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[Music] hi we're out on our range today we're
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talking about mass shootings they're causes and some possible solutions this is a topic that a lot of people have been talking about lately and typically i would leave it to those people who are more eloquent than i am however i've heard a lot of people saying a lot of things with which i disagree i've also heard a lot of people
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saying a lot of things but they are not saying some of the things that i think really need to be said so here i am now today's presentation will be long and tedious and although there will be some demonstration most of it will be lecture i have a disdain for lecture but in this particular case i think the
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importance of the information outweighs my disdain so let me give you a synopsis of what we're going to talk about today first an introduction of who i am as it pertains to this topic secondly some disclaimers and caveats third a discussion of why the question
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what causes mass shootings is so difficult to ask and why it's so difficult to answer and four some possible solutions that might alleviate some of the problem of mass shootings in our society so let's get started with my
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introduction typically i don't introduce myself because for the most part the people who tune in to watch what we do here either already know who i am or they don't care and most of the time who i am isn't really relevant however in this particular case i'm representing myself as someone who has information that you
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might not have and anytime you're getting information you should evaluate the validity of that source and since today your source is me let me tell you a little bit about who i am as it pertains to this topic my name is paul harrell and i'm retired military personnel i spent four years in
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the active duty marine corps part of that time was as a a member of the security contention on a navy base and part of that time was as a combat marksmanship instructor in the marine corps security forces school so as a member of
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the security on the navy base i had to attend certain training above and beyond infantry training school i was an o311 i went to the navy's basic crf school was like a swat school and i went to some training on security procedures as they pertained to
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that application for being a combat marksmanship instructor i had to attend a school called the formal schools instructor course where you learned to select tasks for training write class outlines conduct classes and i had to go to marksmanship training above and beyond what marines were
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typically getting at that time so i went to a pistol course at gunsite i went to the ray chapman academy of practical shooting and some other things now when i left the marine corps i went into the army national guard again i was
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in the infantry i was in 11 bravo 40. i spent part of my time in the national guard in an air assault unit and part of that time in a light infantry company so i went to air assault school master fitness trainer school
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basic and advanced nco school jungle operations cold weather training the list goes on in addition to that i did a deployment in the middle east in the recent war
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so yes i'm a war veteran but i'll be the first to tell you that i did nothing over there that was in any way noteworthy i also went to new orleans for the aftermath of hurricane katrina very interesting not only that i was able to participate
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in some military shooting competitions winning state regional national and international shooting titles and i have participated in shooting competitions at local gun clubs and i can say that i have one shooting competitions with everything from
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muskets to machine guns and i've done a fair amount not a great deal but a fair amount of hunting birds rabbits deer elk buffalo i've also been in two citizen-involved self-defense shootings
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so put succinctly i have a lot of training and experience on firearms and their use now in addition to all of that i attended some classes at community college along with your typical mathematics and english
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i took classes on anatomy and physiology biology microbiology chemistry cultural and physical anthropology psychology sociology public speaking acting and theater class and i got a's in all of those classes
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that training that education along with a lifetime of life experiences makes me uniquely qualified to talk to you about this subject i also work with a group of people that i call the crew
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these are people with their own unique set of education training and life experiences and they include current and former military personnel current and retired law enforcement personnel building contractors auto
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mechanics health care professionals and they bring to the table a lot of things that help me put together presentations like this one of my crew is a police officer
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who actually dealt with a family annihilation case which is a type of mass shooting and we'll discuss more about that later another of my crew as a retired police officer many years ago was the first or second police officer to arrive on the scene of a real live
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mass shooting where someone armed themselves went into a crowded establishment shot people at random and i can say that although i've never been in a mass shooting i have been shot at on a few occasions and
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put down to the bottom line of all of this it puts me in a position where what i'm telling you today is not purely academic some of it comes from real world experience now our list of four caveats disclaimers and yabits
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some of which you've already noticed number one you may have noticed that in addition to my shatner-esque pauses i also have a slight speech impediment the very annoying habit of sometimes leaving a syllable out of a word or adding a syllable to it or transposing
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words or syllables i'm going to ask you to just bear with me although we try to keep these presentations family friendly they really are made for an adult if you are someone whose behavior was arrested when you were in the third
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grade and so you still gain some sense of well-being by making fun of somebody else's speech patterns then today's presentation is not for you please turn it off now okay if you're still here i'm going to expect you to be able to conduct
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yourself as an adult now the second thing that we have to discuss is that what we do here not just in today's presentation but in general in this format our goal is to put out useful information if not useful at least
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interesting and i find that interjecting humor into the things we talk about helps to get the message across makes it so it's not so tedious and it's really a good way to go sometimes we do things just for fun today is not one of those times
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this is a very serious and somber subject and humor has no place in it if i do say something that sounds funny it was unintentional and i expect everyone watching me right now to conduct themselves appropriately now the third thing we have to talk
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about different versions of events i have found that anytime we're talking about something that happened whether five people saw something happened or whether the news covered it on a national level there are always different versions of events and i can
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only discuss the versions that i've read or that i've heard or that i've seen we have to understand there are different versions of events so please don't tell me anything like no that's not what happened what really happened was unless you were there
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we also have to understand that the mainstream media has a habit of getting things wrong and we have other presentations where we talk about that at length but suffice it to say that the mainstream media is quite often mistaken and
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quite often prints things that didn't really happen or doesn't print things that does happen we also know that there are different sides of issues whether you're a liberal or a conservative a democrat or a republican whether you subscribe to the philosophy
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of less filling or subscribe to the philosophy of taste great we know that on different sides both sides will twist the facts to fit their narrative and their agenda we know that and we don't have to harp on it we don't have to discuss that any more than what
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i've said right now and fourth we have to remember that everything i'm saying today are my conclusions and my opinions my opinions are based on my education my training my experience different people have different experiences so they have
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different opinions i make no claim that my opinion has its origin in the mind of greatness and if someone does tell you that their opinion has such origins you should be very incredulous the question what causes mass shootings and even more so
