School Shooting in Georgia Happens as the Semester Begins

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This was something that kind of happened this morning, and
we're seeing it be updated throughout the rest of the morning,
and I just think that we need to start there,
and that is high school shooting at Appalachi High School
in Barrow County, Georgia. It's about forty miles to the
northeast of Atlanta. Four are confirmed dead, nine others taken

(00:25):
into cuss or into the hospital with injuries, and the
suspect is alive and in custody. So we don't know
a whole lot of details. I am seeing them now
speak about the age of this person, fourteen years old,
believe to be a fourteen year old. They are not

(00:45):
sure at this point if this was a student of
this particular high school. A mother of one of the
students was texting with her son who was in the class,
and basically she said, from the details that he gave
her that he had heard eight or nine gun shots
before he closed his classroom door, and then he and

(01:08):
another class made apparently moved chairs and tables to block
the door. They didn't block the roadways, so parents had
to meet their students at the football field, which is
adjacent to the school. You could not pick them up
by driving on the road immediately next to the school.
And yeah, so this woman was able to find her son, obviously,

(01:29):
and they were able to talk about some things. But
this is pretty wild stuff, man, that this is still happening. Also,
some late breaking developments here that the high school apparently
had received phone calls earlier in the day. I mean
this happened basically as school was beginning, just after the
top of the nine o'clock hour. The law enforcement officials

(01:52):
say that Appalachi High School received a phone call this
morning warning there would be shootings at five schools, and
Appalachi would the first.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Now, I don't know if there are.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
People at high schools that could potentially I mean, do
you know that if they can track that with like
caller ID. I mean you would think they would have
to have that capability these days. But the phone system
we use, we can't caller ID people, right, So if
somebody were to call us and do something like that,
I mean, there'd be really no way to track where
that call came from, right.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I would think law enforcement would be able to find
a way.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Like through the phone records somehow. Yeah, do you think
like the phone remembers like where the calls are coming from, though,
even if we.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Can't see them, that's a good question.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I don't know, but I thought that's about Snapchat too, right,
because the thing about Snapchat would be you you would
film something and then people could see it, and then
it's just gone forever, right, Like people would have to
like screenshot it or screen recorded or something if you
were going to, you know, send a Snapchat. And then
I talked to a police officer, and the police officer says, yeah,
we can just go right to the app and they

(02:58):
give us everything. Ah, everything actually still exists, like in
their servers. Even if other people can't see it, we
can see it. I don't know if that's the case
here either way, you would think in this day and age,
at the I mean a school, I mean, for us,
is it that important to know exactly where calls are
coming from?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I don't think so. I mean maybe that's me being naive.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
We can kind of tell who people are, But at
the same time, it's also just kind of like I think,
if you're a school, it'd be important to track the
correspondence coming in and out of the school, whether it's phones,
whether it's you know, emails, any sort of messages. I
don't know. It's just sad that we have to talk
about this again now. I don't know how much we're

(03:40):
going to learn about this fourteen year old, this person's parents,
if there is a relationship with the parents. And you
hear here all of like in this country, you hear
about all of the different ways that we can resolve this, right.
You hear, hey, we need more good guys with guns? O. Great, Yeah,

(04:01):
how's that going. The state of Iowa has come up
with a rule that people in schools, like staff faculty
of schools have the legal right now to arm themselves
in the building. I can see how that could help
be a deterrent of somebody who came into the school
with a gun, and that this would help defend the students.

(04:24):
And of course it's not as easy as hey, just
go get a gun. Every single person, whether they have
experience with guns or not, that want to be armed,
have to go and pass like a course, like a
five week course or whatever on gun safety. You know
how many people, it sounds like, are actually armed in
some of these schools this year in Iowa, almost none
of them, And for a variety of reasons, many teachers

(04:46):
don't want to have to do that. They don't feel
like they should have to do that. Number Two, there's
fewer and fewer school resource officers or SROs that are
located at some of the big schools over there, and
that kind of stems from the George Floyd stuff and
the difficulty and trusting police officers, I guess from some

