The Daily Show - Gun Control Whoop-de-doo (ft. John Oliver) 

There is no point

Exactly. Drug laws are aimed at demographics that people in power feel like they need to control through an overbearing justice system. Drug laws are never enforced on rich white kids who clearly deal and take drugs as part of everyday life. It's exactly the same for gun laws. They were aimed at disarming black people at a time when black people were arming for self-defense, but unfortunately banning guns has become a fairy tale that promises all kind of utopian peace, when in reality banning guns achieves pretty much nothing.

@@antidamageable Not entirely true.

@@FBI-ju5no yeah but tbh, close enough. The drug war is a failure.

@@20deepini It is a failure, make no mistake. However, rich white kids do get punished for various drug related offenses. Also, and this is only my opinion, I kinda doubt that drug laws were specifically designed to target anyone in particular, or to disarm anyone either. Logically speaking, how exactly would drug laws prevent anyone from arming themselves? You need excessive finances to do both, so for the common people, you really have to do one or the other. If anything, it seems like such laws would motivate people to give up on the drugs, and start arming themselves more. Like I said, this is just my opinion, and I'll never claim to be an expert on this subject, but it doesn't seem like what the commenter I was responding to suggested, at least not in total.

amazing interview

"Let me think about that for a minute"

yep, and his face was just falling apart :D

No matter how many times I rewatch it, it still kills me. ^^

Gun control won't work in america because they are taught aggression from a very young age. They are just aggressive people. Look what happened in Sandy hook elementary, small babies died, but still they are so aggressive in keeping their arms. They are proud of their ultra-aggressive nature, their wildness.

Lies again? Control oil

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XbkNIoJ-9jY.html Just throwing this out there

a broken clock is right twice a day also that man is insane

thos extra blinks spoke louder than him

"OK OK OK I see it all so clearly now.... We should outlaw private pools."

And a Peabody award

hold my beer, Whoop-de-do

@@ToddHowar.d Right over your head huh

Roseand Stem I see now I’ve been r/woosh’d, damn it

and his own award for helping koalas who fucked to much

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XbkNIoJ-9jY.html Just throwing this out there

TheRealBeatMaster Do you know why there is the second Amendment?

Pvt Torres Because that's how the 18th century worked

''That's my point'' is one of the funniest things I've ever heard on a TV show. Context makes everything.

The problem is that it doesn't work. People are entitled to their stupidity, regardless of how many lives it claims... even people in his position. I feel really sorry anyone with common sense living in the US, must be torture to think about all this..

Marqan it does work. Why are you saying it doesn't work, it clearly worked in Australia. You are no different than the man being interviewed by Oliver.

Thats..........progress?! 🤭

Its evolving, just backwards.

Shootings are due to mental illness and poverty. Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

@@TheSm1thers people kill people But with guns

@@lukepimblott7141 Yeah but they don't kill people because of guns.

Yeah but thats no Problem The more guns the more accidents with Guns totally normal to him

It's an idiot, making arguments for idiots, to fill some air so other idiots can keep blocking any kind of meaningful legislation to have a group of amoral a-holes (who might be idiots) can keep making money. In other words: He doesn't need to make good arguments. Because back then, just as today, it's not about rational thoughts and arguments.

@@Shuizid It was always about rational thought. The idea that you could protect everyone with simple laws is secondary to personal liberty. They say gun control worked in Australia but did it actually lower crime? No it didn't and the us is 14x larger than them, yet has fewer rapes. They also still have shootings over there, so it is a failure. Criminals still have guns and law abiding citizens don't.