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why is that question so difficult to ask and so difficult to answer that particular subject will take up most of today's presentation it will require me to do a lot of monologuing and it really will require you to have a
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lot of patience with my speech patterns now it goes like this the question people typically ask is how do we stop mass shootings how do we reduce their numbers how do we prevent them how do we solve this problem
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and when you ask that question you will immediately get a lot of answers that are very angry they're emotionally charged they're politically charged when really the answer to the question how do we stop mass shootings should be the question
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what's causing mass shootings why are these things happening that has to be the beginning of how you solve the problem and i've discussed this before now let me give you a very simplistic example you have a car and your car battery
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keeps going dead and you ask the question how do i keep my battery from constantly going dead you should really ask the question why does your battery keep going dead is it because your battery is very old and won't hold the charge your alternator is
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malfunctioning or maybe it has to do with your annoying habit of always leaving your headlights on once you answer the question why your battery is going dead then the fix becomes very easy maybe that buzzer that's supposed to sound
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when you open the door while your headlights are on and on your car it doesn't work the solution is go down to the shop and get that buzzer fixed and that won't change your habit of leaving your headlights on but at least you'll know that there's a problem when you do once you know why something's happening
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very often the solution becomes simple now in the case of mass shootings not so much it's a very complex topic but still the question how do we stop mass shootings needs to be answered with the question what's causing these mass shootings
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fair enough but when you ask the question what's causing mass shootings again you get a lot of answers that are emotionally charged they're politically charged there are people coming to conclusions based on erroneous information
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and you get a lot of anger and resentment and argument as opposed to people really trying to resolve the problem and so typically when i discuss this which i'm called upon to do occasionally i want to start with
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finding some things on which we can agree there's a great deal of disagreement on this topic and i think there's primarily four things on which most of us would agree one mass shootings occur now don't get
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ahead of me there we're going to talk about that in a few minutes but one mass shootings occur two there are more mass shootings occurring now than there was a long time ago like back in the 1970s 1960s 1950s there's more occurring now than there used to be
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three we would like there to be fewer mass shootings oh and if you're someone who thinks that there should be more of them please turn this presentation off now okay if you're still here we would like there to be fewer and four i think that we could disagree
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on what we should do but i think we would all agree that there are solutions and that if we as a society do the right things we can greatly reduce the number of mass shootings okay now when we agree on those things then
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it opens the floor for discussion however one of the reasons why this question is so difficult to ask and so difficult to answer is because i can't even get those four things out without people needing to argue about it they have
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an insatiable maniacal need to argue with who they see as the opposition even if they happen to know that on this particular topic the opposition is correct and a good example is when i say i think we could all agree we'd like to
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have fewer mass shootings there's always somebody who will angrily say that they want there to be none okay then right now we have a number of them none would be less than what's happening now so you can agree we'd like there to
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be fewer no i don't agree i'd like there to be none and we end up in this debate over semantics instead of substance now when this kind of thing happens there's a tactic that you can use and it's not a debating tactic to try to
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corner someone it's a problem-solving technique and i'll say something like okay would you agree that five plus five is ten and the reason you say that is because obviously it is ten and people would agree and then you can say okay then we
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find something that we agree on the problem though is that these people are so maniacal about arguing over minutia that they know what i'm trying to do and they can't let me be right about anything so even though five plus five is ten
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they won't agree that it is they'll tell me that that's irrelevant and stupid and has nothing to do with what we're talking about because they need to argue more so than they need to solve the problem and i'm going to say something that i know is going to hurt a lot of people's
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feelings that is this to solve this problem we need qualified people having an honest discussion with each other trying to figure out why is this happening and then coming up with some solutions and implementing them
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when you argue over things like we want there to be none instead of using the word fewer you delay that process your need to argue even when you know the person you're arguing with happens to be right on that particular point you delay solving the problem therefore more mass
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shootings more people are going to be killed and some of that blood is on your hands this is something we have to deal with now there are three other things that i see as major barriers to com
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effective communication when discussing why the mass shootings occur and one of those is the people who deny that they occur the really best example of this is the
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sandy hook shooting in newtown connecticut there was one person in particular who went on a real big campaign trying to convince everyone that that didn't happen now as we said earlier mainstream media gets things wrong i'm sure the details of the exact
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stuff what happened can be debated and of course both sides of any issue we're going to try to twist and turn those details to their own political advantage but we can't deny that that event did in fact happen and as near as i can tell the person who
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is denying that his main goal was to draw attention to some products he was trying to sell but when you perpetrate that fiction and even worse when other people believe that fiction you are slowing down the solution to this problem
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instead of learned people having a discussion trying to come up with a solution they have to spend their time refuting that fiction that such things don't occur when you perpetrate such fictions or when you believe such fictions
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you are slowing down the process of solving this problem more shootings are going to occur and some of that blood is on your hands now another thing that we have that again is a barrier to effective communication
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is padding the data there are a lot of people that champion a lot of causes and whatever cause they have whether it's the plight of stray animals or backyard swimming pool safety
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any of those things to them that cause is very important and sometimes those things are important to the rest of us if we know about them but to get more attention on their problem a lot of times people will try
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to make that problem seem worse than it really is and the backyard swimming pool guy will try to make it appear as though more backyard drownings occur than are really occurring and he'll say that this many occurred and you start looking at his data and you find that
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some of those were not toddlers falling into a swimming pool and drowning they were adults committing suicide he includes in his cases of backyard swimming pool drownings cases of mom giving her infant a bath in the sink getting distracted by the phone and the
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infant grounds that's terrible but it's not a backyard swimming pool drowning and so rather than dealing with the problem rather than be able to come up with a solution we instead have to deal with refuting his fiction
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and so i'm looking at this with thought of well i don't know how bad this problem is but i do know that you're lying to me or you're terribly incompetent at collecting data and it works against those people he's trying to help and we see that with mass shootings
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now one of the things that i hear posited is the idea that mass shootings are occurring a lot more now than they did in the 1970s 1960s 1950s and you will usually hear that put forth
