Objective Jerk
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SEATTLE WHEELCHAIR SHOOTING: 21 Foot rule, Airsoft and fight or flight.
A disturbing viral video shows a shooting incident in Seattle between two troubled individuals, revealing deeper issues about mental health, urban safety, and our societal responses to violence. The incident highlights how seemingly simple confrontations can escalate tragically when mental health issues are left unaddressed.
• Discussion of Seattle's changing urban landscape and increasing public safety concerns
• Analysis of the viral video showing a confrontation between a man and an individual in a wheelchair
• Explanation of the "21-foot rule" that law enforcement uses when assessing knife threats
• Examination of the shooter's previous violent history, including a 2020 incident involving Trump supporters
• Contrast between gun control arguments and mental health approaches to preventing violence
• Observation about the bystander who plugged his ears during the incident and what this reveals about societal responses to danger
• Personal reflections on changing perceptions of Washington state after living there from 2014-2018
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What's up? You are listening to the Objective Jerk and I am said jerk, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what? I just watched a clip of a friends on social media where he's trying to be where Joey's trying to be like a teenager. He's like what's up, whack, that's whack. So I don't know, but anyway made me think of it. Yes, I, I am a friends person again, not a fanboy. Yes, I am a friends person Again, not a fanboy. Well, I don't know, I guess maybe I used to record in the 90s. I used to record the episodes. So I had a few, I don't know, maybe like 10 episodes recorded or something. So I was, you know, I was a fan. I ain't gonna lie. I didn't become a Seinfeld fan until later.
Speaker 1:I remember too that I remember the first time I ever watched Friends, I was channel surfing. So this was 95, 94, 95, something like that. And when did it come out? 94, I think. So maybe 95. Anyway, and I just remember coming across Rachel who's what's her face? Jennifer Aniston, and I was like damn, that girl's hot. And then it had the other one. So that's how I started watching it, and then, of course, it made me laugh and then I became a fan. Right, sex sells, but yeah. So what's up? Here I am. I just recorded a podcast. Yesterday. I messed up the video part so I only have the audio, the actual podcast, for it. So for those that watch it on video, if you want to check it out sorry, you got to go to Buzzsprout and check it out there's actually a lot of episodes that are podcasts that are not on video because I wasn't doing the video when I first started and stuff. So if you watch the videos and you like and you're okay with just listening, check it out anyway. Um, yeah, I wanted to talk about a video that's going around. It's another shooting, um guys shooting another guy in a wheelchair in seattle, right, um, I used to live in seattle.
Speaker 1:Well, I used to live in tac. Well, I used to live in Tacoma area, but I used to visit Seattle. I used to love Washington and Seattle. I did start to get tired of the gray clouds and everything Like. I'm doing it again. So you know, I I don't know. I didn't realize just how dreary it was until I moved to Utah and then, when I came back to visit for Thanksgiving one year, it was just like dang man, just so dreary, um. So I was one of the, you know, later on I kind of grew to. I love Utah, um, and so Washington. So Washington, you know it's, I used to love it, but it just slowly kind of, as I got older and and just more common sensual, I just liked Washington less. You know, I moved back there, um, to kind of be with my mom and to get some more job opportunities for my wife, because where we were at in Utah was kind of middle of nowhere, and so we moved to Washington and I was going to go to college, which I did, but nothing really happened because of it Could never figure out what I wanted to do really, you know, um. But so we moved back to 2014. So we lived there from 2014 to 2018, I think was the last time I lived in Washington and I just like disliked it more and more every year.
Speaker 1:You know, I remember you know they legalized marijuana and I used to smoke. Once I was not obligated job-wise to have, you know, tests and everything. I would still partake occasionally here and there. So I mean I wasn't like you know, I was like that's fine, you know, because I always felt and I still do that. You know, alcohol is definitely way worse in my opinion, but I remember moving there and, just God, you would just smell it everywhere in public. It was annoying because people be in their cars or whatever and it's just like man, can you just not either do it at the shops or at your home? You just walk around and get punched in the face and the kids are like what's that smell? And you know, tell them like oh, it must be a skunk or something, I don't know it, just it got kind of annoying. Um, at least where I lived. So I kind of started like gosh man, see, it's like you give, you, give people a little something, they just they ruin it anyway. Um, so, yeah, so I, you know, I, like I said I used to go to Seattle, had my car broken into various things and from what I can tell, it's just became a shithole recently.
