Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "Type Ashton" channel.

  1.  @1stsampan  Sure, but the US does not and as a result training, licensing and registration all fall by the wayside.
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  2.  @1stsampan  Czech Republic also has licensing and registration. People have to take a 30 question quiz with a pool of 501 questions, and are only allowed to get a single question wrong. They have to then show they can both operate their weapons, and they have to describe the various parts of the gun. They also have to pass a mental health evaluation, and can have their guns taken away should there be mental health concerns at any point in the future. And no, I don't wonder about Jamaica. They have massive wealth inequality issues and smuggle their guns from the US. Jamaica's gun problem is a US gun problem. Also funny you have to compare the US to a non-developed nation just to make it look good.
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  3.  @1stsampan  Homicides...using US guns. They have both an issue with wealth inequality, and with US gun imports. Those things together result in very high homicide rates. Yes, less developed nations have more crime on average, especially homicides, mostly due to higher levels of wealth inequality and higher levels of poverty. The US actually has the highest homicide rate in the developed world for a similar reason. Canada has licensing, registration and transportation rules for their guns. All owners are required to show competency and must register their arms on the national gun registry. Doing so sharply reduces instances of illegal gun sales and misuse.
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  4.  @1stsampan  This is incorrect. While gun shops nationally require background checks, not all private sales do. In fact over half US states require no checks of any kind in private sales.
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  5.  @1stsampan  1. So just the easiest to conceal, most often used in homicides and most often trafficked and sold illegally? Wonder why it works so well. 2. Jamaican officials have previously reported over 80% of guns in Jamaica are from the US. Also funny you mention Glocks, as in 2 separate incidents Glocks were privately purchased in the US and trafficked into Jamaica before being used. Officials have also caught Jamaicans living in the US and trafficking guns. 3. Yes, mostly because those drug lord employ thousands of poor people, and exploit millions of those in severe poverty with drugs and violence. The idea that a few rich people are the only cause of violence in the Caribbean is just naive. In fact gangs in Jamaica are usually focused in fighting people in the next street over, not making deals with Colombians.
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  6.  @1stsampan  Guns actually kill more kids than anything. Plenty of countries make private weapon sales illegal.
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  7.  @1stsampan  Firearms are actually the leading cause in the US. Fentanyl is never sold legally. The only usage of it in a medical setting is directly in hospitals. Overdoses are from illegal use.
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  8. ​ @1stsampan  1. So stop giving those criminals firearms. Stop making it so easy for people to import guns. It's not that hard. Why do you think they get them from the US? Because of the incredibly lax laws. The exact same happens in Mexico. 2. You specifically said kids. Look up those numbers and don't just assume adult numbers can be transferred directly to kids. Firearms recently overtook vehicles. Drug poisoning is at number 4.
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  9. ​ @1stsampan  I emplore you to read the article you posted. It talks about the tough written and practical test people take, the registering or arms, and the inability to aquire illegal firearms in the country. This puts it in stark contrast to US law.
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  10.  @Anon54387  It's not a human right.
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  11. ​ @dtsh4451  Switzerland also has mandatory military service, gun licensing and registration. Arguing the laws are looser because of barrel lengths is entirely disingenuous.
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  12. ​ @keonyang3332 Not really, but they also get their guns used in crimes from the US so...
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  13.  @keonyang3332  Mostly the US, between 70 and 90 percent.
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  14. But they have an army now, so clearly we don't need a militia. Gun density is the dumbest metric you could possibly use.
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  15. Hitler didn't ban guns, in fact he loosened gun laws. Yes, we need IRS agents, but thanks for repeating the lie about them being armed and not mostly desk jockeys replacing retiring employees. She explained why the 2nd was written, try again. Encouraging the killing of criminals rather than proper justice is sickening. You're a braindead propagandised coward. Go back on tour so you can shoot more civilians.
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  16. Brazil is a significantly less developed nations. England does not have escalating gun problems. Australia did not have robberies increase.
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  17.  @Anon54387  Brazil is categorised as developing, not developed.
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  18. How about we stop giving guns to criminals, felons and whackos?
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  19.  @keonyang3332  I am blaming the government, Republicans to be specific. They just aren't allowing the ATF to do their jobs. A gun registry would help substantially.
