Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "One Month After Worst Mass Shóóting Ever Congress Did Nothing" video.

  1. Same with 100 round drums have a tendency to jam. That supposedly happened with Holmes in that movie theater shooting.
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  2. We have enough laws on the books and gun related murders have been dropping for decades now. We don't have a problem. There is a reason why this topic is only brought up after a mass shooting.
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  3. Z O D I Y A K, "well regulated" means well prepared
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  4. May the Science be with You, in most states you can't have a gun while drinking. Guns are regulated as well.
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  5. "Are trucks designed to kill? No, they are designed for driving. Are guns designed to kill people? YES, THEY ARE." Alcohol and marijuana are designed only to mess people up, should we ban them? If you want to ban things that have no objective productive use to them than go with them as well.
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  6. Randy, the problem with Bill's comment of "it only kills 8" is that it is a slippery slope. You have a shooting in Vegas where 50 is dead. So they ban semi-autos. You have a shooting later that 20 are kill. So they ban those guns. Eventually they get to you can only own single shot guns and no hand guns. But people will still be killed with them so they will ban those. That is the danger of his comment.
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  7. "When did a gun stop a mass shooting," A lot really. The problem is that you can only look at potential mass shootings. The problem is that you can only look at potential as they never happened. But there have been many cases of a person with a gun stopping a shooter when they could have killed a lot more. Why do most of these mass shootings happen in gun free zones? "When did guns scare burglars away?" Why do most home break ins occur when no one is home?
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  8. Zack West, your usefulness of marijuana is in a control atmosphere with professionals. As I did in comparing it to brain surgery. That can be dangerous and deadly, but in a control setting with professionals it is. Same with guns, just allowing trained government officials to have guns is in a control setting. What I am asking for is consistency. People want to ban guns on the idea it has no use besides killing people. You can say that marijuana and alcohol have no use besides messing people up. And yes, you gave them uses, but only in control settings like the government being the only owners of guns. Now again, I am not for the banning of marijuana, and I feel it has uses for the public in simply relaxing. But objectively it doesn't. Guns have uses as well. People enjoy going targeting practicing to relax. To each their own . But again, I am being consistent. So now you pointed at five accidents in four different years. Wow. That sounds like a major problem in a country of 320+ million people. I mean, I guess we should ban guns. I guess you also feel we should ban driving as over 30,000 die in traffic accidents a year. That number is much higher than deaths by accidental gun shootings. Over 3000 die drowning every year. We have people with private pools that are not controlled with lifeguards. Maybe we should ban private pools. In comparison there are around 500 deaths by accidental gun shootings. So again, I ask you to remain consistent. 500 is negligible in a country of 320+ million. But you are making a big deal about those accidents which are what they are, accidents. But I bet you would not support banning driving when far more die in accidents, or the banning of private pools.
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  9. "Do you think that someone learning how to drive for their driver's license is somehow going to become a master driver? No. Same thing, they need to learn how to use a gun/car otherwise they risk putting themselves or others in danger. " Driver safety training is different in each state. In my home state you only have to be taught by your parents or legal guardian. You don't need an official course. Same with guns. So if you want to have that comparison to driving than we have safety training already. So what's your point? We have what you want.
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  10. Zack West, on my healthcare comment I am being consistent. 45,000 is around 0.01% of the population. Also, you can't say that they only reason why they die is because of lack of insurance. Those individuals are poor and poor people have higher rates of obesity, type II diabetes, and smoking. So did they die due to lack of insurance or simply because they had bad health to begin with due to personal choices? Also, no system is ideal. In other countries with universal healthcare systems people die as well. It is impossible to cover everyone as we lack resources in healthcare. It isn't me being heartless, it is me realizing reality. Nothing is ideal. Tell me what you can do to make that 45,000 to be zero? And what can you do to make that 500 accidental shootings to be zero? And why are you not complaining about accidental deaths by drowning and driving?
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  11. "Mrpink, the difference between guns, cars, and pools is that 1) (Edited:) A pool, unlike the other two, cannot be used to endanger someone else." Actually it can. At a party liquid nitrogen was poor into a pool nearly killing people. "If you buy a pool and don't know how to swim, chances are that you either just won't be using it" What makes you think that? " It's silly to conflate accidental deaths from drowning with gun accidents because they are not the same." Why? They are both accidents. I see no difference. "Just because you buy a pool doesn't mean you're going to use it" Same with a gun. I own four and hardly shoot them. "unlike with a gun--which still puts someone in danger even if they never use it." How? I have never seen a gun shoot itself. "Presuming that you are not incorrect, if your state does have that lax of driving tests, then that needs to be changed" Why? We are around average in terms of driving related deaths. In fact, WY has stricter training laws and more deaths. My state, MO, had around 14.3 per 100,000. WY has around 24 per 100,000. " I have never heard of a state where you don't need to take a fairly regimented test to be able to get a driver's license. " We have to take a test. We have to pass a written exam, we get a permit, we have to do 50 hours of driving with a license driver, and then take a driving exam. That 50 hours can be fudged and can be done in any way. It doesn't have to be in snow, in traffic, in the country, etc. It just has to be 50 hours. For me I drove from MO to MN and back all free way. No traffic, no snow. That ate up a lot of hours. You don't have to monitor it either. Very vague. "A 9 year old shouldn't be able to drive, a 9 year old shouldn't be given an Uzi" I was driving when I was nine around the farm no problem. "Generally speaking, cars are regulated. " So are guns.