Speaker 1:Just, you know the liberal politics and and letting criminals just do whatever they want. You know, no bail, small amount of bails, not charging. My dogs are barking again. Come on every time, dude, the last few times I'm checking my cameras to see what's up. But yeah, you know, when you know I don't know, it's like you can have overly aggressive laws and you know, by your district attorney or whatever, or we're going to charge you, you know you're going to spend a week in jail because you jaywalked or whatever. You know it's like, yeah, that's, that's, that's ridiculous, right, but if people are stealing and breaking into cars and taking catalytic converters and stuff and they don't get charged anything, then they're gonna keep doing it. It's like it's it, why is it not working? My, my camera's not working.
Speaker 1:It's just, it's common sense, man, and you have to have some law. You got to have. You know you can't. Just, you know you don't want a tyrant, but you don't want lawlessness either. You know, because if you get a group of people together, you know that's the thing is like. You know a lot of people like maybe you and your group of friends are good, law-abiding people and you got, you guys would help people and you would not do this and that. But, dude, a lot of people are not that way. You can't look at the world through just your experiences and your. You know your lens. I guess you got to think about all the different types of individuals and mindsets that are out there, you know. So like case in point. So it's like okay. So Washington, I don't know how they don't have strict gun laws, they have open carry. I had a concealed permit when I lived there have open carry. I had a concealed permit when I lived there.
Speaker 1:But so you have this incident, this video. I'm not going to have the video because you know I don't want to be like every other commentator out there on social media. You know, I want to be different, I want to be, I want to be lazy, right? I'm not going to put the video on because I don't have to stop. Sometimes I do. Maybe I will. I might change it. I don't think so. I'm not really in the mood to. I'm trying to just get this done so I can get some other stuff done. So sorry, but you can look it up Guy shoots, guy in a wheelchair in Seattle and you'll find it on whatever.
Speaker 1:So anyway, in Seattle, and you'll find it on whatever, so anyway. So apparently the guy who did the shooting, which appears to be a white guy or is a white guy, because I've seen other stuff I think it's a black dude or somebody of color in the wheelchair and I think the shooter is accusing the dude in the wheelchair of stolen valor, you know where. They're pretending to be like a vet or whatever. So maybe he's a guy that had his foot removed or he had some kind of something diabetes or whatever and so he's in a wheelchair. But you know he says like oh, I was. You know, I'm a veteran, I was injured in Iraq or whatever. I'm in a wheelchair to get more sympathy and help and whatever right. Don't know if it's true or not, but you know some people do that.
Speaker 1:So the video, you see the guy in the wheelchair like races towards. He's got like a you know an electric wheelchair and so he's, like you know, driving and running into the guy. He's got a knife. You can see a knife and then supposedly he pulled out like a ar-15 or not ar-15, an airsoft gun. You know what I mean. Now, on airsoft guns real quick.
Speaker 1:I don't mean to, but you know you see a lot of people like, oh my gosh, the police, they shot this person and it wasn't even a real gun. It wasn't, you know, it was a cap gun or it was an airsoft gun, dude, it doesn't matter, because they look just like the real thing. Are you going to wait for the person to shoot you in the chest and, as you're bleeding out, like, oh damn, it was a real gun. You know? No, you don't wait to find out. If somebody points what appears to be a firearm at you, you're going to get shot. You know, that's what I taught my kids Never, ever, ever, point your toy guns at anybody unless you know that you're not playing with, with your friends or whatever. Because some people will even make their real guns look like toy guns. They'll get the orange cap or they'll paint it or whatever to make it look like a toy gun so that an officer will hesitate for a few seconds more and then the person can get the drop on them. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So that whole argument is stupid, just like most liberals. So the guy has an airsoft. You don't see that in the video. Supposedly this is what I'm told or what I've read or learned or whatever, but he has a knife. Now, as a law enforcement officer, they teach you the 21 foot rule. Right, if an individual that is holding a knife and he's 21 feet or closer, you shoot that motherfucker because it takes, I mean, unless you got your weapon out and ready, which you know, or sometimes people have a taser, like so, whenever for me, like when I was a, when I was a lead or whatever, or I, you know, do training and the various things I'm always taught that if you're dealing with somebody who has like a knife or something, okay, yeah, have somebody with a taser ready to get the individual, but you also have somebody with a gun Right, because it takes three seconds to get from 21 feet to be on you and a knife in your gut. Three seconds, one, two, three, that's about. If somebody has their gun pointed down, you know, if they're not well trained, by the time they get the barrel to shoot them, they're getting stabbed and you know what. It's actually pretty common and pretty easy for people to miss somebody that close. You know I used to run gun ranges and shoot, train people to shoot or let officers and, holy crap, dude they. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I've always been, I guess, a natural shooter with a pistol. I had to learn to shoot a rifle in the army, like I was. I was taught as a kid but I wasn't very good, you know, like a deer hunting rifle with a scope or even just iron sights. I didn't have it down. You know, I was still kind of learned I did. I mostly shot pistols and shotguns, which I guess that's kind of what I, why I like them so much. The shotguns are just fun though, but so I had to learn. Really, the army taught me how to shoot a rifle accurately, but a pistol I've always been, and it always like I was, like I don't understand how people just miss with the, you know, but it dude, it's common.
