-Be me. -Own a musket for home defense since that's what the founding fathers intended. -Four ruffians break into my house. -"What the devil?" as I grab my powdered wig and kentucky rifle. -Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. -Draw my pistol on the second man, misses him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbor's dog. -I have to resort to the cannon loaded with grapeshot mounted at top of the stairs. -"TALLY HO LADS!" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel setting off car alarms. -Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscalion -Bleeds out waiting for the police to arrive since triangle bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. -Just as the founding fathers intended.

My views on gun control: don’t give it to idiots The hard part: finding out who the idiots are

What absolutely pisses me off about the mental health talking point is that it's only a talking point for the four days after the actual shooting. If the problem is mental health, how about some actual . . . mental health care reform?

The issue with the militia argument is that when states used militia's for security it wasn't the state giving the people guns. The militiamen were expected to bring their own weapons, which would be individual owned. This is actually important to a new supreme court case about the age someone can own a handgun under federal law.

Fun fact the founders were actually huge fans of taxidermy so the second amendment actually refers to actual bear arms.

That's not an M60, that's a shooty shooty bang bang!

That m60 twist was great

I fundamentally disagreed with the premise of those video before watching it. Now I understand far more points of view other than simply my own or the polar opposite of my own. This is why I absolutely love KB. Thank you for making the internet more intelligent and less ignorantly furious about things we don’t really know.

"what's your opinion on gun control" my friend asked passing me my AK as I climbed into my panzer omw to a cashier job.

I like how he gets rid of the extremists in the first few minutes by saying “thanks Obama” and incorrectly saying M60 on purpose. Maybe I’m just overestimating him

I went back to the Federalist papers on the purpose of the 2A. The 2A was written in order to prevent a national standing army. It's purpose was to decentralize military forces across the states. States had control including appointment of officers and training. I refer you to Federalist #29. There is quite a bit about making the case for militias as a practical defense of the state and from a tyrannical federal government.

22:42 Exactly. If you don’t open yourself to conversation, you embolden those who disagree with you to exclude you when they make decisions. You end up undermining yourself.

You almost got me with the m60 240B bit. I just bit my lips and tried to not have a stroke.

Owning a weapon, any weapon, is not an inherently violent act. Confiscating one at gunpoint is

Interesting point, I've recently heard that the Wild West which most people would claim was a place where everyone had a gun, actually had forms of Gun control. Specifically, Tombstone made it that everyone had to surrender their gun when they are coming into town. I'm hoping to learn more from a paper written the Smithsonian, but it is kind of an interesting point about how inaccurately popular perceptions can be in relation to reality.

I almost called you out on the M-60 comment. I'm glad I waited

"I even read the sequel. " bloody killed me, man.

I was surprised that you didn't mention the fact that the 1994 assault rifle ban was not reinstated because it was showed to have no affect on gun violence

I have so many of your videos in my watchlist but I have only managed to watch a handful. Why, you may ask? Because I have to watch each video several times in order to absorb all the info you somehow manage to pack into each one. Absolutely excellent.

thats not an m60 edit: oh

Great vid, man! Would recommend this to anyone unfamiliar with gun laws or even just guns in general. I thought I understood the definitions but I had no idea "assault weapon" and "assault rifle" were different things.

Except you know when James Maddison let people privately own cannons for their ships.

To say that the founding father's knew nothing of advancements in firearms is false. They were almost sold what was basically a gatling gun in the late 18th centure. Still muzzle loaded, but was more like a rapid fire revolver. They knew warfare tactics and tech advanced, many of these men faught in wars and studied the past.

Hah! You got me with that 60/240 "trap", haha! Well played, sir.

I always control my guns. I use both hands. Helps my aim a lot.

That “thanks Obama” single handley ruined the like/dislike ratio

Interestingly the military DOES have SBRs and SBSs which conflicts with that ruling.

"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" got changed from John Locke's "Life, liberty, and property" because Jefferson didn't want to plagiarize, and some of the New England framers had some troubles with the two-legged "property" he kept at Monticello.

I blame the magazine clip confusion on WWII movies and John Garand. The M1 rifle dropping the entire clip into the magazine messed it up for everyone.

"I've even read the sequel" 😂😂😂 top tier video right here. That earned a like from me

I just have to say that I applaud your integrity and neutral perspective when you make these videos. I have literally been on a binge watching all of your videos the past couple of days and I think your humorous teaching style is awesome! I have laughed out loud to myself so many times! I also come away from your videos feeling informed which is after all your mission “knowing better”. In short, THANK YOU! In a world where everything online is so damned political it’s refreshing to come across your unbiased take. GREAT WORK!

A collab of two great people: KB and Cypher from Cynical Historian. Nicely done. 😀

Yo you missed the court case where ya boi, Thomas Jefferson, ruled in the favor of merchant vessels being allowed to arm their ships with cannons.

