in this quiet neighborhood all day long. it s been quiet here. just in the last few minutes, a little bit of act tuft. we had a neighbor come up and hold a sign basically criticizing the media for nonstop 24/7 coverage of mat shootings. but the home itself we know that ian mercer lives here. he is the father. lives here with his wife and stepdaughter. one neighbor tells us about the last 10 years. mercer left the house this morning. did no stop to talk to the media last night he did make a brief statement expressing shock and sadness over the incident. he declined to spook further about his son. neighbors here tell us that that they had very little interaction with the shooter. they only saw him visit a few times. another neighbor we spoke to said he never saw chris harper mercer are and didn t even realize that the shooter was his neighbor s son. so, again now, this is california. we are learning more about chris harper mercier, that he lived in nearby
increase in mass shootings over the last 40 years. so we really need to be careful about who we pin the blame on because it s very difficult to prevent a random event and while certainly we need to improve the mental health system, i don t know that there is much more we could have done in this situation, which feels very helpless for all of us to accept. i just want to be clear. your information is that in the last 40 years, is there has been no uptick in mass murder. it s just the media now it s 24/7. so it reports these stories very aggressively. so in the mind of people, it seems like there has been. but, in reality, it hasn t changed in 40 years? is that what you are saying? what i m saying is that there is an old saying, figures lie and liars figure. you can use statistics to undercut or support any argument. if you use the definition that the fbi uses of mat shootings, there really hasn t been an increase. interesting. certainly in the last few years we have seen higher
increase in mass shootings over the last 40 years. so we really need to be careful about who we pin the blame on because it s very difficult to prevent a random event and while certainly we need to improve the mental health system, i don t know that there is much more we could have done in this situation, which feels very helpless for all of us to accept. i just want to be clear. your information is that in the last 40 years, is there has been no uptick in mass murder. it s just the media now it s 24/7. so it reports these stories very aggressively. so in the mind of people, it seems like there has been. but, in reality, it hasn t changed in 40 years? is that what you are saying? what i m saying is that there is an old saying, figures lie and liars figure. you can use statistics to undercut or support any argument. if you use the definition that the fbi uses of mat shootings, there really hasn t been an increase. interesting. certainly in the last few years we have seen higher
and i am sure it was two guys. disas it is as easy as that. people questioning whether the death of ivan lopez s mother in november had anything to do with that. apparently because the army would only give him one day off to go to puerto rico. seems to be a few reasons to look into there, though the actions are unreasonable. colonel ralph peters says this might be more, this might be a change in society. i see a deeper cultural issue here where when i was at fort hoodรง 25 years ago in the days of chariots and spears, it was unthinkable. it wasn t in our behavioral vocabulary to do mat shootings. we had psychos. wewill always have them in massive organizations. but now in our society, between video games, the internet, constant near celebrations of mass shootings it has become