In this episode, we will be examining and debunking the most ill-founded, cultural, political, and historical myths that you'll hear from the pro-gun control crowd regarding the legal, political aspects of gun ownership and all of their lies therein.
00:00:00.000Today's episode is one of my favorites.
00:00:02.000We will be examining and debunking the most ill-founded, cultural, historical myths that you'll hear from the pro-gun control crowd regarding the legal, political aspects of gun ownership and all of their lies therein.
00:00:34.000A lot of good information there, but we wanted to take this opportunity.
00:00:37.000We've done Handguns 101, Long Guns 101, the most common firearm myths that you've probably heard.
00:00:44.000And we'll separate it into two parts, kind of cultural, political, and then technical since, you know, that's more in your realm of expertise.
00:00:51.000And you've worked in the firearms industry too for a while.
00:00:54.000Yeah, I've been doing this for... Since 2014.
00:00:56.0002014 yeah, and the funny thing is you know we can separate the technical from sort of the cult because sometimes
00:01:02.000people who work in The firearms industry they're not always fully aware of the
00:01:06.000Second Amendment in the historical context. Yeah, that's very common actually
00:01:08.000Yeah, it kind of surprises more than it should be yeah, it shouldn't be but
00:01:12.000Look, we'll lead this with a clip for you, but right off the bat
00:01:17.000We'll go through seven and maybe plus one top firearms myths that you've probably heard
00:01:22.000culturally, politically, historically, as well as the rebuttals to those.
00:01:26.000We'll make all the references publicly available, but it's no secret that half of this country, at this moment in time, is vehemently against the idea of owning firearms.
00:01:36.000There is a way for us to make sure that lawful, responsible gun owners like yourself are able to use it for sporting, hunting, protecting yourself.
00:01:49.000But the only way we're going to do that is if we don't have a situation in which anything that is proposed is viewed as some tyrannical Destruction of the Second Amendment.
00:02:03.000Do you think that reinstating the ban on assault weapons and banning high-capacity magazines would do any good?
00:02:13.000We cannot let a minority of people, and that's what it is, it is a minority of people, hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.
00:02:24.000We're gonna take your AR-15, your AK-47, We're not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.
00:02:31.000If you wanna protect yourself, get a double barrel shotgun.
00:02:35.000I said, Jill, if there's ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony here, or walk out, put that double barrel shotgun, and fire two blasts outside the house.
00:02:46.000I promise you, whoever's coming in is not gonna, you don't need an AR-15.
00:02:51.000It's harder to aim, it's harder to use, and in fact, you don't need 30 rounds to protect yourself.
00:03:40.000Well, look, you know this better than probably I do, but historically the Founding Fathers were well aware of the technological advancements with firearms.
00:03:48.000And there were actually, at that point in time, many firearms that were far more advanced than the muskets that were used in the military, and it just wasn't cost effective.
00:03:57.000Or it was slower to reload, or there's different reasons they went with it, but yeah, there was semi-automatic air guns were very common in the period.
00:04:04.000And when you think of an air gun, a lot of people think of like a pellet gun, but these things were legitimately Lethal guns that could be used for hunting self-defense war
00:04:12.000whatever the case may be right additionally there was volley guns which had
00:04:15.000The capability to fire multiple projectiles. I mean there was a ton of them
00:04:19.000Yeah, well so to give you an example a few of them And you can check all the references there was the kalthoff
00:04:23.000repeater actually which is one I wasn't super familiar with in a previous video. I address
00:04:26.000sort of the puckle gun the pepper box revolver There's the the belt and flintlock there's the flintlock
00:04:31.000machine gun actually and the jeer and dhoni air rifle Which you may not know that was an air gun that was used
00:04:36.000the Lewis and Clark expeditions As a matter of fact, they used that high-capacity air rifle to showcase to all the Native Americans to say, hey, look how much more powerful our boom-boom sticks are to bow and arrows.
00:04:47.000It was something the government was aware of and actually encouraged to be used as a display piece.
00:04:52.000So, and not to mention, of course, you would have to apply this same rationale to, well, the First Amendment does not apply to the printing press, let alone to your iPhone.
