American reacts to Staggering Gun Statistics about America 

The lobbyists have convinced the American public that *any* gun regulation is more horrific than the stagering amount of avoidable gun deaths (and crime). 🎉

It's really not that nuanced. Every other country on the planet has decided human lives are more important than the need inadequates have for a murder weapon. Nobody outside the US can understand why Americans would rather lose their children than their guns. Even in Yemen, the US is seen as lawless and violent.

"What a controversial subject" something only an American can say about logical and sensible gun reform, without a hint of irony. Even someone as sensible and relatively well educated as Ryan.

Its quite simple. Every country that has suffered a mass shootinh has restricted guns because they value kids lives over owning guns. Except one. One country decided that shredding young kids to bits with bullets is ok as long as they can keep guns. And that is one reason the world hold's that country in utter contempt.

Keep in mind that every illegal gun in the US once was a legal gun. Someone legally purchase it and then either lost it, sold it to someone else, or had it stolen from them. You do not get many illegal guns in a country where it's hard to own a gun legally. Guns usually are not stolen from the manufacturer or the store (much higher security), they're stolen from private owners.

Almost all gun crime is committed with legally owned guns.

You dont need to be a gun expert when you see those horrible numbers, just need more then 2 brain cells.

Sad that a supposed civilised society values the right to own a gun above the safety of their children. And that's a fact !

You might want to look up „list of countries by intentional homicide rate“ USA 6.4 per 100k per year Germany 0.8 And now think about how 1.2 guns per capita in the USA ply into this. 🤔

I am Lithuanian and my brother just got a gun. He had to go through training, medical assesment, mental assesment etc. It took him roughly a year to get throuth everything to get it. And he'll have to go through mental assesment every few years

USA: "Everyone has a gun, therefore everyone needs a gun!"

What I find wild is when the 2nd ammendment was drafted the guns they had were muskets. I don't think they would give everyone the right to bear arms if they could see the firearms that are around now. To us Europeans your gun laws are nuts and although I quite like guns, I find your gun culture bonkers. You see nutters at protests with assault rifles, why civilians need assault rifles is puzzling...

Me, a European: wait, what is a automatic gun and a semi-automatic gun and what't the difference to an normal gun? At 1:27 Ryan, a typical US citizen: makes a detailed explanation about all types of guns, loopholes in gun laws...

Funny how U S Americans are always pumped to be No.1 - even if it is in a terrible way as seen by other nations.

The real problem is that so many in the US feels the need to have guns, whether for self-defence or to protect against the government or whatever. That to me suggest there's a much deeper, fundamental problem with the fabric of society in the US for so many Americans to feel the need to have arms. For me, the real problem I see in the US is having such a weak social system across the board in everything from health care, workers rights, food standards and countless more, and this all boils down to this individual nature over the collective working together, the US is the odd country out of all the modern countries and even many developing countries that isn't moving with the times in so many areas and the American are paying a high price for that in areas that most Americans don't even realise because of ignorance of the rest of the world, it's kinda sad to see, but shocking at the kind of arrogance some Americans show of others outside the US. Basically, the US can't really solve its gun problem without solving many of its other problems in society, because a lot of the issue are intertwined together in American society, in other words, you have to fix many of the issues to fix the core issues, and that isn't going to be easy as many of those issues are big and honestly, I don't think the US can do it without a major revolution for change, something Europeans and many other modern countries got after the second world war, but the second world war was a major impact that forced change at a political and public level and now Europeans and other modern countries are benefitting from that, the US not so much.

That there have to be a police presence in schools is pretty telling.

In Canada you have to pass a gun safety test to be allowed to TOUCH a gun outside of a safety course. Rifles are almost the only legal guns, as those are what hunters use and the other types are mostly for killing humans. It helps with controlling crime as just the existence of a handgun means the cops can arrest them. Our biggest flaw in our gun control is that the USA is a big neighbour with plentiful guns. So, if the USA controlled handguns it would be way more effective for both them and us.

