Dana Gould on Gun Control on Real Time with Bill Maher

[NoGuff]

Wow, Dana, the Patriot Act has been around for how many years now, and I haven't been restricted in my freedoms in any way yet.

[jfabproductions]

How many of those kids were shot with LEGALLY owned guns? Criminals don't buy guns legally.

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[gateman42]

8 kids a day get shot in America??? How many get sexually abused Bill??? Hundreds, Thousands??? How many die in car accidents??? How many die at the hands of their parents??? Get over it!!! Guns are here to stay.

[tock101]

Talk about Canada's economy. HERE IS A FACT ABOUT THAT. Which country does the USA have the largest deficit of interantional trade with? China? Japan? NOPE, CANADA! That right! This fact was on Are You Sharter then a Fith Grader. Canda's economy is so bad that they can't stand on it's own to feet. They ship more to the USA then we ship to them. Without this DEFICIT in TRADE, THEY'D BE BROKE AND OUT OF BUSINESS. No heath care. No defenses. No retirement. It is the USA that supports them. FACT!!!

[tock101]

8 kids a day get shot. Truth, 8 kids get shot by CRIMINALS or by accedent. KIDS DIE FROM CAR ACCEDENT THEN THIS CRAP. Gun Controller use what CRIMINALS do with guns as facts of what LAW ABIDING CITZEN would do with guns. Like, lets blame all BLACKS for the Criminal blacks that use drugs AND take away their constitutional rights. Why is it that when a child is killed by any other device controled by someone, it that persons fault? But they use a gun, it's the guns fault?

[rudygetsplenty]

8 kids a day?  What kind of fake ass statistic is that?

[UnseenChains]

@Dcooper douchebag neighbor can i borrow some logic? get real...Stephen Harper your beloved prime minister is as much an idiot as Bush was and he is just as conservative in his views as Bush. So before you go around telling others how bad their part of the world is maybe you should start looking at your own.

[DCooper720]

@UnseenChains Harper as bad as bush? LOL. Harper never said "most of our imports come from other countries" or invaded the wrong country just cause he felt like it. I'm no fan of Harper but at least he doesn't make the rest of the world hate us like bush did with you.

[591471]

8 kids dying a day isn't a gun problem... its an irresponsibility problem. Irresponsibility is everywhere... banning guns doesn't make people more responsible their still dumbasses who are gonna do stupid shit with other stuff.

[Ninety9Soulz]

@591471 Exactly. That is the root of the entire debate that the anti-gun fucktards can't understand.

[AmericanBadass44]

Switzerland=No gun control=Low crime

Mexico=Strict gun control=High crime

[DCooper720]

@AmericanBadass44 Canada=even stricter gun control=even lower crime

[AmericanBadass44]

@DCooper720 Canada has low crime because there's nothing to steal and no one to kill

[DCooper720]

@AmericanBadass44 population is 30 million, and we don't even have close to the national debt of the US. Both your points are invalid

[fluffynoses]

@DCooper720 yeah dude for a while there, canada was a place to look up to...and then you clowns re-elected harper so you're starting to lose your credibility now...sorry

[DCooper720]

@fluffynoses we DIDN'T elect harper...please research canadian politics and voting procedure before you jump to conclusions. Canada doesn't work like the US...we don't elect leaders we elect regional MPs and the party with the most seats chooses the leader. Also, it's a conservative MINORITY government which means they need approval from at least a chunk of liberals and NDPs before they bass a bill.

[fluffynoses]

@DCooper720 right...still the parliament hasn't instituted a vote of no confidence so yeah your credibility is still gone

[DCooper720]

@fluffynoses LOL they did just last year! Where are you getting your facts? Also I want to point out that canadian conservatives are not american conservatives. Our conservatives push for more socialized healthcare and gun control so saying that us voting PC gives us less credibility to american liberals is a ridiculously false statement.

