Jesse Waters

Four years ago, he was in that school, Kennedy.

Yes, and dropped out.

Yeah.

Because, you know, who knows if they didn't have the proper mental health services.

But, you know, the thing that we're finding here, which I hope they do a deeper dive here because they're doing such a great disservice to people who are deeply mentally ill.

And then you have a group of adults who come in and they say, well, maybe you're just in the wrong body.

Maybe you weren't born the right way.

And that resonates with someone who doesn't feel right, who feels like a misfit, whose thoughts are off no matter what they do.

They can't bring any measure of joy or success in their life.

So that starts to make sense to a group of people who are incredibly suggestible.

But unfortunately, there is an intersection of mental illness and body dysmorphia and hormones that are fighting against themselves.

And, you know, we don't know exactly what hormones do to the human body in the best of circumstances.

And you certainly, you know, it doesn't seem right to treat troubled teenagers as a very unsteady laboratory.

And I think there are other ways of supporting our children and getting them the help they need because we don't need to see another mass shooting.

Right.

that evolved from someone who could have been treated in a completely different way while preserving human life.

Just the other thing is, if you go ahead with the law in many states, you can't even take the drugs until you're over 18.

So this guy's been taking them for six years, and he's 18 when he commits the crime.

Mm-hmm.

I mean, Kennedy was very eloquent there.