- Deeply unsettling statistics here.
- I hate guns.
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- Today we're gonna play a game of True or False
- To learn more about gun control.
- Personally I never really used guns growing up,
never was a thing in my family,
but I'm not super anti people having guns
so much as the automatic weapon thing
that's clearly become a problem.
- I like to use the term gun safety instead of gun control.
- Growing up I knew families that had farms.
And they would have guns, and then they would shoot,
what are those, clay pigeon type stuff?
- I know people who went hunting, and had guns
and that's more the extent of what I know back in Arizona.
- I know what my philosophies about gun control
and gun safety are, but I don't know that I know a lot
about the laws surrounding guns.
I feel like I might learn a lot.
- [Zach] True or false, rifles are the most common-used gun
in U.S. murders.
- Oh, in all U.S. murders.
I'm gonna say, I think false.
- Yeah, because I think it's more than a rifle, right?
I don't know a lot about guns.
- I'm gonna say false.
- I'm gonna go with false.
I think that we hear about automatic weapons
just cause those are used more for mass killing,
but for murders I think hand gun.
- Wait, assault rifles.
- A lot of the common ones are just little handguns,
like a pistol.
- And U.S. murders.
Okay, I'm gonna go with true because of assault rifles.
- I just feel like rifles are probably very common guns,
but they're hunting guns, so I'm gonna say false.
- I'm gonna go false.
There's other types of guns but.
- There ya go.
That's exactly what you were saying, right?
Handguns?
- That's crazy, yeah
- I feel weird celebrating getting that right.
I'm not like, "Hey, yay."
I'm like, "Yeah, okay."
- I feel like just because
there's so much gun violence in general,
- Yeah
- When We hear about stuff, it's the mass shootings.
- Exactly.
- So I feel like that's probably why it's easy.
- Yeah, but that's super interesting to hear
because that's exactly what you were saying
where it's actually, there's even more of a violence
than assault rifles.
After the U.S., the second top gun-owning country is Yemen.
- Oh.
- Throw Yemen at me.
- I know, I know nothing.
- I have no reason to believe that's not true.
- I feel like most other developed countries
have some form of gun control.
- I don't have an answer.
So I guess I'm just gonna go true.
- I'm gonna go with true.
- I'm gonna say true.
- True.
I am also realizing that that means that we're number one.
- [Chris] Oh.
- Yeah we were both definitely just guessing
because Yemen is very specific.
- In 2017, 58% of women
who were killed by gun violence
were killed by their current or former intimate partner.
I know some people personally.
It's very disturbing.
I don't know what to say about it.
- Whoa. - Whoa.
58% is a lot.
- That is true to me
because honestly I would not be surprised
if it were even higher, really.
- Yeah, I'm gonna go with true.
- Same, true.
- 58%, do you think it's higher?
That's a really high percentage.
- It's either true or higher.
- [Chris] I think that sadly
- [Zach] Yeah
- the crime of passion type thing.
- A deeply tragic statistic.
- That's hard to wrap my head, I don't know how to react.
- In every law show, whenever there's a woman
who was killed, they're always like,
"Well, where's the husband?"
"Where's the ex?"
- I think.
I don't know, I don't know what to say.
Of the total 36,658 people
who suffered a gun-related death in 2016,
11,938 were suicides.
- That seems high, but also.
- I was gonna say I expected it to be higher.
- All right.
Split the difference, and say it's true.
- Whoa, dang.
I think that's false.
- You think it's false?
- I'm gonna say false.
I think the number of suicides is higher
in gun-related death.
- Too high or too low, what do you think?
- I think suicides are probably a variation of ways.
I mean it's horrible either way.
- I'm gonna say it's true.
- I'm guessing false.
- Gonna go with true, but it's not an educated guess.
It's just something that I sadly think is possible.
- [Matt] That's crazy.
- That's double.
22,000?
- Deeply unsettling statistics here.
- I hate guns.
- Whoa, I was guessing the other way.
- Yeah, it's like our actual guesses I guess make sense,
but the answers are wrong.
- Of the total 40,000 people, imagine 40,000 people
who died of gun-related deaths.
- That's insane to me! - That's insane.
Thinking I guessed true, thinking it was a high number,
but it's a way higher number
than I actually would have thought.
- Same.
- (beep), we need gun reform,
and we need mental health reform.
- [Matt] Hawaii has the lowest gun death rate in the U.S.
- I see a lot of like shooting stories,
and they're never in Hawaii.
- I haven't seen any in Hawaii.
But also, is this a trick question?
- I'm gonna say true.
- Yeah.
- I'm skeptical.
- Exactly.
- [Zach] Hey. - [Chris] Whoa.
- I guess that's good.
- Yeah, that is a good, a positive.
- Go Hawaii.
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- [Zach] Texas has the highest gun death rate in the U.S.
and some of the weakest gun laws.
- I'm not even.
That has to be, right?
- Yes, that's true.
- I'm gonna go with true.
- Yeah, they also have open carry laws.
I don't know if I would say open carry laws
are weak gun laws.
So I don't know if, but I feel like this could
either be a trick in that they are known for having guns,
but maybe, I don't know.
- It just makes sense. - It makes sense.
I'm gonna say, I'll agree with you, I'll say true.
- [Chris] What?
- Oh wow, we were both very confident on that.
- Texas. - I apologize, Texas.
- Yeah, sorry, Texas.
- I told you it was a trick
because we know Texans have guns.
- Yeah.
- Alaska has the highest gun death rate in the U.S.
And some of the weakest gun laws.
- Whoa. - Wow!
That's very interesting.
I feel like a lot of the things that I see on the news
aren't necessarily, it's just the surface of it.
There's so much more that I have no idea about.
- This makes me sad and feel a little hopeless.
The fight for sanity and safety,
and when your kids are going to school
with bulletproof backpacks, you know that your country
is not doing enough.
- I think the biggest take-away is, for me,
I know I watch the local news a lot,
and most of what I know right now is what's happening
in Los Angeles, but it's interesting to be educated
and to know about the other places, not only in the country,
but outside of America.
- There is a common desire to stop gun deaths.
We just need to do something.
Hashtag do something.
The 2020 elections are coming.
If you're tired of gun deaths, get out and vote.
- Please vote.
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