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@InternetDarkLord

2 ай бұрын

Another important fact here is that with the rise of technology like 3D printing, it gets easier to make guns. Within our lifespan, anyone who wants a gun can just make one at home.

@thomassowellreacts

2 ай бұрын

@@InternetDarkLordNothing strange about it... 1000 years ago when Swords/Sabers were the weapons of war, individuals forged their own weapons for home protection, domestic use etc...

"Gun Control" isn't about guns; it is all about *control* .

@Blueknight1960

2 ай бұрын

Actually, it's about doing away with guns all together. The democrats don't want anyone having the ability to stop whatever plans they have. The attacks on Trump, their war on guns, open boarders, the total lack of respect for the constitution, their hatred for the American people, soft on crime, hard on a legal gun owner.

@theevermind

2 ай бұрын

When "fighting on the side of the angels" they "don't give up on facts or even the lives of other people." In other words, when you are such a true believer that your cause is just beyond even the bounds of the world, facts cannot convince you otherwise, and you will not hesitate to sacrifice others' lives for your cause.

Gun control explained: A wolf attacks a sheep and kills it. Other sheep witness the attack and conclude that teeth are the problem, so the sheep decide to pull out their own teeth to prevent future killings. The wolves still have teeth, but now the sheep are defenceless.

@droid2645

2 ай бұрын

Makes sense to me!

@lowandslow3939

2 ай бұрын

So I should pull out my teeth? Hahahaha. Love it.

@mvjoshi

Ай бұрын

No, you got that wrong. The sheep knew that the teeth of the wolf were the problem. So, they hired a wolf to protect them. Only, the hired wolf reverted to character and attacked the sheep.

Criminals dont care about laws

@bobg5362

2 ай бұрын

But enough about the Biden Crime Family.

Thomas Sowell one of the great minds of our times. Only wish he was taught in schools a lot more.

@graphguy

2 ай бұрын

The only way that could happen in our existing educational cesspool is via homeschooling.

@debbylou5729

2 ай бұрын

A lot more? I’ve never seen him taught or even referred to in school.

@LRRPFco52

2 ай бұрын

The fact that the media and establishment has censored, dismissed, or ignored him all these years is made even more blatant by his testimony during the congressional hearings in the 1980s. Why ignore such a man?

@paulfasolo8552

2 ай бұрын

The schools don`t care about logic, they would rather indoctrinate children with their socialist ideas!

America is not Australia, not Canada, not Great Britain. The Second amendment could be taken away but our guns will still be in our patriot hands.

@Nerotique

2 ай бұрын

Taking away the second amendment is quite literally against the second amendment. Shall not be infringed.

@Yukimaru0

2 ай бұрын

@@Nerotiqueremoving any part of a constitution without the peoples ok on it is revoking your right to rule. The whole point of having one is to have a written agreement upon which you can not cross if you wish to keep your position in government. Meaning, unless you can directly convince the population to remove something through a vote held in a similar manor to an election you as a government don't have the authority to alter that document even if your entire political class agrees on the alteration.

@tgs9740

2 ай бұрын

Over five hundred million of them.

@artmallory970

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, those countries don't have mass school bang bangs every other day... SMH

Alec Baldwin is learning, the hard way, that people kill people, not guns

@kennethhowell1272

Ай бұрын

Only if Alec sees jail time. Alec is not likely to accept responsibility, but rather blame the gun malfunctioned. I keep asking why he was pointing a gun at a cinematographer ??

Gun control was started by southern democrats around the time of the civil war who feared freed slaves being able to legally obtain a firearm

By definition a criminal is someone who doesn't follow the law. So any law you pass will not be followed by a criminal!

Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, so explain how the gun violence rate is also one of the highest in the country.

The illusion of safety for the benefit of control.

Chairman Mao once said something along the lines of "power comes from the barrel of a gun" When the people have guns, they have power over their government. When only the government has guns, they have total power over their people. Governments that have total power over their people are not only oppressive, but genocidal. Power is a dangerous thing. We could give power to the most well intentioned leader, only to have it fall into the hands of someone not so well intentioned.

My favorite American historian.

Remove guns and criminals have no fear when doing crimes. DUH

Protecting guns IS protecting lives!🤷‍♂️

As usual Dr. Sowell, has presented a unemotional presentation about a current and important issue, that has great importance to today’s world. He backs these statements up, with broad statistics that show what has happened over time to a larger number of people around the world. I have felt for years, that those people who truly believe that firearms in a home are dangerous, should back these feelings up, with a sign in their yards proclaiming their beliefs. Anyone unwilling to post a sign like this, is using the uncertainty about being shot during a home invasion, by a criminal, as protection for their homes.

