Are Guns The Problem?

Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

Nick Freitas

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Are guns the problem? That seems to be the consensus in most of the world, and it is the growing consensus in the US. Everybody has different facts and figures to back up their conclusions, but is there a more straightforward way to understand this issue? So today, we will answer questions like…

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0:00.0	Are guns the problem? I mean, that seems to be the consensus among a lot of talking heads,
0:06.4	activists, politicians within the United States. After all, they look at other countries.
0:10.3	They look at reduced murder rates. They look at reduced gun violence. They look at fewer mass
0:16.0	shootings. And they come to the conclusion that it must be, at least in part, and a significant part, guns.
0:22.7	Right? Guns are the problem. That is the argument that they continually make. But we're going to ask the question today.
0:27.9	We're going to have some very, very important questions today about this issue. So for instance, we're going to answer what is an assault weapon?
0:34.2	What do they mean when they say an assault weapon or a weapon of war?
0:42.3	Right? We're going to ask the question, who commits the majority, like the vast majority of instances of gun violence? What exactly are those instances and who's actually doing it?
0:47.3	We're going to ask the question of where is the gun violence taking place within the United
0:51.8	States? We're going to say why, we're going to ask the say why we're going to ask the question.
0:54.7	We're going to answer the question. Why has there been an increase in mass shootings?
0:58.0	That's something that we're going to speculate on here in a way because I think it's very relevant
1:01.3	to the overall argument. And then we're also going to say, we're going to ask the question
1:05.7	and hopefully answer it satisfactorily for anybody that's curious. Is there any good reason for a private
1:13.2	citizen to own the sort of firearms that are currently banned in many other countries around the
1:20.1	world and that people are increasingly attempting to ban within the United States?
1:24.3	So we're going to ask and answer all of these questions on this episode of making the
1:29.3	argument brought to you by Good Ranchers.
1:31.6	Welcome, everyone.
1:32.4	There have been so many attempts on part of the left to take away our guns over the last
1:36.5	couple months in states across the country.
1:38.4	So I'm very excited for us to connect on this topic.
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