Speaker 1:So that whole thing, the 21 foot rule, that's why people with knives, they get dude. You can die from a knife. And then the thing is, with a taser, yeah, maybe a guy will have a taser and he'll go to, to, to. That's what I'm looking for. I want to say shoot, but to release the prongs. They don't, they don't always hit right if you don't get a good connection or you miss. It's easy to miss with those two, it's, you know, game over. So that's why you always have both. If you have it, if you have a taser and you're trying to get this guy and you don't want to kill him and he's having some episode, you know, try and tase him, try and take him without you know killing him, but you still have your pistol ready, just in case. So, with. That said, though, the guy's in a wheelchair, right. So 21 feet in that wheelchair I don't know how quick you can get, but you know. So the guy bumps into the dude. I think he was saying some stuff, but then the shooter saw the knife backed up, pulled out his gun and shot him. I think he just shot him the one time. I think the guy's still alive, if I'm not mistaken, but the guy, the shooter's been arrested, right. So now here's the thing. It's like well, see, that's why they need to have stricter gun laws and this, and that it's like well, he probably, maybe he has it concealed, but he probably doesn't. You know, that's the thing. And the individual that did the shooting guess what? In 2020, he rammed a bunch of Trump supporters with his van, injuring or whatever, and went to jail was convicted for, you know, I don't know, he didn't kill anybody, but he injured, so the guy was not right in the head.
Speaker 1:The problem is not the guns. I'm so tired. I mean tired. I mean does, I don't know, does america have a crazy infatuation with guns? Maybe, slightly. Maybe there's so many manufacturers and all the stuff. Okay, yeah, I guess I could. You know, I'm not a gun nut. But I like the second. I love the second amendment. We should be able to have ar-15s. We should be able to have AR-15s. We should be able to have most you know. So it's like, do some people kind of go a little crazy with it, maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I worked with a guy who that's what he did he collected, he loved guns. He had World War II guns. He had all kinds of guns. You know, I used to go shooting with them. Was it a little extreme? I mean, yeah, maybe to me I was like gosh, that's a lot of fucking guns, right, but that's what he liked. He liked collecting them. It's just like baseball cards for him. So you know, I could kind of see maybe an individual having too many People could argue that I guess I don't agree with it, but I guess I can see it.
Speaker 1:But no, it's not the guns, it's the individual, the mental health, and everything that's going on in the country Is just, you know, you have all these people that have no apathy because they're on SRIs and whatever and brainwashed by the media and whatever else. You know what I mean. It's just, it's mental health is the problem, not the guns. Okay, you fix the mental health, because this shit never happened.
Speaker 1:Back in the day People had guns in their cars. They had rifles and shotguns in their trucks and drive to school. Nothing ever happened. I mean I'm not saying nothing ever did. Did somebody pull out their gun and point it at a guy who took his girlfriend or something? And you know, bumfucked Nashville somewhere? But you know, probably I'm sure I don't know, but nobody. There was no, you know mass shootings and stuff like that. So I mean this was just two idiots in a stupid argument, you know. So I mean this was just two idiots in a stupid argument, you know. You know, should the guy have just backed off and called the police? When the guy brandished a knife? Yeah, you know, because he wasn't close to injuring anybody. Or you know he was in a wheelchair. So it's a little, you know, but the guy obviously had mental problems of them, did you know? So it's just like, but this is the kind of crap that happens and it seems, I don't, it doesn't only happen. I mean there's some stuff going on in texas too, a little bit here and there, but it's just.
Speaker 1:I'm so glad I don't miss washington all Like, if I ever go back to the States. I know I talk about like. I know some people maybe listening to me don't realize, but I don't live in the States anymore. Um, some people are like, yeah, no, shit, dude. Um, but I'm sure I'll go back someday, cause my kids will probably want to go back, um, and you know, when they start living their life and stuff like that, I'll probably want to go visit. So I can't. It's kind of a little dishonest, or to say that I'll never go back to the States. But well, I guess it's dishonest to say I'll never go back to Washington too, cause if that's where my, that's where one of my sons decides to live, then that's where I'm going to go. But what I'm saying is okay.
