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Take a moment and listen to these numbers.
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Since the shocking mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last December, which saw the deaths of 20 little children,
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there have been more than 6,000 people killed by a gun in America.
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Yes, 6,000.
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In fact, by the time our program is over tonight, another three Americans will be shot dead.
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With numbers like these, it would be reasonable to expect the U.S would be doing everything it could to reduce its citizens' access to firearms.
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Well, I've just traveled across America and found quite the opposite.
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Let's take a big world view.
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Where innocent people are forced into unarmed helplessness, they are slaughtered.
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Where innocent people have the right to keep and bear arms, they survive.
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And evil loses.
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Pick one.
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From the porch on his property in Texas, rock star Ted Nugent is preparing for battle.
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Why do you need an assault rifle?
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Why can't we at least get rid of those?
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They were designed for war.
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Why is there an obsession to hang on to all of these weapons?
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You have been so brainwashed.
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Do you have more than one TV?
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How dare you?
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What would you need that for?
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So just quit with the need crap.
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Are you kidding me?
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So I refuse to answer your question that you think you might know what I might need.
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Welcome to the world, according to Tim.
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Where as a hunter and shooting enthusiast, guns for he and his wife, Charmaine, are part of everyday life.
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And I think you would experience the unbridled joy that I get from brass rainbows if you did have a machine gun.
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But if you don't want one, don't get one.
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Ted's passion for guns is as big as his voice is loud.
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Somebody's still shooting in sight.
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These are number nine.
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And recent massacres in America, including at the Colorado Movie Theatre...
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The school has been locked down.
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..and Sandy Hook Elementary School...
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I was in the gym and I heard, like, seven loud booms.
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..have only made him louder.
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The facts are that mentally ill people get guns and they kill people.
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There is something wrong with the law, which involves guns, surely, that allows that to happen happen.
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You can't tell me that you would restrict all those millions,
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hundreds of millions of law-abiding citizens capability to defend themselves because of the few instances where maniacs or criminals abuse that tool.
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But the fact is there truly have been 62 massacres in the last 20 years in America.
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Surely they could have been drastically reduced
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if the gun laws were tightened you are so beautiful
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and wrong I'm telling you you have no evidence you have there exists no evidence on planet earth
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that this fantasy this feel-good dream that somehow if we can just get rid of the water, the drownings will stop.
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Or, just insert, we can just get rid of the guns and the violence will stop.
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You've got to be kidding me.
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And when I bring it up, I'm going to bring it up to eye level.
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It's not just Ted Nugent fighting for firearms.
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The revolver's a little bit different.
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These women are also passionate about pistols.
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Now we're going to bring our guns up to eye level.
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For them, it's about protecting their families.
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Liz, if you could bend forward just from the waist a little bit.
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There you go.
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Ooh, nice forward position.
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I like it.
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Tonight, suburban housewives of Virginia have joined the pistol-packing ladies' class.
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Release that magazine and drop it.
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Where former Marine Theresa O'Vale teaches them how to handle a gun.
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Remember to pull it back and let it go.
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You want that round to be firmly seated.
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So they're not thinking I should get some mace.
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They're not thinking I should have a better security system.
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They're thinking I should get a gun.
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Well, those other options are things they may be considering, but a gun can offer you a little bit more protection for a mace.
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I mean, when you have a can of mace, it only goes so far.
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But if somebody's coming at me quickly and I have practiced my gun handling, I can defend myself.
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The flashbang secures to the center of your bra.
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Ironically, America's recent gun massacres have seen more people buying guns.
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Nothing comes between a woman and her gun.
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And women are now the fastest growing group of gun owners in America.
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More than 30 million have a firearm, and often with matching accessories.
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Are we being a little flippant when we encourage women to buy, you know, a matching holster?
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Well, I don't think so.
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I think a gun is a weapon, it's a tool if you practice it, and it's your choice to carry it.
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However, I think a woman accessorizes with a purse, with a pair of sunglasses.
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A woman might want a pink gun, and I think it's neat that they offer a pink gun.
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I have two.
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You have two pink guns?
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I have two pink guns.
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Got it?
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Is it big?
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All right.
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But it's not just women children are also being taught how to handle a gun.
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Good job!
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Very good!
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That's good, baby!
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The courses are open for mothers and children from seven years of age.
