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Everyone welcome to america under the microscope advanced level

James

Here so if you remember last up said we talked about guns and america

I have a question for you do you still think we stand on the corners of the street

Shooting each other for fun

Mi know what we think

So thank you for your topic and all the information that you provided

So you promise that we 're going to talk about how to actually go through the process of buying a gun

That's it didn't tie yes

And you said it quite complicated

So i'm wondering

How difficult it is okay

The difficulty of buying a gun itself isn't

What's complicated

What's complicated

It's the fact that it's not the same everywhere in the country

Oh Yes

Of course

Because you have from state to state

You have different rules exactly so in some states

It's a much more lenient and other states

It's much more strate in general

More rural agricultural states tend to be much more lenient on gun purchasing laws and more urban states

Coastal states like california

New york tend to have more strict purchasing laws

Why is that is it just because that h people in the city to tend to purchase like hand guns

And there more dangangous uh partially has to do with the culture of the guns in the two areas

Because when people in the cities

When they think of gun

They think of crime

When you talk to a persbane

Eral ural farmers and circlthey think think ggone

They think punting and protecting their animals from foxes and other kinds of dangerous animals

So the perception is very very different

Well you said it's not very difficult to actually get a gun

So if you're like an us citizen

What do you need to show to actually purchase again

So we're going to use my state of washington ingage an example

Because it's what i'm most familiar with so i'm a washington resident

I'm an american citizen

So if i want to go and by a rifle

I can go into the store

I can show them my idi can then browse which i want give the money and walk away

So it's just like buying a bottle of water

They do take your id and they're onna put it into a computer to do a quick check to make sure

You don't have anything like they yfelonies or any serious crimes or other things that they put on your record thing that you can't

Don't

So so if your us citizen

No criminal record and off the legal age that we talk about it

Eighteen for rifle and twenty one for handguuns

Then you can just buy it right now in sustates tes there is a waiting period to buy

You would give them your idea

You'll fill out a form

And then usually have to wait

Usually around three

The five days days

So i guess this weadding period is for them to check

If you have any criminal record

That's correct

Yeah

Um

And then you said you go to a store to buy

What kind of store is it like a specialized store or just a walmart

You can buy guns in walmart long gus

Yes

Walmart doesn't sell handguns

But walmart dosell rifles and shirtuns

I can't look at walmart in this name like so there's a special section for yeah

Right is the natural special section in the store for hunting

They specialialize in hunting

But

But you can also go to what are called sporting good stores

Which are places at sets

Kind of outdoor activity things like though have fishing equipment ten sleeping bags and a lot of it will be about hunting in guns

And we also have something

What we called gunshows

Which are basically markets

Where you have these individuals selling different guns

Like the same idea as farmerers market

Actually it's almost exactly the same

It's just instet of fruits vegetables

It

It's so guns pick your rifle of choice

Okay this background check

So this is very different from state to state

Yeah

This is where the it

It's complicated

Because some states

It's fairly leniant

Some states it's more strict um

And like my state

If you buy a or ririfle

There is no waiting period for the background check

But if you buy a handgun

There's a five day waiting period

Another states is very different

And what they check is different from state to state too

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So it doesn't sound in general

This is sound very strict or very thorgh

It isn't in that is something that upsets many americans

Exactly

So this goes into gun control

Yes

It does is always a very controveral topic

Last time we talked about it

This is the right mentioned in the constitution

So it's very difficult to make change

To change that

And you said it's a divisive issue in america

That's right

It's really hard to change

Because the constitutions do makes it abbanning the guns is near impossible

So what most politicians do that are for gun controls

They try to pass measures

That will change the waiting period or change the background checks

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Or even restrict certain types of gun set are more dangerous or more likely to be used in shootings

So they can only tweet the details of the regulation

Yes

But these politicians who fight for these changes are fght toothand naalil by the opposites party

Those will be the big gun groups

The gun lobbies h yes

Well

The gun It

It will be other politicians

But those politicians are backed by gun lobbies

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Lobby

这个是一个政治性的用语

叫说客

So lobbious lobbies is a group lobbiest are the people

Are the people

Yeah Yeah

So nra is it yeah

Enera the national rabby association

This is the largest most powerful gun lobby in america

But they say they represent the gun owners

Yeah

They sure to they represent ted gun n kkers

And so they have a lot of money

And that they influence the policy makers and watch to dc to fight any kind of gun control laws

I have a question

Now why do some americans feel so strongly about the right to own a gun

Is it just because it's in the constitution

Well americans would say they they use a constitution as a reason

But for most americans stake equated to a freedom

That they have

And so they think by if you limit their access to guns

You're taking away one in their freedom

I guess that's understandable politicians

You said they're not really going very strongly against guns

Is that

Because that's going to tank their political career

That's one of the biggerions try

Yes it can be political suicide

Oh

As bad as that

Yeah

Because the opposing party can use your anti gun science as ammunition to win elections

So better leave it as sttius poll

Essentially

Now let's come to a rather heavy topic

Which is the shootings

This is one of the things as someone who doesn't live in the united states

A lot of what you read about guns in unistates is these mass shooting ting

Yes

Don't acacachappen togeand they mumultiple times year occurrence

Um well i'm not entirely sure

They are actually more frequent

Or they just see more frequent

Because of media coquent

And i don't know which

One's which

But the fact that they happen is battle together

Um those with the shoot like the mass shootings

What about just in general gun murders are they asked prevalent

Ent uh what tv shows

Would

Would show in some areas of the country

They are fairly prevalent

But gun murders usually most likely occur at places that are ready ready high gaying activity or drug crimes

So it is already very high crime rate usually um so in a lot of places

Like in big cities

When people get shot murdered

It doesn't always make the news

Or it doesn't make big news

Because it if it happens in an area

That crime is already high

Then it just kind of an everybody occurrence

If someone shot in like a middle class neighborhood or crime is low

Then that would make news

I see so gun owners do they actually carry guns wisdom some do some don't guethis is a massive topis

Obviously this also a very sensitive topic

I don't think we should go any further

But there's certainly a lot to think about it's not just so black and white like before today

I thought it was more like a black and white

They're bad

Why don't we just ban it

But based on what we were talking about it's really re's re's large grey area

That's a whole lot of great like many things

Thanks Kay

On that note

Let's wrap up today

And we'll see next time

Thank you all ten listening