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The Brett Cooper Show

You Can’t Feed Into Mental Illness And Expect Stability | Episode 137

The Brett Cooper Show

Brett Cooper

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A father killed his family at a hockey game — and within hours, the internet turned it into a political fight. But this tragedy wasn’t about red vs. blue. It was about severe, untreated mental illness and a system that refuses to confront it honestly.Join the Cooper Confidential Community to get Farm vlogs, Q&As, and ad-free episodes: https://cooperconfidential.comGeviti: Go to https://gogeviti.com/brettcooper and get 20% off with code BRETTGrand Canyon University: https://GCU.edu/myoffer#brettcooper #thebrettcoopershow #brettcoopershow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Two days ago, a 58-year-old man named Robert Dorgan shot and killed his ex-wife and their

0:34.6

son while attending their other son's hockey game. He also shot and wounded three other people, including his ex-wife's parents and one of her mother's friends.

0:42.3

And as of the time I'm recording this episode on Tuesday afternoon, all three are still in critical condition.

0:47.3

And as normally happens after any kind of high-profile shooting, the internet and the media jumped into action

0:53.3

dissecting every single part of the story. But what's interesting to me about the discourse going on right now is that any time there is a mass shooting like this, the left and the right launch out. You guys know what I'm talking about. They're looking for a way to make it political. They're hoping or often assuming that the shooter is on the other team and then they use that information

1:10.9

as you know political fodder. The left runs with it if it is a straight right man. They say that it is racism, that it is misogyny, especially if he likes Trump. Oh my God, then that's even worse. The right jumps into action if it is a gender confused, they them these days, choose the latter, just saying, but that's what happens every single time. But right now with this shooting, even though this is happening a little bit, there is something a little more niche

1:30.4

going on

1:31.1

because this shooter is so complex. And so instead of just seeing the left versus the right,

1:36.2

we are actually seeing two factions within the right duke it out. And honestly, at this point,

1:40.6

I am just tired of the finger pointing because obviously this issue is so much

1:45.2

deeper than politics. Okay, so from where I'm sitting personally, I see no debate over this man's

1:51.5

motivation. This man went to a hockey game where his entire family was going to be. He intentionally

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