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Mm-hmm.
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That is a really young child.
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Does that not make you nervous?
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Well, we leave it up to the parent's choice.
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Now, do we start them off with a big gun?
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No. We start them off with a very tiny little .22.
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But that can kill.
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It can.
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It can kill.
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Doesn't matter how big or tiny.
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You're right, it is.
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But a .22 is less likely to kill.
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Look, I have to say in Australia, the gun culture is almost non-existent.
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For people watching you, they would be mortified that a child is being introduced to a gun.
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What is the goodness of doing that in a society where guns have caused so much damage?
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I think because the Second Amendment in America speaks of gun ownership, I think that if children are taught at a particular age,
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again, up to the parent's choice, that they want their child to know about a gun and how to handle it, I think it's important for that family to do that.
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For many Americans, owning a gun is a right, one written into the Constitution in 1791, when firearms were mostly muskets.
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It says two barrels included, 177 and 22.
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Weapons today are extraordinarily different and easily obtained.
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So you want the 22?
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In the aisles of many American supermarkets, you can virtually take your pick.
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I'll have a look at one of those.
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Thank you.
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I'll just give you that one back.
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And this is a common pistol?
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Yes, it's very common.
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Right now this is a standard issue with a lot of police, a lot of law enforcement, and civilians are also legal to own this.
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I have never used a gun.
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You ready to start?
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Ooh!
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Okay, yes.
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Arms straight out in front of you.
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But under instruction in Las Vegas...
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It's ready to go.
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...I soon understood what it was like to hold...
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Up there.
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Yes, ma'am.
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...and fire one.
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Alright, well, you're ready.
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I'm not.
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Here we go.
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That almost makes me feel sick.
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The sheer brute force and lethal power is unnerving.
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You want to keep it snug.
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If it's loose, it's obviously going to wiggle around.
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As it is with the AR-15.
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Magazine in.
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The same rapid-fire weapon used at the Sandy Hook and Aurora Cinema massacres.
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A devastating assault rifle that is disturbingly accurate and easy to use.
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Why does anyone want a big AR-15?
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You know, as well as home defence, they are used for recreation.
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And the AR-15 is not only accurate...
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You saw how you shot that pistol, right?
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Yes.
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Imagine using that for self-defence.
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Now, imagine somebody's breaking your house and you're using your AR-15.
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Which would you rather pick up?
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So do a lot of people have that for self-defence?
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Self-defence, yes, and as well as recreation.
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Perhaps there is no greater illustration of America's obsession with guns than here in Cannesaw in Georgia.
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In 1982, the local city council passed a law requiring the head of every household to maintain a firearm and ammunition.
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To the rest of the world, and to many Americans, it was an outrageous thing to do.
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But for the locals, it made perfect sense.
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This is a Klan uniform about late 1930s.
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I'm amazed you're allowed to do this because I would have thought it was fairly offensive.
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It's not offensive to me. Because...?
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It's my shop.
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It's not offensive to me.
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It could be said long-time local Dent Myers belongs to another era.
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Just like many of the goods he sells in his store in Kennesaw's Main Street.
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So how many people in Kennesaw would have a gun or a firearm?
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I would say the 99.7 of the gun.
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It's just a deterrent's all it is.
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And it has been a deterrent?
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Yes, ma'am.
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To what degree?
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Well, we don't have any crime hardly at all.
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You know what caliber it is?
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Yeah, it's 11mm.
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Violent crime here is 85% below the national average.
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I looked in there, I couldn't find any.
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And visitors to Dent's shop will tell you why.
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Guns.
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You carry a gun?
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Mm-hmm.
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And you carry a gun.
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There's one on her, there's one on me.
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And you both feel the need to walk around with a gun?
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Sometimes, yeah.
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I feel more comfortable with it than without it, honestly.
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Especially being, I don't know, female.
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It's kind of, I stay out late sometimes for work, and then I come home at 9, 10 o'clock at night, and going to an empty parking lot.
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Just kind of scary sometimes.
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Where's your gun now?
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It's in my purse.
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Oh, you carry it in your purse?
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You carry yours in your pocket.
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And here we are with another walk back in time.
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At 78, Dent Myers is still every inch the gunslinger with a loaded pistol on each hip.
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I'm in awe of the sorts of things that you've managed to collect.
