Valuetainment - July 15, 2022


The TRUTH About Gun Control - Will It Really Stop Mass Shootings？


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18 minutes

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189.35378

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3,524

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217

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So the president just signed a bipartisan Safer Community Act in reaction to the events,
00:00:04.180 the tragic events that took place in Uvalde. But the interesting thing is when you break down the
00:00:08.600 act, we'll get into it, none of it would have prevented the shooter from doing what he did
00:00:13.900 in Uvalde. So why are we thinking like we finally solved the solution? So I said, listen, team,
00:00:19.560 let's come up with some data because people lie, numbers don't. Let's look at the data. Let's look
00:00:24.020 at some stats. Will we find one stat that will say, here's what will tell us a big part of the
00:00:30.340 story? Because some of the stuff they can do, maybe it would have prevented 1% of mass shooting,
00:00:35.020 maybe 3%, maybe 5%. But we're looking at what could have prevented 90% of the mass shooting.
00:00:41.000 So here's what we're going to look at. Timeline of gun control in the U.S. What the average American
00:00:45.780 gun owner looks like, highest gun owning state, lowest gun owning state, number of guns purchased
00:00:51.360 last your gun ownership by firearm type, what solutions work and what solutions don't. So
00:00:56.400 let's get right into it.
00:01:07.260 So let's take a look at what the average American gun owner looks like. In America, we have the most
00:01:11.560 guns per capita, roughly 400 million guns we own, which is like 120 and a half per hundred. But here's
00:01:18.240 what it looks like. 74% of the time, it's a male. 82% white. 31% married. 40% have children. 44% of
00:01:27.060 them live in the South. 30% of the time, they're between 50 to 64 years old. Lives in a suburban
00:01:32.620 area, 45% of the time. 28% of them have a college degree. 48% of them are politically independent.
00:01:39.020 51% of them are Republican. 48% own guns for protection. 32% own it for hunting. 79% believe
00:01:46.600 owning a gun makes them safer. And 79% of them are in favor of background checks for private
00:01:53.260 and gun show sales. So now that we know the proponents of gun control and the opponents
00:01:57.780 of gun control and we know the profile of what a gun owner looks like, let's see the timeline
00:02:02.100 of gun control in America. 1791, the Bill of Rights, including the Second Amendment, gains
00:02:07.220 final ratification. The Second Amendment reads, a well-regulated militia being necessary to the
00:02:12.120 security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be
00:02:16.160 infringed. 1837, Georgia passes a law banning handguns. The law is ruled unconstitutional
00:02:21.680 by the Supreme Court and is thrown out. 1865, in a reaction to emancipation, several southern
00:02:27.960 states adopt black codes, which among other things forbid black persons from possessing
00:02:32.780 firearms. 1871, the NRA is organized around its primary goal of improving American civilians'
00:02:38.200 marksmanship in preparation for war. 1934, the National Firearms Act of 1934 regulating
00:02:44.900 the manufacture, sale, and possession of fully automatic firearms like submachine guns is
00:02:49.420 approved by Congress. 1938, the Federal Firearms Act of 1938 places the first limitation on selling
00:02:55.440 ordinary firearms. Persons selling guns are required to obtain a firearms license at an annual
00:03:00.640 cost of a dollar and to maintain records of the name and address of persons to whom firearms
00:03:05.560 are sold. Gun sales to persons convicted of felonies were prohibited.
00:03:09.360 1968, the Gun Control Act of 1968 is enacted for the purpose of keeping firearms out of the
00:03:14.860 hands of those not guilty entitled to possess them because of age, criminal background, or
00:03:19.560 incompetence. 1972, ATF is created, listing as part of its mission the control of illegal
00:03:25.220 use and sale of firearms and the enforcement of federal firearm laws. The ATF issues firearm license
00:03:30.420 and conducts firearms license qualifications and compliance inspections. 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court
00:03:35.920 in the case of Prince v. United States declares the background check requirement of the Brady Handgun
00:03:41.000 Violence Prevention Act unconstitutional. Florida Supreme Court upholds the jury's $11.5 million
00:03:47.240 verdict against Kmart for selling a gun to an intoxicated man who used the gun to shoot his
00:03:52.580 estranged girlfriend. November 12, 1998, Chicago files a $433 million suit against local gun dealers
00:03:58.740 and makers alleging that oversupply in local markets provided guns to criminals.
