Yeah, that was a bit of a strawman. The bit doesn't really work without it.

They have selective amnesia when pushing gun control.

Are you saying some people are trying to hold two thoughts on their head at the same time!? Egad!

Most is an understatement. It's basically all. You'd be hard pressed to find me a liberal that wants gun reforms but not better healthcare.

Every liberal I know is pushing for mental health reform, and gun control. The two go hand in hand. They also point out that most gun deaths are caused by self-infliction. Which is why we're pushing red flag laws (i.e. that bag of mushrooms and Ace Ventura solution). So that whole second bit just... falls kind of flat if you actually look at the liberal position for 2 seconds with any kind of clarity at all.

So a little bit not spot on.

Very very near spot on.

The left says that if you believe you were born in the wrong body, and you need to chop off your penis to be happy, you’re mentally fine... so, I’m going to say they do downplay the need for mental health care.

No the left is claiming everyone in existence is mentally ill and that it's normal. That's a lie and it's false

I have a few liberal relatives that beg to differ.

Three Mics is still my favorite but both Blocks and his new one are awesome too. He's 3 for 3.

@@RobFMDetroit Yes, the hit rate is flawless.

I have watched this show and 3 mics so many times. He is so hilarious and I can’t stop laughing at his nra / military showdown joke.

I’ll assume it’s the only one you have seen then … 🤦‍♂️

@@SticksAandstonesBozo 😴

Oh damn is that the prequel to the Afghanistan one?

@@baronnecas2880 yup all part of the GCU, guerrilla cinematic universe

Technology hasn’t advanced on the side of the American military at all since then am I right lol

The vietnamese had material and armament support from other nations. It wasn't a bunch of rice framers with old rifles

Lol yeah you obviously didn't watch any Vietnam documentaries if you didn't know who supported them. 😊

This is perfectly captured in the “necessary for the common defense” part of the 2A that most people ignore. You will defend your own life and lives of those you love far more vigorously than somebody collecting a paycheck and counting on a pension… See also Ukraine.

@@atomicsmith so you think the kids should have had guns or what

@@morbidhandle13x Are you really this dumb, or just playing it up for this comment?

​@@morbidhandle13xthey would have done better then that security guard. 😂

Which is a bit off because I don't know any liberal running for office who is against advocating for more health care. They'll argue gun control is needed but not that its ONLY needed, thats a misdirection argument from the right often uses. Its also a comedy bit so logic isn't really needed, like suicide is still horrible and should be stopped. It being 2/3rds doesn't mean... thats...anything better. It doesn't change the stats at all. Thats still people dying by guns, thats the fact.

Most liberals are all-in on mental health care as well. As for the flu, I can get a vaccine and almost guarantee I won't die from it. I have little choice if somebody decides to rampage through my kids' schools. It's different.

Because he's got a new special out.

We should make them LipSync For Their Lives

Yeah that guy was a complete fucking idiot. Its sad for the kid,from what I heard the kid had the BB gun in his waist band,and super idiot though big five was going to get robbed.

Or the girl who killed the guy shooting an AR-15 into a birthday party crowd. Oh, did I just spoil your narrative?

the dumbest quote ever spoken

Probably should read up about the civil war again.

Might want to read up on the revolutionary war again too... you know, that time a ragtag militia fought an oppressive government and won.

US is unwilling to address the treatment of children which is the main cause of adult aggression.

But Joe biden said that if the government decides to get tyrannical, there is nothing you can do about it.

What laws are you referring to that ban transgender people?

Umm check your history books... NO ONE from outside Afghanistan has ever been able to hold Afghanistan. Not saying we did a bang up job, but.. A similar one to what we did in Vietnam. Only this time there were fewer returning soldiers getting spit on and called baby killers.

@@earlyre So, in otherwords, we couldn't beat the mujadeen, even with our outlandishly superior military? Glad you agree.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is another winner

That is an inverted framing of the moral reality. Those people who hurt themselves or others still have that degree of destructive intent. Guns being absent doesn’t change that, but rather makes it so you have virtually no plausible defense against them, unless you just happened to be born physically strong and violent enough to defeat them with brute force. A firearm equalizes the capability to make the other guy fall, even if you’re 90 pounds.

