Unify Action - July 16, 2026


She DOESN'T Think Guns Are A Right - But She Still Wants One

Topics
crime policies in Canada
Hosted by
Sarah Dotzert
Mentioned
Guiana
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Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

193.37

Word count

1,353

Sentence count

77

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

13

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Hate speech

1

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In this episode, we discuss whether or not everyone should be allowed to own a gun. We discuss the pros and cons of gun ownership, mental illness, and gun control. We also discuss gun control in general and why we should or shouldn t have access to guns.

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00:00:00.000 In my country, French Guiana, we don't have guns legally,
00:00:03.240 but where I live, there's a lot of guns and a lot of violence.
00:00:06.940 Even in my country, it's dangerous to walk alone at night.
00:00:09.700 I think I will be safer if I had a gun.
00:00:13.600 I think self-defense is a right.
00:00:15.380 Yes.
00:00:16.260 So I think people should be able to defend themselves with a gun
00:00:19.100 or with anything that is sufficient to defend themselves.
00:00:23.800 So we see a lot of gun violence in not just the United States,
00:00:26.340 but in Canada as well.
00:00:27.280 the best thing to defend yourself against someone with a gun,
00:00:31.040 coming at you with a gun, is to have a gun yourself.
00:00:32.960 Yes, I understand.
00:00:34.500 But do you think everyone should be able to have a gun?
00:00:40.540 If someone is mentally ill, then I would say no,
00:00:44.280 because there is a high likelihood of them actually using that gun for harm.
00:00:48.420 So I think, yes, they have the right to have that gun,
00:00:51.940 but that right should be withheld from them
00:00:53.520 because they could potentially misuse that right.
00:00:57.280 and then remove someone else's right to life.
00:01:01.640 Yeah.
00:01:01.920 Right?
00:01:02.320 So that's my thinking on it.
00:01:05.540 But, yeah, that's where I stand.
00:01:07.000 Okay, I understand it, but for me, violence and gender, 0.62
00:01:10.860 I don't know if it's an English word, but more violence.
00:01:14.400 And I think the solution is not giving a gun to everyone
00:01:17.600 because I don't know if, imagine a husband is mad against his wife
00:01:24.620 and he goes crazy. 0.99
00:01:27.280 And just to shoot her because you have the opportunity to, you know? 1.00
00:01:31.480 Right. 1.00
00:01:32.160 Well, someone like that, I would say that that is a mental illness 0.98
00:01:36.640 to have that sort of that lack of control over yourself. 0.58
00:01:39.480 So that person really shouldn't have that firearm.
00:01:42.220 Like in Canada, we have a very, very strict system
00:01:46.520 of how people are allowed to have firearms to buy them in the beginning, right?
00:01:50.240 Not like the U.S.?
00:01:51.240 Well, the U.S. has, they have some regulations,
00:01:55.140 like you should be able to like be licensed to own it and different things like most of the gun
00:01:59.060 violence down there is actually from illegal gun owners but that's the same in Canada as well but
00:02:03.340 our system is much more strict so because I have I'm licensed to have a firearm but I don't but I
00:02:09.660 have the license to do it because I have that license the government checks me every day I get
00:02:13.940 a background check every single day to see okay did I do a misdemeanor did I steal something was I
00:02:19.380 like anything right and if they see that i have the possibility of like committing a crime or if
00:02:25.400 i'm like being violent or something like that they will actually come and confiscate my license but
00:02:29.280 also my firearms if i have any right so that's how things happen in canada it's a very safe system
00:02:34.060 and that's why 98 of the gun violence that happens in canada it is actually done by people who aren't
00:02:41.960 licensed to have firearms right so it makes sense so the other two percent is due to mental illness
00:02:46.660 which we could mitigate even less but i think we should work on them 98 first right and that is
00:02:51.840 illegal firearms that are coming from the state coming from other countries and people are buying
00:02:56.640 them illegally and holding them and they shouldn't yes right and they're getting the ammunition
00:03:00.240 illegally as well because they can't buy without you know the license right so in canada it's a
00:03:06.060 very safe system uh for people who legally own firearms but the government's when the government
