Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Bought Congress Bans Study Of Gun Violence, Again" video.

  1. If TYT did research they would find out that over 90% of what they say is BS.
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  2. 1. Trickle down economics is not an economic term, it is a political phrase designed to smear an opponent instead of actually criticizing their policies 2. Democrats have poor foreign policies as well. 3. I don't see how anyone who is educated and actually works can be a democrat. In reality the is the case. Democrats play off of people's emotions and use any excuse to expand the fed which constantly breaks anything it touches
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  3. That video I linked by Stefan Molyneux mentions Australia as well. And for those of you cry about citations, he gives those as well and has said that you should question them
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  4. You can legally own a tank
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  5. Guns are an easy target for the political left. To me the issue we should be tackling is poverty considering that is where most of our crime resides. The problem is that those on the political left refuse to actually take on actual problems. It is much easier to create a smoke screen and blame guns instead of solving real issues. And when they say they are trying to fix poverty it is them just throwing money at people. In the end it is politicians being lazy and playing off of people's emotions.
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  6. Look up the Youtube video by Stefan Molyneux entitled "The Truth About Gun Control" He has two. If you only have time for one then watch the most recent one, but both provide a lot of information with citations.
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  7. Coma White, you study you cited even says there are several limitations. I own 4 guns and the chances of me being shot are very low. The reasons why are 1. I don't live in a high crime area 2. no children 3. I am responsible with them Simply owning a gun does increase your chances just like driving a car increases your chances of getting into a car accident. But it is not the same in all places. If I owned a gun in a gang infested area then there is a greater chance of me being shot simply by where I live, not for owning that gun.
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  8. "Note in the study i linked they controlled for age, sex and ethnicity and socioeconomic status of the neighbourhood. Comparing like to like. So if you are a rich white dude in a non ghetto area, you still have on average a 4 times greater risk of getting shot if you are packing a gun." Actually that study mentions those limitations alluding to the fact that if you are a rich white dude you are not 4 times likely in being shot.
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  9. I agree that you should be aware of your youtube videos. Stefan Molyneux himself said you should question even what he presents. He does cite where he gets his info on his website. With Australia and the 1 mass shooting, it depends on what you define to be a mass shooting. People love to point to the definition listed in Gun Violence Archive which arbitrarily defines a mass shooting as 4 or more people killed or injured. On cite says that is FBI standard (not true, the FBI does not have one) and the same people who point towards that typically say Australia has not had a mass shooting since 1996. That is not true as in December 2014, based off of that definition there was one. Even at that I hate comparing countries to one another. You can't just do a side by side comparison like that and come to the conclusion that it is just one variable responsible for the difference, in this case guns. So when gun control advocates yell "AUSTRALIA" I tend to write them off pretty quickly. With stabbings he is showing that people will use other methods to murder people, same when he compared methods of suicides between the US and the UK. With that the issue is not guns but other factors. Just removing the instrument is not going to help the person which is what we really should be doing. So many people want to take away the guns when we should be helping the person, for example find ways to lower poverty. I liked how Stefan compared states in the US because that is what we should be doing, looking at the US alone and not other countries.
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  10. "Did you understand what i was saying about the statistics on his graph about knifes and the fact it is misrepresenting the facts if you plot a percentage?" I understood exactly what you are saying. The key thing is that banning guns does not fix the person. You can still commit murder with other objects. It is the same with suicides. "There are no statistics that actually show significantly more people died from knife violence after 1996 in Australia." I know, it just showed that people were more willing to use different objects to kill someone. "And to be honest if someone was to attack me, id much rather them come unarmed :)" And I rather be armed. The point is that banning the gun does not fix the person. We can't just attack guns, we have to find a way to fix the person so they are not going out there and committing crime.
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  11. With how much BS they spew I would agree.
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  12. Most of what TYT says is complete BS. It is safe to say that 90% is close. For example, Cenk said that the average age of the min. wage worker is 35. That has been proven false.
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  13. The US homicide rate is low, especially if you remove gang related activity. That is a non gun issue.
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  14. The US has a murder rate that is less than 4 per 100,000. Yeah other countries have it around 1 to 2 people per 100,000, but that difference is small when you consider that in the Americas the murder rate is more than 16 people per 100,000. The world murder rate is around 6 people per 100,000. At that point that difference of 2 people per 100,000 is pretty much noise for several reasons. You really can't make a complete side by side comparison. The cultures and variables are too great between the countries. If you stick to just the US the gun murder rate has been dropping for the past 20 years. Crime has been dropping as well. Now that can be for several reasons as well, but in the end guns are not really a problem in the US. My number 1 problem of the gun control debate is that it is a smoke screen to mask a more important issue we should be tackling that will solve more problems at once.
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  15. "But if I lived in America I would think; we should get that rate down because other countries show that it is possible." There are several variables in why murder rates are down beyond guns. Every country deal with different situations, you just can't make a side by side comparison. It isn't that black and white. The fact is that gun ownership is a right. We can find ways to lower crime without removing our rights. If you want to remove rights to lower crime then I would suggest starting with the 4th amendment and allow the government to spy on us and randomly search our homes.
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