's also the potential shooters who won't be throwing away their lives. It forces them to deal with things within them.
I am not ashamed to share my story. I want it to be a lesson for people. I could have been another statistic over here. Instead I was given a chance to grow up and understand myself. I would be happy if people could share my message and my story. Gun laws work, and they protect unstable people as well as those who they might have killed in a time of weakness. I was one of them. I know what it's like. I was able to learn from my own experiences, I hope others can as well.
Amen to that. Also secular countries tend to have less gun crime. America has a higher religiosity and our gun crime is off the charts. Religion does more harm; not less.
I wish I could like this 1000 times!
@@StaticBlaster It's not so much that religion does more harm than good, it's that people manipulate and twist religions to indoctrinate and brainwash people into doing more harm than good. That could be considered a religion I suppose, but it's honestly more akin to a cult. Most of the so called "religious" crimes are done out of cult mentality.
@@johnnysoccer1983 Agreed.
Boys mature later too. So yes I believe in given some time, maybe this shooter would have chose differently.
A lot of pro-gun control advocates say "Why do you need a gun, the police will protect and save you"
Then we get this horrific instance where cops were too cowardly to uphold their oath and protect those kids that they refused to go in and stop the shooter from killing them.
So then I ask you, why can't I have a gun and put myself in a better position to protect what matters most to me when there are cops that clearly care about their safety over those they are swarn to protect?
You shouldn't have a gun because if you are allowed one so is the piece of shit which shoots up a school. How does your possession of a firearm protect you from someone unless (a) its a mass shooting but then you fired during a mass shooting so you probably won't live long enough to see trial, or (b) they make the decision to alert you to the fact they're going to kill you. There are some instances it might help, but the fact is allowing gun possession increases your likelihood of being murdered it doesn't reduce it, source: every other country.
Statement A: "the police are under no obligation to help you"
Question A: "why do you need an AR-15?"
Answer A: "see Statement A".
As a South African (a country considered unsafe) This is very wild. How can you possibly allow guns to be so unregulated. Even tragedy after tragedy you still refuse to regulate guns. You have "school shooting drills" when you should really only have" fire drills ". the funny part is that those advocating for "abortion bans " really forget about life once it's here. You guys are traumatizing your children. Hold elected officials accountable. That's what you preach to the rest of the world so do it.
well said. Pro Life : Until it's born.
So ARMED and TRAINED officers were injured trying to take that guy out, and in Buffalo the officer was killed trying to take the gunman out, but a TEACHER/school staffer can? LOL.....
He wasn't an officer, he was armed security and he did get hits on target, sadly he was outgunned.
@@jayperez7360 Point remains the same. School teachers may not be much better at that.
Stephen willeford, Jack Wilson
REDUCE THE NUMBER OF STEPHEN COLBERT
15k - 20k gun homicides with a population of 333 million and 400 million guns. Thats pretty dam good.
Thank you for showing Beto calling bullshit on their lie. We'll be voting for him.
"Arm the teachers." You don't even trust the teachers to teach their subjects without massive unnecessary political oversight.
@C C @C C Since when is their job spending a good majority of their time teaching sex ed and CRT to elementary kids? What's your idiotic solution? Get rid of all the guns? 500 million of them? Keep dreaming. You better find a new solution because that isn't it.
More so about teaching things not on the curriculum, but your right seems to me at least all the tik tok teachers I see can't pass a NICS. I personally think parents should be homeschooling, rather than allowing strangers to raise their kids.
@@TCSumners Homeschool kids have no social skills and will die if left in the wild. But at least they're entirely dependent on their parents and church as adults.
Thank u
Aside from that taking books from students it’s so ridiculous pls vote Texas please!
I used to help with schools to update their infrastructure, security & general appearance. One school system wanted to install digital locks on all doors, this was a few hundred doors which quickly kept getting reduced to only the essential doors several times. This was appalling & frustrating to watch & be a part of. Like many schools built during the great depression there is asbestos & it is occasionally replaced patch by patch because of how much it costs for proper removal. Some schools are in low sea level areas & storm hardening every possible entry point (doors, windows, vents, etc.) is next to impossible to keep in budget & the building is still not considered waterproof, just more resistant. Less & less of the money actually going towards the student's education, which is sickening. This supposed "man-trap" would be so ridiculously expensive for the structural, mechanical & electrical modifications alone that even the installation of one would most likely be infeasible & by code there needs to be multiple emergency exits for schools so you got to then hope you pick the right door to lay this kind of trap. This is a case of people laughable looking at a problem from the wrong perspective & blaming everything else but the real problem. Access to guns needs to needs better controls & laws. We as a people, need to shift for a damage control mindset to a preventative mindset.