My brother and I were bored one day and decided to do some math. Here goes. In the time frame of 2014 to 2022, USA, population 332 million, had 4011 shootings. In that same time frame, Serbia, population 6.8 million, had 5 shootings. If the USA had the same rate of shootings as Serbia, yall would have had 244 shootings in that time period. And vice versa, if Serbia had the same rate of shootings as USA, we would have had 82 shootings in that time period. USA has a problem, and it baffles me.

Mexican from Mexico City here, despite de bad press about México, it feels very foreign to me, my family and circle to have guns, I cant find a single good reason for a person to have a gun of any kind, automatic, semi automatic or otherwise. I have the great fortune to live in a semi rural area where my neighbors' kids can still play safe in the street or in my garden or any other neighbor's house garden. I feel really distubed when I see the news about a kid finding his parent's gun and "unliving" a friend or taking it to school to "look cool" and causing an accident. It is very akward and a bit of cynical that the Kinder Surprise candy were banned in the US, but they cant agree to ban guns. Yes I know a mexican saying that feels the same way with all of the cartel and stuff, but believe me, normal people, good people do not carry nor need guns.

In America if you leave your house, get in a car, go to a shop or anywhere else you are likely to encounter someone, possibly with an everday appearance and demeanor, who is carrrying an armed gun! 🤔 How likely is it that every armed person you encounter can control their emotions and be rational? The only safe way to defuse any dispute is conversation, empathy and law! 👍

it is said, that if people have a weapon, there is a high risk that they will use it in an argument at some point.

About the 58% killed women - you may imagine it could be caused by the availability of a gun at home.

You said you’ve never heard of the Falklands ….its a British overseas territory

60,000 gun deaths in the USA last year 25 in the UK Need I say any more. Just ban guns what's the problem? We ban medicines and drugs and things that kill us so why not firearms. And the channel has 20 million subscribers|(M20)

In Australia, gun violence is not the same issue, but unfortunately the statistics on the murder of women remains the same.

The numbers says it all... USA: 120 civilian firearms per 100 people and 12.2 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(4.4 homicide/7.3 suicide) Canada: 34.7 civilian firearms per 100 people and 2 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(0.5 homicide/1.5 suicide) EU: 18 civilian firearms per 100 people and 1.49 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(0.23 homicide/1.12 suicide) Australia: 14.8 civilian firearms per 100 people and 0.88 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(0.15 homicide/0.72 suicide) UK: 4-5 civilian firearms per 100 people and 0.23 firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year(0.06 homicide/0.15 suicide) The numbers are from pre-pandemic but they should still be fairly similar now. For those with sharp minds that see the homicide and suicide numbers dont add up to the total then I can say that it is because a small number of the firearm-related deaths are undetermined or accidents and such.

This is only a "Hugely Controversial" topic, if you're an American who's got an addiction to guns. The rest of us (everyone who is not American) think owning a gun is INSANITY!! Future Americans will look back at "the right to own a gun" with the same "Shame" as the legalisation of slavery.

The issue with guns in the USA is all about the culture. There are many other countries that have lots of guns, they are just not as ignorant and irresponsible as americans. Honestly, your entire society is brainwashed in weird ways. For example, your ''freedom eagle sound'' is actually a red tailed hawk, not an eagle. Also, we can't just go to a Walmart and buy a gun without a permit, we have some form of control

You wouldn't give a gun to someone who is mentally unstable. What does the desire to own a gun say about your mental stability?

The Falkland Islands are British territory that was invaded by Argentina in 1982. This led to the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina which lasted for approximately 3-4 months. The British defeated Argentina at the cost of some 255 British deaths and 649 Argentinian deaths. Another consequence is that it made the British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher popular with the public, before the invasion she was widely hated in the UK. This helped keep her in power until 1990.

A gun is a gun. Whether automatic or not. Life in the states is cheap. Must, hold up the second ammendment, and be able to defend ourselves. This was true 150 years ago. Not now. An English man's home is his castle, yes we want to protect our families and homes, that's why we have the police and courts.