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  12. Most of those gun deaths were justified killings by police and self defense and by gangs. I see a problem of gang activity. I lived in a small town for 24 years and only one person was murdered by a gun. Most of our gun violence occurs in cities like Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, etc. As for killing lots of people, one can construct a bomb with a car to do that. The OKC bombing killed 168 people.
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  13. Maximum X, this country was designed on the idea of state rights. The military cannot invade states or enforce domestic law without the consent of the governor. If the military were to attack citizens it would be attacking that state which will cause a civil war with the states fighting the feds. What would happen instead is the citizens fighting the state governments who are not as well armed as the military and the people will stand a better fighting chance.
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  14. Brennan Connelly, owning slaves was not a right. Owning guns is.
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  15. gigaimpactor981, it was the right to form a militia. Take an English course.
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  16. David, not true. Steven Crowder did a video on that.
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  17. Jrsydvl, were those right wing terrorist? Also, those are 2 examples
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  18. "Gun control doesnt mean no guns." Yep, it just means guns in the hands of the government.
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  19. "Nah, just no guns in the hands of crazies, regardless of political ideologies." How do you determine who is "crazy"? The Vega shooter never broke any laws or had any indicators.
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  20. Space Wizard, how do you improve it?
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  21. "Kyle doesn't advocate banning guns, he is only bringing up regulations for the possession and usage of guns, similar to how there are regulations to having a driver license and cars. There are laws such as driving under the influence, or speed limits, or even wearing seat belts." And there are laws already on guns such as magazine limits and handling a gun while drunk. We have laws on the books, what's your point? To me the next step is gun banning.
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  22. "No we should legalize marijuana and end the war on drugs" Why? It serves no purpose? BTW, I am in support of legal marijuana. I am saying that if you want to buy guns as you feel it serves no purpose than you have to do it with alcohol and marijuana as well. I feel guns serve a productive purpose also. I am asking you to be consistent with your argument.
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  23. Randy Randalman, so guns should be legal because of freedom as well
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  24. " Marijuana doesn't just "mess people up". It has legitimate medicinal uses, " I agree, and so does brain surgery. I can assume you are not a doctor, so are you allowed to perform brain surgery on others? No. That is regulated. So regulate marijuana for medical uses only. If you disagree than I, along with others can perform brain surgery on others. The medical field is regulated as well. Stay consistent. "Guns are not well regulated. A 9 year old girl was given an Uzi while at a gun range, which ended up with her accidentally killing her instructor. " That is one tragedy. Gun ranges are controlled. You are looking at one outlier. People died at an amusement park a while back, I guess we should ban those due to one accident. I mean, what purpose do amusement parks serve? "Similar stories have cropped up" Such as......? "You think that doesn't need regulating?" Never said that, I am saying we have regulations. Did that girl just walk up in a gun show and buy the Uzi and shoot someone? No. She was given it in a range and an accident happened. What do want to do at that point? Again, if you want to ban her there than think about other places that are regulated that have seen accidents like amusement parks. " Because we don't have that problem with trucks." Yes we do. Accidents happen with trucks. "People who own guns and are not properly trained how to use them are infinitely more likely to wind up killing themselves or someone else on accident. That alone needs federal regulating. " What regulation? Training? So you want to make gun owners to be more efficient killers? "It's also hard to take you seriously when you've repeatedly called deaths resulting from the victim lacking basic healthcare acceptable." I never said that. I want to correct that. The issue is that no system is ideal. It is impossible to provide healthcare to all as no country does it.
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  25. It isn't just justified, you have a large portion of gang activity as well. Around 1/4 of our gun murders happen in like four cities, Detroit, Baltimore, DC and Chicago. In the city I lived at for 24 years only two people were killed by guns, and we have 15,000 in our city. Of the two one was a legit murder another was a man shooting at people and the cops ended up shooting him. Remove gang activity that 10,000 drops a lot as well. That isn't a problem of guns, that is a problem of gangs.
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