It is almost 1 AM and I am currently directly across the street from
where the shootings at Michigan State occurred.
I am 21 years old and
this is the second mass shooting that I have now lived through.
Ten years and two months ago, I survived the Sandy Hook shooting.
>> So there's much more to that.
Jackie Matthews talking about the experience
of having been as a child in a mass shooting.
And then being there for
the shooting at Michigan State University just a couple of days ago.
I feel like this is something that we have speculated about in the past.
That because these have become so routine, so common,
it's almost certainly gonna happen.
There had been at one point, I think in Thousand Oaks there was
that shooting where someone who had been at the Mandalay Bay shooting.
Now it's the thing that's gonna become more common.
Students are gonna have the experience in elementary school or
high school of this horrendous, unimaginable tragedy.
And then go on to college and have to experience the same thing.
Trauma, on top of trauma.
And my heart goes out to those students and there are two, by the way,
in this case.
As well as, of course, the family and friends, and the people who have for
the first time gone through this.
But we have two students caught up in this had already been involved in another
mass shooting.
Just horrendous.
JR, what do you think?
>> It's pretty illustrative of what is that we're seeing here.
And it's been long enough that this adult in college now at Michigan State has
experienced it as a child in elementary school to start off.
And it comes back again however many years later.
What, 11 years later?
It was 2012, yeah, 11 years later.
Then she's dealing with it yet again.
And I tried to see more about how these folks are doing whenever someone comes
forward and talks about it, I wanna see what is surrounding her and all that.
And she's probably had to go dark and privatize all of her things to make sure
that now the next step of it isn't then being harassed about that.
Cuz we saw some of the responses that people like Alex jones had, again,
with Sandy Hook and parents, families of those folks that were killed in that.
And then,
so of course the wonder is, will bad people then be coming after me here too?
There's so many more levels to this where people get retraumatized.
And she spoke again about the trauma that she's experienced from that and
how it's stuck with her ever since.
And it's physically affected her as well.
And I'm sure people don't think that makes much sense either,
because the main thing here is to protect the guns.
So you see this happen over and over and over again,
that someone experienced it this many times.
It's just like, why are you still talking about this?
I just wanna shoot someone the next time.
The point when we stopped caring about children dying in mass shootings is
the point when we lost it.
It's never gonna come back from that.
>> It shouldn't have taken that.
But that is definitely true.
We're gonna give you just a little bit of the accounting of some of the family
members of students who were involved in the second one.
But just briefly, there had been another story that we considered covering.
And it was, I believe it was two almost who were right there.
Two gentlemen on Newsmax who were saying that Gretchen Whitmer should be
impeached because she was too emotional in the wake of this mass shooting.
And I just think, man, if you have the capability to not be emotional about this,
maybe get the hell out of the news.
Maybe your opinion on this isn't needed if you can hear about this
endless train of tragedies and be like, I'm totally fine.
I'm just gonna talk about this totally rationally.
Got no no issue whatsoever.
No skin in the game doesn't mean anything to me.
It's removed.
The news is a game.
I'm making tons of money by pretending to care briefly about it.
Maybe you don't actually need to be involved in any of this.
You know what?
I wanna make sure that we get to what Jackie Matthews wants,
which is legislation to lower the chance that this sort of thing happens.
So let's move to that video now.
>> The fact that this is the second mass shooting that I have now lived through is
incomprehensible.
My heart goes out to all the families and
the friends of the victims of this Michigan State shooting.
But we can no longer just provide love and prayers.
It needs to be legislation, it needs to be action.
It's not okay.
We can no longer allow this to happen.
We can no longer be complacent.
I'll forever be Sandy Hook strong, and forever be Spartan strong.
So again, we're gonna ask all of these kids to be tough.
To continue to go to school,
to continue to dream of something being done to stop this.
And those of us who have been advocating it for a long time
are gonna cross our fingers, hold our breath and look to the state capitals.
Look to Washington and just dream.
Just dream that maybe there will be something about this mass shooting that
will finally break through the shell of not giving a damn that has built up over
the course of literally decades.
>> Yeah, I think we've moved on even from asking politicians,
what are they gonna do about it?
So what's the next step?
And maybe some people still are,
because we know the same answer is absolutely nothing.
And how dare you ask me if we're gonna do something about children being murdered.
And students being murdered when they're supposed to be going to class, or
dining hall.
Or trying to go to sleep, or hang out and relax and do that other thing, live.
That whole thing.
They don't care.
They're blatantly open about it now,
because there's enough people behind them that go, yeah, that's right.
F those kids, I hope more are murdered.
That's the stance of people who want nothing to do with this.
Make sure it's known.
>> What a rough, you just wanna go to college.
You just wanna be able to start off your career, and instead America.
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