[fluffynoses]

@DCooper720 we could argue this crap in circles over and over...or you can just admit that you're being a doofus patriot blinded by the maple leaf flag...which is ironic since you are accusing americans of doing the same thing...

pot calling the kettle black

[DCooper720]

@fluffynoses lol that's always the line when someone is proven wrong about something. "we can argue over and over but..." You know what? Canada rates much higher then the US for GDP per capita, environmental protection, life expectancy, general happiness, healthcare system AND a better economy. Those are all facts not me being "blinded by the maple leaf" (look them up I dare you)

[fluffynoses]

@DCooper720 way to dodge the attack...you'd make a great US republican

and dude i don't care about all that shit. you're right all that stuff is higher in canada but at the end of the day...winning dumbass arguments and acknowledging that "canada is SO MUCH better than america" is not going to help me go to sleep or put food on my table. why would i look this shit up i already know it to be true. maybe when you get WISER, you'll know there are more important things in life to worry about

[DCooper720]

@fluffynoses hey I'm not worrying at all. It's not my country that's going in the shitter.

[fluffynoses]

@DCooper720 rofl dude except for china we are all in the shitter. look at europe. that euro collapses and it's going to be a domino effect across the board. study some economics it will do you wonders

[DCooper720]

@fluffynoses I have taken economics...and if you have as well then you would be able to see that Canada is much more self-sustaining then the US. And unlike you we don't owe half a trillion dollars to China.

[fluffynoses]

@DCooper720 lol yeah that's true...but i would rather eat spiders than live in canada... free healthcare and all. all they seem to care about there is hockey and moose. not to mention harper the crook is running it for the next few years.  at least it ain't some dumb muslim country

[fluffynoses]

@DCooper720 btw, i would be careful about "braggin" about this crap. canada's economy was a joke in the 90s and America's was #1. obviously now the tables have turned...but c'mon canada is not going to have a good economy forever so your cheerleading now is pretty laughable. maybe when you get older and you have bigger priorities you'll stop being a shameless nationalist doofus

[DCooper720]

@fluffynoses that argument is paper-thin. "20 years ago it was bad, so it's gonna happen again!!!" lol. Call me when it does. Until then I'll enjoy our great economy and public healthcare...cheers :)

[fluffynoses]

@fluffynoses whatever dude...harper is still the leader of canada and your people still seem content with that assclown running govt there so again no cred

and yes you WERE right that canadian cons were like american libs. but nowadays harper is going on massive ego trips that would make sidney crosby look like a meek momma's boy

[Gmissile]

Younger than 19 crack dealers blasting the competition to expand market share do NOT qualify as "children".

Neither do younger than 19 Stick Up Artists,Rapists and Muggers.

The problem is,not enough of these rampaging chimp scums are blasted to hell in a rain of hot lead by citizen humans that are totally fed up with their animalistic predation and are not willing to take it any more.

Sterilize The Spawning Black and Latino Underclass...

It's the least humans can do to Take Out The Trash.

[anessone]

@Gmissile haha theres white poor people too man

[Gmissile]

@anessone

Asshatic Asslicker,

You justify animal predation by declaring the predators "poor" ?

If you were any more stupid;you'd be a rock or a clod of dirt, you fucking piece of dirt.



[anessone]

@Gmissile you just said sterlize the black and latino underclass/meaning poor. why cant i say the white underclass. see where you fucked up too. even the upper class can be criminals.

[AmericanBadass44]

Gun control is a complete myth. Cities with gun control have high crime rates.

[VirbiusMoon]

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man" - Thomas Jefferson

[cdub1776]

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." -Yamamoto

Some say that he didn't actually say this, but there is still a lot of truth to it whether he did or not. Just one way to substantiate gun freedoms in the US.

[TiberJai]

Switzerland is a tiny bit different considering their army is a militia and they have strict gun laws. Also at the time of the nazi's gun were legal all over Europe, even in the UK, which has now one of the lowest homocide rates in the world. And yes i have fired a gun and yes i do know fire arm safety. What i'm saying is freedom to own a gun isn't a god given right,you need to prove that responsibility, and it needs to be governed harshly.

[tcjeff]

they claim that thousands of kids shoot themselves accidentally every year so we need to get rid of the BAD, MEAN guns. Get your facts straight asshole Maher you far left liberal piece of shit.............In 2011, there were a total of 802 accidental shootings and 1/2 of those involved kids. I wonder just how many of these kids that did shoot themselves were in a home with a crack head, drug selling idiots who keeps a loaded gun under the pillow or mattress so he can protect his stash.

[RichfromNH]

People are killed in cars daily...why don't we ban cars? Why? Because people for the most part use them safely and not in an illegal fashion. Why would any civilized and logical people let just a few people abuse thing mean that no one can enjoy it??

