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In reply to the discussion: Active shooting suspect in custody at VB Municipal Center; Multiple people injured [View all]Jedi Guy
(3,185 posts)24. Preeeeetty sure eggplant was referring to the obsessive media coverage of the shooter.
You know how after every mass shooting the media dissects every minute aspect of the shooter's life? How their picture is splashed on the front page of every major news website, and all over the media broadcasts? Meanwhile, the victims are largely anonymous, unless one is particularly sympathetic to a mass audience.
The incident itself should certainly be reported, but that can be done without making the shooter into a celebrity.
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Active shooting suspect in custody at VB Municipal Center; Multiple people injured [View all]
Cadfael
May 2019
OP
Personally I prefer to know what's going on. Who did what with what to whom ...
marble falls
May 2019
#2
Preeeeetty sure eggplant was referring to the obsessive media coverage of the shooter.
Jedi Guy
May 2019
#24
FUCK THE NRA and I weep for the dead, the injured and their friends and families
Celerity
May 2019
#16
Another example of why we need to confiscate every gun in America. It's time to end these massacres.
LonePirate
May 2019
#22
Every decade we do nothing puts another 100 million guns on the street. Might as well start now,
Hoyt
May 2019
#26
Exactly. Seems pretty easy to define "weapons" to encompass all that, if we don't let the lobbyists
Hoyt
Jun 2019
#36
The days for milquetoast solutions are over. Go bold or go home, as they say.
LonePirate
Jun 2019
#33