Empathy and Gun Control: Reflections on Tragedy

Empathy is crucial for understanding others and combating division in society.

### Navigating Tragedy: Reflections on Gun Control and Empathy
* 🌳 Sometimes, a walk in the park can help **clear the mind and release the thoughts that weigh heavy on the heart**, prompting a need for a **rational conversation away from toxic platforms**.
* ☕ The recent tragedy in Las Vegas has led to a **surge of opinions from those far removed from the situation**, often trivializing the events and creating a **toxic atmosphere online**.
* 💔 With the death toll rising to **over 59** and more than **500 injured**, it becomes evident that the discussions surrounding gun control are **more critical than ever**, especially with the NRA's influence on legislation.
* 🔫 "The NRA has **blood on its hands**," as the speaker emphasizes the need for **stricter gun laws**, arguing that **common sense should prevail** in preventing access to weapons like **AR-15s**.
* 📰 The media's portrayal of the shooter raises questions about the narrative being pushed, with the speaker highlighting the **troubling ease with which firearms can be obtained** in the U.S.
* 😢 The conversation also touches on the mental health crisis, noting that people in need of help often **fall through the cracks due to financial barriers**, exacerbating the issue of **gun violence**.
* 🤝 In a world where empathy seems to be diminishing, the speaker calls for a **collective understanding and compassion**, urging society to be more aware of the **struggles faced by others**.
* 📅 Reflecting on personal experiences, the speaker notes that events like 9/11 have changed perspectives, fostering a **greater awareness of the need for empathy and understanding** in times of tragedy.

Hey guys, sometimes you just need to walk through the park to clear your head, to get the ideas that were brewing inside the brain, to get them out and release them. And I have decided to do this live stream here on YouTube because I know we could have a rational conversation than on the cesspool that is Periscope. Good to see you, Laurie. Good to see you, NYC girl. Good to see you guys. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in the world, all over the world. So you know the only thing that we can learn at ''tis oh no absolutely no yeah no they're not making light of it. Good to stick and see it, J Maas nation. Thank you so much. No, you know referring to my made a fresh cup of coffee. I'm gonna need a cup of coffee after this ya know. Somebody wasn't making light of the situation, a very sad day. I'll be good to see you. So I tweeted out that it had to unfollow some Scopus and they are all Periscopers. They don't

really do anything else, but one of them's on here on YouTube, on column here new to go. So they all do have something in common. They don't live here in the States, and they used it as an opportunity to say, See, thought you see you dummy Yanks, you people in the United States, right barbarians, you guys don't know how to live. And you know people who do stuff like that, all right, you know, are the most beyond petty, you know. I could call it unfortunately the 9/11 effect. For me, the 9/11 effect is the people who live furthest away from New York seem to have all the answers, seem to know exactly what happened. It's beyond toxic, it's beyond toxic. NYC girl, and yeah, exactly, exactly [__] exactly. You know, a couple of these people actually throw a rational human being, who was smart, but I'm reading, I'm looking at their retweets in them, and I'm reading their tweets, and I'm like, Wow, these people are complete

[ __ ] these people are complete [ __ ] and they don't deserve me anymore watching them. Good to see it, Denise. So, I have followed a few people today. They didn't block them, didn't block them, and I realize for the most what they don't follow me anyway, so who gets two shifts? But you know when you have an event like this happen, you know, and I knew this was going on last night when I got home from Coney Island. I just got finished watching all the replays, and we did have a lot of fun yesterday, but the news was just coming across Twitter at around one o'clock in the morning here. Have, yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Laura. And they, you know, they trivialize it, Laurie, because they're so far away, you know, they're not here, you know, it's the same thing with 911. They have, everyone has their own convoluted ideas of what happened and why it happened and how it happened, and they're the furthest away.

from here that they're nowhere. Nick, I've never even been to New York. Having these people so hear it. Here it is a true, a real just the beyond tragedy in Vegas today. Oh, this morning. And you know when the news was breaking, I was like, you know what? I can't. I can't deal with it. And I went to bed hoping for the worst. I'm hoping for the best. Good to see you, Joy. Yeah, you have this up watching the news. You have to disconnect yourself from it because it gets overwhelming. You know, I was hoping for the best when I went to bed. It was like only like five confirmed dead. And but waking up to hear 56:59, who knows how many have a feeling said to be in the sixties or maybe even 70s. Over 500 injured. It really makes you think. It really makes you think. You know, here it is on a week when the NRA lobbyists are pushing for for Less restrictions on silencers. Imagine if this [ __ ] had a silencer from that 33rd floor or the

