My Thoughts on Gun Control
Hey guys, this isn’t the sort of topic that I normally comment on but I felt I had to given the circumstances and the inspiring actions of the students involved in the recent shootings.
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IMO
The real cause for gun control is to take away the masses ability to reclaim the Liberty once they’ve lost it.
Btw when I’m old enough I’m stock piling rifles, ARs,etc.
I agree with what he said about assault rifles. I can't think of a purpose for owning an AR. There's the variety argument for gun emthisiasts, much like there is variety in cars and any other marketed product. But other than that, there really is no point. The rlarguement that banning these kinds of weapons will create a black market for that type of weapon is partly true. Yes it most definitely would create a black market but it makes it that much harder to obtain. Once off the legal market, price for those types of weapons spike due to demand. Even though they're still available it makes it harder. The point is not " ban guns and this will stop happeneing", but more of ""ban guns and it will be less likely to happen". Of course not ban all weapons but just the type that seem to be a bit excessive if your sole purpose is protection. Then of course there is the argument to regulate guns as we regulate our cars. I'm not sure why that idea seems outrageous for enthusiasts. Background checks for criminal history and medical records for mental health seem to be good points for regulation of guns.
We should ban pillows next. Because criminals who want to sleep won't care about some dumb law.
I love you mark but you need to know that every second of coverage this story gets is another potential shooter. These people don't shoot others because gun's are easy to get, they shoot other because of the news coverage they'll get after the fact.
Any rifle can be an assault rifle. Once you shoot a rifle at a human with the intent to kill, it becomes an assault rifle
Well said. It's a multifaceted problem. Its admirable of you to support your fans.
Mark you know we all support you, but please as someone who has friends who were in the service that now work at gun shops. The AR-15 is not an assault rifle, nor is it full auto. I love you and everything you’ve done for this world and in fact hope some day I can follow in your steps, but my friends that watched this video with me felt offended by your lack of knowledge but also conflicted because this is a sensitive topic. So I’m speaking for them when I say, that in the future please mark, please fact check your statements and even add substantial statistics and documents. Once again we love you mark, and we hope that everyone is safe.
Mark I respect your opinion, it's a confusing topic for a lot of people. I personally disagree with you and think gun control won't help but I respect and understand it. And mental Illness definitely needs more attention and I agree there. Though saying it takes more for cars than guns is blatantly false. Though the thing is many things can be used as weapons. Anyway, disagree but respect it, have a good night Mark
In my school,there's been a threat of a shooting, some 11th grader. He got suspended (by other reasons, not for the threats), and was going to get expelled until his parents threatened to sue the school for discrimination (he has mental problems.) Thus, he stayed, but after the Parkland shooting, he went around joking about having a gun in his car. Today, everyone was freaking out, and a lot of parents came to the school to pick up their children, who texted them about the rumors. The kid got picked up early, seemingly by his parents, but some say the police came to check his car. I do not know whether the gun was true or not. Everyone was scared, and what's even worse, my school has an elementary downstairs (its an IDEA school). I no longer know what the real issue is, but it is getting out of control.
Tell'em mark!
Assault rifles should be allowed in the case of tyranny over our government
Handguns and revolvers are used for carjackers
Shotguns are used against home invaders
Rifles are used to hunt
To be fair though, ARs are only given to those with a class C license which is only acquired through extensive training. The shooting in Florida was done by someone with a semi auto. There is no shooting or mass shooting in America done has been from someone with a class C. The guns are more of a scapegoat over mental health. The 2nd Amendment, in the terms of our founding fathers, is to prevent government tyranny.
Conclusion: Yes, I believe and agree with you that there should be more gun control as of now. Myself (I'm a Junior in HS) and my school are planning to march 17 minutes for the 17 deaths on March 14th. However, I believe that the complete ban of ARs is absurd as it would allow for the government to have more power and control of our lives currently. Though I'm not matching just for the kids in Florida, I'm also marching for fear of my own safety at school, as a student here in my school in Georgia has recently been expelled for having a gun on campus.
-Thoughts on a prominent solution not involving more gun control: Teachers should not have possession of guns (a slight side track) as in the case of a school shooting, police seeing teachers with guns would have a hard time identifying whether that's a teacher with a gun, or a school shooter. End of that solution, period.
The reasons Americans allow guns isn’t for hunting. That’s what all the gun control people say when they want things to be regulated when it’s unnecessary to ban certain guns completely. The second amendment states that we have guns in case of government corruption and as a lot of people are thinking, trump is gunna end everything and take over (complete bullshit) but think about if our military were to fail and we were to be invaded. Wisconsin has more armed people than our whole active military. They aren’t the last line of defense. We are. I completely agree on strengthening gun laws but eliminating a shit load of guns isn’t the right way to do it. It’s extremely easy to buy a gun and I do agree there should be much more laws behind buying and selling guns. Those things need to be strengthened, not eliminating certain guns all together. Someone can still go into a school with a glock and kill 20 kids easily. Make it harder to buy guns and have stronger background checks and stuff, that’s what I think should happen
100% agree with you mark
Good points all around. Especailly about mental health.