Maybe they should have just not allowed that particular person to purchase guns rather than make it a matter of making the entire public unable to buy guns. Maybe kick these psychotic kids out of the school system right away instead of letting them stay there. It's amazing that no matter how much criticisms people are willing to lobby at the government school system, they still defend its necessity like oxygen.
Making one entrance usable for entry isn't hard. Nor is it impossible to not permit entry through the rest of the doors. Then you only have to install a single electronic entry system. Any exit can be used as an alarmed emergency exit. You should have been able to figure that out on your own.
Stop the manufacture of any new weapons and the number of guns in this country will decline.
Man, as a Texan, I'm really ashamed about our legislature. Almost everyone I know owns a gun. I don't, because I have bouts of extreme depression. To each their own, until someone that would usually punch a wall has a rifle and nothing to live for.
Your life is valued and you are loved. Thank you for being here to contribute.
You get it, and I wish more people did. “A rifle and nothing to live for” is why this happened to yesterday.
In a lot of places that aren't Texas, it sounds really strange that anyone would need a special reason to _not_ own a gun.
@@zesty9815 believe me, I'm aware. This is why I don't comment on things.
I support your decision.. not everyone needs to own a gun but every law abiding citizens should have the option to own a gun.. I own 9 guns and majority are AR style rifles.. AR stand for Armalite Rifle.. plus if you buy a gun you know you have to get a back ground check anyways…
If masks were far too traumatizing for children, how do you expect them to walk through a "Mantrap" everyday will affect them?
This is all some sick game or business opportunity to them. It's gross. They don't want to stop selling guns, they want to make us buy body armor and man traps.
That whole "mantrap" clip was utter B.S., tripwires and the like, don't fall for that crap. They're really nothing more than a multi-stage and observed/supervised entrance and exit. They work and they're AFFORDABLE. Colbert should stick to telling jokes and stop selling disinformation.
A man trap made of glass, or transparent plastic (so you can see him, of course)? Seems pretty ineffective against a guy with guns.
@@doloresreynolds8145 Glass? Plastic?? Yeah sure, if your goal is to trap mice. Who mentioned glass or plastic?
@@doloresreynolds8145 Plexiglass would be better. Less likely to be shattered by gunfire and it can be transparent as well.
Just so bad ass sad. Applauding you Mr. Colbert!
Send the Republican Senators with the gun owners to help fight the Russians in the Ukraine.
Imagine a place where this is a rarity, not commonplace…
Wait a minute; that’s most of the world.
Except the United States of America!
We should leave
@@jeremyedge890 Can you afford to do so?
@@joenarbaiz1640 Look at all the heroes leaving their war torn countries and coming here from south of the border
@@jeremyedge890 I asked if YOU could afford to leave not anyone else.
Reading comprehension is essential.
I live here in uvalde, we are such a small town that it practically feels like we are just a big neighborhood or gated community, we're all so close everyone knows someone if not multiple people who lost their lives/loved ones, I have never ever seen this town so distraught, the days are unbelievably quiet, I went to heb yesterday and every parent and child are holding hands, no smiles no laughter just alot of staring off trying to process everything.
Serious question. How did he simply walk into the school? You can't do that around here.
@@BK-ri4lj I heard he walked right in through a door that was SUPPOSED to be locked but wasn't. I think who ever is in charge of making sure every door is locked should be fired for this, mistake or not the consequences were too large for forgiveness.
Damn. I’m so sorry. :(
@@kingraquu3164 The doors should be checked and secured every half-hour.
@@kingraquu3164
I don't mean to be rude, but since when did a locked door ever stop a determined intruder?
"Texas the lone star state. That must also be it's Yelp rating" - Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory
Hello how are you doing today........?
Want an assault weapon? Be prepared to pay 10x its price for liability insurance---annually!
If the answer to guns is to have more guns, then we would be the safest country on the planet... which everyone can see we are not.
The opposite of, in fact. "safest"
This might be the best way I’ve ever heard this argument put.
This is the simplest, most understandable answer to such a ridiculous argument.
There are already half a billion guns in the US.. what do you suggest we do?
@@IamLEGENDkb24 exactly what Australia did.
Retired teacher with 35 yrs experience, I will never hold a gun! Teachers love encouraging growth and live, not killing!
Sure, yes…turning schools into prison complexes with armed guards will definitely motivate kids to come to school and be educated.
Schools are already prison complexes, have you been to one lately?
