US Congresswoman Lucy McBath has made it her mission to seek bipartisan solutions for gun safety, leading the way in sponsoring so-called “red flag” laws that prevent gun violence and mass shootings. In a searing and timely talk, she shares the personal story that led her to this work — and a message for why comprehensive, common-sense gun legislation in the US is more urgent than ever.
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RattleCanAR
October 27, 2023 at 2:36 pm
The problem isn’t the gun it is mental healthcare. The lack of it.
mrgelvis
October 27, 2023 at 2:47 pm
“the horror of gun violence”, there is no horror in gun violence. It happens so often now it has become normalized which in turn has taken the horror out of gun violence.
A Warning Voice
October 27, 2023 at 3:20 pm
Guns don’t kill people. People do
Akira120
October 27, 2023 at 4:31 pm
People kill a lot more people with guns at one time. And the gun is the thing that killed the people. That’s the main thing it’s made for… to destroy whatever is at the other end of the bullet.
djt2412
October 27, 2023 at 7:03 pm
Which is why you need to be brave and give up something to save the children from the nutjobs with guns.
Chris Lowe
October 27, 2023 at 8:55 pm
@djt2412 Nutjobs tend to never hurt people again once they’ve been shot by a law abiding citizen with a legally carried firearm.
Michael Watts
October 27, 2023 at 3:23 pm
Yes the gun violence is tragic. The sad part is it is just like the healthcare system everyone is trying to treat the symptoms and not the root cause which is the despair of a people unable to see the goodness in their lives.
Happy Home
October 27, 2023 at 3:24 pm
There is no bridging a gulf when the gulf is one of your making. Emotions don’t a plan make.
Lizzet Torres
October 27, 2023 at 3:38 pm
I knew exactly who you were the firsg time I saw you in congress, and remember when that man shot your son at the convience store. I thought what a smart, strong and brave woman you are. Thank you for fighting for us, we need more politians like you.
Raygun9000
October 27, 2023 at 4:39 pm
Interesting how gun violence increases in pace with stricter gun laws. It’s almost like it’s not a solution.
Coco Cookie
October 27, 2023 at 4:54 pm
We need more blind emotion like this in the halls of power.
Austin Denotter
October 27, 2023 at 5:57 pm
Does this crowd feel the same way about fentanyl? Doubt it. 100 percent preventable.
zmmm88
October 27, 2023 at 6:00 pm
Leftists GFU!
Sarah Murphy
October 27, 2023 at 6:18 pm
Thank you for this
djt2412
October 27, 2023 at 7:07 pm
Australia is a great example of how to do it, but everybody thinks Australia has no guns. I have a buddy over there who has more Glocks than I do! They limit weapon power, not your right to own weapons. It Works. Look at the data. Plus the last Aussie who committed mass murder a few years back had to go to New Zealand to do it.
Chris Lowe
October 27, 2023 at 8:55 pm
You’re welcome to immigrate. I’m sure they’d welcome you with open arms.
Pete Chamlee
October 27, 2023 at 7:51 pm
This is disgusting! A glorified waitress and sadly bereaved mother decides to position herself to violate the basic right of self protection of the people in this country. May Jordan be received by his true maker, but you, madam should be ashamed of yourself!
Cathy Garrett
October 27, 2023 at 8:00 pm
It’s pathological to desire punishment of law-abiding people for something a criminal did.
May
October 27, 2023 at 8:12 pm
One of the reasons why US gun violence is the highest per is the prevalence of guns. It ain’t the only reason.
A blanket ban on all guns wouldn’t work. we need tighter laws, and very stringent requirements to own a gun.
Cathy Garrett
October 27, 2023 at 8:15 pm
@MayWe have those. They’re not enforced.
Frank Agora
October 27, 2023 at 8:02 pm
Noble intentions, but how are laws going to stop violence?
Chris Lowe
October 27, 2023 at 8:47 pm
You’re emotionally stunted, and intellectually unarmed.
You don’t make yourself safer by disarming your neighbor, who has neither history nor inclination to harm you.
Yours is a philosophy of victimhood that seeks to make everyone equally a victim, subject to those who WOULD do you harm and take advantage of you.