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I'm a little bit...
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Accumulated.
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A false move, or in this case, a stumble and a sudden sound by our cameraman.
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Get rid of saddles, Colonel.
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And dent is ready.
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You almost went through your garden, dent.
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I stopped it before I shot you.
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Oh, my goodness.
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I told you I've been trying to do stuff like that.
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Anyway, these horses ran over a lot of people too, People too ought to ban horses.
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I can't believe you went for your gun debt.
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As the gun debate continues to rage, more American communities are now following Kennesaw's lead.
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I think the thing that is amazing is to be driving through a city, or the suburban streets of a city,
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knowing that every one of these homes has by law a gun.
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Gun, gun, gun, gun, gun, gun.
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Everybody has a gun.
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It keeps everybody honest, they say, and I'm sure it does, but I find that extraordinary.
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The right to bear arms is more than entitlement.
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It's an entrenched culture which will not be changed easily,
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despite the devastating tragedies and the wishes of the highest office in the land.
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We can't tolerate this anymore.
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These tragedies must end.
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How dare they, who get tax paid for complete security details with real assault weapons,
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how dare our employees tell the employers that they get armed security at our expense, but we will be unarmed and helpless?
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Kiss my ass!
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In America, it's often the biggest show that gets the most attention.
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And there's no bigger showman than Ted Nugent.
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So you want everyone to be able to carry a gun?
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Absolutely.
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Anybody who chooses.
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It's black and white.
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It's black and white.
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There's no grey area in this at all?
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Nope.
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There's no compromise?
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Nope.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Does America have a gun problem?”. Deze video bevat 229 zinnen en 2044 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 13:59. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 146 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| firearm zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfaɪəɹˌɑː(ɹ)m/ | vuurwapen |
| pistol zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɪstəl/ | pistool |
| dent zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɛnt/ | deuk, bluts |
| massacre zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmæs.ə.kə(ɹ)/ | bloedbad |
| mace zelfstandig naamwoord | /meɪs/ | strijdknots |
| purse zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɚs/ | handtas |
| unarmed bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌʌnˈɑɹmd/ | ongewapend |
| obsession zelfstandig naamwoord | /əbˈsɛʃən/ | obsessie, bezetenheid |
| suburban bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/ | voorstedelijk |
| recreation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɹiːkɹiˈeɪʃən/ | recreatie, ontspanning |
| goodness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɡʊdnəs/ | goedheid |
| tragedy zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/ | tragedie, treurspel |
| rifle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɹaɪfəl/ | geweer |
| accumulate werkwoord | /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/ | opstapelen, vermeerderen |
| brainwash zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɹeɪnwɒʃ/ | hersenspoeling |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| pick up werkwoord | oppakken, optillen |
| run over werkwoord | te lang doorbijlopen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Why can't we at least get rid of those?
- What would you need that for?
- Does that not make you nervous?
- Which would you rather pick up?
- You know what caliber it is?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have been · I've just traveled · has been locked |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | will be shot · are forced · were designed |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | culture which will · Anybody who chooses |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 33 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: enthusiast /ɪnˈθuːziˌæst/, lethal /ˈliː.θəl/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: obsession /əbˈsɛʃən/, recreation /ɹiːkɹiˈeɪʃən/, brainwash /ˈbɹeɪnwɒʃ/, showman /ˈʃəʊ.mən/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: recreation /ɹiːkɹiˈeɪʃən/, accessorize /əkˈsɛsəɹaɪz/, accumulate /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/, cameraman /ˈkæm(ə)ɹəˌmæn/, enthusiast /ɪnˈθuːziˌæst/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: unarmed /ˌʌnˈɑɹmd/, accessorize /əkˈsɛsəɹaɪz/, unnerve /ʌnˈnɜː(ɹ)v/, abide /əˈbaɪd/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: massacre /ˈmæs.ə.kə(ɹ)/, tragedy /ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/, cameraman /ˈkæm(ə)ɹəˌmæn/, enthusiast /ɪnˈθuːziˌæst/, maniac /ˈmeɪ.niˌæk/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: goodness /ˈɡʊdnəs/, wiggle /ˈwɪɡəl/, existent /ɪɡˈzɪst(ə)nt/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als firearm, pistol, dent.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.