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Park Chester Times, WWW, this is the Bronx.com, New York Powered Online Newspaper, Muslim Community Report, WWW.H.com and the Montpelier Bridge. Ableton on Air is part of the following organizations, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England Chapter and the Society of Professional Journalists. Welcome to this edition of Ableton on Air, the one and only program that expresses the needs concerns and achievements of the differently able. I've always been your host, Lauren Seiler. And on this show today, this edition of Ableton on Air, before we get to the issues at hand and the news concerning the mentally challenged community or mentally ill community, mentally challenged community, let us thank our sponsors, Washington County, Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services and many others, including the partnership with the Association for the Blind Vermont and the Division for the Blind Vermont and many, many, many others. So let us begin by saying there has been a lot of news. In this edition today, there has been a lot of news with the mentally challenged, people that are mentally challenged, the community at large concerning services. So let us begin. Mayor Eric Adams in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams in New York City announces a plan as of yesterday, yesterday being Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams announces a plan to provide care for individuals suffering from untreated severe mental illness across New York City. This is dated November 29, 2022, according to the website, www.NewYorkCity.gov, forward slash office of the mayor. So let me explain. So let us explain. Mayor Eric Adams announces to provide care for individuals suffering from untreated severe mental illness across New York City. Mayor Eric Adams, his directive is clarifying the responsibility to provide care when SMI, meaning severe mental illness, prevents someone from meeting their basic needs. Mayor Eric announces an 11-point mental health legislative plan, 11-point legislative plan agenda for the upcoming session in Albany. New York City to launch the consult line to provide first responders in the field with direct access to clinicians. New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces, yesterday or this week, announced a new pathway forward to address the ongoing crisis to individuals experiencing severe mental illnesses left untreated and unsheltered in New York City streets and subways. In a public address, Mayor Eric Adams detailed the compassionate new vision to tackle this crisis, beginning with a directive being used immediately to city agencies and contractors involved in evaluating and providing care for individuals in psychiatric crisis so that more people in need of help can receive it. Mayor Eric Adams also laid out an 11-point legislative agenda among his top priorities in Albany during the upcoming legislative session. This agenda will take aim at gaps in New York State's mental hygiene law that intensifies the city's challenges in meeting the needs of their most vulnerable residents with severe mental illness. Finally, Mayor Eric Adams announced a new clinical co-responsive team deployed in New York City subways in response to those with serious mental health issues as well as enhanced training and partnerships with New York State and first responders to compassionately care for those in crisis. In accordance with state law and court precedent, Mayor Eric Adams directly clarifies that outreach workers, city-operated hospitals and first responders have a legal authority to provide care for New Yorkers with severe mental illness and that prevents them from meeting their own basic human needs to an extent that they are a danger to themselves. They deal with bodily waste in the subways, etc. According to this directive issued by Mayor Adams, seeks to dispel the persistent myth that the legal standard of involuntary intervention requires an overt act demonstrating that persons with violent suicidal or engaging in outrageously dangerous behavior is likely to result in imminent harm. Mayor Eric Adams also announced in this plan that the city is developing a tele-cassault line to provide police officers in the field with direct access to clinicians. The new tele-cassault line will provide critical clinical advice to police officers when dealing with individuals with distress and ensure compassionate response for those suffering with untreated serious mental illness. The measures will include making the law explicit that a person that requires care that their mental illness prevents them from meeting their own basic needs, mandating that hospitals and clinicians consider a range of factor when accessing a patient's need for involuntary admission and retention and known treatment history current ability to adhere to outpatient treatment. Before I continue, you want to say anything, Arlene, go ahead. Yeah, I want to say that it's good because, oh, there's a lot of hitting and pushing in the change especially. This plan also is requiring hospitals to screen all psychiatric patients prior to discharge and need to receive assisted outpatient treatment, court-appointed care under Kendra's law, allowing a broader range of mental health professionals to perform evaluations and community removals to individuals in crisis and requiring hospitals to