get down! orlando three tense horrifying hours. hands up! it was unimaginable. all units. newtown 27 people lost their lives. 20 of them young children. a mass shooting at a fourth of july parade. a shooting in highland park, illinois. why? why? those horrific events and so many others like them have come to define the united states. the most recent figures show that every day on average more than 100 people are killed with a gun in america. in total, there were over 19,000 gun murders and 24,000 gun suicides in 2020. compared to other rich countries america s gun violence is on another planet. the united states has eight times as many gun homicides per 100,000 people as canada, 50 times as many as germany and 100 times as many as the uk. these countries all face the same challenges with mental health. they all have the violent video games. other fashions pale in comparison when it comes to gun violence. another shooting, another angry young man. w
professor of criminology. he points out that many swiss gun laws are much stricter than those in the america. there are now a days far more control than in the past. everyone who buys a gun must pass a criminal background check, gun purchases must be confirmed with the government. the swiss government have tightened these controls. others would say it s a communist country, definitely. in the militia soldiers can take home their weapons, but not their ammunition. after a soldier has completed his service, he must re-apply for the right to keep his gun. the truth is many gun owners attitudes in switzerland are
that s because punishment for gun infractions are very high in japan he says. simply firing a gun can get you life in prison. if a foot soldier in the mob gets caught with a gun, his boss can also be held responsible. so these days they conduct business using less efficient methods. [ speaking in non-english ] translator: there aren t specific orders on what weapons we should use. obviously there s knives and swords even stead of guns to kill. jake says japan s lesson for the u.s. is a simple one. if you make strict gun control laws and you assign cops to enforce those laws and you actually enforce them, the rate of gun deaths in the united states would plummet. but you have to do it.
our frontal lobes aren t even fully formed. let s do what s reasonable. that s a reasonable step. when people say only criminals this isn t going to work because criminals won t obey lives. buffalo shooter, uvalde shooter, they wanted until they were 18 to buy the gun. it seems at 18 you have to wait three more years to order a beer at a bar, but you can buy an ar-15. it sounds crazy. think how it sounds to the parents in uvalde. tragic, terrible, but important. thank you. next, we ll visit another country where there was a debate on guns, but in that country liberals and skconservatives reached an agreement to keep their citizens safe. this is the planning effect.
increased the risk of injury just went to the core of one of the central attenants of nra, which is guns are okay at home. what does the nra do when the research starts coming out? the nra went to one of their republican congressmen from arkansas and introduced an amendment that carries his name saying that the funding to the cdc could not be used to promote gun control. that was interpreted not to limit advocacy, but to stop research. the way the nra made sure that message was clear was congress reduced the budget of cdc by $2.6 million, the amount of money being spent for firearms research, the exact same amount. from 1996 until 2017 that amendment was interpreted as