The real Ronald Reagan was in favour of a social safety net for the truly needy, despite being known for the 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act which cut benefits for some of the better-off welfare recipients. Also, if you look at his position on immigration (granted amnesty in 1986) and gun control (banned open carry in California, banned sale of machine guns in 1986, lobbied for the ban on assault rifles in 1994) you'll find that he is politically far to the left of any of the current Republican presidential candidates.

The real Barack Obama proposed income tax rates lower than under Reagan, and if he's ever proposed socialist style wealth redistribution then I didn't hear about it. From over here he looks centre right poitically, so it's a little bit jarring to hear people talk about him as if he's a leftist!

Looks so terrible. Look at that obvious set @ 0:23s; though not quite as bad as their technology design. The assault rifles look horrible. Unless they blow up Earth, this is going to be a trainwreck.

He wouldn't have survived in 'merica, then again, in good ol' 'merica, he would more likely have had an assault rifle.

http://www.romans322.com/daily-death-rate-statistics.php

You are correct, they do not break down suicide by method, so some portion of that 20k could be guns. There are also 34 mass shooting deaths this year and 726 people shot by police. Then again they didn't add together some of the other items, like all vehicular deaths.

In any case, I was not fudging numbers, I picked the most obvious option and listed it.

In the grand scheme of things, it's not that the deaths from guns don't count, it is that the level of attention paid to them is far and above that paid to other forms of death. It's the same thing with people getting bit by sharks. The total number is incredibly low compared to other deaths or injuries from being in the ocean, but whenever it happens, you will see nothing but that in the headlines. That is what I was trying to say. It sucks that people have died from guns, but if we are going to sensationalize those deaths over others, it is nothing more than an agenda to demonize them.

I am all for implementing more restrictions on guns or other weapons, especially in ways that will make it more difficult for mentally ill people to get their hands on them and also methods that will help police identify guns that have been used in crimes. In many cases, the problem is not totally with the restrictions, but with how lax the enforcement is of the ones that are in place. We need to look at this as well. But the video is not about that, it is about making guns the villain. It is the same thing with semi automatic rifles, people with an agenda will call them things like "Military weaponry", "Assault Rifles", and "Automatic Machine Guns". They use buzz words to make them seem more than they are and yet you have clueless people like Joe Biden who says things like "get a shotgun", not realizing that a shotgun can easily wound and kill people faster than a semi auto rifle.

As far as the 'helpful' gun statistics, I would consider them to be subjective based on the situation. I found this site: http://gunssavelives.net/incident-map/, which might or might not be accurate. I wouldn't rely on it, because I don't know what they use for verification.

In any case, as I stated before, I don't mind regulations. I would mind bans and it is clear that many of the more hardcore anti gun people want that to be the end game.

God knows what he could be hiding under that hat, another assault rifle, hand grenades, his relief.

I find it best to avoid stern looking men with assault rifles altogether. This goes doubly so if their boss makes them wear a stupid looking hat to work. That's bound to put anyone in a contrary mood.

Yeah, you can have all the assault rifles you want. The government has drones.

Besides, it's kinda funny that the same people who say these things are the very people who say that your current government has become a dictatorship. So if you need guns to prevent a dictatorship, and you have guns, why didn't you prevent the dictatorship?

Jim Jeffries nailed it when he said that there is one argument for having a gun... "I like my gun".

Thing is, most of the time, that's fine. If you want to have a gun for hunting or target shooting, go nuts. But it is a dangerous tool and should be subject to regulation.

what happened to the nazi cows??? I must know!

also, fuck those cowardly motherfuckers who are so pathetic and afraid that their god might not be all it's cracked up to be that they need to respond to art with assault rifles. They are beneath contempt.

They should make a video like this of assault rifle production and then show some psycho at the end walking towards a mall.

Smart squirrel, he was going for the assault rifle but realized the clip was out.

Meh, I'm just glad I live in a sane country.

A country where you can have a gun if you want, within reasonable limits and provided you're not a criminal or a lunatic. Where you can go hunting or target shooting, but no-one in their right mind thinks you need your little pistol or hell, even assault rifle to overthrow the government, because we have fucking elections.

And fuck yes, if I saw some nutjob walking around my neighbourhood with a pistol, I'd call the cops. Luckily, no-one in my neighbourhood would be such a fucking inconsiderate asshole.

I stop to think about things all the time.

What he's representing and what it represents to the passerby are worlds apart. In this case, he's clearly in a neighborhood where the average citizen sees the police as a protection against a non-uniformed man with a gun, rather than an activist or educated individual upholding their rights.

Gather several hundred open-carriers and visit capitol hill, or go to the nearest politician-laden golf resort with your assault rifle. Don't march up and down neighborhoods (http://goo.gl/5lhLnG) looking for trouble.

From the mostly-benign situations such as this, to the people who've had their fill of shit and gun down a crowd of innocents: making openly aggressive statements in this way is addressing the wrong audience. This is not the way to make the point.

Lastly, even though I agree with you, you can't tell me I'm lumping someone into a perceived fairy land when you title videos "Student Prevails Over State Robot Thug".

How is the beach goers don't evince more fear?
What he's doing isn't so different thank a drunk guy waving an assault rifle around firing off rounds in all directions.
I found it sort of terrifying.

IKR!

If it was my job, I'd have an assault rifle.