San Jose Shooting | What the Government WONT Say

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san jose my goodness another shooting

and more people dead this is an absolute

tragedy

and the san jose shooting has shown a

new spotlight

on gun violence in america but also

society in general how do we solve these

issues let's talk but first we have to

understand that there is a lot missing

when it comes to the shooting that

happened in san

jose first of all the police have still

not released any details as to whether

or not the shooter's weapons

were legally owned or not legally owned

and there's still larger motive issues

at play which

i'm sure will become more clear over

time so this video isn't

going to specifically be about the

details that we know about the san jose

shooting and what we don't know

because those facts will come out to

light within the next few weeks

hopefully and we'll learn more and we'll

sort of be able to revise our opinions

but this san jose issue is casting a

bigger spotlight on a larger issue in

our society

and it's a very fragmented issue one

that

takes a very strong foothold in politics

let me start by pointing this out as an

example

and then we'll refer to some actual

statistics that we're seeing

take a look at this gavin newsom the

governor of

california who is running in a contested

recall election

said yesterday wake up to the reality

and take a little damn responsibility

all of us in society he says he says we

must

move beyond the platitudes and usual

rhetoric

that tends to mark not just these

moments but the aftermath of these

moments

in other words he's saying all we do is

talk about solving the problem

and we don't actually solve the problem

now we know that governor newsom is also

allies with joe biden and joe biden also

yesterday came out and talked about how

important

gun control measures are and

we also had newsome on twitter yesterday

say we need to deal with the pandemic

before the pandemic

that is gun violence so both newsom

and ryden are targeting guns

as the simplified solution to gun

violence in the country

and now i responded to this call for

time to move past the stale rhetoric and

thoughts and prayers and pass common

sense gun laws

nationwide that's a recommendation from

governor newsom now i responded this and

said

why didn't you deal with this before the

pandemic you are

governor of california and you have a

super majority control in california if

you wanted to make changes you

have the power to make changes well

here's what we're finding

myself and my research team this morning

revisited a lot of research that we've

looked into in the past and even added

more research

and we're finding that this gun violence

issue

in our society is so complicated because

the solution that liberals provide

is guns are bad therefore guns must be

banned

the solution that conservatives provide

is that people who are mentally ill

should be screened and therefore should

not be able to own guns

this a both of these are actually very

overly simplistic solutions to what in

reality is a very

very massive and complicated societal

issue

see we know that there are links to gun

violence

when we consider mental health but there

are also

links to educational shortfalls

to loneliness to a lack

of proper relationship building or

proper relationships a lack of

compassion

or there are even links to crime and

poverty

and so when we step back for a moment we

go wait a minute wait a minute

the issue of that we have in our society

which is expressed via the symptom of

gun violence

maybe isn't one thing as simple as

mental health screening or as simple as

ban guns

it's actually much more deep it's much

more complicated and massive and

what i want to do in this is just show

you an example of how complicated

just one of these parts are so we

already

know that there are clear links between

poverty and an increase

in violent crime for example if you are

in poverty you are twice as likely to be

involved in violent crime than somebody

who is not in poverty we know these

statistics exist we have more

complicated statistics for

loneliness and educational shortfalls

there are

massive links between wealth and

inequality

and race between gun violence and and

what happens in our country so

there are many many many many issues and

this video is not an attempt to address

every single issue

but i want to show how just complicated

one issue or out of all of these issues

can get

so remember how i said that liberals

like to say oh

guns are bad banned guns and

conservatives like to say well

we just need mental health screening and

that way folks with mental health

problems

don't have access to guns and there you

go then you solve the problem

okay well let's look into this a little

bit so this morning

we dug up some of our existing research

because we've been researching the

health crisis and health emergency in

our country particularly

in the state of california for a very

very long time

specifically because i'm also running

for governor in california if you want

to see my plan

you can go to meet kevin.com and learn a

lot more but

let's talk about this for a moment

mental health

is stigmatized in our country nobody

wants to admit that they go to therapy

nobody wants to admit

that they need professional help even

just the thought that therapy is a form

of professional help

is actually not a good thing like you

would think that it's

almost better to say hey i'm going to a

doctor to solve my problem but that

means you have a severe problem so it

actually

further stigmatizes the problem and so

this

sometimes turns into folks

oversimplifying what therapy is is

always

i just go weekly to talk it's kind of

like my weekly run my weekly exercise

what there's there's a lot of

defensiveness

and stigmatization of therapy and really

what therapy

could be used for and that leads to

what we have in our schools a complete

lack of education around mental health

let me ask you this we don't learn

financial education in high school we

know that

but guess what else we don't learn

compassion

and mental health we also don't learn

the importance of

mental health therapy sometimes some of

us are lucky enough to maybe

have a physical education class in high

school uh or play sports

maybe we'll learn about the importance

of nutrition and maybe somebody will

teach us the difference between

uh the balance of omega-3 fatty acids

and omega-6 fatty acids and

how omega-9s can play into that ratio or

not

those might be things that we're taught

but we're never taught about mental

health and

certainly we're never destigmatized

around

mental health education or mental health

support

but as soon as we hear mental health

support it's like oh somebody's mental

that's bad right

and so oftentimes what happens with

these violent shootings that we have or

violent incidences