00:03:11.000 passes a law to take away a certain firearm or to ban all firearms they don't ban them from the
00:03:16.420 criminals because the criminals are already criminals right so if you if you pass a law
00:03:21.160 and saying okay no one's allowed to have an AR-15 or any sort of assault rifle you're taking those
00:03:27.580 guns from people who already lawfully have them who we know already are the safest people because
00:03:33.280 we give them background checks already every day right so when you pass a law like that you're only
00:03:38.660 only going to affect the people who aren't going to do any crime with it anyway yeah that's true
00:03:42.580 And you're not going to do anything to anyone who's already breaking a law
00:03:47.740 by having a firearm that they shouldn't.
00:03:49.600 I understand your point.
00:03:51.300 Just in my country, gun rights, we don't have guns legally.
00:03:56.260 But where I live, in French Guyana, there's a lot of guns everywhere
00:04:00.340 and a lot of violence with it too.
00:04:03.400 And I just think that, yes, you have the right to defend yourself
00:04:07.460 because even in my country, it's dangerous to walk alone at night.
00:04:11.180 And I think I will be safer if I had a gun, but first of all, I don't know how to use it. 0.99
00:04:18.720 And, yeah, I think everyone, even without mental illness, can get crazy and do stupid stuff, you know. 0.52
00:04:26.140 And even for the children, like, if you have a gun not locked and the children have access to it, I think it's really dangerous. 0.98
00:04:34.320 Yes. Well, actually, that's illegal in Canada to have a gun that is not disabled in some way, just lying around. It's illegal. Right. So you shouldn't have that out there anyway. And we have such strict education and licensing systems so that you can't get the firearm without being licensed to like you have to go through the training. Right. So that's the way that's kind of what happens in the States, too, like to some extent. But you still have to be like a lawful citizen and everything.
00:05:02.720 I think their system maybe is a little worse, but ours, again, is very safe.
00:05:09.080 And the reason that our streets are, we've been banning a lot of guns in Canada,
00:05:13.880 and it's not helping at all with the violence, right?
00:05:16.440 It makes sense, like, criminals are already breaking laws, right?
00:05:18.980 Yeah, I understand.
00:05:19.480 And our violence is just getting worse and worse, and people are like...
00:05:25.360 So, our streets are just getting unsafe, and a lot of it is due to drugs,
00:05:30.020 A lot of it is through the gangs, but we're also, we're not actually enforcing our laws.
00:05:34.300 When someone breaks the law, they can get out on bail really quickly.
00:05:37.200 Yes, yes, that's true.
00:05:38.320 There was this incident in Vancouver all the way across Canada, and a woman was out on the beach.
00:05:43.460 She was doing nothing. 0.94
00:05:44.140 She was with her family, and someone who was mentally ill, he comes along. 0.82
00:05:49.180 He shouldn't have been out. 0.92
00:05:50.360 He was already a criminal.
00:05:52.340 He shouldn't have been there.
00:05:52.920 There's a lot of things like that. 0.97
00:05:53.720 Yeah, and he goes and whacks her across the head with a baseball bat. 0.93
00:05:58.080 Yeah.
00:05:58.300 And that, her aggressor, she did nothing, they didn't know him.
00:06:02.660 Yeah.
00:06:03.100 But her aggressor is already out on bail.
00:06:05.380 Yeah, no, that's not normal.
00:06:06.960 That's not good.
00:06:07.780 No, no.
00:06:08.020 It's not justice.
00:06:08.940 Yeah, no, I totally agree.
00:06:09.640 Right?
00:06:10.100 So, that's the thing that's happening, and it's very soft on crime policies.
00:06:15.280 Yes.
00:06:15.640 And it shouldn't be the case.
00:06:16.900 That's why crime is getting worse in Canada.
00:06:18.240 So, I think there would be a lot less violence, a lot less crime, if we actually enforce the laws that are in place.
00:06:23.740 And right now, the government is not doing that.
00:06:26.200 They're going after law-abiding gun owners.
00:06:28.300 who aren't committing the crime well thank you for sharing your opinion uh i still don't agree
00:06:34.000 with you because i don't trust people with a gun but i understand your point and i think uh it's
00:06:39.620 it's right i mean you're right but i don't think it will be great at the large larger scale you
00:06:45.920 know okay yeah well i mean you look at texas and everyone's got like everyone has a gun but they
00:06:53.800 don't have the highest crime yeah I think it's a risk yeah are you