(05:09):
of these urban areas. And then the other one is
insurance companies have want to have nothing to do with that.
Like insurance companies say, we're we're not dealing with that
if you have live rounds of ammunition and firearms in
the school at all times, Like we can't put ourselves
out there as an insurance company to be able to
cover anything that happens if you guys are arming yourself.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Now.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
I don't know if that's going to change when this
becomes like a normal thing, or if there are school
districts that are applying yes we want to be a
part of this program.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
I don't know, But.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
As of right now, is that a viable option to
prevent something like this? It doesn't sound like it is.
The other things right, Like, if we're going to talk
about how can we resolve this how can we stop
this from happening? Well, certainly responsible goat ownership could help,
But a fourteen year old generally is I would think
smart enough to know how to find guns where guns

(06:01):
are the only thing that I can think of is
you put it into a locked closet or something like
that that only one person has the key, and you
put the key with the person that you want to
have the key. That also doesn't mean that a kid
couldn't break into it and steal the gun themselves. Anyway,
Kids break into stuff all the time. There are kids
under the age of twenty that are stealing cars and

(06:23):
hot wiring them. Feel like that's you know, that would
be harder to do than steal a gun out of,
you know, a safe place by a responsible gun on
her These are all I don't know the answer to
that question how they got the gun or where it
comes from, don't know, don't know the last thing that
kind of comes to my mind here five different schools
on the phone, lump on the phone call saying Appalachi

(06:43):
be the first. Does that not mobilize some people to
be like, hey, we better be ready here. We got
to take this threat seriously. Or have people done too
much of you know, those fake calls?

Speaker 2 (06:55):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (06:56):
What do they call that? The swatting? The swatting where
basically people fake call to get a reaction, to come
to a place, make a big deal about something that
actually doesn't happen. Did they think that it was something
like that.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
I don't know, and we don't have a timeline as
to when this call occurred and when the shooting happened.
But it's a sad day, man, It's a sad day.
And unfortunately, there are going to be political implications, because
there always are, because this is in a swing state,
and this is going to become a thing that the
Democrats are going to have to run on in Georgia.
I can tell you firsthand that there were people in

(07:32):
the state of Iowa when they had their school shooting
earlier this year. There were people in the state of
Iowa that were just like, Okay, yeah, too close to home.
My mind has changed on this subject. We have to
do something about guns. I know people like that. I
don't know if anything that they've come to a conclusion
with is a reasonable or realistic solution, but it changed
the way they thought about things. Well, now you have
one side that talks about, you know, allowing good guys

(07:54):
to be you know, have more guns in places like
you know, schools, to be able to prevent stuff like
this from happening, and also want to talk about mental health, which, okay,
we can talk about mental health. It seems like even
with us talking about mental health, there are mentally ill
people still perpetrating crimes like this, so.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
We how do we adjust to that?

Speaker 1 (08:13):
And then, you know, finally you look at, you know,
the people on the left who are going to be
telling you that we have to have some more restrictions
on who it can and cannot have guns, limit the
sale of certain guns.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Whatever that looks like. I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
I don't know if that's a realistic solution, especially considering
how many guns they would have to then collect, right
that wouldn't no longer be legal in some regards. I
don't know how good that's going to go. Well, if
you've got ideas, since you have thoughts on this, let's
air it out. I know it's far away. It seems
far away. It's actually not think about any school that
you or your kid has gone to. I'm sure any
parent out there right now, who has a kid in

(08:48):
a high school is fearing days like this because you
just never ever know.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's a scary thought. I understand.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
If you want to talk about it, we're here for
you at four h two five five eight eleven ten.
You can call us a four h two five five
eight eleven ten on news radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
And Reese on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Unfortunately, we have to talk about a school shooting that
has killed at least four, wounded at least nine, and
apparently perpetrated by a fourteen year old that we are
not sure if this is someone who attends this school
or not, but that's what we know to this point.
Let's talk about Let's talk about it, Let's air it out.

(09:29):
Let's talk about what your thoughts are on this and
maybe solutions to what we proceed to be the issue,
or also just things that this is making you feel.
That's what we're here for. Dave's on our phone line
at four O two five five eight eleven ten. Hello Dave,
what are you thinking about?

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Well?

Speaker 5 (09:42):
Thanks first off for taking my call. You've always got
very interesting topics.

Speaker 6 (09:47):
But I'm old school, you know.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
I grew I graduated high school nineteen seventy five in
a small town in southern south central Nebraska. And I
remember when I was in high school, we had discipline,
We had a principal. There was no nonsense. If you
ride a line in the hallway, pugging anybody or running
around doing something, you would he would gently come up
behind you, in front of you, and he'd kind of

(10:10):
give you a four them and slam me up against
the wall and gently. But you know what, we respected
that man because you only did it once, and then
after that you did a second time.

