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🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:23.8 | It's today again. So let's talk about the news. Starting with, we need to talk about Monday's horrific mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, because among other things, we now have a more detailed timeline of what exactly happened. Beginning with a message, the shooter reportedly sent to a childhood friend on Instagram at 9.57 a.m. announcing their intent to commit suicide. But the friend reportedly trying to comfort the shooter and even reaching out to a suicide prevention hotline, but it was too late because by 1013, the shooter had broken a side window at the school and crawled inside, prompting the first 911 call. The officers then arriving at the scene at 1024, |
0:28.6 | body camera footage showing five of them clearing the first floor, hearing gunshots upstairs and |
0:32.6 | then moving up to confront the shooter. Then finally, at 1027, 14 minutes after the first call, and just a few minutes after entering the school, officers killed the shooter. But the police responds here |
0:40.7 | instantly being contrasted to the complete failure at Evaldi, where nearly 400 officers stood |
0:44.8 | around for over an hour while kids were bleeding to death inside. Which is why we're seeing the cops |
0:48.3 | this week being lauded as heroes. Though heartbreaking, even though they took swift action, |
0:52.8 | there were six victims. Six, who we now know included three nine-year-old students and three adults, a teacher, a custodian, and the head of the school. |
0:59.3 | And as for the shooter, we now know, they were a 28-year-old former student at Covenant and that the police chief said that they were under a doctor's care for an emotional disorder. |
1:06.0 | Adding that they legally purchased seven firearms from five different local gun stores, three of which they used in the massacre. |
1:11.1 | While the official motive is currently unknown, detectives suggested that there may have been some resentment at having to attend that school. |
1:16.4 | The police saying they're looking into a manifesto of the shooter left behind, which includes a detailed hand-drawn map of the school. |
1:21.2 | One of the most explosive and attached onto details that's come out of all this is the shooter apparently self-identified as transgender. With the police saying media initially identified them as female, but in fact they used he-him pronouns. |
1:31.3 | But the fact that the shooter is trans has divided people. |
1:33.3 | Some saying this is business as usual, which is all that, just that sentence is heartbreaking that this is so |
1:39.3 | normal and standard in the United States. We're like, yes, it's yet another shooting. It's the guns, it's the problem. |
1:44.6 | Then on the other side of you have people saying, no, this is a mental health and trans, |
1:47.8 | with the likes of Donald Trump Jr., lamenting the quote, incredible rise of trans, non-binary mass shooters in the last few years. |
1:53.3 | Charlie Kirk saying instead of banning assault rifles, we should ban gender affirming care for kids. kids, as well as Marjorie Taylor Green and Laura Ingram suggesting hormones or medication for mental illness were factors. |
2:01.8 | Though officially, we have no info on what drugs the shooter was taking. |
2:04.6 | Green also ended up actually getting suspended by Twitter for claiming Antifa was organizing |
2:08.1 | a trans day of vengeance. |
2:09.4 | Which I mean, is one of the biggest talking points we've seen from a lot of those people, |
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