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N2K: Gun Violence Awareness Day, How To Prevent Mass Shootings, POTUS Talks Gun Control

and today marks national gun violence awareness day coming at a time when the country consumed by news of shootings from buffalo new york to you. Volley texas to Tulsa Oklahoma enough, it's time for each of us to do our part. It's time to act for the Children. We've lost the Children we can save for the nation we love. And this week in Buffalo, the suspected gunman who killed 10 people at a supermarket last month, indicted on 25 counts. That included 1st and 2nd degree murder charges, along with several hate crime charges as well. He pled not guilty. Meanwhile, in Uvalde in more details are emerging about the failures of the local law enforcement. As the Department of Justice is now launching a review and most recently in Tulsa Oklahoma this week, officials say the gunman that killed four people at a hospital was targeting a doctor there, who he is blaming for back pain. These aren't the only shootings in just recent days. These are just the ones that are making national headlines. Most organizations classified in mass shooting as an incident where four more people were injured or killed by a gun. Just over the last 10 days, America has experienced more than 20 mass shootings. That's according to data from the National Gun Violence Archive and some of them haven't made national news. They've made headlines in Michigan California and Tennessee. Just since the start of this year, there have been more than 200 mass shootings. In the next few minutes, we'll take a look at a profiling. Mass shooters where gun laws stand around the world and here in the United States as well as how communities are coping with the aftermath. Now in the wake of the several high profile mass shootings across the country from the elementary school in you've all day to the hospital in Tulsa officials looking for ways to spot red flags that can lead to mass shootings. Mass shooters tend to fit a certain profile, which means it's possible to I. D. And treat these individuals before they commit violence. So joining us now with some expert insight is lena dot holly licensed psychotherapist and author of the book, facebook Narcissist Lena is such a pleasure to have you here. Thanks so much for joining us. What are some of the characteristics or traits behind many of these mass shooters? And how can officials identify some warning signs here? Yeah, thanks for having me baker. You know, a lot of the signs we want to look for is first of all, a change in behavior and a pretty drastic change in behavior. That could be a lot of anger, aggression, isolation, you know, they could start dressing differently talking differently. What we're seeing is a lot of these mass shooters ahead of time. They're really planning this out and they're showing a lot of signs, especially on social media, a lot of the patterns are they're accumulating firearms over time they're posting about them. There's a lot of narcissism, entitlement, things like that, that we're really seeing in terms of the traits in the New York Times, pointing out yesterday, six of the nine worst mass shootings just since 2017 were committed by people under the age of 21. So what can be done to address these shootings from your point of view here? Well, I've been reading a lot and studying a lot about violence prevention and how we prevent these mass shootings in a way that's mental health oriented. I know there's a lot of frustration and gridlock around gun control. So a lot of us in the mental health profession are thinking what can we do from a mental health perspective And a lot of that is an intervention because there are so many morning signs of these shooters and because as you said, most of them are under 21 and so what that looks like is ideally, you know, you want to stay away from punitive measures, You want to look more at interventions that are counseling instead of, you know, firing somebody, um, expelling them from school a lot of the time with these shooters when that happens and they feel it's punitive, they're very aggrieved and they become very angry and then they want to retaliate. So ideally you want to look at counseling interventions and those and trying to sort of reintegrate them into socialization and society and feeling like part of the community of course that can't always work. And sometimes it is a fair and a reasonable assessment to have some punishment for their behavior. But ideally, I think the interventions that we hope for would be less punitive and more around rehabilitation or reintegration into a community. Absolutely. Especially even how these these weapons are being marketed to individuals under the age of 21. Something to be looked at as well. Lena dear holly licensed psychotherapist and author of the facebook Narcissists, It's such a pleasure to have you here. Thanks so much for getting up early with us this morning. Meanwhile, the world of politics waking up this morning, Ariel Hickson is life force in our nation's capital, bringing us the biggest stories unfolding there. And aerial president biden made an impassioned plea in prime time last night about curbing gun violence. That's right baker all eyes were on Washington yesterday as President biden delivered a passionate speech addressing the mass shootings that have terrorized this country over the past few weeks. The atmosphere with somber and with with 56 candles lit behind him that represent the victims of gun violence in all 50 U. S. States and six territories. In his speech, he was direct acting, asking Congress how much more carnage are we willing to accept? Take a listen after columbine after Sandy Hook after charleston after Orlando after las Vegas after Parkland. Nothing has been done this time. That can't be true this time we must actually do something in the address. The president had a number of requests. One, a ban on assault weapons to tougher background check laws and three raising the minimum age to purchase these weapons from 18 to 21. His goal to encourage lawmakers to work together to tighten regulations on assault weapons and end mass shootings. As of now though, those requests are a bit high. A bipartisan group of lawmakers have been working together over the past week trying to find a common ground. House speaker Nancy. Pelosi is confident that she can get legislation to ban military assault style weapons passed in the House, but any gun control measure has a tough journey in the Senate. Democrats need 10 Republicans to join and break a filibuster, which left leaning lawmakers are calling at this point incremental but a real you know what if any gun control appears to be doomed on the hill, why did the president take the time to make this address? Some say, political theater, others says he's preparing for midterms. Well, that's a big point there, definitely preparing for midterms. And the President also using this opportunity to not only say that we quote, cannot fail the american people again, but to point a finger at republicans, he said that he found their actions regarding gun control unconscionable. Meantime, a bipartisan group of senators are looking state to state at red flag laws, which would allow authorities to remove guns from potentially dangerous individuals