Speaker 7 (10:20):
It was worse.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
But I'm not saying getting physical back with him is
the answer. But we have no discipline in our schools.
We have no discipline in our culture when it comes
to the youth, you know. I mean we used to.
We used to talk about the Ten Commandments in the
school stuff, you know, without shall not kill. How many
schools have that anymore? We've just lost We've given grounds

(10:41):
to children that don't know how to self discipline, and
they're running rapid over us. This is this is sad
and it's probably gonna happen again.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Well, yeah, so Dave, you finished, would you say you
graduated high school in the mid seventies. Yes, sir, okay,
I I mean you and I are there's a big
age gap. But by the time I started school in
the nineties, you know, a lot of the physicality was gone.
Now there was still a lot of respect, but I
don't know what it was about maybe Columbine in the

(11:10):
late nineties that kind of changed this and created this
mantra of like, oh yeah, this like sort of thing
could happen, and it just keeps happening, Like there's at
least a handful of year where it feels like there's
something like this that happens, and there are young people
who are killed or injured by gunfire in these scenarios.

(11:31):
And Dave, what do you think happened in that time
span from when you were in school to now and
what were some contributing factors to basically the softness in
which kids are handled, in the freedom in which now
they are they feel like they have the ability to
do whatever they want whenever they want.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
Well, I think some of it I'm going to blame
a little bit on the parents, because I know if
I got in trouble in school when I was in
high school, I got in trouble in school, and then
I got in trouble when I got home too, when
the mom and dad found out about it. So I
blame some on parents. Parents kind of let their children
do whatever they want. And uh, and I've seen it
happen many, many times. But uh, you know, we just

(12:10):
we need to get back and just teach morals that
it's wrong to kill, it's wrong to get I mean,
we don't teach that. We just lost our focus on
what's right and what's wrong, in my opinion, and I
think that's just permeating out through every aspect of our culture.
Just look at us how some of our politicians think.
So you know, yeah, take taking guns away from everybody.

(12:31):
That's not going to solve the issue. Then though the
law abid the citizens like you and I, we have
no way of defending ourselves. So yeah, I don't have
all the answers, but we need to get back to
true discipline. That's just my opinion.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, thank you, no real problem, Dave, Thanks for calling in.
It's a good point, you know. Uh, it's a good point.
My parents would talk to me all the time about
how much you know, they respected their teachers, because their
teachers would make them respect right, and then the consequences
if you did act up somewhere else, what the consequences
would be when you get back home.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
I don't see that now.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
I see parents wanting to be best friends with their kids,
not to say that this person had a good relationship
with their parents at all. We don't know that. Usually
I think it's not that way. But alas you know,
we have another school shooting that we have to you know,
fire through as many different scenarios as we can to
try to help figure out what we can do to
prevent it from happening. If we can prevent it from happening.

(13:28):
The next time, Marty is on our phone line at
four two, five, five, eight to eleven ten, Marty, what
do you think?

Speaker 7 (13:35):
Well, I just kind of wondering how many kids are
going to have to get killed before they put metal detectors.
You know where these kids got to go through all?
I mean, these guns are getting through, you know, through
these doors.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Some cool.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, Well, Marty, my whole thing is mostly we have
technology that this shouldn't be an issue. Like you said,
I don't know how much it costs. I don't know
if this kind of thing is going to really put
out too much money for schools to feel protected. I
know in the state of Iowa where I'm from, you know,
I follow that stuff really closely, and there are a

(14:14):
lot of reactions to what happened after the Harry School shooting,
and metal detectors was one of those. I think that
that could help. And they also have cameras that are
able to like pick up on anything that's like a
foreign metal object when they walk through. I mean it
works for large arenas and stuff like that where there's
tens of thousands of people. I don't know why they
couldn't work for a school on a daily basis.

