Today's mass shooting in the US

Americans will never ban guns no matter how many shootings occur. I was in the US during the recent Vegas shooting and overheard several conversations about it. The general agreement seemed to be that there was no possible solution to mass shootings. As a guest in the country I didn't think it was appropriate to point out the bleeding obvious answer, which Australia managed to implement just fine once they'd decided enough was enough.

This was in Utah and Arizona though, so maybe not representative of the entire US.
 
It’s as predictable as it is ridiculous, to see Trump blaming the mentally ill and “bad neighbours” for this massacre, as though nowhere else in the world has these same problems, and all seem to get by without mowing down school children at the gates.

Also predictable and ridiculous to see the killers name and face plastered everywhere, social media info, family info, footage of the shooting, previous history and so on - cut to commercial.. then do it all again for another 5 hours straight.

As expert analysis pointed out - each time there’s saturation coverage of a shooting, another one takes place soon after, it’s like there’s a well engineered system in place to ensure shootings happen constantly.
 
koolpc said:
Mass shootings in USA is not a shock anymore. Its rather a normal event. Sad really
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That is sad. I'd be more shocked if there isn't a shooting like this on the news every few months.

It is also twisted that the adults (parents) with powers to do something about this decides not and accepts that children getting killed are a part of the norm.

Like Forest Gump says "Stupid is as Stupid does"
 
FTM said:
“In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate,” Dan Hodges, a British journalist, wrote in a post on Twitter two years ago, referring to the 2012 attack that killed 20 young students at an elementary school in Connecticut. “Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.”
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Raymond Lin said:
That is sad. I'd be more shocked if there isn't a shooting like this on the news every few months.

It is also twisted that the adults (parents) with powers to do something about this decides not and accepts that children getting killed are a part of the norm.

Like Forest Gump says "Stupid is as Stupid does"
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Personally I thought the wake up call would have been... “Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.”
 
Raymond Lin said:
It is also twisted that the adults (parents) with powers to do something about this decides not and accepts that children getting killed are a part of the norm
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I dunno, in the wake of things like sandy hook, there were some pretty huge parental campaigns and protests, outside Congress some even appearing with Obama, a number of well funded documentaries, endless attempts at legislation, this has been a common theme since columbine.

Unfortunately every type of sharpened arrow has bounced off the NRA reinforced armour, that has cladded the entire US political system, it’s a money game and the NRA will keep throwing cash at politicians until it bleeds itself dry.

You know, before the day is out, we’ll have ******* “Wayne la’piere” campaigning for armed school teachers and students,
 
I think recent polls have indicated the majority of the American public are now in favour of tighter gun controls, it's just the politicians in the pockets of the NRA aren't
 
Screeeech said:
As expert analysis pointed out - each time there’s saturation coverage of a shooting, another one takes place soon after, it’s like there’s a well engineered system in place to ensure shootings happen constantly.
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Of course there is. There is psychological mind control going on through media consumption whether they are aware of it or not. Ive been saying this for YEARS now, and another thing I've apparrently been completely right about, where is this expert analysis anyway seems interesting.

Basically what happens is they evoke ideas and action by psychological association. I was watching a news report last night and they were like "join us after the break to fund out why he did this, what were his motivations etc." That is just the most dangerous thing the media can possibly do. They basically awaken similar people with similar motives within the viewership and tell them that this is what they need to do to release.

Same stuff with terrorism. There was a small terrorist incident with that fake bomb vest, then the next day they had a terrorism promoter on the bbc news telling people that people dont need to have any contact with isis in order to perform attacks for them he was basically saying you can just do any terrorist type thing and it will automatically be for isis even if you've never spoken with isis, and then soon after the manchester attack happened, and then the bbc had the SAME terrorism promoter on the next day saying the SAME message again!
 
asim18 said:
Same stuff with terrorism. There was a small terrorist incident with that fake bomb vest, then the next day they had a terrorism promoter on the bbc news telling people that people dont need to have any contact with isis in order to perform attacks for them he was basically saying you can just do any terrorist type thing and it will automatically be for isis even if you've never spoken with isis, and then soon after the manchester attack happened, and then the bbc had the SAME terrorism promoter on the next day saying the SAME message again!
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The Islamic State is an idea as much as a group or a place, supporters of that idea don't need to meet up with each other and have a grand plan to be terrorists. Terrorism is simply an attack carried out by someone who has a Political motive, that's it. If you drove a car into a bunch of Conservatives while in a bright red van that had Labour on the side of it then it would be a terrorist attack irrespective of the fact you weren't a member of the Labour party and had never met any of them.
 
Roar87 said:
The Islamic State is an idea as much as a group or a place, supporters of that idea don't need to meet up with each other and have a grand plan to be terrorists. Terrorism is simply an attack carried out by someone who has a Political motive, that's it. If you drove a car into a bunch of Conservatives while in a bright red van that had Labour on the side of it then it would be a terrorist attack irrespective of the fact you weren't a member of the Labour party and had never met any of them.
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Exactly. So why constantly expose the british public to such ideas? Who propagates all isis propaganda in this country? Who propagated those osama videos back with 9/11 calling for terrorists to awaken? Home media.
 
The terrorist/shooter carries out the attack and then the media always finishes off the job of propagating the terror to the whole nation ,and then the world. If media didn't exist there wouldbe absolutely no concept of terrorism. A terrorist would be like "**** it no one is going to listen" but instead he is given full attention, we constantly tell terrorists that their actions will NEVER be in vain. And that we will give them the biggest podium and listen to them and pass on their actions to the entire world.
 
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