@@pperry6715 The US has fewer "reported" rapes. Doesn't mean less rapes are happening. And did you know, that before commiting a crime, a criminal is actually a law-abiding cirizen? So if a law-abiding citizen buys a gun and then commits a crime, we got a criminal with a gun. If law abiding citizen cannot buy guns, they would need to become criminals first BEFORE having a gun just for trying to buy it. And buying things on the black market is a lot harder than buying something at Walmart. Hence gun control would significantly reduce the number of criminals with guns. Also who cares about law-abiding citizens having guns? Does it in any way reduce crimes? Well no, the US has a high crime-rate, as well as a high rate of mass-shootings. Gun ownership doesn't make anything better - talking about failures xD

@@Shuizid You have no idea what you're talking about. You know nothing of the connected in this country and the way guns are moving. I have seen it first hand, it isn't as hard to get black market guns are you think it is. Also, they have shootings in Australia, that means it is a failure! Why, because they cannot legally go into the store and buy them anymore, yet criminals seem to have them. Here's another tip for you, being a criminal comes down to intent. If they purchased the gun to commit the crime, they've already premeditated it and thus they have criminal intent. Law Abiding Citizens do not buy guns with the idea they're going to shoot somebody as soon as they get it. I know tons of people that have at least 4 different guns, not one of them has ever shot anyone with them or committed any crimes. They do not deserve to be punished because people think these laws work, they don't! Also, the second amendment wasn't just about protecting people from others.

sorry becouse apparently 90% of the world is NOT the real world. Is funny to live in fictional world

Every time someone says “Americans suck at geography” it makes me sad :( ... Ik it’s true, but as a geography finatic who is American, it makes me sad lol

@@masonh4309 imagine how muslims who abhor terrorism feel 😑

S†. Clou† lol. How do u mean?

@@masonh4309 the Americans being fat and bad at subjects is a sucky stereotype, but it must suck to have a detrimental stereotype.

I live in the US and can confirm that we are indeed another planet. Our country's intelligence has gone to absolute shit and manipulating citizens is the easiest thing in the world for government and large corporations. Trump is the perfect example. So is gun control. Mind if I move to Australia with you? :)

There's a scene from "The American President" where Michael Douglas (as president Andrew Sheppard) says that to win elections in the US you have to make people afraid of something and tell them who to blame for it (Doesn't that ring a bell?? Trump maybe??)

....actually I said I WAS in Australia. I live in Perú now. :-)

Totally rings a bell...and proofs my point...US IS another planet.

Yep! It was extremely effective! So effective that people found other ways of killing each other, yay!

@Kevin the Duck what kinda math is that dude?

@Kevin the Duck wtf are you on about?

New NRA slogan “Whoop-de-do!”

@Kevin the Duck your clarification is as illiterate as your initial comment

Guns are necessary to protect your liberties, you moron.

I LOVE how Sacha Baron Cohen exposed this lunatic on his Showtime series "This Is America". He made certain that no one will have to listen and/or see this dolt ever again.

HAVENT SEEN ANY IN LONG TIME

Davis Moniz WOOPTY FUCKING DOO

Vorducas Zizroth Woopty flamin doo....

Vorducas Zizroth 2015 and still no mass shootings. WOOPTY DOO.

Teunis Swart 2011 Hectorville siege

+Jeffrey Lafleur That wasn't a mass shooting.

+Awesome 45 lol. exactly

+Awesome 45 Hes a gun supporter, I expected worse to be honest.

Yep... Cause, ha know, all those mass killings by using your VOICE! This isn't just stupid, this is... Advanced stupid...

+codzomz people kill people not gubs

+[Sample Text] *guns

Nice

Nice

Great lobbying!

Giby86 6 now 😂

7 now .. And I am pretty sure it will be the same in another 7 years

Giby86 move to Australia

@@laurimario Why should I? I'm perfectly happy in Europe.

Other countries have already figured this shit out gun laws. Sweden figured out you can have guns and be safe. Universal health care 32 other countries have figured it out. Are country is one of the most corrupt countries in the world democrat or republican they all on the corporate dime. You call them perdue pharma I call them drug cartel.

He belongs to America now.

@@CherryBlossomOhka you can keep him, but you have to keep james cordyn too

Cordelia May John Oliver is a fucken idiot

Personally I prefer Russell Howard

@@dicklong8275 k boomer

It’s cause it’s not in the bill of rights😂 which tbh when the bill of rights was made only white landowning men would vote! So we listening to a bunch of 200 year old racist mynsoginist white men

Wrong. They both are and should be cemented as completely inalienable rights except for cases of extreme mental illness in the case for guns. Felon or not, it should not make you no longer capable of exercising either right.