[TiberJai]

@RichfromNH As the primary use of a car is to travel. The primary use of a gun is to kill/ maim/ injure. If you have a gun then you automatically have the intention to kill/ maim/ injure another person, even if you believe its for the right reasons. Heres a question why is marujuna and coccaine illegal, as a few people have abused it and now no one can enjoy it. Also the legalisation of such has been proven to be of benefit to the state such as in portugal.

[RichfromNH]

@TiberJai Cars can be abused also and used to kill. More people die from abuse of cars than from guns(accidents or not). The primarily use of a gun is to kill, but for the vast majority of gun owners, it is for hunting, sport, and self defense. Automatically having a gun does not make meaning having the intention to bring harm to another. I have several firearms and the only person that should fear me would be the one that comes through my front door looking for trouble. Them and deer. :)

[TiberJai]

@RichfromNH Yeah, however it shows from simply looking at different countries, that a gun owning country has more deaths due to violent crime than that of a country that has made guns illegal for the general public and only legal with a liscence. More to the point a car can be abused, like alcohol or cigarettes. A gun isn't being abused if its killed someone. Its dong exaactly what it's made for.

[RichfromNH]

@TiberJai I don't know what facts you're reading or where you''re getting them, but take a look at Switzerlnd. Everyone has a fully automatic rifle and violence is not only reduced, it's the only country in the center of Europe that managed to avoid World War 2....perhaps the Nazis didn't want to face an armed popultion. A gun is designed to kill, I didn't refute that, but if it's my wife defending herself from an attacker, so be it. Have you ever fired a gun? Do you know firearm safety?

[GeneralArrow]

That was gold. 

[frogmanh]

@GeneralArrow No. That was Gould

[JimmyGunXD556]

What Dana fails to realize is that with guns you can get back what you think you lost.

[navyavi469]

It was a pure democrat majority in both houses of congress that passed the Patriot Act. Ironic how they're making fun of their own party, and they play it off like it was the republicans.

[SeoulSon51]

@navyavi469 The point is the people allowed it to happen.

[GeneralArrow]

@navyavi469 Dick Armey, a republican was house Majority leader from 1995-2003. Do you know what that means?

[777danzig]

This is pretty wrong, while the patriot act did take away some of our freedoms, us as US citizens still possess a lot of freedoms that most countries don't have and the reason is because of guns. If the federal government started to tax us way too much, regulate our life, and us as US citizens start to suffer we will revolt. Lets put it this way, if every citizen in North Korea owned guns I promise you that that country will be completely different.

[cobra10032]

@777danzig

The people should never let government take away their freedom even for a moment. But guns is not what kept our freedom. Lets assume this "government started to tax us way too much, regulate our life" you think your gun can overthrow the number 1 military power in the world by all means try it out. This amendment has become obsolete just because of the U.S. military technology in modern warfare.

[777danzig]

@cobra10032 Yeah, my gun can overthrow the number 1 military in the world. The advantage is that I, and others involved, will know what we are attacking, we will be attacking an organized military where they are attacking a group of people that are unorganized and unpredictable. Also, the attack will be on our own soil so it will cause major destruction and chaos in our country causing the government to realize what they are doing and stop.

[JimmyGunXD556]

@777danzig I agree, I do not feel it could really happen. Though I do pounder about the Louisiana gun grab.

[KJRUSS0]

@cobra10032 But I think ultimately in a hypothetical situation where the people are fighting the government, the US soldiers would eventually stand down and start deserting. The idea that they are fighting for our freedom is drilled into their head. Anyways, the IRA managed to fight off the British (also a high-tech military superpower) for years and basically won. Guerrilla warfare and assassinations of leaders (terrorist tactics) are how an oppressed people win a war. I'll keep my guns TY ;-)

[Fafnd]

@KJRUSS0 Really, cause that seemed to work so well for the Palestinians...

[cobra10032]

@KJRUSS0 Of course they will stand down just like they did at Kent State. What is drilled into a soldier head is to survive and the chain of command, therefor a soldier will not stand down. And I feel a guerrilla warfare is unpatriotic against a democratic government. Just remember there is a thin line between a freedom fighter and a terrorist(guerrilla tactics) and hurting civilians should be that line.

[Slave2Reason]

Gould has a very valid point!

