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Does the Media Cause Mass Shootings?
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| Feb 1, 2013
| Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 02/01/2013 6:44:17 AM PST by expat1000
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To: elcid1970
Never understood what people get out of placing teddy bears at a death shrine.
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I was thinking about this phenomenon recently. So stupid when I see coverage of some blubbering woman who had never even heard of the child show up with a stuffed animal.
My conclusion is that they are just hoping to be a part of the celebrity/notoriety of the whole event. It is a disgusting facet of our media culture.
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posted on
02/01/2013 9:29:36 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
To: marktwain
fine them for every uttered or print version of a mass murderer’s name.
I’m sure they’d have no problem with ‘reasonable regulations’ placed on the 1st amendment.
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posted on
02/01/2013 9:41:39 AM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Looting the future to bribe the present)
To: expat1000
This is too easy: Of course it does! Media coverage describes in detail how the perp did the deed and encourages copycats.
When other attacks happen, the Media acts shocked. innocent, and pure as wind driven snow.
To: elcid1970
Never understood what people get out of placing teddy bears at a death shrine.
Me either. Was this happening prior to the Princess Diana death/funeral? The only time I understood it was after 911; the whole nation WAS grieving.
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posted on
02/01/2013 10:21:26 AM PST
by
Girlene
To: expat1000
Ideas are more powerful than weapons. Weapons can kill a man, but ideas can cause a man to kill. Number of people murdered in the cause of Communism (the very same intellectual thread that drives liberals) - 100 million in less than 100 years.
Number of people killed with rifles of any kind in 2011 - less than 400. Times a hypothetical 100 years is 40,000.
There's no comparison.
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posted on
02/01/2013 10:34:55 AM PST
by
Hardastarboard
(The Liberal ruling class hates me. The feeling is mutual.)
To: Vaquero
The MSM is far more the cause of these shootings than any rifle manufacturer.
The 24/7 coverage of mass shootings, in the hope of ramping up more gun control, is the equivalent of shouting Fire! in a crowded school.
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02/01/2013 10:40:12 AM PST
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marktwain
(The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
To: expat1000
Stephen King, who recently jumped into the fray with his own gun control screed, was credited with inspiring one of the first clusters of school shootings in the United States. To his credit, King has wrestled with the question, withdrawing Rage from sale and conceding that it had an incendiary effect on troubled minds. To his discredit, King has used that action to argue that gun owners, manufacturers and civil rights groups should agree to a ban on the mythical assault rifle. Thank you Daniel Greenfield ... Thanks for calling him out.
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02/01/2013 11:05:19 AM PST
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GOPJ
( Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Vladimir Nabokov)
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