Join Ben as he investigates the answers to some important questions in the gun control debate.
10 Big Questions Article”
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Music Attribution:
“Hassan” by Cloudkicker
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cloudkicker/Little_histories/Cloudkicker_-_Little_Histories_-_05_Hassan
Video Attribution:
15 year old girl leaves anti-gun politicians speechless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI74EgvmbRs
Alex Jones Vs Piers Morgan On Gun Control Live On CNN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWQPZ-taYBs
AMERICANS WILL DIE AFTER GUN BAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5To0r5y93mA
Anti-Gunners Freak Out When Confronted with Facts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0T2RrCnMSI
Bill Hicks on Gun Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3WMx1blONU
Immortal Technique on Guns, Police State & Why Men, Not Muslims, Should Apologize for Terrorism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f9fMIbBkm4
Jim Jefferies – Gun Control – Full Length Official Clip — From BARE Netflix Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBOk1SnQ8uU
Machine Gun Shoot by Scott Rensberger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRr1UsK27RY
Newtown Residents Lead Gun Control March in DC Jan 26, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuRpSlErVi8
Obama US gun control laws greatest frustration of my presidency – BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOFOFZxfiDc
Playing The Star-Spangled Banner with a Gun www.MusicalTargets.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90lH3zn6oQw
Portrait of a Gun Enthusiast
https://vimeo.com/21601555
Rapper Ice T on US gun control (20July12)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GwIbyp4xBU
Shooting Gun Test – 577 Tyrannosaur T-rex Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrImp-ek3bI
Ted Nugent to Piers Morgan Kiss My Ass! Suck on My Machine Gun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjOUD8f8aAQ
The battle between Maras gangs in Honduras – On the streets of the worlds murder capital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3cO89t54jU
The Cup Song – Pitch Perfect WITH GUNS!!! (Jim Huish from Ambers Drive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QtM7X0xYN8
WTF is this thing called
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtQNnlQLlwk
Transcript:
*Is the U.S. Gun Homicide Rate Really That High? In 2011, the U.S. had 11,101 homicides committed with firearms, which amounted to about 70 % of all homicides. That’s a rate of about 3.6 gun killings per 100,000 people. Whether that rate seems high to you depends upon your perspective. The U.S. isn’t the country with the most gun murders, by any stretch — that would be Honduras, which has 68.4 gun killings per 100,000 people, 19 times the U.S. rate. And there are a bunch of other countries with higher rates than the U.S., such as Mexico, Colombia, the Philippines and South Africa. Compared to other industrialized democracies, the U.S. gun homicide rate is through the roof. It’s more than four times the rate in Italy, six times that of Canada and about 30 times the rate in Great Britain or France. So would the crime rate in the U.S. be lower if there were fewer guns available? Again it depends on which study you consult. Burglary and assault rates are higher in Britain than in the U.S., but homicide rates are much lower.
*Are There Countries With as Many Guns as the U.S. but Less Crime? No, because there isn’t another country in the world with as many guns as the U.S. The U.S. comprises 5 % of the world’s population, but owns between 35 and 50 % of the world’s civilian firearms. The rate of about 97 guns per 100 people is tops in the world, with only the unstable Persian Gulf nation of Yemen (90 per 100) coming even close. So let’s reframe the question. Are there countries with relatively high gun-ownership rates and low crime rates? Yes. Finland, which has 69 guns per 100 people, and Switzerland, which has 61 per 100 people. Finland had just 14 gun homicides in 2010, a rate of 0.26 per 100,000 people. In Switzerland, with 40 gun killings in 2010, had a slightly higher rate of 0.52 per 100,000. But both those countries have stricter gun control laws than the U.S.
