Politicians React to Shootings in El Paso and Dayton: A Closer Look
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2019
- Seth takes a closer look at the political world responding to the horrific mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas.
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My grandmother and I were discussing the shooting, and we got confused mid-conversation until she said, "Oh, no, sorry - I was talking about the OTHER mass shooting." That's a problem.
Mandolin Hooper that is a real shame. I true tragedy 😥
Well it is really to confuse all the different shootings. I just tried to look up the number and CBS claimed that there have been more mass shooting than days this year.
So the only reason why these shootings are more special is because they had more kills than usual? That is messed up.
@@Weltenbastler2000 Well, yeah. We do measure tragedy by loss of life. Doesn't mean any murder is not tragic, but we can make more of an impact if we can find a way to make these mass shootings with many deaths more difficult to carry out. I think we have to take a realistic approach, it's not like we can just ban all gun ownership in hopes of stopping every domestic violence shooting and road-rage shooting and mass shooting in America. No one wants to get shot at Walmart, or a food festival or a concert. Maybe we can use that common ground to take the first step and then get back to arguing about how far gun control should go. You're absolutely right though, it is very messed up that we have to do things this way.
@@JadedLibs Well I live in Germany and after one political death, we already have a nationwide discussion on how to improve the relation between immigrants and germans. It does not need more than one death to talk about it. There is immediately a discussion about police, state, religion etc. And then I see politicians in the US only talking about these incidents if they at least take double digit lives... The difference in approach is unbelievable to me.
I read that some women who survived Gilroy CA Garlic Festival shooting was in El Paso TX Walmart Shooting. Now you have odds of facing multiple mass shootings living in US. Scary stuff.
“If video games are so influential, they should make a game for congress called ‘F*#%@$g Do Something”
That was good
please.
It was REALLY gOOD dear!!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I like that the cursor was hovering on "New Game."
... as much as I love seth, video games have nothing to do with this
@@seanaaron7888 oh, Seth does understand that. Talk with the dinosaurs in the senate and government
when trump said 'hate has no place in our country' i actually laughed out loud.
*WOW*
best president that USA has to offer this decade
I hope this doesn't offend anyone but I find myself lucky not to live in the US atm
I get it...and I live here!
if you DID live in the US you would not be apologizing for portentially offending anyone
No offense taken, though you may want to check the country you live in. The U.S. is 66th in the world in mass shooting rates / population. 12th or 13th compared to Europe alone, and Canada is right behind us in that comparison.
@TheAes86
Really? On what do you base that claim? Where are the sources for your stats?
“There are more public mass shootings in America than in any other country in the world.” See:
www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/americas/us-gun-statistics/index.html
Im proud to not be American! Where at least I know i'm not them!
When you’re talking about the shooting on the weekend and they have to ask “which one?” #ThisIsAmerica
Guns in my area.
Really wished you weren't on the money here mate
Sad truth
Target the elits yeye
Frankie Says True , and oh so sad!
Sandy Hook was for me the time when America chose guns over its own children.
Lory Oly And there were still republitards saying it was staged to get gun control
Columbine for me. This is not a new problem and it is NOT going to go away on its own.
I'm in Canada and i agree.
I wonder how many parents of shot children would give up their guns to have their kid back? Probably 100%
AGREED
Let's just use their own medicine here
"Videogames don't kill people..."
mityaboy-There are many video games that promote violence by killing on screen in graphic images. Certain video games encourage murder/shooting/killing and like guns these video games will be used by the mentally ill to promote their own inward hate. Don't try justifying these forms of entertainment as they have no redeeming value. If you are for gun control then you should also be for video game control.
@@LAStreetPreacher I would not justify anything, but it is simple: if guns don't kill people, then videogames are not killing people either. We can't have a double standard as you pointing it out. But IF games are an active ingredient and we have to limit the access to it, then so are guns. You could be as crazy as you want if you can't buy a (semi) automatic gun, then you could not go out and kill 10-20-30 real people from a safe distance. (you know if you have a knife your killing radius is rather small, if you have an AK-47, your radius is the whole street).
Am i against guns? - no i am not
Am i against easy access? - probably
Am i against uncontrolled access to unnecessary firepower in hands of civilians? - yes i am.
i can understand without a question if you want to keep a small handgun at home for protecting your property, your loved ones. No issues.
but an AR-15, AK or similar (or bigger) ones? what is the purpose? As much as i can understand we are not living in the middle of a zombie apocalypse where we need mass shooting powers
as for video games: yes we *might* need to control them - but hear the difference (using AR-15 only because everyone can relate to it)
- i have a crazy feeling that i want to kill 20 people AND i play this crazy videogame AND i have access to this AR-15 and ammunition --> i will go and do some real damage
OR
- i have a crazy feeling that i want to kill 20 people AND i play this crazy videogame BUT there is nothing i can use to DO it -> i will sit home and i will imagine the thing in my head.
now let's remove the videogame
- i have a crazy feeling that i want to kill 20 people AND i have access to this AR-15 and ammunition --> i will go and do some real damage
OR
- i have a crazy feeling that i want to kill 20 people BUT there is nothing i can use to DO it -> i will sit home and i will imagine the thing in my head.
(IT IS oversimplified i know!)
but adding or removing the videogames does not change the outcome - while removing the tool to execute the plan, makes it less easy to go around and kill 20 innocent kid in a school.