32nd floor. Imagine if he had a silencer. So personally, my own view on this, and I wanted to tweet this out, but you know, it's better I'm doing it on here so you can see my face saying it. The NRA has blood on its hands, and every single politician that has taken money from the NRA has blood on their hands. They've had little in their hands for the longest, but now it's quite apparent that we need more strict gun control. And you know, it's a very simple thing. I don't think people should be able to buy AR-15s in a store. Common sense though, it's common sense stuff. It's common sense stuff. I hope so, Joy. I hope so too, but will it happen now? The lobbyists have more. I mean, if you look at the stocks for the, you know, like Remington and all the major firearms producers, their stock skyrocketed this morning. Absolutely, Jay. Absolutely, absolutely it did. They don't necessarily say like the call to the Holocaust didn't

happen or not. Lebanon has been having these crazy conspiracy theories just to kind of support their own narrative on how they think the world works. The world, again, and I think we all know this, the world is not black and white; the world is a lot of gray. There are a lot of middle areas you hear. You know, personally, I don't know why this guy isn't being called a terrorist or a domestic terrorist. It's kind of interesting. It was exactly if you grow up, put a uniform on, if you want to play with guns. Yes, too much money involved. That's the problem. There's too much money involved, and the money is buying politicians, and that's you having legislate across the country that makes it incredibly easy to get a gun. And you know, that's a great question, Ricky. That is a great question. I don't know how the hell you enter a hotel, the Mandalay Bay nonetheless, with what was an eighteen rifle, something like that, something god-awful like that. Good to see you, Norm. We're better than

this as a country, we're better than this. First of all, we really are. You look at everyone getting together, you know, it's kind of crazy how they couldn't pick that up. Yeah, it's, yeah, no joy, absolutely. Look who got a Dear Leader elected. Yeah, send too many, ten too many, one too many, one too many. But you know, it's amazing how, yeah, they're in the back pockets, and it's really a shame. It's really a shame because who becomes the collateral damage? Regular people like you and me. Good to see a male, regular people like you and me are the collateral damage. Yeah, they can fit the suitcases, yeah, but still 18:18, it's too much. It's like, I don't know how, I don't know how you could travel around with all that stuff, you know, and makes me second-guess, okay, when I hop on the train tomorrow morning, there's somebody gonna have a rifle or pistol. Yeah, I'm more worried about the simple things like somebody having a bomb on their body and blowing

themselves up, you know, but you know those people 4,000 miles away, they know data was really going to have the gall to tweet and have their own, and I am going to expound some of these stupid theories. And what was even more upsetting, what was even more upsetting, was that there were these right-wing news sites putting out pure propaganda saying who the shooter was, and they had pictures good to say Brooklyn kid. I mean, they had everything already figured out. He was an Arab, and then throwing up pictures was like soccer players and stuff like that. And then these idiots who periscope and retweeting that [ __ ] you know what. I always pray my mom knew. My mom lived in my apartment. We have a little picture of the Virgin Mary with a little bit of holy water in there. It makes you really absolutely Denise. It was a 64-year-old white guy, exactly, and we don't know if he was a Trump supporter. We don't know if he was

a Bernie Sanders supporter. It doesn't matter. You're yet to see what happened, horribleness happening in Vegas, horribleness. These people were going to a concert. That's all they were good at. That's what they were doing. You know, I'm always reminded of one of my favorite YouTubers of all time, may she rest, Christina Grimmie. Christina Grimmie had so much life that she was willing to just give to everybody, and one jealous person [__] it up for everybody, and now we have lost that amazing voice. And then the very next night, you had the Pulse shooting, also in Orlando. There's something wrong here. There's a disconnect here between the laws, mental illness. I mean, we have a mental illness crisis in this country. There are people out there roaming the streets of your hometown who just need a little bit of medical assistance, but you know what? Now it costs too much money. It costs too much money. So, so we let, so we let them fall through the cracks when any simple

professional help, simple professional help, that's all they need. But the people over there, 4,000 miles away, and I'll name my lamb some locations for everyone on the M sub location valium, some countries, maybe in one city, a couple of people from the UK, and one person from Hong Kong, and that's all I'm going to say about these people. They know what the hell is going on, right? They know what's going on. That's why they retweet all that garbage. Yeah, I hope they didn't do it on Periscope. They did it on your Twitter accounts. I mean, they were tweeting out some really, really ridiculous [__]. Some people don't want help, that's true. Some people don't want help. Some people would mess with mental illnesses. They don't want help. That's why they're homeless. That's why they're, you know, walking around with garbage bags on their feet. Yeah, it was, you know, something like this again. You know, I'm still gonna live my life. You know, I live in probably Oh stupid people.