notify known community providers and clients that are admitted, you know, release and collaborate with community providers preparing patients for discharge. And this is according to also deputy mayor for health and human services and Williamson. You know, we need to provide more, this goes across the board. We need to really provide more services for people with mental illness. Go ahead, you want to say anything? Well, yeah, because they say the same thing because otherwise it's going to get worse. And one of the things, you know, I wanted to get worse was to get through some environment or just, you know, really, really direct and that's what it has to do with. Okay, now let's get to the issue in Virginia. Recently, a couple days back, hold on, let's get rid of that. Recently, a couple days back, there was an incident at Walmart that happened where six people had died, including the shooter, so that makes seven. So according to the Guardian, www.guardian.com, forward slash world, according to what had happened. So, you know, let's go back to Chesapeake, Virginia, where several people had gone into a break room of Walmart, you know, where they were working in Walmart, and they had closed down the Walmart because one of the managers just, you know, you used an assault rifle to basically kill and murder several people working at Walmart. And according to the Guardian, survivors of Walmart or mass shooting are now filing in Virginia, they're filing a $15 million lawsuit. The couple of survivors said that the company should have acted on the shooter's pattern of disturbing behavior in the Virginia store. So now, according to the Guardian, there is a lawsuit being filed in a Virginia court. Anything to say about the Walmart incident? According to the Guardian, a Walmart employee who was injured in a mass shooting in the Virginia store last week, this happened last week, had filed a $50 million lawsuit against the company, alleging that the government exhibited threatening behavior months before he was killed. You know, we've had several politicians on Ableton and all of them say that, you know, gun laws are going to be changed and more stringent. You know, hopefully that does happen. According to the Guardian, according to the Guardian newspaper here, Daniel Palayo and a employee of the Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia said that the lawsuit filed on last Thursday said that the store should have been more aware of the problems of Andre Bing. Andre Bing was the gentleman who committed this heinous act. Andre Bing's behavior, given numerous reports, including a formal complaint filed by Palayo on the 10th of September, NBC reported. In the complaint, employees of this Walmart said that Bing made bizarre and inappropriate comments about people, you know, people working in the Walmart. Other employees filed complaints reporting of bullying, harassment, and other threats. The person named Bing, allegedly told that employees would retaliate and fire everybody. Upon information and belief, Mr. Bing had a personal vendetta against several Walmart employees and kept a kill list, which is a bad thing, of potential targets prior to the shooting. At one point, the gunman was demoted for his Walmart job for improper and disturbing interactions from coworkers. And the lawsuit says only to be reinstated as a team leader. Last Tuesday, the government entered the Walmart store and began shooting colleagues from the breakroom. The gunman shot himself and killed himself, police say. Now, I'm going to make a couple of comments here. We need to band together as advocates, as well as, you know, inform people who are dealing with gun legislation. According to the White House, the current president, Joe Biden has said that he is going to take assault weapons off our streets. As a matter of fact, I'm going to see what says about that. According to President Joe Biden and the Epoch Times, the Epoch, let's go to this one second. President Biden had said that he is going to get rid of assault weapons. Anything you want to say about that? Okay. Can you can you say that? Wait, say that again. Okay. Also, according to Fox News, Senator Chris Murphy hopes that Biden will get rid of assault weapons. And as a matter of fact, let's go to the real website here. Here we go. Murphy says that the Senate does not have 60 votes to pass assault weapon ban. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a leading advocate in gun control, says that the Senate expressed doubt this past Sunday that an assault weapons ban once again is being pushed by President Biden. And after the country's last shooting, it could pass in the upper chamber. Biden says they're going to try to get rid of assault weapons during the they call it the lame duck session of Congress this year. Following a recent string of mass shootings, such as the proposal, the proposal would need 10 Republican votes to break the legislative filibuster, assuming the Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer of New York can get all 50 Democrats to support this legislation. But Murphy said probably not, according to this CNN State of the Union, or State of the Union address. But let's see where it goes. Democrats have maintained their razor, the razor thin majority in the Senate for the upcoming term. And and and according to the Hill, the next month's runoff in Georgia will give the party a chance to gain a seat