"You can't just omit several key talking points," omits several key taking points to serve his purpose.

As a staunch leftist I love your stuff. Your concessions and expressions of where you were ideologically vs where you are. You came from a perspective that I absolutely did not and you bring things to the table most leftists like me are afraid to. Guns are totally one of those topics.

Very informative! I learned a lot, thank you.

As another crew served weapon specialist I was half way through a screee about calling that an M60...carry on good sir, carry on lol

I can’t believe people still think “the gun show loophole” is actually a thing

That 240 bravo trick was so clever, I wouldn't have known any better, but that's a great way to catch people who do, but don't watch further than to catch slip ups

There was a semi-automatic when the founding fathers were around, the Giradoni Air rifle was created in 1779, it was a semi automatic air rifle which was later used in the Lewis and Clark expedition and saw military service in the Austrian Army.

Sorry dude but Maddison did think that the people had a right to keep arms

every gun show I've been too you have had to fill out a background check

16:02 The exception to this might be the Kalthoff Repeater. Sure, you had to manually use the reloading mechanism, but you could, if you were a good-enough user, fire up to 60 rounds inside a minute. Which is certainly something.

hey man long time fan and I just want to say, rewatching your videos as an adult with completely different opinions is wild, I really appreciate you linking other videos to expand on the subject, you're recent content has been great too.

>i even read the sequel *Shows the Book of Mormon* I can't stop laughing

That's a M240 tho Aha, good pit trap my guy

I really like the term "juice box" for an electronic weapon's battery.

I go back and watch these and now that my KZfaq algorithm has been skewing to more educational videos I recognized a lot more the voices

The founding fathers did intend for the 2nd to include private ownership. A owner of a trading ship wrote to Adams asking is the 2nd extended to him outfitting his ships with cannon in order to defend against pirates. He was told that absolutely he could own cannons.

Here's an idea - Let's end the stupid drug war and actually do something to help impoverished people and see where that takes us as far as gun violence is concerned. If it's still a 'huge' problem, then we'll go from there.

The fact that you collabed with The Cynical Historian gives me more reason to love your content. I love this small group of moderate historian and political youtubers that both give good answers to complex problems and create ethical and thoughtful debates based on historical precedent and logic instead of just memes and ideology.

Where has this channel been all my life

Australian Gun control is the most extreme, *Laughs in British*

I have owned and carried firearms for more than 20 years now. I am carrying a pistol right now. But I nearly completely agree with you. It is difficult to be a moderate with an issue as polarizing as this one. And for what it's worth, I will subscribe to you. Good job on this and the video on Christopher Colombus.

Crazy that five years later the mass shooting issue in America has only gotten worse 😢

Revisiting this after the school shooting yesterday in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 students and two teachers dead.

"what is the militia? Is the militia not the whole body of the citizenry? There for the musket (military issued firearm) the bayonet, the sword and every terrible impliment of the soldier is the birthright of the American citizen" - Benjamin Franklin.

I like how he skipped the part where all men age 18-45 were the militia by federal law, and as such were lawfully obligated to purchase current military weapons and kit and know how to use them.

"Ohhh, I'd kill you if I had my gun!!" "Yeah, well ya don't."

Damn! Now I know what a 'Bump' stock is. That is a work of genius (From an engineering point of view)

When talking about Australian Firearm Law, you missed one critical thing. Self-Defence is not counted by our government as a "Legitimate Reason" to own a firearm. It is a bad joke that our elected politicians take away our best self-defence tool whilst saying "oh no but you can still keep your guns! Just for every use other than the one you'll really really need" Don't let people with armed security take away your ability to have your own security.

This didn't change my mind on gun control (I'm very pro-gun) but I very much appreciated it and it helped me to see the other side in a new light.

This was 4 years ago?!? This has aged incredibly well... What people don't realize it's that ALL illegal guns were legal at some point...

lol ngl I had to delete my “tHatS nOt a m60” comment😂😂😂

Just me? Or does the like/dislike ratio seem inaccurate when you read the comments?

I'm just here looking for the people yelling: "ThAt IsNt A M60!!! He KnOwS nOtHiNg AbOuT gUnS!!!!"

Very well presented at thought out. Thank you.

Extremely well done, sir. Appreciate your level-headed approach, and I definitely agree.

Hold on wait "Your right to own a gun comes from the government" You realize the bill of rights and amendments are to tell the governt what they can't do, not what the people can do, right?

