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originally posted by: verylowfrequency
Nice post!
The only question is how do we get the MSM to stop? We can't really step on their First Amendment here in the U.S.
We need some type of proof that would stand up, so they can be prosecuted for culpability or sued by the victims family's.
pretty much the 24 hour news on these people are giving them what they want recognition
According to the FBI, mass shootings (defined as shooting events that kill at least four people) occur on average every two weeks in the United States. Yes, every two weeks. Yet we rarely, if ever, hear about most of them. The reason is because these shootings are easily explainable. In most mass shootings, the crimes occur at a private location and the victims are people close and well-known to the shooter — family members, neighbors, friends. Many of them are attributable to gang violence or illicit criminal activities. Others are a crime of passion. School shootings only account for 4% of all mass shootings and yet they dominate the news media and get the entire country talking about them for weeks on end. There are a few reasons for this: They occur in everyday public locations which are supposed to be safe. The victims are targeted and killed at random. The victims are innocent bystanders and often children. The killers leave behind large amounts of material about themselves for the media to share. The perpetrator and victims are generally upper-middle class, white, and privileged. These shooters know what they are doing. They’re not “crazy.” They don’t just “snap.” Most of them spend months or years planning their massacres. Elliot Rodger had apparently been planning his shooting for over a year. You don’t just show up with a 140-page manifesto and a large stockpile of weapons one day. You work at it for a long time. And you plan not only the violence, but the presentation for the audience, the performance — what they will see from you, what they will hear from you, the reasons why, the message. It’s all very conscious and deliberate. And it works. Their killing sprees are specifically targeted to generate the most fear and uncertainty from the public, because the more fear and uncertainty they generate, the more attention they get. They then use all of the attention as a platform to promote themselves or whatever complaints they may have against society. It’s the Columbine formula. It works. And as Eric Harris pointed out in his journal, it’s not about the guns. It’s about the television. The films. The fame. The revolution. If this sounds like a familiar strategy, that’s because it is.
originally posted by: meowningstar
Sorry but you Americans with your beloved guns actually need stricter laws to live in a safer environment.
I live in the UK and believe that our law on guns would be adequate for you in the USA
originally posted by: Moresby
originally posted by: meowningstar
Sorry but you Americans with your beloved guns actually need stricter laws to live in a safer environment.
I live in the UK and believe that our law on guns would be adequate for you in the USA
Unlike in the UK, we actually have a written constitution. So you gotta change that first.
But, really, you guys should get rid of your monarchy, create some separation between church and state, and abolish state censorship.
All things we took care over 200 years ago.
originally posted by: BomSquad
But how will they further their anti-gun agenda if they don't sensationalize the coverage! They need to keep manufacturing tragedies like this to keep the drum beat of the anti-gun agenda marching forward....