Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "America & North Korea | Michael Malice | INTERNATIONAL | Rubin Report" video.

The thing about Chicago is that it is still in the United States. There are no borders to cross and no customs agents to bypass to get the guns to Chicago. If the laws of Chicago were applied equally, all across the US, you may not see the number of gun crimes in Chicago. It's still an availability issue. Canada has extremely strict handgun laws. It is a huge process to get handguns in this country and the handgun deaths in Toronto are not committed by legally obtained guns but by guns smuggled in from the US. If Canada didn't have that huge border with a country with such lax handgun laws, open carry which most Canadians find nuts, deaths would go way down. The availability issue expanding into Canada. I spent 3 months in the US and saw more handguns in that 3 month period in the hands of ordinary citizens, than in all the 65 YEARS put together living in Canada. That's what has been a huge influence on my attitudes towards handgun laws in Canada.
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So, you're saying that in a road rage situation, the guy will find a way to kill the guy he's angry at no matter what? He won't react in a fit a rage by shooting the guy.....ever? You seriously believe that if he doesn't have a gun, he'll not stop until the guy is dead, that his fists will have the same result on a guy's head that 6 bullets will on that same head? You've never heard of a person, in a drunken row, shooting an adversary in a fight? Never heard of gangs, inadvertently running into one another and start blasting away? You're talking about pre-meditated murder. I'm talking about pulling a gun out of your pocket for a perceived slight, out of anger or fear and shooting someone as a reaction. I'd say that you're making that up. Not all killings are pre-meditated and people have and do shoot each other in a fit of rage over something stupid all the time. That big reason that it happens is that the gun is right there, in his pocket, on the dresser and the blind rage is happening right now and it's all due to the availability of the weapon and the ease of use of the gun. What's even more telling is that there is only one real use for a hand gun. That is to shoot human beings. To be able to carry it or store for ease of use to kill someone else. Even you know that this is true. It explains the huge disparity in numbers for gun violence between the US and Canada. The number one reason is the availability and the attitude that comes with that availability that we don't see in Canada or any other Western country. Murder rates and gun violence is through the roof if you compare it to any other western country and most of it is due to the ease of acquiring a handgun.
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http://wgntv.com/2017/10/28/man-shot-in-road-rage-incident-in-elmhurst/ http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/02/us/pa-deadly-road-rage-arrest/index.html http://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/northwest/crime/2017/10/25/milwaukee-man-shot-road-rage-incident-menomonee-falls/798909001/ https://globalnews.ca/news/3145203/road-rage-shooting-arkansas-boy-arrest-gary-holmes/ http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/west-phoenix/man-shot-twice-in-road-rage-incident-in-west-phoenix These are just the road rage incidents. I can get you lots more. I can go into domestic incidents, too, if you like. I'm sure you'll figure out some way to talk around this and pretend that these will not fit the idea that people shoot each other out of anger. When making an argument, at least be honest about it. I'm an old farm boy. Spent my youth shooting woodchucks, rabbits, and rats at the community dump located at the back of our family farm. Been duck hunting lots of times. My problem isn't with guns like these. They are unlikely the guns used in crimes, by street gangs or in angry disputes over trivial matters.
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We still have hunting guns but the majority of murders in the inner cities are done by handguns. They're easy to carry and hide. You can put them in your glove compartment or under your seat. Spontaneous reactions and impulse shootings are jut so easy. You're angry, he's a big guy, you're a little scared.....shoot him. Our gun deaths in Toronto, that are gang related, are handgun related that have been smuggled up from the States. If handgun laws were the same in the States as in Canada, where would they get them? We only have one border. The risk involved getting them here from overseas would make the cost of those handguns prohibitive.....extremely so. That's what's happening in Australia. It's isolated and any illegal guns are extremely expensive. That cost drives down the desire and ability to want or buy a gun. The guns used in Paris or Britain were not handguns. They were guns that are more readily available there just as hunting rifles are in Canada. Hunting is very popular here. Lots of people have them. It's the handguns that are the problem and they're the instruments that bring the fear and the culture of fear that cause so much mayhem on the streets of American cities. If no big company is making them, where are you going to buy them?
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