In May of last year, the FBI received anonymous tips about online threats to shoot up a school. The FBI traced those threatening posts on a gaming site to a then 13 year old, but found no reason to arrest him. That same teen is now accused of killing two classmates [00:00:15] and two teachers at his high school. New reports indicate that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was suspicious about the very teenager who opened fire at a Georgia high school yesterday, killing [00:00:32] four individuals and injuring others. Now, this shooting took place at the Apalachee High School in Georgia, and the FBI, unfortunately did not end up acting on the Intel they had about the shooter. [00:00:47] Just last year. Now the shooter is a 14 year old, and when he was 13 last year, the authorities found that there were some threats that he had been making and the threats were very specific. We're going to get to those details and what those specific threats [00:01:03] were in just a moment. Hey, don't scroll away, come back, come back. Because before the video continues, we just want to urge you to lend your support to tweet you power our honest reporting. You do it at tight.com/team and we love you for it. But first I do want to give you some updates on the shooting [00:01:21] that took place yesterday. Absolutely devastating and tragic. So the shooter is a 14 year old by the name of Colt gray. He used an AR platform weapon. Authorities have not revealed how the shooter obtained the gun. So this is still a story that is developing. [00:01:37] The shooter was taken into custody, and prosecutors say that they will be prosecuting him as an adult. Now, in addition to the four people who were killed, nine others were injured and hospitalized. And I should note that of the four people who were killed, [00:01:53] two of them were adults, educators, and the other two were students. Now the teachers were able to alert law enforcement to the shooter thanks to their IDs, which utilize a technology that allows for them to essentially hit like a panic button. [00:02:10] And that panic button will alert the authorities that there is an active shooter on campus. And that may have helped lessen the number of deaths from the shooting. Now, schools in the Georgia county will be closed for the rest of the week [00:02:26] as a result of this shooting. One of the students who basically was on campus. Her name is 14 year old Macy Wright, said. I went to go to school worrying about I want sorry, I want to go to school worrying about what my GPA is going to be when my year is over [00:02:45] and worrying about my career. I really don't want to go back. I feel like I shouldn't have to go back to school worrying about dying, and I think that this is a feeling that many other students across the country have felt either because their school was victimized by a school shooter or because [00:03:02] a school shooting happened near them. Now, sadly, Macy is just one of the many students who have to reckon with the aftermath of the school shooting. This was the 23rd school shooting in the United States this year. That's according to a database maintained by the magazine Education Week, [00:03:19] which counts 11 dead and 38 injured in such attacks so far this year. Now, before we get to the details about what the FBI knew about the shooter before the shooting took place, Jake, you know, this year felt like the school shooting slowed down a little bit compared to [00:03:35] what we've experienced in previous years. But clearly this is still an ongoing problem in the country. Yeah. So I read another story and they have different classifications for how they what they call a school shooting, mass shooting, etc. And that story said 45 school shootings so far this year already. [00:03:54] So it hasn't quieted it down at all. And 385 mass shootings this year. Already. That's about one and a half a day. And the standard for that is four people shot or more. Okay, so that one is clear. [00:04:10] There's been 385 mass shootings in this country. The okay corral had two people killed and they thought it was all wild, wild west. Okay. Now the wild, wild West is everywhere and on steroids. So I'll try to keep my rage under control for these stories, which I don't do [00:04:27] well with when it's school shootings. But, there's it's the guns. It's obviously the guns. There's no question. It's the guns. The two problems are money and politics and, and an insane gun culture in America. And we can debate it. We could have. [00:04:44] We could pretend it doesn't exist. We can do anything we like, but we're letting them slaughter our kids because of this ludicrous culture that you should have weapons of war littered around the country for any lunatic to pick up and murder our kids and and us with. [00:04:59] I actually don't blame the FBI. I read the details of that Anna and they went and investigated a it was hard to prove and you do have to prove it and be in America. A dad having an AR 15 and a whole bunch of weapons all around the house. [00:05:16] As long as he assures the cops. Oh, yeah, they're locked up. Ha ha ha. It's totally fine. Okay, well, the audience probably doesn't know about the details about the FBI and what they knew last year. So just let me go through that real quick so you can go off, because I know you have a lot to say. [00:05:31] So, according to the FBI, in Atlanta in May of last year, the FBI's National Threat Operations Center received several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time. The online threats contained photographs of guns. [00:05:48] Within 24 hours, the FBI determined the online post originated in Georgia and the FBI's Atlanta Field office referred the information to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office for action. Now, at that point, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office located a possible subject. [00:06:05] At that time, the shooter was a 13 year old male and interviewed him and his father. The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them. The subject denied making the threats. Online, Jackson County alerted local schools [00:06:22] for continued monitoring of the subject. At that time, there was no probable cause for arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action on the local, state or federal levels. So, I mean, it it's just interesting because they're arguing like, oh, [00:06:40] we have