The police don't violate your human rights. That's just a criminal complaining

How are places like Seoul, Tokyo, Stockholm, Western Europe, Australia they less free?

And you’re completely confused.

Noam Chomsky is functionally retarded. ​@@andybaldman

Hes a linguistics professor, he should either read more about these topics or stfu and stay in his lane.

Typical reductive comeback. It’s true this is the most gun crazed country on earth. We own over half of all guns in existence.

I agree with you. But what is the alternative?

Secure? Mass shootings every week? We don't have those over here. You are not at all secure.

Can't agree less. If it's a secure country, why is he concerned with guns?

​@@-8_8-secure by external threats you nimwit. People inside it are still unsecured from internal threats, i.e. psychos with guns.

I’ve heard this old leftist for decades now. It’s growing old.

He didn't say anything in this clip even eluding to what you said.

Yes, inequality is a big contributor to feeling unsafe. And the lack of social safety nets means that many people find themselves in desperate situations and revert to violence, hence the need for the rest of the population to "protect themselves" [from thieves, junkies, gangsters].

If you actually listened to the whole podcast you wouldn't have typed this comment. I believe the context was about creating fear within your population for votes. He goes on to mention a community of extremely wealthy folk in Arizona, who live in a gated community 10s of miles from the southern border. Had Steve Bannon and a few others like him, go in that community and ask for money to build a wall. The irony of it all is you probably couldn't find a safer community in the entire world. Yet these people, in their gated community, are so terrified of illegals, that they give their money to fund a border wall. The idea that anyone is scared of illegals is a right wing experiment to get votes. Because they have no economic policy that is worth getting voting for. So they scream border and abortion and half the country votes republican out of fear.

Get an education and live somewhere safe.

Response 2) inequality exists and because of it, somehow people have to be violent. 3) make more money. This is the ultimate liberal starter packet here. Yeah poor people have it bad. Here is the formulary for why it is bad, and a utopian prescription from a centralized government authority whilst holed up from the rable and telling them that are law abiding that they shouldn’t have guns or make more so they can be insulated from seeing any societal ills. Thanks.

Who, specifically, have we been deterring?

They're not worried about the law abiding citizens. They're worried about the criminals who can obtain guns just as easily.

@@BlackEpyon So the government takes everything away from everyone, because some PEOPLE don’t obey laws!? 🤔 …what scares me most of all is that people like you are good with that idea! Check with the Law Abiding people of China and Afghanistan and see how they like your idea.

Anecdotes, anecdotes. I *do* know a gun owner that thinks "they're coming after me."

@@nickmonks9563That’s literally what the second amendment is for. To protect ourselves against the govt, it says it right there in the constitution. Also, it’s really not crazy to think they don’t want us to have that protection and are currently working to remove said protection. Look at the UK or look at Canada, they all had guns and the govt took them away. Here in CA they are slowly adding more and more unconstitutional gun laws that don’t help whatsoever with crime or gun violence deaths. More laws don’t stop criminals. They break laws by definition, so why would limiting magazines to 10 rounds have any effect on people who don’t care about the law? Then you have dipshits talking about assault rifles when those have been banned since the 70’s. I’m not some tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist holed up in their basement w 50 guns, I’m a productive member of society w a family. I’m just not stupid and I see what’s going on. If you want to have 6 million guns for yourself who cares.

This is my experience as well. I've heard about gun owners that feel that way. I've never met one.

damn right little brother

knows better about what? he’s not anti gun hes just pointing out thats it is strange behavior to own a lot of guns and feel they are very important.

Big talk for a country that had their thumbs up their collective asses for YEARS in BOTH world wars, while Canada had boots on the ground in Europe almost since day 1.

He's one of the greatest of our time. Have you read any of his books? It's impossible to not agree with his stance on American politics and the dangers of the republican party. It's super interesting stuff. This guy reads books on literally everything. Never met a guy who knows so much. He's brilliant and everyone should listen to him speak.

@@Speedofsound9 lol, thats funny

@@Speedofsound9 go read some thomas sowell

@@Athleticblacklesbian have fun being an idiot for life