throughout our country is we get a very

simplistic take from the media

oh well they must have been mental or up

we need more gun control

well here's why mental health gets even

more complicated see it's not just

a lack of education or the

stigmatization of mental health which

the media can perpetuate i mean think

about it if the media on one hand is

saying

oh mental health is the problem that's

why we have shootings then that makes

more people hate mental health because

then mental health is associated with

taking away your guns

right so it's like oh keep mental health

patients away from guns because they're

obviously the problem

when the problem is much more than that

see let's for example just think about

the treatment

of mental health in our country for a

moment well so let's go into some

statistics

the reality in our country is that half

of therapists do not accept insurance

this leads some to believe that maybe

those who have already built up their

patient book

decide to cut insurance out and so

therefore maybe the more experienced

therapists or potentially people who

have more experience but don't accept

insurance

and that's because health insurance

networks tend to pay 60 to 80

per therapy session but the going rate

in california for example is 150 to

200 dollars and this is using a

california number the 150 to 200.

medi-cal guess what medi-cal pays 70

that is right in the middle of what

generally networks pay 60-80 dollars per

session

but it's not just that because health

insurance is so bureaucratic

and politics has made health insurance

so bureaucratic

every hour of therapy that a therapist

spends with a patient

usually leads to about 30 minutes of

insurance paperwork

and this again reiterates why maybe more

experienced mental health professionals

are less inclined to actually work with

insurance

also you might go to the doctor for a

physical once a year that's free but

guess what's not free

mental health mental health is not free

once a year and it's also not something

you do once a year

in fact you have to pay co-pay generally

depending on your insurance plan or

you're paying out-of-pocket

every single time if they take insurance

every single time

you want a mental health or therapy

session

this makes accessing mental health much

more complicated and so maybe

we actually have this confluence of

issues in our country where

we have a very real mental health

disaster

and emergency but then when we look at

our solutions we're not actually trying

to solve the solutions we're trying to

bandage the solutions

why would i say that well consider this

gun advocates usually say well all we

need is mental health

screening before somebody buys a gun

well studies and research show that

it's very easy to lie your way through

these screenings and get a gun even if

you have mental health problems

so that doesn't work the bigger issue is

a massive infrastructure and societal

problem that we have around all mental

health

poverty education compassion

relationships our society is so

complicated and so

focused on me me me and so focused on

money money money

that we actually spend less time caring

about our friends and neighbors and

people in our society

and that's why it's easier to cast away

folks who might be in despair or

be depressed with well here take some

pills you go to a primary care physician

here

here's some pills because a mental

health professional isn't available for

you

the minimum wait period for mental

health professional today is about 25

days

25 days is a very long time especially

for things that should be treated

in many cases as mental health

emergencies as a result you

don't have a very good coordination

between primary care providers

and mental health services and so all of

a sudden

when we look at the issue of guns in our

society

we do know statistically know

that more guns can lead to more

suicides it's a little more blurry

as to whether or not more guns can lead

to more

homicides and this is very blurry

because

guns can be used in many different

manners

self-defense not self-defense justified

self-defense not justified self-defense

and we don't actually have all of the

statistics we need to make very

clear-cut conclusions

it's very difficult to come upon clear

conclusions

and statistics that say absolutely guns

lead to more gun violence

just like it's very difficult to with

certainty say

less guns leads to less violence now

folks like to point out well what about

like australia

right but now we have to correlate how

does

australia treat mental health how is

australia's

compassion environment how is

australia's educational environment

and so when i hear politicians say

oh the solution to our gun violence

problem

is banning or restricting guns or oh the

solution

and that's the left argument right or

the other solution is no no the solution

to

solving gun violence in america is just

screen people

right before they buy a gun to make sure

they don't have mental health issues

it's very

oversimplified that our societal

problems are so deep rooted and so much

harder than that

that the last thing we can do is say

that the left's bandage

or the rights bandage is the right

answer we have a much

broader problem and this is one of the

reasons

that when i win as governor of

california

i expect to institute plans for

mental health education as well as

financial education in high school

so that we learn compassion we learn

about mental health and we learn

about financial education or a financial

education before 18.

that we actually start treating our

societal problems from where they begin

schooling poverty we start solving

problems

with poverty by ending poverty we start

solving problems with homelessness by

ending homelessness and then

working to prevent it and rehabilitating

those who can be rehabilitated

and the same thing with housing we get

the government out of the way of housing

so that we can build more homes and so

that we have

less of a housing affordability crisis

and see

all of these massive issues that we have

in our society

along with many many many many others

that haven't even been mentioned in this

video but are also important

are all issues that can create this

compounding

despair and depression and

propensity towards violence

which is often in america expressed with

a gun but not always

and solving the problem is not as simple

as

the left's answer or the right's answer

it's much

broader than that it's going to take

time it's going to take a lot of effort

but we need to start doing that and

that's why i'm running for governor of

california

under my 20-part plan that tries to

solve the massive real issues that we

have in society

and at least i'll start because that's

the opposite of what people like gavin

newsom are doing right now

we've got a lot of talk but we've got no

start

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