A two year old boy lost both his parents in the Highland Park Illinois
mass shooting that took place over 4th July holiday break,
Aidan McCarthy was found bloodied and wandering alone after the shooting.
In fact, when he was initially found,
he was right by his father who was bleeding out from a gunshot wound.
So friends and authorities confirmed that the boy's parents,
Kevin McCarthy, who is 37 years old, was Irena McCarthy 35
were among seven people who were killed in this mass shooting.
The little boy Aiden, again two years old was later reunited with his grandparents.
His mother's parents will be taking care of him now that he doesn't have his own
parents because they were shot and killed in yet
another mass shooting in this country and Aiden isn't unique.
There are many people in this country who have lost their own children,
who have lost their parents, who have lost their loved ones.
As a result of the so called pro life individuals in this country feeling
that their little gun hobby is way more important than human lives,
and by the way little no one is calling for a ban on guns.
No one, so not only is there little gun hobby more important than human lives.
Not only is their gun hobby more important than the lives of these
two parents that are now gone, okay,
they just can't be inconvenienced with something like a background check.
They can't be inconvenienced with things like red flag laws to ensure that
the severely mentally ill who might carry out these random acts of violence,
don't get their hands on a lethal weapon.
They don't want to be inconvenienced,
because fact of the matter is no one had a discussion,
no one's engaging in a debate about banning guns.
We're having a conversation about common sense laws that
will in the very least minimize the occurrences,
the mass murders that were experiencing on a daily basis,
but they can't be inconvenienced by that.
They can't, by the way, they want to tell you what you can and
can't do with your body because they're supposedly pro life.
Garbage and I'm sick of journalists taking what they say at face value,
and not calling them out on their hypocrisy when they claim they care
about the lives of zygotes.
but don't give a damn about living, breathing bible outside the womb
human beings who are being gunned down in this country on a daily basis,
just so they can enjoy their little hobby just so
they can enjoy their hobby with no inconveniences.
So Lauren Silva found two year old Aiden, my boyfriend handed me this little boy and
said he was underneath his father who was shot in the leg,
they were trying to stop the bleeding.
So I brought the boy downstairs into the garage,
Aden was protected from the gunfire by Kevin's body even as the man lay wounded,
Irena's father and Aiden's grandfather said.
So here's two year old Aiden who doesn't have parents
anymore because the right wing disgusting zealots in
this country don't care about his parents.
They don't care about Aiden's life,
they don't care about living in a country that's actually safe and free.
There's Irena and Kevin McCarthy,
there's a go fundraiser to raise money to help support Aden to
help support his grandparents who will now be raising him.
And if you would like to contribute to it you can go to go fund me,
and we'll provide a link for
this fundraiser in the description box for the story.
So apparently when they first found him, the little boy was asking for his parents.
He kept asking our mom and dad coming back soon?
And he kept saying the same thing to his grandfather,
when I picked him up, he said our mommy and daddy coming soon.
He doesn't understand
we are living in hell right now.
This country is a disgrace, the leadership in this country, yes, I'm talking
about democratic leadership because they are in charge after all disgrace.
Republicans are part of a massive death cult in this country,
they proved it to us during this lengthy pandemic.
When they were unwilling to do the bare minimum to keep themselves, their
loved ones and their communities safe from a highly contagious and lethal virus.
They've proven it to us when they continued pushing the use of
pharmaceutical drugs to treat COVID when there was no scientific
evidence indicating that it did in fact effectively treat COVID.
We experienced it as they refuse to wear masks,
we experience it as they refuse to even entertain
a conversation about common sense, gun control.
I believe in the right to bear arms, it is in our constitution.
I believe in having a weapon to protect yourself,
I've talked about that on this show.
I'm not an advocate for banning guns, I am an advocate for
legislation for laws that can help prevent the kind
of mass shooting that the people in highland park
Illinois experienced over 4th July Weekend.
I'm a proponent of doing what's necessary to keep parents alive so
they can raise their own children.
So we don't have two year old orphans running around that's what I'm
a proponent of, I'm a proponent of actual freedom, actual liberty.
I'm a proponent of what this country was supposed to stand for,
despite the fact that we have well funded right wing organizations in
this country that have slowly but
surely chipped away at everything that this country was supposed to be about.
Everything that was supposed to make this country great, I'm all over
the place with my commentary here, but I mean, what else is there left to say?
