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When the Internet Meets the Bullet: Deconstructing Mass Shootings · D-constructing Topics

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Welcome to the Deconstructing Topic Podcast. My name is David, and I'm your host.
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Your host of the legendary Deconstructing Topic Podcast. So my name is David. Yes, David.
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We always got some good shows, some interesting stuff. I always want to bring in,
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I always want to do like Something where I could just communicate with you On
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a weekly basis I have like a podcast where I did it early on You know things
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Spotify, Apple Podcast,
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And once again We're in the news Talking about
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something very sensitive Something that stokes a lot of emotions A lot of opinion
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And what happened in Minnesota Yesterday in regards to the mass shooting It's
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one of those things that left two children Dead and over a dozen wounded And
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it's one of those things that I always said,
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It's going to bring the opinion of opinion of everybody that's everybody in
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regards to these things.
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Now, I want to say is this.
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Growing up in certain parts of the Bronx, certain parts of New York City,
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especially in the 80s, 90s, it gets wild.
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And it was wild back then. And it's still things that.
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That it still haunts. And it is interesting because today in New York City,
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we have two different headlines from two of the main newspapers here in New York City,
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where one talks about the mass shooting, right?
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Makes a couple of, I cannot say, interject here on what exactly,
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oh, you know, mass shooting, you know, they focus on the individual.
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And then the other newspaper It has the headline Of someone who Was killed in
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Harlem And basically they saying well,
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You know stuff like this is happening A little bit too much once again in Harlem
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Innocent bystanders get gunned down Especially an elder Elder lady And then
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you know it's a little headline of the mass shooting I mean it's interesting because,
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You know those two Newspapers here in New York City They have total opposite
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of philosophy when it comes to politics, who they sponsor, whatever the case
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might be, right? One would be left, one would be right.
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And I'm one to always have said that when it comes to mass shooting or anything
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to that effect, it's one of the times where Americans talk about violence.
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And I want to say that for some reason, violence is something that's always
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brushed off in certain parts of our neighborhood, in the Bronx, let's say,
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where we just brush it off like, ah, you know, it's gang violence,
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whatever violence or whatever the case might be.
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And people are just like, oh, you know, we got to address the situation with
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gang violence. And I always said, look, violence is violence, right?
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And it's interesting because there was a couple of days ago,
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that was headlined that in the bronze you had a couple of mass shooting within an eight-hour period,
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two different situations and a shooting robbery of Amazon drivers.
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So now, you know, in definition, my understanding is that mass shooting would
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involve three victims or involve three people that are being shot at.
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So, you know, it just how in this country, how they grab the headlines and make
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it something where it triggers the emotional people. Now, my observation in
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regards to mass shooting, and I'm wanting to say I'm an internet baby.
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Yeah, internet baby since the 90s. Let's go.
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It's a website that says, I forgot what's it in here. I'm not even going to
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say. I forgot the name. It's called Tistas.
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Forgot the spelling, basically. And if you look at the top 10 mass shooting,
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like when it comes to victim, and I, you know, before I did this podcast,
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you know, I wanted to kind of like show, okay, let's see the numbers.
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If you look at 7 of the 10 mass shooting films.
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It has occurred in the last 20, 25 years. Now, I'm an intimate internet baby, right?
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And I want to bring this up because I always see that there is a connection
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between the internet, the social medias, and mass shooting.
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Now, there's other observations. There's other things, too, that I could see that tie up.
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You know, there's always something where people don't like to talk about it.
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But let's say there has been mass shooting that are part of the military.
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There have been mass shooters that have been taking, a lot of them, have been taking Mets.
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As a matter of fact, the first mass shooting in Texas, and I talked about this before, Mets.
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But, you know, no one is going to go after the Mets. No one's going to go after
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Big Pharma because it's always a thing with guns.
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And it seems that everything that's around seems to kind of not become an issue, right?
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But I often observe, and if I remember, and as a matter of fact, when I was a teenager.
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Back in the late 90s, for me, when I like,
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if I'm, and I'm trying to recall, I think in terms of the media that they centralize
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it and, you know, sadly, those individuals was the student in Columbine over
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there in Colorado, right?
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And it's one of those things that I always said that I always observed is that
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I always kind of make that connection.