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by people who are pro gun rights they are second amendment activists and what they're trying to say is that mass shootings although they've always occurred there's a whole lot more now than there used to be
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and so as we get more and more and more and more gun control it's not solving the problem ergo more gun control is not a solution well to counter that there are people who are saying no that's not the case there's always been lots of mass shootings in preparation
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for today's presentation i was trying to do some research on that and i found something that listed so they claimed all of the mass shootings in the united states from 1900 until 1999. and when i looked at that i was expecting to see a lot more mass shootings in the 1980s than there were
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in the 1970s and that wasn't the case so the idea that there used to be less isn't true oh wait until you start looking at the fine print and when i see this list of mass shootings in the 1970s there are some things on there that
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would be mass shootings in the way we understand them as in someone arms themselves goes into a crowded place like a mall or grocery store and just start shooting everyone but some of the things they included were rival gangs shooting at each other over
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a drug deal gone bad okay that's not what we really think of when we think of mass shootings one of them they included was a case where the kkk and the american nazi party were having a rally right next to where the american communist party was having a counter
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rally the two factions got the big argument which turned into a gun fight five people were killed okay that's not a mass shooting in the way we're thinking of them and as i read down these you see cases of where it was just a
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robbery and someone killed the people who were present at whatever he was robbing just to get rid of witnesses and the absolute cherry on top of this nonsense was that they included as a mass shooting the events at kent state in 1970
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now if you're not familiar with that kent state university in ohio in 1970 there was a big anti-vietnam war protest going on and the national guard was there there was a conflict between the protesters in the national guard and many different versions of exactly what
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happened that day but what is not in dispute is the national guard fired on the protesters killing four of them this chart actually included that as a mass shooting yeah that's not a mass shooting
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in any way that relates to what we're talking about now that has no similarity with someone going into a grocery in buffalo new york and shooting as many people as he can and so what you see is that people are manipulating the data to
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try to make their point don't get me wrong on any sides of any argument whether skim milk is better than two percent there are always people that are going to twist the data to their own conclusions
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but in this particular case where we're talking about mass shootings by manipulating the data like that what has happened is instead of being able to have an intelligent productive discussion that can come to some solutions instead of doing that we have
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to refute that guy's fiction and therefore you've delayed the solution therefore more mass shootings therefore some of that blood is on that guy's hands and that is a responsibility that we all must
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incur when you're perpetrating fictions like that now another real barrier to effective communication when we ask the question what causes mass shootings are people's political agendas
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people will immediately want to put their political agenda into this discussion and sometimes it's an agenda that just doesn't belong like the backyard swimming pool guy when you have a discussion what causes mass shootings and he says we shouldn't
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be worrying about that we should be worrying about backyard swimming pools okay that is a legitimate concern but that's not what we're talking about here today and so we have now just delayed having meaningful dialogue on it to have to deal with that guy's political agenda
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and you will see the same thing in all kinds of issues with all kinds of political agendas some people will perpetrate the nonsense that if public schools served vegan lunches than these
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mass shootings wouldn't occur yeah you know if veganism is your bag great but i gotta go with that probably doesn't have a lot to do with mass shootings especially since the guy who shot the
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school in uvalde texas bear with me if i'm saying that wrong wasn't a student at the school and you will see these kind of political agendas now about the best real world example i could come up with is quite some time ago here in the united states
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there was a group of terrorists who hijacked four planes their plan being that they would use those four planes as weapons committing suicide attacks on various buildings i'm sure you've all heard of this now two of those planes hit the two
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buildings of the world trade center one hit the pentagon the other one the passengers on the plane got in a big fight with the terrorists and ended up crashing the plane and killing everyone aboard but at least it didn't hit whatever their target was supposed to be okay it is my understanding that those
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terrorists were armed with edged weapons primarily box cutter knives but shortly after those events i had quite a few discussions quite a few people and there were people telling me
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that those events illustrated why we need less gun control we need to repeal a lot of gun control laws and certainly not an act anymore because if we did things like that wouldn't happen
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okay so are you suggesting people should be allowed to take their guns on the plane well no you're aware that the hijackers weren't armed with guns yeah but if we had less gun control things like that wouldn't happen
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okay now again both sides of issues do the same things i had even more discussions with people who tried to use the september 11th hijackings to illustrate their point
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as a part of their political agenda of why we needed more gun control okay you understand you're already not allowed to take a gun on a plane and there's a lot of things in place to keep you from doing that and that these hijackers weren't armed with guns
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and when i say that yeah but if we had more gun control things like that wouldn't happen and you see people bringing their political agendas into something where it just doesn't belong
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now when we talk about mass shootings we are talking about shootings so we are talking about guns and with that it is inexorable that gun control is going to become part of this discussion and as i discuss this particular point
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many people will accuse me of having a political agenda you know i really don't although obviously as a firearms owner as a firearms instructor i own quite a few firearms this is my business i am going to be pro gun rights but that's not really part of what i'm
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about to discuss fourth on my list of why the question what causes mass shootings is so hard to ask and so hard to answer is because of a fraud that some people
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perpetrate in that discussion and there's a few parts to it where some people will say the reason you have so many shootings is because these days
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certain things are going on and when they say these days what they mean is that there are things happening right now or in the last few years that allow these mass shootings to occur that weren't present 30 40 50 years ago
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or things that were present then that prevented such things that aren't present now and people will say mass shootings are occurring more now than they used to because these days it's so easy to get guns
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now when you say that that implies that 30 40 50 60 years ago that it was harder to get guns yeah that's not true but like all good lies this thing of these
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days guns are so easy to get has a slight tiny little piece of truth to it there are certain types of firearms such as true antique firearms that were made in the 1890s or before that can be exempt from some of the background check
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shipping restrictions if guns are a modern manufacturer but they are muzzle loading firearms even though it's brand new it's it's made the exact same way davey crockett's rifles mate powder patch ball
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those are exempt from a lot of gun laws and can be shipped through the mail and things like that and so when someone says you can mail order a gun that's not a hundred percent false it's only about 99 false but there are people who perpetrate the
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the fiction that these days guns are a lot easier to get than they were back then and that's just not true in the 1950s and most of the 1960s you could ship guns through the mail you mail ordered them out of catalogs you'd see an ad in a magazine