00:06:03.000If you have someone small enough to fire it.
00:06:04.000I mean, if you're working in the circus.
00:06:05.000But the point is, cannons back then, the letter we have, I have commissioned the private armed brig called Prince Neufchadel, I think I'm pronouncing that correctly, mounting 18 carriage guns.
00:06:16.000So this is something that, again, one of the Founding Fathers knew about, said, yeah, you can have cannons.
00:06:48.000And then sort of get into more historical context, the corroborating documents that clarify what constituted the militia.
00:06:54.000So here is the Second Amendment for people who haven't actually read it.
00:06:57.000A well-regulated militia, comma, being necessary to the security of a free state, comma, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
00:07:09.000This was written pretty damn carefully, too.
00:07:11.000I don't think they thought it would ever be challenged like it has been, because it's so clear.
00:07:25.000And here's another truth, just to be clear.
00:07:27.000There are plenty of corroborating documents, right, if it's not just in the Constitution.
00:07:31.000Let's say the Constitution, right, and the Bill of Rights is the prescription.
00:07:36.000Well, then there are other corroborating documents that sort of add to that, like, okay, hold on a second, this is just a prescription that's been written, but this is how you would take it, or this is what is most effective, or this is the tapering pattern.
00:07:45.000There are a lot of documents out there and also conversations that were
00:07:51.000that were notarized that would have been written down that would
00:07:53.000corroborate this and none to the opposite effect. So this is actually George
00:07:57.000Mason, one of the founding fathers for those of you who don't know, when
00:08:00.000asked, well what is the militia? He said, I asked sir what is the
00:08:07.000To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
00:08:12.000So the right of the people, comma, that's after, a well-regulated militia, comma, being necessary to the security of a free state, comma, the right of the people, and to keep and bear arms.
00:08:24.000And George Mason said, well, what is a militia?
00:08:31.000Any able-bodied, particularly able-bodied male who can carry a firearm is part of the militia, and you have the right to keep and bear arms.
00:08:56.000And we didn't know if we should put this in the next installment on technical myths, but it's sort of pervasive culturally right now because of the laws that people are facing.
00:09:03.000So, a pistol brace makes a gun deadlier.
00:09:06.000You can buy the brace without a background check, but when it becomes a dangerous weapon, when that brace changes the gun's legal status and makes it In essence, the same that caused a mass shooting at a Boulder, Colorado supermarket, the stabilizing brace made, and a shorter barrel, made a pistol under federal gun regulations.
00:09:37.000Made it harder for people to buy stabilized braces.
00:09:41.000Put a pistol on a brace, it turns into a gun.
00:09:45.000Makes it more, you can have a higher caliber weapon, a higher caliber bullet coming out of that gun.
00:10:14.000So the thing about it is, if you take an AR pistol and you remove the brace, it's actually smaller and easier to conceal than it is with the brace.
00:10:22.000Additionally, brace pistols, like for ARs, just for this example, the reason people are putting a brace on them is because they have a barrel less than 16 inches.
00:10:31.000Well, with AR-15s, the amount of, I guess, lethality damage That the round is going to do is directly dependent on
00:11:56.000Alex Bosco is the man who created it, the owner of SB Tactical, and he created it when he was with this friend who was a Marine veteran who couldn't use his AR-15 properly because he was injured.
00:12:06.000And they were actually kicked off the range because the range officer said they weren't being safe.
00:12:10.000So he created the brace as a way to increase the safety of the gun, literally.
00:12:16.000So why is this such a big issue right now?
00:12:17.000Before we go into myth number four, why has it become an issue now where they're saying, we've got to get rid of the laws that we're looking at, pistol braces?
00:13:09.000We haven't addressed this specifically, but if you even look at the Assault Weapons Ban Act, right, a lot of these A lot of these sort of, I guess you'd say, characteristics of the firearms that make them illegal are entirely arbitrary.
00:13:21.000For example, if you, you know, in some cases it's, if it, if the gun has any of these two characteristics, you know, for example, if it has a buttstock, and then if it has a conspicuously protruding vertical grip, you know, hold on a second, who defines conspicuously?