Speaker 7 (14:36):
I mean, you go to a football game that holds
eighty thousand people. Every one of those you know, yeah,
you have to walk through a member detector or some
short a deal to get in, right, right, there's not
eighty thousand, you know, eighty thousand students going to the school.
You know, you have police officers in that school already.
Why can't they be at the door. It's you know,

(14:59):
in the morning that time when these kids come to school,
and then.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Right yeah, I mean, and then you you when the
door is just locked, no one can come or go
for certain hours. I mean, I don't it doesn't sound
unreasonable to me to ask that, you know what I mean,
just sealing the doors. I think that's a good idea. Hey, Marty,
this was good. Thank you so much for your ideas.
These are true solutions. All right, all right, we'll get
to Laurie, Justin and Don and everybody else calling in

(15:25):
coming back, because this is something we're going to talk
about today. School shooting in Georgia, northeast of Atlanta. Four dead,
nine injured. A fourteen year old to blame. It sounds
like we'll do more on the phones. You can call
us at four h two, five five eight, eleven ten
News Radio eleven ton Kfab.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Emery Sunger on News Radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
If you have not heard, or if you have heard,
we are going to talk about it. It is the
shooting at Appalachi High School in Georgia, about forty miles
to the northeast of Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Four are dead, nine are wounded.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
The shooter is apparently I don't have specific confirmation on this,
apparently a fourteen year old in custody and alive, which
means we should be able to get a motive for
why this happened. Also, we learned earlier this hour that
there was a school phone call of somebody basically calling
Appalachi High School to warn them that this could be

(16:25):
happening and they would be the first of five schools
that a shooting would take place at. To this point,
we haven't heard of another shooting. But however, we are
talking about this from as many angles as you would like.
Whatever is on your mind? Four h two five five
eight eleven ten. Is that number? Four oh two five
five eight eleven ten. Laurie is on our line. Laurie,
thank you for calling. What are you thinking about?

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Well?

Speaker 8 (16:46):
First of all, such sorrow and sympathy is expressed to
all in dawlf what a terrible tragedy. And I accountability.
I start with all education associations, national and local. Their
agenda has been two in doctor Nate children, remove dots
from the classroom and make everybody a victim. Everybody a victim.
We all have to be victims. And so that's the

(17:07):
first problem there. We need to to redirect our focus
and turn these kids into smart individuals who can think
for themselves. Social media terrible problem. Social media is what
supports all this as well, it encourages kids to believe
everything they hear. We don't teach critical analysis at all,
the ability to think for yourself. It's cool if you
can be cool, and you're cool, everybody's cool on social media.

(17:29):
Parents do need to get involved. I agree that social
media and education associations like completely accountable.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
What can we do from this moment, Laurie, Is there
anything other than just trying to correct some of those things.
There's something that you know, if you're a parent of
a kid that's a high school age student or a
middle school age student, and this is something that you're
seeing happen in the country, you know, two, three, four
times a year. What would you like to see happen
like tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (17:58):
I'd like to see the chasing association dissolved. Cell phones
taken away from kids, electronics taken away. We can learn
the good old fashioned way. We don't need all of
those tools. Teachers who have the knowledge can teach in
the classroom without any of those electronics. We all learned
that way many years before it was introduced. So let's

(18:19):
just go back to putting the kids first and their
needs first, and not telling them they're victims. We just
it's just fluow process. Nothing's going to change, but we
need we need to redirect our focus and get the
right people involved in the school districts that they can't
get through the school doors.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Because yeah, yeah, I'm here, I'm hearing you, Laurie, and
thank you so much for the call today and your thoughts.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
I really appreciate it. Yep, Yeah, I mean, can we
call that big school? You know how we call big
Pharma or big All?

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Is that like big school where it just feels like
they're these overlords that are politically motivated to have specific
curriculums and specific kind of cultures in a lot of
the schools, especially the larger urban schools. Is there a
way to like, does alve that or challenge that have
an opposing group rise up to challenge that. But again,

(19:15):
you have to talk to the teachers as well, because
the teachers themselves. There's something bigger going on there because
so many of the teachers already share that type of ideology.
And it's just crazy how much the politics is leaked
into the classroom. How much of that is to blame
for something like this. I am not one hundred percent sure.

(19:37):
Maybe justin can help us he is on the phone
line at four two, five, five, eight to eleven ten.
What are you thinking about on this?

