Congresswoman Lauren Boebert tends to have a little bit of difficulty with things
like logic.
So we thought we would help her out here a little bit with how she
responded to a shooting that took place in a country where
shootings don't happen often Denmark.
And how she exploited that tragedy to make a point about how we
should further loosen gun laws here in the United States.
Where gun violence is so commonplace that you really can't go to any celebrations
without having in the back of your mind, the fear that someone might open fire.
Now, I wanna talk about what happened in Denmark before getting to Lauren Boebert's
comments about it.
It all happened over the weekend when a 22 year old gunman opened fire and
killed three people in Copenhagen and
the shooting happened at the field shopping mall.
The shooter was a 22 year old Danish man and he shot people randomly.
It's unclear what his motive was when he opened fire, but
two dozen people were injured as I mentioned, three were killed.
The deceased victims include a 17 year old Danish girl,
a 17 year old Danish boy and a 47 year old Russian man who was living in Denmark.
Now the shooter had a history of mental health issues and
had contact with the psychiatric health system in Denmark and
he was armed with both a rifle and a knife.
Shortly before the shooting, he had uploaded videos on social media
where he simulated suicide with the rifle and a gun.
And he also said that a specific type of psychiatric medication he was on
was not working.
The firearms he used during the shooting were posed within the videos,
but they were not owned by him, they were not his guns.
The authorities believed that they were legally owned by a person living in
the same home as the shooter.
Now in response to that, Lauren Boebert decided to take to Twitter to say, quote.
There was just a mass shooting in Denmark, a country with some of the strictest gun
laws in Europe, it's time to admit that gun laws do not stop mass shootings.
Now that is a stupid comment.
If you just take a moment to do a comparison between a country like
Denmark and its gun violence versus the United States and
its gun violence, especially with its lax gun laws.
Public citizen responded to Boebert saying Denmark had 3 mass shootings
in the last 28 years, the United States had 17 mass shootings in the last 5 days.
The difference is quite clear.
So this talking point from right wingers really does blow my mind.
Because if you wanna consider that logic, okay,
well then apply it to every other law.
We shouldn't even bother with drunk driving laws because they're still gonna
be people who are undeterred from drunk driving.
And they're gonna take to the streets while under the influence of drugs or
alcohol or both, and they're gonna risk their lives and
the lives of others in doing so.
So why even bother with drunk driving laws?
Know the laws significantly minimize the number of occurrences.
In this case, we're talking about mass shootings.
Again in Denmark just by volume, they have far less mass shootings than we have
here in the United States where again, it's been a common occurrence.
>> Yeah, so
there's two definitions of mass shootings that are most popularly used.
One is four people get shot, another is that four people die.
Okay, so get shot and get killed.
And so if you go by the stricter definition of four people
being actually killed,
what happened in Denmark is not even a mass shooting by American standards.
So bubbles like can you believe they had a mass shooting?
We have so many mass shootings that we have a higher standard.
By that standard in the same period of time,
the public citizens talking about 28 years.
Denmark didn't really have three mass shootings,
they didn't really qualify on a couple of those.
We on the other hand, had about 560 mass shootings in the same time period.
That's from the stricter definition at least four dead massacre.
In the time that Denmark maybe had three, but not really, we had 560 massacres,
let alone if you count by the way, the looser definition that Denmark is using.
We have one a day, and you know what that comes out to over the same time
period over 10,000 mass shootings in America 3 in Denmark.
>> It almost seems like stricter gun laws translates to less mass shootings.
Am I getting that correct or correctly or
is Lauren Boebert somehow way smarter than everyone else?
>> Yeah, no, it's not a matter of smart or not smart, it's just a matter of facts.
And so there is no question, it's not an opinion.
America has an order of magnitude higher mass shootings than every
other developed nation, every other nation period.
What is it correlated to?
It is correlated exactly to the number of guns that we own.
It isn't about the number of video games or
rap songs or movies which the whole world gets.
They play a lot of video games in Japan there's rap music everywhere.
>> Every country has mental health issues.
>> Every country is the same amount of mental health issues.
So what the only difference is guns, it's super obvious except the people who
want the guns and who don't mind the massacres.
>> But look, weapons manufacturers with their profit motive in mind
are donating huge sums of money to politicians like Lauren Boebert.
So on one hand, she will look you in the eye and lie to you while claiming
that banning abortion is important, controlling women's bodies.
Having the government control women's bodies is super important because she's
pro life except for when it comes to those pesky guns because money talks.
And as long as she's collecting that cash from weapons manufacturers,
she's gonna continue honestly, just embarrassing herself, okay?
No self-respect, lying to the American people about how no lax gun laws make
all the sense in the world, even though there's endless data
showing how our lax gun laws translate to more gun related deaths.
In fact, let's do more comparisons between the United States and Denmark.
I looked at some data from gun policy.org,
they do comparisons of various countries and their gun laws.
And if you look at this graph,
it'll show you the number of gun deaths per 100,000 people in Denmark, okay?
That's per capita.
And if you look at it, it shows that the number fluctuates a little bit,
but it's within the two person range.
Okay.
All right.
Now, let's look at the United States.
So.
Where?
Yeah, Wow, that's a significantly higher.
If you look at 2019, for instance,
more than 12 deaths per 100,000 people in the United States.
So are you really going to compare the two countries and
pretend as though the United States is like we're we're better off.
There's no, I mean, look, they have strict gun laws in Denmark and
it's made no difference except it has made a difference.
A significant difference in regard to the number of people who die every
year as a result of gun related deaths gun related causes.
Look, It's not just bow bert, it's her voters, they just re elected her.
We covered the primary the other night, she won easily by over 30 points.
Remember this is the American psycho that put out the Christmas card with
all of her family, including her kids,
including her young kids holding high-powered assault rifles.
Because I mean, look, if you saw that any in any other country,
it doesn't have to be a politician.
If that's just a regular person, they sent out christmas cards like that,
the police are gonna come and talk to them and say, are you okay?
Are you giving loaded weapons to your kids?
Are you a danger to the community and they will likely not only take away the guns,
but they might take away your kids because you are a literal psycho.
And in America she got easily reelected.
Republican voters are like, you're arming your nine year olds with weapons.
So I don't know the exact age of, of the kids in that picture, but
you're teenagers, etcetera.
And there's nonstop massacres all around us and you're promoting it and
encouraging it.
Great.
We love it.
Okay, so we're the only honest show that's telling you the core of
the problem is the republican voters themselves.
Everyone else is afraid to tell you what the reality is