no way of figuring out if he was really the one who was making the threats. You know, he denied it. So I guess we're just going to have to take his word for it, really. Our intelligence agencies and our law enforcement doesn't have the tech or the tools necessary to figure out who posted the threats or where the threats [00:06:58] were coming from specifically. Come on. Yeah, I know, but, you know, there's a second component that if they made an arrest in that case, the right wing would have lost their minds. Go freedom loving hour 50. Of course, you need to teach the kids when they're three or they're infants, you know, they would have gone nuts. [00:07:14] So what's the FBI supposed to do? - Okay. - Hold on. You can't make an arrest there because other than making the threats, he hasn't done anything. The threat is the threat is a is a crime. It's a terroristic. Threat. But. Okay. Sure. But look, my point is, he took photos of the very guns [00:07:32] that his father is claiming that he has. He doesn't have unsupervised access to. So I don't know. I don't know what to make of it, but it just feels like with all of the surveillance we have in this country and all of the fear we have about mass shootings, I do feel like our law enforcement agencies tend to drop the ball. [00:07:51] Yeah, they definitely do. - But last year. - But Anna, they do. But in this case, the cops went in and actually stopped the kid. And the kid surrendered as soon as the police came in. So it wasn't like Uvalde, where there was 400 of them sitting outside not doing anything. [00:08:06] This is a there's two different issues here. One is, generally speaking, cops in this country are taught to be cowards. We're going to get back to that later in this story about Venezuelan gangs taking over parts of Colorado where the cops are. I'm not going to do anything. I'm not going to do anything. Right. So okay. [00:08:22] But in this case, they did go in. All right. But when we go to enforce the laws, the right wing loses their mind. So if we had arrested that kid before he did the shooting or his dad, they would have been the biggest heroes in America for the right wing. [00:08:38] So what is it, guys? The AR 15 are weapons of war. Just because you want to shoot Bud Light cans with them doesn't mean that our kids should be slaughtered for your dumbass hobby. There's no reason to have them. None Zero And I, you know, said on social media today, look, if the [00:08:56] right wing wants to have fun shooting RPGs in the woods, are we going to give them shoulder fired missiles and allow that? And almost all the right wingers are like, oh, that's a really good idea. I love that idea. And then of course, when they come in with RPGs and murder our kids in schools, they'll say, oh, it had nothing to do with it. It had nothing to do with the shoulder fired missiles. [00:09:12] Yeah, it has everything to do with assault weapons that kill and murder people much, much, much easier that same 14 year old. How many people was he going to strangle to death? How many people was he going to kill with a knife instead? [00:09:28] It wasn't going to be four and injuring nine. It wasn't. Those weapons make it infinitely easier. They have no use at all in civilized society, and the Second Amendment has nothing to do with it. The Second Amendment says, for a well-organized militia was a kid [00:09:45] in a well organized militia. You guys are just I know, I know, the right wing will never agree. My hobby is more important than your kids lives. I got it, I got it, but you're never going to solve this. And the people say, oh, mental health problems. Every country has mental health problems. Literally. [00:10:02] There's no country where they're like, oh, there's no mental health issue at all. Except unlike us, they don't come and go, oh, you got a mental health problem. Here's an AR 15, here's an AR 15. Right. So that's the reality of it. If you have more guns, you have more homicides, more suicides. These are all stone cold facts. That's not even close to in dispute. [00:10:20] When you say that I want my guns and my AR 15 and my assault weapons, you're saying I value them more than I value your kids so you can catch all sorts of feelings about that? But the rest of the country is catching feelings. I'm not saying. And I'm saying the audience or whoever the right wingers out there are, [00:10:39] or if you're a left winger or you're like, oh, I got a hobby. My hobby is so much more important. Look, I hate it, I loathe it, and I want people to be honest about it, because if because we're never, ever, ever going to fix this problem as long as two things happen. [00:10:54] Money and politics. Every Republican politician is bought by the NRA, gun merchants, gun manufacturers, etc. They're the worst criminals in the country and and in the gun culture in this country where they think, you know, as long as I get to have my weapon of choice and I get [00:11:11] to fantasize about killing cops and U.S. Military service members when I have a face off with the government, and my daydreams about being Rambo are much more important than your kids. So that's the reality. So I agree that other countries also have issues with mental health. [00:11:28] I think the US is pretty unique in being a developed country, that whenever there is a mass shooting, we'll pay lip service to how we need to do something about mental health. But we don't do anything about mental health in LA. We literally have people who should be in a mental health facility, [00:11:46] wandering the streets, wasting away Sometimes they're having episodes, which causes them to do violent things. We don't care about mental health in this country at all, and we don't do anything about mental health in this country at all. Let's keep it real. The other thing that I'll say is, okay, so what is your solution to this? [00:12:03] Like ideally okay, you get to snap your finger. You get everything you want on this issue. What would you want to do. Yeah. First of all one part of it is super easy. Ban assault weapons. You know, there's no reason you don't need assault weapons to protect your home. [00:12:19] You don't need assault weapons to go hunting. The only reason to have assault weapons is shooting Bud Light cans. Because you're a moron who thinks you're going to murder cops and U.S. Military in the woods when they come over with the tyranny of government and, and and to murder