You can ignore reality but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. - Ayn Rand

@js-wq6zy

2 ай бұрын

You can't fix stupid, gun nuts are stupid.

As Twain wrote: There's lies, damned lies and then statistics.

@raymondzehrung9274

2 ай бұрын

@@QuietlyContemplating Actually, the attribution to Disraeli has been widely disputed. The first attribution to him was in 1895. Many believe the first and most likely candidate is Sir Charles Dilke. However, Twain did write the exact phrase and was a contemporary of Disraeli. Nobody knows exactly where the original came from, but there is historical documentation showing that Twain did in fact pen this missive.

@twcnz3570

2 ай бұрын

I've heard that quote attributed tp Napoleon? Not disputing, just seeking clarification😊

@victorwaddell6530

2 ай бұрын

Mark Twain also said something like Dont' argue with a fool as bystaners may not know the difference .

I wish Sowell was in a place of power, he is such a wise man.

@Lessenjr

2 ай бұрын

Wisdom need not be shared by those of authority.

I want this man for VP!

Taking guns away from law abiding citizens because criminals use firearms illegally is like stopping sober people from driving because of drunk drivers.

He has a talent for bringing out the truth.

a fool takes no pleasure in understanding

If they ever outlaw guns, I'll become an outlaw so I can still keep my guns.

Fun coincidence: even within Finland, you can observe that gun ownership rate is the highest in the Ahvenanmaa region but the rates of violent crime are the lowest. That’s not to say it’s thanks to gun ownership; it’s not customary to own guns for defensive purposes. It does show, however, that higher rates of gun ownership don’t even correlate with higher murder rates. We have an average of 2-3 homicides with a legally owned handgun per year in the whole country.

@jefferytokarsky1930

2 ай бұрын

I’m guessing Americans of Finnish decent have about the same rate of committing homicide, or any violent crime, as Finns in Finland.

@DYLAN102001

2 ай бұрын

Finland also doesn't have the Bloods and the Crips. They don't have a border with Mexico where illegal drugs and dangerous cartel members can be smuggled in and out. They also don't have the same amount of crazies and inequality to drive violent crime.

@artmallory970

2 ай бұрын

Finland is an ethically homogeneous country, the US is the exact opposite.

“Dogma” is a very apt term in this case. The controllers are predisposed to dismiss any factual evidence or clarification contradicting the narratives put forth by politically motivated organizations that are easily debunked. For instance: “children killed by guns”. One finds that the majority of the “children” turn out to be teen-aged gang-bangers shooting at each other with illegally acquired weapons in big cities with strict gun control laws.

@LRRPFco52

2 ай бұрын

If you look at the homicide rate by County, the real factors jump out at you and can't be dismissed. They aren't economic, as insisted by some.

He’s a very intelligent man.

How crazy is this. Facts appear to mean nothing at all. Stay safe at all cost.

The truth hurts. Truth is more guns less crime!

I have a friend whose daughter ended up being a statistic for 'gun control advocates' Very unfortunate But the only laws that would have prevented it would be laws against irresponsibility.

You need a gun to protect another person from a gun.

@DYLAN102001

2 ай бұрын

I guess knives don't count.

It really doesn't matter if we have guns if we aren't allowed to speak or think.

So true! To anyone with functioning brains this makes sense!

I’m a law enforcement officer and when we arrest felon in possession of a firearm which is a felony the the courts don’t do anything about it. They get probation or don’t prosecute. It’s a joke.

@commentsedited

Ай бұрын

Well as I see it. Just because you are a convicted felon, isn't any reason for any one to restrict your rights to bere arms, unless you used a firearm in the commitance of said felony.

Spot on!

Guns should be decriminalized and legal for anyone to buy

Preach it, brother!

Very true.

truth

This is the only time ill listen to thos man.

!YESIR, but... "!!FACTS!! !!!DON'T!!! !!!!MATTER!!!!! !!!!!OBEY!!!!!" - The EDUCUNTED!

what no one wants to say because it directs the sense of responsibility: i am my last line of defense. when the armies are defeated, when the family and friends are defeated, when the body guards are defeated, i stand alone against those who wish me harm. i am my last line of defense, at all times, everywhere i go.

If lies are intended to begin with, data will never matter.

I have never owned a gun and didn't see what all the fuss was over. Over the last 10-15 years that position has changed. I still don't feel I need a gun for my personal safety, however, I have begun to understand why the second amended as made in 1791. For the first time in my 60+ years I have begun to see what the framers of the Constitution warned us about.