I know if you are a hard believer that any guns should be freely accessible for anyone, i will not change your mind. That is not my plan either. I just think, that shifting the blame on _anything_ and _everything_ but the unrestricted easy access to guns and ammunition is hypocritical to say the least. I think the right to live in an environment where you do not have to worry about that an idiot can walk into your kid's school anytime with a gun probably stronger than the right to provide any kind of weapon to everyone.
(as a crazy example, why not have a nuclear warhead too? law abiding citizens would not destroy half a city with them, right?)
Please see my point, i am not against guns, but i am for those innocent kids / young adults who die (and will die) every year just because it is extreme easy to put your hand on a firearm. (not yours of course - i am not accusing you of any wrongdoing)
And SH's idea of put there perimeters and guns and metal detectors are just makes me wonder that whether that man is really that insane or is this just another publicity stunt...
@@LAStreetPreacher Sorry, my response is really long
Brother Carlton lol you’re challenged if you genuinely think video games are creating people able to prepare for a mass shooting then not only shoot one person but have the mindset to keep going. No matter how much you like video games you aren’t gonna do that. Get fucking real.
I thought the argument is that video games desensitize people. If a person is crazy and has the tendency to do such a thing already, how do video games make it worse then?
"Video games are violent!"
Yeah, so are guns. Ya know, the things that can ACTUALLY kill people..
So is television and half the stuff you see on here. This country kills me. Don't blame media, I agree with you, blame the people that are mentally unstable that wield these weapons and commit these atrocities.
@@datgamerchowe5987 Those people are influenced by the media.
VultureClone guns aren’t the only things that can kill. Knifes ,cars, mainly the human-being. Who is the inventor of all these items
@@mauriciorodriguez2295 but a gun was designed for shooting. A car wasn't designed for hitting people, and even so cars and driving are pretty heavily regulated. There are lots of rules you have to follow on the road, you have to take a test to make sure you can drive safely, you can be pulled over if you are seen not following the rules even if no one is injured, and you have to be insured to drive. Knives have less restrictions but when I came to uni and realised I didn't have a kitchen knife and had to buy one, the cashier asked for my id so I could prove I was old enough and this was a dull knife where the blade is smaller than my hand. Yes there are bigger, sharper knives but it's also very difficult kill or injure lots of people before being stopped.
Only a libtard who hasn't read any world political history would write such drivel!
Don't forget the shooting in a Mississippi Walmart and at the a Garlic Festival all within a week of these two shootings. We can't even keep up with them all.
250 mass shootings in 215 days of the year... no... no there is NO way to keep up with those kinds of numbers.
Go-go 63 what about chicago shooting that happens everyday? Just because it dont get reported that dont mean its less important. Chicago been ran by DemocRATs and hows it still going? Murders and homicide everyday
@@jecko89 Yes. Shootings, reported or not, are no less tragic. Too tragic. All of it.
@@jecko89 I'm not a Democrat, full disclosure there.
But do you know what the Democrats who run Chicago/Illinois have tried, and what causes the problems for them? I'd be interested to hear how much of the nitty gritty you know.
It's completely obvious that congress don't care if you get gunned down by a well armed lunatic...there is at least one guaranteed way to not have it happen to you....leave America because USA, USA, USA IS THE ONLY PLACE it happens.
Damn, Beto made me realise how rarely you can hear honest emotion in the voice of a politician. He was UPSET.
Happened in the town he was born and raised, not so far from where he lives. I'd be pretty upset too.
@Collin 02456 Asshole
@Collin 02456 - you are sick and in denial........
@Collin 02456 You must be a republican, because you clearly think like one...
Bet on my stork is a corporate sellout who wouldn't really do anything substantial about gun legislation like Obama.
back in the 70's the nra was all about gun safety, now it's all about gun ownership. when did it become a branch of our government anyway?
When money took over everything
2 words: Citizens United
“Gun safety” is an oxymoron, anyway. “Accidental” shootings happen all the time.
After all, when a gun is causing damage, injury and death, it is only working as designed.
He's not only a sociopath, he's losing his mind, literally. The symptoms of early onset Alzheimer's disease?
Memory loss. ...
Difficulty planning and solving problems. ...
Difficulty completing familiar tasks. ...
Difficulty determining time or place. ...
Vision loss. ...
Difficulty finding the right words. ...
Misplacing items often. ...
Difficulty making decisions.
LMCsquared Greendale I think he's always had these problems
Your confusing Alzheimer’s with grandiose narcissism
You are the drug user and don't lie about it! All of you socalled funny boys on SNL! WE are sick of you celebrities without any understanding of real political issues!
I see, the video game industry has not paid their lobbying fees.
Rio de Janeiro
Ohhhhh! Oh SNAP! I think you’re right!
They couldn't get the GOVERNOR OF THE STATE WHERE THE SHOOTING HAPPENED to give a comment or talk about it. Let that sink in.
Lemonie Lala they can’t talk with NRA guidances
Governor Abbott did give a statement after the el paso shooting. He called it terrorism. IDK about the Ohio gov.
Birds of a Republican feather...
@@mondoshredder5783 ah.... faaantaastic. 😒
Dewine from Ohio is an ass, always has been always will be. He didn't do his job as attorney general or any other political office in Ohio. Yet, he spews his Christian retoric of " thoughts and prayers". ...
this is a lesson of morality...these politicians are trading American lives for cash....
My Senator Todd Young [R-IN] got $2,896,732 from the NRA. Guess why he doesn't want gun control? I wrote to him every day for a month and a half complaining about the deaths of innocents and nothing ever changed. Nope. Bought out by the NRA.