[TracyAndersonFoxhunt]

bill maher has a face like a baboon that got smashed in the mouth with a rhino's butt

[safewaysecurity]

He basically stated Arizona in a nutshell. They have the BEST gun laws in the country that I could only dream to have here in California. But they have stop and identify statutes, the AZ immigration bill, violations of the 4th amendment across the board, corrupt gang-like cops, racist sheriffs. But you get to concealed carry without a permit. Honestly even i sometimes feel it's a decent trade off. But why not all of our rights?

[drj90210]

8 "children" a day? That's true only if your definition of "children" includes gang members under the age of NINETEEN!! Also, I wonder what Gould's stance is that Obama EXTENDED the Patriot Act. What a moron.

[SiriusMined]

@drj90210

It's actually more than 8 per day. And no, they weren't all gang members. And even those that are, do they not count?

[drj90210]

@SiriusMined Actually it's much less than eight children per day because the "studies" where this information was published does not control for gang members and redefines "children" as "less than 20 years old." If you don't believe me, then do the research. Of course they should NOT count because they aren't children and defining legal adults and criminals as "children" is an outright lie with the sole purpose of trumping up the data and making the "gun problem" seem worse than it really is.

[SiriusMined]

@drj90210

Ah, so juvenille gane members don't count? Why?

[drj90210]

@SiriusMined Because they aren't "Children". It's also disingenuous to state such a statistic even if "children" were substituted with "young adults" because the context is not explained (i.e. they do not mentioned that gang members were included in the study). When you say that "8 children die per day due to gun violence," the picture that comes to mind is a little boy/girl younger than age 13 who somehow found a gun and shoots themselves or someon else either accidentially or on purpose.

[SiriusMined]

@drj90210

If they are under 18, they are children, regardless if they are good or bad.

If they were nicely behaved, would you call them "children" then?

"the picture that comes to mind is a little boy/girl younger than age 13 "

Only if you don't understand the definition of "children"

[drj90210]

@SiriusMined Many are OVER eighteen. These "studies" define children as "less than TWENTY." They are ADULTS!! It is YOU that doesn't understand what a "child" is. A healthy human under the age of puberty is the medical definition of a "child." This is also the image that comes to everyone's mind when you say "child." The image of a 6 foot 4, 230 pound tatooed gangsta does NOT come to mind when the word child is mentioned. Stop defending this nonsense, you know that you are wrong.

[drj90210]

@SiriusMined So murder and mass carnage never existed prior to the abundance of firearms? Hmmm, that's news to me. Violence occurs with or without gun control. YOU'RE argument is bullshit. Gun control will not null-and-void the creation of the firearm. Gang members will obtain the best means to kill one another (i.e. a gun) no matter what gun bans you pass. I'm using logic and common sense, and I think deep down inside you know I'm right.

[SiriusMined]

@drj90210

I knew a strawman argument was coming. Nowhere did I said that murder didn't exist before firearms.

If you have to lie to make a point, then you have already lost the argument.

[drj90210]

@SiriusMined YES YOU DID!!! You JUST said "Gangs have been around forever. Deaths because of gang violence increased once guns become cheap and common." I responded with the facts that murders have always existed before and after the invention of the firearm and in the presence and absence of gun control. Just face it, you lost the argument, and are trying (and failing) to make a point by creating a strawman. However, it doesn't work when I have your previous quotes easily accessible.

[SiriusMined]

@drj90210

"because of gang violence increased "

Yes, INCREASED. For them to "increase", there had to have been murders BEFOREHAND.

Learn to read, you fucking idiot.

[drj90210]

@SiriusMined @SiriusMined It was ALWAYS there. Have you heard of the Inquisition? The Crusades? How about the plethora of wars before the advent of firearms? Why don't YOU learn to read you fuckin' moron?! Also, stop changing this argument. My original comment was regarding how Gould, Maher and their brainless left wing ilk INCORRECT stated that 8 "children" die per day because this only holds true if you include gangmember ADULTS who obtain guns ILLEGALLY. Checkmate!!

[SiriusMined]

@drj90210

Holy moving the goalposts, Batman.

Ah, so now you'll bring in ALL violence that ever happened. Well sorry, but that doesn't make your point at all.

":INCORRECT stated that 8 "children" die per day because this only holds true if you include gangmember ADULTS who obtain guns ILLEGALLY. "

Ah, so children that are gangmembers are adults. Sorry, no. Just because you don't like them, it doesn't change their status.

