Some information about the shooter besides just the name has come out,
including things that make the fact that this mass violence was able to happen,
seem even more difficult to comprehend.
Including the fact that he appears to have been arrested last year accused of
engaging in a lengthy standoff with the police after threatening to hurt his
mother with a homemade bomb.
He was charged with several crimes including felony menacing and
three kidnapping charges.
It is unclear whom he was accused of kidnapping.
Apparently the mother wasn't with him at the time, and
in the end, apparently they're saying he didn't have a bomb.
So I guess it's all cool the fact that their red flag laws that are supposed to
stop people like this from getting things like AR-15 style rifles, didn't happen and
so he was able to get a weapon that allowed him to kill more people.
One other interesting fact about his background is that apparently
according to the best information we have right now,
he is the grandson of a California Republican assemblyman.
You can see him here and with that image I think that you understand
everything you need to know about this individual.
That's Randy Voepel who represents California's 71st Assembly district,
and [CROSSTALK] the eagle tie is certainly a choice as well as the hat at this point.
But anyway, also said three days after the January 6th insurrection,
this is Lexington and Concord.
First shots fired against tyranny, and look on the one hand,
you are in no way responsible for what your grandparents do.
I had one grandparents who was awesome.
Great guy, very charitable.
One of the best influences on me ever.
I have another grandparent who I have vague memories of him saying racist stuff
at dinner once,
and I decided at a very young age, I was never gonna have anything to do with him.
So you're not responsible for what your grandparents do, but
also his grandparent was an elected Republican politician who was
big on the whole Maga and revolution thing.
So it's certainly something to look into.
That's all I'm saying.
>> Yeah, there are a number of influences out there in society and
not enough influences.
Well there are influences out there that provoke trans violence and
not enough influences that are anti-trans violence, right?
Like that's what I'm trying to say here,
because I remember during the George Floyd protests there's a big emphasis on,
it's not enough to just say no I don't like racism.
You have to be anti-racist, when you see racism happening in society,
whether it in media or in discourse or in person,
you're supposed to call it out because it's a dangerous thing.
It leads to violence.
It provokes stereotypes etcetera, etcetera.
You need to have a similar thing with trends and LGBTQ, all this panic as well.
When the conservative side says that look, these trans people they're having or
not even trans people just like gay people or lesbian people.
Whatever people who don't fall under the standard binary when they have drag queen
story hour or when they just simply exist and
have bars or have events like this is dangerous.
And not only is it dangerous, it's grooming children,
it's against your morality.
It's coming for your kids, right?
It's scaring them.
It's mutilating them as some people like Matt Walsh uses.
And so when you're using that rhetoric, it amps people up.
It makes them feel like, this is a matter of life and death.
They're harming kids.
They're coming from my kids, potentially the kids and my neighborhood.
So when that rhetoric is happening, it's incumbent on not just people on the left.
And there's been far too few people on the left who have been emphasizing this.
In fact, a lot of people on the left have been coddling folks like Joe Rogan who
constantly spread this trance panic out over all over the media.
But you don't even have liberals like regular people in office,
like standing up to say, no, this trans panic stuff is ridiculous.
This is Same stuff they tried over and
over again in the culture war from the 90s and the 2000s.
Joe Biden I think has been fairly forceful with it, but he can only do so much and
say so much as a person, and you need Democratic politicians top
to bottom vehemently talking against this stuff because it's out there.
And people have been warning that's going to lead to violent acts like this,
this is the result and this is America so it's only going to continue.
>> Yeah, how many times have we said this over the course of this year and
last year like that, this is inevitably where it's gonna go.
And we've gotten, bits of it, there have been threats and
there have been attacks and there's been Molotov cocktails and
now there's also like, >> Hospital bombing like threats of it.
>> Yeah, and every step of the way, every single escalation,
the people inspiring the stochastic terrorism are out saying, well,
how dare you have a problem with these threats?
These threats don't mean anything.
In fact, it was probably you that did the threats.
You probably called in the threats against the hospital.
It was probably a trans person that did this attack.
I haven't seen them saying it yet.
Just wait and see.
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