Carol Ring How did you find that out?
@@christianmarquez3143 www.theindychannel.com/news/politics/study-sen-todd-young-accepted-nearly-3m-from-nra
Carol Ring you’re implying they paid him to support them. Isn’t it possible they paid him because he supports the 2nd amendment?
Are you saying you didn't know that congressional votes are for sale to the highest bidder? It's legalized corruption, plain and simple, and it's been going on for a long time. Campaign finance "loopholes" and the lobby system = legalized corruption. These pigs don't care about their constituency, they only care about donors/contributors of money. There are some good people there, but they're drowning, in a sea of oinkers and they don't usually last long :(
I'm sorry if I sound like one of those "wake up, sheeple" types but it's frustrating.
Flying off store shelves, the latest video game craze..."F*cking do Something!"
White House Edition
New Zealand solved it in a matter of weeks. Thats political will and true care for its citizenry
+
Boy Bili absolutely.
Yes, and after only ONE shooting!
Here in the UK we did the same thing. Guess how many mass shootings we've had since we brought in really strict gun control? Yup, none.
@@quizzabella how many people get attacked with knives, and acid because their defenseless idiots, or all those dead goons at the Ariana grande concert, another exploitation of a room full of defenceless idiots.
Newsflash - We have video games in the U.K. But not a single mass shooting since 1996.
we just have murders during football games
Japan has one of the highest concentration of people playing violent video games and they have one of the lowest gun crime rates in the world. To get an air rifle or shotgun (handguns and assault rifles are banned) you have to attend s whole day course, take an exam, get a shot accuracy if 95%, you have criminal records checks, mandatory mental health and drug testing and that is just to be allowed into a store to buy one. The number of stores are limited by law and you can only get new cartridges by returning old ones as you are only allowed so many in your possession at a time. If your circumstances change the gun gets taken off you.
@@dragonetta1981 Wow! We'd be lucky to get 1/100th of those gun regulations passed. I especially like cartridges law.
Playing devils advocate here...
It could be that:
No-Guns + Video-Games = no mass shootings (because there's no guns)
Guns + Video-Games = more mass shootings
Guns + No-Video-Games = less mass shootings
Americans aren't really willing to budge on their right to bear arms because it's written into their constitution, so they are looking at what possesses a gun-owner to turn into a mass shooter.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings
I appreciate Seth and all the late nite guys more today than ever.
Respect seth Meyers, we need to speak the truth a Hispanic city was attacked because of all this hate being spread which is all Donald trump
Alexis Arellano Hispanics support Trump though. Don’t understand why🤔
Most hispanics tend to disagree with you about all of that "hate" stuff youre talking about.
I'm hispanic and most of my family that I've talked with agrees
I'm Hispanic and every other Hispanic person I know or ever talked to thinks he's a complete moron liar racist that doesn't belong running a fucking treadmill nevermind the country
Video Games?
The 2000's called, they want their scapegoat back.
I thought that was 9/11?
LMAO, the 2000's!? kid try the 90's, little history lesson this is the USA favorite scapegoat and it all started with a blue ninja ripping the head of his opponent.
Omar Reyes MK and Doom. Two of my favourite classics, and I didn’t end up turning into a psycho.
1990s, if you count Columbine. That's when it all started.
The 9/11 terrorists played Dreamcast all day
We have the same videogames in Europe. And no mass shootings so far this year. With the gun deaths in my country translated to the size of the US, you should have 285 deaths annually. You have 40,000.
So if we have the same videogames, what can the difference possibly be?
Oh...we have a gun ban....could that be it?
well said THANK YOU. i'm shocked they're using VIDEO GAMES as a scapegoat.
@Vibeke Schneidermann You're damn right ! Notice how there's no response... They won't recognize it.
60% of those deaths are suicide, our biggest problem is mental health not an ar15 which is the cause of less than 1% of our gun deaths
@@caseyfitz8972 I know. 22,000 of the gun deaths are suicides or accidents. The risk of being killed by a toddler in the US is bigger than being shot by a terrorist. But you sort of prove my point. You see, we also have people with mental problems in Europe. But as they have no guns, they very rarely shoot themselves. Or others.
@@caseyfitz8972Hmmm... 1% of 40.000 is still 400, which is still bigger than 285. And only related to one specific type of guns. And if 60% are suicides, there are still 40% left which are not. 40% of 40.000 are 16.000 deaths by guns which are no suicides. Which is still WAAAY more than 285. And those 285 seem to INCLUDE suicides anyway.
So... Nice try, but you still failed HARD with that "explanation".
I would buy that game about Congress "F-in' Do Something!"
Thank you Seth. Your sincerity is noted.
A tragic time for America, made more difficult by a moronic and hypocritical president.
No one in US media is talking about the fact that 7 mexican citizens that were in the US legally got gunned down, and they weren't there looking for a job, they were at that walmart to do some shopping! I can't imagine the media frenzy if 7 US citizens were gunned down in a mall across the border! I get that the gun conversation is important to have and I agree with it, but just for this one, make racism and extremism in the US more of a priority in the conversation! Because now, Trump and anybody who ever endorsed him, defended him or corvered for him has blood on their hands!
The Mexican government is considering both aking legal action against the United States, and petitioning the extradition of the shooter. I hope they do as it would help shed a more international spotlight on the issue.