Voting is a right to citizens.

@@slayerfan209no country respects you

dangerous compared to where?

Tasmania

As an aussie I am appalled that you think Australians are not free and that you think it's more dangerous then America. Wow

Andrew Lock turn your sarcasm detector on and read my 1st post again :)

Well it's 2022 and that aged well...

Man that's just sad

Whoop de do ):

Only country with freedom

Yeah you realize that despite any law, a person is capable of shooting you in Australia. Since general gun ownership is still allowed, there's nothing to assume that you can't be shoot in Australia. I mean I'd call it lazy logic but even that would be a major compliment to that rambling.

Come take our underclass back to Australia with you, along with their weapons. Then we will see who wants gun control. Watch them proliferate like, shall we say, rabbits. But they are not rabbits, so no rabbit fence. Let them bring your country down, while you observe it all, helplessly, because they are human and you cannot force learning on them. Learning is about the only thing our country has to offer that our underclass does not willingly grab.

Marilyn Huston Do you not wonder why this 'underclass' you speak of is there? And why they are so heavily armed?

I have noticed that the young ones promote learning and trying to learn as "acting white." And I've noticed that many white kids emulate the black ways;, my grandson, Joe, included. I have noticed that they like to be praised for unpraiseworthy behavior, and an "in your face attitude." I have noticed that some among them like to brandish guns and hop around while high, including the one who tried to rob my store , pointing a gun at me and dragging me backward down an aisle, knocking my clerk down and scaring her with threats. I was 70 years old at the time, but got away from him. He ran after me yelling, "Stop, I'll shoot!" Inept, he was. I hope he took up some other line of work. // I am glad he had a gun and not a knife. "They" buy guns but they can't buy bullets.

Marilyn Huston I remember when that didn't happen in Australia. Good times.

Roebuck Payne so good

What a tee up

***** you, sir, are a Moron.

***** maybe the army wouldn't, but your police forces seem more than happy to take up the shack

***** So much misinformation. Firstly, if the "US military will never attack it's own citizens" why do you need to arm yourself against them? Secondly, Australia didn't ban firearms, we restricted them. We have as many guns now as we did before the buybacks, but for the most part they aren't in the hands of idiots, unlike in the US as we see in the news every 4 to 6 weeks when the next shooting massacre happens.

***** Are are you really comparing the American people to those living in Iraq? Nice comparison.

***** hmmm, you DO have massacres every 4 to 6 weeks. but, besides that, your last sentence is important, but you don't realise it. Yet. Basically, there would be almost no need to stop "the bad guy" with a "carry", if you had reasonable gun control. Your failure to see this, is mind boggling! Oh! I forgot, Americans don't understand irony. And this is without even mentioning, domestic violence murders, suicides and assaults with a gun.

are you not allowed to?

DaaaahWhoosh you have that right

Yeah guys, it's definitely illegal to carry around a sword in the US. In most states you can't carry a knife longer than your hand.

... the link you provided could actually be summed up by "most of the time, it is illegal to carry swords". Well, I suppose I can understand the logic. Especially when it comes to katanas. I mean, those are notoriously overpowered. How could any guns protect you from those?

Texas has open sword carry laws now, i believe.

Cesar what you’re saying just isn’t true. You’re horribly miss informed.

Cesar why so delusional¿¿¿😂😂

@@landonhigginbotham6107 Yeah it's so wrong, what you actually have to do is go to a gun show, and not tell people your plan. A watertight way to make mass shootings impossible.

@@-BuddyGuy Just stop. You know what he's saying. And for those who don't.. Well Cesar was saying "anyone" could go to a shop and get military weapon; -without an I.D/license, with no background check.. And that's all pretty much false. You DO need a background check and an ID to do that background check. I guess you can say that you can get something "like" a military weapon, but it's still not the same. And you can do the same with many other firearms whether being "military like" or not.