00:04:04.240 April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School near Denver, student Eric Harrison, Dylan Klebold,
00:04:09.740 shoot and kill 12 other students and a teacher and wound 24 others before killing themselves.
00:04:14.820 The attack renews debate on the need for more restrictive gun control. May 20, 1999, exactly
00:04:21.500 a month later, by a 51-50 vote with a tiebreaker vote cast by Vice President Al Gore, the U.S. Senate
00:04:27.740 passes a bill requiring trigger locks on all newly manufactured handguns and extending waiting period
00:04:34.440 and background check requirement to sales of firearms at gun shows. February 2010, a federal law
00:04:40.020 signed by President Barack Obama took effect allowing licensed gun owners to bring firearms
00:04:44.960 into national parks and wildlife refuges as long as they are allowed by state law. June 12, 2016, President
00:04:50.740 Obama again calls on Congress to enact or renew a law prohibiting the sale and possession of assault
00:04:55.920 type weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines after a man identified as Omar Mateen kills 49
00:05:01.920 people in Orlando, Florida gay nightclub on June 12 using an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and a call to
00:05:07.920 911 he made during the attack. Mateen told the police he had pledged his allegiance to the radical Islamic
00:05:14.000 terrorist group ISIS. October 1, 2017, barely over a year after the Orlando shooting, a man identified as
00:05:20.480 Steven Craig Paddock opens fire on an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas shooting from the 32nd floor of the
00:05:26.080 Mandalay Bay Hotel. Paddock kills at least 59 people and wounds more than 500 others. August 12, 2019,
00:05:33.040 President Trump voiced his support for the red flag gun confiscation laws. We must make sure that those
00:05:38.560 judged to pose a grave risk to public safety do not have access to firearms and that if they do those
00:05:43.760 firearms can be taken through rapid due process, he said. So Barack Obama is saying you ought to have
00:05:49.440 permission to take guns and wildlife and Trump is saying due to red flag laws we should confiscate?
00:05:54.160 Shouldn't it be the other way around? It's kind of interesting, right? How you're going through this
00:05:57.120 reading history, you're realizing maybe both sides can reason if they're willing to get into a room
00:06:03.200 and talk. So now, let's look at what states have the most gun owners. I'll give you top five on each side.
00:06:09.200 On the least gun owners, number one is Jersey, 14.7%, then it's Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
00:06:16.160 Hawaii, New York. Matter of fact, I'll give you five more. Connecticut, Illinois, California,
00:06:19.440 Maryland, Delaware is in the top 10 least gun owning states with Florida being at number 11.
00:06:26.400 And the most gun ownership in America, number one is Montana, then it's Wyoming, Alaska, Idaho,
00:06:31.360 West Virginia at the fifth spot. So listen, either these stats are going to get you to say I want to
00:06:35.040 move to Montana, maybe Wyoming, maybe I'll go to Florida number 11, or you're going to say,
00:06:38.400 oh, I don't want to be in a place where people own guns. Maybe go to California, maybe go to New
00:06:42.560 York, maybe go to Hawaii, maybe go to Jersey, number one, compete for the least amount of
00:06:46.160 people owning guns, but the choice is yours depending on which side you lean. However,
00:06:49.600 here's some stats. With all the talks about gun control coming up, 2020 was the record-breaking
00:06:55.440 year for the most background checks ever done in the history of America, and 2021 was the second
00:07:00.480 highest year in the most background checks ever done in America. So a lot of these stats may be just
00:07:06.320 stats I've been giving you, but this next stat could be the one that's going to get you thinking.