Logic and reason as presented here have a very tough time getting through to the ignorant people who only subscribe to feelings. Thank heavens for the 2A

Good stuff Check out Yuri Bezmenov and his warnings.

My biggest argument against gun control is the historical reason our founders found it necessary to protect our God given right to have the means to protect ourselves. I don't care what your reason is for wanting gun control. Our founding law entitles me to own guns and that shall not be infringed. As far as protection in my home, it would be tragic for anyone to invade my home, and find they were wrong.

Double barrel shot gun orabanana😊

They say that you were more likely to be killed by your own gun. That was true because they counted suicide.

In regard to banning bath tubs, I can see this gaining traction as a method of combatting climate change, not because of potential drownings. As usual, Dr. Sowell’s common sense logic transcends any emotional or sinister talking point.

but, but, but, but..................

How does this message get out through the government and media propaganda machine?

Dr. Sowell’s narrative is excellent and on point, but the video is flat out dumb.

This is not Sowell speaking these words.

I like the content of the video, but some of the visuals do not work for me. Man helping daughter with firing a gun, please the gun didn’t fire. At the end, there was a comment made about prohibition. It may be wonder whether or not following the logic might make the mobsters who were legally made, and sold beer and booze might be looked at as the good guys. Not a good idea.

this sounds ai generated

Somehow places with fewer guns have less gun crime.

@212caboose

2 ай бұрын

Yet have MUCH higher crime in general. Go figure.

@nmappraiser9926

2 ай бұрын

@@212caboose Yes, the crime-ridden hellholes of Japan, Germany, and Iceland.

@someoneelse1i1i

2 ай бұрын

What a nonsensical statement - it’s like saying there’s more water related issues on an island🤦‍♂️. If there aren’t more homicides where there are more guns - and there aren’t - then the amount of “gun crime” is irrelevant. Despite the media you’re just as dead if you’re killed by something else. If you take both the nationwide stats in the USA (rather than simply “areas or states” that are convenient) or the worldwide stats the data simply doesn’t support guns being an issue. Not even close.

@someoneelse1i1i

2 ай бұрын

@@nmappraiser9926While cherry-picking is certainly one method to use statistics it doesn’t actually give any factual information. In reality the USA is overwhelmingly number 1 in the world for per capita firearms. We are so far ahead of anyone else that, if guns had anything whatsoever to do with it, we should ALWAYS be in the top 3 in the world for per capita homicides regardless of economic, “first world/third world”, or technological status. But instead we are currently number 76 in the world and have been as low as number 110 in the last decade. In addition firearms in the USA are used way more for defensive purposes than for criminal violence. Our homicide rates would likely skyrocket if not for the defensive uses of firearms. This has been shown by dozens of studies including those by the CDC, the Kaiser Foundation, and the National Association of Law Enforcement. (Forbes/Newsweek, March 2018: “A study conducted by The National Academies’ Institute of Medicine and National Research Council reported that, “Defensive use of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence” Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims is much more common than offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 1.5 to more than 3 million, in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms. These numbers rely largely on both state and national law enforcement statistics as well as multiple large scale surveys. The wide range and extremely consistent results of these surveys make inaccuracy highly unlikely. One such study suggests there are 1,629,615 DGUs per year “for self-protection or for the protection of property at home, work, or elsewhere” excluding “military service, police work, or work as a security guard,” (within the range of the National Academies’ paper), yielding an estimate of 162,000 cases per year where someone “almost certainly would have been killed” if they “had not used a gun for protection.”)

per capita rural america has a higher rate of gun incidents than say chicago. the numbers can be fudged to suit your outlook. just use common sense, its a right !! like speech, there are some restrictions, but should never be taken away or eroded to the point of it being meaningless.

@someoneelse1i1i

2 ай бұрын

Rural America has a lot more per capita guns so of course there are more “gun incidents” - that’s an irrelevant stat. It’s like saying there are more “water related incidents” on an island than in the desert. The water isn’t the cause of the incidents. And too often “gun stats” are offered in a vacuum. Firearms are used for defensive purposes way more often than for criminal violence and likely saves many more lives than they take.

@YiddishDancingClown

Ай бұрын

Those gun incidents are mostly suicides.

Great video but Israel is NOT a good example of proper firearm usage.

@LRRPFco52

2 ай бұрын

It actually is. There are frequent knife and other weapon related incidents perpetrated against Israelis that are quickly stopped by people with firearms. Israel is arguably way too strict in its permitting system, which cost the lives of those who were attacked by Hamas in the Southern rural communities.