@@muddyhotdog4103 Note that I said show, not shop. And you pro gun maniacs can't see the wood for the trees. These details don't matter. All you want is your right to blow away your wife and kids if you forget your meds, and all we want is to add a couple of checks and balances here and there to make it just a touch less easy to do that. An AR-15 is a military style weapon because in most countries only the military would carry such a weapon. Without any political brainwashing that should be obvious. So I put it to you sir that YOU are the one who is being disingenuous.

aghast that people would take this comedy sketch for facts. Capt. Kirk is pro gun and did a nice add for it trecky. Ghandi and the Dahli Lama advocate gun rights too but if comedy central spins it then who is insane? You and 10 others are

bee bendover its a comedy sketch backed up by facts... didn't you watch the video?

Right because assault weapons with 30+ ammo clips which can fire over 460-900 RPM is perfect for those things you just described...

curbstomper7009 We have all those things in Australia. We also have gun control, no shooting massacres and a homicide rate a fraction of the US.

curbstomper7009 Nothing is insane about that what is insane is a government that can deny you the ownership of a gun for the purpose of defending you and your family from intruders in your own home AND adding laws to make sure you cant get a gun and load it in time if you did own one for another reason. They make it so hard that shooters and hunters are givfing up the sport and gunshops have been run out of biz. You fools have been bamboozeled.

spud So australia is authoritarian?

"When people were dying because of car accidents, did we say "give them more cars."? Of course not." Car ownership is among record numbers. Guns are no different. In either case you are limited to how much money you have not that people are giving people cars they are buying them. "We ,made cars and roads safer. We created signs, lights, speed limits to control and regulate traffics." Yet vehicle deaths exceed gun deaths even though vehicles are regulated more than firearms. Vehicles are inherently more dangerous than guns. "And it worked, mortality rate involving cars went down." It has been going back up. The rate of DUIs have increased and vehicle fatalities have been going up due to incompetence and/or negligence. Firearms deaths that have been increasing are homicides and suicides. "Why are we refusing to do the same with guns?" Mainly because it is dubious to prove that previous attempt at gun controls worked. The federal ban on assault weapons for example 94-04 was completely ineffective at reducing gun homicide or mass shootings. The average for that date range is slightly higher than average.

@@lilldavid6903 "australia is authoritarian?" favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom. When it comes to firearms absolutely.

1911GreaterThanALL Yeah, my comment is hard to get, but it was satirical and followed American logic when it comes to Gun controll (I’m european)

We could be friends.

Colin Nuar debunked a lot of this.

⁠@@Stuff857 1) You spelt his name wrong. 2) He criticized Trevor Noah from the Daily Show about this topic.

@@Bri32675 I meant gun control arguements in general. I'll do one now. " only the police should have guns " What the police think of civilians owning guns : "Contrary to what the mainstream media and certain politicians would have us believe," writes Police One Editor in Chief Doug Wyllie, "police overwhelmingly favor an armed citizenry, would like to see more guns in the hands of responsible people, and are skeptical of any greater restrictions placed on gun purchase, ownership, or accessibility." The most telling results are these: What effect do you think a federal ban on manufacture and sale of some semi-automatic firearms, termed by some as "assault weapons," would have on reducing violent crime? Response Percent Response Count Significant 1.6% or 227 Moderate 6.0% or 885 None 71.0% or 10,397 Negative 20.5% or 3,004 Unsure 0.9% or 129 answered question14,642 4 of 17 6. Do you think a federal ban on manufacture and sale of ammunition magazines that holdmore than 10 rounds would reduce violent crime? ResponsePercent ResponseCount Yes 2.7% or 391 No 95.7% or 14,013 Unsure 1.6% or 238 answered question14,642 7. Do you think that a federal law prohibiting private, non-dealer transfers of firearmsbetween individuals would reduce violent crime? ResponsePercentResponseCount Yes 11.5% or 1,684 No 79.7% or 11,663 Unsure 8.8% or 1,295 answered question14,642 If you were Sheriff or Chief, how would you respond to more restrictive gun laws? ResponsePercentResponseCount Not enforce and join in the.public, vocal opposition effort 44.9% or 6,440 Not enforce and quietly leadagency in opposite direction 17.2% or 2,468 Enforce and publicly support theproposed legislation 7.9% or 1,132 Enforce and quietly lead agency insupport of legislation 10.0% or 1,440 Unsure 20.0% or 2,869 answered question14,349

Johns face when he says that though. 4:23

You did not just say "le sigh"

*Le sigh* Whoops, I did it again.

