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September 12, 2024

Title: Manifesto of the Nashville School Shooter
Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America

Discussed by Dr. Currie Myers
with Dr. Currie Myers (Substack.com/@DrCurrieMyers)

Part 1 of 3

Mental health issues are becoming increasingly more common among every age group, ethnicity, and social economic status. No one, it seems, is immune. How can we fix it?

Dr. Currie Myers is known as “America’s Criminologist”. He is an applied criminologist, academician, author, consultant, and retired sheriff of Johnson County, Kansas. Dr. Myers is also on faculty in the criminology department at Benedictine College and is a public safety adviser to Americans for Prosperity.

Today, Dr. Myers discusses details of the recently released manifesto of the female Nashville School shooting.

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Questions/Issues Discussed:

Are female mass shooters rare?

Did the Nashville school shooter leave behind a Manifesto? Dr. Myers discusses some of the details of the Manifesto, which provides a glimpse into the mindset of the shooter.

In her writings, the shooter admitted to calling a Suicide Prevention Helpline five times in a single day. Are there indications that she was under the care of a mental health professional?

Do her writings also suggest that the attack on the Covenant School in March 2023 was not a spur-of-the-moment decision and not the only school/location she considered attacking?

Do mental health professionals have any legal responsibility to report threats to the public made by patients under their care? Dr. Myers believes the current laws and regulations are often misinterpreted and need an overhaul.

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Title: Part 2 of 3 - Manifesto of the Nashville School Shooter
Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America

Discussed by Dr. Currie Myers
with Dr. Currie Myers (Substack.com/@DrCurrieMyers)

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Has the release of the shooter’s journal, or Manifesto, sparked renewed debate over the role of mental health in violent acts? Dr. Myers believes that it is not about the gun; it’s about the person. He says: “We’ve become a society of enablers and not treaters.” He goes on to explain in detail how states that have decriminalized drugs like cocaine and fentanyl are seeing a massive increase in homelessness and mental health issues which are directly related to drug use.

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Is there a critical disconnect between mental health practitioners and criminal justice institutions?

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Title: Part 3 of 3 - Manifesto of the Nashville School Shooter
Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America

Discussed by Dr. Currie Myers
with Dr. Currie Myers (Substack.com/@DrCurrieMyers)

Questions/Issues Discussed:

What is “Evidence-Based Policing”?

What are Crisis Intervention Teams (CITs) and Behavioral Threat Assessment Units (BTAUs)? Dr. Myers explains their purpose and importance.

Must mental health professionals have clear protocols to report individuals exhibiting severe mental health concerns to law enforcement?

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January 6, 2016

Title: Obama Really Wants your Guns
Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America

Discussed by Dave Workman
with Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org)

Part 1 of 2

Many elected officials trash-talk against gun lobbyists and the NRA. Yet, they are surrounded by armed guards and security officers! Will the call for more restrictions on gun sales really decrease the amount of mass killings? Can we really stop criminals from obtaining guns? Gun violence is a major hot topic in this country right now. Is there a way to stop it – or at least decrease it?

Dave Workman is a nationally recognized firearms journalist. He is currently the Communications Director with the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Dave is here to shed some light on this issue – and maybe offer some hope.

Regarding Obama’s “promise” to place more restrictions on guns, Dave Workman says, “There is no evidence that any kind of gun control measures will have any impact on mass shootings – or even on crime committed in Chicago or Washington, DC. The overwhelming majority of mass shooters cleared background checks because they didn’t have a prior criminal record!”

But what happens when a mass shooter doesn’t obtain guns the “legal way”? How can we stop them? And why do so many attorneys for these mass shooters use the insanity please for their clients? Listen in as Dave Workman answers these and other questions, using the high number of murders in Chicago as a prime example. The biggest problem, he believes, is the lack of enforcement in current guns laws, not the lack of laws. Listen to the next segment as he expands on this thought.

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Title: Part 2 of 2 - Obama Really Wants your Guns
Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America

Discussed by Dave Workman
with Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org)

Dave Workman continues to discuss why it is vital to keep the current gun laws in effect; we don’t need to add to or take away from them. We simply need to enforce them! He encourages all states to adopt the “three strikes and you’re out” and “hard time for armed crime” that was gained attention nearly twenty years. He believes those two laws really aided in the reduction of crimes, especially murders and violent crimes. Even Bill Clinton endorsed the “three strikes and you’re out” law when he was President!

