Just ask yourself this: Do your values support the life and wellbeing of other people? Specifically, those outside your immediate circle. If not, you need to rethink your values.
I'm from Chicago and the gun violence problem isn't just here, it's also in Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Kansas City, Oakland, Philadelphia, Birmingham, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, etc. Who controls these towns? It isn't the GOP.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer argues that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenseless - reasons fall on deaf ears
I agree. A person like Trump for example is no surprise to me. Selfish, narcissists exist. What surprises me is that anyone believes a word that comes out of his mouth. Trump isn't a problem. He's one man. He's rather meaningless. Or at least he should have been. But add stupid people to the mix and suddenly he's President.
That's why they've been so obsessed with abortions and contraceptives. If we slow down the rate of overpopulation, people won't be as desensitized to mass deaths.
As an Australian all the points Brian makes about gun control, availability of mental health care and income inequality seem so obvious. Why are they so controversial to Americans? Sorry to have to tell you, but America really isn't the shining city on the hill.
I'm an American who lived 2 years near Amsterdam, and now I'm living 5yrs near Wellington, New Zealand, and...yeah, what a shocking difference. The richest nation in the world can't "afford" the healthcare that tiny NZ can. Of course, that is b/c those who oppose it do so b/c Euro-style government healthcare is the beginning of the slippery slope to COMMUNISM!! B/c, you know, boot straps and gumption and stuff... 😕
They are obvious, and we know. The problem is that there are factions within the US that have figured out that sowing chaos and death is a great way to distract us while they enrich themselves.
The last significant mass murder in Canada was in December 1989. Canada's last (and only?) political assassination was in the 19th century (maybe another one in 1970 though). Canada isn't Number 1 it seems, and we're happy for that.....in this case.....
It _is_ values. And it appears that American lawmakers value the political contributions from the weapons industry over the lives of their constituents.
Brian, I could listen to your painfully honest logic all day. But I have a job that interferes with everything! It's a horrible thing. Thank you for being here and sharing your knowledge!
It's creepy isn't it? It's as if there's some AI Overlord of Gunmetal shepherding them into comment sections so they can be pedantic and irrelevant. It might even be a lesser gawd ... maybe there's a schism forming in the Tribal WarGod of Abraham's religion.
Imagine watching this video and feeling the main point that needs to be argued is whether or not guns were accurately described. Some folks are bad at listening.
I'd personally like to thank Dennis for continuing to give Brian quality material for discussion. Thanks also go to the "tribal god of Abraham". I love Brian Dalton :D
There's a scene in the Darabont directed Stephen King's The Mist, just before the protagonists flee the supermarket, that brings the American government to mind these days. Far more concern being shown for a mythical, all-powerful being's feelings than the actual welfare and wellbeing of the people.
Imagine having actual standards and values being a prerequisite to run for the Senate, the House of Representatives, and presidency. There are NO national security background clearance checks for the people who run for office. I've been pushing my elected officials to have Biden sign an E.O. making it mandatory for all candidates to pass a miilutaey level national security clearance background check similar to the DOD 5200.2-r standard. If everyone that works for or is enlisted to the Govt and military have to pass this to see even low clearance information why shouldn't the people supposedly running our nation
@@darrennew8211 yeah IKR ok Biden isn't Ideal but at least he has had a national security background clearance check when he was on certain committees, Trump couldn't pass one in a million years, Russian prostitution/gambling ring on the floor beneath his in Trump tower, his trips to meet with hostile foreign leaders before he was president, his wife is the daughter of a former USSR high level KGB for Slovakia, his walking in on underage girls at the beauty pageant, his relationship with multiple mobsters, his money laundering conviction, 4 or 5 Bankruptcies, suspicious transactions with Deutsche Bank and the Bank of China.. I have a list that filled up almost two whole composition book pages and that was before the 2020 elections 🤦 why the hell would anyone want him to have access to top secret and above nations secrets?!
It's almost like if you believe in an infinite afterlife that life on Earth is cheap, except for the undeveloped, unborn that is. I suppose that's because death cults need to be populated sufficiently to be able to exert their control over others.
You rightly point out that nearly all European nations are light years away from the US in the metric of valuing their citizens. This is nothing new for most of the population of the failed state that is in question. I would like to remind us all that it's actually so much worse than that as most nations of the entire world, not only Europe are treating their populace as though they are valued. I live in Thailand, and although it has been ruled by a military dictator for 6 years now, it's people still enjoy all the same benefits that you mentioned the Europeans do. Just let that sink in.. people in military dictatorships are better off than the people in the US..
Maybe lying for Jesus, on a daily basis, has negative mental health consequences. I, for one, have difficulty comprehending the mental gymnastics necessary to accept unsubstantiated beliefs as a valid substitute for substantiated facts. The idea of asserting that something is true, when I don't even know that it's true myself, seems wrong to me. Indeed, I cannot expect others to accept a claim that I might make, if that claim cannot be supported by creditworthy evidence.
