Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "Gun Yoga Fail: The Fagnus Revolver" video.

Between guns and beer, the Belgians make a lot of really cool shit.
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Willard Lentz I don't know what their gun laws are like, but I assume that since it's Europe, they're shitty. Shame that the country that brought us FN can't even buy their products
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Corentin Naisse That sounds absurd to me. I go to a gun shop, see a gun I want, give them money, they do a background check by making a phone call to the National Instant Check System (NICS) to confirm I'm not a convicted felon or other prohibited person, and I walk out with my gun. I can also buy a firearm from a private person as opposed to a gun shop with no government involvement whatsoever. And despite what you've probably heard, shootings with legal firearms are extremely rare in the US as well.
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Corentin Naisse Orval is good, Trappistes Rochefort 10 is my favorite beer of all time (as of yet), and Belgium is the one country that I will easily admit makes better beer than the US (we've passed Britain and Germany a while ago). I'm also a big fan of your Flemish reds/Oude bruins/whatever you call them there (because we don't have a set name for the style). But yeah, if you have private firearm sales, plus your beer, I know where I'm moving if the US ever goes to shit. Just need to learn to speak Vlaams
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Corentin Naisse By the way, if you're Belgian, if you can get me some Westvleteren XII, I'd be more than willing to pay good money for it. I can't afford a trip to Belgium to buy a case of beer, but I want that beer desperately.
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keith moore Raising an army is FAR easier said than done. Use the democratic process instead (not like there's much of that left in the EU, but still)
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peabase No, it doesn't have its merits. Restricting gun rights is tyrannical and inexcusable. It makes nobody safer, in fact, tightening gun laws virtually always leads to a spike in crime. Basically, freedom is dependent on four boxes: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. In Europe, the soap box is already heavily restricted, and you can be imprisoned for what is arbitrarily called "hate". The ballot box is also less of a protection, as bureaucrats in Brussels make laws for everyone. And now you're losing the cartridge box, with is liberty's last line of defense. So don't be a fool, don't think they're keeping you safe, because they're not. They're just further infringing on your very agency as a human being. It's just one more step down the path to an Orwellian nightmare.
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peabase A deactivated SMG. Why on earth would you buy such idiocy? Congratulations, you own a movie prop at best. It may have been a firearm at some point, but it sure isn't now. And guess what? If I wanted an oversized paperweight like that, I could buy it too, except without restrictions, because it is in no sense an actual firearm. But hey, you need a massive, supernational bureaucracy to make sure it's safe for you to own a paperweight, and you thank them for it, as they pass magazine restrictions and arbitrary bans on calibers and whatever other idiocy they think of next. And then you repeat "assault rifle", which shows me that you don't really know much about firearms at all, because that moronic term is only popular among gun control nuts, and has no actual meaning other than "gun that some asshole thinks is scary looking". A very few US states have arbitrary laws about "assault rifles" on the books, I don't live in one of them, and the rest of us are good. Your referring to the US electoral system as "flawed" shows your gross ignorance. Our electoral system (assuming you mean the electoral college) is specifically designed so that a couple of large states do not get to take control of the entire country. Like you know how Germany controls the EU? California can't do the same to the US, because of the electoral college. This is a very good thing to have. Yes, we elected Trump, and yes, Trump is somewhat of a clown. But considering who he was running against, it's a relief that he was elected. And instead of hiring his friends, as you say, he's mostly actually hiring smart people who are qualified for their jobs - James Mattis was floated as a 3rd party candidate against Trump, Ben Carson and Rick Perry actually did run against him, Nikki Haley refused to endorse him, etc. And as far as bypassing congress, that was Hussein Obama you're thinking of. Yeah, Trump is far from perfect, but at least he's not Angela Merkel.
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peabase So you payed money for something that you had to destroy. You're a fool for doing so. I'm sure there's plenty of memorabilia from the Winter War or whatever your grandfather was in that doesn't need to be destroyed. Why not just get a Finnish Mosin Nagant (can't remember the designation? They're readily available in the US, so I imagine they're everywhere in Finland. It makes no sense to buy guns that don't work and can't be made to. You're making a bad point on democracy. Running the military, for instance, as Mattis does, isn't something that should be an elected position. Nor is it something that any US president since Eisenhower (or chief executive of most other countries) is qualified to do. Executive orders are not legislation, they're directives on how legislation should be executed. They've been misused in the past, but there's nothing wrong with them in theory. At least Germany doesn't control US domestic policy. Oh, and this idiotic EU gun legislation also restricts magazine capacity to 20 in short semi-automatics and 10 for long ones. But hey, at least they let you keep what you already have (for now). Wouldn't you rather that laws regulating what guns you own be made for Finns by Finns in Helsinki than for Germans and Italians and whatnot by Germans and Italians and Greeks and everyone else in Brussels?
