As both a former high school teacher and chief law enforcement officer we have made most shooting galleries out of no gun zones. Does anyone really believe that labeling and area as no gun zone stops a would-be killer from doing his deed? When I first began teaching, in a country high school population of about 500, kids would bring their deer rifles to school and either leave them in their vehicle or give them to a teacher to watch. This was so they could go hunting after school. We never had any problem that was a result of having a firearm in close proximity. Now the same school has an armed officer in each of its schools as a preventive measure more for parents' relief than anything else. Society in general has changed so much the past 20 years as criminals get better treatment than victims in many cases. In particular courts, judges, and parole boards do very little other than a slap on the hands if they deem in politically correct. Cops bring them in, and judges let them out often with little or no bail. Fatherless families are a good predictor many times of impending troubles. Some poor law enforcement also contributes as tips are often gleamed over or some ill trained officer sits back and waits until the shooting is over because he is afraid someone with a camera phone will see him shoot the gunman and put it on social media as an injustice because the shooter was only told 5x to drop his gun. The only solution I can see is for parents to raise their kids with morals. The fear of going to hell must be stronger than the fear of 10 years for manslaughter. The realization of right and wrong must be taught in the home and school by example. Teachers have a lot of influence over children and if your kid's teacher shows or ignores immoral behavior give them a boot out and not a good recommendation so they can't start their immoral behavior else ware.
@TheDonij1955
7 ай бұрын
First, if you want to deal with this issue, stop using the term "gun violence". Guns don't get up and kill people. Work on the problems, most of which stem from mental issues.
@longgone9869
5 ай бұрын
Right? When they use the term “gun violence”, they are feeding into the anti-gun narrative. A gun is nothing more than a tool. The real weapon is the human mind.
@rhrh2025
6 ай бұрын
Violence is violence, whether it's guns, bombs, knives, hammers, cars, chains, ropes, scissors, poison, airplanes, or anything else that can be used to harm children, adults, teens, animals, etc. And in each of these cases, it's the fault of the people responsible for using these items for harm, and not the items themselves! I've never seen a gun or a pair of scissors go to court for harming someone!
@gerardoguemez1077
5 ай бұрын
Why doesn’t this podcast have thousands of views. Perhaps the best analysis on gun control I’ve heard
@TedSeeber
7 ай бұрын
Two women discuss a problem largely caused by bullied men. Almost every gunman in these mass shootings are themselves victims of other crimes. And sure enough, halfway through the conversation goes away from suicide and gun death prevention, into abortion and how unfair patental leave is.
@wintermooonwolf
7 ай бұрын
...with the overtly evil democrat themes demonstrated in the last two EDIFY videos; I will no longer be sharing this so-called EDIFY twisted message...so very disappointing...
@brettb614
5 ай бұрын
"An assault weapon is an AR-15 with too many accessories"??? Wow, I can't even begin to fathom the stockpile of ignorance in that statement. Accessories do nothing to change or improve the rate of fire of a semi auto firearm, and they certainly don't "transform" it into an "assault rifle". A semi auto cannot ever fire in full auto. If someone illegally obtains a full auto firearm, they get ten years in prison along with a $250k fine. Allow me to clarify: AR-15: a semi auto hunting/sporting rifle M-16: a fully automatic assault rifle. As you can see, the difference is a semi auto, which fires only one round per pull of the trigger is A LOT different than an assault rifle, which fires all the ammunition in the magazine with a single pull of the trigger (the trigger is held down it fires continuously until the ammo supply is exhausted). There are many old semi auto hunting rifles that politicians don't want to ban that have been around since right before WWII. Know why? Because they have the appearance of a hunting rifle. Why do they want to ban the AR-15? Not because it's more dangerous, but only because it resembles an assault rifle in appearance, even though it has less than half the function of a full auto.
@longgone9869
5 ай бұрын
If you own a handgun for self-defense and keep it locked up, it’s not very much of a self-defense handgun. Try unlocking a safe sometime when someone is in the process of trying to kill you. It doesn’t work very well. The idea of stress or panic will affect your ability to open even the easiest unlocks and gun fights are won and lost in tenths of seconds.
@S2StrategicDefense
6 ай бұрын
Your answer seems to be red flag laws.. and the main problem with that is that you violate due process rights and subject the person to wrongful prosecution. What if we did the same thing with cameras... and took your camera away because of your message and you didn't even get a chance to defend yourself in court but were found guilty?
@longgone9869
5 ай бұрын
Or face your accuser
@MerwinWren
6 ай бұрын
If armed defenders were allowed to carry defensive arms, mass shootings would quickly decline because potential attackers would know they would not be successful. The Nashville shooter chose that particular school knowing it was most vulnerable.
