if he was going to hold onto the white house. that was the big issue. we are covering it going into election night. it was a huge deal when biden won arizona. arizona. are you 100% sure of that call and when you made it and why did you make it? absolutely. we made it after basically a half hour of debating it. we finally called it right now. nbc news is projecting that when every last vote is counted in the state of arizona, joe biden will be awarded 11 electoral votes. joe biden your projected winner in the state of arizona. trump and his allies were enraged over exactly that call, especially the fox news call to arizona. it was seen as kind of the nail in the coffin as a state that the trump folks would need to win or somehow continue to cast as too close to call, which might offend these plots you re hearing about. fox later fired the staffer who accurately called arizona for biden. it was close. they were separated by 10,000 votes. biden won with 1.6 million votes
that is an absolutely striking statistic. so there is more gun ownership which creates more opportunities for the use of guns and not just for self-defense, which you know is legal, but for the illegal use of guns like the murder of other people. there are other factors. but studies continuously show gun availability continues to drive things to the situation we re in. cdc data shows gun deaths surged 35% just last year. you see the surge there. it s the highest number ever recorded in american history. if you feel like things are getting worse right now, that s because they are. there s a difference in what makes news, what might get in your social feed. they hear about local news more about stuff that s far away. but the data tells the story. this is disproportion alley affecting communities. it was over 20 times higher for black men than white men.
seeing, that is that the onomy and crime, one and two, you see it there, people say they are most worried about out of all the things they have to be concerned about, 21% of voters said the breakdown of moral values is why this is happening. followed by weaker criminal penalties, gun availability and decreased police funding. so that s coming out of the surveys from americans talked to. of course, part of the crime surge is the disturbing rise in smash and grab retail thefts where mobs of people come in and again some of them don t even know each other but they have criminality in common. in los angeles to cite one example 14 looters arrested recently and thanks to progressive bail policies, they were right back out on the streets. florida says no way, not for that state. they ll take action. florida has formed a database
battlefield but cultural language, interaction and cues and treating the ptsd coming back. think about this. $800 million for that latest video game. what? grand theft auto 5. whatever. $800 million. a lot of kids one day. that s right. so then the question is, why aren t they all killing? how do we identify the ones who like this aaron alexis? 18 hours a day and then shoots people. there s another question, too, which is in the other large game markets, japan being the other biggest one, violent crime is extremely low. doctor, how do you answer that? dr. sharp, violent crime is extremely low in japan. there are cultural factors, gun availability. in terms of american mentality, i think the big thing is whether someone s vulnerable to mental illness. in the mass shootings, nine of
nothing to do with the battlefield but cultural language, interaction and cues and treating the ptsd coming back. think about this. $800 million for that latest video game. what? grand theft auto 5. whatever. $800 million. a lot of kids one day. that s right. so then the question is, why aren t they all killing? how do we identify the ones who like this aaron alexis? 18 hours a day and then shoots people. there s another question, too, which is in the other large game markets, japan being the other biggest one, violent crime is extremely low. doctor, how do you answer that? dr. sharp, violent crime is extremely low in japan. there are cultural factors, gun availability. in terms of american mentality, i think the big thing is whether someone s vulnerable to mental illness. in the mass shootings, nine of