Richard Martinez a son was one of the victims in the Santa Barbara shooting
and he talked about his son christopher during a CNN interview and it's a really
really difficult video to watch because
not only is the advocating for gun control you can see the emotion just
pouring out of him
and you can see how frustrated and angry he is with congress
and their in action according to him let's take a look
so the reason I'm doing this right now
try to see if we can do anything
to make my son's death mean something
because that's all we've got if there's all these things
in the media about the shooter
and there's nothing about the victims then it sends the wrong message
and the people need to understand
that real people died here and they need to know
put faces names and histories
to the people people who died to make it real for them
I think he makes a really great point about that because oftentimes when
the mainstream press covers the shootings they focus solely on the
shooter they they identify him
and I think a lot of other people who see that a lot of people who
also carry out shootings later kinda been turned on a bye
by the pain that comes along with that and so that's the reason why we're not
talking about
or identifying the shooter although obviously a lot of you already know who
he is
but he makes a great point there I mean these are innocent people
that were fatally shot or stabbed because this guy
could not get a woman to sleep with him I mean the sentiment I don't mean he had
with absolutely sick
and you know later on we're gonna talk about the number people were actually
defending him and the number people actually felt sorry for him
but I before we get to that lets go to the second video the politicians after
Sandy Hook swore that they would do something
we're all proud to be americans but what kind of message does it send to the
world
when we have such an subject such
a rudderless buncha
idiots in government I can't tell you
how angry I am you it's just
awful and no parent should have to go through this
no parent to have a kid dying
because in this kinda situation where
what has changed how we learn nothing these things are going to continue until
somebody does something
so where the hell is the leadership where that Howarth
these people we elect a congress that we spend so much money on
these people getting rich sitting in congress it what do they do
they don't take care of our kids my kid died
because nobody responded to a record at Sandy Hook
both parents rothman ok words it's bad enough but I lost my 20-year-old
but I heard twenty years of my problem there are other
but those people are ridiculous things in 30 years old
how do you think very very rope but whose brother do that now
who do you think they were there now who
start me up those kids that died back then but an elementary school
why wasn't something done it's outrageous
it's really difficult video to watch
and he is referencing congress voting down
a strict gun laws including a background checks federal back background checks
%uh a limit to magazine capacity basically commandant sense
logger lower gun reform I should say that would
prevent mass shootings from happening that would prevent guns
a falling in the hands of the wrong people and
up you know in this case again he lived in a state the shooter lived in a state
that had the strictest gun laws and unfortunately it wasn't enough he still
was able to legally purchase guns and he was still able to use those guns to kill
three people
and again he stabbed his roommates the three people that he stabbed
first but were his roommates they had absolutely nothing to do with
anything they were quiet students that never gave many problem
but this guy was unhinged I mean he was diagnosed with something Aspergers
Syndrome
he was given drugs are prescribed drugs he refused to take them
he still got his hands on guns he still carried out this heinous act
and when you really look into our gun laws look guys the reality is
its heavily influenced by gun manufacturers it always goes back to
money in politics regardless of what you believe about gun laws regardless of
whether or not you're an advocate for god's
the reality is your opinion doesn't really matter because gun manufacturers
have all the power the
NRA which gets funded by these gun manufacturers
has all the power to give you an example ProPublica looked into
studies that were done %uh in gun laws and what they found was this
since 1996 when a small CBC funded study on the risks owning a firearm ignited
opposition from Republicans
the CDC's budget for research on firearm injuries
was shrunk 20 so why why would they do that why would they be fun not type
research
it's because it goes against what they want to do and that is to profit as much
as possible from selling
as many guns as possible so unfortunately you see that video with
the victim's father
he's upset and of course you CNN you can't help but tear up as you see it
but unfortunately nothing will be done unless you get the money out of politics
unless you ensure
that gun manufacturers stop funding the NRA and the NRA stops funding
politicians
we need common sense gun legislation that's not to say that we need to ban
guns I'm certainly not an advocate for that
but I'm definitely an advocate of making sure that we have the strictest
background checks possible
so crazy ass people don't get their hands on guns
we don't legally purchased three guns in a three-month span
to carry out shootings that killed six innocent people