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Columbus new domestic violence program · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: So I thought I was gonna gripe about one thing,
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  Speaker 1: and then as I'm reading through, you know, various news
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  Speaker 1: stories and everything. I try to stay as local as
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  Speaker 1: possible most nights, well, I mean, everybody else the talking
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  Speaker 1: heads do the national stuff. You got them for that.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm here. I'm a hometown guy. I come across
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  Speaker 1: the story on the ten TV website and it bugs
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  Speaker 1: me in so many ways. First of all, just the
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  Speaker 1: the the concept of this Office of Violence Prevention in
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  Speaker 1: the city of Columbus just bugs me. If having an
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  Speaker 1: office of violence, why not have an Office of car
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  Speaker 1: theft prevention? And come on, and more government, more bureaucracy,
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  Speaker 1: more bs ten TV story. Columbus me or Andrew Ginther
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  Speaker 1: tasked the Office of Violence Prevention to work on programs
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  Speaker 1: to help both. Here's the problem, domestic violence victims and
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  Speaker 1: batterers get help. Okay, let's not turn the people who
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  Speaker 1: beat on their family members into victims here, that's right
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  Speaker 1: off the bat first paragraph. I got a problem with this.
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  Speaker 1: We need to we need to help the batterers get help.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody beat the snot out of you or me
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  Speaker 1: or Zack, well, Zach would deserve it. But if somebody
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  Speaker 1: beat the snot out of somebody on the street, you
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  Speaker 1: knew who they were. There was a first hand witness
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  Speaker 1: because they were the person get beaten up. What would
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  Speaker 1: happen to them, What would happen to Whatever they face
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  Speaker 1: for arbitrarily beating a stranger on the street, they should
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  Speaker 1: face for beating somebody in their family. Just because you
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  Speaker 1: label a domestic violence doesn't mean there needs to be
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  Speaker 1: any nice their process. Battering and abusing somebody is battering
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  Speaker 1: and abusing. I don't care if they're your wife, or
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  Speaker 1: your husband, or your kids. When you mistreat another human being,
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  Speaker 1: you should pay the price and giving you special consideration
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  Speaker 1: because you happen to be married or in a domestic
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  Speaker 1: partnership or whatever. Just that All that does is create
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  Speaker 1: more problems and a need for more bureaucracy and more
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  Speaker 1: more offices that don't make sense. I'm gonna do the
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  Speaker 1: first paragraph. Two out of three homicides in the city
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  Speaker 1: of Columbus this year this year, of course, being twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five being investigated, is possible domestic violence. Last Thursday
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  Speaker 1: shootout with eighteen in Columbus stemmed from a domestic violence
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  Speaker 1: incident as well Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther tasked the Office
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  Speaker 1: of Violence Prevention to work on programs to help both
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  Speaker 1: domestic violence victims and batterers get help. The eighteen year
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  Speaker 1: old woman called nine one one last Thursday saying her
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend had a gun and threatened to shoot her. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: credible threat. Right there, She identified herself, Come help me.
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  Speaker 1: Police arrived. The team allegedly shot multiple times at officers. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: officers return fire. That part's good. No one was shot,
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  Speaker 1: as that bugs me. I mean, if people are out
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  Speaker 1: there launching high speed projectiles into the air at one another,
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  Speaker 1: it would be be efficient if somebody actually got hit
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  Speaker 1: by one. Where did they go? Otherwise, it's a legitimate question.
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  Speaker 1: Officers are firing, bad guys firing. There's bullets flying, but
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  Speaker 1: nobody got hit. Well, something got hit, thankfully, Apparently it
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  Speaker 1: was not a bystander or somebody's standing on their front
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  Speaker 1: porch or taking out their Christmas tree. Domestic violent homicides
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  Speaker 1: have significantly increased in the past three years. Last year
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  Speaker 1: there were twenty three domestic violent homicides. Oh, it's DV
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  Speaker 1: by the way, because we have to abbreviate everything now
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  Speaker 1: everything has an abbreviation. You don't have maculi dinner degeneration.
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  Speaker 1: You got the MD is what you got. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have a what is it a testosterone? Low testosterone? You
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  Speaker 1: get LT or low T. Yeah, everything's going to be yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, last year, there were twenty three DV homicides.
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  Speaker 1: There were twenty five in twenty twenty three and seven
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. We recognize that DV homicides require
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  Speaker 1: a nuanced approach. Right our office is mainly focused on
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  Speaker 1: gun violence and group violence as well as root violence.
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  Speaker 1: We apolo or we recognize that every five of our
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  Speaker 1: homicides over the course of the past two years are
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  Speaker 1: tied to domestic violence, according to this person from the
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  Speaker 1: city's Office on Domestic or on Violence Prevention. Again, so
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  Speaker 1: what so? What violence is violence? People keep trying trying
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  Speaker 1: to micro manage things and make themselves feel better, more powerful,
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  Speaker 1: more aggressive, more involved by putting special names on it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hate crime. Who cares what you call it.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody enters someplace and mows down a bunch of people,
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  Speaker 1: it's assumed they weren't in love. Does calling it a
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  Speaker 1: hate crime make you feel better? It is what it
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  Speaker 1: is it's murder, it's homicide. It's the very least felonious
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  Speaker 1: assault with a firearm. But we call it hate crime
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  Speaker 1: or we charge someone with a homicide and that hate
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  Speaker 1: crime specification. Why you killed somebody? Do they have to
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  Speaker 1: hate you for you to get the absolute maximum possible
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  Speaker 1: legal penalty? You took their life. Does calling it a
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  Speaker 1: hate crime change that? Is it less offensive? If you
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  Speaker 1: put a bullet in the head of somebody you don't hate,
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  Speaker 1: then if you do hate them, should you get a
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  Speaker 1: lighter sentence? I mean, look, the logic follows. If you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna say, well, it should be a harsher sentence if
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  Speaker 1: it was done through hate, well, then should it be
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  Speaker 1: a lighter sentence if it was not done through hate?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sung, man, this stuff is so stupid. To combat
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  Speaker 1: the increase, the story continues to combat the increase in
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  Speaker 1: domestic violence, This Office of Violence Prevention was given LSS
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  Speaker 1: choices or has given LSS choices the only domestic violent shelter.
