 So it's now been one week since the mass shooting at Rob elementary school in Uvalde, Texas And I want you to take a moment to just try to guess how many mass shootings have happened Since the mass shooting in Uvalde Just take a moment to think it over The number is 17 we've had 17 mass shootings since last Tuesday and most of them took place over Memorial Day weekend 14 to be exact and those are the mass shootings that we're gonna focus on In this video referencing this article from the hill now you might not have heard about them because our culture has become accustomed To mass shootings oftentimes they go unreported or underreported Oftentimes they're not as severe as other mass shootings so people don't talk about them as much but make no mistake about it They are happening Very very frequently more frequently than people actually know about So as the hill reports more than a dozen mass shootings took place as the us marked Memorial Day The incidents over the three-day holiday weekend saw nine people killed And 63 injured in the wake of the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas According to estimates from the gun violence archive 14 mass shootings took place over the three-day weekend from saturday to monday in 10 different states across the country Including california michigan texas in illinois the watchdog added that there have been 230 american mass shootings in 34 different states Including washington dc in the first 150 days of 2022 the online archive of gun violence in the us defines a mass shooting Based only on the numeric value of four or more shot or killed not including the shooter So um, we're not gonna get to all of these here But i just kind of want to read off some of these mass shootings and where they took place So in memphis, tennessee four people were shot and another person was injured at a car show in north memphis on saturday Colorado springs one person was killed and three people were injured at a shooting at a parking lot At a bar in colorado on saturday in fresno, california three people were injured and one killed in a shooting ongoing investigation So we don't have details there malabar florida four teenagers were injured in a shooting after an argument at a house party chattanooga, tennessee 16 ages between the ages of 15 13 and 15 were injured in a shooting on saturday On sunday in chicago five people were shot in west garfield park in chicago on sunday Taft, oklahoma one person was killed and seven people were injured after a shooting took place At a memorial day event that saw more than 1500 people in attendance in chicago four people were wounded and one person Was killed in a shooting bent in harbour michigan one person was killed six people were injured after an argument escalated over tickets To a concert that's not all of them here, but i'll link you to the article if you want to read about all of them But this is happening very very frequently because The united states has more guns than people So when you have so much guns in circulation Well, something as simple as an argument between two people can escalate to violence gun violence because Many people are armed in this country. That's the situation now republicans will claim that it's not guns It's a mental health. It's doors But no, it's not just that this happens at elementary schools This is a common occurrence in the united states and anyone who tries to scapegoat Video games or music or movies or doors or a lack of religion in schools They're not having an honest conversation It's the guns and there are common sense things that we can do To minimize the amounts of mass shootings in this country You're not going to get rid of all mass shootings unless you get rid of guns in society But that's just not something that's possible But you can reduce the number of mass shootings if you do simple things federal background checks Caps on high-capacity magazines waiting periods mandatory gun safety training Mental health screenings before you buy a gun having to come up with references before you purchase a gun There are things that you can do that will allow people who want guns to continue to own them And also protect people who don't want to be murdered just while they're at the movie theater or at school But we're not doing that in this country now Currently congress is on vacation So there's no action that will be taken this week And you know, there's a lot of people talking currently about how this time it feels different, but I promise you I had this same thought during sandy hook Well now is going to be the time to act because surely when children are slaughtered You can't just stand by and do nothing But congress did and I've watched Time and again mass shooting after mass shooting congress do nothing So when people say that this feels different when joe mentioned says this feels different But yet I want to abolish the filibuster or at least create a carve out to the filibuster so we can pass at least this But something feels different. No, no, it's the same fucking thing What we're seeing right now is this hurry up and wait period where politicians they talk a big game They changed their rhetoric temporarily. Even fox news has kind of changed their rhetoric criticizing the cops Some republicans like john void are saying maybe we should do this federal background checks But I promise you this is all rhetoric being used specifically to appease people But after a couple of weeks when the next crisis occurs in this country Everyone will be distracted the feelings and emotions will go down and then politicians will just uh hope that you forgot That nothing was accomplished. So I hope that I'm wrong But uh, don't think I'm going to be wrong here But this will continue to happen and even when we don't see massive headlines about about a mass shooting It's going to keep happening because that's just The american way of life unfortunately Do you enjoy watching independent news shows like the humanist report the rational national and the majority report? But oftentimes youtube doesn't deliver our videos to your subscription box. Well, I've got a solution for you It's called the opt out app available right now in the ios app store coming soon to android Opt out is an app made by and for progressives where they take all of the most popular independent news shows and they put them in one Convenient location. You'll find all your favorites on there like the humanist report the rational national the majority report And the app is updated multiple times per day So your news feed is constantly up to date. 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