Comments by "michael" (@michaeld4861) on "Australia Had a Mass-Shooting Problem. Here’s How it Stopped" video.

  1. Yeah... I live in the US where it's pretty clear that a "good guy with a guy" does not stop or cancel out a bad guy with a gun. You are more likely to accidentally hurt yourself than you are to actually protect yourself. You'd have to know that a threat is coming and have the gun on you at all times. Not to mention the Wild West effect where there's a shooter and then someone shoots the shooter but then someone else sees that guy shooting and shoots him and now we have a good ol' fashion shootout where nobody knows what's going on but everyone is just trying to "protect" themselves. There was a shooting like this about 2 weeks ago.
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  2. Sure but the second amendment is like 2 sentences and includes the words "well regulated", which guns in the US are definitely not. Some basic regulations like requiring licenses for guns, basic training and either banning or upping the age for Semi-auto purchases would have a dramatic effect on the overall death toll. Not to mention the fact that we can't dictate our lives based on something written hundreds of years ago when guns were insanely inaccurate and required 5 minutes to reload a single shot and didn't work if they got wet. Can you imagine regulating the aerospace industry based on what Lincoln said? Besides we don't allow people to own ICBM's or make their own nukes even though the second amendment clearly doesn't say those things should be banned.
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