Sorry to disappoint you Mr. Deity but Canada does cut budgets in healthcare. Like in the US many things are left up to the provinces. In Ontario at least, in the public sector, budgets are slashed, slaries capped by the same government that promotes private "Healthcare Facilities" (can call the "Hospitals" cuse that's been illegal since the 70s).
Also, this government just got re-elected with 66% of the seats despite only getting 40% of the popular vote, in an election where only 43% of the eligible population actually voted. We and our government are determined to make our lives miserable too. 😃 🇨🇦🎆
"...the value the well being of their people." Whoah, chill! It's merely accidental. It turns out that well being is really super good for productivity and the economy. If, for instance, you compare the health care costs and potential tax paying and productivity of children here with children in Uvalde or Newtown, it turns out that dead children don't pay taxes at all, ever, and many of the other children there are far less productive because of trauma. And over here, for some reason a lot less children die at schools and far less of them are traumatized. So we figured that for the sake of productivity we try and decrease the risk of death and trauma in schools to a minimum. This has lead to an increased number of children growing up and studying and getting better jobs and paying taxes and a nice side effect is that the well being also increases. So it's not just that we care about the well being, but that we have reasons to care that are solidly grounded in actual fucking reality. Something that is said to be impossible by the most profound and well respected theological apologists who say they have a solid grounding and admit they have no way of showing how to go about building actual and verifiable morality on that supposed and assumed grounding that has no verifiable evidence to support it. What I'm saying is that it's super useful to not just claim to be a secular country but to actually have a secular government running a secular country and to not lie about where morality comes from; it's just really practical to cooperate and not fuck our social brains up unnecessarily with shit like theism or bigotry or a bullet in a child's head.
I'm with you on the mental health! I would like to add that we need to copy the european way of reforming violent offenders since they commit, according to the DOJ, 88+% of the gun crime.
I saw a Fox News poll which suggested the majority of their viewers would support stricter gun control. It's not so much Republican voters as their representatives who're dancing to the gun lobby's tune.
Sorry Brian. I was right there with you all the way until the end. That's where you went wrong in a big way. Calling Dennis Praeger a human being was an insult to the rest of us. The loathsome bigot has resigned his humanity.
Hey, Brian! I love this video, but I'd like to point out a mistake. At 3:00 you say "Medicare" (FEDERALLY funded for seniors and the disabled), but your news clip says "Medicaid," (STATE funded for low income and disabled). There is a difference, and it's not a small one. Please correct this so everyone is on the same page about what you meant. Thanks. Keep up the good work. (I'm totally sharing this video.)
@@paineoftheworld Hm. I don't know the answer to that. Good question. I do know that you can have one without the other, but you can also have both Medicare and Medicaid at the same time. I always thought state taxes paid for Medicaid, but Medicare was a federal insurance that accompanies Social Security. For example, Medicare could be your primary insurance if you're disabled, but Medicaid would balance your co-pay if you were also low income. ETA: I just looked it up. The federal government does pay a significant portion of funds for Medicaid, but the percentage varies state by state. I stand by the statement that they are two different types of insurance, but you're right that the feds pay the states a large portion for Medicaid allotment. Thanks for asking; I learned something new.
@@sueaside5911 , you're correct that you [cannot] have both at the same time. MECAID is for those that are destitute. Generally speaking, those that can't provide for themselves in any capacity such as physically disabled or those that need supervision and those that live in poverty.
I'm not sure that it is true that people in Canada don't have easy access to guns. Perhaps laws have changed up their in recent times, but I know it used to be that gun ownership rates were rather high. Overall great points made regardless.
It is much more difficult to acquire, store, or transport firearms in Canada. Nevertheless, people with a legitimate desire to hunt or collect can do so. It simply can't be done in the heat of the moment, or by anyone who is seriously fucked up. Most importantly, Canadian culture is very different. Gun fetishes, like masturbation, are viewed as something you probably should keep to yourself. The standard issue, cosplaying, Murkin-style NRA type is generally considered to be an asshole up here.
I line in NZ and I suspect you are right...but a significant part of our society sincerely want to change that. We are seeing erosion of the benefits you list. And oddly and increase in gun crime.
Also it's about polarisation. The US political system is not a system where you can think freely about various topics and choose the party that you find most logical or balanced. No, you have to pick a side because there is nothing besides the two extremes to choose from and you have to stand by it. If you don't you'll likely loose the support of your social circle. Of course the "other" party and everything it stands for is always the oponent which makes it far less likely to aggree on topics. In a good system most core questions should heavily overlap between the parties and only fringe questions should be determined by public opinion through elections. In the US however the day might come when after an election armed civil unrest tears apart the country. On the way to this day the policies are characterised by massive policy changes after elections and extreme political views due to every party wanting to distance their own position as far away from the other as possible.