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And there's always something about the internet. There's always something about these social medias.
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That have kind of amped up our emotions and how easy we could be able to kind
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of buy a gun. And I'm not even going to say that a lot of these mad shooters
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got it online because they probably got it in their local shop and then you already know.
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Some people, some of these gun stores, they probably, hey, we need money. We got to sell the guns.
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Background check, you know, we'll check 50% of it. You know what I mean? That's one topic.
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Mads, mental issue. You know, it's a lot of things that we For some reason we
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tend to forget And we just,
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you know, want to point out that Hey, this is people And I know it's going to
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be controversial I know that some people have brought up The situation where
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it seems like it's a trend now,
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Of trans people who have committed the crime And again, and I want to say You
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could grab either this person That's a, you know, quote unquote straight Or
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whatever the case might be Or they religious,
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Now we bring in the trance And I will guarantee you If we take away those things,
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What's behind that There's something more sinister.
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And again we could bring up the mads We could bring mental issues But that's
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not the sexy thing That's not the headline That's going to make reforms And
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that's not what The mainstream media is going to gravitate To be like you know
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what This is why we need this and that,
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But I always often said That the behavior of us human Now me personally.
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You're up in the hood. I'm going to say we live in a crazy time back then, back in the 80s and 90s.
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Now, because people have cell phones, you know, the crime stats have probably gone up.
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You know, because a cell phone, now people could take pictures,
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cameras. So, you know, some people might be reluctant.
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The way that we see things are a little bit different because it used to be, and I often said this,
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It used to be that when you get bullied And that's another topic there too It
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would often come that Hey, listen, I'm a school kid from the 80s, 90s So if,
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let's say, when the bullying happened It happened during school hours You could tell a teacher, right?
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You could bring it up to your parents But because of the internet and social
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media bullying is a 24-hour, seven days away type of thing.
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So I'm going to say is that the behavior of humans and certain things,
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certain topics, like I said, mass shooting as well, it have changed because
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now there's a lot of people out there that react to whatever it is and they get more emotional.
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Remember, that's the whole thing of these social medias.
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They make you feel a certain way. They make you despise somebody,
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whatever the case might be, whoever it is, whatever is the current president, whoever, you know,
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whether it's now, whether it's four years ago, whether it's 10,
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20, people are amping up their emotions being on these social.
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And, you know, sometimes, again, it begs the question, should we limit people
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to how much time they got on the internet? You know what I mean?
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But again, it's not the sexy thing to talk about because there's billions of dollars.
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What makes and break these conversations is basically guns, right?
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How can we limit this? How can we do this? We got the mental issue aspect. Yes, please.
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They're lying in me here. Feel free to reach out to me.
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To people that have going through a lot, you know, that having some type of
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mental issues, are we asking what have the system have done?
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Now, I remember hearing a story And I was young But I was not in this country
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But one of the Mass shootings Happened in the 80s I believe it was in California
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In McDonald's I think 20 plus people died,
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And keep in mind You know There's no end to that You know Back then,
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So there was no thing That was stroking The,
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shooter to say You know I gotta do this,
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But it has been reported That the individual Who did the shooting Back in You
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know It was in the mid 80s In California San Diego Whatever the kids might be Right.
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And we could look it up and always, and the person was trying to reach out because
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he knew that they had mental issues.
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Now, it's crazy because they come to a point that in the 80s now,
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we right now have more access to certain things, but for some reason,
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it's still, you know, there's something like, how can I say it to you?
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Because of the internet, you could access health, but because of the internet,
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it has increased how much people are going through mental issues.
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It used to be that it was a limited, selected people in the 80s.
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And I'm not saying that it was less or more, but, you know, the help assistance
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in the 80s was just like not as close as now. It was not available.
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And my understanding, this individual in the mass shooting in California,
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McDonald's, he reached out to somebody and they'd say, well,
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you know, just give it a couple of hours.
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We'll get some help. There were, whoever hotline he spoke to,
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there were going to get help.
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The individual was seeking help. But sadly, those two hours, it was too long.
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And once again, my thing with certain of these mass shootings is that people
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gravitate to go online for some reason.
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They'll do a manifesto, right? They'll write down now.
