The video below is a satiric look at America’s addiction to guns. It’s from the Netherlands (Hat tip to Vox for pointing it out.) The laugh track is jarring, the black humor unnerving — but it’s far more honest than the “thoughts and prayers” platitudes. Watch it for yourself.
Via VOX:
...There are things in the video that some Americans, particularly supporters of gun rights, will surely disagree with or even find offensive.
But that’s kind of the point. To the rest of the world, this problem is straightforward: If you have a problem with guns, then you should deal with the guns directly. That’s what other nations have done, from Canada to the UK to Australia to Japan — and they see dramatically fewer gun deaths.
The empirical research shows these are related: Where there are fewer guns, there are fewer gun deaths. And gun control measures are truly followed with a reduction in gun deaths, suggesting that they save lives.
That America as a whole doesn’t seem to get this is baffling to much of the rest of the world. So Sunday with Lubach reaches far for an explanation: It must be a disease.
This may be cloaked in black humor, but the message is compelling. Gun addicts in this country are in denial. Every atrocity brings a knee-jerk call for more guns to ‘solve’ the problem. Denial gets ever stronger as the fact that this is a problem only America suffers from fails to register — or that the problem can be dealt with.
Share this, please. There’s only so much time before the next shooting takes place.