She DOESN'T Think Guns Are A Right - But She Still Wants One
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Summary
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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In my country, French Guiana, we don't have guns legally,
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but where I live, there's a lot of guns and a lot of violence.
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Even in my country, it's dangerous to walk alone at night.
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So I think people should be able to defend themselves with a gun
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or with anything that is sufficient to defend themselves.
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So we see a lot of gun violence in not just the United States,
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the best thing to defend yourself against someone with a gun,
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coming at you with a gun, is to have a gun yourself.
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But do you think everyone should be able to have a gun?
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If someone is mentally ill, then I would say no,
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because there is a high likelihood of them actually using that gun for harm.
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So I think, yes, they have the right to have that gun,
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because they could potentially misuse that right.
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Okay, I understand it, but for me, violence and gender,
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I don't know if it's an English word, but more violence.
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And I think the solution is not giving a gun to everyone
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because I don't know if, imagine a husband is mad against his wife
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And just to shoot her because you have the opportunity to, you know?
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Well, someone like that, I would say that that is a mental illness
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to have that sort of that lack of control over yourself.
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So that person really shouldn't have that firearm.
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Like in Canada, we have a very, very strict system
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of how people are allowed to have firearms to buy them in the beginning, right?
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Well, the U.S. has, they have some regulations,
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like you should be able to like be licensed to own it and different things like most of the gun
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violence down there is actually from illegal gun owners but that's the same in Canada as well but
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our system is much more strict so because I have I'm licensed to have a firearm but I don't but I
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have the license to do it because I have that license the government checks me every day I get
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a background check every single day to see okay did I do a misdemeanor did I steal something was I
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like anything right and if they see that i have the possibility of like committing a crime or if
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i'm like being violent or something like that they will actually come and confiscate my license but
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also my firearms if i have any right so that's how things happen in canada it's a very safe system
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and that's why 98 of the gun violence that happens in canada it is actually done by people who aren't
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licensed to have firearms right so it makes sense so the other two percent is due to mental illness
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which we could mitigate even less but i think we should work on them 98 first right and that is
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illegal firearms that are coming from the state coming from other countries and people are buying
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them illegally and holding them and they shouldn't yes right and they're getting the ammunition
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illegally as well because they can't buy without you know the license right so in canada it's a
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very safe system uh for people who legally own firearms but the government's when the government
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passes a law to take away a certain firearm or to ban all firearms they don't ban them from the
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criminals because the criminals are already criminals right so if you if you pass a law
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and saying okay no one's allowed to have an AR-15 or any sort of assault rifle you're taking those
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guns from people who already lawfully have them who we know already are the safest people because
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we give them background checks already every day right so when you pass a law like that you're only
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only going to affect the people who aren't going to do any crime with it anyway yeah that's true
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And you're not going to do anything to anyone who's already breaking a law
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Just in my country, gun rights, we don't have guns legally.
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But where I live, in French Guyana, there's a lot of guns everywhere
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And I just think that, yes, you have the right to defend yourself
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because even in my country, it's dangerous to walk alone at night.
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And I think I will be safer if I had a gun, but first of all, I don't know how to use it.
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And, yeah, I think everyone, even without mental illness, can get crazy and do stupid stuff, you know.
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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.
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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.
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I think their system maybe is a little worse, but ours, again, is very safe.
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And the reason that our streets are, we've been banning a lot of guns in Canada,
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and it's not helping at all with the violence, right?
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It makes sense, like, criminals are already breaking laws, right?
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And our violence is just getting worse and worse, and people are like...
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So, our streets are just getting unsafe, and a lot of it is due to drugs,
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A lot of it is through the gangs, but we're also, we're not actually enforcing our laws.
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When someone breaks the law, they can get out on bail really quickly.
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There was this incident in Vancouver all the way across Canada, and a woman was out on the beach.
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She was with her family, and someone who was mentally ill, he comes along.
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Yeah, and he goes and whacks her across the head with a baseball bat.
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And that, her aggressor, she did nothing, they didn't know him.
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So, that's the thing that's happening, and it's very soft on crime policies.
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So, I think there would be a lot less violence, a lot less crime, if we actually enforce the laws that are in place.
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And right now, the government is not doing that.
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who aren't committing the crime well thank you for sharing your opinion uh i still don't agree
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with you because i don't trust people with a gun but i understand your point and i think uh it's
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it's right i mean you're right but i don't think it will be great at the large larger scale you
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know okay yeah well i mean you look at texas and everyone's got like everyone has a gun but they
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don't have the highest crime yeah I think it's a risk yeah are you