do with stupid stupid people do exactly. It is very if you know it is. It is Laurie. It is way easier to get a gun than get mental help and hopefully people will do something about. Hopefully the tide will will change. Hopefully we finally learned something from this but I don't think we are. If anything the ideologies that people spew are going to get more and more divisive. Good to see a guy hey man good morning be safe out there on the roads of America by guy Haman. He hops in his truck goes all across the country. Anything could happen to that guy at any moment. Anything but we still live our lives. We still have to go on. If we could just be a little bit more if we could just be a little bit more sympathetic here we go damn it. Okay hopefully we're back. I think we're back. It's probably gonna get worse. It usually does. Yeah some people just live in their own fishbowl. Sorry about that. Somebody got somebody got threw in the coal there. I thought I had

my do not disturb on. I mean, this is the reason why I'm doing this. This is the reason why I'm doing this broadcast right now. We need empathy. We need more empathy in this world. It's not about me, it's about we. Okay, guide you guys right with the Lord's protection. Absolutely. Good morning, good afternoon, Nigel. We need more empathy. Okay, sorry about that. Wait, hold on, we're back. We're coming back, we're coming back. Somebody's calling me, calling and calling me. They gotta wait, they gotta wait. Yeah, I know we have lost empathy as a nation. This is why we have the person who is the president right now. It's people who cannot lose an argument, it's people who cannot see the other side of a situation, or you, they don't put themselves in other people's shoes. They just have their own ideology. It's absolutely Denise with the kids and the parents. You passed by the Mandalay Bay four days ago, isn't it crazy? From the 32nd floor, I

mean there's actually footage of people. There's a woman who's driving a truck, a pickup truck, and she's driving down the strip, and people are pouring out, having these people covered in blood, half of them on makeshift stretchers made out of fencing. And it, it's, and what did she do? She got everyone into the truck, and she put him in the back of the truck, and she's had to driving people to the hospital. You know, and that could have been guy him, and that could have been guy him, and driving down the road, anything could happen at any time. You have to be aware exactly got him. You have to be aware of what's going around at all times. You know, I mean, you know, New York and 9/11 taught me that. You know, unfortunately, you know, for me, you know, not what 9/11 happened. I was 21 years old. I was 21 years old, and I'm not gonna lie. Before that, I lived my life rather naively, but after 9/11, I began to think how's my

Muslim friend doing. How's my Sikh friend doing? You know, house my house, my friend from India doing, because I knew they were going to get railroaded into some stupidity. A lot of people did carry, but unfortunately, a lot of people would. 9/11 happened, also created their own stupidity. I mean, stuff that's not even based in facts, it's just based on political talking points. All right, I have somebody calling me over and over again. They don't understand it. I'm live right now. I'm gonna stop this broadcast, and I'm gonna come right back in two minutes. I'm really sorry. I'm trying to make a point. Somebody keeps on calling. Well, I'll be back in two minutes. Hold on.

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Clearing My Head in the Park: A Live Stream Reflection

The speaker shares their decision to live stream on YouTube for a rational conversation, avoiding the negativity of Periscope.

They express frustration with people who, living far from the U.

, criticize and trivialize events happening there.

The speaker has unfollowed some individuals on social media who were making petty comments, emphasizing the toxic nature of their behavior.

The Vegas shooting has resulted in a devastating death toll, with reports of 56 to 70 fatalities and over 500 injured.

The NRA's push for less gun control has come under scrutiny, with the speaker blaming the organization and its political supporters for the tragedy.

The speaker calls for stricter gun control measures, questioning the ease of obtaining firearms and the influence of money in politics.

The Impact of Political and Social Issues on Regular People

The speaker expresses frustration with the political system and its leaders, highlighting the collateral damage to regular people.

They discuss the worry of violence in public spaces and criticize the spread of propaganda and misinformation by right-wing news sites.

The speaker reflects on their personal connection to the situation and the uncertainty surrounding the shooter's identity and motives.

The Impact of Violence and Mental Illness

Tragic events, like the concert shooting and the Pulse shooting, highlight a disturbing pattern of violence.

The speaker emphasizes the mental illness crisis in the country, pointing out the lack of affordable medical assistance for those in need.

They criticize the disconnect between those struggling with mental health and the people who have the power to help, while also acknowledging that not everyone seeks help.

Getting mental help is harder than obtaining a gun, highlighting a societal issue.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of empathy and understanding others' perspectives.

They express concern about the divisive ideologies in society and the need for a collective approach to create positive change.

A woman driving a pickup truck helped injured people during a crisis, highlighting the unpredictability of life.

The speaker reflects on how 9/11 changed their perspective, making them more aware of the well-being of their friends from diverse backgrounds.

The event also led to misguided actions and judgments based on political talking points.