@Knowing Better 01:58 "Yes, I’m well aware of the fact that that’s not an M60, it’s a 240B. So if you see any comments below mentioning how that’s not an M60 and I have no idea what I’m talking about, it means they barely made it past the first minute." *Nice b8, m8!* Approve that sneaky move to call out smartarses which are judging videos without even watching them. :-)

shall not be infringed fans vs average under no pretext enjoyers

You are misrepresenting the Australian situation on a few of key points. 1> Semi-Automatic rifles are banned. The only rifles you can own are bolt action or lever action. 2> Pump action shotguns are banned. Like Britain. Shotguns are limited to single and double barrel versions. There has been a loophole for lever action, and straight draw shotguns, though this will probably be closed soon. 3> Pistols are extremely hard to get. The process to get a pistol licence, including mandatory training and background checks takes about a year and a significant time and financial commitment. 4> Your guns may be sized by the police at any time, without cause. However, if you are the subject of a domestic valence complaint or apprehensive violence order (someone has a fear of you), of if you have ever sought help for a mental health issue (even 15 years later) your guns may be seized. I hope that adds some context.

Regarding Australia, you missed one very important point. We do NOT have a Second Amendment. Hell, we don't even have a 1st Amendment! We have NO legal right to the ownership or use of ANY firearm. We only have permission from the government of the day to own and use them and they proscribe the situations under which we can use them. ANY government here in Australia can totally remove the individuals right to own any firearm. I surrendered an M1 carbine, a "full wood" .303, a jungle carbine .303 and a Winchester Defender 12 gauge shotgun and I was well paid for doing so. I mainly turned them in because I had not fired them in years. But note the "well paid" bit. Under Australian law, government cannot seize or outlaw something without the payment of compensation. I believe that this mechanism does NOT exist in the US otherwise the machine gun ban would have allowed the government to seize the weapon (or have the owner surrender it) in exchange for compensation. If this is so, it would be interesting to see how effective the bump stock removal will be. And no, I don't like bump stocks and the ATF made a huge error in approving it because it goes against the spirit of converting the weapon to fire in an automatic-like manner. Finally, the Founding Fathers may not have known about high capacity magazines, semi-automatic weapons or machine guns but they knew weapons always evolved. There is an argument that, since there were no "modern" firearms then, the 2nd Amendment should not cover anything past December 15 1791 (the date of its adoption). Using that logic, the 1st Amendment should only cover "the press" - newspapers. And even those must be the old printing press, not TV, digital, internet, podcast or high volume computer printing, just the single plate and hand crank.

As a non-native speaker of English, I could be wrong, but isn't "God-given right" just a metaphor for a fundamental right? We use "God" a lot in my native language to describe things that don't necessarily have to do much with religion and this seems like something that could also be used in that way if it were Dutch (my native language). Maybe it's different in English though! Just wanted to point this out, because I feel like, other than that, Steven Crowder seems to be quite spot on most of the time and if he literally meant "Right given to you by God"... That'd be pretty weird. Nice video, btw!

A few more things. Miller v US, Miller’s lawyer never showed up for final arguments…worth noting. Also worth noting, the decision of Miller v US, actually supports removing SBRs and SBSes from the NFA list, because in the modern military both are used. The shotguns we had on my ship Al had barrels shorter than what’s legal without a tax stamp. MP5s and M4 variants with 12” barrels or even less have all been used by the military for decades now. Also as for Australia’s gun laws ‘eliminating’ mass shootings, there aren’t remotely enough mass shooting data points in that country to support such a claim since they were so rare before the bans. Also ‘military style rifle’ is an extremely dangerous term. Modern military style? Historically military style? What portion of the military? By any honest metric my grandpa’s deer rifle would fall under that classification because the military has used the same model of bolt action rifle as a sniper rifle and I believe still does. Also Thomas Jefferson owned a semi-automatic rifle. It operated off of compressed air and had a 10 rd magazine. He loaned it the Lewis and Clark expedition. I will accept further restrictions on guns when there’s further restrictions on cars and who can have children. To this day cars still kill roughly as many people as guns in the US, yet no background check into mental stability or driving record is required to buy a car, and anyone can sell anyone a car. unfit parents ruin the lives of more children every year than guns do. there's also one more thing i wish you would have mentioned, because at the very end you are 100% right, claiming a god given right, or any other deflection is just that a deflection. by the same token gun control advocates love to whine about why 2A advocates won't compromise. well its simple, because gun control advocates won't compromise either. the debate boils down to 2 simple sides. more gun restrictions, vs no more gun restrictions. if you're demanding gun restrictions, no matter how minor, you're not demanding a compromise, you're demanding a capitulation. so here's my compromise, over turn the NFA, and machine gun ban, and i will happily register every weapon I own and submit 20 hours of training for every type of weapon i want to buy and own. military service and training would count just like it does now for carry permits. this would mean i would be able to go out and purchase a 25mm chaingun if i had the money and space. unfortunately i never got qualified on GFCS so i would have to submit to 20 hours of training to own a 5" gun if i had the money...or space...or method of transport for it...so like it or not, this is what compromise looks like. it might be a bit extreme, but it makes my point. if you're advocating for more restrictions don't ask for compromise if you're not willing to give us anything back in return, because keeping what we already have is not a bargaining chip, when you can't realistically get what you call 'compromise' without our support. if you want to reduce gun violence, i have 3 ways of doing so that will work better than any gun laws. increase the DoE's budget to improve education. provide free healthcare including mental healthcare. provide universal basic income to everyone. do these 3 things and gun violence will decrease, along with knife violence, blunt object violence, unarmed violence, and automobile violence and what ever other sub category of violence you can think of. the things that cause most of the violence in the world are poverty, poor education, and mental instability. better pay, education, and healthcare are the reasons why other 'developed' countries have less violence over all per capita than the US. see, i told you i'm a moderate at the very least.