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you'd take the magazine and cut the ad out put that and your check in the mail allow six to eight weeks for delivery and they'd send you your gun no background check no age restrictions nothing the idea that guns are easier to get now
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than they were back then is just fiction and someone will say well we repealed the assault weapons ban yeah that's not really what i'm talking about and there are people who will perpetrate this fiction that a gun dealer at his
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shop has to do background checks but at a gun show he doesn't that's not the case and never has been we see lots more gun laws now than we had even in the last few years for example in the state in which i reside
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a licensed gun dealer is required to do background checks regardless of where he is but as a citizen i was i can't do it anymore i was legally allowed to sell guns to other citizens the only restriction i had was that i can't knowingly sell a gun to someone who
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can't legally possess it like a kid or a convicted felon i'm not required to ask but but if i know that he can't legally possess one i can't sell it to him about five years ago we changed that so now if i want to sell one of my guns to another citizen we have to go to a gun dealer and he does the transfer does your
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fingerprints and background check guns keep getting harder to get pretty much every day and the assertion that these days they're so easy to get as an easier than they used to be is
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just not true and for anybody who wants to perpetrate the fiction that anyone can just order a gun online and there's no background check and it's shipped right to you i would ask you please get online and buy one and see how that works out for you and if you want to buy a muzzle
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loading rifle or a firearm that's over 120 some years old that might work but you're not going to get this shipped right to your house if you do someone's already broken several laws
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now another part of this fiction is that these days there are so many semi-autos out there these days anyone can buy an ar or an ak and the implication is that
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to do a mass shooting you really have to have a firearm that is semi-auto detachable box magazines with a fairly high magazine capacity and you're not really going to be able
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to do very much of a mass shooting with your old cowboy single action revolver okay and mass shootings are occurring more now because ar platforms ak platforms all the different semi-auto rifles with
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detachable box magazines that will hold 20 30 40 rounds those are available now semi-auto pistols with double stack high capacity magazines are available now as we're back in the 1970s 60s 50s 40s
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that firearms like that weren't available you couldn't get firearms adequate to the task of doing a mass shooting at least not much of one and so people will say that well mass shootings occurred far less than than they do now because these days in
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addition to guns being so easy to get these days anyone can get a gun adequate to the task and before you couldn't that is an absolute fiction which brings me to the demonstration portion of today's presentation let's take a look
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this is a cult government model one of the many different versions of a 1911 platform let me show you a close-up of how this pistol works this pistol utilizes a detachable box magazine what some people will erroneously call a clip you put the magazine in the magazine
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well which is in the grip of the pistol at this point if i were to [ __ ] the hammer and pull the trigger it would not go off because i have not put a round in the firing chamber to do that i'll pull back the spring-loaded slide let it go chambering around and cocking the hammer at this
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point i'll engage the safety and put the pistol in my holster to shoot the pistol i'll take it out of my holster disengage the safety and pull the trigger you can see that when i do that it fires and this action cycles so quickly it's almost undiscernable with
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the unaided eye each time i pull the trigger it will fire eject the empty casing chamber a live round and [ __ ] the hammer again and when i finish firing i'll re-engage the safety and put it back in the holster
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now i have the pistol loaded with only two rounds a feature that this pistol has which is common to auto loading pistols is that when you fire the last shot the slide will lock back you can see that the slide is locked back so to reload i'll hit my mag release button drop that magazine put a
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new magazine in hit the slide release and i'm ready to go again you can see how quickly pistols like this can be reloaded now what some people will do is instead of firing that last shot so the slide locks back they'll count their rounds
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fire till the magazine is empty and leave that round in the chamber so when they go to reload they'll drop the empty magazine put in a new magazine and you don't have to hit slide release because there's already around in the chamber you have pre-primed the pump as
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it were and that allows you to reload skipping that step and shooting that much faster the model 1911 is an old-school auto loading pistol and there's a lot of differences between this and more modern designs like this beretta 92 fs and the
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first thing i want to point out is that a model number does not necessarily coincide with a patent date this model 92fs was not introduced in the year 92 a.d nor was it introduced in 1992 these have been around since the 80s however the 1911 that does coincide with
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a patent date now a major difference between these two as it pertains to people perpetrating the idea that modern guns with their greater magazine capacity are up to the task of mass shootings well these guns were not up to the task therefore with
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these now available there are more mass shootings when this was the cutting edge of technology there weren't there is along those lines a major difference between these two pistols this has what's called a single stack mag while this has what's called a
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double stack mag let's take a close-up look at the difference between the two designs on your left is the 1911 magazine on your right is the 92 fs magazine and you can see that they're very similar in length however when we turn them this way you can see that the 1911 magazine is much
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narrower than the 92fs magazine why because the 1911 magazine has all the rounds stacked one on top of each other it's single stacked as where the beretta magazine although it tapers down to single stack at the top makes it easier
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feeding into the firing chamber from there these become staggered so if you were to look at the fronts of the projectiles your 1911 magazine would look like this your beretta magazine would have them double stacked
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and what that allows you to do is have more rounds in a magazine that although wider isn't necessarily any longer in this case 15 rounds as opposed to nine now there's something i need to clarify a moment ago i said that my 1911 has a
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nine shot magazine i know that'll raise some eyebrows 1911 platform pistols are available in a variety of calibers by far the most popular is 45 acp and when these were introduced your old school guns in the 1920s 1940s 1960s if
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they were caliber 45 acp almost exclusively had seven shot magazines today when you buy this in caliber 45 acp it's very common that it will have an 8 shot magazine however mine's not a 45 it's caliber 38 super automatic
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the cartridges are smaller in diameter than the 45 so the magazine can hold more of them and caliber 38 super auto and the nine shot magazine have been available in this platform a pistol since circa 1928 it's an old school gun
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but just how fast and accurately can i put shots on target with this pistol i've got two targets set up at 10 yards and i'll shoot them left right left right it wouldn't be realistic if i shot every shot at the same target and i'll shoot as fast as i think i can hit and we'll
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see how i do
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now did you see that really big magazine i was using it's an extended magazine and it has a capacity of 17 rounds the idea of high capacity magazines is hardly something
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new these are readily available and as far as i can tell by any research i've done magazines like this have been around since 1930 or before now let's take a look at the target and here's our group on our left target
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here's our group on our right target now these groups are not stellar but with this pistol at that distance trying to shoot that fast in the hands of the average shooter i'm going to say that the level of accuracy i achieved is more than adequate to today's subject matter
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and remember this is a model 1911. if you want it in caliber 45 acp it's been commercially available since circa 1912.