But everything he said is touching, true and i follow it 100%
Thank you
Mark. As much as people might hollar or say you're wrong. You're not. especially in regards to what you said about Mental health, and how it should not be stigmatized. Coming from someone who's at present struggling with Borderline Personality Disorder, it's hard living with the day by day. Intrusive thoughts of self harm or worse are a regular occurance and most people i end up opening up about it brush it off as something I can just turn off and be fine the next day.
It's not as easy as that. For me, for anyone who as these very real, very serious problems. And it's not something that they can shoulder alone. I need help. They need help. We need help.
k so i dont think guns are the problem, its the 100RD dums you can get that are considered ATACHMENTS!
MARK NO! STAY AWAY FROM THE POLITICS!
I completely agree with you mark people shouldn't be able to access guns and should have a huge control about it. Your speaking out helped
My brother is at Stoneman Douglas and I love that you are one of the very few youtubers I watch that talks about this. It seems that everyone else outside of florida don't know what is going on. but I love that you, you of all people, care about everyone and every shooting you know, everything on the news you feel you just need to talk to us about it. thank you so much my brother's friend, Helena, died that sorrowful day and he IS hurting. I am so glad that I am one of the people who marched. I love you mark for comforting me cause its still hurting me even though my friend didn't die and I hate that you as well as others that didn't have a friend , including me, have to hurt because of this. Don't worry mark, I know it will get better, whether it is in the very future or in a few days.
I can understand not having fully automated Assault rifle or making it more difficult to acquire one legally, but to say that Assault rifles are only made to kill people is stupid. They are made for combat, however that includes defense against hostile invasion of home and Country.
My biggest reason to let civilians to have assault rifles is to make it difficult to invade and conquer. If everyone was stuck to bolt action rifles, shotguns, and pistols our country would look less intimidating from the outside. Our own government could get even more ballsy over time.
A complete ban on assault rifles could be seen as a good idea if everyone followed the ban and the governmental systems couldn't become corrupt, but that won't happen, because there are always those who work around the system.
Sure you don't need an assault rifle, but the problem isn't the rifle, its the user.
– mark you are my hero. But some of the kids in c.s.m.s. Where scared and some of the Stomen Douglas students where terrified due to someone with a gun… but for me I just try and smile or try and make a joke to keep people happy and not scared…
Banning wouldn't be the answer because laws only apply to people who follow the law. Laws don't apply to criminals
However there should be very heavy regulations on assault rifles and it should be very hard to obtain one and you should have training and go under mental health evaluations and background checks before obtaining one.
If children like me can change the world positively, why do some carry weapons for no reason? For me, I want to be a YouTube Gamer like Mark in the future to have positivity, but I was shocked that more people have guns to kill innocent ones instead for defense.
Markiplier's is right. We need to change. We need to give these children positive ways to chang the world to make it better for not only U.S., but for every nation.
Ban assault rifles so criminals cant get them… Because criminals are so good at following laws. We banned drugs and they are still a problem. Guns like assault rifles are a safeguard for we the people to protect ourselves from the government getting too big for its britches. I understand that people want to take action to right this wrong so to speak, but this isn't something that will be solved by reducing guns. Rather it is solved by guns in the hands of the people.
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Hey, thanks for your opinion Mark. I think it helps a lot to show the teenager that they are not alone with this opinion. I find it really cool that you as a big role model support them and gave them power for they fights for better gun laws.
I am also very shocked about this incident but truely it isn't the first one in the us were kids get killed in the school by guns and at my opinion i think it would be better not only to forbid assult rifles i think there must be a complete new concept about gun laws. I know it is hard but when you got 18 incident (not as big as that in florida but nevertheless some kids died of it) in this year already (and it haven't fineshed the second) month) we need to do something. My thoughts are that it will be better when we think about a gun law like that in Germany or other big insustrial country in the europe. I am from Germany so I take the german gun laws as example beacause I know them a little bit better then the other in europe. In Germany we have very strict rules. As example you are not allowed to own a weapon with the reason "self defense" you are only allow to have one when you need it for your job like as a police officer or for hobby things like a hunter. But then you need to go regulary to a society where you train there and got teached how to use it legally and correctly. Then the Police shows 2 times a year not scheduld at your home and wants to see where your guns and how do you store them. So the rifles must be in a safe and the ammonation must be also in a speratet safe not near at the weapons. So what i want to say with it is not that copying this law would be the best. No. But maybe take this as a template and make then your own new laws. And not to forget. The police in Germany only killed 9 people last YEAR. The us police kills more then 9 per DAY. Would be nice if we can discuss more about it^^
There is a video that I watched just yesterday where a man compared two guns, one looked tactical like an AR the other looked like a hunting rifle with a wooden frame. It turned out that the two were the same rifle just with different parts to make it look a little different. This got me thinking that if you ban an assault rifle that someone will simply go around the law by playing with the definition of the banned subject and still own that kind of gun just in a different form. I agree that we need to make the process of buying firearms as thorough as buying a car but banning it outright may only make illegal possession of them more of an issue similarly with illegal drugs. I do think that someone with a mental issue should not have access to these kinds of weapons and should get more help than what is usually offered, if offered at all. Another issue is that people don't need gun to commit these kinds of acts, in china not long ago a man injured dozens with a knives. I love your vid Mark and I agree on many of your points, my brother committed suicide recently and I don't blame the gun I blame the fact that he couldn't get the help he needed when he needed it the most and I'm committed to helping those who need that shoulder to lean on so that I can help prevent things like this shooting or a tragedy like my brother from happening in my community.
