Hello, hello everyone. It's great to be here with you today on episode number nine of informed consent.

Tonight, a little bit of a dark subject, but we're going to get to the bottom, I think, of where this violence is actually coming from.

And of course, I'm referring to one of the most recent horrific actions, of where this violence is actually coming from. And of course,

I'm referring to one of the most recent horrific actions in the United States, which is the shooting that happened down in Texas in the elementary school. We need to talk about that. We've got some

data, of course, you know how I like my data, and we're going to get to the, I think, the bottom

of this is a really important conversation to be having because I'm not going to be talking about what the guns were that were used or anything about gun debate around that.

I think it's obviously for me, it's a very weird thing for people and oftentimes the same people, cheerleading, sending $40 billion in lethal hardware somewhere else, and then

wanting complete safety at home, kind of a weird position for me, because I think you should

scenario, we'd really want to be consistent. So there's something we have to talk about, though,

that in terms of, I think, which is the root source of this violence. I think watching Bowling

for Columbine, which was the Michael Moore film,

came out a long time ago. And I felt like he got this close to explaining part of it. Remember,

you know, looking at gun violence and other forms of violence, but he got down to one part of the

story. He was looking at Detroit versus Windsor Canada.

Hey, they share the same TV programs, same air, drinking from the same lake,

pretty much the same environmental factors all around.

So you would think with those explanatory things out of the way,

what's left is sort of your signal in this story. And and and Detroit highly violent Windsor Canada not so violent and you can't just say

it's because well there's more guns here than there it's not that simple he got this

close to figuring it out and to me it's it comes down to the fact that Canada

actually has a real safety net for people. And the

United States doesn't. And so what the consequence of that is that when people feel like they

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