this particular pistol was manufactured in 2011. however except for an internal safety
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system that makes it a little more drop safe this pistol in caliber 38 super auto with this 17 shot magazine is basically identical to something that you could have bought in 1930
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accurate powerful reliable high capacity auto loading pistols are nothing new now i want to take a moment to talk about a different design of firearms the ar-15 and yes this has stamped right on it colt ar-15a2
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and the main things i want to discuss are what does ar-15 mean and why do we use terms like ar design ar style ar platform okay in explaining this please remember there's different versions of every
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story and our story goes back to a company that called themselves armalite and they made firearms and their firearms had model numbers so there was a model one a model two you can see where this is going however when they got up to 15 that was not necessarily progressive designs of
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the same platform some of their firearms were very different so ar-15 just means the 15th design that they had and here's where there's different versions of the story some people will say that ar means armalite rifle
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some people will say that the word armalite the first two letters are ar and so air just stands for arm light there are some differences of opinion on that depending on which source you read but one thing i can tell you is that ar does not stand for auto loading rifle it
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does not stand for automatic rifle and it most certainly does not stand for assault rifle okay but why do we have to call things a platform all right armalite corporation sold the patent to
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the ar-15 to colt corporation and so only colt could manufacture these firearms but colt kept the designation ar-15 well that patent ran out like patents do and so now lots of different companies
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are making ar design firearms however ar-15 is still a registered trademark of the colt corporation so the other companies they call the rifles all kinds of things but they can't call them an ar-15 and so when you hear on the news
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things like the bedwetter who shot up the school in uvalde had an ar design or an ar platform you can't say it was an ar-15 because it wasn't that's a registered trademark of the colt corporation
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okay now that we've got that to some degree cleared up let's go back to our targets and see how fast and accurately i can shoot this i have two new targets set up and this time i'll shoot them from 20 yards and again i'll shoot left right left right as fast as i think i can hit and
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although today i'll be using magazines of 25 rounds 30 shot magazines are really considered the standard also i'll only shoot one magazine i think that'll be enough to make the point
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and you can see it's very easy to reload quickly now let's take a look at our targets and here's our shots on our left target and our shots on our right target so the ar-15 accurate reliable reasonably powerful semi-auto high capacity magazine
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but the statement that people make where they're trying to perpetrate the notion that mass shootings occur more now than they did back then because ar-15s are so easy to get these days and they weren't easy to get back then
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okay there's actually a little bit of truth to that although the ar15 rifle semi-auto commercially available firearm has been on the market for over 50 years
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when you start getting back there around the 1970s they were by the standards of the time very expensive and when you allow for inflation they were a whole lot more expensive then than they are now at least in my experience and according to the research
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that i've been able to do so specifically ar platform rifles are more affordable more available now than they were 50 years ago however there's a deeper implication
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to the statement that ars are so easy to get these days it implies that rifles that were accurate reliable reasonably powerful semi-auto high capacity magazines of any type weren't available back then
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let me show you another rifle this is an m1 carbine and i've demonstrated this rifle before these rifles have been made by many different companies this particular one was made by a company called inland and this rifle i don't mean this design i mean this individual rifle that you're
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looking at right now was manufactured circa in 1942. it's about 80 years old these rifles were issued in large numbers during the second world war and after the second world war some of them were dumped on the commercial market even more so after the korean conflict i
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have been contacted by a high number of people who've told me nostalgic tales about how when they were teenagers in the 1950s or 1960s prior to the gun control act of 1968 that they mail ordered m1 carbines no age check no background check mail
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order just mailed it right to your house and people tell me that they paid reasonably low prices like forty dollars at that time the m1 carbine was the original dime-a-dozen rifle
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now let's take this to our targets and see how well it performs i have two new targets set up and again i'll shoot from 20 yards and again i'll shoot left right left right as fast as i think i can hit now it's important to note that originally m1 carbines were equipped with 15 shot magazines well today i'm
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going to be using magazines loaded with 25 rounds however 30 shot magazines really are the standard and 30 shot magazines have been around since circa 1950. so let's see how i do with this
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[Music] now you may have noticed i had two malfunctions however they were easily and quickly cleared now let's take a close-up look at the targets here's our group on the left
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and our group on the right so the results accuracy certainly sufficient to the task reliability i had two malfunctions but i do have to say that that's not the results i typically get with this rifle that was an anomaly and even if i did
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have two malfunctions they were very quickly and easily cleared reasonably powerful semi-automatic high-capacity magazines and remember this rifle is 80 years old these features in a firearm again are nothing new
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now that demonstration may or may not have been interesting but what was the point okay remember we were discussing why is it so difficult to get a straight answer to the question what causes mass shootings and i talked about four barriers to effective communication the first one being
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people's maniacal need to debate semantics over substance to debate minutia and to argue with whom they perceive to be the opposition even when the opposition says something with which they agree and i used the example we want there to be fewer mass shootings and there's
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always someone who will say no we don't want there to be none none would be fewer than what we have now so we agree on that point but you feel this maniacal need to argue to debate semantics over substance and
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argue about minutia and argue with me even when i said something with which you agree it's a terrible barrier to effective communication and it slows down the whole process now the second one was the deniers
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people who like to say that sandy hook didn't happen there's already people saying that uvalde didn't happen when people do that we have to stop the meaningful discussion and refute that fiction and it delays some kind of solution
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when you delay you end up with more mass shootings more people being killed and more blood on the hands of those people who are doing that denying or perpetrating that fiction now the third one was kind of the opposite when people pad the statistics
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and try to make it look like there's more mass shootings than there are okay again we have to delay the discussion and refute that fiction and when you perpetrate fictions like that and pad your statistics then you lose all credibility and you hurt the people you were seeking to help
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and the fourth one and that's where our demonstration comes in is the people who perpetrate the notion that we're having more mass shootings now than we did back then because
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guns are so much easier to get these days than they were back then or the other fiction we're having more shootings now than we used to because guns adequate to the task as in accurate reliable reasonably powerful semi-auto high capacity magazine that
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these guns exist now and they didn't exist back then okay and our demonstration clearly showed that that is just not true this particular fiction that