I'll never will understand why would someone want guns to be legal! For me it's surreal!

Mental health of gun owners is something I wasn't expecting from this video, and is something we all should reflect upon.

As someone who's deeply suicidal I don't see the "disturbing" nature of people using them to kill themselves. It seems like a good way to go to me and I'm happy those people don't have to suffer anymore

In Germany we have a 50:50 rule according suicides. 50% of train drivers experience a so called "person accident" on the tracks and 50% have to stop working because of PTSD after that. So there are some advantages that americans commit suicide with their guns at home.

ok i asked google 2022 in usa 17.310 deaths by gun (sucide not included) in germany 155 deaths by gun...wow almost a war zone in usa i am shocked...i mean 155 is high but usa omg clearly the best country in the world ^^ maybe usa needs more guns to safe the sitiuation ^^

Okay, actual question to Americans: We often hear the argument that "most guns used in crimes are illegal, therefore regulation wouldn't help", but then you also have the statistics from the ATF that always say that a vast majority of illegal guns, like 80% or something, are bought from official, but corrupt, gun dealerships. So the "illegal" guns are bought from the legal shops that the regulation would crack down on and force to have better supervision. So how would regulation not affect the illegal/trafficked gun purchases? It seems you could get most illegal guns off the streets without even touching the 2nd Amendment for most people, just by enforcing the laws and supervision that is already legally in place but all the gun dealerships just ignore

The only thing I'd have on guns is that a really comprehensive course for gun safety should be mandatory. For the rest, in my country they ask the local police if that guy should be allowed to own a firearm. If they know the guy in a bad way they will say no, usually they say go ahead.

In the EU/EFTA, Switzerland sits at the high end of the in regard to gun ownership, others include the relatively thinly populated Nordic countries like Iceland, Sweden, and Finland. Most men in Switzerland do military service which includes refresher courses every year or so until the age of about 30. During this time, they keep their army issued weapons at home (usually a handgun and a rifle). It is relatively easy as well to hang onto your army-issued weapons after that (you have to show that regularly train with them). Probably a consequence of this is that Switzerland has a rate of suicide by gun roughly twice that in many other EU/EFTA countries. The majority of those suicides are carried out with army-issued weapons.

But the statistics show clearly that relatively speaking most firearms related incidents are in the south. And I would guess that most of those are with legally owned firearms, and in big cities such as Chicago with illegal weapons.

How is it easily trafficked? You don't need to. It's much harder to get them across the border when you can easily go to gunshows and have loopholes to buy every gun there or ask the nice shady dealership, buy a gun, register ist and have the rest sold to you so you can scratch off any indicators.

Why have gun control, when you have "Thoughts and prayers"?

The saddest thing is that these statistics even exist. Gun laws in the UK and Australia were more relaxed at one point but all it took was 1 mass schoolshooting in each country and everything changed witin such a short space of time it was staggering. It shows that it can be done The difference the the mindset of the people. I find it sad that people will put their rights to own a gun, over the right for a child to live safely or to live at all. Shameful.

yeah numbers are wild. i remember seeing some from 2021. each year you had 49000 gun related deaths. thats 20x your casualties in iraq. in 5 years same amount as casualties in the vietnam war. do you still think guns is a good thing in the hands of civilians ? there are war zones safer than US.

Here in the UK we just don't feel the need to own guns. We are not afraid of our neighbours, or of the Government. Everyone having access to firearms makes people afraid of each other, to the point of paranoia. More murders are committed because using a gun is so easy, & can just take a moments madness, other forms of murder are more difficult. The highest proportion of suicides here is among farmers, who are much more likely to have & use guns. The more guns the more deaths by guns. The US also has a high murder rate through knife crime than here in UK, & higher crime levels overall. Alaska probably has many gun suicides.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice 40% of guns used in criminal acts were obtained illegaly (staying stable around 40% for decades now). It is a big chunk, for sure, but most crimes committed with guns are done so with legal guns. 80% of all murders in 2021 were committed with a firearm involvement. 55% of all suicides were done using a gun. PS. As others have pointed out, "illegal" does usually not mean filed off serial number and bought at a corner, it most often means, "taken without permission from someone who owns a gun legally".

