Stefan Molyneux discusses the recent news that Aaron Alexis who committed the Washington Navy Yard shooting was previously known to have made claims of hearing voices. What was done about it?
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| Rhode Island police warned the U.S. Navy last month that Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis had reported hearing voices raising further questions about how he gained security clearance at the complex where he went on a shooting rampage. | |
| So this is very important. | |
| I really want to make this as crystal clear as I can. | |
| Because whenever the catastrophes occur, like this horrific shooting that occurred this week at the Navy compound in Washington, everybody cries out for more government, bigger government, more security rules, more checkpoints, more laws, more gun control, you name it. | |
| And it's really insane when you think about it. | |
| Let's just take a very quick tour through this murderer's life, Aaron Alexis. | |
| So, he was born, of course, and the government controls and funds a good portion of the healthcare system in the U.S., licenses all the doctors, born entirely in a government environment. | |
| If he went to daycare, then the daycare was regulated by the government, inspected by the government, and all that. | |
| Then, when he was four or five, he went to a government school where he was instructed for the next... | |
| Twelve years by the government, and then he graduated and he went to a technical college that was licensed by the government. | |
| He may have received government subsidies to go there, and of course, almost all higher education received some form of subsidies and definitely significant controls from the government. | |
| And then he went to work in a variety of places, but then he worked in the Navy. | |
| And he was, of course, in the Navy. | |
| In the 2000s, he shot out the tires of some construction workers, and he was detained. | |
| He was arrested and detained, but no charges were pressed. | |
| So that opportunity for the government to control things didn't actually occur. | |
| And then he was complaining about the noise in an apartment building from a neighbor, and he shot through the floor and into the ceiling. | |
| And he was arrested and questioned, and he claimed that he was cleaning his gun while cooking and possibly hunting, because that's the only way I could see why you'd be cleaning a gun while you were cooking. | |
| And he was, again, released. | |
| And then, again, this is all government involvement, all government control, all government mandates. | |
| And then he was treated by the Veterans Administration for mental health issues. | |
| Again, care, custody, and control. | |
| The government. | |
| And then he was rehired by the government. | |
| And then when he grabbed the weapons from the government employees, well, they were there because they were government employees and supposed to be protecting everyone. | |
| This is how apparently he gained the weapons. | |
| He only came in with a shotgun, which I believe Joe Biden advised people to defend themselves with. | |
| So he came in with a shotgun, shot a security guard and then began arming himself with the weapons from the security guard. | |
| All government issued weapons. | |
| In the Navy facility where he did his rampage, no one is allowed To carry guns. | |
| It is a gun-free zone. | |
| Again, government mandate put in by Clinton in the 90s, and this was all part of that. | |
| The Navy discharged him, did not give him a dishonorable discharge despite repeated absences and insubordination and so on. | |
| And so when you sort of think about the picture of this man's life, I mean, the government was everywhere. | |
| The government educated him. | |
| The government licensed the institutions. | |
| The government had care, custody, and control of him while he was in the Navy. | |
| The government discharged him. | |
| The government treated him for mental health issues. | |
| The police warned the Navy about his danger. | |
| The Navy still gave him clearance and a job. | |
| The police arrested him and never did anything about it. | |
| So when you look at this man's life, he's kind of cocooned in this statist biosphere, in this government cocoon. | |
| And it's very strange to me. | |
| Like, then people say, well, the government needs to do something. | |
| We need to get the government to do something more. | |
| I mean, other than physically breathing for him, what the hell more could the government possibly do, given how much it failed at in identifying and keeping citizens safe from this monstrous lunatic? | |
| How could we possibly? | |
| It's like the government didn't just come across this guy like you just turned the corner and the government just came up with this situation which the government had nothing to do with beforehand. | |
| The government was all over this guy's life. | |
| Government was warned. | |
| Government controlled him. | |
| Government medicated him. | |
| Government reviewed him. | |
| Government discharged him. | |
| Government arrested him. | |
| Government educated him. | |
| So please, dear God in heaven, Will people stop saying that what we need is just a wee little bit more government to stop these kinds of problems? |