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There's always something that triggers people to say, you know what?
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Let me do this. Let me do that.
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And that's always been my observation, and for some reason.
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Again, crime is so different now. Things like violence, things, it's just so different.
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And a lot of times, that has to do a lot with the internet.
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You know, you hear people disappearing, meeting people. You hear people go live,
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let's say, on Facebook, Instagram, whatever social media.
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They go out there dissing somebody within a couple of minutes.
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They're getting shot up or vice versa.
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Think about it. You know, that's why I say that, yo, we had a bad going up.
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Because ain't nobody knew anything, but, yo, people ran up to you like,
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yo, let me get your sneakers. Let me get this. Pow.
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It was wild times back then. Wild times, you know, back then.
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Hey, listen, now, can it be that sometimes when people are streaming,
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whatever it is that they're doing, can that stop a crime? Sure.
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Oh, I'm on camera. I'm going to get caught in the phone because this person
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is streaming, and you know what? I'm not going to do nothing crazy.
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But it doesn't stop people from doing it. You know what I mean?
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But the fact that, again, if I look at these And I just look at the top 10 in
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terms of victims Again, 7 out of the last 10 have occurred in the last 25 years,
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That's what happened 25 years in the mid-90s Especially when the internet became
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commercial in the mid-90s And even in the mid-90s, it was still, but by 97, 98,
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Yeah, it was ramping up The internet was ramping it up Especially internet service
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providers Started providing unlimited service,
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Instead of like I remember Was in the company for those people Who remember
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AOL American Online right.
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They were limited Because it was costing money Because you know You use the
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dial up You know for those kids out there That don't even know What the hell
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I'm talking about But yeah we was using the phone The old school phone The landline
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To get data So you kind of limited The amount of people So basically,
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you know, that's what I'm going to talk about I'm going to do another podcast
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Because I do want to bring how
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these social medias And the internet has changed the course of humanity,
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For the most part, it has been good Because there's a lot of information There's
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a lot of things that we do And it's right on our fingertips.
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But there's a lot of emotion at what cost Is technology at what cost?
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The other thing too is like I want to bring up and I always say,
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hey, listen, one thing that I always have noticed in America,
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America is like this person that's sitting on the couch waiting to be entertained
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by anything while the world is burning around them, right?
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And it only reacts if your house is burning, but we don't react when somebody's
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neighbor's house, we don't react because we're just waiting to be entertained.
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And if one thing that I've noticed, and I remember, and I always remember,
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because now, sadly, because it's hitting schools, now it's hitting,
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you know, religious institutions, which,
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again, it used to be not that thing.
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With schools and religious institutions, sadly, especially religious institutions, church.
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A few years back, you know, what happened with the kid that goes and does mass
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shooting in South Carolina.
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But the thing is this, United States in general rule the consumers.
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So in the week when the Ovade shooting happened years ago in Texas,
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sadly, once again, kids, kids, kids, kids. You know, you ain't that to happen.
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I'm one not to be like, oh, because it's kids. Look, listen,
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I grew up again in the hood.
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In the top of my head, when I was in Africa, there was two kids in my class
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that got shot. They were kids, 12, 13.
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And they knew and I knew people of their young brothers, sisters got shot.
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So when the shooting happened, the number one movie in that week was John Wick.
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Was it John Wick 3, I believe? John Wick 4? think about it what is john wick
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right action-packed movie with a lot of guns and a lot of shooting,
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what i'm saying to you my peoples the day that united states stopped being the
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the day that united states or americans and i'm not even gonna say american
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people in general people that are living in this country the day that they stop
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becoming consumers things perhaps might change But as long as we are consumers,
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this thing will continue to happen.
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As long as people go to the movies and continue to love these action-packed
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John Wick movies, I enjoy them.
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I ain't going to do something like John Wick, but I enjoy the movies.
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Video games, too. I enjoy them. But a lot of them, even Fortnite, has guns.
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You know what I mean? It has them.
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So if you're going to start a revolution About ending mass shooting
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Then you might as well Start a revolution About ending
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it all And I'm not sure
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And I would highly doubt it If that's going
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to happen Well that's my take on that situation Once again hopefully You enjoyed
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