to get rid of them. They need to get rid of assault weapons. If you look at some of the most most high high high profile mass shootings in the last couple of in the last couple of years, those mass shooters brought weapons just days before carrying out the crime. And that's exactly what happened with the Walmart incident in Chesapeake, Virginia. The gentleman, Mr. Bing, had bought the assault rifle days before the shooting. Yeah. I'm getting to that. The weapons just days before the shooting and the crime. Murphy told CNN. And if those weapons were no longer commercially available, only in possession of those who had bought them previously, I think the mass shootings would have been prevented. Authorities said in Colorado Springs, now I'm getting to that right now, the Colorado Springs suspect used an assault style rifle when they killed five people and injured dozens of others. The Chesapeake suspect used a handgun last week in last week's shooting official said, but legally purchased the weapon hours before it happened. If you pass the assault weapon ban, you're not going to magically eliminate mass shootings in this country. Murphy said true that an AR-15 or an AR-15 style weapon is generally the choice of mass shooters. So I'm going to explain to our viewers what an AR-15 rifle is. Let me go to Wikipedia here. Yeah. No, it talks about the gun. The AR-15 style rifle. Basically, let me go here to another page because it's not letting me. I'll go on one second. Oh, yeah. All right. So it's called an armor light 15. No, I don't want to give to Wikipedia here. Hold on. It's not letting me because it's saying that we have to give to Wikipedia. Oh, together. Yeah. So let's go. Okay. So basically an AR-15 is a rifle. Let me go here. There we go. There's several There's several types of AR-15. The Colt AR-15 is a lightweight magazine, fed, gas operated semi automatic rifle. It is a semi automatic version of the M16 rifle sold for the civilian and law enforcement markets in the United States. Colt manufactured company currently owns the AR-15 trademark, which is exclusively for the line of semi automatic AR-15 rifles. So the history of the gun is as follows. Due to financial problems, the limitations in proper manpower and production capacity, the armor light sold AR-15 design and the AR-15 trademark along with the Colt manufacturing company in 1959. So basically it's a US patent gun that shoots bullets really fast. The upper So it could shoot many bullets at any one time and has a sight to the gun. And you can put a muzzle device to do what you need to do. But these guns need to be taken off on streets. There have been many mass shootings with this assault rifle starting with April 28th and 29th in 1996. So April 28th and 29th in 1996, Martin Bryant killed 35 and injured 23 in the Port Arthur massacre with an AR-15 and a 308 lightweight gun. It was the worst mass shooting in modern Australian history that resulted in the 1996 National Firearms Agreement. So according to the National Firearms Agreement also called the National Agreement on Firearms or the National Firearms Agreement mean it's a buyback program. If sometimes police agencies have these buyback programs, if you own a gun and you want to bring it to the police station, they'll give you money for it. That's what happens in most jurisdictions with police officers. Now they'll give you money for your gun to take the guns off the street. Now according to the agreement of the National Firearms Agreement it has several provisions and it has taken about 650,000 firearms off our streets in recent years. Andy, you want to say about that as well? No, I want to say that. These are the hundreds of suspects in the Carolina. Say that again? These are the hundreds of suspects in Colorado. They got them. Yeah. Yeah. Now these recent shootings, we have a couple minutes left. These recent shootings, we just really need to take better care of our mentally ill in any state or mentally challenged individuals, whether it be New York, whether it be Vermont, whether it be New England or any state you live in. If you know anybody here in Washington County that really needs severe mental health counseling, please contact Washington County Mental Health at www.wcmhs.org. Again, if you need severe mental health counseling of any sort, please contact Washington County Mental Health at www.wcmhs.org. This puts an end to this edition of Ableton On Air. Let's thank our sponsors Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, and many others, including the partnership of, including the partnership of Division for the Blind Vermont or the Association for the Blind Vermont. If you come in contact with someone who is mentally challenged, please try to get them the help they need. And if you don't know how to help them, please get them the services or get them to the services that they need. Again, if you need to contact Washington County Mental Health, go to www.wcmhs.org and at Ableton On Air, we pray for the families of the Virginia event at Walmart that recently happened, and also in Colorado, we pray for those families. Again, I'm Lauren Seiler. See you next time. Major sponsors for Ableton On Air include Green Mountain Support Services, empowering people with disabilities to live home in the community, Washington County Mental Health, where hope and support come together. 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