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  Speaker 1: And why the hell is that, by the way, why
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  Speaker 1: is choices the only domestic violent shelter for women and
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  Speaker 1: children in the city. Why you're telling me the incidences
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  Speaker 1: are going up and the violence level is going up.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of spending stupid money on porta potties for downtown Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: why don't we maybe open some shelters. I know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: completely off the mark. The only domestic violent shelter for
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  Speaker 1: women and children one million dollars last year and Columbus
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  Speaker 1: City Council proved another one million dollars this year. How much, Zach?
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  Speaker 1: How much do we spend on the porta potties? At
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  Speaker 1: least three million? Okay, just check it. The office has
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  Speaker 1: worked up with the courts to create a program. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we have a program. Everything will be okay. Create a
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  Speaker 1: program for those arrested for battering their partner. It's called
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  Speaker 1: Batterer Intervention Program. How long it's taken to come up
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  Speaker 1: with that? So far, fifty people are actively in the program. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's look at these numbers. Fifty people. Wouldn't they then
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  Speaker 1: have to be batterers? But they're they're not in jail
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  Speaker 1: for assaulting someone, for harming someone, for bringing physical harm
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  Speaker 1: to No, they're a program. It takes The average person's
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  Speaker 1: story continues seven times before leaving a domestic violence partner.
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  Speaker 1: That's sad, which is why it's so important to have
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  Speaker 1: a too pronged approach to get help for both the
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  Speaker 1: victims and the batterers. I don't get you. I have
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  Speaker 1: not ever understood this urge, desire, a predisposition, whatever it
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  Speaker 1: is that gets people to bring violence to other people
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  Speaker 1: for no reason. I have to assume it is. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lack of control. If you were it's so
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  Speaker 1: so uncontrolled that you can't keep yourself from going home
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  Speaker 1: and kicking the crap out of the puppy, or smacking
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  Speaker 1: the kids around, or beating the spouse because you've had
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  Speaker 1: a bad day. I mean, do you even belong in society?
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  Speaker 1: You can go home, be mad man sit on the sophaone.
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  Speaker 1: I hate my job, I hate the people I work with,
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  Speaker 1: I hate everyone. I hate the weather outside, I hate
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  Speaker 1: the shape of my car tires. I hate I hate
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  Speaker 1: my ears on the side of my head. They should
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  Speaker 1: be on my chin. I hate you, hate all you want.
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  Speaker 1: People have bad days and get upset about things, but
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  Speaker 1: you don't beat up on somebody because you're mad at
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  Speaker 1: something else or someone else. I've never understood it, And personally,
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  Speaker 1: if you are that person who has to go home
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  Speaker 1: and hurt somebody to deal with, the deal with your disappointment,
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  Speaker 1: with your life, with your day, with your job, with
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  Speaker 1: your income, with your appearance, whatever the hell it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's got you upset, you got to go beat up
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  Speaker 1: somebody to make yourself feel better. As far as I'm concerned,
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  Speaker 1: you don't belong in society. You should be put somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: You are unsafe to have around people what they call
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  Speaker 1: the old corvet, unsafe at any speed. You are unsafe
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  Speaker 1: at any speed because who knows what it is, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna make you flip out. And if there's no kids, puppies,
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  Speaker 1: or spouse available, what the hell, maybe you'll punch out
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  Speaker 1: mine in the grocery store for all I know. I'm sorry, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in areas of basic humanity, decency toward one another.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a very short views. And it's because they're
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  Speaker 1: you know, constantly offices and programs and committees so that
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  Speaker 1: we may better understand that this is why this crap happens,
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  Speaker 1: because instead of dealing with it, we're trying to understand it.
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  Speaker 1: Forget under somebody punch somebody else and hurt them because
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  Speaker 1: their day was bad, their attitude was bad. They're underwear
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  Speaker 1: too tight, they got a hole inners accou the hell knows.
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  Speaker 1: But they hurt someone else due to their lack of
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  Speaker 1: happiness in their life. I don't need to understand. What
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  Speaker 1: I need is for them to be locked somewhere and
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  Speaker 1: away from everyday people. Or maybe that's just me A
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  Speaker 1: two one nine eight eighty six A two one WTV
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  Speaker 1: And again that's my number. If you feel compelled, if
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  Speaker 1: I if I, even if you just will say, man,
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  Speaker 1: you are so completely wrong. You're welcome here because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not that kind of guy. And I don't tell you
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  Speaker 1: agree with me or go away. That's not the way
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  Speaker 1: I roll. I just I think I think we are.
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  Speaker 1: We are just pansying ourselves into a trap that we
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  Speaker 1: will not be able to get out of. It's already
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  Speaker 1: getting dangerous where we're right around the corner from scary