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birchgold.com slash ben. So we begin today with a couple of news updates from around the nation,

a couple of stories that are deeply upsetting. The first story is obviously this mass shooting

that has now happened in Thousand Oaks, California. So this is pretty close to where we are.

Obviously, mass shooting anywhere in the United States is horrifying, but a mass shooting that is

close to you, it feels a little bit more immediate. In this particular case, the gunman who massacred 12 people at a country music bar in SoCal on Wednesday night has been identified as an ex-marine. We have a policy here on the show that we do not actually identify the name of the shooter, but we'll give you details so that you know motive. He opened fire on the borderline bar and grill in Thousand Oaks at 11.20 p.m.

This person had been cleared by mental health experts after an incident in his home in April.

Sheriff's revealed on Thursday morning.

So once again, somebody had a brush with the law, and the brush with the law was not enough

to end with this person being prohibited from firearms ownership or gun ownership.

California does have an A rating from the Brady Center for Gun Control. It is considered the most gun controlled state in the United States.

We've had a multiplicity of mass shootings in California. In the past few years, we had one in Santa

Barbara. We have this one. We had the one in San Bernardino. We've had a bunch of mass shootings in the past five years alone. The killer killed 11 people inside the bar. One of the first cops on the scene he shot also before taking his own life. Survivors from the shooting said he looked like he knew what he was doing as he repeatedly fired his legally purchased block 45 handgun. It's also worth noting is that he was using a

handgun. He was not using a so-called assault rifle. So all of the talk about banning assault rifles

would have done nothing to stop this shooting either. This piece of human filth threw smoke

grenades to confuse the crowds while he started shooting folks. People were hiding beneath pool tables

and using bar stools to shatter windows to escape. The first police officers arrived at the scene three minutes later, and then the shooter shot one of them multiple times before shooting himself. By the time SWAT teams arrived, he was dead. His body was found in an office inside the bar. The sheriff's sergeant who has shot, later died in the hospital. He was Ron Heelis, a 29-year veteran. In total, 13 dead, 11 killed in the bar, the sheriff's sergeant and the gunman. And again, this guy is a former Marine who lived in nearby Newbury Park, who apparently had mental health issues. In April, this year, deputies were called to his home amid reports of a disturbance. He was acting irrationally and was irate. So police called in their

mental health specialist. They cleared him, decided against having him committed, and left him at the

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