[drj90210]

@SiriusMined *Sigh* You stated "Deaths because of gang violence increased once guns become cheap and common." I merely stated the fact that deaths were "cheap and common" before and after the advent of the firearm and with and without gun bans/control.

Can you read?!! The studes that stated "8 children die daily.." DEFINE "children" as "less than TWENTY" and do not exclude GANGMEMBERS. This is a perversion of the definition of a "child" (I doubt there are many true"children" gangmembers)

[drj90210]

@SiriusMined Even if we lived in a bizarro America where real CHILDREN joined gangs in significant numbers and were killed by gun-related violence, I would still argue that you cannot blame an object (guns) on the direct results of criminal or gang related activity. Also, do you honestly believe that gang members will lay down their illegally purchased guns if more strict gun controls were passed here, 'cause it hasn't worked so well in Mexico or Brazil?

[drj90210]

@SiriusMined Also, gang members are, by definition, criminals (i.e. someone who engages in criminal activity). Thus, they put themselves in dangerous illegal positions. It is not the "gun" that is responsible for their behavior (and thus the consequences of their behavior), but rather the culture and life that they chose for themselves. Also, gang members obtain their firearms through illegal means, and thus no amount of gun control/bans will prevent them from getting guns.

[SiriusMined]

@drj90210

Gangs have been around forever. Deaths because of gang violence increased once guns become cheap and common.

Your argument is bullshit.

[cdub1776]

@SiriusMined Criminals shouldn't count. They would find a way to kill each other even without guns. OR instead of one shooter left to rape and steal and murder innocents there would be two because one wouldn't be able to shoot the other.

[cdub1776]

@drj90210 Good job.

[drj90210]

@cdub1776 Thanks!

[Snipe4261]

Who is actually in favor of sacrificing freedom for a false sense of security? I don't want the government to look after my safety if it means giving up freedoms and allowing government surveliance of me. My guns are for the things the government will never be able to protect me from that their surveliance supposedly will.

[SiriusMined]

@Snipe4261

"Who is actually in favor of sacrificing freedom for a false sense of security"

All the idiots that had no problem with warrantless wirtetaps

[MonsieurEm]

Dana has always been on my comedy radar, but this is actually a very good point he makes. The entire point of owning a gun is to protect your freedoms, yet a lot of the NRA members are probably FOR the Patriot Act which takes those rights away.

[bweazel]

Haha. Gould shut them down, I love it when people preach personal responsibility when other tools are trying to preach the need for a nanny state. Look at their faces, a mix of he's right and I don't want to lend him credibility. Perfect. Dana Gould is the man.

[MrDogg1984]

It makes me sick reading comments suggesting that our own military would use nukes or chemical/biological weapons on its own people!! You can't get anymore "police state" or "military dictatorship" than that.

[shakur420]

lol.....

funny shit..

[MrKENRIVAS]

watch my video on gun control

[cdub1776]

I read comments about people saying that the military would not fire on it's own people.....KENT STATE. Innocent protesters lost their lives and this really wasn't that long ago. I will keep my guns to use for hunting, target shooting, but also, if put in the position, I will use them to shoot criminals and a tyrannical government. This is why the 2nd amendment is in place.

[robuzy]

Just so you know that would be suicied. and two wrongs dont make a right thats like 2nd grade status

[cdub1776]

First, "suicide" looks like this. And it's not about two wrongs making a right, it's about defending yourself. I think that you should read up on Thomas Jefferson and why the 2nd amendment was created. Also, check into what I said about Kent State. It is time that the American people learn about it's past before we turn into what we fought against all those years ago.

[robuzy]

I only made that comment so i can say "thats 2nd grade status" which made me giggle a little bit. A bit irresponsible yes. but in the name of humor!

[cdub1776]

admitted, "humor is funny". When I need a laugh I watch the always hilarious video "monkey love". If you haven't seen it, watch it. If you have seen it, watch it again. I'll drink to humor.

[robuzy]

hahahahahaha! that was hilarious

[cdub1776]

i'm glad you liked it. it is probably the most hilarious thing that I have ever seen.

"i just washed it this mownin"

[MrGrevy]

@cdub1776 They fired on them for their own protection you goofy moron. You don't throw rocks at people and expect nothing to happen! I hope you're being monitored you sicko.