00:13:35.000That's the term that defines it, versus, I guess, inconspicuously, it's okay, the pistol grip on a pistol, but on a rifle, this is okay, this is now an assault weapon.
00:13:45.000And I know you think I'm being reductive, that's actually true.
00:13:47.000The ATF has actually issued letters from their FATD division, which is their division that, I guess, makes rules, doesn't make rules, clarifies rules, whatever they claim that day.
00:14:05.000Which brings us to myth number four here.
00:14:08.000We just talked about the Assault Weapons Ban Act that happened under Clinton and obviously just lapsed because even the left realized this didn't really do anything.
00:14:16.000It wasn't very effective and there was backlash.
00:14:19.000Myth number four that you'll hear a lot is assault weapons need to be banned because they're the preferred weapons of mass murder.
00:14:25.000Now, before we even get into that and why it's not true, This is the problem with a myth that starts off with a false premise and the people perpetuating it know it.
00:14:35.000Assault weapon doesn't really mean anything, just to be clear.
00:14:39.000Assault rifle was a term that was used, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, in the military that had select fire, meaning it could be changed from semi-automatic to a fully automatic, what you might consider machine gun.
00:15:58.000And when they try and say that the AR-15, oh, these are the guns of mass shooters, it's their weapon of choice, 77% of, wow, it still surprises me when, 77% of mass shooters used handguns.
00:16:10.000Yep, I mean that's true across the board.
00:16:12.000A lot of the most famous ones, Virginia Tech for one, 9mm and 22 pistols, both.
00:16:18.000Yeah, and it's one of those things where sometimes they'll have something that could be considered an assault weapon, but they'll actually fire more from a pistol, or for example, a pistol carbine I believe in... In Nashville.
00:16:30.000She used a Kel-Tec Sub 2000 to actually do the shooting, but she had a Brace AR-15 pistol that would have been Possibly worse for folks involved, I guess, but she didn't choose to use it.
00:19:17.000The pool, the bathtub, your toaster, is more dangerous to your four-year-old child than the gun in a safe in your closet.
00:19:23.000It's not even close, especially the pool one.
00:19:26.000I've had people who want to come over my house with their kids and they'll be like, People have said to them, rather, oh, he has guns in the house.
00:20:22.000Do you believe that they actually think 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 year olds are at greater risk of being killed by a firearm than common accidents, than automobile accidents, than common household items?
00:21:21.000And that matters because some people estimate the vast majority, but at least on the lowest estimate, half of all defensive firearm uses, don't require a single shot fired.
00:24:12.000In a pocket or waistband, okay, in a nearby vehicle, or in another place, quickly available and ready to fire at the time of their matched cases shooting.
00:24:24.000Okay, so I'll give them waistband, holster, vehicle, if the altercation took place in the vehicle.
00:24:30.000It doesn't really matter if you're in your living room.
00:24:33.000Uh, or other place that could be quickly available and ready to fire.
00:24:52.000For example, I was saying, well, if you're going to say that You're more likely to ever be involved with an accidental discharge if you handle a gun than if you've never touched a gun.
00:25:03.000Just like you're more likely to drown if you ever enter a pool.
00:25:07.000Now that doesn't mean that somebody who is a competitive swimmer is more likely to drown than someone who's never swam before in their life, right?
00:25:14.000The moment that you use that pool in your level of experience plays a huge significance.
00:25:19.000in the danger factor. Right. And the same is true with somebody who's proficient with firearms.
00:25:23.000Right. I mean, basics. By the way, it's not that hard to make sure that you don't do something
00:25:27.000unsafe with a firearm. It doesn't take that long. And then, of course, you train it up as best as
00:25:32.000you can. All right. This brings us to myth number one. And it was hard to pick number one. And we'll
00:25:37.000do the technical issues. That's pretty fun because that's really his realm of expertise. Sure. I'm
00:25:41.000just a I'm a I'm a caveman when it comes to that. I'm I usually just throw my firearm.
00:25:47.000It's a technique where you reach out and do this when you shoot.
00:25:50.000If I have a home intruder, the bullet is more likely to hit them in the cylinder than it is to actually be used as a projectile.
00:25:56.000But the number one myth, you hear this a lot, is nobody needs a high-capacity magazine.
