The Problem with Guns

Polar bears are just a propaganda tool used to make The Great White North seem less foreign and intimidating.

Love this video! Keep up the good work! I really hope Ameirca Uncensored can become a regular thing.

great, good unbiased research and reporting. Thank you!

Weird, a gun control discussion without a clear agenda (other than telling people to help others). My small donation just became slightly less small now due to this video.

People kill people John. Gun control is a valid endeavour, but what must be made clear is that many firearm homicides are committed by unregistered guns and unlicensed shooters. Making licensed shooters responsible for the crimes of the criminal element is something that must be avoided.

Guns don't kill people, bullets do!

There are no polar bears or guns in Antarctica. But there are tons of Guns and Polar bears in the arctic the highest gun ownership rates in Canada and the USA are the States, Provinces and Teritories that are in the arctic.

Totally agree.

More Guns, Less Crime is a book by John Lott came to similar conclusions, but is much less entertaining to read.

I think one problem with current gun control related activities is that the gun industry uses them as advertising. "They are going to ban guns, so get yours now, and get grandfathered into any new legislation!" During Clinton's assault rifle ban, I spoke with one women who had already paid for her AR-15, and was just waiting for the ban to be lifted.

(The last one posted before I was finished.) I did note that one issue, my touchstone that you didn't cover was the idea that 'when seconds count, the police are only minutes away' or in the case of the Vegas shooting, an hour from their storming the room. But your points on the danger of easy access and murkiness of the data and appropriate responses are well founded.

I want to add my congrats for a good presentation. I initially thought it would just be the typical denunciation of the NBA and gunowners, but it was much more nuanced.

According to a study by criminologists 9 out of 10 mass shooters are suicidal who are seeking fame (or infamously) and the best way to reduce them would be not to name them, show their faces and not chronicle their lives in the media. It is also learned behaviour so they are learning from what their predecessors did and did not do. The media should still cover them but they need to take the focus off the shooter and their actions and put it on the victims.

Though I support gun control (whatever that is) originally, now I know it's much more complicated than I've imagined. Great video!

GREAT JOB on a tough subject Chris Matt and Shelly! You guys once again made me proud to be a member of the 50 Cent Army! Thanks!

I liked it. Very well done. However there is one thing that I always think of. Why always look at gun homicides and not total homicides. What use is it if all guns are taken away and people just substitute guns with pointy sticks. What economists call substitution. Countries and places with fewer guns might have fewer gun homicides, but more overall homicides. The question is really, does the absence of firearms make people kill other people less. Far more people get killed with hands, feet and other blunt instruments than rifles for example. I did like your graph on suicides too . People might think that taking away guns will lower the suicide rate. However countries like Korea and Japan where there are almost no firearms have a much much higher suicide rate then the US. My thoughts. With or without firearms, people that want to harm other people will find a way. People that want to harm themselves will find a way. In the US, firearms are plentiful, so that is what they use. Take that way and they will use something else. Places with few homicides for whatever reason will still have low homicide rates, even if you drop crates of firearms off in the middle of the road. Places with high crime and homicide rates will still have high homicide rates, even if you take guns away. In prisons, a highly controlled environment with no firearms or supposedly weapons of any kind, people still find ways of killing other people.

This was well researched and given me a more informed opinion. I was in the i don’t know camp from the get go, assuming more gun control would probably help but enjoying my freedom to have weapons regardless. I had no imperial data to really base an opinion off of, and it looks like no one else really does ether! Thanks Chris! Really well done!

Explosive stuff Chris! (pun intended) Nice work!