The Luke and Flan Podcast | Episode 2: Second Amendment Rights & Abortion

As promised the links to our sources discussed in this episode are here:

Buffalo Shooter Article read in show: https://www.theblaze.com/news/buffalo-supermarket-tops-mass-shooting-video#toggle-gdpr

GUN LAWS in the US: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/gun-laws-by-state

- You cannot purchase a gun without a FBI background check which includes checking your ID, making sure you're of age, you will not pass the background check if you're a felon, violent domestic abuser or if you've already been adjudicated mentally defective.

▪ 13,620 gun murders (2020) 19,600 people were killed nationwide▪ 1.67M defensive uses (2021)

Sources: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3887145

By contrast, CDC data from 2020 showed only 19,384 gun homicides.

94% of mass shootings take place in ‘Gun Free’ zones.
Source: https://crimeresearch.org/2018/06/more-misleading-information-from-bloombergs-everytown-for-gun-safety-on-guns-analysis-of-recent-mass-shootings/

Would more gun control would have prevented this shooting?
According to Gifford’s Law Center, New York has the 6th strongest gun laws in the country.
Source: https://giffords.org/lawcenter/resources/scorecard/

* The shooter’s gun was already illegal in New York. The shooter used a Bushmaster XM-15 ES which, at the time of purchase, didn’t qualify as an “assault weapon.”
Source: https://reason.com/2022/05/16/why-new-yorks-assault-weapon-ban-didnt-stop-the-buffalo-massacre/
* Shooter specifically chose this location BECAUSE of its strict laws concealed carry laws

* Gun violence is a white supremacy problem? No.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099372659/parts-of-the-buffalo-shooters-alleged-screed-were-copied-from-other-sources

Death from Motor Vehicle Accidents 2020: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state-by-state

Abortion Statistics:

https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/
https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6874-13-29#Sec15
https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/pubs/psrh/full/3711005.pdf

Biden says if you have to think about voting for him or Trump "You ain't black." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/may/22/joe-biden-charlamagne-you-aint-black-trump-video

Music from intro by Bakkas: https://soundcloud.com/user-930795164/popular-tracks