Really glad we don't generally have easy access to guns here. As someone who stuggles with bouts of depression, I'm pretty sure there have been a couple of times I would have come close to, if not actualy done something. As far as US and gun control goes, Swiss model needs to be looked at. People are encouraged to own and practice shooting but the legislation is strict and training is mandatory and high quality.

Question from a french guy : What are the top 3 reasons to possess firearms ?

I am European. I can't fathom watching this and not thinking guns are the problem. Have you ever heard of Thomas Hobbes?

My brother lives in rural Crete. He says there are guns of all types, even the local priest has one! The Cretans don't go around shooting each other though.

Imagine being so tied to the idea of ‘freedom’ you limit other’s freedoms and security

You (Ryan) is really good at repeating NRA talking points - cudos.

I once heard someone on a radio show say that the most dangerous thing a woman can do is live with a man. I think it is true no matter what country she lives in. The statistics on mens violence against women is shocking.

The weirdest part to most people outside the US is THAT there is a controversy, but I‘ll go for a different Angle: How to go and do stupid stuff: Option one: A knife, needs to be close, people can run. Two: a vehicle: you‘ll get a few people, but the rest can dodge and your chances to get away are usually quite bad, also registered and expensive as hell Three: bomb/sabotage, needs continued anger to prep and planning to commit, also needs skill A gun: has range, fairly cheap to get, bad to nonexistent registry, not suspicious per se to own and sometimes even carry in the US, most bang for buck, easy enough to use. Now, how to get one: buy from a licensed store legally, do illegal things: takes a waiting time, you may not have a criminal record. Buy from corrupt store: take your pick, but illegal for both on its face, thus usually pricey. Steal from store: pain in the ass, gun serial number probably registered as stolen soon. Steal from random home: risky, not much choice in what to take. Buy at gun show: in many states perfectly legal with no checks and thus no risk to seller, thus low crime markup Buy privately; usually also completely untraceable and legal. Smuggle a gun into the us? Lots of hurdles, when plenty of legit guys can do it legally, why bother… And in the end, sadly, the most effective way to stop people from shooting other people seems to be getting guns out of the hands of people and stopping the people from just giving guns to unknown people (being held legally responsible for example would be a deterrent to just giving guns to someone you don’t trust, raising the odds, the guy gets stopped before committing a crime)

"Britain vs Argentina: Falklands War" by Historigraph You should give it a watch, it's very very interesting.

There was one in a water park in recent days too. Nowhere is safe in America.

Either Abolish or Amend the 2nd Amendment. Keep weapons out of the hands of civilians. Farmers and police yes. Everyone else NO.

Nothing wrong with not being right, that's how you learn stuff

The Supreme court made a ruling on the bump stock ban. Clarence Thomas made the ruling that by using a bump stock, the trigger still had to be "pulled" for the bullet to be fired. Even though you aren't pulling the trigger, the trigger has to be repeatedly pulled for multiple shots. A machine gun on the other hand, the trigger only has to be pulled once for multiple shots. So to Thomas' logic, a gun fitted with a bump stock isn't a machine gun and therefore legal. As of today (or yesterday) bump stocks are fully legal in America. Only time will tell on how bad this ruling is.

I'm sorry Ryan, maybe I misunderstood your take on gun safety, so apologies in advance if I did. Gun safety is not just about how to operate a gun safely. It also encompasses the proper and safe storage of a gun and about controlling who has/hasn't access to it.

The stats about women being killed is truly appalling ! Please though, let’s not forget the men taking their own lives , some of whom are probably dealing with a spiteful woman not allowing him to see his kids and/or milking him of all of his money ! Us humans are truly abhorrent !