2010 called

Hello? Yes, this is dog.

why can't Misha just be president

@Kevin the Duck Then explain how Australia unfucked itself after it had a mass shooting? Should we just have zero constraints on gun ownership, allowing anyone to get one and to use it even for nefarious intent? What do we do? Do we let mass shootings go on and on in this great nation, or should we do something about it?

2018 Still Whoop-de-fucking-do-ing

@Achmed Seldomsinsobar except that wasn't Jon Stewart but John Oliver...

@@bellerophon- you obviously didn’t watch the end because that was John Stewart, host of the daily show.

Perhaps they shouldn't be criminalized, but they should definitely be regulated. Drugs, that is.

LEGALISE IT!!!

+Adam Borison I'm gonna help you out here: "and the point of guns is?" exactly... guns were invented with the express thought of killing people... that logic doesn't apply.

+All Omen the point of guns were... to hunt game so your family wouldn't starve? And just somewhere along the way people found it to be a good murder people.

Guns mostly serve as a protection mechanism. This is common sense. Why police services? They are not carrying guns to commit murders or assassinate people. That's actually the main use for guns in our societies. Newsflash for the mentally rétarded: Citizens would want to carry guns because a cop is too heavy. Only the typical childish millennial hippie inside the rètarded liberal bubble echo chamber would conclude guns are a harmful thing that exists to harm people. You can't un-invent guns either btw. Newsflash: Compared to gun owners, American cops are three times more likely to commit murder. There are not enough to patrol the streets in any major city and much less to handle crime. Fought in court to avoid their duty to protect citizens, and won. America constitutes 5% of the world, but possess 25% of world's felons. 3/4 for non violent crimes. And prisons are run by corporations. *The idea that cops are going to protect the poor, or the typical man-children hippie is seriously laughable.* Libtards "think" that just because we live in the future and it ain't 1776 anymore, we don't need a firearm, and "think" the government is out there to serve the public. They are immature, self-righteous, entitled, emotional, triggered, hippies who want parental governments to take care of their SJW lives from cradle to grave.

No the point of guns is to win wars by killing people. The only reason the 2nd amendment exists is for our right for a militia so that the gov't doesn't get too perverse

Ruthie Muqatach you do realize your government has nukes, tanks and drones right? Do you really think a bunch of hillbillies with double barrels can do jack shit if the government decides to take over?

Leftists "think" that just because we live in the future and it ain't 1776 anymore, we don't need a firearm, and they "think" the government is out there to serve the public.

+Joey Zasa Well make sure the government doesn't have nuclear weapons that can obliterate the entire American population. Make sure the government doesn't spend more than the next 6 nations combined as well. The conservatives lost against the 1863 U.S. military, which was much weaker than the 21st century U.S. military. Do you really think the conservatives won't lose again?

Lon Chaney Fan Stop procrastinating

rock_lobsterrr85 Videos dropping from above like bird poo...

Exactly, and every year or two they would be put through that test again, just to make sure.

It's funny because maniacs killing everyone for no reason are one of the biggest problems in the US right now

Who ELSE would buy a semi-automatic assault rifle?

+devi MURICANS

+devi You are brainwashed. Most gun owners would and they're not maniacs at all.

BackFromTanagra How dare they! What do they think they are doing, trying to reduce a third world homicide rate or something? /sarcasm

***** Sure I'd do the sign thing. I live in Germany, so basically no one has guns. It ain't gonna do anything other than get strange looks from my neighbours. I also lived in Australia, and England and would do the same there. Only reason i wouldn't do it it is because I would look like a right bell end to all my neighbours.

your forgetting locks on your doors. Get a good security system for your house too.