Agent A126
October 27, 2023 at 11:08 pm
You can’t end “gun violence” because most of the people who do it don’t buy the guns legally
whatever
October 27, 2023 at 11:57 pm
I am so sorry for your loss, Lucy.
Charles Magnuson
October 28, 2023 at 1:57 am
I just unsubscribed because the TED team can’t figure out how to properly export video for YouTube.
Kevin Sanders
October 28, 2023 at 2:03 am
Ending gun violence in AMERICA?!? 🤣🤣🤣 Good luck with that then.
LeAnn Thomas
October 28, 2023 at 2:26 am
NO SUCH THING AS GUN VIOLENCE !
Tom Rogers
October 28, 2023 at 4:35 am
Pencils don’t make a person misspell words spoons don’t make people fat guns don’t kill people it’s the thugs who would. Be still holding so how are we supposed to defend our law abiding citezins
iloveplayingpr
October 28, 2023 at 4:41 am
Please do not include Sue Klebold in any of your videos anymore, she is not in a position to give advice on how to raise your child one’s child.
eaglesclaws8
October 28, 2023 at 5:54 am
Utopia, greek for no land. This is fantasy, a delusion of a world without death and violence. I live here and now in reality.
MYKEYCARD
October 28, 2023 at 10:53 am
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Manuel Friend
October 28, 2023 at 10:57 am
Look, I sympathize. It’s not something anyone should go through. But what are “common sense laws?” We already have background checks, age restrictions, etc. As @chocomalk said, nobody does anything about the people that get flagged. Criminals are let back in the street by incompetent prosecutors. And the US has the worst healthcare system in the first world. Maybe if people had reasonable access to mental healthcare they wouldn’t reach the point where they become self destructive.
Healthcare here is a joke. I have undiagnosed ADHD and depression. It took 5 months to get an appointment with a psychologist for a prelim interview to an evaluation. Medicare, when queried, then refused to cover an evaluation. Here I am 7 months later with no way to get the medication or help that I need. I’m forces to suck it up while my grades suffer from an easily treatable condition. I am not the least bit surprised people go on shooting sprees.
I am all for reducing gun violence with laws that make sense. But right now, most of them don’t. And the fact is that guns aren’t the root of the problem.
thinktransnational
October 28, 2023 at 10:14 pm
This isn’t an either/or, but instead a both/and situation. The US does not, in fact, have anything near the universal background checks that she mentioned supporting. There are also tons of loopholes, like buying guns at gun shows, which doesn’t require a background check. People who buy guns don’t need any sort of certification or training on how to use or store them properly and the legal age to by a gun is 18, yet we don’t even trust teenagers that age to legally drink. There are tons and tons of things we can do to reduce gun violence and make gun ownership safer in this country. We can also do all of those things AND support policy toward a healthcare system that functions the way healthcare systems are suppose to.
Alexander Guzman
October 31, 2023 at 7:24 am
@thinktransnational any seller at the gun shows have to be a federal dealer and the federal dealers have to do a background check at the gun shows. It has been yhis way for years. There is no such thing as the gun show loophole. You have literally been lied to for years and you believe it.
thinktransnational
October 31, 2023 at 1:02 pm
@Alexander Guzman ”Federal law does not require unlicensed private sellers to perform background checks on gun purchasers, so those sales are unregulated unless state law steps in to fill the gap”. There are tons of private sellers at gun shows so can you retype what you just said, but with your full chest this time?
Alexander Guzman
October 31, 2023 at 1:18 pm
@thinktransnational if you advertise selling guns at the gun shows, the organizer will demand you have an FML to participate. Otherwise they sk you to leave. If someone approaches you unsolicited to inquire about buying a private fire arm that is acceptable by law yes. Anyone setting up a table and advertising they are selling are considering in the business and have to get a license per the current law and legal precidents in court.
