Posted on 04/18/2013 11:15:14 AM PDT by servo1969
Here, we are going to do something the MSM won't: provide context for the Sandy Hook event by conducting a statistical analysis of hard data on 30 years' worth of mass public shootings in the United States.
Quickly, though, I want to show you an example of an MSM outlet's (CNN) utter failure to do its job on Sandy Hook/Newtown.
A Sandy Hook timeline at CNN contains the following claims:
1. Police and other first responders arrived on scene about 20 minutes after the first calls.
2. The gunman took his own life, police said. He took out a handgun and shot himself in a classroom as law enforcement officers approached, officials said.
A March 28 post at CNN asserts the following:
3. Lanza didn't make it home alive. Nor did the 26 people -- 20 of them schoolchildren ages 6 and 7 -- he shot dead in less than five minutes, firing one bullet roughly every two seconds he was at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
So, the people Lanza killed were dead in less than 5 minutes, Lanza shot himself as "law enforcement officers approached", but it also took "police and other first responders" 20 minutes to arrive on the scene?
Doesn't a reasonable construction of the above at least raise the question: so what was Lanza doing in the 15 minutes or so after the killings and before he shot himself f-- particularly when Lanza is described as trying to kill as many people as possible, and when Lanza is described as having been found dead alongside a multitude of unspent rounds?
Please notice that it doesn't matter for purposes of this issue whether the claims are accurate; what matters is that CNN asserts that they are -- so why aren't they asking the obvious follow up questions?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Good observation = it's not just the media is biased, it's also that the bias might keep the press from noticing things they need to see...
I won’t try to read anything onto the piece, but the probability of so many killed against so few wounded is just another item from Sandy Hook that is ......... weird. How he got in is weird, the question of whether he was there the day prior is weird, the initial idea that his mother worked there is weird, the guy the cops found in the woods is weird, the timeline is weird, the guy who lives down the street from the school is weird. I assume that Dr. Kissner thinks we are not being told the full truth. Personally, I wonder.
Here is a transcript of the police dispatch radio traffic. I don’t know how you get from this that the police didn’t arrive until 25 minutes after the first call. I’m not arguing about the issue of police response times in general, I’m only pointing out that the author of this article is wrong about what happened at Sandy Hook, and is using that incorrect information to stir things up.
0935 Sandy Hook School. Caller is indicating she thinks there’s someone shooting in the building.
0936 Units responding at Sandy Hook School. The front glass has been broken. We’re unsure why.
0937 All units, the individual I have on the phone is continuing to hear what he believes to be gunfire.
0938 All units responding to Sandy Hook School at this time. The shooting appears to have stopped. The school is in lockdown.
0940 I will need two ambulances at this time.
0940 The shooter is apparently still shooting in the office area.
0941 Take exit 10... continue on Riverside Road, Dickerson Drive. Make sure you have your vest on.
0942 Last known shots were in the front of the (inaudible)
0943 We have one fatal in room one... (inaudible) received a wound to the foot...
0946 I got bodies here.
I’m honored! Thank you.
:)
I get your point now.
“The original radio reports clearly demonstrate the police arrival was a mere few minutes after the first call, not 20.”
Exactly correct. Recycled bad data.
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