But, of course, the liberals cried and begged and whined for the life of the criminal. It just wasn’t fair! And that is where we are today. Mass shooters aren’t the problem; the gun shop owners are.

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October 5, 2015

Title: It’s a Heart Problem, Not a Gun Problem
Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America

Discussed by Larry Pratt
with Gun Owners of America (www.GunOwners.org)

Part 1 of 2

Disclaimer: Use caution when listening to this segment around young children. Issues discussed might be upsetting or hard for little ones to understand.

Since 1950, only two mass shootings were not in gun-free zones. Maybe it’s time we rid the nation of gun-free zones! Let’s take a look at other countries around the world. Australia confiscated all the semi-automatic weapons from its citizens. During the following year, they experienced a dramatic rise in armed robbery crimes. How does this happen if the criminals don’t have guns? They do! It’s the average citizen trying to protect their home and family that doesn’t have a weapon!

Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, also discusses a mass shooting in Norway where “one dirt bag murdered over 90 people. No good guy had a gun to help!” The same situation occurred on Thursday, October 1, 2015, because the college campus in Oregon was a gun-free zone! A lone, brave ex-serviceman charged the shooter and was shot five times. But how many people could have been saved if he had been allowed to carry a weapon on campus? We will never know.

There was another shooter in Oregon a few years ago who tried to commit mass murder. Thankfully, a man actually committed a crime in order to stop him! Listen in as Larry describes this situation and how lives were saved – by a criminal!

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Title: Part 2 of 2 - It’s a Heart Problem, Not a Gun Problem
Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America

Discussed by Larry Pratt
with Gun Owners of America (www.GunOwners.org)

Disclaimer: Use caution when listening to this segment around young children. Issues discussed might be upsetting or hard for little ones to understand.

Every community where citizens are allowed to openly carry a weapon experiences a much lower crime rate. It’s a proven fact. Larry also reveals that, as the number of honest gun owners increases, the murder rate decreases. However, in cities like Chicago and New York City, which do not allow its citizens to own legal handguns (much less openly carry them), the murder rate increases! Most of the crime in our country actually comes from these cities (and Washington, DC).

Removing guns from law-abiding citizens does nothing to stop criminals from obtaining them. Larry Pratt says, “The whole country would start to resemble Chicago.” So why do so many Americans believe the lies about the crime rates in gun-free cities? Listen in as Larry discusses the low-information voter.

Now, more than ever, it is so important for Christians to bow down and worship our Heavenly Father. Yes, even over gun control. Most people don’t buy a gun with the intent of purposefully killing someone. As mothers and fathers, however, we must protect our families. We cannot do that when the very right is literally taken from us. There will always be bad people in this world. We must take a proactive approach to this issue instead of throwing it under the bus.

Larry Pratt has one solution: make the punishment fit the crime. When a criminal commits a crime with a gun, why do we send them to jail to enjoy three meals a day, work-out equipment, and a roof over their head for 5, 10, or 30 years? He says, “Use the Biblical notion: Justice delayed is justice denied. If someone is convicted of murder… walk them down the hall and pull the switch.”

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August 28, 2015

Title: NO Epidemic of Mass Public Shootings
Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America

Discussed by Larry Pratt
with Gun Owners of America (www.GunOwners.org)

Part 1 of 2

Larry Pratt has been Executive Director of Gun Owners of America for 30 years. GOA is a national membership organization of 300,000 Americans, dedicated to promoting their second amendment freedom to keep and bear arms.

CONGRESSIONAL STUDY SHOWS NO MASS PUBLIC SHOOTING ‘EPIDEMIC’.

A Congressional Research Services (CRS) study released on July 30 is devoid of evidence to back gun control groups’ claims of an “epidemic” of “mass public shootings.”

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Title: Part 2 of 2 - NO Epidemic of Mass Public Shootings
Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America

Discussed by Larry Pratt
with Gun Owners of America (www.GunOwners.org)

What is a common denominator in mass shootings and mass public shootings? The overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these incidents is the fact that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes.

Multiple credible scientific studies going back more than a decade, as well as internal documents from certain pharmaceutical companies that suppressed the information show that SSRI drugs (Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors ) have well known, but unreported side effects, including but not limited to suicide and other violent behavior.

In fact, counter to claims of “207 mass shootings” in the first 207 days of 2015–a claim CNN’s Fareed Zakaria suggested is “almost literally true“–the CRS study shows an average of “21 mass shootings” annually in the US during the time period of 1999-2013.

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