How is murder defined in these statistics..and how does Chicago fit? There's more shootings in blue states like Illinois...so that is why I'm asking, is it straight up convictions for murder or actually shooting deaths? Red states are actuality more proficient at solving and convicting murder....so a conviction for murder counts as a murder and a unsolved homicide in Chicago doesn't count?
Per capita, dude. It's not per state. It's per state per capita. It's how you get real representative numbers. It's also what you'll tend not to see when people want to feed you propaganda. Let's take an extreme example. Let's say there's 100 people in Missouri and 10,000 in Illinois. That's total. Like I said, it's an example. Then, let's say there's two gun violence deaths in Missouri and 20 in Illinois. Someone who wants to lie to you will tell you that Illinois has 10x the gv deaths as Missouri... and they didn't actually say anything untrue. Someone who wants to provide accurate information will tell you that Illinois has 0.2 gv deaths per 100 people, and Missouri has 2 gv deaths per 100 people. That's actually 1/10th the gun violence on average. Note, these numbers were obviously invented to show how statistics can used correctly and incorrectly, and it's just one example. Statistics can be manipulated to show what you want people to see in multiple ways. And graphs are even easier to manipulate. In my experience, most people who want to manipulate the data shill for the R side. "Red states are actuality more proficient at solving and convicting murder" I don't know if that's true, but the blue states are more populated, which means it's harder to solve crimes for multiple reasons.
I have yet to disagree with any of the PragerFU material. As an atheist (with a sense of humor as well :-P), I have enjoyed Mr Deity's videos of wisdom and wisecracks. On topic, I am supportive of a variety of particular improvements in firearms laws (I'm a gun owner who has done enough research to conclude there are very good historical and legal arguments AGAINST my ownership of my firearms...imagine that! lol) The devil, as they say, is in the details though. You will be hard pressed, if not fail entirely, to find a military that uses what are called, in the media, "assault weapons". Why? Militaries use almost exclusively automatic rifles as the typical soldier's weapon. The weapons used in spectacular mass shootings are semI-automatic. That said, there's little solace to be found in the distinction when it comes to lethality of these events; one death is too many. Let's just end the somewhat hyperbolic "weapons of war" language. The other 800 lb gorilla in the room is the fact that, for every day when there is a horrific shooting with 2, 4, 6, 8, ...18...etc...fatalities, that SAME DAY an average of 120 people, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, die all over the country from, almost exclusively, handguns, and about HALF of those due to SUICIDE. Let that sink in. Mass shootings, like plane crashes, are spectacles, horrific, but spectacles that do not reflect the whole respective "safety/danger" stories. As a good medical diagnostician would do, we need to recognize we have both acute and chronic societal/legal conditions that need addressing. Control access to any firearm, especially by younger individuals, and, critically when someone was already subject of a prior weapons confiscation (The July 4th shooter had a knife and sword collection taken after threats made to family...and NO criminal charges were involved, but rather the situation was treated as "mental health" issue. Something wrong there. eh? First no charges, then no red flag procedure...double system failure). Suicides are a failure of everything surrounding the victim...friends, family, schools, local/state/federal healthcare systems...the victim may have felt there was no one close to them to turn to, willing to be open and supportive (general societal discomfort with mental health issues and treatment), or no one professional to turn to without getting past a variety of barriers (little or no publicly funded treatment, many health insurance plans, if you have one, do not pay for much or any mental health treatment). Let's try to keep an eye on the acute, and the other eye on the chronic. Much needs to be done tomorrow and the next decade. Unfortunately, given the current politics in the US, I'm not hopeful. What with the way campaigns are financed, how the Supreme Court has been stacked and the near complete partisan legislative paralysis, these issues may not be resolved, or even addressed, for a generation. Keep our eyes, ears and minds open, care for those injured in mind or body, fight the selfish-in-power, help your neighbor...we need to be a country, not a slow motion calamity. Let's not hit that iceberg...
" if not fail entirely, to find a military that uses what are called, in the media, "assault weapons". Why?" Because that's what the civilian versions are fucking called. They're not called "assault rifles" because those are military and illegal market. A distinction needs to be made btwn hunting rifles, and swinging dick rambo toys. And there's a reason that these big children don't simply buy hunting rifles that "do the same thing" as AR15s, isn't there. "an average of 120 people, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, die all over the country from, almost exclusively, handguns, and about HALF of those due to SUICIDE. Let that sink in." While it's true that mass shootings kill fewer people, it's also true that letting them continue just so some indifferent assholes can have the toy that they want, regardless of their legal status, is an asinine idea. It's actually about 2/3rds suicide ; but only those indifferent assholes consider those people to be 100% expendable, or at best, "will commit suicide some other way", which is factually untrue. I guess American's lives don't "sink in" for you.
