well it's been another weekend I hope everybody's weekend was good here in the United States we had
11 mass shootings this weekend and more than 300 shootings altogether those are the right
numbers do not adjust your television do not punch your phone screen do not throw it in the
toilet and flush it those are the real numbers 11 mass shootings Friday to Sunday and more than 300
shootings total in terms of the mass shootings we had four on Friday three on Saturday and four on
Sunday now understand that in the U.S we have categories of shootings that don't exist in
the entire world you look at Serbia for example and what recently happened there with shootings
and you see that there are categories here that would sound crazy Elsewhere for example in the
United States we have regular shootings not mass shootings where one or two people are killed or
injured and many that's a regular shooting you then have mass shootings where you have three
people injured or killed in total or more and then you have nationally uh uh covered mass shootings
which are mass shootings that the country takes an interest in interest in and indeed uh but by
the way if you're interested about these numbers go to gunviolencearchive.org you can see the mass
shootings you can see all shootings over the last 72 hours for example you know this morning there
have already been shootings in Los Angeles to in Texas this uh or I'm sorry one in Texas was this
morning one was yesterday okay so you you kind of get the picture some of these make National
headlines for example the one in Allen Texas did this was at the Allen Premium Outlets where eight
victims were killed seven were injured and the shooter was quote neutralized for a report by
Fox 4 that one received extensive coverage many politicians weighing in about it we'll dig into
that one in more detail a little bit later but then there are other mass shootings that get
less attention for example there was the one in St Louis Missouri where two teens were killed and two
others were injured this was yesterday morning Sunday morning this one got local coverage but
didn't really get National coverage that's because in the United States Mass shoot not just shootings
are so common mass shootings are so common that it's got to be really depraved and deranged like
particularly sick to even make National headlines and again that's just mass shootings then we have
just kind of like your run-of-the-mill shootings for example these these aren't even a blip on the
radar for most of the country uh this one was in Pendleton Indiana where a man was found shot to
death and police are seeking The public's help this this is sort of like you're more pedestrian
mass shooting for lack of a better term so this is the day-to-day reality in the United States and we
continue to have and we're going to delve into this we continue to have a political contingent
that wants to do nothing other than offer prayers sometimes thoughts sometimes they will think about
it but often it's just they'll pray sometimes thoughts and prayers sometimes just prayers
and uh when I suggested of course on Twitter that the prayer doesn't really seem to help
even even Christian schools have been shot up and certainly there's prayer happening there I'm the
bad guy rather than all the people who want to do absolutely nothing we then have elected officials
who choose instead to focus on Mental Health yet they don't want to fund Mental Health Services
or they want to focus on violent video games even when there's no evidence that the shooter
played video games you've all gotten to know this endless routine that we have in the United States
another aspect to the cycle of course the sick Insidious cycle is right when there's a major
again I'm using the crazy terminology when we have a major mass shooting of natural interest National
interest we should have an abbreviation for that uh there are many people who say now that this is
again in the spotlight as it is every few days we should really do something about gun safety laws
and these are very popular proposals we saw even a Fox News poll last week said that most Americans
favor requiring a background check in every case of a gun transaction even between private
individuals but these things are very popular oh we can't politicize this in the immediate
aftermath tensions are running High the families haven't buried their debt you hear all this stuff
but we do send our thoughts and prayers either you thoughts and prayers you can do at any time
and then a little while goes by and then hopefully the people seeking to make change hopefully I mean
from the perspective of the gun people the people seeking to make change forget or they move on or
whatever the case may be and then nothing happens and then we have our next major mass shooting of
national interest and then same cycle over and over and over again I have to tell you though we
did hear from a few people after the shooting in Allen Texas who were stepping out of their
you might call it their prescribed uh characters and actually said things
that make a lot of sense I want to look at a couple examples of this with you right now