@Shadowwarrior996

2 ай бұрын

@@LRRPFco52 doing a genocide is not responsible firearm ownership.

@LRRPFco52

2 ай бұрын

@@Shadowwarrior996 You’re confusing geopolitical ideologies with Israeli civilians defending themselves from terrorist attacks. Israelis use larger military weapons for their combat campaigns against Hezbollah, Hamas, and IRGC proxies, which is what you’re referring to without being familiar with the different classes of weapons, but are looking to argue about another issue entirely. My comment was about the attacks on civilians by bloodthirsty savages and civilians being able to gun them down like dogs instead of being murdered because some nutbag inbred was agitated to go attack random Israelis with a knife or gun.

@melgillham462

2 ай бұрын

There is no genocide except in the hamas charter towards israel. ​@@Shadowwarrior996

@Shadowwarrior996

2 ай бұрын

@@melgillham462 Israel has killed 5% of Gaza. How many percentages until you acknowledge it’s a genocide? Keep in mind your current denial of the genocide is literally part of documented human behavior in previous genocides in history.

Israel has very restrictive gun laws, while most of guns "on street" are in hands of active-duty military personnel. Same Switzerland. Thomas Sowell really should check his facts. In Western world, USA is the only country, where you can buy firearms "just because". Private gun ownership maybe good idea for variety of reasons, it's not free of consequences.

@YiddishDancingClown

Ай бұрын

You can't buy guns "just because". No gun store is going to sell you anything without a background check at the very least.

He should just say "Gun laws work in every country on the planet but because Americans have been indoctrinated to think otherwise, it will take 50 years to change American programming."

@212caboose

2 ай бұрын

Except you're 100% wrong.

@Jopic

2 ай бұрын

Or you could have actually watched the video and known just how stupid this comment was before you typed it out.

@artmallory970

2 ай бұрын

100% Number of mass school bang bangs in Australia over the last 30 years - Zero. How many DAYS since the last school bang bang in the US?

@YiddishDancingClown

Ай бұрын

Then how come the cities with the strictest gun control laws in the US have the highest homicides with them?

@Cessna172SNavIII

17 күн бұрын

@@artmallory970well they just had a mass stabbing, but I guess that doesn’t fit the narrative

Sowell hops from “gun control” to “gun ownership” and back again as suits his argument in the particular paragraph he is reading without clarifying that they are two entirely different things. I am a gun owner in a country with very strict gun control. Shootings among my fellow gun owners who are subject to the same control as I am are close to zero. In fact the rate is so low that the liability insurance I am compelled to take out as a condition for having a gun license costs virtually nothing for a coverage of millions of euros.

I have the solution to gun control written on a thumb drive! And... oops it got shot

@boomerkobold3943

2 ай бұрын

🖕🏻gun control

You are 26 TIMES more likely to be killed by a firearm in the US than any other comparable '1st world' country. Number of mass school bang bang in the US over the last 20 years - 300+ (& rising) Number in Australia since 1996 - Zero. UK - 0 France - 2 (at least 1 of those carried out by immigrants who weren't French) 49,000+ firearm related deaths in the US EACH YEAR. Australia has probably had 50 in the last 20... Can't argue with numbers.

@sebastianlucas704

Ай бұрын

Irrelevant, what the homicide numbers?

@artmallory970

Ай бұрын

@@sebastianlucas704 Many, many times more in the US. Not too hard to find info on it. That's what happens when you give out military style weapons (which didn't exist in the 1700's) without any kind of proper regulation... Hard to argue with numbers.

@sebastianlucas704

Ай бұрын

@@artmallory970 Do you know what I'm talking about? Homicide rates, are similar in the UK, Australia, and America. Do you know what homicide is? It's not the same as gun death. For example, UK has far more knife deaths than America does. London's knife deaths, have exceeded New Yorks's gun deaths. Did you take into account gangs, suicide, accidental discharges etc. You do know that if a man shoots himself at a school(suicide) that's still ruled as a school shooting, right? Finally, you can't say there's a lot, and sight none of them-just makes you look like a lazy ass. If there's so many studies, then it should take less than a minute to give me proof.

@sebastianlucas704

Ай бұрын

@@artmallory970 lastly, define a military style weapon. After all, swords used to be considered military weapons.