Antonio: Oh Yes we are! The same thing happened in Ohio, USA the very next day and we executed our own within one minute! The Mexicans are the ones making racial comments. Mexico thinks they're going to sue us? Really?
@@albertogonzalez5055 Did you guys fail to realize we are a smart and powerful nation!! Our allies are Japan, Great Britain, Israel, Turkey just to name a few!! World rules and boundaries apply everywhere! Break the laws of the country you are in and PAY consequences! That how the world runs!
Reporting spawns copycats.
Stevie Lynn 7 of their people were killed because your leader is racist. If those 7 were English or European tourists like me there would be uproar. The US wanted to sue Saudi Arabia for state sponsored terrorism. Your President calls out for these actions and your country still legislates for the ready purchase of guns that serve no purpose for hunting. As for saying the Mexicans are the ones saying racist things, name them. What things? Have you no shame?
At this point the lawmakers are just as guilty as the person pulling the trigger, for continuously neglecting to do anything about it.
and they will never do anything about it. The NRA dictates.
@@lazluz Sad but true
Completely unrelated: Anima RULES!
YEP SO TRUE! STOP GUN VIOLENCE! STOP HATE CRIMES! STOP THE MADNESS! PEOPLE COME BEFORE GUNS AND MONEY! BAN NRA NOW!
*lawmakers (plural, not possessive)
Mitch McConnell - The most anti-American American i know.
Johny Revenge yup...... 😑
Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, England, Canada ban guns. Japan had more violent video than US, they have less shooting. Why don't the states do the same?
-peace & love from Malaysia
Actually, we have a lot of guns in Canada, but we also have smart guns laws here.
You have guns in civilian ownership in all those countries, actually. smh
@@praetorxian did't try shoot innocent people i would say
because MURICA!!! XD
@@ms.dirtybird7779 Shooter was Australian?
my 18 yr old grandson played violent video games all night long, and by morning there wasn't a drop of blood on the floor.
amazing how that works! ;)
Well if you use a flamethrower, blood isn’t likely to spill! 😋
yeah, but the gun dudes have the same argument. Most people don't actively shoot people... While they've had guns for years.
it's loneliness and the focus on violence is true, but it's not the cause... Marilyn manson was blamed for columbine... It's bull.
Got that. But desensibilation by those violent games are fact. Since your not a vidgames lobbyist you have to talk...I mean the whole night shooting sounds...I would become aggressive by just listening to
So they wanna ban video games guns... but not the real life guns 😐 okay then 😐
They're ready to confiscate every Time Crisis 4 and House of the Dead 8 in the country.
Dr. Doctor...
trump should be at the TOP of his mental illness list.
That’s really stupid I’m a Gaming Yt channel and I have never been that violent
@@lwaves I try not to watch the videos of these tragedies, partly because I can't handle real-world violence and gore (longtime gamer, btw), but I haven't heard of mass shooters bunny-hopping and dolphin-diving around during these heinous acts.
BadAssMutha006 or building a ramp so they can get better vantage points. The idea that pretend guns are the cause but not real ones is so ludicrous I almost in a way admire the audacity of the statement.
"A lot has been done, nobody talks about..." If he did so much he would be telling everyone about it all the time. He loves to brag...
He's talking about the non-disclosures he has had people sign.
Mr. Meyer, this one brought me to tears. Will we ever heal from this man and his toxic waste?
I've watched most of the Closer Looks of the past year, and this one stands out as one of the best. The tone was right, good job to everyone who contributed to it.
Right! Seth has really grown on me. It's like he's sensitive to the tone that the situation calls for.
@@hotprints it doesn't take a genius to get the "tone" of what's going on.
Tell that to the stable genius in the White House.
It's disheartening how many times we have to repeat this tragedy.
According to my dad and all his trump supporter friends, this gun violence can only be fixed with more bigger guns
I guess not enough to change the law. After those children lost their lives...the US is serious problem.
@@jaquinhamdan3943
Don't you know…..?
A child ceases to be "a precious gift from God, whose life should be protected by federal law" as soon as it's out of the birth-canal.
@@jasinbiggs7189 the Ohio shooter killed almost 10 people in under a minute, I dont think that logic is sound.
Not until a loved one of a high ranking official is killed in one of these mass shootings will something be done
Would love George Carlin to still be with us to talk about this and more
THANK YOU, SETH. And thank you to Tim Ryan and Beto O'Rourke and other folks in the public realm who are saying what NEEDS TO BE SAID.
"if video games are so influential they should make one about Congress called "Fucking Do Something".... lol that had me rolling!
Well Korea and Japan are #1 in video games user but why mass shooting mostly happened in America
@@franmadaraki616 We don't even need to compare. The evidence is there: There is no correlation and certainly no causation between increased violence and playing video games.
Video games can be harmful but only in a psychological way, to the user himself, which is absolutely not the fucking point of this debate.
Can't believe that first thing that comes to your mind after such a tragedy is video games and not the fact that ANYONE can acquire so many guns and ammo.
@@the_bottomfragger wtf did I blame video games in my comment I just clarify the logic of right wing that video games are the one that inspire people to do inhuman acts so I name countries that had higher used of video games to tell them those countries haven't committed any mass shooting to give them the idea that blaming video games or violent movies are kindly stupid..
great idea! a government video game in the "hidden motives" genre
Trump offered condolences to Toledo, not Dayton. He (Trump) is the worst excuse for a human ever.
Just another person trying to spread a false native !!!!!
