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You see and always see another 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:36.360 side of the human experience and the human soul. And 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.400 it was captured with this football coach. And here you 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.000 have a guy reportedly one of the most like guys. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:48.440 He was literally shielding students yesterday during this massacre at 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:52.320 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School. His name is Aaron Faces. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.680 His name once a security guard at the school, apparently 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.240 went to the school himself. And this guy gives his 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.560 life protecting these kids that he loved under the most 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:10.640 unbelievable circumstances, and m everybody apparently loved this guy, and 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.519 you know, it's so sad and it's so tragic, and 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.840 you know, we we've gotten a lot of information in 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.960 just the last you know, twenty four hours. And so 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:23.440 we got off the air literally we were on the 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:27.519 air yesterday and it was reported up until we ended 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.240 the show about fifty eight minutes after the our fifty 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.720 seven minutes after the hour, that only two people have died. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.120 We're off the air four minutes and it was seventeen 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.919 deaths in the shooting yesterday. It is now the third 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:46.040 largest shooting, worst U S school shootings ever. Um, And 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.680 I know that, you know, when we get this information. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.720 Everybody was saying on TV last night and today that 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:56.639 I've watched if you see something, you gotta say something. Well, 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.240 I want to play for you an interview of a 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:02.640 guy that saw something and it was online and it 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:07.080 was on YouTube, and it was from this guy, Nicholas Cruz, 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.880 and he's saying, I'm going to be a professional school shooter. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:13.920 And he actually said something, and he said it to 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.559 the FBI, and the FBI followed up the next day 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.400 and then we see all his social media fingerprints, and 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.080 all we see on those social media fingerprints, want you know, 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.960 we see this guy is the guy more than a 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.000 number of these kids has said. Quote the headline and 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.000 on the New York Post today is gun Craze Florida 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.920 team joked that he'd shoot up the school. But more importantly, 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.240 that's not a joke. Everybody was saying, this is the guy. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:48.080 He's thrown out of school and for disciplinary issues, he 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.840 sent to another school, which that never makes sense to me. Oh, 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:52.280 we'll throw you out of this school, but we'll keep 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:53.760 you in the district, and we'll show you to another 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.080 We'll send you to another school that never made sense either. 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.320 And the stuff happens, and you know, I'm gonna play 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.320 this for you, and it's not see something, say something, 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.520 because people saw it and said it, and he posted it. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.040 And more often than not, be it a shooting like 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.920 this or a terrorism event, we're finding that these people 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.640 are telegraphing what is in their sick, ugly, twisted, evil 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:25.600 mins and we're not capturing it soon enough. Anyway, here 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.800 is the guy that had picked up this comment on 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:34.640 YouTube September two thousand, seventeen, I sent a a screenshot 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.480 of a comment on one of my videos. Now people 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.760 keep asking me which video was it. I don't know. 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.720 I don't remember what video it was. When I saw 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.920 the comment come through on my UH studio app on 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.919 my iPhone, I screenshot of the comment, I hit the 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:57.920 report button, reported to YouTube. Of course, they removed the comment, 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.120 and then I tried to email it to that b 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:05.000 I UM. I found an email address tips at FBI 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:09.520 dot gov. Sent it to that email address. I immediately 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:14.719 got back a m domain air. Basically that email address 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:19.440 didn't exist. So I looked up the number for UH, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.080 our local field office, and I called and I left 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.200 a message. Well, the next day I had two FBI 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:30.280 agents standing in my office, UM and taking down the information, 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:35.720 taking down the UH, taking copies of the screenshot, and 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.599 asking me questions that of course I couldn't answer. You know, 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:44.840 all it was and my channel was a a comment. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.239 You know, people leave pretty famous comments on a pretty 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:54.120 regular basis on this channel, UM, and I really didn't 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.600 think anything of it. But what I did think was, 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.039 you know, this comment said I'm going to be a 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:05.560 professional school shooter. And I knew that I couldn't just 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.599 ignore that the red flags were all over the place 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.919 here in this particular case. You know, here you have 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.719 a kid I lost his mother apparently three months earlier, 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.080 is living with some family. I don't know why the 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.680 family allowed this kid, who's obviously troubled to go out 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.800 and buy the A R fifteen. And but this is 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.640 not a gun debate, and I'll explain why in a second. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.520 He's expelled from school. He has all of the the 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:35.320 social imprint of somebody that would do something like this, 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.960 and nobody after he's expelled that anybody follow up that 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.200 he was he offered at any point any any help 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.039 from anybody that knew that this guy, you know, had 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.400 these obvious problems. Every kid that I saw interview, for 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.440 the most part, that knew this kid said nobody's surprised 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.640 that he would do something like this. Then you have 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.479 what this guy's explaining here. The FBI is notified, and 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.880 that he's saying, well, I'm I'm gonna be a professional 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:06.960 school shooter. He's involved in apparently incidents of animal cruelty. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.440 And you know that's always a bad indicator. You know, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.360 any any kid that's hurting an animal at some point, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.160 there's there's something wrong at at any point, there's something 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.160 wrong there. But I want to be a professional school shoot. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:23.000 We had the red flags that we all say we want, 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.120 and this guy, this was premeditated, This was planned, this 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:31.680 was orchestrated. This was just he wanted and planned for 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.440 a massacre, and that's what he got yesterday. Now, I'll 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.360 tell you what I'm not gonna do. And I talked 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.360 a little bit about this yesterday. I'm not this is 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.560 not I'm not interested. If you want to call the 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:49.160 show today in any predictable talking points about guns, I 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.800 have a five minute montage I can play and just 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.560 snippets one right after the other, and we'll get to it, 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.520 probably some of it later in the program today. Of 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:03.120 within hours, we don't even know what actually happened, and 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.640 people go out with their talking points and literally this 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.840 is the tragic. Let's go right back to the same 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.320 old arguments we have heard time after time after time 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:18.480 now that the attack is against Okay, are fifteen's Well, 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.760 if you want to know what the number one the 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.320 worst school shooting was, if you remember, this was at 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.560 Virginia Tech in two thousand and seven, and I covered 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.640 that shooting, and you had a loaner who suffered from 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.000 mental health problems, and he shot a student and a 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.400 resident assistant in a dormitory and then he headed into 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:40.040 a classroom building where he chained and locked several doors, 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.760 and then he opened fired with handguns. So those people 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.960 that are gonna make the argument in that particular case, 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.840 thirty two people were killed with handguns. So okay, if 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.920 the argument is we're gonna get rid of are fifteens 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.559 all right? Then the next shooting is that going to 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.480 be with handguns, and we're gonna get rid of all handguns. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:58.920 And at the end, there are people, I think in 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.000 this country that don't believe in the Second Amendment. Here's 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.680 the bottom line, though, in my thirty years of doing 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.160 radio and my twenty three years on TV now I 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.720 can tell you I don't think anybody's mind is going 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.920 to be changed on the issue. So the idea that 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.520 something happens again and we go back to the same 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.640 predictable talking points, to me, is a waste of time. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:27.520 If we really really really care about security at our schools, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.720 as the President said yesterday, no kids should have to 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.400 worry going into a school. Every kid in every school 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.560 in every town and every city in this country should 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.600 feel free and safe. There's a way to do it, 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.320 and it doesn't involve a discussion about the Second Amendment 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:49.160 at all. And here's my solution, and feel free to 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.120 weigh in on it if you think it's got flaws 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:52.440 and you can add to it, or you've got a 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.840 better solution. I mean, at the end of the day, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.480 we don't want this to happen again. I mean we 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.840 can go to the Virginia Tech We had people killed there. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.439 You had Adam Lanza, he shot his mother to death 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.400 and her bad driving a sandy hook. Remember that in Newtown, Connecticut, 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.360 that particular case gunned down twenty children in addition to 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.839 six staff members that was in This doesn't just how 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:21.560 it happened. It happened in in Clinton's administration, Columbine George W. Bush's, Uh, 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.600 it happened in Barack Obama's and now in Donald Trump's. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.440 It's not about politics, and you get the same old debates. 