Now if you want to argue about private sales that is a completely different than telling everyone that you can buy guns at a gun show without a license. The majority of transactions at gun shows are going through the background check system. Politicians claiming otherwise are blatantly lying to you.
thinktransnational
October 31, 2023 at 2:15 pm
@Alexander Guzman Your argument is still disingenuous no matter how you try to frame it. Even if you have to have a permit to exhibit and sell guns, the fact of the matter is that gun shows bring together all kinds and there are people there that can and will sale firearms privately. Whether it’s a gun show, owner to owner sale or whatever, laws need to be change/update to require ALL sales to require a background check and right now that’s not the case. Only about 40% of firearm sold in the country require a background check and that’s not fair to those that go through the law process of becoming federally legal or the address person on the street hopefully the country that that live in keeps them safe from wildly preventable atrocities like daily gun violence.
اختكم فالله
October 28, 2023 at 12:05 pm
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Daniel Tieu
October 28, 2023 at 9:38 pm
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:04 💔 Lucy McBath’s life transformed when her son, Jordan, was tragically shot and killed in a hate-driven incident.
01:09 🗳️ Lucy left her career to become an activist fighting for gun law reform and eventually won a seat in Congress.
03:48 🪖 Jordan’s life was cut short due to gun violence, and Lucy McBath became an advocate for common-sense gun safety legislation, such as “red flag” laws and universal background checks.
08:57 🤝 Lucy emphasizes the importance of bridging political divides by sharing personal stories, as she did with Reverend Rob Schenck.
10:36 🗳️ Despite challenges, Lucy ran for Congress, won the election, and continued to advocate for gun safety legislation by sharing her own story with colleagues from both sides of the aisle.
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grokker99
October 29, 2023 at 6:03 am
Every first world country looks at our gun laws as absolutely absurd.
Дарья Кошелева
October 29, 2023 at 7:22 am
Criminals will always have guns, they’re rather easy to buy illegally almost in any country. Please, do not take the power to defend themselves with a gun from potential victims
Don’t call me Shirley
October 29, 2023 at 8:10 pm
Has TED turned woke? I want stories of positivity and possibility, not blames and names. This is not the direction I like in TED.
GR3YD3ATH
October 30, 2023 at 2:46 am
to disarm citizens and allows criminals who do not obey any law do as they wish and tyrants like her who wish to strip peoples rights to make new forever servants… move along.
Siddharth Sharma
October 30, 2023 at 1:19 pm
This was a very good presentation of how you transformed your personal pain to purpose. For me, this was not only a way to find about society’s problems but also a way to find my inner purpose. Thanks!
Nick Machiavelli
October 30, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Peace does not occur when violent ppl have 1 weapon removed, esp when the cartels are more than happy to replace it w/blackmarket sales. Treat the root cause… At some point you must tell your constituents they are lousy parents raising the nxt generation of felon.
Scott Ginchereau
October 31, 2023 at 11:20 am
While I am sorry for her loss….guns are not the problem.
Bread Fan
November 1, 2023 at 6:48 pm
This is what happens when a country bases its collective sense-making on myths.
The myth of the land of the free where so many people are incarcerated, the myth of the land of opportunity where so many people are homeless or without healthcare, the myth of old texts so sacred and infallible that they should always be obeyed when societal health is far worse than in the countries which abandoned or changed said texts.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the developed world, people are shaking their heads in disbelief as they watch the US mourn so many innocent victims. They shake their heads in disbelief when they hear people who call their country “the home of the brave” say they need their assault rifles because they are afraid of the government they themselves elected magically turning into a tyranny that they would be called to defend themselves from.
I’m sorry to say this, but background checks are a band-aid. People will keep dying needlessly until the US decides to change its constitution; until the right to own a gun becomes less important than the right to not be shot by a gun owner. Firearms should only be available to the army and security related institutions, like in the majority of developed countries with low homicide rates. Exceptions to this should be very rare, clearly defined and closely monitored.
Hoping that it won’t happen to your child does nothing. Phantasizing that you will eliminate all threats to your family with your gun does nothing. Sending thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims does nothing. Magical thinking does nothing, because the world doesn’t work on magic. Policy should be based on reality, not on myths. And if one is worried about elected officials becoming tyrants, the solution is honing one’s critical thinking skills, learning to embrace unpleasant truths instead of comforting lies, and thus avoiding electing potential tyrants.