Presidential Priority: The Gun Epidemic

Don't give it a bad rating because you disagree with us.

Our entry for the 2009 CSPAN Studentcam contest. We did the topic of Gun Control.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Gun
• Control
• Cspan

[cr3ampuffs]

i saw ur vid on the winners list, congrats

[ONtheROADtoMLG]

Hey man thanks a lot. Did you win anything?

[fireye2012]

To bad you didn't bother to say how many crimes are prevented with guns. You are very ignorant about firarms and the reason we have the 2nd amendment. You show just how well the brainwashing of our kids has worked.

[ONtheROADtoMLG]

Please go ahead. Offer me some concrete, factual statistics about how many crimes are prevented by guns.

[4merCIA]

to ONtheROADtoMLG: You are a mother fucking FAGGOT and a chicken-shit. I really hope you have to face somebody like me someday if there's a revolution here. And by the way, I don't need a gun, I can kill the average American guy just with a punch or at least put him in a coma. Guns aren't necessary to kill.

[ONtheROADtoMLG]

To "4merCIA": I am so intimidated by your threatening remarks. A former CIA agent must be really, really tough. Tough enough to have to verbally attack people he has never even met before to get his opinions across. You seem like a very angry person. Why don't you carry out an act of mass murder with those tough bare fists of yours. We'll see how far you make it without a firearm! Keep hoping for that revolution champ ; )

[fireye2012]

Go do your own research on gun statistics of crime prevention. There is no shortage of information. If you are to lazy to do your own research then nothing can help you.

I want a law outlawing ALL gun laws and make it a crime to even propose any guns laws. Those who would outlaw guns in the hands of private citizens ARE the No 1 enemy of the people and this country.

[Ilovewinter]

I see your point, but I disagree because even if all guns were banned bad guys would still get guns, such as the firearms, and ammo that were both banned in Norway, yet some how he managed to get them both into his country, and using illegal guns, and ammo kill nearly 100 people unopposed, because his targets could not shoot back!!!! there is a list that even the ATF, and CDC have admitted is correct that 2.5 million crimes a year are prevented with privately owned firearms.

[Ilovewinter]

it is not hard to make arsenic, or ricin, both can be made with some basic know how, and two common foods. do we ban people from eating apples, and watermelons, or using caster beans, because they can make the most toxic poisons on earth with out much fuss. Ricin is the most lethal toxin known to man, less than one tenth of one gram is deadly even if it is only skin contact, no cure, death occurs in seconds.

[Ilovewinter]

in fact several WMDs can be made using just a few chemicals found in your local grocery store. Such as bleach, and ----- something most learn in high School it makes chlorine gas, this can be compressed, and dispersed in crowds or trains, and can kill hundreds in a matter of seconds guns are not as effective for bad guys to kill as you think. I left the other ingredient out because I do not wish to give it away to those who have not taken chemistry. However this accidental mix has killed many.

[Ilovewinter]

something for you to mull over I can make a gun out of a length of pipe, a short metal rod. I can make shot gun shells out of some plastic tubing, and primers from some tin. I can create a full auto machine gun from a compressed air tank, and gun powder from the stuff I can buy with out a licence at a grocery store or hardware store. Guns can, and have been made by criminals all over the world. 1 Afghan can make 300 AKs a day on a single metal lathe and hand carved stocks.

[paginini]

its easy to see you have not researched your own information but took what has been force fed to the public by the media. New York has almost 50,000 reported violent crimes. over 500 murders and almost 900 rapes. this does not include all the crimes not reported because of the inability of the nypd to cover such a populated city. NYC, the safest city, is nothing but feel good properganda, a city full of people programed to be victims. avoiding certain areas because of crime. do some research.

[samtaekwondo123]

Guns are here to stay; it's like trying to elimate bacteria, roaches, and etc. Also, I'd feel much better carrying a pistol rather than trying to fight off a mugger or anyone who attacks me. Also, firearms are the only physical thing you can use to defend yourself from the government; a bill of rights doesn't do anything if you don't have anything to fight back with. The Nazis, Soviets, North Koreans, China, etc., all banned firearms before taking over. That's the big thing I care about.

[TheProsecuter]

"Don't give a bad rating because you disagree with us." Whoops....

[outkasst88]

@adgAlvarez ... well stated. Words usually can't change people's minds about guns though. However, some day this guy may be walking late at night in Brooklyn, and he might find himself alone with three gang members who want to hurt him for no particular reason. Let's see if he feels like a gun is necessary then.

[bluesparrowfish]

guns make it easier to kill some one. not true.

a) a knife is all i need. its silent deadly and reusable.

b) you are not limited by ammunition.

c) 10 opponents can be eliminated without alerting anyone

d)if knives were used in columbine more a larger death toll would have been assured. and the killers might have had the opportunity to escape.

e) remember the US Marine who killed one police officer in 2005 in CA, he a highly trained combat marine he only killed one injured 1,

[DaedalEVE]

@ONtheROADtoMLG

Oh and I know someone who is alive today BECAUSE he was armed. A man with a knife tried to rob him, he pulled his carry gun, and the man with the knife ran away.

There is at least one life saves by a gun. Maybe you say "oh that's just one example". Well, is one persons live not valuable enough? What if it was YOUR life in jeopardy?

Sorry buy but you are just another uneducated, uninformed kid who THINKS he knows WAY more than he actually does.