[cdub1776]

@MrGrevy Rocks? Really? Would you shoot students and bystanders for throwing rocks? You better do a little more research before you argue with me on this one. Not all the kids that got shot were protesting either. Sgt. Taylor shot the first round with his 1911. Most of the crowd had already dispersed. I hope that you're not registered to vote. It really pisses me off that fucktards like you can persuade an election.

[MrGrevy]

@cdub1776 Wow the uneducated, emotional twits are out in force. YES a rock can be life threatening. If you don't believe that, you are either lying or delusional. I know peoples' right to speak and vote and disagree with you is infuriating, my fascist friend, but we have that right! Your comment is angry nonsense. Go occupy an administration building you effeminate quisling failed abortion of a man.

[cdub1776]

@MrGrevy

1) Education? Yes, probably more than you.

2) Emotional? Nope

3) Life threatening rocks? You're a pussy.....no lies...no delusions

4) Fascism? No. I do wish Hitler would have put the Grevy's in the oven instead.

5) You changed your argument from the last comment. You defend the shooting as justified, then, you think that it infuriates me to have the right to protest.

6) "Effeminate, quisling, fascist"? It sounds like somebody just learned about Nazi's in 11th grade world history.

[MrGrevy]

@cdub1776 Of course you're emotional and of course you're a fascist, making references to the SS. Do you even think before you post? And if you don't think a rock thrown at someone's head can be lethal, you are a dullard (ever hear of stoning people to death??) God some people are so far behind in the race, they actually think they're ahead. Amazing.

[cdub1776]

@MrGrevy

You sir are a mama's boy pussy that probably ducks when a bug hits the windshield.

Stoning people to death!!! bwahahahahaha. You're an idiot. They were tied to a fucking post unable to move with rocks being hurled at them from a distance that you could stab them from.

Also, I made no SS comments. Besides, Hitler restricted gun ownership and required permits of all sorts to own. Granted, Versailles shut down guns completely in Germany, but Hitler didn't let it all go. Control.

[Fafnd]

@cdub1776 Good point but as Mr Gould in the video said, you've already surrendered your freedoms. Why would they want the guns now? It be like stealing the candy part of a lollipop from a baby and leaving them with the plastic stick.

[Writer5591]

@cdub1776 -Let's not forget Waco & ruby Ridge as far as the government firing on it's own people.

[cdub1776]

@Writer5591 Yes sir. Ruby Ridge is a great example of an overzealous trigger happy big government that destroyed an American family. (a somewhat weird one, but still an American family with the same freedoms as you and I)

[Lokisdottir]

Guns, schmuns. Does anyone really think, in the age of nuclear bombs and ICBMs, that the semi-automatic is somehow an effective weapon of resistance against the military might of the federal government? Real good for shooting up kids and having firearm accidents with, not so good against highly-trained troops and airstrikes. But whatever, I don't really care what people choose to own, I just find the false sense of security amusing.

[EricTerman]

I've been saying that for years! The biggest reason the founding fathers said they wrote the 2nd amendment was so that people could overthrow the government if it became tyrannical. But with the advances in weapons technology that's no longer possible.

[claytorris1]

I disagree. If say 10% of the population was seriously comitted to an armed revolution, the government would be in trouble. That would be about 30 million people, which is about the population of Afghanistan(a country that we still cannot control despite our military might).

[EricTerman]

Semi-automatic guns are no match for chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Strict constructionism of the Constitution by the way would state that the right to bear arms encompasses all arms. If assault weapons are protected by the constitution despite their excessiveness as tools of home protection, why wouldn't there be a constitutional right to own WMDs? I'm not saying I want that, I'm just applying Conservative strict construction of the 2nd amendment.

[cwcwful]

We should only give mentally ill people guns. If those with a severe mental illness had guns, people would be afraid go outside, and by people staying inside, this would reduce crime. Come on America, give up your guns to the mentally ill, for the good of the country, it time.

[quitearow]

I had guns from early teens to joining the usn. I had one of those mount on the wall gunracks which, I believed held 3 rifles and some minature cabinet doors to store the ammunition.

[FromyColdeadHands]

Bill and I agree on some things, but gun control is not really probablem when you are talking about legalizing all drugs. That would cut down the majority of crime with guns. And anyone that disputes that the population would be completely helpless against a trynical goverment is lying.

