Not to be callous, but why are these shootings always a national story? 1 dead? Half a dozen are shot to death every single weekend in Chicago with ZERO hand-wringing by the media or politicians. This is just a local crime story.
The way you ask that question tells me that you know the answer. We all pretty much know. The MSM has been a left wing political entity for a long time.
“Not to be callous, but why are these shootings always a national story?”
Because the antis find them useful in frightening people plus they prime the pump for more spree shootings. if our news channels were filled with news of rifle and pistol competitions, youth excellence in skeet and trap, bowling pin match news stories, these rare events would be seen in context. But, all major news outlets refuse to show peaceful competitions, so they make these events stand out.
The ready media template for pushing gun control is one that the sick wierdos can exploit, so that their manifesto gets read on primetime, and it gives the antis one more propaganda piece.
“Not to be callous, but why are these shootings always a national story? 1 dead? Half a dozen are shot to death every single weekend in Chicago with ZERO hand-wringing by the media or politicians. This is just a local crime story.”
It is the libtards and their inherent racism. One white dead, big story. 100 blacks killed by other blacks, nada.
“Not to be callous, but why are these shootings always a national story?”
This became a national story because of the word “reloading”, imo.
“Stopped while reloading.”
The intent was to use the shooting to justify magazine capacity limits.
They apparently rushed the story before the facts were in, though, and the reloading angle is probably not going to work, if the shooter was reloading a shotgun.