00:07:09.760 When I watched the movie Moneyball, with the story of Brad Pitt, that he's playing the story of Billy
00:07:14.960 Bean, I brought Billy Bean to three events. Because the way they broke down what the most important
00:07:20.160 stat in baseball was, was on-base percentage. Not home runs, not hits, not doubles, not triples,
00:07:25.360 not pitching, on-base percentage, and they built this team that broke the record. They won 21 games in a
00:07:30.800 row. Nobody could believe Oakland's smallest budget in the MLB was beating the Yankees. So,
00:07:37.040 you ready for the stat? Here's what it looks like. According to the Crime Prevention Research Center,
00:07:42.720 gun-free zones, areas where guns are prohibited, have been the target of 94% of all mass shootings.
00:07:52.880 Let me say this one more time. Areas where guns are prohibited, 94% of all mass shootings have been
00:08:01.280 in those areas. Which means only 6% have been in areas that are not prohibited. Where somebody can
00:08:08.240 have a license to carry, the criminals don't want to go shooting there because they know somebody has
00:08:12.000 a gun. But in areas where people don't have guns, they're like, I'm going to feel more confident,
00:08:15.840 go to this area. 94%. The staggering number is why such designated areas are referred to as soft
00:08:23.120 targets, meaning unprotected and vulnerable. 94% of shootings that happen in a gun-free zone,
00:08:29.120 could that 94% change if those areas became an area where people can have a license to carry?
00:08:35.120 Would the criminal and the shooter say, I'm going to be thinking twice before I go into this movie
00:08:39.680 theater or this church or school because somebody may be carrying, I'm not going to mess around.
00:08:43.520 Maybe, maybe not. I think the answer is yes. And by the way, do you hear when they say mass shooting?
00:08:48.560 Mass shooting. 293 mass shooting in 2022 as of June 28th. And we're like, oh my gosh, so many mass
00:08:55.360 shootings. What's going on here? I don't remember the numbers being this big. Well, they don't tell
00:08:59.200 you the definition. Mass shooting is when four or more people got shot in one incident, but nobody died.
00:09:05.600 Died. A mass murder is when four or more people died in a shooting. Okay? So which number
00:09:13.440 is more scary? 293? Or the number for mass murder in 2022 as of June 28th is 14. Now, 14 is a big
00:09:22.720 number, period. One is too many numbers that we have, but one scares people. 14 doesn't scare you.
00:09:28.320 If we say 293, you're like, that's so many of them. But 14, that's not marketing when they talk about
00:09:33.040 numbers, right? Having said that, let's take a look at what's in this bipartisan Safer Community Act.
00:09:37.760 So here's what's in the bill. Number one, $750 million to help states implement and run crisis
00:09:42.960 intervention programs. This money can be used to implement and manage red flag programs,
00:09:47.200 which are aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of those who pose a threat to themselves or others.
00:09:52.000 Number two, this legislation closes a years old loophole in domestic violence law that barred
00:09:57.440 individuals who had been convicted of domestic violence crimes against spouses or partners with
00:10:02.400 whom they share children or cohabitated with from having guns. All statues didn't include intimate
00:10:09.600 partners who may not live together, be married or share children. The new bill would bar anyone who
00:10:14.320 is convicted of a domestic violence crime against someone they have a continuing serious relationship
00:10:19.440 of a romantic or intimate nature with from having a gun. Number three, requires more gun sellers to
00:10:26.320 register as federally licensed firearm dealers. Number four, more thorough reviews of people ages
00:10:32.160 18 to 21 who want to buy guns. The bill encourages states to include juvenile records in the National
00:10:37.760 Instant Crime Background Check system with grants as well as implement a new protocol for checking
00:10:42.640 those records. Number five, creates new federal statutes against gun trafficking and straw trafficking.
00:10:49.840 The legislation makes it easier to go after those who are buying guns for individuals who are not
00:10:54.720 allowed to purchase weapons on their own. And last but not least, number six, increases funding for mental
00:10:59.680 health programs and school security. The money is directed to a series of programs, many of which
00:11:04.080 already exist but would be funded more robustly under the new law. So which one of these six would have
00:11:09.760 prevented Duvalde from happening? $750 million to implement and run intervention programs? No.