@artmallory970

Ай бұрын

@@sebastianlucas704 When that constitution was written, all they had were muzzle loaders (1 round every 4 mins) you couldn't go on a mass 'bang bang' with a gun like that. The rates of gun caused deaths in the US in infinitely higher bc it's so easy to get a gun there. When was the last school bang bang in UK? Oz? Doesn't happen. It happens in any city of the US every 12 hours... 'People' like you never admit when you're wrong, even when presented with the mathematical evidence. Reinforcing stereotypes... SMH

While I agree they are zealots, I didn’t like him using that word over and over again. It made it sound like propaganda. And we are not leftists, and shouldn’t be doing that

@LRRPFco52

2 ай бұрын

It's the appropriate academic term for people who are committed to ideologies without facts.

@jefferytokarsky1930

2 ай бұрын

@@LRRPFco52 Plus ... it’s got a nice ring to it and more polite than gun control morons.

@guillermoelnino

2 ай бұрын

It makes the atheists REEE since they associate the word zealot with religion. And they keep telling us they're not religious.

Sadly, Sowell has no understanding of probability and statistics.

@JT-bc5cd

2 ай бұрын

Lol wut? Sowell has some of the beat statistically analyses out there

selective evidence??------Thomas, you are the King of such and using the term "zealots" for advocates of gun control illustrates you have no sense of irony

@rogerforsberg3910

2 ай бұрын

Can you clarify, Mr alberg, about why you believe that Thomas Sowell is the "King of such" (referring to 'selective evidence,' may I assume)? I've been an acquaintance of his for close to 50 years & I've encountered very few people (certainly very few on the Left) who have such a high commitment to intellectual honesty.

@alberg6290

2 ай бұрын

I do consider Sowell to be highly intelligent and on some issues, his discussion of IQ in Intellectual and Society is brilliant, but he is too often a guilty of exactly the same sin he accuses the Left of. In this particular post he references a number of "dogmas" concerning gun control which are quite misleading------just one for example is the discussion of having a gun in the home. He only talks about it being used against an intruder, ignoring the numerous cases of it being used against someone in the family, either by accident, suicide or in the heat of passion. @@rogerforsberg3910

@alberg6290

2 ай бұрын

would love to respond to you but for some reason my replies are not showing up on youtube------don't know if this one will but my apologies

@alberg6290

2 ай бұрын

I do have great respect for Sowell's intelligence, his section on IQ in Intellectuals and Society is excellent. However, what he claims are "dogmas" of gun control advocates are caricatures and misleadingly incomplete----the reference to Hinckley is just puzzling and indicative of exactly what? And the gun in home narrative was full of opinions rather than facts. I remember Sowell's conclusions about charter schools having better achievement than public school in the same socio-economic area completely ignoring that this was NOT a random sample as any basic knowledge of statistics would tell you. Do I think Sowell was aware of this?, undoubtedly , but it didn't fit his pre-conceived notion. There are many other examples of Sowell in his true role of being a partisan debater , however brilliant he is.@@rogerforsberg3910

@rogerforsberg3910

2 ай бұрын

@@alberg6290 Not to worry. I"ve learned over the course of time that KZread occasionally behaves frivolously & inexplicably.

umerika has the most liberal gun laws in the g20, by far. umerika has the highest crime and murder rate in the g20, by far.

@Quakeboy02

2 ай бұрын

How many other g20 countries have mexico on their southern border? I'm guessing none.

@212caboose

2 ай бұрын

Not even close. BY FAR

Sowell doesn’t understand the actual grand dogma of gun control. Areas with high gun crime but strict gun control laws experience high gun crime because guns are legally purchased in jurisdictions with lax gun control law and imported to and used in jurisdictions with stronger gun control laws. For example guns are routinely purchased in gun lax Pennsylvania and used in gun controlled Baltimore. For example, guns are easily legally purchased in gun lax Indiana and imported to and used in gun controlled Chicago. Please look at the process, rather than hanging on a one dimensional view.

@Quakeboy02

2 ай бұрын

So, you're saying that Sowell is either stupid or willfully ignorant? hahahahahahaha

@212caboose

2 ай бұрын

BWAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

@Wilhuf1

2 ай бұрын

@@Quakeboy02 I'm saying he ignores the facts on the ground. Common among the geographically ignorant who ignore how processes actually work. So, I suppose yes, he's willfully ignorant.

@Wilhuf1

2 ай бұрын

@@212cabooseyou might want to get that checked.

@YiddishDancingClown

Ай бұрын

Except there's basically no way to prove that because they scratch off all the serial numbers.

Here too….. 🦘🇦🇺👍

5:06 Gotta love that fire ring that appears to have some warning about HOT ASHES, as if someone could be literate while also needing to be reminded that fire is hot. That is a problem that will explain itself in no uncertain terms should one be dumb enough to explore it. No need for the warning. It will not be heeded by anyone who needs it.