"turning them into"... What, they weren't before?
What a stupid comment. No one says this.
4:30 if i was still a teacher, i would quit before using a gun in the workplace!!!!!!!!
i was 12 when Sandy hook happened and now im 21 with the recent shooting. i cried and had panic attacks nonstop; I’m a former early childhood education major and I could not stop thinking of my kids (1st grade and kindergarten) without crying and having panic attacks. Even after Parkland, I cannot stop crying and waking up asking “Am I Next?”. Something needs to get done NOW and by midterm, VOTE VOTE VOTE and get things done..
I al 45..Iived close to Thusrton shootings...the problemas is that US is moving to the extreme right.
Keep dreaming kid. Guns are never going away. 393 million already registered. 35 of which are mine rightfully and legally 😘
Vote for who? Nobody will do anything.
You’re not next when you teach at the elite schools the owners of the GQP bring their children. Public schools? Then good luck…
It might help to look at the actual statistical likelihood of that actually happening to you. It is less likely than a number of other horrible things that could happen to you
I'm really baffled that the lawmakers of america are fighting hard and works also extremely fast for the unborn but when the topic of gun control to help reduce case of shootings targeting the LIVING comes up, they find every excuse to do nothing about the situation.
Shouldn't. Even if you don't see their point of view it's about the numbers. Abortion kills around 600k annually guns about 45k, that includes suicides.
Misery loves company
That shows without the shadow of doubt, that the "pro-life" argument is not made out of true moral conviction. It is tribal, partisan grandstanding - nothing more.
Yep. Gotta save those babies...so they can be gunned down in school a few years later. 🤬
It's cause they make money off of the NRA. They don't make money from abortions
How can someone say that children getting killed is not a political issue??? How can they say this should not be politicized??
Who are the citizens of the United States that keep voting for the republican party?
My heart breaks for those babies that lost their lives 💔 and the teachers🥺😢.
I was talking with some friends today. We all went to this title one school that had a massive gang problem and we all still remembered things like the lockdown procedures that we learned in kindergarten and the procedures for if they're wasn't active shooter it's like muscle memory at this point. And we all just sat there and looked at each other and wondered how did we end up the lucky ones. So many times we had to do those drills twice a month on both of them and sometimes they were real lockdowns. And each time we didn't get shot we felt very lucky we're now in our late twenties and we're each just wondering how the fuck we made it this far. Those kids dying dredged up a lot of repressed memories for us and the fact that yet again we aren't going to do anything just I'm so tired. At what point is enough dead kids enough dead kids for the NRA to give a fuck about gun control.
Since Sandy Hook over 4000 primary age children have been shot to death in the USA. Mostly with firearms found in most homes: rifles, shotguns. And usually by parents, relatives, neighbours.
This is 40 children each and every month.
I believe you are reacting to a dramatic tale on Television. I don’t imagine you give much thought otherwise to children being killed.
@@photofreak56 the NRA should be SHUT DOWN PERMANENTLY!!!
My heart breaks for ALL those killed by guns: children and adults.
@@photofreak56 Did you know that other countries don't have active shooter drills? That in Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, the entire EU and every other place you might ever have heard of there aren't metal detectors in school entrances, no armed guards at the school gates, no need for bullet proof backpacks etc....
And most importantly, do you know that since 2008 there have been 500+ school shootings (just school shootings not counting other mass shootings) in the USA. That is more than all the school shootings combined in the rest of the world the last 100+ years or so.
In any country that ever had a serious school shooting event the politicians took measures to prevent it from happening again, in every country it came down to making less guns available (banning assault riffles and such), making it more difficult to get guns that were allowed (hunting, sport shooting, etc) and every time those countries gun related crimes went down and there wasn't another school shooting.
Who would have thunked it, eh?
But life is so precious when you're talking about abortion not with gun control though smdh
The only thing precious to republicans is the power they hold
They hate females, non Protestant Christians, non whites, children, education, history, social studies, immigrants, nature, sustainability, earth, health and safety but they love to be snowflakes about their white men privileges.
@@jeremyedge890 No one's making all drugs legal.Far from it.
Ok, so here's the solution tell all the people to get rid of their guns... I'm sure the mob, the cartels, the psychos, the drug dealers, and all the other gangs will comply just like the law abiding citizens... while you're at it, tell Russia to stop the war with Ukraine. Tell China to leave Taiwan alone and let them be independent, and tell the Taliban to stop being the Taliban... let's see if that works out.
I am confused... Can someone explain me why is controversial to have a "gun license" when there is a driving license?
