Mass shootings by young men are frequently linked to a lack of involved fathers, leading to a void in structure and purpose that can be filled by destructive ideologies.

“when we look at the mass the six mass shooters in the 21st century who have been school shooters, uh who have the those all six of those mass shooters who have been school shooters in the 21st century, um all six of them for whom we know the family background, um every single one of them were dad de”

Young men who contemplate mass shootings are motivated by a sense of isolation, lack of status, and rejection, often stemming from a background of being father-deprived.

“when a boy is feeling like he's being rejected sexually and relationship wise, and is feeling like his his teachers are not speaking well of him because he's not doing well in class, and his parents are maybe speaking about his brother or sister with a pride in their voice, but sort of leaving him o”

Ben Shapiro claims that family turmoil and broken homes are a deeper issue driving school shootings than gun control.

“so obviously this means that the left is going to focus in on gun control as the chief issue here but it seems to me that there is a bigger issue here and that is family turmoil”

The United States should reduce gun violence by addressing the widespread and easy availability of firearms in the country.

“virtually all gun violence has One Singular common denominator and that is absolutely the readily available nature of guns in the United States of America”

The speaker argues that media and political figures manipulate the narrative surrounding school shootings to avoid discussions about identity, preferring to focus exclusively on guns.

“And so this forces them to pivot immediately to guns because they don't want to have a discussion about whether identity played a role in something like this.”

The shooter targeted children because they represent the embodiment of innocence.

“this person is clearly deranged, right? They hate themselves. They hate everybody else. And so they determined completely nonsensically that they have to take children out. And children are also the embodiment of innocence.”

Prescription medications, including SSRIs, are a major problem contributing to mass shootings.

“I think that there's far too much prescriptions of like psychiatric medication on young people. I think that's been going on since the '9s with rolin and aderall and all of the rest of it.”