the same big challenges with mental health. they all have the same incredibly violent video games. shots fired, shots fired. but other nations pail in comparison to the united states when it comes to gun violence. another shooting, another angry young man. we ve seen too many tragedies like this. so, can americans learn something from other countries on this crucial issue? this hour we re going to travel the world to look for solutions. we ll visit a country that shares america s love for guns, yet gun violence rates there are a fraction of american levels. we ll visit another nation where liberals and conservatives actually reached an agreement on gun control, and afterwards shootings plummeted. but first, let s start right here in the u.s. where an entire amendment to the constitution concerns guns. but does that amendment truly mean what the nra and others
in the u.s. where an entire amendment to the constitution concerns guns. does that amendment truly means what the nra or others recently led us to believe? a well-regulated militia, beingness si to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. no disrespected of james madison. no one is exactly sure what the first clause about the militia has to do with the clause about the right to bear arms. for almost 200 years, the puzzlement of the meaning was barely an issue.
countries, america s gun violence is on another planet. in 2013, the united states had over nine times as many gun homicides per hundred thousand people as canada did, over 50 times as many as germany, and almost 90 times as many as the united kingdom, according to gunpolicy.org. so can americans learn something from other countries on this crucial issue? this hour, we re going to travel the world to look for solutions. we ll visit a country that shares america s love for guns, yet gun violence rates there are a fraction of american levels. we ll visit another nation where liberals and conservatives actually reached an agreement on gun control and afterwards shootings plummeted. but first, let s start right here in the u.s., where an entire amendment to the constitution concerns guns. but does that amendment truly mean what the nra and others have recently led us to believe?
entire amendment to the constitution concerns guns. but does that amendment truly mean what the nra and others have recently led us to believe? a well-regulated militia, comma, being necessary for the security of a free state, comma, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, comma, shall not be infringed. those 27 words and three commas constitute the entirety of the second amendment. no disrespect to james madison, but grammarians and their red pens would have a field day with the sentence. no one is exactly sure what the first clause about the militia has to do with the clause about the right to bear arms. for almost 200 years, the puzzlement over the meaning was barely an issue. but then in the 1970s, new leadership took over at the nra