Name: Colion Noir Tackles Misconceptions About Gun Violence
Uploaded: 2021-04-16T18:19:30.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Colion Noir Tackles Misconceptions About Gun Violence' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Colion Noir Tackles Misconceptions About Gun Violence' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-16. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience well that's what I wanted to talk to you about one of
the
things like did anything shift when people started buying guns when there
was this this this moment where what was the the number of gun sales went up
something crazy it was crazy like 40 something percent higher than that
really yeah okay let's let's find it let's guess I'm thinking it's like 40
percent Jamie what do you think what's your guess what's the percentage sounds
right I bet I have a different question but okay good good I'm looking that up
because I see the statistic of 500,000 to 3 million but it's why would the
Center
for Disease Control be doing that really because because they they want to make
it
a health care issue because if so that you hear them say it all the time they
say
this is a public health issue it's easier to sell gun control when you deem it
a
public it's no different than what I think COVID and the vaccine why wouldn't
it be
the ATF though because it's easier to sell it as a public health issue I know
but firearms is literally in their title exactly and if you say the way Biden
says
it you switch but yeah they're very good the one thing I will say about them
and
when I say them I mean the gun control lobby which generally speaking and I got
a
lot of people who follow me who are more liberal they hate when I bring up the
Democrats they hate it because they think I'm just trying to push this one-sided
narrative with respect to the Republicans no it is what it is if you look at
all the gun control
legislation you look at anybody who's pushing gun control the vast majority of
them I'm talking 99%
of the time they are Democrats why do you think that is because Democrats are
the Democratic ideology is
based around bigger government right and so you can't necessarily exact your
control over a group of people if they have
something as self-reliant as a firearm do you really think that's what it is I
do think that to a degree that is it I think it's that the ideology behind
being a left-wing person is you want less violence and I think maybe you're
more
reluctant to actually take into account real human nature and real the real
potential breakdown of
society that would cause you need a gun I think they're more idealistic more utopian
and perhaps more delusional I think the
people who vote Democrat believe that hmm I think the people in power have a
different agenda
I think I think from there and honestly they are they are the proverbial hammer
so when you when you're at when you when your fundamental ideologies are based
around bigger government
you think the solution for everything is more government right so if it's if a
shooting happens
right and come on do we really think government is the most efficient entity at
solving problems in our country
no people complain about the government all the time but when you are the
government and you get something like a shooting and people like we need to do
something about it
okay more government let's throw these laws out here like restrict that take
that so they take on a more
apparent role as opposed to an entity designed to find true solutions to fix a
problem so they say okay well
if this small number of people are killing people with guns take the guns away
it's just oversimplified approach to uh to any problem that comes up because
they're not really about
getting to the true issue of the problem they just want to either look like
they're doing something about it
and so they'll just take the easiest approach or they'll try to scapegoat it on
something because at
the end of the day they realize that their ineptitude with respect to
leadership is going to be put on full
blast more specifically our inner cities right right so if the vast majority i
mean close to 80 percent
of gun homicides in this country are coming from our inner cities and we have
400 million guns in this country
is it really 80 percent damn near yes it's high it's high i'm talking gun homicides
right not not like
gun deaths right um because and it's driven by gang and drug violence that's
when with gun deaths then
you start including suicide exactly yeah and so if you understand that that
means that we're having a
high concentration level high concentrated level of violence in very specific
areas in this country
right and as a result of that you look at that and you say okay well we have
high concentrated we have
an era of concentrated violence in specific areas but yet we have guns all
across the country
that don't have this violence so clearly there's something else going on here
other than the fact
that there are guns and then predominantly these inner cities are led by
democrats it just is what it is
it's not and they have heavy gun control exactly crazier so it's so it's it
stands to reason you're not
doing something in these places that you should be doing in order to deal with
this violence yeah and then you know in in my
research into my study when i i was reading this book it's called i think i
think it's like uh don't shoot or
something like that i can't remember the exact title of it so i was reading
this book and it was talking about the this
program called ceasefire um i'm i there is a program currently now that's
called ceasefire but i don't think it's the same program
um or it's a former shell of itself but you know this guy this criminologist he
set out and i think it was
done in boston and they were dealing with a lot of violence in their inner
cities and so what they
did is they put together a program was a very holistic approach to the violence
and essentially cops came
together along with the the community leaders and so forth and so on and they
they knew who the
perpetrators were of this violence you got to think about it do we really
honestly believe that the vast
majority of these kids in the inner city are killers no it takes very specific
type of person to be a
killer so a lot of the killings that are taking place in these places are done
by a very hyper-focused
group of kids in these areas and the vast majority of the time the police know
who these kids are
police know who the perpetrators of this violence are and so what they did is
they came together they
said all right here's what we're going to do and they they brought they brought
the leaders of the
gangs and the kids the kids who were out on the street so forth and so on came
together and they
look we're not going to say we're not going to arrest you for the drug dealing
because i mean whatever
happens happens with respect to that but if the if the if the bodies continue
we're going to make
life incredibly hard for you on these streets really hard and as time went on
the violence stopped the
number went down because at the end of the day you got to think about a lot of
these kids are carrying
guns not because they want to go and kill someone they're carrying guns because
they're scared
they grow they've grown up in an environment that has forced them to engage in
the lifestyle that
they're in generally speaking so if i'm a kid and even if i don't want to partake
in this in this
particular lifestyle if that's the only thing that surrounds me and i know that
any given point my life
could be threatened i'm going to carry a gun too or even if i'm a kid that's
like look i just want to
i want to make some extra money i'm not i'm not justifying drug dealing i'm not
justifying the
selling of drugs but if i'm a kid who just says you know what i want to make i
want to sell money
because i grew up the only the only form of success that i've seen were the
drug dealers in my area
so i'm going to sell drugs of course he's going to carry a firearm he's selling
drugs there are going
to be other people who are going to try to take his product so forth and so on
doesn't necessarily mean
he's a killer right so when you focus entirely on the firearm and only on the
firearm it doesn't do
anything to actually deal with the issue that's good the underlying issue that's
happening in these
places it's a socioeconomic issue when you grow up in poverty i'm sorry there's
going to be a
predisposition with respect to your area you're going to have more violence
there because what is the
natural economy there drugs that's one of the weirder aspects of gun violence
is the reluctance
to address the violence in inner cities while focusing on the violence of the
rare mass shooter
because the inner city like if you look at the south side of chicago it's a
regular basis yeah
it's almost every weekend there's a bunch of homicides i i think the reason why
is because
like you you actually touched on it how do you avoid inner city violence you're
gonna have to fix the
crime no no i mean just you how do you avoid being out of the inner city
exactly yeah however when
people feel like some random yo-yo can walk into a store and just start
shooting people it terrifies
them yeah which is understandable yeah it's totally understandable but none of
these laws that they're
proposing do anything to stop this they won't no so it begs the question is the
goal really to try to save
lives or are they leveraging these shootings to get this specific agenda that
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