@@marlonthemightysmith7836 I'm not sure what to make of your reply given the incomplete-ness of it. My point is that Trump can't do anything right, including naming a the correct name of a city where a mass shooting happened. Thus, to clarify, Trump is the worst excuse for a human being ever.
Irvin Hawkeswood
No that for real happened. The mayor of Toledo thanked him but told him that his prayers will be directed at Dayton. The Dayton mayor was far more upset with our "president" though.
#ToledoStrong
Irvin Hawkeswood nah...watch the tape trumptard.
You are a hero beautiful Seth! Way to bring your brave out! We need more people to speak the truth!
I nearly chocked on my drink when trump said that they are doing more than other administrations
In 1996 Congress took away federal funding and research dedicated to guns. The US hasn’t been able to even research the problem, whether it’s viewed as a health &/or socioeconomic problem. Powerful lobbying.
The fck...
The lack of federal funding does not render a topic unable to be researched. More to your point, “CONGRESS took away federal funding,” yet you are blaming the President.
smulawyer she didn’t mention the president are you ok?
Research!? The answer (with evidence base practice) is WHITE!!!
@@smulawyer The CDC is the only authority in the US that can review research and studies from a public health perspective in any kind of official capacity, and they have been effectively barred from looking at gun violence for decades because of the "Dickey amendment" saying that "none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be used to advocate or promote gun control". That is why all current data on the matter is from private research institutions and activist groups, but the problem there is that politicians will pick and choose which ones they will listen to since they aren't from official sources.
And Kelly Fay said nothing about the president in their comment.
"We have done much more than most administrations."
Well, that is true. Too bad it's been much more normalizing racism.
Yes and the criminal stuff and the lies and the sexual deviancey..............
Trump should practice what he preaches. He should prevent potential violence and submit to a mental health examination. After all he has access to the biggest stockpile of weapons in the world.
@@ylass8884 that *should* be a prerequisite for Presidency, I think. Actually it should be mandatory for EVERY politician. But especially the president.
OMG, it took me several seconds to get, "I would like a ... Brian".
One of the best ones I’ve watched so far
"We get told:"Guns don't kill people, people do". The gun kinda helps tho doesn't it? Running up to someone and shouting BANG! doesn't quite have the same effect."
~ Eddie Izzard
But at the same time a gun can't just jump up and shoot you. I think this problem could be solved with more thorough background checks and making it so that you have to be 21 to get a gun PERIOD
@@tyreegw9404 Exactly. The bipartisan bill that was passed in the house is just SENSIBLE gun regulation like background checks. No one is even trying to BAN all the guns but Republicans are like "they are coming for all your guns! ZOMG."
@@tyreegw9404 Get real, you guys have an obsession with guns. Guns are NOT a right, guns should be outlawed. We don't have guns here in the UK and we don't get mass shootings. Exactly why are guns a human right? Why are they so important? I want to know why gun ownership is more important than your own people.
to @Papershire point: Even more curious to me is the thought that guns are a human right but affordable health care isn't? so, someone causing the violent death of other people is a god given right and the victim has to suffer through that without complaining; but caring about one's (and one's family) overall well being and wanting to provide for that is totally too much to ask?
I really can't wrap my head around that. I rather have a human right that's a positive for everyone, than have one that has this much potential for death.
@@Papershire London reported 40,577 knife crimes in 2018. Maybe you should ban knives in the UK? Are knives a human right?
I've played violent video games my entire life and I'm a pacifist. Stop ignoring the problem.
you know where they make a ton of those violent videogames?.. and play them more than us?.. japan... you know where they dont have mass shootings every other day...?.. japan..
Playing Pokemon made me start Mulching my Gardens in Real Life ...it's a struggle,,
@Racespec no I'm sorry but those guns are the problem. There is absolutely zero reason for you to own them.
I feel like violent video games relieve stress and if they banned them there would be more shootings not less.
Marc Touss - Japan doesn’t have access to guns like the US does. Otherwise they might.
One of my top ten "Closer Looks" Thank you Seth!!!
"A lot has been done, a lot of things are happening"
When those lots of things didn't prevent two shootings in one week, you're doing the wrong things.
“Hate has no place in this country”
Damn right, when are you leaving?
Exactly! He doesn't like our country? Then "send him back"!
I am surprised that Seth did not mentioned that the Trump's proposed budget defunds mental health programs by 21% compared to 2017s budget.
Well, that’s only because more people are dying via suicide or in other, preventable ways, i.e. homelessness, no health insurance or plain old starvation. Hence, fewer mentally ill to look after, so a big decrease makes sense. Assuming one “thinks” like the whys and sour bull Trump.
And still he's claiming his administration is doing "a lot"...
@@bimonsolivar8898 Not only he is saying he is doing a lot but that he is doing more than any other president. He can't help it to brag about things that he is actually not doing.
Exactly!!!
Well, after all it was the brilliant republicons that decided that, in order to save that almighty $, the bestest idea in the world, was to shut down all the state mental facilities & turn them out into a world most of them knew nothing about!
Now we've got a problem that even though it may be fixable, it's gonna cost billions if not trillions.
Smooth move there, Reagan!
It feels a bit too soon still but I do still appreciate your thoughts and the effort you put in.
Love this closer look,. Very informative......
Haha if video games are SO influential, they should make one about Congress called, "F---ING DO Something!" 😂
Best answer yet!!!