Pass all the laws you want it doesn't matter, I will protect my family by any means necessary.
Hey, when I was in high school, I spent 0% of the time worrying that someone was going to run into the classroom and shoot me. That shouldn't be a concern for today's kids, either.
How true. Class of 1979 on Long Island. I would not want to be a child having to do active shooter drills, along side fire drills. Or having anyone other than the police walking around with a weapon. And that wasn't a daily occurrence. They were just giving a talk to classes. Let's just all hide under the desks, like they told us to do for a nuclear attack. Why have a chicken in every pot, when you can have a gun in every school desk. I say, land mines on the play ground, snipers on the roof and trip wires in the hall. You know, for the kids.
Hey, class of ‘77 here. When I was in grade school, we had bomb scares at school. We had to leave the school and wait in lines while it was searched, which took a while. This happened on a number of occasions. These threats increased when busing became an issue. Violence in schools is not new, nor is it limited to guns.
@@doloresreynolds8145 Yeah, we had bomb scares in the 80s, too. We didn't take them seriously? Because no one was blowing up 1-2 schools every goddamned week.
It’s somehow a tragedy at the deepest levels to see elected public officials doing their best at pushing for the worst agenda possibly while lining their pockets from lobbyists
Well how you feel about appointed judges like our supreme court who announced that they will do everything in their power to overturn gun control laws. Maybe it's me but I feel least 5 of them need to be impeached. You know, for perjury.
And it's shocking, but somehow at the same time it isn't, that they are sinking to _The Simpsons_ levels of stupidity.
"How are we gonna get out of here?"
"We'll dig our way out!."
They’re just looking out for their Pimps.
They're corrupted by Dirty Money
Somehow? Let's be clear here - it IS a tragedy.
It is ridiculous notion to reduce guns in the USA.... if one gun a second was retrieved... it would only take about 50 years to get them all... let that sink in...
Name the people whom are voting against it as a Senator, name the people whom are in power to be able to change them but not doing anything.
"Laws are pointless is a bold stance for an attorney general"--I love that!
There was some context to that... He was saying they don't matter to criminals as they are breaking the many gun laws we already have on the books. Simply making more won't do much in the minds of people who are already breaking the existing ones. But Colbert has a way with taking something and completely falsifying it.
It's pure gold.
He didnt say that, Colbert did. The AG`s point is that more laws wont stop criminals. They never do. Murder has been banned for thousands of years everywhere with the harshest penalty given for it, which is state execution and even that does not stop murder. Yet Democrats think that additional laws will stop criminals. They won`t. Criminals IGNORE the law! What is this mental embargo you have that one more law will stop criminals? Lets say that you get your big wish and 2A is repealed, all guns shops are closed, all citizens are ordered to hand in their guns. Then what? More shootings. Why? Because the criminals........kept their guns. And after the 2nd Amendment is revoked and more shootings happen, what then will you complain about?
@@vFANGv The AG, Ken Paxton, who is himself under indictment, agrees with you that laws won't stop criminals, except in the case of abortion laws. This is the state that sentenced a woman, Crystal Mason, to prison for 5 years because she _tried_ to vote illegally. You speak of "all guns." Perhaps you would understand if we proscribe military weapons--you don't need semi-auto to "hunt." You want a military weapon? Apply for a license, take an exam, register your weapon, and renew your license regularly.
@@alastairdallas If Paxton is guilty then he should be punished. Mason violated the law. Semi autos are not a military weapon and they are not for hunting, they are for defense against an overwhelming force such as the invasion from a foreign power. Don`t think that is not possible. China wants in here. They own ports in California, a Chinese General owns 200 sq miles in Texas which includes an airfield and the Canadian government is allowing the Chinese army to have maneuvers right across our border. There is a reason for all of that. They are positioning themselves. Yes, we need nothing less than semi auto weapons. They are not for hunting.
Trump, Abbott, and Ted Cruz will be at an NRA convention this weekend. Someone needs to put 19 child size coffins outside of the convention as protest
@Conrrado Torres 💯
YES!!!
Or someone should take an assault rifle and let them experience how it feels to get mutilated by one. Those poor kids…they could only be positively identified by comparing their DNA to the parents who had to supply swabs to do this. Can you imagine the torment being asked to provide a DNA sample added to the hellish nightmare the parent was already experiencing? I hope all the GOP who refuse to do anything to help control access to getting assault rifles get a taste of what those poor little kids got.
Good one yes.
Those 3 have NO shame!