Actually here in the state of New York, where we have a pretty high crime rate, state law has made it illegal to own handguns, pepper spray, bear spray, stun guns and just about anything else that a citizen might use to protect themselves. As for the bad guys, they don't mind breaking the law so none of that bothers them at all. It just makes their job easier.

JackKangaroo1 So the criminals get guns by either buying them legally or stealing them from legal owners. Therefore the answer is to put even more guns into circulation to defend against those criminal-owned guns, and also the new criminal-owned guns that will find their way to the streets. Woops, the "solution" made the problem worse. Better get more guns!

***** You're right, people like that do exist in Australia, but they are a severe minority. He had very little support in his opinions on gun laws. Even though he's quite popular because of his pro Free Trade and Gay marriage stance. Also, im going to add that, Im pretty sure Van Cleave thinks Australia is on 'planet X' "But in the real world with human beings," I am 97% sure that man does not think I am a real human being.

Plus more of your tax money goes to healthcare, education, and infrastructure instead of wars.

Taliesin Yea, but you have giant as fuck spiders and shit eating your freaking face off. Whoop-dee-doo!

You're right. I once saw a spider kill a small bird then wrap it in a web. It was horrifying.

Taliesin Ugh! Bugs just shouldn't be big enough to eat animals. In fact I'm a firm believer that you shouldn't be able to see the ground under an insect, if you can they're to big.

Jonny Blaze UK total homicide rate 2012; 1.0/100,000 total homicides 653 Ireland total homicide rate 2012; 1.2/100,000 total homicides 54 US total homicide rate 2012; 4.7/100,000 total homicides 14,827 There you go, total murder rates. The US has a rate nearly 5 times higher than Australia, Ireland and the UK.

ratofvengence Yes, but the UK homicide rate has not dropped since the gun ban... It actually went up and they had to have a massive increase in police presence in the streets to now bring it down to the same levels it was pre gun ban. Never has the murder rate doped below their levels that they were before they had the ban...

ratofvengence Look at Switzerland where every person owns a gun by law... They have one of the lowest murder rates in the world... It has nothing to do with gun ownership... Than look at mexico where there is massive gun control and the only people getting guns are the ones committing crimes

Jonny Blaze "Yes, but the UK homicide rate has not dropped since the gun ban" What do you mean, since the ban? It's not like they didn't already have strict restrictions on firearms beforehand. Besides, the US has 5 times the UK population, but 27 times the homicides. Well done. "Look at Switzerland where every person owns a gun by law" Stop reading the NRA website and do the research for yourself. What you just posted is totally wrong, and the Swiss have far stricter restrictions than the US. "Than look at mexico where there is massive gun control" No, they have laws but no reliable and consistent law enforcement.

Jonny Blaze The Swiss also conscript every one of their male citizens and are forced through a twenty one week military training period where they are taught to use guns efficiently and learn how to operate firearms safely-something we don't require in the US. This is an effective curb of liberty and human rights. You can opt out of being issued a gun based on moral reasoning in the Swiss Military, and 20% of people are found unfit for service and are never sent to training, though they are forced to pay higher taxes for 10 years.

+something name Both gun related murders and murders in general went down following the gun ban, so you're wrong.

+John T All serious studies do not even find a correlation between gun-control and less crime. With serious studies I mean studies that do not conclude ridiculous (obvious) things like this one: www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/18/gun-ownership-gun-deaths-study "The gun ownership rate was a strong and independent predictor of firearm-related death," says Bangalore. "Private gun ownership was highest in the US. Japan, on the other end, had an extremely low gun ownership rate." Not something that *painfully* stupid. On the other hand, you already know the only observable and detectable effect of the Australian gun-ban was a spike in crime, right? There was already a previously existing trend of lowering crime rate, in general, and for decades. That same trend resumed after a while. In the same time period, America experienced a way higher reduction of crime. New Zealand also experienced a higher reduction of crime rate, while not introducing any gun-control, and without any spike. The amount of gun ownership in Australia is now at the same level as before the ban. So gun ownership and crime are not correlated. The buyback didn't even manage to obtain 30% of the targeted weapons in the country and the total cost was over half a billion dollars, with that money Australians could have gotten way better things for the police. Massacres also kept happening at the same rate as before, just no gun-related. Want sources?

