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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 1
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      12 municipal office workers randomly killed in a premeditated mass murder would dominate public dialogue for weeks, if not months in most developed countries. Here in the grand ole USA, we're about 12 hours from the Virginia Beach shooting being gone from the news

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      For trolls claiming this is due to the skin color of the assailant, your idiotic paranoia is showing. A white guy killed 12 people in November of last year, and it was gone from the headlines in 48 hours. However, if the killer had shouted "Allahu Akbar" -- breathless coverage

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 1
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      Yeah, it's also true that if the Virginia Beach killer had been wearing a MAGA hat, it would've been a national outrage cycle for weeks. So what? If the guy had screamed "I'm doing this because I hate Trump," same reaction. Overlaying political narratives always heightens outrage

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        1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 1
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          Really sad. Most people don't interact much with municipal workers but they make the basic functions of local governance possible. Roads, maintenance, sanitation, utilities, zoning issues, etc.pic.twitter.com/etAWp3SiB1

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        2. 2 many secrets‏ @Jinx_production Jun 1
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          I don't think it'd be the "same reaction". Not by a long shot. Toronto Danforth shooter: Faisal Hussain. It lasted in the US news cycle less than 6 hrs.

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        1. Leonidas Xanflorp‏ @LXanflorp Jun 1
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          The dude in California who shot up the country bar was tweeting that it was the fault of Second Amendment supporters as he walked into the bar. I’ll bet money almost nobody on here is aware of that fact, since it went almost entirely unreported.

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        1. Robert R. Freitag II‏ @freitag_ii Jun 1
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          "We don't care whether it's true, only if it's useful." The apogee or nadir of the Rational Man.

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        2. Miguelito O'Southsider‏ @1MWeis Jun 1
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          The problem seems to come from when people look at the outside world and blame it all for whatever is going on in their lives. It's a perverse sort of narcissism that they believe no one has the same problems as them and so it's ok to lash out and burn the world to the ground.

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        3. d-dough‏ @ddough4 Jun 1
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          their world, or the world someone else loves...

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        1. js290‏ @su_js1 Jun 1
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          Entertainment value is the only metric

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        1. d-dough‏ @ddough4 Jun 1
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          If he had an Ar 15 with 100 round mags it would have likely stayed in the news more.... which i at one time was sure had a negative effect; copy cays 2-6mo later. In your experience do you feel the media coverage increases the likelihood of an attack?

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        1. Ricard‏ @Ricard_MN Jun 1
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          ...um...no. ~RT: "If the guy had screamed "I'm doing this because I hate Trump," same reaction."

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        1. ShaneWolfe‏ @GBotMAB Jun 1
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          I sorta disagree. Steve Scalise's shooting didn't spurn national debate about dangerous liberals

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        1. Lawrence Magnuson‏ @ElmagnotheFinn Jun 1
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          I predicted a white rightist man. Shows me never to bet on a sure thing. I wasn't jumping to conclusions but looking at the record--insane lunatics and one other group. Gambling, and I knew this, is losing--so all my dictionaries say.

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        1. Paul Ogg‏ @JustOGG Jun 1
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          Not a school shooting, doesn’t fit their narrative...

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        1. Cheesy Delight‏ @cookiedrool Jun 1
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          You mean like the two school shooters who hated Trump in Colorado, one who was trans? That story dried up in minutes.

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        1. Chris Goodall‏ @ChrisGoodall12 Jun 1
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          We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion.

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        2. Amalie Schuck‏ @SchuckAb Jun 1
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          There is only one kind of person who is so entirely without conscience or empathy that he could willfully cause such pain and suffering - a psychopath. Nothing else about him is relevant and no laws can stop him.

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