It's 20 Medium subscribers. It refers to their shirt size.

Henry Rollins loves traveling so when he is not working he travels and he always picks places the the news in the US declares dangerous he has only bin in fear for his life 2 times both times were in the US just think about that

Germany has lots of guns but the owners of them are mostly collectors and competition shooters aswell as some hunters. Its fairly easy to get a small caliber rifle like a .22 if you join a "Schießverein". You cant take it home if you dont have a licence for it though so you can only shoot it at the range. Edit: Oh yeah and we have a festival called "Schützenfest" where people get drunk then take turns shooting a shotgun at a wooden bird until the last piece of it crumbles off and that guy is then the new Schützenkönig (shooter king?) for the year

2:02 Gun safety is more than how to safely use a firearm. Safety protocols includes how to safely store or secure your gun, and an awareness of potential misuse,, for example, from an innocent child that may stumble upon a gun sitting on a bedside table.

Well I just learnt something new today. Mar a Lago is located on Palm Beach, which is an island off the coast from West Palm Beach.

Actually over 70% of mass shootings are done with legal guns.

what i find amazing, is how little they know, about there own country and guns, i can tell you, in the uk we banned guns after 1996, after dunblain, but i can tell there, there has been no mass shooting since i can tell you that 200k children at school in the US i have seen gun violence in school in one form or another since columbine(spell check) i can also tell you, your 80% more likely to die from police shootings, because you have the 2nd amendment, to open carry in many states but you will die. you might die because of defective headlight, and you reach for documents asked for The reason, you give guns, to police, who have criminal convictions, untrained, have no idea of the law, they do 26 weeks training, off you go which is 6 months, it takes 5 years training to be hairdresser, it takes 5 years for lawyers to learn the law it takes years to learn a trade but it takes 6 months, to learn how to use a gun, make people dance in the street, to see if they had a drink, the tech is out there, but will not be used, because of corruption and money, every arrest is subjection, not proved, 70% are thrown out in court Lets get onto the dogs, the shiffer dogs are broken, they hit every time, nothing ever found america is corrupt, its out of hand, and becoming whites only, who else wanted the perfect race

murica.... the only country that teaches children active shooter drills before they learn to ride a bike.

The Falkland Islands is not it's own country so therefore it doesnt count when considering independent countries... Also, I find it baffling that Ryan has NEVER HEARD of the Falkland Islands....

The Texas one I did know, purely because a friend is from Texas originally (not any longer, now lives (lived, he was a doctor and a COVID statistic unfortunately) )in Ireland and was more than happy - pleased in fact - to abide by our even stricter regulations for the many guns (hunting only) he kept in his incredibly secure gun safe. Interestingly the graph I found for state with the most deaths and weakest gun laws showed Wyoming at the top, Arkansas next and then Alaska.

2:16 If you don't control guns and ensure that people who for instance have documented mental health issues that might impair their judgement don't have guns you don't *have* gun safety, so yes, it's very much the same issue... It's about ensuring that guns don't cause harm, either through ignorance or accidents or intentionally because people either don't think straight or just doesn't care about their fellow citizens...

I thought Switzerland was higher up on the gun owner list. Then again, they used to be neutral...

It's sad to think that American's feel the only way to be safe is to own a gun. It's a terrible way to live when you think of it that way. What is also sad is that people go about their day and don't know if the person next to them is carrying a gun and are they happy today or are they depressed and easily triggered to use that gun.

I would have said Florida as having the highest death rate. I would have been wrong.

As a french I really like that guy, smiling and chilly with a good attitude with te videos. But truly from my heart the more videos i see on the defferences between america and other countries or just how america work, the less i want to even touch that cursed land. Don't get me wrong, there is good thing, the second amendment and being able to have weapons for self-defense IS good. (in france we have some problem between "no gun no kill" and the fact that the "reals guns" are anyway illegally use by gangs and that kill people disarms.

You never heard about the FALKLANDS? Look up the Falkland war.

