Gun control debate following Maine mass shooting | ABCNL



Gun violence prevention activist David Hogg joins ABC News Live anchor Diane Macedo to discuss gun control in the U.S.

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17 comments

  1. David Hogg is a shill. He doesn't look at this situation from a place of objectivity. He can't. He is the last person ANYONE should listen to when talking about gun control.

  2. Here’s the problem, a criminal, or anyone who wants a gun, will ALWAYS be able to get a gun. ALWAYS. Just like anyone has always been able to get drugs, the same is of guns. My brother has been arrested more than 2 dozen times in his life. He has always had a gun. He has always been able to get a gun. The problem is the court systems that can’t keep criminals in jail. No matter how many times he goes. He is always out in 6 months or less. As soon as he is out he can get and does get another. All the laws in the world will NEVER stop him from getting a gun. Just like all the laws in the world haven’t stopped drug use, drug crimes, or the proliferation of guns.

    So you are plain stupid if you really truly believe that any gun law will reduce mass shootings or any other gun violence.

  3. Let the kids fight back…any American boy can throw a rock…hell anyone in the world can throw a rock….usa just loves baseball..and all us dads was in little League

  4. I will not watch this whole video but I do want to mention one thing. No matter how many gun laws we make the criminal/bad guy will always get his hands on a gun no matter what regardless of how many laws we pass…. this is just reality.. if you believe this to be reality then think about this.. Gun control only makes it harder for law abiding citizens to get guns…

  5. Underlying all “gun control” ideology is this one belief.” “Private citizens don’t need firearms because the police will protect them from crime.” That belief is both false and dangerous for two reasons.

    First, the police cannot and do not protect everyone from crime. Second, the government and the police in most localities owe no legal duty to protect individuals from criminal attack. When it comes to deterring crime and defending against criminals, individuals are ultimately responsible for themselves and their loved ones. Depending solely on police emergency response means relying on the telephone as the only defensive tool. Too often, citizens in trouble dial 911 . . . and die.

    Statistics confirm the obvious truth that the police in America cannot prevent violent crime. In 1997 for example, nationwide there were 18,209 murders, 497,950 robberies, and 96,122 rapes. All those crimes were un-prevented and undeterred by the police and the criminal justice system.

    Americans increasingly believe, however, that all they need for protection is a telephone. Dial 911 and the police, fire, and ambulance will come straight to the rescue. It’s faster than the pizza man. Faith in a telephone number and the local cops is so strong that Americans dial 911 over 250,000 times per day.

    Yet does dialing 911 actually protect crime victims? Researchers found that less than 5 percent of all calls dispatched to police are made quickly enough for officers to stop a crime or arrest a suspect. The 911 bottom line: “cases in which 911 technology makes a substantial difference in the outcome of criminal events are extraordinarily rare.”

    Remember, you are always the first responder when evil shows up to harm you unexpectedly. No cop is going to all of a sudden materialize next to you when you are being brutally attacked without warning by a criminal.

    You have to be ready and able to immediately defend yourself as the attack happens. One last thought, most people that were victims all thought the same thing "it won't happen to me" until it did! Just sayin…

  6. Don't tread on me
    I said, don't tread on me
    Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail
    Once you provoke her, rattling of her tail
    Never begins it, never, but once engaged
    Never surrenders, showing the fangs of rage
    I said don't tread on me
    So be it
    Threaten no more
    To secure peace is to prepare for war
    So be it
    Settle the score
    Touch me again for the words that you'll hear evermore
    Hey
    Don't tread on me
    Love it or leave it, she with the deadly bite
    Quick is the blue tongue, forked as lighting strike
    Shining with brightness, always on surveillance
    The eyes, they never close, emblem of vigilance
    Ooh no, no, no don't tread on me
    So be it
    Threaten no more
    To secure peace is to prepare for war
    So be it
    Settle the score
    Touch me again for the words that you'll hear evermore
    Don't tread on me
    So be it
    Threaten no more
    To secure peace is to prepare for war
    Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail
    Once you provoke her, rattling on her tail
    So be it
    Threaten no more
    To secure peace is to prepare for war
    So be it
    Settle the score
    Touch me again for the words that you'll hear evermore
    Don't tread on me

  7. If you commit a crime where firearms are used and a person is gravely injured or killed and you belong to a gang. Mandatory death within one year of conviction regardless of state. Your actions were swift, and so should the justice system.

  8. He is the reason we all buy guns in mass

  9. The title of this video is misleading. It mentions a debate but only presents a Q&A of one side of the issue from a biased source.

  10. 99.99999% of firearms are never used in a crime. Hogg is as ignorant on this subject as a homeless mentally ill crack addict defecating on the sidewalk in front of a crowd. He's a puppet of very serious enemies of freedom, liberty and justice.

  11. How is this irrelevant kid a survivor? He wasn't even at the school when the shooting happened. Why the hell does the media keep giving this kid air time he doesn't know what he's talking about 99% of the time.

  12. Same old talking points. Same non sense. Red Flag laws are just the 1st step. Nothing like guilty until innocent. What we need is a serious conversation about MENTAL HEALTH and the disassociative DRUGS that are used to treat it.

  13. In 2022, these crimes were reported to the FBI. However, Democrats don’t care if any of these victims had the right to self-defense. They expected these victims to wait for the government to show up TOO LATE save them. In the Democrat world, 10K Gun Homicides is reason for gun ban, but not worthy of people defending themselves from the other 803K crimes.

    5K Non-Firearm Homicides

    10K Firearm Related Homicides

    102K Rapes

    150K Robberies

    541K Aggravated Assaults

    Source: FBI Crime Statistics, 2022

  14. We dont trust the police, defund. Actually, NOW we trust the police, confiscate.

    And it goes on repeat.

    Please make more sense democrates 😂

  15. I raccomend you I warn you, don't take seriously this pesky problem that you got with your stupid second amendment. Keep on with witless argumentations about weapons that justfied a number of casualties reported abitually in a war scenario. There's a lot of people in the world that you wouldn't let it down with changes. We're the wiewer, the mass spectator, the great audience of your unlimited fun. All the reasons you can use to deny your toxic issues with automatic rifles are ridicoulous and specious. keep on going. Ok Murica Ok Corral😂