people. [00:12:36] So there's no reason for it. So I would ban it and it would save thousands of lives. Thousands, because all these shootings, they might still happen with traditional weapons rifles, handguns, etc. But a lot less people are going to die. [00:12:53] Okay, look, if I had it all the way, like, okay, this will never happen in America, but I would say you're allowed to own a gun, but you have to have it locked in a locker that is not in your house, that is in a facility somewhere else. [00:13:08] Okay, I. Disagree. Yeah, I know, I disagree, I know. Okay. Okay. But Jake. Okay, look. You and I have a lot of these private conversations, so let me let me just ask you publicly. Okay. As a Californian, as an Angeleno, you know full well that right now there [00:13:25] is a huge problem with what Karen Bass, the mayor of LA, has dubbed crime tourism, where people are literally coming here from other countries. Okay, they're flying here on short term visas. They're committing crimes, including invading people's homes [00:13:40] to rob them as they are in their homes. Okay. And what are people supposed to do if there are people coming in fully armed, ready to rob them, threatening their lives, they're not allowed to have a weapon to defend themselves in their own home. They have to have it locked away in a locked box in some other location. [00:13:58] - That makes no. - Sense. No. And it doesn't make sense because we're already in an ocean of weapons. That's why my proposal is that is, I think is definitely the right one, but will never be implemented in America. So if we had implemented my proposal in the first place, we wouldn't be in an ocean of guns. [00:14:13] So when you arrive from Venezuela, by the way, they're coming in through the airport, the criminal gangs wouldn't be like, here's a weapon, here's a weapon, here's a weapon. Everybody gets a weapon because there's like over 300 million guns in the country and nobody's doing anything about it. And if you arrested someone for having a weapon, [00:14:28] the right wing takes your head off. So, like, it's not realistic at this point when there is already hundreds of millions of weapons out there. But but we but let's keep going. Let's make it 400 million, 500 million. And you know what will happen? [00:14:43] More people will die and everybody will go, golly gee, what should we do about the mass shootings? And in the answer is super obvious ban the weapons that are doing it. But they won't. Instead, they'll have nonsense conversations about mental health, as if America is the only place that has mental health issues [00:14:59] and about too many doors and etc. And by the way, the dad should definitely be arrested. So you said that it was not on, supervised, access. It turns out it was. You said it was only hunting rifles and it turns out it was an AR weapon. So you were lying the whole time. [00:15:15] And by the way, when I talk about gun culture, look, guys, it's a lot of it is uncomfortable. And there's a lot of good people who participate in a normal part of so-called gun culture. And this guy says that he was a normal part of it. And I get it. And I know people who have done it. And I know that, like, it's an important part of your life, which is hunting. [00:15:32] Okay, I understand that. Having said that, he started teaching his kid like, I don't know, but I guess earlier than 13 to go how to handle weapons, shoot weapons, hunting et cetera. Well, I know I got kids. [00:15:48] They're not mature enough to hold a weapon, shoot a weapon, and think that the answer to life's problems is shooting weapons. So that's part of the gun culture. And a lot of good people participate in that culture, and they'll be super mad at me and they'll say, no way. [00:16:04] That's no problem at all. But you're wrong. Teaching young kids how to shoot guns is a terrible idea. Terrible. It's not at all surprising that a certain percentage of them go, hey, dad, good idea. Instead of using it for deer, why don't I use it to murder the kids [00:16:22] that are annoying me in school? You know why? Because they're 13 and 14 and some of them have mental health problems. - Giving them weapons is dumb. - Well, there's. Now precedent with one of the past school shooters not only facing consequences [00:16:38] for what he did, but his parents facing consequences for getting him the gun and being negligent in doing so. So I don't know if, you know, further investigation will find that the father, engaged in some form of neglect here or, was not responsible with his weapons. [00:16:56] But I do think that holding parents accountable is one of the ways to address this issue. I'm not saying it's the only way, but it's one of the tools that I think could be utilized to mitigate this to some extent. Yeah. I'm going to one last comment here from one of our members. [00:17:12] So look, for those of you who are watching the video later, you know, we do a show live every day at 6 p.m. Eastern Young Turks on YouTube. And I read some of the member comments throughout because they're great comments. And I'm going to read more during the social break live. But let me read this one. Wang Jun wrote in. You'd think the pro-life, pro-family crowd would be livid [00:17:30] to see more kids dying needlessly. Instead, every time there's another shooting, they cover their eyes with an NRA check. So also indisputable. How come the pro-life groups don't care at all about the school shootings where babies and kids are being killed. [00:17:49] You don't care. They don't care. They don't care about the 15,000 Palestinian children that were murdered. They don't. They don't care about kids. They just care about. Give me your body, women. I want to go back to the good old days where I controlled your body. You having control over your own body? Terrible. Well, wait, wait, wait. You're pro-life. [00:18:06] You care so much, right? Oh, look at that. All those kids shot with guns. Yeah, but I like my guns. Who cares about the kids? I'm pro-life. Are you? Are you? Or do you just want to control women's bodies? Thanks for watching The Young Turks really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. [00:18:22] You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. But you also get playback of our exclusive member only shows and specials right after they air. [00:18:38] So all of that, all you got to do is click that join button right underneath the video. Thank you.