It hits even more so as I recorded a podcast that's dropping tomorrow. I do this segment with a friend of mine, and it's a little bit different than any other episodes I do. And we just pick topics to talk about. Some of them could be sports or whatever. We rotate. He chose to discuss mass shootings because last week we've had four in a matter of 48 hours
Brandon Novara
@theaveragejoe · 2:59
Okay, well, that's not going to work. And we know that because now we lived in the United States where that's not been the case can't go back and change history. You can sit there and say, make tighter gun laws. Gun laws. Okay, well, last week during the Buffalo shooting, we had a guy who made a 100 page manifesto who literally spoke out against I mean, he was a racist from the start. He posted things all over social media
It's a mental health problem. It's a society problem. And unfortunately, the way it goes is sometimes you got to fight fire with fire. And that seems to be the case here, unfortunately. And it burns my a**, man, to hear about these things because they're so preventable, and it's just sad. These poor kids are on the last day of school, and some loser comes in and does that. Just blows my mind, man
Good morning, Brandon. Thank you for making this this podcast. I just heard about the news this morning. I live all the way in New Jersey. And and it is so devastating to hear how this 18 year old boy, he's still a kid. He still had life before him. And he goes into this elementary school for whatever reason and does this to these kids. And the news over here is saying that it was 19 children and two adults that was killed
The answer is not just banning guns or checking people mentally, Unfortunately, I wish that was the solution, and if that was it, I would be all for it. But the thing is that I'm in a country that does all that and it doesn't work. The bad guys still get the guns. The bad guys still drive cars. Unfortunately rent people over that's crazy world we live in
Brandon Novara
@theaveragejoe · 5:00
I can't even fathom this right now. What we're finding out is he made a post on Instagram, pictures of his ammunition, bags of it, as well as his guns that he had, which I find very disturbing because in this day and age, you pretty much get blocked from everything if you say certain keywords. But yet he was managed to do this post. His friend or one of his only friends that he plays video games with online
Brandon Novara
@theaveragejoe · 1:57
When I went to a bad school, I went to school every day realizing that I was going to go home. Now we have children that are scared to go to school because they might not come home. And that's not a small percentage. That's not becoming a reality. This is becoming a real situation for our kids. And it's bad enough when you have the situation in Buffalo where a racist comes out there and targets specific people to kill them
Brandon Novara
@theaveragejoe · 1:21
It's almost really, honestly, felons can even own a gun, depending on what the felony is. You're 18, you can't buy a beer, but you can buy a gun. You don't have a domestic charge or a felon. You can get a handgun. Go carry it around. No background checks, no training, no fingerprints, nothing, and just carry it around. This kid was 18 years old. He can't even buy a beer anywhere. Bought a gun
Their developmental stage at that time set is really determined on who is raising them, what is being put into their minds and how they're being treated, whether they're being neglected, whether they being abused at cost. A lot of situations as a child grow up and a lot of people don't understand how being neglectful, being abusive to their child really has a bad effect on them, which causes the outcome of what happened on Tuesday
Brandon Novara
@theaveragejoe · 3:48
Look, I'm a single parent and I do what I can do, but it's obviously that his mom is not involved. I don't mean that. But when I say that I raise my son, I raise my son. I have a job that allows me, thank God, to be able to be flexible and spend the amount of time I can with my son