I like George Carlin. “Think of how stupid the average person is...then realize the bottom half is stupider...”
then there are politicians...........
4 Aug: WTOP: Associated Press: Attack on Texas shoppers to be handled as domestic terrorism
The shootings in Texas and Ohio were the 21st and 22nd mass killings of 2019 in the U.S., according to the AP/USA Today/Northeastern University mass murder database that tracks homicides where four or more people killed — not including the offender.
Including the two latest attacks, 125 people had been killed in the 2019 shootings...
https://wtop.com/national/2019/08/20-dead-many-injured-after-gunman-attacks-texas-shoppers/
yet much of the FakeNewsMSM is reporting “292 mass shootings” this year & this figure is being reported by some of the Australian media too!
5 Aug: Quartz: The 292 mass shootings in the US so far this year, mapped
By Katherine Ellen Foley
As of today (Aug. 4), we are 216 days into 2019. In the US over that time, more than 1,300 people have been injured or killed in mass shootings, according to data collected by the Gun Violence Archive.
The nonprofit organization, which is based in Washington, DC, defines a mass shooting as an event in which at least four people were shot. By its calculations, that means there have been some 292 mass shootings in the US since the year began...
The high rate of gun ownership and the spread of white nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment are largely blamed for fueling the unprecedented number of mass shootings in the US...
https://qz.com/1681082/the-292-mass-shootings-in-the-us-so-far-this-year-mapped/