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.560 I think it's pretty simple. Every school now in the 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:41.280 country should have a comprehensive security threat assessment by professionals. 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:43.360 Now you're saying, well, where are you gonna get the 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.920 money for that? Probably the local police would be more 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:51.000 than glad too, and they're already getting paid to go 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.680 to the local school district, spend the time, make the 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:59.600 proper threat assessment and come up with a a comprehensive 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.520 plan and on how to keep the kids in the 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.679 school's safe. Now, I guess the most controversial part of 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.599 my solution is going to be this. Every school is 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:15.960 gonna have to hire enough retired former trained military, retired 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:20.960 former UH trained police officers, and you're gonna have to 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:25.439 secure a the perimeter. You're gonna have to have every 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.400 entry point secured. You're gonna have to make sure that 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.559 every kid that gets in that building belongs in that building. 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:33.760 I can tell you what it's like in New York 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.800 City Post nine eleven, the building that I am broadcasting from, 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.120 I can't get in without an I D that has 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.560 my picture on it. And similarly, if if somebody's coming up, 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.439 they're gonna be a guest on the program. Same thing 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.280 with Fox, you can't get in the building. There is 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:55.520 security literally everywhere. Well, if we really want to secure 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.800 our schools, there's nobody that's gonna be able to convince 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.320 me that that is mission impossible or a task we 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:08.160 cannot accomplish because we're too smart. We've been able to 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.560 do it. If you've got, you know, hundred story buildings 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.600 in New York that you can secure and similarly, and 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:22.679 in some cases maybe maybe that's going to include metal detectors. 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.880 But the bottom line is this, it is something that 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:30.720 could be accomplished without going to the same old, tired, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:36.480 predictable talking points that each side is gonna have. Because 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.640 in the thirty years I've been doing this, I'm pretty 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:42.640 convinced that I have carried a weapon my entire adult life. 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.839 I've been trained in the use of a firearm since 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.400 I am eleven. I've been in marksman since I'm twelve. 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:54.240 In terms of pistol marksman um, I have carried in 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:59.679 New York, Rhode Island, California, Alabama, and Georgia. I've had 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.640 car permits. You know, I was adding up the years. 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:08.080 I have carried more than half my life a firearm. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.920 And I believe in the safety security responsibility in being 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:17.080 a gun owner with a concealed carry permit. And I'd say, 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.440 I don't think everybody has to be trained. Yeah, you know, 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.120 I don't think teachers. The teachers want to teach they 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.439 don't want to be. If they do want to, that's 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.199 that's great. Another person on the front lines. Now, can 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.240 it prevent every school shooting? Probably it's not. There's no 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.440 such thing as perfect security, but I think it could 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.840 stop a lot of it. Number one. And then you 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.400 have people there on the ground that can minimize the 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.600 ability to hurt, injure and kill other people. And that's 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:48.760 called a solution to a problem, rather than you know, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:53.000 the same points that people make after every shooting and 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.880 then nothing happens. If the idea is we don't want 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:02.160 to see what we witness yesterday, Seventeen dead kids, fourteen 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:08.080 or so others, injured, families devastated, broken, I mean, the 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:12.840 worst thing you can imagine. Do we want? Arguing the 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.920 same points that has gotten us nowhere isn't gonna do 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:20.920 a thing. I think if you can secure anyone building, 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:26.680 then you should secure every building. A complete, thorough, comprehensive 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:32.160 security threat assessment at every school, and then the manpower 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.000 in place. I know it was well, there was an 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:39.320 arm guard, okay, but the school had multiple buildings and kids. 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:44.640 We needed more people. And that would be to me, 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.720 be the best. That's the best idea that I can 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.120 think of. You have a better one for one shot. 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.800 So all day I've been hearing, oh, there's been eighteen 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:59.080 mass school shootings this year. Am I what? I follow 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.720 the news every day? Way eighteen? All the Washington examiners 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:07.240 now debunked all of this. Uh of the eighteen school 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:11.880 shootings listed in the by apparently this some gun control 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.280 group to put this out. Uh, every town for a 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.560 gun safety support fund is what they call it. You know, 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.800 A full thirteen of the eighteen did not result in 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.600 even a single student death. And the one death that 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.560 did result from one of those third team was a 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.080 suicide death. I can give you the whole list here. