hey guys welcome back to foreign reaction today we're gonna be checking out a video titled
what can the us learn from germany about gun control uh so we already know this is really
important in america because you know america is always active with some crazy attitude
right so um we're gonna check out this video right now i'll be moving to europe
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video man and uh let's see what it's all about think owning guns and strict gun laws don't go
together come to germany where citizens are armed but not nearly as dangerous look we all know the
situation in my home country in the good old u.s of a we're armed to the teeth with an estimated
101 guns for every 100 citizens that's more guns than people and by far the highest rate in the
world but germany's got guns too they're ranked second in the eu fourth in the world in guns per
person well first of all guns are superstars i mean hollywood promotes guns every crime
tv show this is international it applies to germans it applies to americans meet jurg sprava
inventor of insane do-it-yourself weaponry pretty good and one of germany's 2.3 million
registered gun owners you must understand that guns is a very very big part of our culture and
it's also very much in the focus of social life many of the smaller cities the gun club is the
number one meeting place in the in the whole town everybody is a member of the mum of the gun club
and therefore owning guns is something that is deeply rooted within german society
he showed me the lockers where he stores his 34 guns when they're not in use one of the
important pillars of german gun law is that guns are not for self-defense it's not okay to defend
yourself with a gun german government says that's our job we protect you with police with everything
so they don't want civilians to use guns for self-defense for fun that's not the case in the
u.s nearly two-thirds of american gun owners say they purchased their gun for self-defense
and here are the results in the u.s more than 60 percent of homicides involve a gun in germany it's
less than 10 recently on average there were 92 gun deaths per day in the united states slightly more
than two so what's going on here how can germany have so many guns but so much less gun violence
well laws in the u.s gun restrictions are some of the weakest in the world and often they're
completely non-existent in 36 of 50 states there's no registration no license and no
permit required to buy a gun in texas you can even buy a firearm without leaving your car
so how do you buy a gun in germany it should be a time consuming thing so you would have to spend
basically a year of preparation enroll in the gun club practice their little exam you would
be issued a license clean criminal record to be of age you can't just walk into a store and buy one
and there's another big difference between germany and the us in germany they take action after their
mass shootings in 2002 a 19 year old walked into his former high school in central germany
and killed 16 people with a semi-automatic pistol then in 2009 another school shooting
a teenager massacred 15 people and injured nine more before taking his own life but after those
tragedies gun control was tightened further germany became the only country in the world
to require a psychiatric exam for anyone under the age of 25 before purchasing a gun with so
many rules and regulations you might think germans are fed up but in fact the majority supports their
nation's laws i think it's a good compromise that is accepted by the majority of people although we
still have debates there are still people that want all guns removed and there are also still
people that want complete freedom you know for everybody like an american system so still debates
but i think the majority of people is pretty happy i'm over here just not probably lost
wow i'm lost according to multiple surveys a large majority of americans
say they want basic gun control but republicans and the national rifle association say that's
impossible it seems like it's working pretty well in germany so who's right
trust it's really possible americans use guns for defense for real you know
and it's really sad because really americans use gun for defense it's not for like i know that a
lot of americans um do love guns when it comes to like having fun i'm definitely a person who
loves guns when it comes to having fun you know just start practicing shoot in you know military
because i'm really big on military right so that's my area when it comes to guns but to
harm someone i would never look at somebody and just because they got me mad i'm like oh
i got bullet at school today i'm gonna shoot oh y'all notice that's just not it because i'm
mentally stable right so the average american is not necessarily mentally stable when it comes to
understanding that end in a life because somebody made you mad is not the answer
right so and then the thing is everybody always be talking this oh i'm mentally this i'm mentally
that no we all have demons talking in our heads bro do this food do that the more we allow that
thought to you know stay on our minds that's the more we're gonna be doing it so once we
put a stop to it crunch crunch back it up the thought eventually dies you know what i mean so
it's really sad but i do think gun control can be better in america but will they change i don't
think it will because i don't think america cares about gun control i think america cares about
increasing the military and maybe decreasing gun control might seem like it will not necessarily
help the military so i don't really know but i don't think it's gonna change in america but i
definitely do know it is possible either ways guys i'm out of here thank you for watching uh peace