@@quaternio Studies also do not calculate the victimization by fist or blade which is deterred by the victim possibly being armed. There is a degree of invisible deterrence which is difficult to calculate, because there are too many factors in comparing the US to a disarmed society. This continues beyond prevented attacks to the prevention of the social costs of antisocial behaviour, like threatening confrontations.

LMAO

I meant "...the high rate of gun suicides?" Not "is gun suicides" which doesn't make sense.

Well, first of all he's not really trying to solve gun violence so much as he's performing comedy. Secondly in his comedy he did advocate for a mental health screening before being able to purchase a gun. I feel like he addressed your concern even though he's just doing a comedy bit.

​@helenak.5762 you can edit comments by pressing the little dots to the upper right of your comment. Itll end up saying edited next to your name. Like mine

He’s not *not* counting them. He’s saying it’s important context often left out, which would change how people responded if they knew it.

Take away the gun, ppl will get creative making machines to do the job or overdose pills,so this thing called a knife,found in every kitchen in America

That’s an inaccurate statement. There’s a whole slew of mental health issues that cover rich, poor, middle income folks.

​@@kesagatameyes it affects everyone, but only the rich and some middle can get the help they need.

Precise & poignant addition to this conversation. Well said indeed.

Agreed, but what's your suggestion for achievable gun control legislation?

@@newbrookland thanks for asking, i have a lot of ideas, but the problem is federalism. doesn't matter what a state like NY legislates. It could be the best laws possible that respect the 2A while also correcting its shortcomings and treating this issue as the public safety issue it is. Problem is we're sandwiched between N states that not only don't give a shit about gun laws but actively make it easier to traffic them by making it harder to track them. When the right complains that "gun laws dont work" they are correct and it is entirely BY DESIGN. The only real solutions are federal and there's nearly no appetite for that in DC. Ideally laws there would redress the serious structural issues that make it impossible for gun manufacturers to produce obscene numbers of guns, market them and sell them without regard for public safety. Gun tracking and licensing and training coupled with regular mental health checks to maybe help keep them out of the hands of the suicidal. Ultimately too we need to just cut down the # of guns in the wild. Not saying any of these are simple solutions, but they are actionable.

Your mistaking a privilege vs a right

Yes and to exercise that right you need some training. Cry about it.

@@Deemo202 I don’t mind training and many states do have ccl requirements. The issue is training hurts lower income areas which are typically more dangerous than upper class areas. But to register your gun isn’t necessary because it’s a right not a privilege

A fork's not really practical. Are there any tall buildings near you?

@@FatNorthernBigot I have a fear of heights.

"I'm sitting at this table called love Staring down at the irony of life How come we've reached this fork in the road And yet it cuts like a knife?" Hang in there, bud.

​@@vincenttavani6380Random act of kindness, well done.

The well regulated militia line was written 230+ years ago. English words back then had different meanings than today. When it was written it just meant the people were all meant to be well equipped and trained,everyone is the militia. Today people try to make the argument using today's understanding of the word,meaning nations guard.

@rungfang27 Nope. 1776 there was plenty of modern war words we still use. It wasn't an alternate dimension. "At the time of the American Revolutionary War, the word militia were groups of able bodied men, who protected their town, colonies and eventually States." And I guarantee you, there were dumb asses that the town would make sure never owned a gun.

They'll be the ones commenting. Everyone else is laughing lol

It's 3-4 years old I think

Because us liberals know how to joke and laugh at ourselves.

Well it's a good analysis ❤️ whichever way you wanna associate people.

It's called self awareness and humility, I can understand why that would confuse a conservative

@@machineo12887 you guys think a man can have babies. And your masters will censor this comment. Sit down.

Bro 60 years ago in a jungle with enemies hidden in tunnels in a war that the US never wanted to win is not a valid argument

Assuming that the superior military force can't or won't use Total War tactics - popular insurgencies win against superior military forces almost every time. No insurgency is going head-to-head with a superior military force. It's just guerrilla warfare.

@@andreiprioteasa3193Nice dodging all the many modern examples like Afghanistan.

No the us military did not lose in Afghanistan, never lost a battle there. Politicians, the Afghan govt,and the Afghan forces failed to hold what us forces gave them. Hence the collapse of the Afghanistan govt within days of us forces leaving. And the us never lost a battle in Vietnam, once again politicians get their grubby little hands in it and fuck it all up!