@@InigoMontoya- So you are the comedy writer for AlmightyGod’s skits! Bravo. Which of the 5 different Abram (hams) did what, when, where and why in your rabbit hole/ doghouse? Ignorance is no crime, unless willful. Laugh.
You're being pedantic, Brandon. Many handguns and rifles available for civilian use are clones of military weapons built to nearly identical specifications, often by the same manufacturer. Take the FN 15 M4/M16, for example.
I think you're getting confused with the fact that they aren't currently used for the military...b/c there's better stuff. Just b/c civilians get a knock-off version of the original doesn't mean it isn't an assault rifle that follows a design used by the military.
I agree with everything in this video except for one thing. The AR-15 was not designed for military use, nor was it based on a rifle designed for military use. The M-16 was modeled after the AR-15, not the other way around. Also, the Ruger Mini-14 uses the same ammo as the AR-15, can do just as much damage as the AR-15, it's every bit as powerful and fast as the AR-15... Yet nobody's losing their mind over it because it doesn't look like a military rifle. The AR-15 and guns like it are definitely not needed for "self defense" and most people have no need for one. That said, bad arguments that show you don't know the history of a gun are only going to make the people you need to convince roll their eyes at you.
Ppl usually use AR-15 as a stand in for general assault rifles because it’s a “household name” in America as one way to put it. Assault rifles were built to kill a lot of people in a short amount of time - repurposed for recreation 😂
So restrict that one too, gotcha. Plus everyone knows there's plenty of guns like the AR-15, so they can be restricted too, but it just so happens it's a popular weapon of mass shooters, thus it should be looked into restricting or even outright banning first.
The points Brian made had very little if anything to do with the technical aspects of guns. To follow his logic you just need to know 'guns kill people'.
Brian's knowledge is exactly correct. While an AR is not full auto, infantry equipped with the full auto version are trained to use semi-auto for nearly all situations. They don't carry as much ammo as some school shooters so are trained to conserve.
Just ask yourself this: Do your values support the life and wellbeing of other people? Specifically, those outside your immediate circle. If not, you need to rethink your values.
SO TRUE!!!
Yeah I do. Wish all those people would have had their weapons so at least they could have had a fighting chance.
Dennis reminds me of something Penn Jillett said of Trump: no matter how bad you think he is, he's worse.
There was a time when I looked with great admiration at that great land on the other side of that big puddle. Now I only feel sorry.
Yeah the GOP their attitude is when in doubt just blame Chicago, even if Chicago's thousands of miles away.
And Chicago isn't even in the top ten homicide cities anymore! The GQP just knows it has a large black population. 🥰✌💙
True. It's their "go to" city when they can't figure out a solution.
Yet, West Palm (right next to Mara Lardo) has a higher murder rate than Chicago.
The other night, Tucker blamed weed and nagging women. Chicago caught a little break. 😉
I'm from Chicago and the gun violence problem isn't just here, it's also in Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Kansas City, Oakland, Philadelphia, Birmingham, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, etc. Who controls these towns? It isn't the GOP.
@@jaranarm Never said it wasn’t everywhere. Just said where it’s worse.
Excellent video as always thanks 😊
Dietrich Bonhoeffer argues that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenseless - reasons fall on deaf ears
I agree. A person like Trump for example is no surprise to me. Selfish, narcissists exist. What surprises me is that anyone believes a word that comes out of his mouth. Trump isn't a problem. He's one man. He's rather meaningless. Or at least he should have been. But add stupid people to the mix and suddenly he's President.
Can't argue with an idiot, they'll beat you with experience
"Human life is possibly the most expendable commodity we possess, it's so easily replaced."
That's why they've been so obsessed with abortions and contraceptives. If we slow down the rate of overpopulation, people won't be as desensitized to mass deaths.
Very well said! Thank you!
As an Australian all the points Brian makes about gun control, availability of mental health care and income inequality seem so obvious. Why are they so controversial to Americans? Sorry to have to tell you, but America really isn't the shining city on the hill.
I'm an American who lived 2 years near Amsterdam, and now I'm living 5yrs near Wellington, New Zealand, and...yeah, what a shocking difference. The richest nation in the world can't "afford" the healthcare that tiny NZ can. Of course, that is b/c those who oppose it do so b/c Euro-style government healthcare is the beginning of the slippery slope to COMMUNISM!! B/c, you know, boot straps and gumption and stuff... 😕
The problem is entrenched conservative propagandists in all strata of our society.
It has never been that shining city on the hill. It was a mirage.
They are obvious, and we know. The problem is that there are factions within the US that have figured out that sowing chaos and death is a great way to distract us while they enrich themselves.
@@Crimethoughtfull It's a shame more American's can't have the experiences you have had.
The last significant mass murder in Canada was in December 1989. Canada's last (and only?) political assassination was in the 19th century (maybe another one in 1970 though). Canada isn't Number 1 it seems, and we're happy for that.....in this case.....
"You loathsome human being" - lol - great finish.
