just goes to highlight how incredibly lazy our “journalism” is anymore in the US. they are all too busy racing each other to be the first one to call a story or the first ones to show the perps picture that they can’t even take the time to check into a god damned facebook search.
hell after Hurricane Sandy they were quoting twitter posters as news when some troll was saying how the stock exchange was flooded (not even remotely true). we don’t have news anymore it has been replaced with infotainment designed to keep us complacent.
I’d be nice if that were all it took to stop the psychos from being psychos. In the 20’s you could buy a BAR in a hardware store. Gun availability has rarely been lower than it is now in the United States. I read another article today about 22 children stabbed in China. I don’t think it’s the guns are even the problem anymore; I believe it to be the media coverage. Each and every nut job with a grudge and a mildly effective weapon is transformed from some insignificant douchebag into an instant celebrity.
I actually cried reading the news about it. It’s almost christmas and it’s friday, these kids were probably minding their own business and couldn’t wait to go home, then their life is just taken away instantly
I’d like a wholesale restructuring of society as much as the next guy, but until that happens I think it’s reasonable to not let people have weapons designed to kill dozens of people in seconds. I don’t think that’s a particularly extreme opinion.
Yup. Legal to own in most states. Trying to get above a Class III gets much trickier.
The bullet-proof vest is pretty irrelevant. The minimum rifle caliber in the swat programs I am familiar with would pass right through it. The illusion of protection.
This is one way in which the times have indeed changed.
Paul Schrader, the screenwriter of Taxi Driver, was aghast when Arthur Bremer was put on the cover of Newsweek. He couldn’t believe that all it took to be a celebrity “these days” (meaning the early 1970s) was to commit a high-profile act of violence. I bet he doesn’t find it so shocking anymore.
I agree with your post thats why I posted somebody saying hey its not this guy even tho Fox News is saying this is his profile. Basically Goodmourning our post were saying the samething as in we should fall back cause our info is limited.
On second thought, yes, the mis-framing is just as relevant as the shooting itself. News is about getting views now and objectivism is slowly becoming less important, so the race to getting the first word in and airing raving pundits take priority.
The idea of more guns being the answer is by simple math putting MORE guns into the hands of people who shouldn’t have them.
I was just bringing up 3D printed guns in the lounge a few days ago, this problem will get exponentially worse in the future if people are allowed to print their own guns.
The news reports whatever people want to see. With the advent of the internet, plenty of people can choose to filter the information they would like out of any tragedy but ultimately mainstream America is infatuated with the train-wreck that is our humanity.
The news also shows the heart break and loss of these families, the irreparable damage that’s done to these communities. These killers go in with motive and I honestly don’t buy the argument that they want to go out like a ‘celebrity’ when they’re forgotten as quick as they come.
I honestly don’t remember the kids from Columbine’s names, or the name of the kid who shot up VTech.
These people are disturbed. We bicker about guns because it’s a fig leaf for how ugly we have become.
My stance on guns precedes all of these mass shootings and I apologize for bringing it up when they happen.
Anchor woman on Pix 11 just said the shooter played Mass Effect. The anchorMAN shut that bitch down saying “Sure people with a proclivity for violence might gravitate toward these games but millions play them and do nothing so just playing the game probably isn’t the cause”.
Thank you.
Fuckin retarded gun laws+apocalypse paranoia=this mess. And as much as I hate to be a cynic like the rest of you in this case I know gun laws won’t change and it will be back to business as usual eventually:mad:
its not even the first day and many of you are already calling for the banning of firearms or ballistic vests. Fuck, way to jump on your political agenda, and way to solve the “gun” issue by putting a fucking bandaid on it.
And the solution is ensuring the people who have their heads set straight are lambs for the slaughter? The perp will have a gun or a blade ANYWAY. The law being control freaky just makes it certain only the bad people will have this stuff.
I live in CT. One of my co-workers, lives in Newtown and has a daughter in high school there. Anothers wife teachers at Sandy Hook and yet another has 3 kids in other Newtown schools. This has hit home waaaaaay too hard today. God bless the families of those involved.
To those who say we need better gun control, that is completely un-true. Taking away the right to bear arms from innocent, law abiding citizens will not prevent heinous crimes like this from happening. Criminals will always find ways to access firearms, legally or not.
