YouTuber Mark Smith has recently been putting out some interesting content. Known for deep dives into legal topics, Smith has released some videos that are a little different and entertaining.
Popular Youtuber and legal scholar Mark Smith is the host of The Four Boxes Diner channel. Smith is best known for his legal analysis and deep dives into litigation and legal briefs. “The New York Times” best-selling author and Gundies award recipient has recently put out a couple of videos that caught my attention. Back on Halloween Smith produced and aired a special, “Guns are the Answer.” Also the other day Smith pushed out a very entertaining Gundie-centered “Vote for Mark Smith” video.
The six-and-a-half-minute Halloween special is a lighthearted look into anti-gun bumper sticker logic. Most of the protagonist victims in a series of vignettes maintain that guns are not the answer when approached by an aggressor. Naturally, in every instance that an armed response is not utilized, the players succumb to attacks from horror-genre inspired characters.
In a fun tongue-in-cheek manner, Smith does not draw the line at guns. No, in the fast-paced production, he delivers an absurd scenario of cave people stating that spears are not the answer to warding off what appears to be a werewolf. Another vignette involves some wizardry with two young warlocks mincing words over the wand-free zone they were in while a demonic assailant was closing in on them.
The production quality is fantastic, but what’s really remarkable is that there’s so much packed into such a short video. In this digital age, Smith used the powerful tool of visual storytelling to get his point across. Paired with some gallows and slapstick humor, his message comes across loud and clear — guns are not the answer is not the right answer.
Students of the gun are aware that being armed is not a guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to them. Being disarmed, however, removes the most viable option that one could deploy if in a deadly encounter.
We won’t spoil the endings of the mini-skits, but suffice it to say, they are entertaining and didactic.
One YouTube commenter posted to the Halloween special: “Mark Smith just dropped more truth in 10 minutes than most politicians have in their entire careers. The Second Amendment isn’t up for debate — it’s the reason we still HAVE debates.”
Are Smith’s deviations from his normal analysis videos part of a new trend for the well-coiffed creator? There can be fun with the Second Amendment. A theme that’s fully embraced in his Gundie promotional video reel. Smith snagged the 2025 Gundie for Top Voice of the Second Amendment, a title he’s been nominated for again this upcoming awards season in January 2026.
“I hope the films serve as a conversation starter about the self-defense value of firearms,” Smith told Bearing Arms when asked about the short films. “Storytelling with action sequences can be an effective tool for communicating messages to an audience; sometimes, you want to show and not tell. Viewers will form their own opinions and reach their own conclusions.
“I hope that the films get people talking about what is their own self-defense plan when physical danger appears. As kids, we are taught to ‘stop, drop and roll’ in a fire, and we practiced fire drills at school. People need to think about self-defense the same way and formulate a plan now.
“Because The Four Boxes Diner channel covers quite serious and, sometimes, intellectually difficult subject matter, I wanted to offer up something different and fun for my fans,” Smith continued. “For example, my now-running Christmas-themed ‘Vote for the Four Boxes Diner For The Gundie Awards’ film makes the audience smile.”
Whether we’re looking at the edutainment that viewers get from Mark Smith’s Halloween Special, or if we’re watching the cartoonish Gundie campaign commercial — which features a squirrel as an homage to the slaughtered Peanut the squirrel — this kind of content is refreshing. Yes, other content creators have put out entertaining Gundie awards promotional videos, but I’ve yet to see a “Tales From the Crypt” style video that teaches the importance of being self-reliant.
Kudos to Smith for letting his hair down with these productions. Hopefully we’ll get more fun stuff like this out of America’s favorite scholar with swagger and other content creators across the Second Amendment community too!
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