Shakti Kareen "Massacres also kept happening at the same rate as before, just no gun-related." In the 19 years prior to the gun buyback, there were 14 massacres in Australia, with 114 people killed. In the 19 years since the buyback, there have been 9 massacres, with 62 people killed. In other words, there has been a nearly 50% reduction in the number of people killed in massacres in Australia. "So gun ownership and crime are not correlated." Seriously? Most developed countries, like the UK, Australia and Canada experience at most 1 or 2 mass killings a year. The United States experiences one almost every day. The vast majority of massacres in the US are committed with firearms. You seriously think that that has nothing to do with the fact that it's exceedingly difficult to get hold of a handgun, or a semi-automatic gun, in those other countries, whereas in the US everyone, even criminals and mentally ill people, have easy access to firearms?

something name True, but a schizophrenic can't kill rooms filled with kids with one knife

@@webdesignerguy America saw similar declines as Australia yet we didn't implement Australian gun controls. U.S. saw a more drastic reduction in homicides than Australia did. www.gunfacts.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/GUNS-IN-OTHER-COUNTRIES-Australia-and-U.S.-homicides-rates-before-and-after-Australia-gun-ban.png

It’s was a tragedy in 1999 Columbine High School massacre and than sandy hook elementary school

"So we should not make a law that may or may not fix our Dystopic future to save our actual Distopic present" - John Stewart.

Tony M is a developing nation with corruption issues, the laws that they have are poorly enforced and they are right next to a major arms supplier.

ruofan1982 They don't even report on all the drive by shootings in the US, especially if not many people, or any, are hit like in Western Sydney. ABC is turning off comments on all their videos.

ruofan1982 You are making a conspiracy out of nothing. I checked channel 7 and 9 official youtube channels and comments were not blocked even on news stories about gang shootings. Channel 10, SBS, and ABC seemed to have comments blocked on all videos, as in all of the videos uploaded onto the channels. Not sure why.

CorporateEvolution hi there, thanks for taking time and looking for truth. sorry I didn't know channel 10, SBS, and ABC actually block comments on -ALL VIDEOS. I mostly check on videos about sydney shooting, war in Afghanistan， and seem to me they always block comment. you have explained the reason. and I was mistaken. sorry for the false information. I am very embarrassed and thanks again for correcting me.

You made this comment to years ago and its still relevant today.

@@katlehokomeke you made this comment 3 years ago and it's still relevant today

Because the world is an ever changing place.

collin ohlinger Tell that to those who consider the 2nd as somehow enshrined :P

ratofvengence There will always be a need for self defense, and the second amendment is that in company

collin ohlinger There was no second amendment , then there was, so you are saying that in this ever changing world the need for guns wont change. The only way to change the world it to change yourself. Guns will always be needed for self defence? Of course they will if everybody has a gun, that is a no brainer. Guns are not evil, people are. Give the evil people the right to bear arms seems logical. The U.S had nuclear bombs, and once the war was over the main threat from these bombs seemed to be from radiation or accident, then other countries got their own bombs which would be a good self defence from the U.S Britain and other nuclear countries, and the world suddenly became exponentially more dangerous. If all guns were controlled, not banned, but controlled, the shootings decrease. If all guns were banned shootings would decrease even further and mass killings would be less. You guys would rather have your brothers and sisters family wiped out and your own children and partner gunned down in the street than give up your weapons. In the UK we have muggings, car theft, burglary, etc, just the same as the USA, but your criminals go out to commit crime with a gun in their hand. You know why? Yes sometimes it is to threaten and extort, but mostly they have a gun for the same reason as the law abiding citizen does, for self defence. They know if they get caught in the act they may get fired upon and so they carry a gun to fire back. If they are a gang member they may get in a shootout with another gang. We have armed robberies but they are a rarity. We have gangs with guns but not to the same extent. Yes gun control does work if you want it to, but it seem that far too many Americans for whatever reason want to retain the right to shoot their fellow Americans. As someone once said before me, you cannot legislate for stupidity.

