People are shot every day in America. The news media waits for a sensational shooting to publicize so they can inflence the public to believe that things are getting worse. This is actually an old technique...
EXCERPTS FROM ADOLF HITLER, MEIN KAMPF (1926)
[PROPAGANDA AND MASS RALLIES]
The task of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of individuals, but in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., whose significance is to be brought to their attention.