Gun Control Abroad vs. The United States

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The Daily Show correspondents John Oliver, Michael Kosta, and Roy Wood Jr. travel the world to find out why Americans are obsessed with guns, and what Australia, Switzerland, and the U.K. are doing right in the fight against gun violence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.6	BAM!
0:03.6	MUSIC
0:05.2	Previously, I went to Australia, where I learned that in 1996,
0:12.4	their government enacted sweeping gun control laws.
0:15.4	The results reduced gun violence and zero mass shootings.
0:19.4	So, are there any lessons for America here?
0:22.2	Virginia Gunn advocate, Philip Van Cleve has a clear answer.
0:25.8	We're not Australia. It's a very different culture.
0:28.8	Different people, different everything.
0:31.0	Right, there's no similarity with Australia.
0:33.0	Australia is a former British colony with a wild frontier
0:37.0	that was tamed by brave men who also wiped out
0:40.4	almost an entire indigenous population.
0:42.8	And we are not similar to that.
0:47.4	Right? Right.
0:50.4	Right, because unlike Australia,
0:52.8	we Americans know when the guns are taken away
0:56.0	tyranny inevitably follows.
0:58.2	The founding fathers knew that governments
1:00.6	tend to grow beyond their means.
1:03.4	In America, we're stepping in the direction of a police state.
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