Resistance fighters in WW2 sometimes had 1 shot .45 pistols, and sometimes stens if they were lucky. But they made a big difference.

But Bill and I can share a joint anyday, but disarming people is insane

[Travelwise65]

Their guns are a nice substitute for what they lack between their legs and between their ears.

[davie247]

Fucking idiot

[Pentazoid111]

Last time I checked , owning a gun is an essential freedom guranteed by the Second amendment. . So I don't understand why Gould speaks as if owning guns and the freedoms limited by the patriot act are to seperate things. owning guns is just another type of freedom we have.

[AmmunitionMagician]

what everyone leaves out of the 2nd amendment, is that it says "to MAINTAIN A STANDING MILITIA.....we have to right to bear arms"

[jazzyoz]

second amendment is interpreted differently by other people. read the original language of the statement and notice how it can be taken in a different way. it's vague

[fortsmith1]

This guy does not know what he's talking about. He sounds like an anti gun nut. It's about freedom.

[subasemg]

NRA protects guns before liberties. Don't need to be a genius to figure that out. But its kind of beside the point isn't it?

[itsnichole]

why arey ou focusing one one thing joke he madea bout the gun cabinet in his room?

what he said about hardcore gun advocates was pretty true.. and it does make sence..

you want to call everyone on the show a bunch of leftist... ok well what the hell are you? youre just some gun toting right wingers.. and thats why you have a problem. maybe if you actually learn to listen instead of fight for your right to be ignorant then you would learn a thing or two.

[jubeigh13]

So many fallacies in such a short time. Dana banters on about how other freedoms are taken, and let's be honest, it's clearly signified towards Republicans and gun-owners, what he fails to mention is, at the time, a good deal of support for the Patriot Act was accountable. Another thing that must have slipped his mind, is that the current President does not support repealing the Patriot Act either. Lastly, the Patriot Act is not depriving people of the right to defend themselves.

[vaguy78]

I have heard from various sources that about 100 children, not counting teenage gang bangers, are killed by guns each year. Tragic yes, but this does not justify taking away our Constitutional freedoms. I can't take credit for this quote, but the Second Amendment is there "in case the others stop working".

[sijja]

I'm not American so pardon my ignorance but "in case the others stop working" how do U suppose having a gun would help??? Doesn't seem very practical

[vaguy78]

In case the government tries to become tyrannical and impose something like permanent martial law or door-to-door gun confiscation. Nobody would try that considering the hundreds of millions of guns in civilian hands. It may sound impossible now but it's happened countless times in the past all over the world. As the saying goes, it's better to be paranoid and alive than naive and a slave. In other words, it's the final check on the power of the state. Hopefully it will never become necessary.

[Kashrlyyk]

Stupid bullshit. As if civilian with guns stand a chance against machine gun soldiers, Navy seals, tanks, helicopters, jets and bombers. Face the facts if the government wants to become a tyranny you can't stop them. Besides don´t forget that most likely a lot of gun bearers will support that tyranny.

[vaguy78]

So the countless examples of effective gorilla warfare in the last century were just flukes then? How do you explain Iraq?

[Kashrlyyk]

How good is gorilla warfare, when both the army and the guerillas know the terrain perfectly?

Explain what in or of Iraq?

[crowjr2]

OMG THE GORILLAS ARE ATTACKING?

There are bound to be guerrilla gorillas!

OMFG

[GADeerHunter1]

Also keep in mind, most of police officers and soldiers would not be with the goverment. They are people too, and they are sworn to uphold the consitituion. They would not fight against their own country.

[MrDogg1984]

or so we hope

[ExquisiteDoom]

Really? Who funds the navy? ... That's right. Us. And i'll let you know that you'd be surprised at how many infantrymen would go against killing it's own citizens. My only problem here, in case you did not know, your government signed a bill (I forgot when) that allows foreign troops to "defend and restore order" if something happens. You might want to think about getting the people more power than the government, because once the government is more powerful... you'll never tell the tale.

[retox]

Dana's very acute on this subject. Even more impressive for someone who had to have a gun rack in his room growing up!

[kaceygessner]

Bill Maher is such a doosh bag

[rightsman123]

Oh, yeah, gun rights advocates were the ones that dropped the ball on the patriot act. God that show is so left, look how everyone is looking when he talks about having a gun cabinet in his room. That stat is BS too.

[railwayman]

what Dana said totally makes sense!