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.640 It's neither here nor there. All of you know, this 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:36.480 to me becomes the noise. And if none of us 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.280 you can't watch, if you have a heart, mind and 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.760 soul and not be impacted by what happened yesterday, you 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:47.800 can't watch these kids one after another. I you know, 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.240 I finally at some point said to Linda, how big 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.000 is this school? Turns out there's thirty kids that go 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:56.000 to that school, and you'll say, well, they had a 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.280 security guard, arms security guard. It's not enough if you 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:04.600 give every singles solitary school, a full comprehensive security threat 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:09.440 assessment by professionals. You implement all of the changes in 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.920 accordance with the fire Marshal. I know there's certain complications 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.320 that you're gonna have to work out. You can't tell 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.760 me that we can't do a hell of a lot 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:27.280 better very quickly, especially by hiring former military, retired military, 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:32.560 retired police, former police officers, trained officials, trained officers, and 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.520 enough of them. So and and of course you've got 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.440 to control anybody that gets into any of these buildings. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.480 And I know schools. There are schools that I know 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.160 that literally don't even let parents in until they show 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.720 I d S. So it can be done. It is 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.480 being done. It's being done successfully. There are models, paradigms 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:56.320 that we can follow. And we'll get your thoughts next Shawn, 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.920 as we continue, all right. The President's folk today to 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.080 the top of the are um, saying he plans to 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:07.560 head on down to Parkland and addressing obviously the school shooting, 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.600 and he said he's gonna push for action on mental 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.520 health issues making schools more secure. He said it's not 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.200 enough to simply take actions that make us feel like 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.320 we're making a difference. He said, We've got to actually 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.680 make that difference. I don't think I've ever seen the 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:28.399 president's somber tone, emotional at moments I felt and saying 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.879 the nation's praying for the victims and the families of 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:36.119 this terrible violence, hatred and evil. He lamented the deaths 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.720 of all these young people that were full of lives 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.080 in front of them, declaring that no child, no teacher, 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.760 no uh, nobody should ever be endanger in an American school. 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.560 So I think that's gonna be I look, I am 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.760 just convinced we can fix the problem and solve the problem. 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:57.359 And solutions I think should be everybody's motivation here, not 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.680 political points, not political arguments, not talk points. I think 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:05.400 one of the saddest things that I saw today, the 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:10.240 school's football team's Twitter account confirmed the death of this hero. 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.520 Football coach said it's with great sadness that our football 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.000 family has learned about the death of Iron Feiss. It 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.000 said he was an assistant football coach and a security guard. 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.879 He selflessly shielded students from the shooter when he was shot. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.560 He died a hero. He will forever be in our 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:32.600 hearts and our memories. Just every time something happens, you 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.960 always just stopped. You think, all these heroes come out 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.879 of nowhere. Although every apparently this was in this guy's DNA. 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:44.920 Apparently everybody loved this guy. He passed around midnight tonight 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:49.920 last night. And uh, just as a hero. I mean, 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:56.640 if you look at the police swat sheriff, the superintendent, 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:01.840 the governor, the Attorney general, rold the president, everybody. I mean, 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:06.280 you watch these first responders. Everybody did their job phenomenal. 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:12.040 But I argue that the only way every school needs 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:17.480 a comprehensive security threat assessment. We did learn a little 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:22.359 bit more about the shooter. Miami Herald printed today. Uh, 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.399 and it goes on to say friends said he spoke 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.800 little of his relatives. He and his brother were adopted 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.399 when they were young by a couple named Linda and 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.639 Roger Cruz. They lived in Long Island, and apparently they 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:36.879 raised the boys right there in Parkland, Florida. Roger Cruz 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.240 died over a decade ago. His wife, Linda struggled with 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.280 the boy, said a former sister in law. She did 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:44.720 the best she could. They were adopted. They did have 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.680 some emotional issues, she said. The sister in law said 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.080 that she believed the Cruise was on medication to deal 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.639 with his emotional fragility, adding that his adopted mother was 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:57.080 