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guns exist now and guns adequate that the task didn't exist back then the guns are easier to get now than they were back then is in my opinion the most destructive of the four barriers to effective communication
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because just about anytime anyone brings up the question why are these mass shootings occur someone will immediately say because guns are so easy to get okay when you do that it always turns into a
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debate about gun control when it really shouldn't be when you do that you're perpetrating a fiction and instead of having a meaningful dialogue we all have to stop and refute your fiction there are people who will perpetrate the
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myth that because we have the internet that you can just get online order any kind of firearm and it'll be delivered right to your house okay if you think that's the case take a look at this this is a washer 1063 it's an ak platform
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get online try to have one of these shipped right to your house see how that works out for you you're going to find that you pretty much can't do that and if you do get one shipped right to your house then you're either a licensed gun dealer or somebody's already broken several
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laws the idea that guns are easier to get than they used to be is just fiction and people who talk about things on the internet they've never really done it sometimes when people perpetrate that myth they are doing it through willful
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dishonesty and sometimes they're doing it through the naivety of having believed someone who was perpetrating an intentional fiction i could talk all day about things like when i was a kid and i mean a kid
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going to gun shows with my dad and you would see so much cash and so many guns trading hands back and forth somebody would be down at this end of the gun show and he'd buy a gun for a hundred dollars and he's carrying it along with him by the time he gets the other end of the show someone offers him 125 for it okay so he sells it perfectly
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legal at the time in the state in which i reside that is no longer the case and hasn't been in a long time there are as far as i know still a few states left in the united states where individual
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citizens can sell a gun to another individual citizen without a background check and i can't quote you chapter and verse of every law in every jurisdiction in the united states but as far as i know there's still a few places where you can do that but even at that you still can't ship guns through the mail and even in those few places where you
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can still do that that does not represent guns having become easier to get that represents that in that one place guns have not gotten as much more difficult to get as they have in other places
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in the 22 years since the turn of the century compared to the 22 years prior to the turn of the century so going back to 1978 if you think that in that 22 year period guns have gotten easier to get than they were in the 22 year prior to that
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you're absolutely wrong and you are either speaking out of complete ignorance or you're intentionally perpetrating a falsehood and when you perpetrate that falsehood we have to take time away
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from the meaningful discussion to refute your falsehood and it delays any kind of implementation of any kind of real solution and when you delay that because of your fiction then more mass shootings occur more
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people are going to get killed and some of that blood is on your hands when you perpetrate the fiction that guns adequate to the task are available today and they weren't available a long time ago
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we now see that that's complete fiction and when you perpetrate that either through naivety or through willful dishonesty we have to stop the discussion do a demonstration like i did refute your fiction
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and therefore any implementation of any real solution is delayed with that delay more mass shootings occur more people are going to die and more blood is on your hands i would really beseech you don't take my word for it do some
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research yourself get online as i said try to order certain things talk to your grandpa about when back in the 1950s he ordered one of these through the mail there could be a lot of reasons why mass shootings occur and we're going to talk about
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those in a few minutes but one thing i can tell you absolutely for certain is that they are not caused by nor is the increase in them caused by the prevalence of firearms in our society as tom brokaw said quote the guns have
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always been there close quote they really have and the idea that these things that have always been there have all of a sudden now started leading to a lot of mass shootings is as i've said redundantly so many
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times just fiction now that brings us to okay if if we made it pretty clear that firearms are not causing the problem what is causing the problem okay
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let's discuss a little bit about that okay finally what causes mass shootings how can we stop them how can we prevent them in discussing this you have to remember i'm not a psychologist you also have to remember that as i reference various
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events like uvalde and sandy hook and buffalo that i wasn't there and my only source of information is reading a newspaper looking at things online looking at the television news quite often those sources don't agree with each other quite often they don't get their facts
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straight we have to take that into consideration remember there's always different versions of the story and remember that just about everything i'm going to say from here on out are my opinions okay now the question what causes mass
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shootings in my opinion to answer that we have to take a step back again and ask another question and that is what is a mass shooting now you've probably heard some definitions however
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what i'm discovering is that there are different agencies in different organizations that use different definitions you'll have government agencies like the center for disease control the department of justice they have a particular definition there's also private entities organizations some of
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which try to make themselves sound like government agencies like the violence policy center it's not a government agency and there are others as well and sometimes they have different definitions now some groups will say that a mass
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shooting is when three people not including the gunman are shot some will say that it's four people not including the gunman some will add the additional criterion of it has to be in a public place and so in my opinion
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the first thing we have to do in discussing what causes mass shootings is define what is a mass shooting we need an official governmental definition without a political agenda that we can
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all live with now i know i'm asking for a lot but if we have the centers for disease control or the department of justice put out a definition that isn't 10 pages long it's just a couple of paragraphs long and it's something we can all work with
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that would be our first step in solving the problem in my opinion our second step is we need to categorize different types of mass shootings now i talk about our lists that include the kent state shooting talk about rival
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gangs shooting it out over a drug deal gone bad okay we need to get those things off our list of mass shootings but when we get down to those that we can agree are real mass shootings we need to categorize them
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because different ones have different causes now i mentioned earlier family annihilation okay put as basically as i can put it a family annihilator is almost always a man and he will have some great stressor
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like losing his job or maybe a series of stressors and he gets to the point where he just can't go on and quite often he plans on committing suicide but he thinks that his family can not exist without him so he has to kill all of them too now one of my crew is a police officer and a few years ago had to deal
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with a case where a man had two shotguns and he then killed his four children and his wife and then himself looks like a mass shooting however he did that within the confines of his own home not a public place so that makes it
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on some lists and not others and even if it was in a public place or you take that particular criterion off the list and you call this a mass shooting family annihilators are a particular type their particular
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pathology is known to the psychological community we have some handle on what causes those things and above and beyond that is not the same thing as the guy who goes into a grade school and so if
