[0:00]Welcome back to Weekend Sunrise. Now it's time for our weekly say what? Or say what segment. This week we're doing the segment a bit differently because Australia got a big run on US TV this week. Wow. Yes, multi Emmy award winning The Daily Show with John Stewart decided to send a reporter to Australia to compare our gun control laws with America's. The results was quite something. Take a look at this. Yesterday Americans watched in shock as even water down gun legislation died on the floor of the Senate. But that is exactly where it belongs, according to gun lobbyists like Philip Van Cleave of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. The second amendment, you know, is is sacrosanct. You hold up this sign whenever I make a suggestion that you think is infringing upon your second amendment rights, okay? Okay. Assault weapons banned. Boom. There it is. Increased background checks. Really? Yes. Just for just for background checks. We don't do background checks for the first amendment. Okay, so let's just try this one. Okay. Nice and easy. Sure. A mandatory one hour waiting period if you buy a gun. Why? Why a man? Are you kidding me? Unless I could see a reason. No. I can't think of anything that I support. Because at the end of the day, none of it works. Exactly, gun control does not work. What if, hypothetically speaking, what if gun control could work? Which obviously it can't. So we know that it won't, so that's not a problem. But what if it could due to that time that it did? Okay. When when was that? Australia. Yes, Australia. In 1996, a conservative Prime Minister John Howard instituted sweeping gun control laws following a mass shooting that shocked the nation. So should we be learning from this effective example? Of course not. I guess if we're going to go to Planet X and say it's not the United States, it's some some other planet, different people, different everything. I don't know. Yeah. But in the real world with human beings, it's not going to work and gun control is not going to work. Unfortunately, not only is Australia actually in the real world, even their animals can holster weapons. So who was right about gun control? There was only one way to find out, confront the man responsible. Mr. Prime Minister, let's begin in the formal Australian way. Good day. How are you, how do you do? Obviously, gun control doesn't work, it can't work, it will never work. So how was your scheme of failure? No, my scheme was not a failure. We had a massacre at a place called Port Arthur 17 years ago, and there have been none uh since. Zero gun massacres? Hold on. Did gun control actually work? It stopped one thing. That could also be a statistical anomaly. Yeah. It was just their mass shootings disappeared. But there were so few of them. What do do? Whoop do do. Yeah. Whoop-di-do. Yes. Mass shootings are rare anyhow. Exactly. They probably barely had a massacre before 1996. There were about 13 in the previous 18 years. In the 18 years before Port Arthur, there were 13 mass shootings. Yes. Almost one a year. Yes. I was unaware they had that many. Mass being what, more than two people at a time? More than four. More than four. Okay. Whoop de do. But perhaps there were other non-woop-de-do side effects. The homicide rate involving the use of guns has declined significantly by factors of up to 50 and 60%, and the incidence of youth suicides involving guns has declined dramatically. Whoop-di-do. Help me out here, Philip. Homicides with guns went down, suicide with guns also went down, zero mass shootings. What what happened? Australia has still has murders, rapes, and robberies last I checked. Unless you can get rid of 100% of crime, it's not worth doing at all. Well, put it this way, it's illegal to have crack cocaine anywhere in the United States. Do you think if somebody really wants it, they can get their hands on crack cocaine in America? So unless we can completely get rid of drugs, there's no point in having drug laws at all.
[4:24]Didn't you think about that for a minute? Um, Well, I guess effectively it doesn't work. You can't argue with Philip. Even his logic is bulletproof. Well, let me let me put it to you this way. There are more drownings in backyards where they have pools. They don't have a pool, there are no drownings in backyards, okay? So the US has a very high number of guns. Therefore, there is going to be more chances for somebody to be killed with a gun. Right. Right. Right. That's my point. Philip might think that living in a society with dramatically reduced gun violence is a whoop-de-do, and people in Australia couldn't agree with him more. Whoop do. Whoop do, mate? Whoop do. Whoop do. But whatever that means.
[5:28]The great thing about that, we're going to have more whoop-de-do. That was only just part one of that. We're going to show you the equally hilarious part two at the end of the show. Whoop-de-do. Isn't it funny to watch, you know, this old saying a brilliant mind in panic is a wonderful thing to see. A non-brilliant mind in panic is always even funnier.