Number of homeschooled Christian Republicans on NASA Webb telescope team: 0.
This point right here...exactly.
It _is_ values. And it appears that American lawmakers value the political contributions from the weapons industry over the lives of their constituents.
Brian, I could listen to your painfully honest logic all day.
But I have a job that interferes with everything! It's a horrible thing.
Thank you for being here and sharing your knowledge!
Clearly Dennis doesn't value decency, respect or compassion.
Of course not, he's a conservative.
Very much appreciated as usual. These videos hit the nail on the head.
Well, Bri, you've certainly riled up the gun lovers.
Nice job!
It's creepy isn't it? It's as if there's some AI Overlord of Gunmetal shepherding them into comment sections so they can be pedantic and irrelevant. It might even be a lesser gawd ... maybe there's a schism forming in the Tribal WarGod of Abraham's religion.
Exactly, it's really ridiculous to see anyone having more sympathy for guns than for dead children
@@lusciouslipslibra SERIOUSLY.
Trump doesn't give a damn what the press says about him? That dude is OBSESSED with his public image.
Your writing is amazing, it has good ...hmm.. values, love watching your videos.
I like the big board... Statistics are a nice touch...sizzle
Imagine watching this video and feeling the main point that needs to be argued is whether or not guns were accurately described. Some folks are bad at listening.
Thank you. no matter how self-critically depressed my mood, watching you crush that varmint just makes me feel so much better about my shortcomings
I'd personally like to thank Dennis for continuing to give Brian quality material for discussion. Thanks also go to the "tribal god of Abraham". I love Brian Dalton :D
Every time the GOP points a finger I expect to see a focus of light the way they project so hard.
If you buried "the bar" six feet underground that would still be too high for those people.
There's a scene in the Darabont directed Stephen King's The Mist, just before the protagonists flee the supermarket, that brings the American government to mind these days.
Far more concern being shown for a mythical, all-powerful being's feelings than the actual welfare and wellbeing of the people.
Excellent video. Good points all around.
Never let facts get in the way spreading fear and hate.
And if we had any values we would not allow these dangerous crazies access to GUNS.
Or anyone! No one needs an assault rifle! It’s ridiculous!!!
Sad, depressing facts. It's hard not to fall into terminal despair.
You cannot legislate values, but you can legislate access to the tools of war made available to those with no values.
you can educate. children's books have a huge influence on adult behaviour.
@@HarryNicNicholas The only book my parents read to me was the Bible :o
Imagine having actual standards and values being a prerequisite to run for the Senate, the House of Representatives, and presidency. There are NO national security background clearance checks for the people who run for office. I've been pushing my elected officials to have Biden sign an E.O. making it mandatory for all candidates to pass a miilutaey level national security clearance background check similar to the DOD 5200.2-r standard. If everyone that works for or is enlisted to the Govt and military have to pass this to see even low clearance information why shouldn't the people supposedly running our nation
I keep looking at elections and thinking "Of all the people in the country, these are the two people we think are best for the job??"
@@darrennew8211 yeah IKR ok Biden isn't Ideal but at least he has had a national security background clearance check when he was on certain committees, Trump couldn't pass one in a million years, Russian prostitution/gambling ring on the floor beneath his in Trump tower, his trips to meet with hostile foreign leaders before he was president, his wife is the daughter of a former USSR high level KGB for Slovakia, his walking in on underage girls at the beauty pageant, his relationship with multiple mobsters, his money laundering conviction, 4 or 5 Bankruptcies, suspicious transactions with Deutsche Bank and the Bank of China.. I have a list that filled up almost two whole composition book pages and that was before the 2020 elections 🤦 why the hell would anyone want him to have access to top secret and above nations secrets?!
that comment from denden always reminds me of the scene from jaws when brody gets slapped across the face.
if only...
if only....
When doubling down seriously crosses the line of sanity.....
Sh!t, I live in a red state and a red city. Maybe it’s time to move.
Another one hit right out of the park, Bri. Well done. Well done indeed. 🍻
Bri bri (you handsome devil), you hit that one out of the park!
Thank you Brian!
It's almost like if you believe in an infinite afterlife that life on Earth is cheap, except for the undeveloped, unborn that is. I suppose that's because death cults need to be populated sufficiently to be able to exert their control over others.
You rightly point out that nearly all European nations are light years away from the US in the metric of valuing their citizens. This is nothing new for most of the population of the failed state that is in question. I would like to remind us all that it's actually so much worse than that as most nations of the entire world, not only Europe are treating their populace as though they are valued. I live in Thailand, and although it has been ruled by a military dictator for 6 years now, it's people still enjoy all the same benefits that you mentioned the Europeans do.
Just let that sink in.. people in military dictatorships are better off than the people in the US..
