The shooters were 18
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Two weeks, two 18-year-olds committing acts of mass murder in the United States of America. |
| 0:08.0 | 18-year-olds murdering black people at a grocery store, murdering children at an elementary school. |
| 0:15.0 | In Buffalo, we know the shooter was radicalized by online extremism. |
| 0:20.0 | The other one, we don't know yet. |
| 0:22.0 | He was definitely posting online about what he was going to do at this school |
| 0:26.0 | before he went to do exactly what he said he would in Newvalde, Texas. |
| 0:31.0 | The internet is treacherous enough for adults, but the teens, we wanted to figure out how parents can stop their kids from getting radicalized online. |
| 0:40.0 | And we found a mom who tried. |
| 0:43.0 | And the first time I heard like an eight-year-old scream to the end word, |
| 0:46.0 | it was like, okay, here's the conversation we need to have. |
| 0:50.0 | How to have a little more faith, your kids aren't being radicalized online, coming up on today's point. |
| 1:00.0 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. |
| 1:06.0 | I love walking with the dog for long periods of time, hopefully it's snowing, and you've got to wrap up warm. |
| 1:12.0 | So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit because like you're wrapped up so warm, |
| 1:16.0 | then you're climbing Hampstead Heath, and you get to the top and you're like, oh, and then you can see the breath. |
| 1:21.0 | But then your nose is still freezing to top. |
| 1:25.0 | Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 1:37.0 | It's today explained, I'm Sean Ramis from I don't have any kids, but I know a lot of you do. |
| 1:41.0 | And when I'm around my friends or family members who have kids with smartphones, I always ask, so like, what boundaries are you setting there? |
| 1:49.0 | Sometimes I'm really impressed by the answer. Sometimes I'm petrified because some parents I've spoken to aren't doing much at all. |
| 1:56.0 | They're placing a whole lot of faith in their kids to do the right thing. |
| 2:01.0 | I didn't think much about kids like mine falling into any kind of dangerous ideology, because I knew how I had raised my children. |
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