38,000 gun deaths in in 2016 but 43,000 in 2020, 2021 and 2022 with gun suicides reaching almost 27000 a year (on a total of 50.000 suicides a year)

Americans know virtually nothing about a lot of things but suddenly become geniuses when it comes to guns. I don't know if that's funny or tragic.

I live in Norway, I have guns. No handguns, but a semi 22LR. The rest is bolt action rifles in 6,5, 308 and 30-06. And a couple of 12G's. For hunting, we don't need guns for self protection over here. I grew up with guns, my father was an intelligence officer in not te army, it's more like milita grups "under" the army, short of. We had fully automatic weapons in the house. All in these groups do. It's a long time ago, so it was a AG3 and a MP5. Point being, I grew up with gun safty. Of course guns can be dangerous, that is short of why they are made. BUT, so is driving a car. Everything is dangerous if you, or others around you don't know what they are doing. But they are heavily regulated here, the last gun I applied for was a German Mauser from 1938 in 30-06. It took 8 months!!! And that was far from my first gun. :)

Hadn't the SCOTUS just thrown out the ban on bump stocks, when this came out?

When I hear Americans talk about guns and regulation, I always think of battered wives. We say: "honey, leave him" and the battered wife replies: "but you don't see him when he's being sweet, he can be so loving...". "Yeah, but he BEATS you". "But I love him, you don't understand". And it's true, people in healthy relationships DON'T understand. This is a country where guns are cheap and plentiful but health costs are high, where they wear helmets to play football but not to ride motorcycles.

Capital "M" generally one million, at least in Europe.

It's a shame that America is so gun cultured . Let's hope that you find a true way .

And what’s causing these men to do these crimes? Loss of their homes. Children, finances maybe? Definitely not condoning it but the cause needs to be treated not just the effect

You're right about the partner murders, even the suic!des... that's not really because of guns. But of course, if there's a gun right in there in the drawer.. the path between thought and action is significantly shorter.

Funny how everyone seems to ignore the "well-regulated militia" part of the second amendment which seems to strongly indicate its meant to be for something like the National Guard rather than any old yahoo. (Another solution would be to only permit firearms that were widespread at the time of the constitution - you can buy all the muskets you like but no rifles, revolvers, etc. Its a lot more difficult to have a mass shooting or long-distance assassination when your gun barrel has no rifling and you need to muzzle-load after every shot!)

0:43 M stands for Million

We Brits had a huge reform about 15 years ago when many school children were shot in a classroom at school.

During the Australian firearm reform debate in 1996, in Western Australia it was reported that about 17,000 licensed owners possessed a total of approx. 250,000 registered guns.

Alaska has the highest gun death rate in the US. "But Alaska doesn't have very many people". Now, you know why.

11:48 how much of that question is due to health care price issues and not wanting to be a burden on their loved ones?

I hate cereal killers, I like good breakfast!

The daily show made a fun video about gun culture in Switzerland 😂

WRT to the suicide question, aren't the facts there wrong, too, because I thought there was no federal requirement to report gun-related stuff so the full statistics simply don't exist.

Americans reluctance to regulate guns is baffling to me. You have a unique problem with guns, and refuse to learn from countries, that does not have that problem....mind blowing Edit: Falkland Islands is part of the UK.

Yeah, Yemen is number 2 (if you don't count The Falkland Islands because they are a British Territory) - and according to Wikipedia you have more than twice as many firearms per capita than Yemen. And in figures of total firearms you're in 1st place too, followed by India. You have more than 5,5 times as many firearms in the US and in total more than place 2 to 34 combined. Honestly that's VERY scary...

Sorry to tell you Ryan. The US is not number 1. I don't think it ever was.

Never heard of the Falkland Islands. 1982. The War between Argentina and the UK. Warships sunk and hundreds killed.

If I imagine all the crazy people in my neighborhood would have easy access to guns I would be terrified, and get a gun too. And since there are no "defence rifles" I'd settle with an "assault rifle" 😆