Maybe lying for Jesus, on a daily basis, has negative mental health consequences. I, for one, have difficulty comprehending the mental gymnastics necessary to accept unsubstantiated beliefs as a valid substitute for substantiated facts. The idea of asserting that something is true, when I don't even know that it's true myself, seems wrong to me. Indeed, I cannot expect others to accept a claim that I might make, if that claim cannot be supported by creditworthy evidence.
Interesting thoughts.
Thanks Mr D
Sorry to disappoint you Mr. Deity but Canada does cut budgets in healthcare. Like in the US many things are left up to the provinces. In Ontario at least, in the public sector, budgets are slashed, slaries capped by the same government that promotes private "Healthcare Facilities" (can call the "Hospitals" cuse that's been illegal since the 70s).
Also, this government just got re-elected with 66% of the seats despite only getting 40% of the popular vote, in an election where only 43% of the eligible population actually voted. We and our government are determined to make our lives miserable too. 😃 🇨🇦🎆
You really should choose your former friends more wise...ly...wait. There seems to be a flaw in my .... I'll be back.
With his fake ass bonsai!
As a human being, I'm offended that you suggest prager is one
"...the value the well being of their people."
Whoah, chill! It's merely accidental. It turns out that well being is really super good for productivity and the economy.
If, for instance, you compare the health care costs and potential tax paying and productivity of children here with children in Uvalde or Newtown, it turns out that dead children don't pay taxes at all, ever, and many of the other children there are far less productive because of trauma. And over here, for some reason a lot less children die at schools and far less of them are traumatized.
So we figured that for the sake of productivity we try and decrease the risk of death and trauma in schools to a minimum.
This has lead to an increased number of children growing up and studying and getting better jobs and paying taxes and a nice side effect is that the well being also increases.
So it's not just that we care about the well being, but that we have reasons to care that are solidly grounded in actual fucking reality. Something that is said to be impossible by the most profound and well respected theological apologists who say they have a solid grounding and admit they have no way of showing how to go about building actual and verifiable morality on that supposed and assumed grounding that has no verifiable evidence to support it.
What I'm saying is that it's super useful to not just claim to be a secular country but to actually have a secular government running a secular country and to not lie about where morality comes from; it's just really practical to cooperate and not fuck our social brains up unnecessarily with shit like theism or bigotry or a bullet in a child's head.
👍👍 thanks Bri Bri...
A TIE?! The end IS nigh! Put on your hats.
Good job as always.
Dear Republicans,
Thanks for your loyalty!
Love,
Gershon Fuentes
I'm with you on the mental health! I would like to add that we need to copy the european way of reforming violent offenders since they commit, according to the DOJ, 88+% of the gun crime.
Yay! It's ok to say again: GO DEVILS!
IT IS ALL ABOUT THEIR LACK OF VALUES, sorry for the caps
...and don't forget schools.
And the latest case got an WMD from Santa.
I saw a Fox News poll which suggested the majority of their viewers would support stricter gun control. It's not so much Republican voters as their representatives who're dancing to the gun lobby's tune.
Social democracy is nice but socialism is nicer. We need democracy not only in the political sphere, but in the workplace as well.
I’m with you!!!
Sorry Brian. I was right there with you all the way until the end. That's where you went wrong in a big way. Calling Dennis Praeger a human being was an insult to the rest of us. The loathsome bigot has resigned his humanity.
Do you know if Prager watches your videos?
Agreed.
Hey, Brian! I love this video, but I'd like to point out a mistake. At 3:00 you say "Medicare" (FEDERALLY funded for seniors and the disabled), but your news clip says "Medicaid," (STATE funded for low income and disabled). There is a difference, and it's not a small one. Please correct this so everyone is on the same page about what you meant. Thanks. Keep up the good work. (I'm totally sharing this video.)
Aren't the state funds for Medicaid subsidized by the Federal Gov't at a one for one basis at the very minimum?
@@paineoftheworld Hm. I don't know the answer to that. Good question. I do know that you can have one without the other, but you can also have both Medicare and Medicaid at the same time. I always thought state taxes paid for Medicaid, but Medicare was a federal insurance that accompanies Social Security. For example, Medicare could be your primary insurance if you're disabled, but Medicaid would balance your co-pay if you were also low income.
ETA: I just looked it up. The federal government does pay a significant portion of funds for Medicaid, but the percentage varies state by state. I stand by the statement that they are two different types of insurance, but you're right that the feds pay the states a large portion for Medicaid allotment. Thanks for asking; I learned something new.
@@sueaside5911 , you're correct that you [cannot] have both at the same time. MECAID is for those that are destitute. Generally speaking, those that can't provide for themselves in any capacity such as physically disabled or those that need supervision and those that live in poverty.
Eviscerated.
Get rid of the filibuster.
What, that accident of procedure racists used to prevent social justice and progress for over 100 years?
Why? What good will that do?
Early! You get that jerk! Go Devils!
You agreed with Dennis? Go devils!