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  20. ​ @keonyang3332  It's entirely ineffective. There needs to be a registry and there needs to be significant background checks and education on guns. There is neither.
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  21. Well regulated militia.
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  22. You get everyone to register their guns for starters. When guns are so much easier to trace back to a person it's much easier to enforce things.
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  23.  @signiturelady  People already do register guns in some places in the US, so that's just false.
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  24.  @signiturelady  Weapons like that are brought in from outside. If everywhere had to register the number of unregistered guns would drop substantially. The US being against it is neither here nor there. It works, end of story.
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  25.  @keonyang3332  Nope. Over 700 arrests were made in the program you are referring to, allowing the reduction of serial straw purchases for gun trafficking. The weapons sold would have been sold anyway. But instead they would have never been traced. The idea that stopping hundreds of gun traffickers is somehow a bad thing is a real piece of mental gymnastics.
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  26. Then why did Hamilton advocate for a militia controlled by the federal government?
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  27. So a bunch of less developed nations, and a country at war. Well I'm convinced.
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  28. ​ @keonyang3332  Pretty dumb point.
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  29. ​ @keonyang3332  You first kid.
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  30. So guns aren't the leading cause of deaths for children in the US? Homicides are not far higher in the US than any other developed nation? Which statistics hurt your feelings the most?
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  31.  @keonyang3332  Nope, still guns. The numbers are higher than cars. Cars are licensed and registered though, so sure let's do that.
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  32.  @keonyang3332  The CDC. You're out of date by a few years. Also the frequency of use of cars means they are way safer than guns. But I agree with you point, we should license and register guns. Oh and no, homicides were the majority, not suicides. Thanks kid.
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  33.  @keonyang3332  Then you should try reading the CDC stats. Guns topped vehicles years ago. No, there is not a gun registry. There are paper records of sales, that's it. It doesn't record private sales, and requires individual gun shop locations to be checked for sales. It is a purposefully convoluted and slow process that makes checking if a gun is registered to a person in real time inpossible. Claiming this is a registry is plain stupid. Go get AN education kiddo.
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  34.  @keonyang3332  Again, the serial number has to be traced using paper records to individual gun shops. 4473s are not digitised, are not held by the ATF, and are not required for individual sales. Tracing a gun found in NYC can take a long time, and usually leads to a gun shop down in Georgia or South Carolina. Finding the specific shop in the sea of sellers and paper records can be arduous, and again, that's if they didn't buy the gun privately down there which requires no 4473. The idea that this is the same as a registry, where guns can be matched directly to people's name and address, and can be checked in real time against the ID of the person with it, is just ridiculous. There is no registry, in fact the laws are designed specifically to make a registry illegal. Nope, guns are the leading cause of both suicides and homicides. According to the FBI in 2019 guns were used in over 10,000 homicides, hands and feet were used in just 600. Seriously, where do you get these obvious propaganda statistics from?
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  35.  @vashmatrix5769  Facts don't care about your feelings snowflake.
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  36.  @Anon54387  Doesn't work. The US tried the "tough on crime" approach. It failed.
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  37.  @samielkhayri9272  Nonsense. Switzerland has plenty of guns, far less gun crime.
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  38. ​ @keonyang3332  Doesn't matter. Heller was just overruling a previous court ruling, it can swing back in the future. And yes, I live here.
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  39.  @keonyang3332  Roe v Wade was older than that. The Supreme Court has been a one for years now.
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  40.  @keonyang3332  Until it gets overruled. See how SCOTUS works now?
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  41.  @keonyang3332  You're missing the point. Relying on partisan judges who have recently come under increasing scrutiny for ruling in favour of friends and being paid in vacations over constitutional scholars is just idiotic.
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  42. ​ @keonyang3332  So you agree that the Supreme Court is perfectly capable of being corrupt. You agree that your argument currently relies on a supreme court decision, but you seem to be having trouble reconciling these 2 facts. If judges can be corrupt, even overturning 50 year old decisions, why should we care about their rulings from a standpoint of constitutional correctness?
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  43. ​ johnobama6629  Okay kiddo.
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  44. Why would we compare Colombia and not other developed nations?