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Justin well, I.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
I personal believe that you know, this is a really
deep rooted problem that has multiple prongs to it. I
think first and foremost, I don't see I don't think
parents are teaching their children to respect the people who
implement and enforce the rules. And then that doesn't just

(20:07):
go with the teachers just saying the same thing with
the police officers or even the lifeguards at a pool. Right,
if the lifeguard blows at a pool, blows the whistle
at our kids, there's a lot of times you're gonna
laugh at them and just keep doing it. Yeah, And
I think that starts with the parenting, not not teaching
them to respect the people that are implementing the rules
and enforcing the rule.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
That's that's a great point, right, because again, part of
the reason that I was considered a good kid and
I was scared to death and getting in trouble at
all was because my mom made it very clear to
me before I even started kindergarten that getting in trouble
is bad, and if you get in trouble outside of
the house, I'm going to find out about it. You're
going to get in even more trouble when you get home.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
And by the time I was, you know, in middle
school in high school, Yeah, there were moments where I
wanted to be one of the cool kids and I
slipped up right, But I remember how bad it made
me feel that I got in trouble, or how bad
it made me feel that I had to sit on
the bench during recess and I couldn't actually play football
with my friends. You know, like like I reaped what
I sewed, dealt with those consequences which I felt in

(21:10):
the moment were harsh toward me, and it made me
not want to do that ever again. There is a
lack of that kind of discipline, I think, just in general,
because there's so many people involved in their lives these days.
With the advent of the internet and social media, it's
so easy to get online and get to a hold
of your friends and all this stuff versus you know,

(21:31):
kind of that protection parents used to have, and now
parents just to be a part of their kids' lives
in a lot of ways, I think are buddying up
with them instead of showing them that kind of discipline
that made us better people a generation ago.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (21:44):
So, like, you know, I was at the pool with
my family a couple of weekends ago and there was
a group of you know, thirteen fourteen year old boys
that were harassing the lifeguard, and the lifeguard just tried
kicking them out, and they just sat in the pool.
It's like, you can't you know. I went over and

(22:05):
they happened to be around the same age as my son,
and my son wasn't over there with them, but I
went over where my son was at and was by them,
and I was like, get away from those kids. You're
not allowed to be around them.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, well, and.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
Embarrass the crap out of my son, But you know.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
What, I don't care, right No, But at the same time,
just justin like I'm thinking about this, like what would
the lifeguards even have a chance to, uh what could
they do in that scenario to try to kick them out?

Speaker 6 (22:30):
Well, that was why I said, it's a multiple prongedis
and that's what we're seeing in the school right. I
don't think that the teachers are given the tools that
they need in the schools to handle these kids that
aren't respecting them.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Right.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Yeah, there needs to be. That's the second pong to
the situation out of the three. In my mind, that's
the second pong is the teachers and the people enforcing
these rules. They're not given the tools nor the abilities
to enforce the rule.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
What are the.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
Teachers going to say, stop doing that and then get
laughed at and go and call the principle? The prins
is gonna come down and they're gonna get laughed at
and right, and then the parents are going to be like, well,
just don't do it again, and and really, where's the accountability,
where's the where's the discipline in that? And I think
the third prong of this problem lies in I think
we're in a society of one upping everybody. I can

(23:24):
do it better and it doesn't. And that's not just
in the negative, that's also in the positive, right, Like
you know, I always tell my kids when they you know,
done something good, Congratulations that was essen. Do you think
you can do it better next time?

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Right? Well?

Speaker 1 (23:39):
And especially you can get idiot gratification on the internet.
You know what's that, Well, it's the immediate gratification. You
can post any of that stuff on like the Internet
or anything and get a lot more attention than you
used to be able to for it.

Speaker 6 (23:50):
Yep, yep, you know. I graduated in ninety nine. When
Call Them By and happened, it was it was a shocker.
It was it was a surprise. It was like, holy cow,
did this really happen? Yeah, But now it's not because
we've gotten to that one update. We've gotten to the
you know, the so and so did it, so I'm
going to do it better. So and so did it. Well,

(24:11):
I'm going to do it better. Sandy hook happened, and
I'm going to do it better. Yeah, you know. And
and I don't know how you you resolve any of
those you know that, don't you know. I'm not paid
to resolve those problems. But in my opinion, that is
where the problems lies in those three different songs.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Justin This is good man. I appreciate you calling in
and being a part of our show today.

Speaker 6 (24:35):
Yip, you have a great day. Thank you for what
you do.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Absolutely man, and thank you for calling in. And we're
going to take more phone calls for two, five, five, eight, eleven,
ten is the number we really would love you to
be a part of this conversation. We'll get to Randall,
Christy Aaron coming up next, So stick around on news
radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Henry Sunger on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
We will continue to give you more as we learn more.
But it's about why we're here, why this is still
a thing that is happening. This is right at the
beginning of a school year, by the way, I mean,
we're not even two weeks into school most places, and
this is happening. So why, why is it happening? And
how can we resolve this in some way? And that's
what we're talking about today. And on the phone lines

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we have Randall. Randall, welcome to the show today. What
are you thinking about?