Where do they think they're going to find all of these "retirees" and "ex-military" to "volunteer" to work security at schools? We can barely staff Dunkin' Donuts.
reminded there at 4:29 immediately of 10 Things I Hate About You: "'In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note; But ‘tis my heart that loves what they despise, Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote'. Now, Shakespeare is a dead white guy, but he know his shit."
Unless a teacher is experienced with a firearm and is willing to have a mindset to kill every single working hour there is no way he/she will win a gunfight with a determined and deranged shooter. Even experienced police officers make amateur mistakes during the stress of combat, for a teacher to be suddenly able to go from teacher mode to kill mode is highly unlikely to happen, let alone actually hit the assailant when bullets are whizzing by them.
Shooters don't know which teacher is ready to kill and which one isn't. They don't even know which one is armed. It seems to be working everywhere it's been implemented, there haven't been any children killed in those schools.
The idea that teachers should be armed is a step in the worst direction ever. First off, it takes time to realize what is happening with shocking events. By the time a teacher realizes what is happening, and goes to find his/her gun, which should be locked up because THERE ARE CHILDREN EVERYWHERE IN A SCHOOL (DUH) the killer with the AK 47 has already murdered many, many people, including the teacher. Not to mention that more guns means more possibility for accidents, involving children and others, I can't wrap my head around these people who really honestly believe that having MORE guns is the answer. This culture, this gun culture, these gun enthusiasts, are literally out of their heads. The 2nd amendment, by the way, was set up when most guns were ball and musket, and the country was wild and undeveloped, now we have far far more population, guns that can kill hundreds in minutes, (something the founding fathers certainly could not foresee), and aren't we supposed to EVOLVE? Not devolve into a mass hysteria of chaos weapons everywhere, paranoia everywhere. I am sick with worry over the future of the country and our children with people who have this gun culture mentality... in power.
classic, let's fight guns with more guns.
@@lesliecurran1704 you're forgetting the deterrence factor. If arming teachers is the wrong think in you opinion, tell me why there has been no mass shooting in schools that arm their teachers.
I was thinking this. Teachers have to contain, guard, secure, maintain and clean said gun on a semi regular basis, along with practicing outside of work after teaching and before the work days
There is no way possible this is going to work. We need armed response units (a person or two) at schools for obvious reasons.
We need people who know first aid, who know how to talk to children, who can talk to children and educate them on law enforcement, fire, EMS, firearms and what to do when you encounter a gun...
that officer needs to do a law enforcement job and ensure the safety of children; aswell as, teach them about basic laws, like not running into the street when you drop a toy there, like understanding how to interact with law enforcement when in a situation.
The officer or guard needs to not only protect, but educate and give and bring knowledge forward.
You are crazy if you say; we can’t have or need armed police at schools. Criminals who don’t mass kill are still a threat to kids, violent crime occurs outside of mass shootings or active shooters... domestic disputes at schools are a deadly threat and officers need to be there to defuse that situation.
I’m an English teacher and I’ve written raps about Shakespeare’s plays (feeling called out!) - for the record, I think the idea of bringing weapons into a learning environment and expecting teachers to basically be Wild West deputies is probably one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard. I would rather go back to the pandemic model Google Meet teaching 🤷🏾♂️
Teachers are among the last people I'd trust with guns.
I agree it is not the teacher place to be armed....they need to teach. The school board needs to higher trained professional to guard the schools. We have them for banks, hospitals, jails, the white house but not for those that can't protect themselves in schools. Additional protective measures need to be installed by the school board to ensure an outside shooter cannot get into the school and proper procedures need to implemented to make sure people/ students cannot bring in guns. Also I would recommend that the age to buy a firearm of any kind be raised to 21. If you look at the age of these school shooters most are under the age of 21.
Ban army assault rifles for civilians, no good having an age limit as shooters will just get someone else to buy the guns! Plus close down the gun shop immediately where guns were sold for mass atrocities, they should of carried a more detailed screening of the new gun buyer.
have they ever came up with a good idea? it's all about the politicians getting the game manufactures money...sick people...Anthony ,I am an old fart...hate rap....until I saw Hamilton ....I wish there was a way for me to see or hear your play. ...hey...thats right, there was another teacher that wrote Hamilton ...good luck sir, I hope it's a hit for you. please, don't correct my grammar !! lol
@@bigol9223 I'd trust them with guns... I'd give them a gun before any child, before any 18 year old, before any toddler, etc. There are basically droves of people who are much worse choices to arm. A teacher as a guard is just a silly idea. Like a teacher can do anything against a dude with kevlar and an assault rifle + the element of 'surprise'...
