Posted on 02/24/2016 4:12:29 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
Safety: Normally, the immediate response to a mass shooting is a call for gun control. But after a gunman killed six people in Kalamazoo, Mich., the headlines made it seem like ride-sharing service Uber was to blame. Why?
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Yeah! Don't they know it was the Confederate flag?
No sooner did I post this about the latest attack on Uber, then this hit my Twitter feed: "What is Uber Actually Doing to Keep Riders Safe?" Mother Jones and other anti-everything media outlets will have a field day on this Uber-gun combo regarding the Kalamazoo shooter. To quote:
During the ride: In the event of an emergency during an Uber ride, passengers have few options to keep themselves safe-one of the reasons the company has drawn criticism for numerous reports of crimes, including sexual violence, committed during rides over the past few years. Passengers can send details of their trip to contacts, but there is no obvious, built-in way to contact the company or law enforcement in the midst of a dangerous ride.
Are they kidding? And this is different from the government-enabled transportation monopoly -- how? When I have traveled to Chicago for business, I absolutely loathe and fear getting into one of those disgusting, dirty cabs with yet another crazed driver who cuts people off, tailgates everyone, and screams obscenities at others. When I stayed at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place last year, I was completely shut out of an Uber option, as Chicago fights to keep its cabbie monopoly intact. I am unarmed while in Chicago, so it is a very tedious experience for me. At one point, after many bad cab experiences in one trip, I demanded that the hotel allow me to approve of a cabbie before I jumped in as merely "the next person in the cab line."
At first I thought the same thing about media reports aimed at tainting Uber, but apparently the Uber angle is relevant to the case. From the reports I’ve seen, the guy picked up a couple of Uber fares in the midst of his killing spree, and one of the key witnesses in the case is a passenger who was so alarmed at the guy’s driving that he bailed out of the car at a traffic light and fled.
Because they are trying to foment an anti-Uber backlash for the benefit of the highly Unionized taxi cartel.
Since the guy a) was in fact an Uber driver, and b) was picking up Uber fares during the time he was shooting, how exactly is referring to him as an Uber driver incorrect?
Not the Confederate flag...
Uber is the new SUV.
Liberals fear free enterprise even more than they fear guns
Because Uber is a threat to the establishment.
The MSM should be under attack for leaving this fact out of most of their reporting.
“Do you notice how they keep defining the insane Kalamazoo shooter as an “Uber driver”? This association is for the exact purpose of tainting Uber.”
The San Bernardino shooter was a government employee so alrighty then!
The only way I have seen or heard the shooter described has been as the “Uber Driver”
Could there be a propaganda agenda here?
Do you think so?
POSOTUS already said the gun was at fault. Hillaryous Rotten Criminal blamed it on a youtube video.
So of course liberals (aka the press) will attack challengers.
The most chilling aspect of this report is Uber stating that they often get complaints about dangerous drivers. They said they logged the complaint and was considering a “time out” for the driver if they got enough complaints.
Often get complaints about dangerous Uber employees? Really?
Yea, unregulated drivers providing transportation services for the public with NO OVERSIGHT is a real good idea.
Their attorneys are working overtime right now trying to deflect responsibility.
Because they aren’t unionized, I bet the shooter is somehow connected to unions.
It has more to do about the licensing and fees they collect from Taxi drivers..
Most uber drivers don’t have to pay those fees.
follow the money.
Uber already banned their drivers from carrying firearms. This serial shooter broke the rules, so we need stronger rules.
Because before the shootings a passenger fled one of his dangerous rides, where he was crossing over medians and sideswiping cars. The passenger told Uber, but law enforcement was not involved in time to make a difference. Not sure if he also called 911, but Uber had the guy’s constant GPS coordinates, and picking him up should have been easy.
In a touch of irony, they interviewed a medallion cab driver who said that since they had to comply with registration paperwork and go through the process, it was only fair that Uber drivers do the same. It would've been nice if the reporter asked the cab driver (who had an "urban" dialect and most surely voted with the Dims) if he felt the same way about voter registration &/or immigration!
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