Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "American Gun Violence: How We Got Here" video.

  1. I imagine the returning boomerang was basically made as a kids toy to help them learn how to use the real thing?
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  2.  @tardvandecluntproductions1278  Not necessarily. Austria and Czechia (especially Czhechia) have fairly high rates of it and comparatively lax laws on it with Shall issue laws and Czechia having a law which mirrors the Second Amendment but predates the USA by 200 years and literally only were disarmed during Fascist and Communist occupation. You're thinking of the Swiss which is that of a military context for the most part. The rest, not so much as they either have very strict laws and very few people at all owning firearms or they're the Austrians and Czechs.
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  3. 24:28 This is incredibly disingenuous and the appeal to the early gun control in the early parts of the video is equally disingenuous. Much of the gun control in the early colonies had to do with limiting groups that we'd now see as protected. On top of this, while you had laws about it being to the militia and early rights, this didn't necessarily transfer to the newly formed states and in fact you had examples such as a letter from the president saying he could arm his ship with canons and many of the restrictions post revolutionary war being ordinance restrictions basically on the grounds of noise complaints. "You can own your Canon but please don't fire it near the city because it's loud" On top of this, you basically lied when you said the reason for the second amendment as it stands was to prevent the government from preventing the states being able to fight back. It was written as is to prevent people from mandatory military service requirements. Not to simply oppose the federal government. On top of this it was created in an environment where most of Europe was disarmed and thus was created basically in opposition to Europe's lack of firearms among the citizenry except in a few key places where it was often a requirement to own it basically because they got invaded so often. This is honestly a pretty disingenuous look at things and you've now gone through half of the video basically praising gun control and bashing on firearms advertisements because guns, but haven't really addressed the cultural predilections toward violence which persists even without guns as the US has a high homicide rate even without firearms. US has a higher knife crime rate than Britain and it's the 3rd most used weapon for the US while the first in Britain. I was hoping to get an actual cultural breakdown but what I'm getting is a fairly half-baked history lesson and a bashing of advertising. At least get the history and context right guys.
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  4. 29:39 I wonder what major event happened between 2019 and 2020 which sent everything into overdrive? Hmmm. I've absolutely 0 clue.
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  5. 31:22 Yeah the data doesn't support that. At all. And most major media scandals on it end up coming out with the man being armed. So that's actually a lie. I understand that all videos are self-contained narratives where you tend to push aside things which don't really support your argument, but this didn't need to be in the video, this isn't even relevant to the point, but you brought it up anyway and it's wrong. I think you need a new research and writers room. Or to stick to the script. I was going to respond to the point about the defensive uses of a firearm (the absolute lowest actually slightly above 60 thousand which is still notably higher than all deaths), but this is much more important. This is silly, this is propaganda pushing, and it's disrespectful to your audience.
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