The guard at the mall the other day didn't have much of a chance...
Stop blaming congressmen that don't do anything. Blame the voters who keep sending them back into office.
How that "Clench Dance" got by CBS' Broadcast Standards, we'll never know...
"bad guys will try to break the rules anyway, so there's no reason for strict gun laws"... Right, except for when women have to get an abortion as a result of incidents that are no fault of their own, strict anti-abortion bans ensued. Fetuses, not counted by the census, get these guys more worked up, while humans don't
There is DEFINATELY a reason for tight background checks.
How about my right to draw breath ? How about our kids not living in fear of being murdered at school do they have that right? Assault weapons are for killing masses of people what war is fought at an elementary school. Old west murder is murder now on our children. Stop the insanity!
Such a dumb argument that you could make for ANY law. What's the point of speed limits when people who want to speed are going to speed anyway? What's the point of drunk driving laws when irreponsible drinkers are going to drink and drive anyway? What's the point of abortion laws when people who want abortions are going to find ways to get them anyway?
Laws won't entirely stop the things they are prohibiting from happening, but they do reduce occurrences by making those things more difficult to do. That's all we're asking for. Something, instead of absolutely nothing.
Stop blending everything. Nothing equates a fool going shoot a school of young kids. Using mental health is just an excuse. Tightening up background checks will help nothing else to be said
@@thenostalgiabusiness Well, no, not more difficult to do at all.
Laws simply attempt to instill greater fear of the possible potential consequence in those who do, unintentionally or not, break the law.
I own 4 guns. A bolt-action rifle I occasionally use for deer hunting, and occasionally clearing wild pigs off my farm.. A pump action, and an over-under shotgun that I use to take a friend duck hunting occasionally, and a handgun that I bought for a backcountry bicycle race that went through Grizzly bear country where there had been recent attacks. When not in active use, they all stay in a locked safe. I was raised in the country, with hunting culture a major part of my life.
I've watched gun culture change from what it was when I was a child. It's so toxic today, every company advertising anything gun related now uses skulls, and symbols of war, as if buying a gun will turn you into a warrior. This warrior culture mixed with gun culture is toxic, and it's killing our children. We need more gun laws, because this new toxic gun culture isn't going anywhere.
I think if we followed the actual wording of the 2a there would be a healthy gun culture. It would be geared toward responsibility not radicalism. If gun owners belonged to well-regulated militias, they'd get instructed in safety and whatnot from day one. They'd learn to respect people and guns. The Heller Decision changed the route for that by making "every 18 yr old male his own militia". The Court of Perjurers seems to think 18 yr olds are not only 'well-regulated' but universally capable of self-regulation. That or they got a big pile of bribe money we'll never know about because the Court operates in absolute secrecy other than that one leak.
Gun culture is different, but to say that is the cause is absurd. A DRAMATIC increase in depression in America is more likely then cause than gun culture itself, and, that is only one of many things that can lead to tragedy way before differences in gun culture itself . I agree that buying guns with skull & crossbones and grim reapers painted on them is not only foolish within itself, but, often times is indicative of a foolish person. I don't see guns as toys that you paint stupid shit on, i just see them as weapons and hunting tools, plain and simple. I won't rant over statistics, but, I'll say there really is no correlation between gun laws and low gun crime, at all. There are towns and cities with low gun ownership and very high crime, and, there are places with high gun ownership and very low crime if even at all. The depression and anxiety that stems from social media yields far psychological toxicity than gun culture itself. So, in short, I I agree with you on some things and disagree on some things.
I'm a vet, stop calling everybody " heroes" it cheapens it for the folks who actually are
@@seangelarden8753
My definition of a 'hero' is a single Mother working two jobs so she can keep a roof over her and her kids heads. They deserve our thanks too.
@@mededmoon6265 European here. I actually agree with you. We never had a Second Amendment in Europe, but originally most countries didn't have gun control *either* or had very permissive gun laws. But even when most countries here had little or no gun control, shootings were always rare. You can't shoot anyone without a gun, but the guns aren't the root cause. The root cause is bad mental health and an unforgiving society, like you have in the US.
“The Child Who is Not Embraced by the Village Will Burn it Down to Feel its Warmth”
Police and soldiers should be the only ones with guns!
No they fucking shouldn't.
Americans now own 400 million registered firearms. That's 1.2 guns for every American on average.
The number one cause of child deaths in America is now firearms, it used to be cars.
4,300 children and 45,000 Americans in total died from gunshots in 2020.
Is the solution to this problem more guns and less regulation?