I'm not sure that it is true that people in Canada don't have easy access to guns. Perhaps laws have changed up their in recent times, but I know it used to be that gun ownership rates were rather high. Overall great points made regardless.
It is much more difficult to acquire, store, or transport firearms in Canada. Nevertheless, people with a legitimate desire to hunt or collect can do so. It simply can't be done in the heat of the moment, or by anyone who is seriously fucked up. Most importantly, Canadian culture is very different. Gun fetishes, like masturbation, are viewed as something you probably should keep to yourself. The standard issue, cosplaying, Murkin-style NRA type is generally considered to be an asshole up here.
I line in NZ and I suspect you are right...but a significant part of our society sincerely want to change that. We are seeing erosion of the benefits you list. And oddly and increase in gun crime.
Also it's about polarisation. The US political system is not a system where you can think freely about various topics and choose the party that you find most logical or balanced. No, you have to pick a side because there is nothing besides the two extremes to choose from and you have to stand by it. If you don't you'll likely loose the support of your social circle.
Of course the "other" party and everything it stands for is always the oponent which makes it far less likely to aggree on topics. In a good system most core questions should heavily overlap between the parties and only fringe questions should be determined by public opinion through elections.
In the US however the day might come when after an election armed civil unrest tears apart the country. On the way to this day the policies are characterised by massive policy changes after elections and extreme political views due to every party wanting to distance their own position as far away from the other as possible.
While I appreciate this video... I've got to ask... How come you haven't been dragged to court yet, for slander?
You are a handsome devil Bri 😈 😍 ❤️
You're my new best friend. Call me! 😉
how did you NOT wear khakis and give us an ass shot when you were at the stat board? so disappointed ;)
Sorry. I don’t own a pair of khakis.
Stop whinging and just move to Europe.
We'd love to have you here. 😁
How is murder defined in these statistics..and how does Chicago fit? There's more shootings in blue states like Illinois...so that is why I'm asking, is it straight up convictions for murder or actually shooting deaths? Red states are actuality more proficient at solving and convicting murder....so a conviction for murder counts as a murder and a unsolved homicide in Chicago doesn't count?
Per capita, dude.
It's not per state. It's per state per capita. It's how you get real representative numbers. It's also what you'll tend not to see when people want to feed you propaganda.
Let's take an extreme example. Let's say there's 100 people in Missouri and 10,000 in Illinois. That's total. Like I said, it's an example.
Then, let's say there's two gun violence deaths in Missouri and 20 in Illinois.
Someone who wants to lie to you will tell you that Illinois has 10x the gv deaths as Missouri... and they didn't actually say anything untrue.
Someone who wants to provide accurate information will tell you that Illinois has 0.2 gv deaths per 100 people, and Missouri has 2 gv deaths per 100 people. That's actually 1/10th the gun violence on average.
Note, these numbers were obviously invented to show how statistics can used correctly and incorrectly, and it's just one example. Statistics can be manipulated to show what you want people to see in multiple ways. And graphs are even easier to manipulate.
In my experience, most people who want to manipulate the data shill for the R side.
"Red states are actuality more proficient at solving and convicting murder"
I don't know if that's true, but the blue states are more populated, which means it's harder to solve crimes for multiple reasons.
I have yet to disagree with any of the PragerFU material. As an atheist (with a sense of humor as well :-P), I have enjoyed Mr Deity's videos of wisdom and wisecracks.
On topic, I am supportive of a variety of particular improvements in firearms laws (I'm a gun owner who has done enough research to conclude there are very good historical and legal arguments AGAINST my ownership of my firearms...imagine that! lol) The devil, as they say, is in the details though. You will be hard pressed, if not fail entirely, to find a military that uses what are called, in the media, "assault weapons". Why? Militaries use almost exclusively automatic rifles as the typical soldier's weapon. The weapons used in spectacular mass shootings are semI-automatic. That said, there's little solace to be found in the distinction when it comes to lethality of these events; one death is too many. Let's just end the somewhat hyperbolic "weapons of war" language.
The other 800 lb gorilla in the room is the fact that, for every day when there is a horrific shooting with 2, 4, 6, 8, ...18...etc...fatalities, that SAME DAY an average of 120 people, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, die all over the country from, almost exclusively, handguns, and about HALF of those due to SUICIDE. Let that sink in. Mass shootings, like plane crashes, are spectacles, horrific, but spectacles that do not reflect the whole respective "safety/danger" stories. As a good medical diagnostician would do, we need to recognize we have both acute and chronic societal/legal conditions that need addressing. Control access to any firearm, especially by younger individuals, and, critically when someone was already subject of a prior weapons confiscation (The July 4th shooter had a knife and sword collection taken after threats made to family...and NO criminal charges were involved, but rather the situation was treated as "mental health" issue. Something wrong there. eh? First no charges, then no red flag procedure...double system failure). Suicides are a failure of everything surrounding the victim...friends, family, schools, local/state/federal healthcare systems...the victim may have felt there was no one close to them to turn to, willing to be open and supportive (general societal discomfort with mental health issues and treatment), or no one professional to turn to without getting past a variety of barriers (little or no publicly funded treatment, many health insurance plans, if you have one, do not pay for much or any mental health treatment). Let's try to keep an eye on the acute, and the other eye on the chronic. Much needs to be done tomorrow and the next decade. Unfortunately, given the current politics in the US, I'm not hopeful. What with the way campaigns are financed, how the Supreme Court has been stacked and the near complete partisan legislative paralysis, these issues may not be resolved, or even addressed, for a generation. Keep our eyes, ears and minds open, care for those injured in mind or body, fight the selfish-in-power, help your neighbor...we need to be a country, not a slow motion calamity. Let's not hit that iceberg...
