the people around them knew that both killers had toldd other people they planned to t commit a mass shooting and then they did. what can we learn fromys this ? well, the first most obvious answer is that the system in place didn t work. candace owens teacher sent him to a mental hospital for evaluation. they knew he was a threat. they tried their bestea . cr he committed a massacre anyway. so we know for a fact that what we re doing isn t working. but we should also be honest enough to acknowledgeed that its very hard to know what to do. instead, despite what you may have heard, the problem isn t that we don t care enough. there s not a person in this h country who was not horrifiedht by the sight of murdered children. it s the worstre thing. and everybody thinks that them problem is that the human mind is much more complex and hardere to control than we like to admit. a person who is intent on committing violence is very hard to stop under any c circumstances. an act of con
authorities who sent him to the emergency room for a psychiatric evaluationlu. gender was there for just twenty hours as he wrote later in his diary, quote i got out of it because i stuck with the story that i wastory getting ouf class and i just stupidly wrote that down. that s the reasonown. i believe i m still able to purchase guns. . t he was lyingng general s intention to a commit mass murder was, as he later wrote, quote,s not a jokee . i wrote that downwn because that s what i was planning to do and he was taking gendron was mentally ill this classmates knew that gendron made strange facial expressions and said odd things m in class. last year he showed up for f school for a full week wearingul a hazmat suit, boots, gloves, everything recalled another student. police and school administrators understood perfectly well the gendrontors potentially dangerous. that s why they sent him too the psych ward even his ownve parents must have knownso that something was very wrong
in chicago, thirty three were gunned down, five of those died in laguna woods, california, chinese immigrant from las vegas walked into a presbyterian church and shot six elderly taiwanese parishioners. police say he was motivated by some kind of political and ethnic hatred. and of course, most famously of all, on saturday afternoon a teenager in a mock military uniform walked into a grocery store in buffalo and shot more than a dozen strangers with a rifle. no doubt you ve seen accounts of this on the news which you probably haven t seen details w about any of the 10 americans who were murdered in that store in buffalo. you may not even know their names, much less who they were or who they loved. most of them were black. we know that . but beyond the way they look, not a lot has been reported about them because the coverage hasn t beenth about them nor in fact has it really been about the gunman. unhe was an 18 year old called paten gendron.le gendron was mentally illd peyto
however you feel aboutee that fact, you can acknowledge that we will neverl get rid off all of those guns. the constitution prohibits that and you would t set off a civil war if you tried to do it. so gunet control y, what do your find the slogans appealing or not will not stop the next patrón gendron nl or salvator ramos and every rational person knows it. knothe only way to stop these killings is to figure out why american society is producing so many violent young men. there is a reason they are acting this way. what is that reason?it and it s not just mass shooters by the way. the ones you see on television. it s gang, bangers and carjackers and armedri robbers and indiscriminate haters who put strangers in front of a subway train who. we have a lot of people like that in this country all ofou a sudden more than you d like to think about.is why are they acting this way? that s the only question that matters. of course it s the only question our leaders hate to address because t
this morning to speak about what payton gendron did. there have a been a number of mass murders since biden became president. some of them have been racially motivated a little over a year agoo a, in fact, there was even another supermarket massacre that happened to have the same casualty total. a syrian bornri man murdered ten people in boulder, colorado even use the same caliber rifle that patrón gendron brought to buffaloo. but joe biden didn t bother to fly to that crime scene. he didn t go to any of them. in fact, biden went to buffalo today because he thought he could blamehat his political opponents for what happened there, which of course he promptly did watch. and other nations ask me heads of state and other countries to ask me what s going on , what inin god s name happened on january six ? what happened in buffalo? what have to ask january six and the buffalo massacre. so how was a political protestde capital related to a murder spree by a demented teenager