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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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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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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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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"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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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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their world, or the world someone else loves...
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Entertainment value is the only metric
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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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...um...no. ~RT: "If the guy had screamed "I'm doing this because I hate Trump," same reaction."
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I sorta disagree. Steve Scalise's shooting didn't spurn national debate about dangerous liberals
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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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Not a school shooting, doesn’t fit their narrative...
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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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We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion.
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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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