This one was good lol. Honestly, I like that there weren't as many "jokes" in this segment as usual. He kept it serious for the most part because the situation called for it. And when he did make "jokes," they were like this little tidbit where it makes you laugh but it's the fucking sad truth heh.
And an Indy developer will release that exact game in 3...2...
They did, it's called "Thoughts and Prayers" and it's free to play. I'm not kidding.
Well, the first part of the FF7 remake will take place entirely in a dystopic megacity run entirely by a planet killing power corporation who has bought off the local governments to the point where the mayor is a glorified librarian does that count?
I liked the part where t'rump hid at his golf resort all weekend and in his teleprompter "ransom reading" today, he said he sends condolences to Toledo (which, fyi - isn't Dayton).
He had 48 hours and still got it wrong! 😄😆😅😂
That actually confused me a lot. When he said Toledo, my initial thought was "there was also a shooting in Toledo?!"
You are assuming he wanted to say Dayton.
Chump is like a lot of rich people (or in his case, people who want to be thought of as rich) in that he pigeonholes people and places. I tell people I am from Pennsylvania and they immediately ask Pittsburgh or Philadelphia? It doesn't occur to them that the vast majority of the state is rural.
I'll bet for Chump, Ohio is Columbus or Toledo because nobody (in his mind) lives anywhere else in Ohio.
@@Chas-OTE the fact that that was my first thought too is like...disturbing right? Or should be?
@@howardkerr8174 Well, he did the same thing when he visited Paradise CA after the town burned down. I think he just doesn't care to get it right - and he's an idiot. 😄
@@Chas-OTE Sadly, it's just a matter of time.
"Mental illness and hatred pulsl the trigger not the gun" There would be no trigger to pull if someone hadn't given then a gun!
I love Seth for always talking about the biggest issues!
This was definitely one of the more somber A Closer Look segments I've watched. Thank you Seth for your bravery and commitment to telling the truth and calling it for what it is.
I'm not a fan of Beto O'Roarke (sp?) but he is one of the few politicians who seems genuinely saddened by these tragedies, rather than just playing lip service. He went up a line in my book.
O'Rourke
Deeply saddened, by laughing during an interview.
Xander Lowe Keep in mind he's from El Paso, so this tragedy had a very personal effect on him. I'm from El Paso and I know he cares for the city.
I think Trump paid lip service to it. I don't think that's the case for all politicians. I saw several of the Democratic candidates for presidents speak on it. I think they were genuine in their concern and disgust that we find ourselves reacting to another mass shooting.
@@peridotlyoness831 LoL. Going up only one line in the book obviously doesn't mean we care about the spelling of his name.😁
Thank you, Seth. ❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for the lecture.
Their overlord the NRA specifically told the GOP to shut their mouths.
Lol
I hate Trump, but damn did he put those guys in their place in that clip. "You're all a bunch of bitches to the gun people."
I wonder if they actually tell them to shut their moves or use some kind of force power to shut them up.
@gespilk you have to be a Trump supporter.
@gespilk *sigh* Theoretically you can, with the right push kill a person with a pencil. A pencil is a tool. That tool is meant for writing but it can be sharpened until is fine for some random kills. Now keep up with me, a gun primary function is to deliver harm to the opposing force.
The bullet produces harm, there is no secondary function to this tool. The gun does not kill people by itself, what you load on it does for you. Eventually with enough harm done you kill people.
That argument of gun don't kill people, people does is blatantly false and dumb.
It's jarring when the host of a late night comedy show responds to tragedy in a more dignified manner than the president of the united states.
He doesn't care it fits his agenda! Case closed!
magnolia williams his entire monologue was agenda driven. His rhetoric was the same as any other leftist. Ban things they don’t understand. Couldn’t even give the president a “bravo” for doing exactly what he was preaching about, laying into the NRA, which he complains all the time about. Yet, totally unbiased right?
Exactly, props to them. These late night hosts step up when our damn "leader" won't even do that. What a shame.
@@christopher1569 and, pray tell, what exactly they don't understand? That it is easier to kill double digits of people under 30s with a shot gun than without it? That every incel yokel can buy gun from another yokel's truck without a license? That hundreds of guns are stolen from unresponsible owners and end up in Sout American cartel hands? That every freaking country has video games, but no other country, aside active war regions, has that many shootings in real world? That politicians are NRA and gun manufacturers prostitutes and refuses to do their job and serve their constituents? That someones hobby is not above other people lifes? What they don't understand, oh wise one?
@@christopher1569 He should have "layed into the NRA" right up front. It's a little late for that now.
This piece perfectly encapsulates how I feel about the current situation
Beto O'Rourke is my new favorite human being.
Dayton here. We're done. We banded together against the KKK a few months ago, and we're not letting this stand anymore. We're fighting, and we will take our country back. Ohio, take your state back. Don't let me down, my neighbors.
Sending good vibes from Chicago Illinois, God knows we need to band together here too. 💖💖💖💖
DO JUST THAT!!! BRAVO!!! Sending love and support from California!!!😘‼️
The Dayton shooter was an leftist Antifa supporter saying similar things as you. Your brothers in arms did that shooting lol
Ditto from Florida. Take back our values
Why won't any liberal news mention the Ohio shooter was an Antifa Nazis? It would be nice to see Democrats condemn the actions of their own people and not blame the president for it. The Dayton shooter was a Warren supporter. If Trump is responsible for the El Paso shooting then Elizabeth has a lot of explaining to do.