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you lump all of those together and you're trying to look for the causes those two events have very different causes and so there won't be a one-size-fits-all answer as to what causes these things and we have to categorize them now anytime you categorize anything there will be things
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that fall through the cracks there will be things put into categories where they really shouldn't but still having different categories i think will really help in answering the question what's causing these now mass shootings have been around for a long time
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but when you categorize things you get all that stuff off off the list that shouldn't be on it as near as i can put together i come to the conclusion that although mass shootings have been around for many decades we are seeing a lot more now than we used to
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and there's a particular type that we're seeing a lot more now and that is the person who goes into the mall the church the school the grocery and shoots up a lot of people with which he has very little to no relation they seem to just be strangers
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this is different than a lot of your old school mass shootings such as if you look at the mass shootings in past decades many of them were things like a man gets the notion that his wife is cheating on him whether she is or not he's convinced that she is and he goes to her place of
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work and he kills her and kills the man with whom he presumes she's been cheating and kills the other man that he thinks she might have been cheating with and he has a friend that works there whom he presumes knew about all of this and didn't tell him so he kills that friend then he kills the good samaritan who
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tried to stop him as he was leaving mass shooting absolutely is a mass shooting but again that is a totally different thing than the person who goes into the grade school or the mall and shoots a bunch of people with whom he has no relation
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similarly we see the mass shooting of somebody gets fired from their job goes to their former place of work and kills the people whom they presume wronged them okay this is a kind of mass shooting that's been around for a long time but again as
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far as i can tell we are seeing more of them now and we have to categorize that differently than the guy who shoots up the grade school or the grocery and we have to ask ourselves some questions and they're different questions than we ask about the grade
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school questions like why are we seeing more violent solutions to people being fired now than we did in 1970 are jobs that hard to get now are there particular lines of work that are more likely to cause that type of
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reaction than other lines of work don't say postal worker and we have to ask those questions and they're different questions than the question why did the guy in uvalde go into a grade school why did the guy in newtown connecticut go into a grade
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school see these types of shootings are different and they have different causes and we have to categorize them and look at them differently and as near as i can put together not only are there more mass shootings now but that random thing if someone goes
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into a mall seems to be far more common now than it has been in the past now specifically on the subject of church shootings okay this is another one where things get on the list that aren't really what i'm
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talking about just this morning i was looking at a list of church shootings one in particular stood out there's a church service it's over everybody's leaving the minister he's in his office and his brother comes into the office shoots him
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well because it happened at the church it goes down as a church shooting no that's really fratricide that's a different thing and just in the topic of church shootings there's still different types there's some that are obviously the result of religious or racial bigotry
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the person who goes into the mosque because he's an anti-muslim the person that goes into the synagogue because he's an anti-semite and so forth that's different than someone who doesn't seem to have any religious affiliation doesn't seem to have
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anything against a particular religion goes into a church and shoots those people kind of in the same sense that someone went into the grade school why okay there are reasons why these random
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shootings where people don't seem to have any connection to their victims are occurring and one of the things i have to discuss is when someone goes into a grade school
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why did he pick a grade school when it seemed that he had no connection with that grade school all right there are many things that go into this but that particular type of mass shooter is in my opinion trying to generate body
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count it's not like the anti-semite shooter who's looking to hurt a particular group it's not like the racially motivated shooter who goes into the grocery store in buffalo and is only shooting black people
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this type of shooter doesn't really seem to care who his audience is but he's got a few things going on one as near as i can tell virtually all of these events are planned for days weeks months it's not as though someone
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who just happened to have a firearm also did some lsd that day went on a bad trip and thought that his victims were the pod people from mars they plan these things out and the reason they choose these particular targets are again and i can't
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stress this enough these are my conclusions in my opinions because he wants to generate a lot of body count so he has to go to where there's a crowd of people and he has to go to a place where that crowd is contained with difficult egress so they can't all run away even though
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we saw the mass shooting in the parking lot typically somebody wants people crowded together where there's only a couple of exits and they can't get out really quickly like churches or movie theaters and also
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he needs a pardon the pun target audience no that was not an attempted humor where he perceives they will be easy victims that can't fight back like children in a grade school or people in a church now in a church
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if there's a lot of people there you will probably find a lot of able-bodied adults but up until recently most people didn't take their guns to church so he sees a bunch of victims that can't fight back
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now here's where i have to talk about the colorado theater shooting a few years ago i have heard this from several sources can't really substantiate it in any way but what people are talking about is and again different versions of the story
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that shooter traveled from his house to that theater which was quite a distance away and again i i hear different numbers but 30 40 50 miles i mean he went quite a distance and so i've read there was a lot of theaters closer to him than the one he went to
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which brings up the question why did he go to that theater i'm pretty sure it was not because he had something against batman why did he go to that theater as near as i can tell nobody's ever really been able to put that together it's not like he was a former employee
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he didn't have an ex-girlfriend that worked there but it has been suggested that he went to that theater instead of all of the others that were closer to him because he was aware that that theater was a gun-free zone
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which is private property the management can do that but it declared even if you have a concealed handgun license you can legally carry a gun don't carry it in their theater and that was part of his selection process because he perceived an audience less likely to fight back
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now again that is unsubstantiated if anybody can post a link to something that we can consider a credible source please do but that has to make us stop and think
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now it is my perception that a few years ago we ended up having a rash of church shootings again that didn't seem to be based on bigotry or hate crimes just based on someone wanted to generate body count
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and an audience that's packed in difficult egress not likely to fight back and there was a lot of church shootings and then people going to church started carrying their guns and then church security personnel ended up killing a lot of would-be mass shooters and since then the number of church
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shootings has gone way down now just last night i was reading about a church shooting that happened as i'm filming this today about three days ago and according to what i read someone went to the church not for