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Thanks for having me. You know, there's got to be
a way that teachers can disarm these shooters and not
have to kill them. One they could teach teachers how
to use bear spray, and I'll guarantee you that's stuff

(25:43):
at twenty yards of take a two hundred and sixty
man pound man and putting to his knees right.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Well, I mean, I guess the thing, Randall, that you'd
have to contend with is the fact that the person
you're attempting to put this spray on is carrying a
loaded firearm and you would be within their range, you know,
like like how like how are you gonna be able
to do that?

Speaker 4 (26:05):
Well, it's better than not being able to defend yourself.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
I agree.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Well, a lot of teachers don't want to have to
carry a gun.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
From school now, and you're seeing that.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
You're seeing that in Iowa right now, Randall. They changed
the rules and allowed that to happen, and almost no
teachers opted into that program in the entire state of Iowa.
So there's no doubt that teachers would rather not have
to arm themselves, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
Well and kill somebody, I mean, yeah, that's not what
they're trained to do, right, But I'll guarantee is bear spray.
I'll put a stop to it.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Well, it's something to keep in mind, Randall. I always
appreciate some ideas, and I appreciate you for listening and
calling in today.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
All right, thank you.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Let's go to Christy on the phone line of four
oh two, five, five, eight eleven ten. Christy, what's on
your mind?

Speaker 9 (26:52):
I see? You know what sorrows means the most is
that these kids that are doing where are the parents?

Speaker 10 (27:02):
I mean, look at what happened with you know, former
President Trump. The parents knew he was mentally ill. What
is happening to these children? Are their parents not around
or do they just not care. I'm a single mother
and I'm an eyeball mother, a helicopter mom, and I

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have to be But so where are these parents? And
what about the children whose parents are never there? Maybe
they're doing drugs. Maybe these kids have been shuffled from
home to home. Yeah, what is going on with these children?
And where are the parents?

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Well?

Speaker 1 (27:43):
I can say this, Christy, I think every single situation
is a bit different. But I hope that over time
we can learn about some of these you know, attempted
shooters or people who have porportrated these crimes in some way,
and some of them don't survive this, like the one
in Perry, Iowa earlier this year killed himself before you know,
anything could be found out as to why they did this.
This person did not, So hopefully we can learn why

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this person felt like this was the right thing to do. Now,
as far as the twenty year old attempted assassin on Trump,
his parents seemed to be like around and he was
living with him, I think, but they just kind of
ignored whatever needs he had and let him somehow leave
the house with an ar fifteen.

Speaker 9 (28:23):
So I mean that's what I'm saying is you know
something is wrong, but your child pay attention, pay attention,
and do something about it.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Sure, for sure, Christy, this was good. Thank you so
much for listening to us today.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Let's take care you too. Aaron's on the line four two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Erin? It's kind of two pieces.

Speaker 11 (28:46):
Everybody keeps wringing their hands about why does this keep happening.
I don't know why we don't just listen. They keep
telling us. They keep saying, hey, I'm doing this because
I want to make a statement. Hey I'm doing this
because I want to be known, and we keep hearing it,
we keep ignoring it and what we need to do.
I mean we keep saying parents need to do something.
Well that's great and generic, but it doesn't give you
anything to actually do. School should have more discipline. Really,

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how you realize if you're going to have more discipline,
you're going to lose kids. You're going to have to
discipline a kid, kick them out, and it's unfortunate that
that kid is going to have a crap life because
they got kicked out of school? But what about all
the other kids? And we need to have some actual
just some things, even if it's the wrong thing. But
this generic handwringing. Oh, parents have to do something, teachers

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have to do something. Why didn't we find something that
someone could have done somewhere? It's like, well, that's great,
there's nothing to actually do about it, So why don't
we start.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
With one thing?

Speaker 11 (29:40):
Someone pulls this crap no name, no fame, nothing.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Wow, nothing, Well, hey, at least something.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, I'm read it.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, I'm running out of time. Aaron, that's a good thought.
Really appreciate you listening and calling in today. Yeah, there's
no doubt that that's one way to handle it. And
you want to talk about setting example potential for people
to maybe deter them from doing this in the future.
I think that's something that we could think about too.
Your thoughts continue call us at four oh two, five five, eight,
eleven ten on news radio eleven ten KFAB