They're doing what they can to burn books, to silence teachers,
to censor social studies and history curriculum.
So they can rewrite history to their advantage and
pretend like we're all morons and we don't know what's going on.
As if we don't understand that there is one very specific group of
people in this country who have shown us time and
time again that their hobbies, that corporate profits,
that pretty much everything that they value will take priority over human lives.
Little Aiden's life was destroyed that day, and
while the right wing pretends to care about babies,
they pretend to care about, the precious babies, the precious babies.
That's why we need to be authoritarians and take control over women's bodies,
those precious babies, you don't care about babies.
The right wing doesn't care about babies at all, they don't care about human lives.
They will watch you wither away suffer waste away on the streets with
your entire family, suffering from extreme poverty.
And those point to you and be like bootstraps,
where are your bootstraps learn to use those bootstraps?
We have endless gun deaths in this country and
they don't care, they don't care about any of us.
And I'm sick of the fact sick to my stomach that all
we have as a line of defense to protect us from these
monsters in this country is sleepy, Joe Biden.
Homeboy couldn't even be bothered to visit Illinois,
he sent Kamala Harris got to take my nap.
Too busy scheming with Mitch McConnell to provide
a lifetime judgeship to an anti choice,
right wing Zealot in Kentucky, that's what Joe Biden is up to.
That's the democratic leadership, that's supposed to protect us from
the authoritarians, from all the deaths, all the pain, all the suffering that's
very intentionally implemented upon all of us by the right wing in this country.
I do this show every day, and I'm supposed to come on screen and
pretend like I'm some sort of robot with no emotion.
I'm supposed to read about a two year old boy who is an orphan now, and
pretend like no, I'm just here to give you the news,
I'm just here to give you the facts of the story and let's move it along.
What's the next story, what's the next issue?
News cycle is always moving, this country is broken, it's an embarrassment.
And every time someone says exactly what I just said right now,
you have right wingers up in arms, you have republicans up in arms.
How dare they say that this country is not great, this country is not great.
We are a laughing stock, we are an embarrassment on the international stage.
We aggressively support policies that
kill members of our own communities.
That is what this country is about half of it is part of a death cult.
The other half is just weak, embarrassing, pathetic, lays down and
lets all this happen, that is what America is and nothing to be proud about.
What are you guys proud about?
I want someone to tell me what are we supposed to be proud about with
America and where it's at, in this very moment.
Where two year old becoming an orphan as a result of politicians failure
to do the basic minimum, the bare minimum in protecting Americans.
Are we supposed to be proud of this?
How are we supposed to claim that we're living in a free country?
Do you feel free when you're afraid for your life every time you're at a public
event because a mass shooter could just open fire with no problem?
Do you feel free knowing that any lunatic can go to a gun show, and buy whatever
weapon, however many weapons they want from the back of someone's truck.
No background checks, nothing standing in his or her way.
But let's keep it real his way, let's keep it real ladies and gentlemen,
all the fear mongering about Muslim terrorists in America.
How laughable is that?
When I don't know, I feel like every week there's another 20 something
white guy who decides I'm depressed or I'm worried about immigrants or
I'm worried about this, I'm worried about that.
So let me just go and
murder a bunch of people because what's gonna stop him, right?
You got tucker Carlson almost defending the shooter claiming like,
can you blame him?
I mean poor white guy living living in era where all
these women are telling him how unfair the world is and
how he's a privileged guy.
Yeah, it's the women's fault.
It's the women's fault that a 22 year old white guy
decided to take the guns that he purchased legally.
Okay, he purchased guns legally after the cops showed up to his home on two
different occasions.
Once after he threatened to kill himself, once after he claimed he
was gonna kill everyone else with his massive inventory of swords and knives.
After that, after that, let me repeat after that,
he purchased guns legally and then proceeded to destroy the lives
of the individuals who are at that parade in Highland Park Illinois.
What is there to be proud of?
Someone tell me, we control people's bodies.
We so hate and division,
we overthrow democratically elected leaders in other countries.
What is there to be proud of?
I'm not proud to be American.
I have so much embarrassment in my heart every single day sitting on
this at this desk, sharing these stories with you because this is where I was born.
This is my country, this is my identity, and
all we do is engage in actions that lead to pain and
suffering both within our borders and outside our borders.
And then we puff up our chest and
pretend like we live in the greatest country in the world?
No, we don't