Maybe there should be less regulations on safe driving so that cars could retake the No.1 spot.
Maybe the government should pass laws to arm children? More guns is always the answer. /s
At least that would be less embarrassing for us as a country.
Your numbers reflect gang violence over drugs like Chicago and LA.
No, "Laws are pointless" is perfectly on brand for an Attorney General with SEVEN pending criminal cases on his butt.
But abortion laws are effective.
@@hiddenamericachannel I can't tell if you're being sarcastic...?
@@Tupelo927 I was being sarcastic.
These people think that an abortion ban is a good idea. But a ban on assault weapons isn't.
That's crazy.
We should just ban murder then.
There is no excuse for a private citizen to have an assault weapon. Banning assault weapons is not gun control. It is simple common sense.
Why the privileged wanting to ban the working man from owning firearm?
YOUR NOT GETTING THE IDEA IT'S EVERYBODY IS BANNED COS NON OF YOU CAN BE TRUSTED
Here's a thought... DON'T PAY CONGRESS UNTIL THEY DO THEIR JOB!!!
Unfortunately congress would have to pass that unless Joseph grows a pair. Barrack didn't .
Congress makes most of their money from lobbyists. They don't care about their govt paychecks
Wouldn't matter, sadly. They're already on the payroll of corporations. The SCOTUS's "Citizens United" decision just opened the floodgates for special interest money to flow to those lawmakers who will draft legislation increasingly favoring the wealthy and powerful. As for the remainder of us citizens--we're meant to be work mules; indentured servants. GET EVERY DEMOCRAT/INDEPENDENT/RATIONAL AND DECENT REPUBLICAN (wait....) THAT YOU KNOW TO SHOW UP IN NOVEMBER 2022 AND VOTE THE REPUBLICANS OUT. We have a political cancer in this country. Voting is the best chemotherapy. Do it!
ah, but that's the problem; their gun lobby money eclipses their salary.
As a retired military servicemember, I am aghast at the suggestion that the "Solution" to these imbeciles is making folks who have already fought their For-profit wars now stand outside our schools with guns.
The rate of mental illness among vets is HIGHER than the general public!
That was sadly my first thought. US ignored needs of their vets for decades and decades. Would it be really any safer to stand thousands and thousands of these mostly good people with mostly untreated trauma to school checkpoints now?
It would be a grim joke if it wasn't suggested with total seriousness.
The talking heads are trying to waste time spewing crap while the populace calms down and gets interested in other things. It always happens. They bide their time till we voters forget. If something shiny appears we'll be looking at that and they won't have to actually do what a high majority of america wants - to stop the gun-soaked gun-crazed atmosphere in this nation with sensible restrictions and requirements.
Thank you for your service!
PTSD is another thing they don't believe in, because it doesn't affect them.
Remember they want you to stand outside for free too ….
IF ACTUAL POLICE WON’T RESPOND AS TRAINED, WHY WOULD RETIREES BE WILLING TO DO SO???
Well if this isn’t the biggest load of propaganda
Imagine being involved with a party that only tries to make things worse for people...
I try to imagine a world without such a party. That's why I vote. (but still get screwed by gerrymandering and the electoral college)
You summed up the republican party perfectly.
You should ask Colbert. He’s a Democrat.
basicly both GOP and Democrats
Being republican must be an mental disorder..
Marjorie Taylor Green saying we need to think about mental health is like Colonel Sanders saying you should watch how much Fried Chicken you eat wtf? LOL
What can Congress do with out the Senate passing the bill?
If they could pass a law that every Washington politicians' kids and grandkids had to attend public school we would see gun reform in record time.
FACTS!!!!
and what kind of gun reform do u propose
@@deb3376 Do you have to ask? Look at other countries that don't have the embarrassingly high rate of shootings. Do like they do.
@@MandleRoss .... Sorry, won't work, we have to stop comparing ourselves to other countries, and we have to stop having the same conversations and proposed solution every time one of these happens. Taking the guns is not a viable solution...
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I will never understand how I have to prove I am capable of driving a car before I can operate a car legally but any fool can purchase a weapon designed to kill other human beings. The 2nd Amendment says "well regulated." That suggests rules.
Because driving is a privilege and owning a gun is a right. Do you have to prove you can read before you can vote?
The 2nd Amendment has been so warped by the gun nuts to make them think they have the right to hoard killing tools.
@@trashcan6839 My son's high school has the same security that my daughter's college has. It was all put in place after Sandy Hook.
