Tucker looks at possible causes of the recent increase in violence in America and suggests getting to the root of the problem rather than continuing to ineffectively treat the symptoms.

“On May 14th, 18-year-old Peyton Gendron murdered ten shoppers in a grocery store in Buffalo, and then yesterday, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos killed 19 small children and two teachers in an elementary school in Texas.”

“Both Gendron and Ramos were very obviously mentally ill. The people around them new that. Both killers had told other people they planned to commit a mass shooting, and then they did. So, what can we learn from this? Well, the first, most obvious answer is that the system in place didn’t work. Gendron’s teacher sent him to a mental hospital for evaluation. They knew he was a threat. They tried their best, he committed a massacre anyway.”

“So, we know for a fact that what we’re doing isn’t working, but we should also be honest enough to acknowledge that it’s very hard to know what to do instead. The problem is that the human mind is much more complex and harder to control than we’d like to admit.”

“The only way to stop these killings is to figure out why American society is producing so many violent young men. There is a reason they’re acting this way. What is that reason? And it’s not just mass shooters, by the way, the ones you see on television. It’s gangbangers and carjackers and armed robbers and indiscriminate haters who push strangers in front of subway trains.”

“We have a lot of people like that in this country all of a sudden, more than you’d like to think about. Why are they acting this way? That’s the only question that matters. Of course, it’s the only question our leaders hate to address because there’s nothing in it for them.”

“This is bigger than a single mass shooting or even two of them in ten days. There has been a huge increase in violence in America, on our streets, on public transportation, in our schools. It’s not a guess, it’s measurable.”

“From January 1st to April 10th of this year, robberies in the New York transit system are up more than 70% year over year. Felony assaults in the subway have increased by 28%, grand larceny, according to the NYPD is up by more than 100%. Those are all crimes of violence, and that’s just underground. The same thing is happening on the streets.”

“It didn’t used to happen. It’s happening now — why? It’s not guns, it’s not the gun lobby. More Americans had guns at home than they do now, according to the Rand Corporation, which studied this. 45% of American homes had a gun in 1980. In 2016, that had dropped to 32%.”

“So, the problem is not that we’re more armed than we were. The problem is that people have changed. Young men have changed, they’re more violent. Why? That’s the bipartisan conversation we need to have now, and that conversation has been drowned out by lunatic attention-seekers who are hoping to win the next election. But we don’t need them now. Never mind your election. There’s something really wrong, and we can figure it out if we try. There are probably a lot of causes.”

“Well, is anyone studying what murderers, not just mass murderers but all murderers have in common? Instead of telling us about the gun lobby? Please, no one believes that. And why, by the way, is the answer to mass shootings always universal gun confiscation? Shouldn’t we be focused on the people who did it, on the dangerous people?”

“Let’s be serious about this. Children died. It’s real. Stop with the talking points, be honest.”

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