Posted on 11/12/2017 5:21:41 PM PST by plain talk
It got lost fairly quickly by the media. It was another church shooting, one now all but forgotten in the wake of Sutherland Springs, but initially lost in the aftermath of Las Vegas which happened a week later. There’s a saying in the news business: “If it bleeds, it leads.” Las Vegas certainly bled, and that meant we had far more to talk about than a church shooting in Tennessee.
The church was in Antioch, Tennessee. That’s where an armed man decided to kill everyone he could at the church.
How did it get lost amid two mass shootings and a terrorist attack in the six weeks since then? There are two simple reasons, the first was a good guy with a gun in a position to stop the attack far sooner.
The other reason you’ve heard so little about it is because of the killer’s motivation. You see, what we had in Antioch was a racially motivated crime. The epitome of a hate crime. You see, the black shooter wanted to kill white people in retaliation for the racially motivated murder of people in a South Carolina church by an avowed white supremacist.
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yea, I remember. It got very little coverage.
Totally missed the Tennessee shooting. Glad to hear the outcome was much better.
Bump
Possibly because the media couldn’t play the race card effectively in this case.
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