00:11:15.840 Closing the so-called boyfriend? No. Requires more gun sellers? No. Number five, more thorough reviews of
00:11:21.040 those ages 18 to 21. Juvenile record? I don't think he had it. Number five, creates new federal statutes against gun
00:11:27.280 trafficking? Nope. Increases funding for mental health? How? Maybe not. So again, these are good,
00:11:34.080 it's some progress, but would it have prevented many of these mass murders from happening? So look,
00:11:40.080 at this point you can say you're Ford, you're not Ford, but let me give you an idea of what markers
00:11:43.680 we're really dealing with when it comes down to gun control. One is age, two is type of weapon, three is
00:11:48.720 training, four is background checks, five is medical history, what kind of prescription you're taking, six is
00:11:54.080 amount of ammunition you can walk away with, type of ammunition you can get, your upbringing and
00:11:58.960 socioeconomic status, meaning were you raised with a father, parents together, married, all that stuff.
00:12:03.920 Next one is police training, because Duvalde could have been prevented due to what the cops would have
00:12:08.880 done that was on them a little bit on what they did. And last but not least, length of time it takes to
00:12:13.200 walk away and take ownership of your weapon. So let's go through these 18 to 21. I think I'm good with 18,
00:12:19.440 I'm good with 21, that's something that we can hash it out and debate. Next one, type of weapon,
00:12:24.320 semi-automatic weapon, you got, you know, M16s, you got rifles, you got guns. If you were to actually
00:12:31.600 break down what percentage of the shootings were done by semi-automatic weapons or rifles,
00:12:36.560 the number one weapon that they use when they're doing any kind of shooting is a basic pistol that
00:12:41.760 they use, okay? We got three more left, one of them is police training, those police who didn't go in
00:12:46.640 to do their jobs and their captain was telling them not to go in, the captain should be fired,
00:12:51.200 or the people that didn't go in, there should be some kind of accountability to be in there. I'm not
00:12:54.400 talking about prison time, but either this is not a job for you, because I remember when we're in the
00:12:59.200 military, there was an exercise we did where we had to low crawl and we're going through and they're
00:13:03.440 shooting, it's late at night and it's scary, some guys couldn't handle it, they stood up. That's a
00:13:07.840 perfect opportunity to tell these guys, military's not for you, go home. Some people are cops,
00:13:13.440 shouldn't be cops. Some people are teachers, shouldn't be teachers. There's many opportunities
00:13:18.320 when you notice, you're just not meant to be a teacher. You don't have the patience for kids.
00:13:22.320 You need to go find a different job. You're not meant to be a cop. You can't handle this kind
00:13:25.920 of pressure. Go to a different job. Now, next item. How long before I take the gun with me?
00:13:31.600 Now, think about this here. Tell me any reason why a person ought to be able to go to a store,
00:13:38.720 buy a gun who's never owned a gun before, and walk out 5, 10, 15, 20 minutes later. Give me
00:13:43.760 any reason that we're going to need it, minus there's a war taking place and the government
00:13:47.920 wants us to be armed. Let's just say if that's the case, don't you think the government would
00:13:52.080 announce and say, effective today, men can go get guns and all that. Let's just say that ugly
00:13:56.720 situation takes place. Aside from that, why does a person need to get the gun right now and go use it?
00:14:02.000 Can you wait a week? Have you ever been upset at somebody and a week later you got over it? Have you ever
00:14:07.120 gone to an ugly argument with an ex of yours, and a day, two days, three weeks later, a week later,
00:14:11.920 you were over it? So if you can wait a week to get calm after deciding to do something bad,
00:14:17.680 maybe we give it a week before you can walk away with your gun. What's wrong with that? Maybe we
00:14:21.040 make it two weeks. So that's a discussion that can be had. But you know which one I think matters
00:14:25.120 the most? The last one here. Here's what it is. Socioeconomic status, father figure in your life.