Thank you so much for saying this Mark! I completely agree♥️
I wish I could like this video more than once. Mark you did a great job of talking about an issue that divides our country. By explaining your experience with weapons I think you made your point stronger, cause as you said you are not coming from this topic from an ignorant perspective. Lots of love and respect for you.
Yea ok as a fellow american, I'm from Iowa btw, I think I agree with you about assault guns for people and war, but I hunt and I live on a farm (how ironic ik I'm from Iowa) I love hunting (I actually got my first deer January 9th) so there's going to be a debate bc there are people that will go to hunting guns when their assault rifles are taken away, so we'll end up taking away hunting guns too and then you 'll have a lot of people pissed bc you just took their hobby or get away from the city and drama time
YES. You’ve said my EXACT thoughts. 1000% agree, can’t believe this is even an argument
Assault Weapons ARE banned, you cannot buy automatic or assault weapons anywhere LEGALLY within the US. The A in AR-15 is the company name, Armalite.
Banning assault rifle’s won’t do anything that’s like banning illegal drugs they’re still around no matter what and I’m not dismissing your opinion but there’s something you said that I agreed with why do we have to go through so much crap we are buying a vehicle why not go to the same when it comes to guns.
When it comes to mental illness you can’t make someone who has a mental problem speak up if they are afraid to reach out for help and they know that there’s someone out there that will care and try and help them. But you just can’t make them do it all you can do is let them know your there for them.
Gun control is an excuse in my opinion to on arm every person who owns a gun what are we have a permit or whatever could disarm them so they’re on able to defend themselves or their families where they have to surrender their right to defend themselves the right to bare arms. I don’t support gun-control and this is my opinion and you can hate it all you want I don’t care.
What happened is a sad thing that should never of happened and you should never of happened last year and the years before that but what should’ve been implemented from the very start that no one under the age of 21 or 25 shouldn’t be allowed to walk into a gun store and purchase assault rifles.
Banning something doesn’t mean it’s just gonna simply go away and enforcing gun control goes against go if you think about it how they were going to do it before before Trump was president if they couldn’t do it when Obama was president they were going to do it when Hillary would’ve got it they would’ve took every gun from every US citizen on disarming everyone going against their right to bare arms
I Hate political bullshit it’s what I got to listen to on the fucking radio every damn day there’s no more time for talk or political bullshit there is time now to act instead of dividing this country turning against one another we should come together as Americans and make this country better
I understand your point Mark, but I have to disagree. There is a very important reason for allowing people to possess large firearms like assault rifles. The right to keep and bare arms isn't just to protect ourselves from other people, it's to protect us from a corrupt government. If one day the government turns into a dictatorship, what will people do against the military if we only have small guns? Also banning more guns doesn't stop bad people from obtaining them illegally. It only stops the good people, who wouldn't harm others, from having them.
The problem is when people make the choice to hurt others. The best we can do is to show love and kindness to each other. If everyone felt they are important and belong in society, then they would never choose to harm others.
In the meantime, we should have more armed security that can stop these shootings when they happen, so fewer people get hurt. And improve the background checks to make sure only decent people have easy access to firearms.
I completely agree with Mark not only because he influences a lot of people, but also that he was able to make this video knowing people are going to hate it. But even then he brings up a lot of logical reasoning with guns and how they should be used
Also Mark, the church shooting in Texas was stopped by a civilian with a quote on quote “Assault rifle”
On April 20 at 10 am there is a school walk out all over the USA it is a peaceful protest. we are sons we are daughters we are students we are not victims
Now mark, by assault rifle, I assume you mean FULLY-automatic, right? Because assault rifle is a more general term, not like calling a gun a 'revolver' or a 'semi-automatic'
Mark, I don't think you understand how this works.
You can ban rifles, shotguns, pistols, knives, anything that can be used as a weapon, but it won't stop crooks from obtaining them. I know you're smarter than this.
I very much disagree with the ban of assault rifles and harsher gun control (since gun control is alright as it is except in a few places, which should be fixed) but I'm very happy Mark offered an educated opinion on this matter.
It's hard to speak about, but I agree 100%. You have a lot of power in this world, so I'm sure that if you,Jacksepticeye, Pewdiepie, etc. will be able to get people in the government to listen and cause change. Thank you for giving your voice and adding to the many voices shouting for change.
I encourage all of you guys to go out and protest for this. My school is already putting stuff together; no matter what age you are I strongly recommend you fight for what’s right.