struggling with Nicholas the last couple of years. His mom 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:59.879 died a few months ago, and Cruz moved in with 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.240 the friend, whose family lives in Broward County. They took 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:06.520 him in, gave him his own bedroom. He worked at 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:11.440 apparently a dollar store, went to school for at risk youth, 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.959 according to the Fort Lauderdale attorney who was representing the family, 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.280 and apparently he had the A R. Fifteen. The gun 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.240 was to remain locked up, and I guess apparently either 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:24.520 broke in or he had another key for it. Uh 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.840 the morning yesterday morning said it's Valentine's Day. I don't 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.879 go to school on Valentine's Day. The family had no 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.840 idea obviously this was gonna happen. It looks like a 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:35.840 lot of people saw a troubled kid and did was 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:41.760 trying hard to to to help this kid in whatever 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.199 capacity they can. Look it's not easy. If you're you know, 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.200 an intact family, They all of a sudden, you're bringing 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:52.080 somebody into your home. You just that that's difficult. Katherine 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.800 Herridge was just on with Chep Smith, and she asked 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:57.399 the FBI if they tried to identify the I P 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:00.320 address of the computer used to post the men message 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.240 I want to be a professional school shooter. And Herridge 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:07.080 noted that the IP address should have been easily obtainable 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:09.440 and it would have been easy to track down Nicholas 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.679 Cruise once they had the IP address. So far, we 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:16.360 don't have a response. You know, there were Look, there 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:20.119 were a lot of red flags here. People did say something, 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:22.520 which is the right thing to do, although I know 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:27.680 sometimes you know, people are afraid to say stuff. Um, 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:29.320 what other news do we have here? All right? You 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:30.639 know what? Let me get to some phone calls. A 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:33.399 lot of you want to weigh in on this, and uh, 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.680 let's start with Travis and Twin Falls, Idaho. He disagrees 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.879 with me, apparently. What's up, Travis? How are you? Hello? 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:42.600 I'm doing well, sir? Do you I'm good, sir? What 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.320 can I do for you? I really enjoy your show. 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:47.120 I always listened to it. I'm a school bus driver, 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:50.119 so I put on one taking the kids home. I 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:52.600 need to enjoy it. They get to hear a different viewpoint. 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:55.320 I think that your heart is in the right place, 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:56.800 and I think that a lot of what you have 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.240 would be very good things to do. I think that 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.639 the problem is that if we if we put this 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:07.680 idea that it's all on the outside security, that gives 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:10.840 kids a false sense of security. If we teaches them that, 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:14.639 you know, they are either helpless victims or criminals in waiting, 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:18.000 and it teaches them they need to rely on the 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:21.760 government outside of them to to you know, keep them 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:24.440 safe and protect them from themselves and from each other. 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:27.719 I would say that, well, what's what's the alternative. How 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.479 are you going to guarantee that these kids are safer 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:33.439 in their schools? Give me an idea. I think that 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:37.119 we should all be treated, we shall be trained to 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:40.320 be our own first responders. You have Jonathan, come on 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:43.119 throughout the book. Listen, listen, let me let me tell 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:47.480 you something. I know this for a fact. Um as somebody, 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:51.240 for example, that has been trained in the use of firearms. 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:54.280 I can tell you right now my kids. I've taken 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:57.320 them to the range, I've taught them gun safety. They 0:22:57.359 --> 0:23:01.639 know everything. They could care less Like I was passionate 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:05.800 at eleven years of age, um that I wanted a 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:09.240 bi a good marksman. Everybody has their own individual interest. 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:11.760 My kids are like, ad that, Okay, that was fun, 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:14.080 Can we go to eat now? That's about how much 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:18.760 interest they show. Um. Same with self defense. I trained 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:21.200 five days a week because I love it. It's something 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:23.400 that's a passion of mine. But it's also a lot 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:25.280 of hard work, and it takes a lot of dedication 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:26.960 and a lot of commitment and a lot of time. 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:30.080 You gotta you gotta really run a discipline life to 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:33.080 do that. Uh. The idea that we're gonna ask kids 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.960 that are teenagers to be the front line of their defense, 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:38.880 I think is a bit much. I think the answer, 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:44.640 the solution is we have professionals that secure every building 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:46.960 in New York City, every big building in New York City, 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:50.560 every office building in New York City, and most department 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:56.359