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  45.  johnobama6629  Yeah, you are. Your paranoid propaganda riddled brain has convinced you that up is down and left is right. Antifa are anti fascists, nothing about what you said makes any sense.
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  46. Okay. What is the murder rate in the US compared with other developed nations? And no, local gun control doesn't work. Without national control those cities just get guns funnelled into them from outside.
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  47.  @UltralightMotorcycleCamping  53 is terrible for a developed nation. Almost every country on the list has more gun control than the US so that's hardly an argument. All of the nations with less homicides have more control. No, the US homicide rate would not be near the lowest. The US homicide rate is high in all 50 states. Cities are always more dangerous, they are just extra bad in the US because of all the guns. Yes, the solution is uniform measures. Current gun control in those violent cities is worthless as people import guns from other areas through private sales and straw purchases.
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  48.  @UltralightMotorcycleCamping  Any in developed nations? Weird how gun nuts always points to places like Brazil, and not far more closely associated countries like Italy, France, Canada, Germany, Spain. Because the issue is not the laws, but the fact they are worthless as they currently stand. Gun crimes would be lower, as they are in plenty of other developed nations, if the laws were more uniform. Violent crime is broadly unchanged by local gun law changes. The real questions is where do guns in gun control areas come from. We already know the answer of course, it's from areas with lax laws. I don't want to take you guns. Gun registration would substantially reduce illegal guns on the streets by making it substantially easier to track and trace the sources of said illegal arms. As for your decades of data, having a gun makes you more likely to be shot, fact. US homicide rates are high in all 50 states, not just the big cities, fact. The US is a major outlier in the developed world for having a ridiculously high homicide rate, fact. History of US gun control: 1. Watch children get shot. 2. Do nothing substantial. 3. Claim nothing works. 4. Repeat.
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  49.  @UltralightMotorcycleCamping  Never mentioned gun deaths, we were discussing the murder rate, which as I stated is substantially higher in the US. Nice red herring though. All illegally owned firearms were at some point purchased legally. Buying guns from private sales doesn't change that those guns were once bought legally. There also is not a gun registry. All sale records are paper, and all paper records are only kept for 5 years. Of the guns used in crimes about 45% are purchased in private sales, and another 45% are bought in straw purchases. Criminals can report whatever they want, the fact is that owning a weapon makes you more likely to get killed. There is less crime in developed nations with gun control. Why are you asking me to look at what someone else said? I advocate for registration, any attempt to claim otherwise is dishonest. The history of US gun control is failure. There are more guns than ever, with less ability to track them and more availability than ever for criminals. Every effort has been taken to make tracking gun origins and stopping the illegal purchase of guns almost impossible. You know what would be a great defence against school shootings? Not giving people guns. Worked on Australia and the UK, both of which enacted stricted laws after shootings. Again, you don't understand the second amendment, which is why you only post the second half of that sentence. "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of the free state". Of course, once you read that, and have half a brain in your head, you understand that it's about having a militia, not letting everyone have guns unfettered. If you look into it further you'll find that Hamilton wrote about a militia being an alternative to a standing army. So not only is it worthless as the US has a standing army now, it also means that anyone using the second amendment as a defence should agree to do whatever the military action the federal government asks of them. You should try watching the video you replied to.
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  50.  @UltralightMotorcycleCamping  Nope, but thanks for making shit up so you can ignore the actual argument, which is that the US homicide rate is exceptionally high. Nope, it's 5 years. It's also illegal to digitise them. Your paranoia is over something illegal. If you were correct then why is the US homicide rate so high. In reality the issue is the different crimes and the way the countries record them. Crime is higher in the US. Never said taking guns away. Also funny you think robbers would be armed when they can't get guns lol. There is a difference between the completely unenforceable laws that now exist and an actual registry. Again, ignoring the point. Stopping shootings is about stopping guns. Obviously you don't understand the second. It's literally explained in this video. And yes, a standing army, specifically the standing militia of every state, negates the need for the second. You are literally misinterpreting it while explaining how people misinterpret it. More misinterpretation while claiming others are misinterpreting, it's pathetic. A pro-gun advocate who doesn't understand the second isn't exactly new, pretty sad really. Completely unable to actually argue the points so you try to attack me personally. Pathetic. Read a book kid.
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