@@craigfelter The Second AMendment is a right for members of the Militia to bear arms for MIlitai service, registered with the state, subject to court martial for disobeying the orders of the president, adn that's it.
ep 5: Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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The Second Amendment didn't become a "deregulate all guns" idea until the 1990's when right wing white supremacists became the biggest source of domestic terrorism in the US.
@@craigfelter Not even the nuttiest of gun nuts argue that it's an _absolute_ right. (Well, that might get flakier and flakier at the margins, but typically so.) Fully automatic weapons are generally illegal. Sawn-off shotguns are illegal. Calibres greater than 0.500 are illegal. (For people that think those are 'government overreach, pick your own limit to taste: battle tank? Artillery piece? Aircraft carrier? Nuclear warhead?) Why should it be beyond the ability of a state to regulate the ability of -- let's say -- a 17yo that's been been fantasising about 'putting some round into' people to wander around with a semi-auto version of a military-style rifle: how's that contributing to a a 'well-regulated militia'?
Instead of metal detectors in schools, make every doorway into an industrial grade electromagnet. Walk in with a gun under your trench coat... boom... suddenly you are stuck to the ceiling like Elmer Fudd in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
"you're out of line and an embarrassment" says the guy who let 21 people die.
I like how the trained, armed people who are employed specifically to protect schools already show their uselessness, but the solution would be to put more of those on site, but less efficient and not even paid ?
Several police departments have already confirmed this after several instances of not immediately responding to situations where they do not have free reign. Police are not there to protect anyone. They are there to enforce laws. That is it. Stopping a shooter has the side effect of them doing their job, but if there was no law to killing people, the police would not respond period.
you almost made the connection.
if we disarm the population, you'll have to count on those do-nothing porkers to save you. And they dont care about you & will taze you to prevent you from rescuing your own kid
and they need tons of federal money for those big ass mobile battering rams that they only use against parents who want to know why kids are dead in their town
You have no idea. The police in that town are useless. There was no "resource" officer in that building at the time. He was patrolling elsewhere. And it takes more than a man with a weapon. He needs skills. Then there is bravery. Not all of those whose jobs are to protect, have it. The shooter was a teen aged punk and the locals could not stop him. That is appalling. I could have shut him down myself with a 5 round revolver. They should be embarrassed. That whole scenario was a clusterphuk.
Let fathers who legally carry volunteer at schools. I bet they would be the safest places in America.
Do you realize how crazy they sound from abroad saying that there should be armed teachers and police officers at school ? Even for us in the second most armed country in the world (Switzerland), it would never come to mind. It's like, "Yeah, Ithink we need a missile in the basement of our favorite bakery". Just... What ?
Hardly an argument when Switzerland is as rich and culturally homogeneous as it is. You don't face the adversity that these people do.
@@TheBeeseik culturally homogeneous? What a nonsense and round-about way to conflate crime with ethnicity.
Be careful what you wish for.With crime the way it is, you just might have to do just that.
@@cajunstacker1376 Crime, in general, has been on a steady decline for decades. Your statement is reflective of a fear-based narrative; not a logical one
@@tylersmith2792 I agree
If laws don't stop behavior of criminals, then why do they pass laws outlawing abortion?
Since when did Late Shows become a political wing?
After a mass shooting, if anyone says, "this is not the time to talk about gun control", ask if 9/12/2001 was not a good time to talk about terrorism.
1999 Columbine high school
Well after 9:11 I think we can all agree that the big problem and only problem was terrorism. But in this case, depending on who you talk to, some will say it's guns, and some will say it's mental illness. Obviously it's a combination of the two. I just don't think it's fair to punish everyone for the couple of cowards who are mentally unstable. We need to stop pacifying angry problematic young men, And call them out instead of hiding them, telling them everything will be all right. Too many times, after the fact, people say someone like this was a ticking time bomb, and everyone around them knew that. Yep they get their hands on a gun. Something needs to change but is it the gun, or the person using it?
Pretty (unintentionally) spot on comparison. Do you think America’s reaction to 9/11 - invading Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, demonizing Muslims and siccing the FBI on them here at home - were reasonable or in any way good responses?
The real terrorists are not who you think they are. We are been fucked with by very sophisticated, organized and evil people.
@bacorable
It’s a lot harder to get the mass casualty rates of guns using knives. Kill 19 people with a knife? Even if you have a lot of knives and are a John Wick knife thrower, that’s hard. That’s why people turn to guns for mass murder. It’s a point, click, kill device. It’s also why most deaths by gun are suicides. People who use other methods are a lot less successful at killing themselves.
Countries with fewer guns have fewer of these tragedies. Of course they usually have fewer killing sprees of any kind.