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church services but to something they called a baby boomer potluck if i remember correctly and at some point during this he pulled out a gun killed three people and then was subdued by a couple of other people that were there
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however this particular person so i read had been to several church events which makes me ask was he casing the place was he making sure there wasn't armed security i don't know
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but it's something we really need to think about and something we really need to look at now in this case there wasn't armed security and it brings up the concept that wayne lapierre said something to the effect of the only thing that stops a bad person with a gun is a good person
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with a gun well at this particular church someone was able to take a folding chair bash the shooter with it and subdue him so sometimes it takes a good person with a folding chair but either way it seems to lend credence to the idea that
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if what our grade school or mall shooter or church shooter wants is a helpless audience armed security might curb such things however that brings me to something that i do not want to talk about but i have
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to shootings in schools they have been occurring and so we end up with police officers in schools remember in uvalde it wasn't just the local police department they actually have a school police department
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however armed security doesn't do any good unless the people that are there is security are willing to do their job the school shooting in florida where all reports were that the school research source there there's my speech
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impediment i'm talking about the school resource officer hid outside instead of running in while children were being shot in uvalde again there's different versions but as near as i can tell there was a platoon sized element of police officers who
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stayed outside while this was going on and i have to say it shame on you for standing outside doing nothing while children were being
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murdered now remember i'm retired military personnel and when i was a squad leader and a platoon sergeant i can tell you about the troops i worked with had i been there with some of my troops the biggest problem i would have had
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would have been keeping them from running in there like the keystone cops when the door was locked and we had to wait for a key the biggest problem i would have had would have been telling sergeant gritzball hey make sure you aim down so
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you don't hit any kids when you shoot the lock off to have the highly trained professional police department just standing outside doing nothing is appalling now from what i read
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the city of vivaldi is redoing some things and one of the things i've read is they're planning on hiring more school police officers i don't understand how if you had a platoon size element that did nothing how would having a company size element
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doing nothing help you out so we have to have solutions that are viable that are actually going to work now to get back on task and off that tangent
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in categorizing these things and asking why these things occur if we can get into the mindset of the school or mall or church shooter remember the body count church shooter is
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different than the hate crime church shooter we have to ask the question what is motivating these people we have to look at pre-offense behavior and say what did that guy do what did that guy say
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what are indicators that we really should have seen that's the thing we have to ask and then we have to put something in place that allows us to deal with that now we all have the problem of
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you can't punish someone for what you think they might do you have to have someone commit a crime before you can arrest them and so it might be difficult to deal with their pre-offense behavior
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but at least it's something that has to be asked it has to be explored and has to be dealt with and if we can come up with what is it that these people are thinking what is it that they're feeling maybe we can
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address that now when we get right down to it the real bottom line of what i'm talking about is this mass shootings have always been there
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but most of them that we had back in the 1950s 60s 70s there weren't very many but most of them we had we could look at and we could understand to some degree at least what the person was thinking we can understand a little bit about why did he do that
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even though sometimes it's not a very good answer at least we have one a very good example is in the 1970s there was somebody who worked at a college campus again there's always different versions and he was some kind of maintenance man janitor
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and one day he got his 22 rifle went into the library and shot a bunch of people why well as near as anybody could figure out his main problem was he was a paranoid schizophrenic now it wasn't quite clear
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in the sources i looked at whether he'd been diagnosed before the shooting or only after so afterwards was he malingering was that really his problem okay but presuming that he really was a paranoid schizophrenic what he explained was that
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he had become convinced that the people in the audio visual department of this school library were filming porno movies and forcing his wife to participate okay well no no one was filming porno movies and no one was forcing his wife to
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participate in anything however you got to remember this was the 1970s it was before you could just pull out your phone and watch porn it was before everybody had a vcr and you could go to the video rental center
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and rent porn and so what was actually happening was after hours people were using the audio visual equipment in the library to watch porn movies so he had a little piece of reality that he twisted into his fantasy
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okay well knowing that doesn't really help us much we still had several people killed but at least we understand what happened there with our modern generation of
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mall and grocery store and church and school shooters that appear to have no connection with the people they're shooting and appear to only be motivated by body count needing a confined space audience with difficult egress and
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people they perceive can't fight back why are these people committing these acts that's a question that we need to answer and the only thing i can add to it is
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this if you look at the 1970s 1960s 1950s even 1940s such things were very rare we already know the guns were there such things were very rare
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today they're becoming alarmingly common and we have to ask this question what was present in society then that was preventing these things that isn't present now or what was absent then
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that is present now that's causing them it wasn't present then that is the question that i really think we need to ask and i gotta tell you i don't have an answer to it but it needs to be discussed
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by experts in the field without political agendas people that are really trying to solve the problem so with that what can you and i do
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what i would tell you is if you go to church make sure your church has armed security it's a big help if there are other places that can have armed security participate in that suggest it
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help organize it figure out someone who can help organize it another thing i would tell you is that any time you hear anyone who is a denier said no sandy hook didn't happen shun that person
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do not buy the products they're selling do not believe them although we know both sides of an issue will twist the facts to their own political ends to say that uvaldi didn't happen is nonsense you must shun those people if you are
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someone who hosts a channel like this and people make comments like that just delete them you can't give those people any traction and my personal thought is educate yourself on the concept of gun
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control versus gun crime if you don't believe me when i say the guns have always been there and the prevalence of firearms in our society is not part of the problem and that firearms are not easier to get if you don't believe me educate yourself
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do some research for yourself and shun those people who perpetrate that fiction so if you've watched all of this thank you for your indulgence thank you for your patience
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and don't try any of this at home on what you call a professional and thanks for watching the mass shooting video [Music]