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Old 11-02-13, 08:26 AM   #1
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I wonder when shootings in America will stop making news...

EDIT: And by this I mean, national or international news, rather than local news.
Maybe when the journalists get a proper weapon identification chart...

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Old 11-02-13, 10:29 AM   #2
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Maybe when the journalists get a proper weapon identification chart...
Oh, come on! It's not that bad.

The first three "AK-47"s are AK-47s. The rest are just "Assault Rifles".
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Old 11-02-13, 10:55 AM   #3
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Bah! The National/International News people ignore little burgs like I live in.
http://www.13abc.com/story/23858399/...ub-in-carey-oh

That is just a few minutes away from me!
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Old 11-02-13, 11:52 AM   #4
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Bah! The National/International News people ignore little burgs like I live in.
http://www.13abc.com/story/23858399/...ub-in-carey-oh

That is just a few minutes away from me!
That's because you have too many shootings in the States for them to cover.
Lets see what you have just there...shooting, shooting, armed robbery, shooting, armed robbery, armed robbery, shooting, armed siege, shooting.....

Nice to see you had a twelve year old arrested for threats to kill everyone at school only a day after a 14 year old was in court for the same thing.
Now if those little local stories had gone on to the next stage without intervention then your area would certainly be on the nationals/internationals circuit.

I do like the story about the crazy man with three guns attacking the hospital staff.
I am surprised some of the nationals didn't jump on that and spin it into some sort of Obamacare scare story.
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Old 11-02-13, 01:10 PM   #5
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The guy only killed one of those new government Gestapo agents?

So much for gun control. Amateur!
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Old 11-02-13, 01:15 PM   #6
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That's because you have too many shootings in the States for them to cover.
Lets see what you have just there...shooting, shooting, armed robbery, shooting, armed robbery, armed robbery, shooting, armed siege, shooting.....
I blame reality type TV programs.
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Haven't read much news the last 12 hours.

Have they found out why he did it?

I myself are wondering if it has anything to do with all these anti-TSA and other anti-government stuff you read on "special pages", Facebook and youtube.

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Old 11-02-13, 11:55 PM   #8
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Neither throwing more guns at nor taking away guns is ever going to stop the crazies from doing what they do. But if youve ever really watched your local news you'd realize that the reason this makes news is because news outlets thrive off ratings. Whatever is most likely going to get people to watch is what they air. They milk a story for all its worth and move on to the next as if the former never happened. All the "concern" and "debate" is actually little more than the media trying to turn profit like any other business. As long as a story still has value it is aired. The real reason the media thrives off of shootings is because they can fill in airtime with talking heads discussing the same exact circular arguments about gun control, thereby not only raking in views and profit but saving other useless news for later.
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