00:14:30.880 The more stability, the better the economy is, the more money people make,
00:14:34.080 the less situations to want to be desperate to do something bad. Keeping the family nucleus together
00:14:41.760 is important. We keep not giving enough credence to this. This matters. When I'm at home and my kids
00:14:49.040 are running around doing what they're doing, my mother-in-law can say whatever she wants to say.
00:14:53.600 My nanny, my wife can say whatever they say. And then when I come in, things change very quickly.
00:14:59.280 Fathers have a certain influence over their kids that maybe mothers don't have, especially when it comes
00:15:03.760 down to boys. We need to go back to recognizing the right values and principles. Maybe some of the
00:15:12.560 values and principles we learn from our grandparents, maybe they're right. Maybe we need to go talk about
00:15:18.320 some of that stuff. Maybe we need to say, hey, whatever denomination you are, whatever church you
00:15:22.800 are, whatever faith you are, practice it. Take your kids to church. Take them to, maybe your school is a
00:15:27.680 public school, and you're not necessarily able to put your kids in an environment to learn some
00:15:32.800 conservative values. I don't care if you're a Christian, Catholic, seven day, whatever you
00:15:40.000 practice, actually put your kids in those types of environments. Because many instances in those
00:15:45.120 environments, somebody can come across and play the role of a father figure to challenge, uplift,
00:15:50.320 to say there's hope. Good things can happen in life as well. I think that plays a very, very important role.
00:15:54.800 So while we were editing this video, two other tragic events took place having to do with gun
00:16:05.440 violence. One of them was in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago. The other one was in Japan. The one in
00:16:10.640 Chicago was by a Robert E. Cremo, who decided to open fire at a 4th of July parade in Highland Park.
00:16:20.080 Seven people died. Thirty-eight people were wounded. The rifle was legally purchased. And Robert Cremo,
00:16:25.520 check this out, had been visited by the police on two separate occasions in 2019, after he threatened
00:16:32.400 to kill everyone, and nothing happened. Okay. And keep this in mind, this happened in Chicago,
00:16:37.760 which has some of the strictest gun laws. And on top of that, the strictest gun laws also has the most
00:16:42.960 homicides in America. Chicago is number one. Second place is not even close. So it happened in that city,
00:16:49.120 with the strictest gun laws. And the other tragic event was in Japan. The former prime minister,
00:16:55.280 Shinzo Abe, was shot and killed during a campaign event on July 8th. The attack has completely shocked
00:17:02.400 the country where gun violence is virtually non-existent. Handguns are banned in the country,
00:17:07.120 and people must undergo extensive tests, training, and background checks to obtain and keep shotguns and
00:17:13.840 air rifles. And you're ready for the craziest part of the story? The shooter got the weapon,
00:17:21.520 not from a store, not illegally in the streets. It was a crude homemade. He made it. The shotgun he used
00:17:31.360 to kill the former prime minister, which has never happened. I mean, it's an event that Japan is not
00:17:35.920 accustomed to something like this. It'll be interesting to see how they come up with new policies. And just
00:17:40.240 think about you're the next prime minister running. You're on stage campaigning. And what are you
00:17:44.320 thinking about? You could be the next person. It can really mess with emotions. So again, these are
00:17:48.800 two separate events in two different locations, in two different countries, where different gun laws
00:17:53.680 are, but the results are both tragic. Anyways, having said that, I want to hear your thoughts. What do you
00:18:00.560 think is the solution? If you're going to comment below with your emotions, do it. Totally fine. I disagree.
00:18:05.840 I do this. I'm totally fine with that. But what I'm more interested in is, Pat, you missed this one
00:18:11.200 area. What if we did this? I am only looking for solutions from reasonable people. If you got them,
00:18:18.080 comment below. Having said that, if you want today's notes in a PDF, click over here to get the PDF. And
00:18:23.360 if you want to watch another interview in regards to this topic I did with Colin Noir, click here to
00:18:29.200 watch that interview. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye.