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@ogdenz | 6 August 19 | |
Mike Huckabee says thoughts and prayers are the only thing that will stop mass shootings. What a fking head the ball. |
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@3mel | 6 August 19 | |
the NRA contribute to many election campaign funds on the republican side, gun manufacturers are the real membership behind it.
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@3mel | 6 August 19 | |
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@bozzalad | 6 August 19 | |
Ohio shooter Connor Betts described himself as a 'leftist' who hated Trump, wanted Democrat Elizabeth Warren for president and was PRO-gun control, his now-suspended social media accounts show
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@bozzalad | 6 August 19 | |
51 percent of Mass Shooters in 2019 Were Black: Only 29 percent Were White all are ars.eholes Around the same time that the media was focused on the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, 60 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend. 24 of those people were shot in four hours. Baltimore reached its 200th murder victim of the year during its Ceasefire Weekend. 4 people were killed in 4 days in Kansas City. 6 men were shot in Philly during the filming of a rap video. Even in Toronto, 15 people were wounded in shootings over the weekend. Over 350 people have been shot this year in the Canadian city which has gun control, no NRA, and none of the usual excuses. This tide of violence has received less media coverage because it challenges the false claim that, as a CNN op-ed once put it, mass shootings are a white mans problem. |
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@9362 | 6 August 19 | |
@ bozzalad - 6.08.19 - 10:51pm 51 percent of Mass Shooters in 2019 Were Black: Only 29 percent Were White all are ars.eholes Around the same time that the media was focused on the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, 60 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend. 24 of those people were shot in four hours. Baltimore reached its 200th murder victim of the year during its Ceasefire Weekend. 4 people were killed in 4 days in Kansas City. 6 men were shot in Philly during the filming of a rap video. Even in Toronto, 15 people were wounded in shootings over the weekend. Over 350 people have been shot this year in the Canadian city which has gun control, no NRA, and none of the usual excuses. This tide of violence has received less media coverage because it challenges the false claim that, as a CNN op-ed once put it, mass shootings are a white mans problem. What percentage of the general population is white though? What percentage black? |
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@bozzalad | 6 August 19 | |
@ 9362 - 6.08.19 - 10:54pm What percentage of the general population is white though? What percentage black? White people make up 61 of the countrys population, followed by Hispanics at 17.8, and African-Americans at 12.7. In that context, white people are actually dramatically underrepresented among mass shooters, as are Latinos, while African-Americans are highly overrepresented. But that may be because Latino gangs, like MS-13, are less likely to use handguns in public shootouts. And white organized crime groups, like the mafia, no longer carry out attacks like the St. Valentines Day Massacre. Much of this countrys gun violence is really gang violence. And shooting your enemies is a tactic. White organized crime groups make their victims disappear. MS-13s victims are beheaded and buried in parks. Black gang members open fire on each in major cities. The perpetrators are sometimes never caught. When we distill the problem of mass shootings to its statistical roots, it becomes a gang tactic. |
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@bozzalad | 6 August 19 | |
Bias is a factor in the overreporting on white mass shooters, but there are different kinds of media biases. Beyond political bias, theres also narrative bias. The medias objectivity isnt just undermined by political agendas, but by the entertainment value of a story from its own privileged perspective. The media finds a story about a shooting in a small town interesting, but a shooting in the inner city boring. A shooting at a Garlic Festival is a novelty while a shooting at a house party in Chicago isnt. But the pursuit of novelty creates its own narrative which makes it seem as if mass shootings happen in unlikely places, because they are more memorable, than in the big cities where they actually happen. And yet some mass shootings were inherently newsworthy, but were never reported. DeWayne Craddock, a Virginia Beach government employee murdered 12 people at his workplace. The victims were both white and black. Even though Craddock was the deadliest workplace mass shooter of 2019, theres been very little coverage of his case. Craddocks killing spree got far less coverage than Santino William Legans attack on the Gilroy Garlic Festival even though he killed 4 times more people than Legan did. White mass shooters like Legan are seen as more newsworthy because they make a better case for gun control due to the fact that they are likelier to use heavier weapons. Legan brought a rifle to the Garlic festival. Craddock used .45 handguns. And he used them more effectively than Legan used, what the media is calling, an assault rifle. |
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@9362 | 6 August 19 | |
@ bozzalad - 6.08.19 - 10:59pm White people make up 61 of the countrys population, followed by Hispanics at 17.8, and African-Americans at 12.7. In that context, white people are actually dramatically underrepresented among mass shooters, as are Latinos, while African-Americans are highly overrepresented. But that may be because Latino gangs, like MS-13, are less likely to use handguns in public shootouts. And white organized crime groups, like the mafia, no longer carry out attacks like the St. Valentines Day Massacre. Much of this countrys gun violence is really gang violence. And shooting your enemies is a tactic. White organized crime groups make their victims disappear. MS-13s victims are beheaded and buried in parks. Black gang members open fire on each in major cities. The perpetrators are sometimes never caught. When we distill the problem of mass shootings to its statistical roots, it becomes a gang tactic. Fair enough |
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@bozzalad | 6 August 19 | |
hen theres a mass shooting story out of Detroit that would have scratched two of the medias political itches, homophobia and gun control, but was instead buried because the shooter fit the wrong profile. In June, Devon Robinson shot two gay men and one transgender man. The shootings, which took place during Pride Month, according to a spokeswoman for the prosecutors office, targeted and killed the victims because they were part of the LGBTQ community. Had Devon been white, theres little doubt that there would already be a play, a movie and a monument to his victims. But instead its been buried. The Robinson shootings demonstrate how the media negotiates its own intersectional cover-ups. As does the very different coverage of the political orientations of Patrick Crusius and Connor Betts. While mass shooters can come from any race or political belief, the one thing that unites them is a desire for publicity. Mass shooters often admire and track the high scores of other mass shooters regardless of their motives and politics. What they really want to do, above all else, is kill. Seung-Hui Cho, the South Korean immigrant, who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech, wrote of being inspired by the Columbine killers, and claimed that he wanted to die to inspire generations of the weak and defenseless people. Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook school shooter, was inspired by Anders Breivik, a Neo- mass shooter, even though he had nothing apparently in common with him. What mass shooters like Cho and Crusius really want is to be celebrities. And the media makes that happen. It broadcasts their manifestos, plasters their photos everywhere, and makes them famous. And then the next mass shooter uses them as his inspiration. |
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