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peabase I'm not sure what you're failing to understand here. First, a gun that has been deliberately destroyed so as to render it inoperable is a stupid purchase. Full stop. You wouldn't buy a car with the axle cut up with a torch and concrete poured into the engine block, would you? There is a vast difference between an organic union (so to speak) like the US and a forced one like the EU. Americans are one people with a shared history, language, and culture. It's not the same as taking twenty someodd countries as different as Finland and Greece and thrusting them into a supernational union that destroys national sovereignty. It's far more akin to the USSR than the US, though admittedly not nearly as horrible - yet. In the US, cabinet members are unelected, but they also have no legislative power. This is very important. All our laws must originate in one of the two houses of congress, who are elected and accountable to voters. This is not how the EU works. I'm not sure if you're failing to grasp these differences or being deliberately obtuse. Again, you're shouting some nonsense about "assault rifles", a term that we've fully established is meaningless. And some sophistry about how if you're in the military reserves, your magazines and semiauto rifles are exempt from various bans. How lovely. See, I got out of the military (USMC) in 2007, and my final reserve obligation ended in 2011. But I like having semiautomatic rifles with standard capacity magazines. And the cool thing about being American is that I can buy them with minimal hassle, regardless of the fact that I'm not in the reserves. And whatever insane laws that the Germans and French want regarding firearms have literally zero effect on me, because I live in a country that doesn't submit its sovereignty to a creepy supernational organization.
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***** I prefer pancakes
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Corentin Naisse What kind of absurd licensing do you have to go through to buy them though?
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Corentin Naisse What's the chance of a Belgexit? The EU is awful in basically every way, and the more countries that leave, the better for just about everyone in Europe.
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peabase Any laws regulating deactivated firearms are prima facie absurd. You're literally talking about regulating ornaments to hang on walls. Deactivated firearms can't just magically be put into action with a will and a rat - tail file. This idiocy I'm talking about was passed by bureaucrats in Brussels that you didn't vote for, approved by a commission that nobody voted for, and has the force of law throughout Europe. That's not how a democratic system works. As for free press, that's obviously failed you if you buy that horseshit about how stripping you of rights keeps you safe. But hey, you can choose to ignore it all if you want.
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peabase Um, you're the one who isn't getting it. First, "assault rifle" is a ridiculous political term that doesn't mean much. Second, you seem to fail to understand what a deactivated firearm is. Third, the latest EU nonsense also has a load of restrictions on actual firearms. Fourth, had the open borders EU not helped to create the current migrant crisis, there wouldn't be an issue with terrorism in the first place. Fifth, the EU commission is entirely unelected. But hey, chug down that Kool-aid and keep applauding while liberty is stripped away.
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Corentin Naisse I'm not really interested in deactivated firearms (though I'd LOVE to buy a "deactivated" machine gun that just needed a firing pin), what I'm interested in is the restrictions on actual working firearms. First, I don't think that any government has any legitimate need to register any firearms transition. I've bought guns - completely legally, mind you - in private transfers where I give the previous owner cash and he gives me the gun, just like one would buy basically anything else. I live in Pennsylvania, and the state of Pennsylvania has no idea what guns I own, because I don't have to register them. This is a good thing. The state of Pennsylvania has no rational basis to have a list of what guns I own, and the federal government much less so. Something like 40% of Americans own guns, and throughout the overwhelming majority of the country, crime isn't an issue. The places where crime is an issue are also invariably the places with absurd gun laws, like Chicago. Basically, what I'm saying is that because a couple of people did something horrible is no reason to further restrict the rights of all of the decent people in Europe, especially when the issue is that those people should have never been there in the first place. Also, gun bans won't change anything. I guarantee that anyone with the proper motivation can get any weapon under the sun from some former Soviet republic, or from across the Mediterranean. These new laws, like any law, only effect the law abiding. People intent on committing evil deeds will find a way. Murder is illegal in basically every jurisdiction on earth, and yet it still happens regularly. However, it used to be that every free man was expected to own and be familiar with the weapons of his day, whether that be a pike in Switzerland or a longbow in England. This is a good paradigm. Every man should still be familiar with the weapons of his day, and should not require permission from the state to own them. And when that permission comes not from the state itself, but an international superstate, that's far worse. Laws coming from Brussels should never affect anyone outside of the borders of Belgium. The same is true of any country on earth. I don't want laws passed in Brussels or Ottawa or Ankara or Tokyo or London to have anything to do with me, it's bad enough that I have to deal with Washington. Laws that affect the Czechs ought to come out of Prague, written and enacted by Czech legislators, not out of Brussels and written by Germans.
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