A lot more details have come out following the tragic shooting at a school in
ST Louis including about the killer.
But we're gonna start with the victims.
Here is a shot photo of student Alexandria Bell, it's only 15 years old.
And Jean Kuchuku who is described as this is a teacher by the way,
it was described by a student as when she saw the shooter.
She stepped between the shooter and her students, 61 year old
teacher whose last act was to just try to save the lives of her students.
And that is indisputably heroic.
No matter what, there isn't a person alive who doesn't like to think to wish
that they would do the same thing.
But she did it, she just tried to save people's lives.
And just very briefly in this political context where we have so
much focus on schools and so much explicit attacks against teachers.
We know who teachers are and how much they sacrifice.
But this is a reminder of what sometimes they have to sacrifice and
willingly sacrifice.
She's not the first teacher who has died trying to save the lives of the kids that
she was in charge of.
She won't be the last because of the decisions our politicians have chosen to
make in America.
But endless credit to her.
Such a loss.
Both of her and Alexandria struck down before her life could even really begin.
That said, let's turn now to the monster who killed them.
Orlando Harris graduated the year before from that same school,
he got himself an AR-15 style rifle.
He got himself 600 rounds of ammunition,
a dozen high capacity magazines, why would you need those things?
Well, to kill a lot of people?
Why would it be legal to buy those things?
Because nobody seems to care if you wanna kill a lot of people.
Here's a shot of the gun that he used.
Total coincidence by the way that he went for an AR-15-style rifle.
It's not because they're uniquely great at killing
a lot of humans in a short period of time.
It's just a coincidence like it is with basically every mass shooter anyway,
accompanying all of that was this other piece of evidence.
A handwritten note that said, I don't have any friends, I don't have any family.
I've never had a girlfriend.
I've never had a social life.
I've been an isolated loner in my entire life.
This was the perfect storm for a mass shooter.
Now that has sort of the facade of self analysis, but
it's obviously lacking the part where he knew that this was the perfect storm.
But then chose not to kill a bunch of people for some reason was a loner,
but chose not to join a group or a club or meet people.
Now look obviously we want there to be all of the supports structures possible.
We advocate every day for schools to be places where people are made to feel
accepted and loved and all of that.
There's also at the same time, a little bit of personal responsibility.
And if you can do this much self analysis, you can probably take the next step and
not kill a bunch of people who didn't cause these problems for you.
JR what do you think.
>> We also like to promote people sometimes when they have these thoughts
and how societies come for them.
And women are getting all out of pocket, we know the manifesto for
many of these folks who he mentioned one aspect of it, never had a girlfriend.
All that stuff, whatever social maybe issues he has with getting along and
fitting in all those things we write off is just whatever weird kid.
Ha in fact, all way up to the tops of our political discourse.
It's bullying and it's conversations and it's fighting and its name calling.
We see it all the time.
So if we think that the leaders of our country are okay doing this stuff of
course, yeah, it's fine.
If someone else does, that's a separate whole thing here.
But let's point out with Alexandra and here's Gene.
Gene, that teacher who stepped in front she did, I think save some lives.
I don't know the exact scenario, but because of that,
who knows then what changed what this guy saw when he started shooting.
And maybe something spoken him because of the heroism that she then exhibited.
But also I say it every time.
What was the Corona history again on this guy.
None, until he started shooting at innocent people.
So he was a good guy with a gun walking up to the school the entire way according
to the NRA.
He had a gun, he had no history with a crime and then he started shooting
people at one point at that point he became the bad guy with a gun right?
And so we need more good guys with guns and hopefully they don't flip and
become bad guys with guns in that same moment too.
It's a really volatile and not a very safe situation to go because you go by that.
We should base our political discourse and
access to guns to have it based off just in case a guy decides to start shooting.
Let's just go ahead and let it happen.
We don't care about it until it happens.
That's the way we run these things.
We don't prevent crime.
We just respond to it and say I'm gonna do something, vote for me.
They need more of this.
>> Yeah.
And basically all those people will turn around and
say guys like this should still be able to go out and buy these rifles.
We should not stop that from happening
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