My son has been battling mental illnesses for a long time and it makes me furious when Trump says those with mental illness creates the violence.
Some mental illness are a lifelong battle despitr we are receiving adequate treatment from medical professionals and thanks to the NPO.s providing free counceling and assistance.
He is the one who allowed people with mental illnesses have gun ownership. Don't blame the treatment. Please keep guns away from the people with mental illnesses.
True that but criminals Will have guns regardless. In our state No one can get mental health without damn good jobs and insurance. The middle class men between ages 18+60 get nothing. VAs get very little too late :(
Everybody has mental illness.
@@Abr022575 This culture requires it. Otherwise you go into the mental asylum or become a drug addict.
TRUE. Our gun problem is NOT a “mental illness” problem, and that’s a colossal cop-out. Most people with mental illness are more likely to hurt themselves with guns than anyone else. So yeah, they shouldn’t be near them for their safety. No one really needs a gun. But we do have an actual mental illness problem in this country. We should be focusing on that, too. But that isn’t what’s causing the gun problem... we all know that
LT Maurand, how can you say that “[n]o one really needs a gun?” If an intruder came in to your house and threatened your family, how would you defend them?
Christ videogames, really?
Next it'll be D&D and satanism again! what a joke.
No, not yet, don't worry. They'll have to get through heavy metal again first, THEN they'll be back to D&D.
My turtle died in real life because I was neglecting it taking care of my webkins.
it didn't make me a better pet owner.
Since day 1, Disney's Cartoons have been showing characters
Killing each other then come back to life.
They blow each other up! Push each other off cliffs & Shoot each other!
Trump is a Disany Cartoon Character Villain
@@ronniecaron6827 - I think you need to figure out the difference between Disney and Warner Brothers. 🤔
@@TheMrVengeance
2 of masses amounts of articles on violence in Disany cartoons and countless articles on Violence in Disany movies,
All marketed for kids and teens.
*The 7 Most Deeply Disturbing Deaths In Disney History
www.cracked.com/article_16795_the-7-most-terrifying-disney-movie-deaths.html
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*Violence in Disney (and an unsettling amount is against female characters)
www.democraticunderground.com/101719697
I have done many involuntary confinement hearings (ITA's) in my 38 years of practicing law. I know w/o doubt, twould DJT present as a respondent I was assigned to represent, commitment of him would a foregone conclusion. After so many hearings, one develops a 6th sense on who's going down. Straight jacket with looong red tie, please!
Wish I could give 50 likes. Think it is so ironic that comedy teams have a more clear, compassionate understanding than the bungler in chief
Thank you, Seth and your group of writers, for that emotional and accurate Closer Look. The carefully infused humorous comments were appropriate. I can't imagine how tough these difficult news pieces are for you and your team.
Linda Hamilton boo hoo seth
@@pisto30 thanks, pisto30. you read my mind.
@@pisto30 - Having no empathy for your fellow man is a sign of a psychopath
OMG it must be soooooooooooooo difficult for Seth! Let’s all thank Seth for persevering through these difficult times. Seth you are the greatest and bravest hero in America!
@@crispusattucks4007 What on earth is wrong with you? No one said that. The fact is that the segment was done with great restraint and was appropriate to the situation. A lot of us appreciate that they didn't go for the easy laughs.
thanks Seth for this!
Great segment
Thank you for writing a compassionate script, and being honest about such a sensitive issue.
It must have been hard trying to fit jokes in and make them work . Some of them don't, especially the early ones and I think for something like this it could be better to leave the jokes aside and go for the serious points only. There's already enough political jokes to talk about, they're blaming video games.
"Video games dehumanize these people?" Hell.. our own president dehumanizes people on the daily... including our own congressmen and women who are citizens...
As soon as I heard that, I thought the exact same thing.
He has done more to dehumanize a large amount of people than any video game ever has. People know video games aren't real, but what he's saying and doing is.
Funny how video game avatars are suddenly people being dehumanized. Meanwhile...
Idea #1: All those "leaders" who do not wish to enact gun control to fight gun violence, fine your kids and grand kids all go to the same school now.
Idea #2 [that I read in the op-ed section of CNN.com]: If you are over 18 and want to own a gun, fine you are now in the reserves! You get training, a uniform and get checked out to make sure you still ought to be able to own a gun. Don't want to be in the reserves anymore, fine you give up your weapons.
the comedians keep our spirits up.
"Hate has no place in our country."
HYPOCRISY.
Seriously!
rich that he called the shooter really sick and mentally ill ( which is true)
when he is more mentally ill and standing by another one his 19 year old acting wife.
His entire platform from day one has been “I hate Barack Obama the brown moose-lamb President.”
It's crazy how anybody of color who disagrees with Trump or his crazy policies get told, they should go back to their own country! But when a white kids posting racist comments or showing Nazi (which started in Germany) flags & etc does it. You never heard Trump or any of his supports say.... "Go Back To Your Country" or "You Can Leave Our Country" smh
But, Hypocrisy is what the entire Republican party is based upon!
Has anyone noticed that COMEDIANS are the moral leaders of AMERICA since Trump was elected?
Debra Smith Like ‘The Fool’ in a Shakespearean tragedy.
Yup, props to them. They step up when the damn "leader" refuses to. What a shame.
Well, they are decent people after all. It always was the court joker the one who tells the truth.
Well news media is only supposed to inform us, providing any opinion on issues would make them either too liberal or too conservative.