In a real crisis, people go home to protect their family. That is why I think "taking on the feds" is a false concept from the 80s. Real civil wars always organize along lines of identity. See Rwanda, Yugoslavia, and pre-2022 Donbass.

MACV SOG had a 150:1 back in 'Nam. So uh... Yeah.

^^^ It's always clear what MAGAs, Meal Team Six and other gun nuts who never served think of our troops and armed forces.

Too many guns and lax laws.

The vast majority of guns used for violent crime in cities are being trafficked from out of state, from states with lax gun laws. You need a national program to fix it.

Respectfully, you're looking at the stats incorrectly then. Per capita, the worst gun violence in the US is the south, and in the suburbs/smaller cities. Gun violence is happening everywhere. The double homicide in "Small City, Alabama" just isn't reported nationally in the same way that violence in the big cities are.

​@@jacksondowney4327Yup. DC is the only true city you can find statistics for, but data scientists treat it as a state, and it has the most gun-related deaths by far. The next dozen are current and historically red states. When looking at the proportion of gun-related suicides, the top states are also current and historically red states, but the highest deaths shift from Southern states to Western/Mid-Western states. What never shifts is the fact that the highest number of gun-related homicides and non-suicide deaths of women and children occur in those states with the least restrictive gun laws.

You should stop lying.

Same subject, different jokes.

He also has a bit on how if you think comedians should be deep, you're an idiot.

I love guns. 2A all day!

And a comedian - take it easy dude 😂

Veteran here as well, its a joke. He's doing comedy so we can assess the second part is him having to editorialize a bit of truth. No one on the left argues gun control and NO mental health care. Thats the bit he adds in to make the joke workish. Its nonsense.

He didn't say guns weren't terrible. He implied that people are more scared about gun deaths than they should be, statistically speaking.

@@jon8004 Which doesn't actually track, yeah those numbers do include suicides but... thats still a dangerous aspect of guns. Those people die, its something bad and something that should be worked towards preventing and not ignoring. People are statistically LESS scared than they should be around firearms in my personal opinion, I mean... look at the current state of the debate today. They want less regulations for people without training than we have requirements for people with training. Its surreal, its the opposite of being careful or safe. I mean, I don't know who could argue suicides aren't a negative or a problem. Argue that suicide doesn't cause a life to be lost or something, its a strange argument. Like "yeah, sometimes the guns kill the exact person that was intended to kill. So we shouldn't be scared" thats a weird sentence.

Haha that's called a listening audience. Do you hear the riotous laughter after the punchlines?

Holy crap, we got ourselves a time traveler!

Impressive. Shows a stunning lack of basic understanding of all three groups mentioned. Remember kids, never let stupidity get in the way of stating your opinion as if it isn't moronic, it's the American way!

Nobody does! That's the confusing part of the second amendment. What do you think it means?

@@JeffreyKarlanThere is no confusion amongst honest people with a little research. “Well regulated militia” is a term of art in political philosophy at the time of the US founding. It means a highly prepared and capable group of non-professional combatants. Switzerland held the same idea at the time, and you can see what that looks like in their example today. Militia has never been confusing in this context. You are the militia. We all are. What we learned though is that militia (ordinary working people) only want to defend their own land-not march off to war for economic interests, and as such, mere militia were not enough to satisfy the aspirations of the federal government. Add a little time to those unchecked aspirations, and now we have the abysmal war machine that Eisenhower predicted.

Your confidence is amusing.

So you don't understand that the government is in charge of the military and their job is to follow orders? Also unaware that we have a political group who's leader has already stated he would use the military against groups he doesn't like on domestic soil?

@@curtisbme following orders is voluntary when you're talking about a war between thw government and the people

...except all those times the soldiers said "I was just following orders" right? That wasn't voluntary?

@@fossi31415 You are implying that soldiers are just going to opt out on a command in mass. That is a lot of hopium about a mass of people specially trained to follow orders at all cost.

But it’s the best

Military cosplayers hate to hear how much of a joke they are

Don't worry, no one is taking your security blanket away from you. You'll be able to cuddle with your gun all you like. Just don't do it in public, kinks are for the bedroom.