00:26:02.000There's no reason someone needs a weapon of war with 100 rounds, 100 bullets, that can be fired.
00:26:39.000Now, when you get to the point where you're in a gunfight, meaning there's an exchange of gunfire or you have to use your firearm, That number changes dramatically.
00:26:48.000So the stats are skewed with defensive uses of firearms, zero shots, and then any shots, and the number is significantly higher than you may anticipate.
00:26:57.000And to be clear, this number can be argued.
00:27:00.000It's not always necessarily clear because the way that people study gun violence isn't always very accurate and it's often politicized.
00:27:06.000But the total average number of shots that we see, according to the crime data that's
00:27:11.000available, that would be considered reputable, to stop an assailant is around 12.
00:27:17.000Now, let me explain to you why that is.
00:27:19.000The average number of hits to incapacitate a shooter is about 2.45.
00:27:48.000The point is, the top end of that, with one assailant, if you're missing one out of five, which is probably the most clear statistic we have, puts you well beyond the idea of a double-barreled shotgun.
00:27:57.000Right, and then you have three guys that kick in your door.
00:28:01.000The number of assailants, specifically involved in home invasions, have gone up.
00:28:06.000And this is one of the, you can look at the statistics, or of course, you know what you've experienced, and you can believe your lion eyes and ears.
00:28:13.000This is exclusive video caught on security cameras in the area where a St. Louis County
00:28:18.000woman was shot and killed from bullets started flying outside her home.
00:28:21.000As you can see, someone turns around in a yard and fire shots right at someone and then
00:28:30.000Marmarita Automotive Group Skyfox was over the scene in the 300 block of Lanshire Road
00:28:35.000in North St. Louis County where the tragedy all unfolded around 3 Tuesday morning.
00:28:40.000In the video, it appears multiple people were exchanging gunfire from outside the victim's home on the front yard.
00:28:45.000We were told the woman was inside the home.
00:28:47.000Terrifying moments caught on camera as a Phoenix homeowner protects themselves from several suspects trying to break in.
00:28:54.000The Phoenix Police Department released this surveillance video tonight.
00:28:58.000You can see four men kicking in a front door only to be met by gunfire from the homeowner.
00:29:04.000That homeowner says they were alerted by a motion sensor linked to their surveillance cameras and they were able to arm themselves just seconds before their door was kicked in.
00:29:14.000The suspects quickly fled the scene in a gray car before officers arrived.
00:29:19.000I think that guy just said a new 40 time.
00:29:55.000That's the only way so other than that It's either they bleed out or they quit right? So and that's
00:30:01.000something you can't count on it, right?
00:30:02.000We'll touch on the technical myths in the next installment Which I would recommend you click below or just you can go
00:30:08.000through the the playlist where you'll get some people saying this well
00:30:11.000Let's say well 20 more people are killed by Well, that's true, but if someone is killed, or, it could be true.
00:30:17.000In other words, it can be just as lethal, but if you die four hours later in the emergency room, something you may not, like, you can get a lot of rapin' done.
00:30:26.000Especially if you're wearing your old lucky raping slacks.
00:30:29.000In those four hours time so it's about that like you're saying that central nervous system shock incapacitating trauma and usually that's either actual neurological damage or immediate blood loss as opposed to something lethal because you can get pierced through a lung and still go on for a while absolutely And aside from rape, they can be holding a gun, squeezing the trigger at you.
00:30:56.000I'd rather be shot than face old rapey McRaperson's lucky rapin' slacks.
00:31:01.000I mean, I tell you what, I have heard stories and I don't want to take part.
00:31:05.000But that'll bring us actually to the next installment, the Technical Myths.
00:31:08.000So hopefully this has helped inform you, enlighten you.
00:31:11.000If you like it, click the like button, subscribe, comment below which myth you run into the most and where you've heard it.
00:31:18.000Because we've been through this, this is kind of remedial.
00:31:19.000We've done these as different videos in the past, but we wanted to compile them as a reference piece and always make the references available to you so that you can dive in a little bit deeper.
00:31:28.000And I highly recommend looking into that study regarding, you know, you being more likely to have your firearm used against you.