I agree, though it's kind of always been that way, since a good bit often has a premise that dives into societal issues in a way that can make people rethink or see a problem in the way they thought about something.
Thank you Seth!
was no one else scared of "involuntary confinement?" no one also seems to be mentioning how ableist this whole situation is. This was racism, not a mental illness.
Nice piece on such a sensitive subject
Keep up the good work Mr Meyers
Regulate video games instead of guns? Did he really say that?
Repugnantans are all for censorship, guns, and white babies...
Yup, Trump and his goon squad of republicans would rather attack gaming than do proper gun control.
Yup because we run to video games whenever we want to blame someone for being a killer
I am just betting Trump's own kids have played those games.
Since hate has no place in the US, when is Trump moving abroad?
I heard "Weed..." and got excited, but then things got real serious.
"Hate has no place in our country..."
Unless it's your side doing the hating, right? Mr. 'Proud Nationalist'? Right?
Right.
Damn right.
Marianne Williamson 2020!!
She’s cool, but everyone should rally behind Bernie so we can crush Biden in the primary.
If we fracture the progressive vote, we will get Biden. And Biden will lose to trump.
@@boarder6246 So will Bernie
Check out these two racist and bigoted trump quotes from when he was trying to run casinos 🎰
“ 1993: In congressional testimony, Trump said that some Native American reservations operating casinos shouldn’t be allowed because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”
2000: In opposition to a casino proposed by the St. Regis Mohawk tribe, which he saw as a financial threat to his casinos in Atlantic City, Trump secretly ran a series of ads suggesting the tribe had a “record of criminal activity [that] is well documented.” “
Domestic Terrorism also includes police lynching of unarmed persons
Very true.
Shooting them in the back works just fine for the modern era.
Sad and true
Terrorism is defined as an act of violence committed with a purely political goal.
Police misconduct is a different matter. This is a Kremlin troll portraying Liberals as anti-police. This is Russian, this is what rhetorical manipulation looks like.
"I would like a....line....brian."😂😂😂
Well said, Seth. Well said.
Can someone start a crowdfunder to make the game "F#@!ing Do Something" a reality?
Or a Family Feud style game with "what excuse will the come up with next" as the point. Just when you think this $hit cannot get more unreal, they blame video games. Yes, republicans, and rock & roll will corrupt is all. 🤬 (side note-my phone tried to capitalize republicans-HELL NO!)
@Eric Burkheimer I meant to tell a joke. I didn't mean for it to be taken with violence. I'm sorry if it came out that way.
I’m from Australia and I lived in Tasmania when we sadly had the then worst mass single gun killing in the world. Our Parliament then introduced gun control laws coupled with a gun buy back amnesty. We don’t have mass single shooter massacres here anymore.
Didn't Australia have a mass shooting a little while ago?
@@jackdoe7401 New Zealand is another country dude
@@jackdoe7401 That was in New Zealand, though it was carried out by an Australian. It is true that mass shootings are extremely infrequent in Australia
In June there was a shooting in Darwin. I'm aware new Zealand is not in Australia.
@@jackdoe7401 Yes. But that's one incident in twenty-plus years. The US now has a mass shooting every other month. Over the past few decades it has had more than one third of mass shootings in the world. And the rate of mass shootings in the US has more than TRIPLED since 2011. It's getting much worse, not better. Also, the overall rate of gun deaths per 100,000 in the US is more than TEN TIMES that of most comparable western countries. Quibbling over the blips on the records of other countries that have done something about gun control is just asinine. Try focussing on the problem in the US. It's not as impossible to solve as everyone wants to make out.
I'm so proud of Beto O'Rourke for stating it like it is.
Next time you bring out the graphs include a source
I saw the same graph on the 'net'. I was looking up 'gun ownership around the world'.
We turn to our comedians for comfort more than the president.
Which is ironic as the president is a joke
So sad yet so true...
It's sad that no one feels any compassion coming from Trump...
The_Lost_Son it’s not ironic. It’s outright stupid. Which is why u call it Irony.
Only idiots think truth comes from comfort. When in fact. Comfort comes from truth.
@@Chas-OTE honestly I got so pissed off when I watched his press conference, with his fake response blaming video games and the internet, that I literally threw my calc book across the room. Only someone that stupid can stand there and say they're sad and condemn racism only a couple weeks after attacking the Squad on twitter.
The_Lost_Son ouch. 👏
I'm surprised they didn't blame heavy metal and rap music.
Wait till Friday...
These youngsters and their Rock and Roll music 👵🏻
Gangsta rap may me do it. 🤣
Jazmin Munoz I think Tom was being facetious about the blame game being played and not actually blaming you.
Tom Cash In her defense, it’s quite easy to have a victim complex when one is often a victim.
Excellent!
I just ❤️❤️you and ur Witt !! Just how I feel
the man is so uninterested in what's going on he called Dayton "Toledo" during his statement
Didn’t joe Biden do the same thing
For trump, they are probably the dame place.
How we forget Gilroy CA was just last week. This is happening too often we've become numb.🤦😢
MS Kewinyc No. Don’t let that happen.
Murdoch press is satanic. It does the same thing in uk and Australia too.
No mention of the walmart shooting in Mississippi the wk b4 either!
With #MoscowMitch catering to the N.R.A. lobbyist, it will be almost impossible to pass regulations.
@MR. Right Let me guess, White Nationalist?
What was that one video game they played in the 19th century? Where the white guys mobbed around black guys?
Lynch of Honor on xbox?