The good old days when there was a like to dislike ratio...

That's not an M60, that's a bow with fast charge, power 5 and a texture pack

The people of Hong Kong would disagree with what you think they need.

As a Ukrainian in 2022: people with guns (including/especially private military grade) play huge part in saving lives, democracy and freedom. Only thing is I agree - licence and (at least) every-year training.

Very informative, thank you.

I'm still amazed how many people still misinterpret "shall not be infringed".

1:16 are you sure that isn’t a M240? Edit: I saw your correction, I feel dumb, lol.

I think your presentation was pretty fairly balanced. One thing I'm a bit hung up on though is the 2nd amendment in the Bill of Rights where all other rights seem universal - which is to say for all people, not just a subset. I think you may have been implying that the 2nd amendment was just for militia members, which when thinking of rights as universal doesn't add up. Thank you.

Again, just to clarify this briefly as opposed to my earlier comment. The Constitution granted government rights, not the people. The people have all rights not specifically granted to the government. The Bill of Rights highlighted things the government specifically can't do.

“You keep jumping from one side of the fence to the other, you might just get impaled on it.” -Landon Ricketts

the assault weapon ban was idiotic because most of those features have no affect on function.

Thank you for your service

Actually, the Declaration of Independence says we are endowed by our creator with an unstated number of inalienable rights, and that “…AMONG these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Note that phrase; “among these”. It does NOT say, as was implied in the video, that these are the only inalienable rights.

I love how Crowder says "fundamental human rights" so fast you can barely process it. Also, loved the M60 segment.

Sorry. The 30 round magazine is a STANDARD CAPACITY magazine. These magazines are the factory standard when the rifle is sold.

Bro that australia isnt living under a tyrannical government line aged like milk

10 US Code 246 is still on the books. Both organized and unorganized militias are defined. Many, if not most, states also have a code that defines the militia.

Heller didn’t give the individual the right, it verified what was always there

There is no conversation on how and when the government should kill me for my property

Meanwhile some of my countrymen are using the higher rate of gun crime in the USA compared to my country to argue that we're ungrateful for our safety & security if we ask for more civil liberty

Good video, this is excellent, very well construed and delivered

This didn’t sound like a guy who sits in the middle to me. Oh and btw every gun show I went to had background checks if you wanted to buy a gun.

As a military history buff, I feel obligated to push up my metaphorical nerd glasses and correct you. At 6:04 you said "It's important to note that at this point the only practical firearms that existed were muzzleloaded rifles, pistols, and shotguns. Lever actions and repeating rifles were still fairly new and the only machine gun in existence still needed to be carted around by a horse." You were talking about a case that was settled in 1886. By that time... - Winchester was coming out with it's 4th model of the lever action (5th if you count the 1860 Henry). The 1860 Henry had seen combat in the Civil War and was at least somewhat successful. They had also released the Model 1866 "Yellowboy" and the Model 1873 AKA "The Gun that Won the West". Both were very well known and had an excellent reputation. - Colt had released 4 models of cartridge revolvers including the Model 1873 "Peacemaker" as seen in every western ever. This includes the double-action Models 1877 and 1878. - The US main service rifle had been a cartridge loading rifle for well over a decade. The British main service rifle had been a cartridge rifle for two decades. - Hiram Maxim had patents for his machinegun for at least 3 years, and had already started to receive genuine interest from militaries. The design would go on to redefine modern war in WWI, and see extensive service through WWII and beyond. - The French had just shocked the world with their debut of the Lebel 1886. It was an 8-shot bolt action repeating rifle using modern smokeless powder. That rifle would continue to serve until modern assault rifles began to show up in WWII. In summary, muzzleloaders were already obsolete by that time. In fact, we were already seeing the beginnings of weapons that would serve on well into the 20th century.

Love your videos.

I like seeing you from a time where -12 subscribers meant something super significant