My favourite thing about this video, by the way, is the top comment is from an American saying that it is only funny because it is coming from someone from the UK where they have a “knife problem”. This is unfortunately a very common retort any time we Brits speak out about the gun problem in the US… and is also hilariously wrong.
In fact, not only does the UK not actually have a “knife problem”, despite what the English and American rags and right-wing nutter media will have you believe, but per capita, the US has far more knife-related violence than the UK, on top off having many magnitudes greater gun-related violence per capita.
That talking point is sadly a very real reason why nothing gets done to try to prevent gun violence, despite the ever growing frequency of mass shooting in America, as it is used as a reason to reject any proposals for enacting similar gun laws to Switzerland, which is one of the few western countries that has a similar per capita gun ownership rate to the US, but very little gun-related violence.
“Guns don’t kill people, people do” is the nonsensical mantra, conveniently leaving out the rest of the saying (ironically, as gun nutters also do with the full text of the 2nd Amendment): “but it’s extremely difficult to kill 20 people in as many seconds with a combat knife.”