" if not fail entirely, to find a military that uses what are called, in the media, "assault weapons". Why?"
Because that's what the civilian versions are fucking called. They're not called "assault rifles" because those are military and illegal market. A distinction needs to be made btwn hunting rifles, and swinging dick rambo toys. And there's a reason that these big children don't simply buy hunting rifles that "do the same thing" as AR15s, isn't there.
"an average of 120 people, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, die all over the country from, almost exclusively, handguns, and about HALF of those due to SUICIDE. Let that sink in."
While it's true that mass shootings kill fewer people, it's also true that letting them continue just so some indifferent assholes can have the toy that they want, regardless of their legal status, is an asinine idea.
It's actually about 2/3rds suicide ; but only those indifferent assholes consider those people to be 100% expendable, or at best, "will commit suicide some other way", which is factually untrue. I guess American's lives don't "sink in" for you.
Which of the 5 Abram (hams) in the OT are you so obsessed with?
You are driving down the street in your red canoe; how many waffles does it take to shingle a dog house?
Would you rather have a bottle in front of me or a frontal lobotomy?
What?
@George Vcelar Yes. But also, where we should sprinkle the blood.
@@InigoMontoya- So you are the comedy writer for AlmightyGod’s skits! Bravo. Which of the 5 different Abram (hams) did what, when, where and why in your rabbit hole/ doghouse? Ignorance is no crime, unless willful. Laugh.
No, you CAN NOT but guns designed for military use. Please learn about gun before you speak about them.
_"... to purchase an assault weapon designed for military use. It's specifically designed to kill other human beings ..."_ (1:00)
You're being pedantic, Brandon. Many handguns and rifles available for civilian use are clones of military weapons built to nearly identical specifications, often by the same manufacturer. Take the FN 15 M4/M16, for example.
I think you're getting confused with the fact that they aren't currently used for the military...b/c there's better stuff. Just b/c civilians get a knock-off version of the original doesn't mean it isn't an assault rifle that follows a design used by the military.
Your country is totally lost.
You should listen to the US general who states that AR-style weapons are very much military weapons. They have no business being sold to civilians.
I agree with everything in this video except for one thing. The AR-15 was not designed for military use, nor was it based on a rifle designed for military use. The M-16 was modeled after the AR-15, not the other way around. Also, the Ruger Mini-14 uses the same ammo as the AR-15, can do just as much damage as the AR-15, it's every bit as powerful and fast as the AR-15... Yet nobody's losing their mind over it because it doesn't look like a military rifle.
The AR-15 and guns like it are definitely not needed for "self defense" and most people have no need for one. That said, bad arguments that show you don't know the history of a gun are only going to make the people you need to convince roll their eyes at you.
I think your point is irrelevant at best.
Ppl usually use AR-15 as a stand in for general assault rifles because it’s a “household name” in America as one way to put it.
Assault rifles were built to kill a lot of people in a short amount of time - repurposed for recreation 😂
So restrict that one too, gotcha. Plus everyone knows there's plenty of guns like the AR-15, so they can be restricted too, but it just so happens it's a popular weapon of mass shooters, thus it should be looked into restricting or even outright banning first.
Wrong. The AR-15 was designed for use in the military. It was based off the same exact gun.
@@markhackett2302 and the military isn’t meant to kill a lot of people in a short amount of time? My comment still stands 😂
Normally I listen to you. But this video, though the hit against Prager is warranted, your knowledge of guns is terrible.
The points Brian made had very little if anything to do with the technical aspects of guns. To follow his logic you just need to know 'guns kill people'.
@@danielfranks6565
Guns are made to kill people. That is their only "useful" purpose.
@@danielfranks6565 "bUT GuNs dUnt KuLl PebpLe. PLeplE kIll PeoLlE!!!"
@@colmlooney5843 People with guns kill people, surely.
Brian's knowledge is exactly correct. While an AR is not full auto, infantry equipped with the full auto version are trained to use semi-auto for nearly all situations. They don't carry as much ammo as some school shooters so are trained to conserve.