collin ohlinger We have the right to self defense. The difference is, we don't need to have an arsenal to do it. See we value human life in Australia, and shooting dead someone who looked like they might hurt you isn't regarded as acceptable here.

hmm can't tell if sarcastic or not

Benjamin - James I'm being sarcastic we don't need guns

Mak Tizo guns should be illegal for civilians without any exception. wven in australia, all remaining guns should be banned. even hunting rifle can kill people.

I respectfully disagree, coming from Sweden where hunting rifles are legal. While you are correct in the sense that a hunting rifle can kill someone, that is extremely rare (at least in Sweden), especially purposeful killings. Basically, hunting rifles kind of suck for mass shootings (at least the ones that are legal here) due to lack of detachable high capacity magazines, generally being bolt action operated and being rather bulky and difficult to conceal. Whilst accidental shootings are tragic, they are also rare and can be rather easily be minimised by proper mandatory training.

I'm convinced that most of these mass shootings are NOT done by who they tell us. Likely cia or other entities who wants the US to disarm. Not happening.

ratofvengence Yes, because there is nearly 314 million people in the U.S. Also, even though the population is FAR greater than what it was in the 70's, the 80's and the 90's, the TOTAL number of murders is still lower and decreasing as we speak. What the hell does Australia have to with the U.S.? Nothing, nothing at all. You obviously can't tell anything. The U.S. homicide rate is at 50 years low and still decreasing, so yes, we are fine.

***** Nope. Washington DC has the some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, but it also one of the most dangerous places. Also, like I said before, the U.S. homicide rate is at 50 year low and decreasing, and no gun control was/is needed. All it took for it to start to lower was allowing concealed carry, among other things. And the U.S. does have a higher homicide rate than other developed country, but also far more debt, higher unemployment, and and a higher high school dropout rate(so much that the standard was lowered). The more poor, uneducated people there are the more crime there'll be.

Lennie Godber Support for concealed carry took off after 1993, which just happened to be when the homicide rate began to decline. In 19994-1996, 14 states allowed concealed carry, and the homicide rate dropped heavily. The number of murders continued to decrease as more states allowed guns to be carried in public. www.txchia.org/history.htm www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6227a1.htm

TheFire1290 The idea that you can state definitively that the introduction of concealed carry laws in the US is responsible for the reduction in homicide rates in absurd. Even within the academic community there is considerable debate as to the effectiveness of such laws, with the results being entirely ambiguous. Available employment opportunities, family upbringing, the prevalence of gang culture, access to an established health and social welfare system, the effectiveness of law enforcement and government legislation can be all be factors reflected in crime rates. You are reducing what is a complex social and cultural issue subject to multiple factors down into a partisan justification for your beliefs. The links you provided are also quite curious given that the timeline for the introduction of conceal carry legislation and the fall in homicide rates are not in dispute, but rather your narrow interpretation of them. I would also note that among the editors notes for the CDC article you linked are the following paragraphs. "A number of primary prevention strategies are scientifically proven to reduce the risk for and occurrence of youth violence" "Examples of primary prevention strategies include 1) school-based programs that build the communication skills of youths to nonviolently solve problems, family approaches that help caregivers set age-appropriate rules and policy, environmental, and structural approaches that enhance safety and increase opportunities for positive social interaction"

Yeah well we can't let something as pesky as facts get in the way of our ideology.

You're forgetting about how Sacha Baron Cohen exposed this particular lunatic on his Showtime series "This Is America". He made certain that *no one* will have to listen and/or see this dolt ever again.

Jim wrote his own jokes thou. Performed them on stage. He wasn’t given a script to read.

@@JuICyBLiinGeR you realize John Oliver stated as a stand-up comic, was a writer for the daily show with John Stewart, and is the head writer on last week tonight... right?

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XbkNIoJ-9jY.html Just throwing this out there

Govern me harder daddy!!