night_son
Diamond Member
The media these days find a headline, turn it into a national narrative of chronic occurrence or epidemic, and then somehow countless similar events randomly happen over the coming days or months. All similar events just happen to support a red hot political effort. We the consumers of such news headline narratives are expected to believe these nearly identical events are coincidental and epidemical at the same time but never politically driven. Who else out there in America Land is buying it?
Coincidence?
Really?
Nowhere is this tendency more apparent (and harder to swallow) than in the recent spate of mass shootings which have made national news headlines. I mean, for god's sake, seems like there's a new old mass shooting just about every day. The media would have us believe armies of white psychopaths suddenly discovered AR-15s and white kids between the ages of 17-23 are devils to be feared above all other evils, driven to acquire black rifles and use them to exterminate peace loving Americans engaged in every possible peace loving activity.
On one hand, according to the media mass shooting narrative, all recent mass shooting events are coincidentally unconnected. On the other hand, the same media wants us to believe recent mass shootings prove an epidemic of youth gun violence and the clear and present danger of certain forms of free or unrestricted gun ownership.
So, which is it? Which media mass shooting headline narrative is accurate? Pure coincidence or raging epidemic?
Perhaps we're all distracted, looking in the wrong direction while the truth slips by in the night—out of sight.
Coincidence tells us there can be no political motivation or underlying connection between these recent mass shooter events. Coincidence means, despite recent mass shootings driving frantic new gun control law efforts, our elected leaders would never arrange these tragic events for their own gain or plan and execute them for political currency.
But what does common sense tell us?
What common sense tells me is that spates of some great, tragic occurrence do not repeat without some kind of underlying cause or connection. Some—many Americans—will dismiss this suspicion, chalk it up to copycat mass shooters. Right. Copycats. That must be the answer.
But then one might start to wonder who benefits most from repeated, similar national news headline events such as the recent spate of mass shootings.
Tens of millions of legal, peaceful gun owners benefit nothing. Victims of mass shootings benefit nothing. Perpetrators of mass shootings gain very little: a moment of infamy followed by life in prison—or death at the hands of militarized police. Hmm? Politicians who crave drastic gun ownership restrictions do seem to benefit from mass shootings quite bit. Yeah, how about that? Strange. Nothing to see there. Move on?
All I'm saying, folks, is coincidence is easier to believe in events spaced out over many months or years. Coincidence in multiple, similar, equally violent and tragic events in closely timed clusters, well—that seems more like a carefully planned campaign.
No doubt there are vile, evil people out there living across America. No doubt there are mentally unstable ones too. But how likely is it that all of a sudden countless young, white people woke up without a conscience, without sympathy or empathy or compassion of any kind? Does the media truly expect us to believe in an epidemic of ruthlessness in young people? A ruthlessness comparable to the most evil despots in human history or the most highly trained commandos?
Coincidence
Yeah
I'm not buying it.
Coincidence?
Really?
Nowhere is this tendency more apparent (and harder to swallow) than in the recent spate of mass shootings which have made national news headlines. I mean, for god's sake, seems like there's a new old mass shooting just about every day. The media would have us believe armies of white psychopaths suddenly discovered AR-15s and white kids between the ages of 17-23 are devils to be feared above all other evils, driven to acquire black rifles and use them to exterminate peace loving Americans engaged in every possible peace loving activity.
On one hand, according to the media mass shooting narrative, all recent mass shooting events are coincidentally unconnected. On the other hand, the same media wants us to believe recent mass shootings prove an epidemic of youth gun violence and the clear and present danger of certain forms of free or unrestricted gun ownership.
So, which is it? Which media mass shooting headline narrative is accurate? Pure coincidence or raging epidemic?
Perhaps we're all distracted, looking in the wrong direction while the truth slips by in the night—out of sight.
Coincidence tells us there can be no political motivation or underlying connection between these recent mass shooter events. Coincidence means, despite recent mass shootings driving frantic new gun control law efforts, our elected leaders would never arrange these tragic events for their own gain or plan and execute them for political currency.
But what does common sense tell us?
What common sense tells me is that spates of some great, tragic occurrence do not repeat without some kind of underlying cause or connection. Some—many Americans—will dismiss this suspicion, chalk it up to copycat mass shooters. Right. Copycats. That must be the answer.
But then one might start to wonder who benefits most from repeated, similar national news headline events such as the recent spate of mass shootings.
Tens of millions of legal, peaceful gun owners benefit nothing. Victims of mass shootings benefit nothing. Perpetrators of mass shootings gain very little: a moment of infamy followed by life in prison—or death at the hands of militarized police. Hmm? Politicians who crave drastic gun ownership restrictions do seem to benefit from mass shootings quite bit. Yeah, how about that? Strange. Nothing to see there. Move on?
All I'm saying, folks, is coincidence is easier to believe in events spaced out over many months or years. Coincidence in multiple, similar, equally violent and tragic events in closely timed clusters, well—that seems more like a carefully planned campaign.
No doubt there are vile, evil people out there living across America. No doubt there are mentally unstable ones too. But how likely is it that all of a sudden countless young, white people woke up without a conscience, without sympathy or empathy or compassion of any kind? Does the media truly expect us to believe in an epidemic of ruthlessness in young people? A ruthlessness comparable to the most evil despots in human history or the most highly trained commandos?
Coincidence
Yeah
I'm not buying it.
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