Posted on 06/20/2016 4:05:22 PM PDT by TroutStalker
It’s like clockwork. Sick, twisted clockwork. A mass shooting happens. There is a flurry of confusing reports. A death toll is announced, a shooter identified. And then, even before the crime scene is cleaned up, come the pleas for gun control.
But you already know how this will play out. Gun-control advocates and their allies in the media will attack the gun-rights crowd as cold-hearted, stubborn, and out of touch. They will complain that no new legislation will result from the tragedy, and they will be right.
There are many reasons that this cycle repeats as it does. We live in a divided society where people cocoon with like-minded allies, and we’ve stopped listening to the other side. The NRA is powerful. We get distracted and move on to the next shiny thing. But one important point: The mainstream media lobbies hard for gun control, but it is very, very bad at gun journalism. It might be impossible ever to bridge the divide between the gun-control and gun-rights movements. But it’s impossible to start a dialogue when you don’t know what the hell you are talking about.
Media stories in the wake of mass shootings typically feature a laundry list of mistakes that reflect their writers’ inexperience with guns and gun culture. Some of them are small but telling: conflating automatic and semi-automatic weapons, assault rifle and assault weapon, caliber and gauge—all demonstrating a general lack of familiarity with firearms. Some of them are bigger. Like calling for “common-sense gun control” and “universal background checks” after instances in which a shooter purchased a gun legally and passed background checks. Or focusing on mass shootings involving assault weapons—and thereby ignoring statistics that show that far more people die from handguns.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
“There are many reasons that this cycle repeats as it does....”
“Media stories in the wake of mass shootings typically feature a laundry list of mistakes that reflect their writers’ inexperience with guns and gun culture....”
“....focusing on mass shootings involving assault weapons—and thereby ignoring statistics that show that far more people die from handguns...”
The media is complicit in this relatively new ‘trend’ of mass murder using semiauto military styled rifles. In their current attempt to demonize so called ‘assault rifles’, the media and Hollywood is awash in stories and imagery proclaiming how these certain rifles give the user the ability to stop a locomotive with a single shot, single handedly fight off a platoon of elite soldiers by launching 800 rounds of exploding bullets with a single pull of the trigger, and how YOU can have this ability too by just heading to any gun show, where they’re practically giving them away. This is a siren cry, seemingly irresistible to young confused libtards and to the muslim men being deliberately imported by Obama and the Uniparty. Yes, I am definitly saying that the media is playing a large role in glamorizing these rifles, giving them an irresistible appeal to wanna be copy cat killers.
As non-biased as Slate is attempting to be by admitting their ignorance about firearms in this article, the article following this one at their website attempts to associate Sig Sauer with Nazis.
From the article: “If the media wants to work toward actual solutions for gun violence, to do right by the people who are senselessly murdered, they need more than righteous indignation. They need to be better informed and more willing to engage honestly with their opponents.”
Screw the media’s “solutions.” We can rest assured that they will be in the vein of a “final solution to the gun owner question.”
Let them wallow in perpetual ignorance. At least it’s entertaining.
Let’s face it: a bar stool or a beer mug would have sufficed. All the tools in the world can’t substitute for the willingness to use them when terror hits. We seem to have bred that sort of self-preserving rage out of our cultural makeup.
“”” There are many reasons that this cycle repeats as it does. “””
Because they know that eventually it will stick.
I really, really can’t figure this out.
And why do these groups attack the NRA ? The NRA isn’t half as powerful as they like to think. Infowars is more of an editorial powerhouse, reaching FAR more people than the NRA does.
They’ve stopped blaming Rush though.. and I wonder if Rush is insulted by that.
“They’ve stopped blaming Rush though.. and I wonder if Rush is insulted by that.”
And just at the point where Rush has educated himself on the basics of gun legislation.
Be careful of what you say.
They already give more freedom to the pornography press than they do to political speech.
They want to shut down political speech that they don’t agree with. Free speech is under assault and the USSC does not have its back.
They crave totel control with their utmost desire. You cannot control a well-armed citizenry.
totel? Sheesh!
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