Speaker 1:This is a bad example. So let's say I had to move back to the States for some reason, or I had to just pick up residence there. I don't know Whatever. It wouldn't be Washington, I definitely would not pick up residents there. I don't know, whatever it wouldn't be Washington, I definitely would not move back to Washington, that is for certain. It wouldn't be California, it wouldn't be any of the liberal shitholes you know. And Washington really isn't just like California and New York. They're not blue, liberal states? They're not. If you look at the maps, the counties, they all vote red. It's just the. You know, it's just. I still think that Democrats are going to be. They just keep losing every which way they can.
Speaker 1:You know Trump, with the having the martial law, like in DC and everything. And then you have people what is it with? Just liberal, white people, just Jim Crow? It's like dude, dude, shut up. You don't even know what it's like to be a black person or anything, so shut up. And then you have you know it's like. But then when you see people who actually live there and are black, that are just like yes, finally, there's like some. You know I'm not getting, I don't have to worry about getting mugged every day and all you know. I mean they're all loving it, but you just, I don't know the one about getting mugged every day. They're all loving it.
Speaker 1:The one thing I have noticed, though, is a lot of family member Friends on social media. They're pretty quiet. I said it before. I think they kind of realize that it is better. They don't want to admit it, though they won't say anything. They've gotten out of the TDS. They've kind of pulled themselves out of the TDS and been like okay, I don't like Trump, I don't like Republicans, but it's not really nothing's going on as bad as these TDS people say or think or whatever. You know what I mean. But one thing I wanted to say, though.
Speaker 1:Back to the video with the shooting. So out of this whole thing you know you got the there's a little argument. It's funny because Starbucks is in the background. Um, you know, you see the guy in the kind of wheelchair and you see the knife and he shoots. But but the thing when I was watching it the first time, the thing that stood out the most to me was just some random guy who walked in front of the camera plugging his ears because the guy pulled out a gun, so he saw it. So then he's moving away, but he's plugging his ears because it's going to be loud Like this guy's plugging his ears because it's gonna be loud like he's. This is this guy's in his 30s and he's plugging his ears like a three-year-old because there's loud thunder outside, or you know what I mean. You know how kids, when there's like it's kind of loud and scary and they're like, oh, and they just cover their ears, it's like a coping mechanism or safety whatever. This guy's like plugging his ears as he's running away and I'm just like, dude, you are a beta douche. If that guy is straight and is married, $100,. His wife is the one that changes the tire on the car. That's the kind of person, that's the kind of man that that guy is.
Speaker 1:I don't know like it's, it's just I don't know, I don't. It's just, I don't even know what to say to something like that. It's just like yes, you know gunshots are loud and if you're gonna sit there like at a range and have multiple whatever and you don't have hearing protection, then okay, yeah, plug your ears, right, when you shoot, have hearing protection. You know, when you go shooting, whatever, but when you're in public and a shooting is about to happen, don't plug your fucking ears, just fucking focus on getting out of there. Keep your eyes on what's going on, but also see where you got to go. You know what I mean. Like it's just, that's the kind of person that when the zombies come, he's going to be first to go. You know what I'm saying? Just useless man. I don't know, maybe I'm being harsh, but it's just like.
Speaker 1:I just remember watching it and just like. So he went and I was like what the? And I rewound it and watched it again and I'm just like, what is this dude doing? Like really, what are you three Plug in your ears? Oh my gosh, it's going to get loud. I was just like, oh, I don't know. That's just, I don't know.
Speaker 1:That guy voted for Kamala. I'm sure that guy is more scared of the gun than the person holding the gun. You know what I mean. Like the gun was just laying on the ground and you have some guy who's like a psycho. When you tell him this guy has mental problems. There's a gun on the ground. Walk to whichever you feel safer. They would walk to the crazy person as opposed to an inanimate object on the ground. You know what I'm saying. Like that's the kind of mentality that these tedious liberals have. It's insane, it's crazy. But anyway, check out the video. Guy shoots guy in a wheelchair in Seattle. You'll find it. Let me know what you think. All right, that's it. I got stuff to do. I just wanted to kind of talk about that. Appreciate you hanging out. I'll see you next time and God bless, all right, bye.