@longgone9869
5 ай бұрын
That’s true with most active shooters. The pulse nightclub shooter in Florida who shot over 100 people checked at two other places before making the decision to shoot up the pulse nightclub. The only reason he went into the pulse nightclub is he didn’t recognize the unmarked cop, car sitting in the parking lot. That cop did drugs interdiction as a daytime job so he was driving an ummarked vehicle. The problem was he temporarily left his post to go write a ticket to people he assumed to be under age drinkers leaving the club. I know that’s not really the security officers job but that’s what he did
@christiwrench5707
5 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed this podcast!! Thank you for your honesty
@longgone9869
5 ай бұрын
Here is a question for Mary Fiorito. How is it do you intend to protect yourself in your own home if someone enters one night? Do you plan on calling 911 and have you checked into what their response time is in the area where you live? Remember when seconds count the police are just minutes away. Think of it this way, you open your eyes one night and there’s a stranger standing in the doorway of your bedroom, what will you do? I imagine there are several possible answers, but maybe only one or two will keep you from being gravely injured or sexually assaulted
@longgone9869
5 ай бұрын
Here is the biggest problem. Whether people like it or not, they have to be their own first responder, and must be an active participant in their own rescue. I’m not saying help isn’t on the way, but it very rarely gets to you in time to be of any benefit. Several years ago, I attended active shooter training with Ed Monk and I learned from that training that it’s an equation of numbers and time. If your response to an active shooter event is to dial 911 you can expect almost 2 dozen casualties because of police response time and their lack of familiarity with the buildings to which they are entering. The best option is to have someone on location who is armed, trained, and willing to respond. That person or those people can be anyone who’s willing to take the training. There is no particular advantage to having a police officer as many of them are lacking of training also. On average one person is shot every 10 seconds with that number being weighted heavily towards the beginning of the event when the shooter surprises everyone
@ketchman8299
6 ай бұрын
Please, be real. It is NOT "Gun" violence, it is just plain violence. Guns do not make the decision to kill, people do. The problem is the general attitude of our society and the fixation with being a "victim".
@longgone9869
5 ай бұрын
There are over 400 million firearms in the United States. Everybody who lacks a knowledge should go out and familiarize themselves with how they work. I would think the chances are pretty good that, sometime in your lifetime, you’re going to stumble across the fire. Wouldn’t it be nice if you at least had a basic understanding of how they operated so you could possibly, I don’t know, unload the weapon and make it safe. The other reason to become familiar with how semi automatic firearms work is that a reloading or a firearm malfunction is an opportunity to escape the shooter because a gun in either one of those conditions is in capable of shooting a round
@lance3748
5 ай бұрын
I know a lot of people won't like this BUT I wrote my elected officials a few times with a compromise. (Naturally never heard back.) Some states require you to get a handgun license and people are not screaming about violating the 2nd amendment. What if we required a license for semi automatic, and ONLY semi automatic. In addition to a serious background check we could also require something like a FREE 2 hour course on gun safety and responsibility. (Like you cannot gift or sell them to someone without a license and it's your responsibility to keep dangerous people away from them.) And make it very very clear in the law, "this law cannot be applied to single shot, bolt action, pump action, revolvers, etc." So potentially even a criminal could go hunting or have in home defense. I'm not saying it's a guaranteed solution but try it for a while and see. It could always be repealed.
@longgone9869
5 ай бұрын
People should be screaming about having to get a license for a handgun whether it’s a pistol or a revolver. In July of last year, the Supreme Court ruled in Bruen, that when considering laws that regulate a persons Second Amendment rights, it should be limited to the text or tradition of the constitution. Nowhere in the constitution does it say training or permit or background check so all of those things are technically against the law. Having said that, I am a huge proponent of getting firearms training as I’ve told several friends having a gun isn’t the answer. It’s only part of the equation. the answers come when you receive the training. It’s making it mandatory is where I have the problem.
@lance3748
5 ай бұрын
@@longgone9869 In the 18th and much of the 19th century, training to use the weapon might have been presupposed. Think about all the steps needed to load a musket as opposed to most modern firearms. Imagine this: "lets see: what's this little pan for? Maybe I put the bullet in first then the powder..."
@haricotvert6207
7 ай бұрын
The majority of gun deaths are suicides? (1:33 min.) The majority of the 575 people shot and killed in Chicago last year were not suicides. Growing up with a father in the home has a direct correlation to one's behavior with a gun in their hand but you lost me early and I'm not sure if you made the point.
@S1D3W1ND3R015
6 ай бұрын
The national majority of gun deaths are suicides. Over 60%. Last year 2023 only 18,000 gun deaths were homicides. I believe it was 47,000 total from all causes but suicides are the majority.
@longgone9869
5 ай бұрын
Very true having a complete family in the household is a huge deal and I’m sure would solve a lot of problems. But the other thing which must be considered is how poorly are youths are raised to deal with stress. The slightest things in life seem to be overwhelming to them. Too many parents spend time preparing the road for the child and not the child for the road. The moment they get out on their own, they do not have a learned mechanism for dealing with things that don’t go their way
@alexmartinez1995
7 ай бұрын
So homicide gun violence does not work according to your logic correct ?
@longgone9869
5 ай бұрын
In your comment, are you talking about homicides or the murders? There is a difference.
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