Driver plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.

[Jolly]

Oh, it's not helpless. We've had the Second Amendment for over 200 years, where for most of that time you could own and keep a cannon in your backyard, if you wanted to.

Mass shootings are a relatively recent phenomenon.

Ask yourself, What has changed?

[89th]

@Jolly said in Driver plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:

Oh, it's not helpless. We've had the Second Amendment for over 200 years, where for most of that time you could own and keep a cannon in your backyard, if you wanted to.

Mass shootings are a relatively recent phenomenon.

Ask yourself, What has changed?

I've said it before, it's the media attention you get. Once the media stops posting the shooter's face, name, and manifesto... the number of these shootings will decrease. But the corporate press desks absolutely salivate over the ratings a shooting brings in. No one will admit it, or even realize it, but they love it.

[Aqua Letifer]

@89th said in Driver plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:

@Jolly said in Driver plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:

Oh, it's not helpless. We've had the Second Amendment for over 200 years, where for most of that time you could own and keep a cannon in your backyard, if you wanted to.

Mass shootings are a relatively recent phenomenon.

Ask yourself, What has changed?

I've said it before, it's the media attention you get. Once the media stops posting the shooter's face, name, and manifesto... the number of these shootings will decrease. But the corporate press desks absolutely salivate over the ratings a shooting brings in. No one will admit it, or even realize it, but they love it.

Couple of things:

1. Not everyone who shoots up a local area is doing it for the media publicity. Crazy comes in many, many different kinds.
2. Sure the media companies admit it. All the time. Ask any journalist who covers these stories. What they'll say is that publishing a suspect's personal information and doing a story on them serves the public interest so no way are they not going to.

Otherwise, yeah, that's basically the gist.

[LuFins Dad]

The vast majority of “mass shootings” aren’t cases of gunmen walking into a school or grocery store and opening up fire on a bunch of strangers. Most mass shootings recorded in the US are gang related. You take out the gang bangers and you’ll find our numbers to be pretty comparable with most countries and lower than some.

[89th]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Driver plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:

1. Not everyone who shoots up a local area is doing it for the media publicity. Crazy comes in many, many different kinds.

True, but I would argue the media is why we see it more often, starting with Columbine.

[George K]

Pro se.

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in Driver plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:

Pro se.

I wouldn’t be able to defend that SUV, either. I mean, besides all the dead kids and elderly, think about the freaking emissions that monster was putting out! I doubt it was getting more than 15 MPG during the rampage, and that hurts us all!

[Horace]

SUVs that don't come to a full stop for pedestrians are bad, full stop.

[LuFins Dad]

@Horace said in Driver plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:

SUVs that don't come to a full stop for pedestrians are bad, full stop.

FIFYNNTTM

[Mik]

I went to breakfast in my buddy's Tesla this morning. As much as I like them, there was another guy there in a Tesla hoodie that said 'BE LESS WRONG' on the front.

Jeez--they're getting to be like vegans.

[George K]

Remember?

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in Driver plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:

Remember?

Not the same publications. Like at all. And some of the ones in the second half were opinion pieces.

[jon-nyc]

All of them were opinion pieces in the second group.