We just completed the first quarter of 2021 and look at the number of shootings. I don't know when people are going to start taking this seriously.
"As of March 31, 126 mass shootings fit the Mass Shooting Tracker project criterion, leaving 148 people dead and 481 injured, for a total of 629 total victims, some including the shooter(s)."
Their website has the number bumped to 172 if you include April.
https://www.massshootingtracker.site/data/?year=2021
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
Cherry pick all you want. It doesn’t change the fact that so many RWers on this forum routinely cite the conspiracy/propaganda sites. The Blaze is merely one of many.
KOS and Alternet are the only ones that I ever see quoted by the left on this forum that even remotely approach those for lies and misinformation. REMOTELY is the key word.
A simple question with a complex answer. Most mass shootings are same race on same race or, at least, on same economic level and male. The maleness is the common link since female mass shooters, regardless of race, are exceptionally rare.
It takes money to buy guns which is why poor people rarely have them and the middle class owns the majority of firearms in the USA. Like women catching up to men in dying of smoking-induced cancer, all non-white races are catching up to whites in economics. This should translate into more "equal opportunity mass murders" without an increase in mental healthcare.
Mental health care and supporting legislation. All of the notorious mass shooters were mentally ill including Brandon Scott Hole, 19 years old, who the FBI investigated last year due to his mother's concerns about him desires to commit suicide by cop. Note that most mass shooters cap themselves at the end. As we say in Texas, "that ain't right." The FBI's hands were tied with Brandon just as Florida cop's hands were tied with Nikolas Cruz and other nutjobs who were known to be nuts such as Jared Loughner and James Holmes.
https://www.census.gov/library/stori...s-in-2019.html
https://apnews.com/article/fedex-ind...2c71a2903e68a8
The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis was interviewed by FBI agents last year, after his mother called police to say that her son might commit “suicide by cop,” the bureau said Friday, as investigators searched for a motive in the latest mass shooting to rock the U.S.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Hello T. A. Gardner,
I don't *THINK* so.
That would result in no 'most extreme right' media sources at all. And we know that's not true.
It would also place Fox as 'skews right' instead of 'hyper partisan.'
Ridiculous.
The chart looks accurate to me.
But that view is understandable. Many conservatives think they are the center of everything, and that most of the media is liberal. It's very common for conservatives to be out of touch with reality. It's amusing that they wanna be on the right, but they don't want to admit it. What's that all about? If people wish to embrace certain views, fine, why don't they just own it? Is there shame in being conservative?
I have zero problem with being liberal. I am GLAD to be liberal. It's the compassionate and logical place to be for a member of the human collective. We live in societies. We are social animals. We are not loners, and we enjoy the benefits of living in society. We are far better off for having society than we are from individualism. Might as well admit it and deal with it. We depend on one another. Now, during the pandemic, more than ever.
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domer76 (04-17-2021)
I'm sure Cummie123 knows all about The Blaze and its poor record on facts and truthful reporting. Cummie123 doesn't care if what he says is bullshit. She just cares about how many other poor, gullible, naive morons she can get to swallow this bullshit.
There are plenty of radical right wing Qanon, Proud Boy losers who will swallow this and disseminate it to other radical right wing extremists.
Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
There are lots of clues.
When I was a kid in the 1950s, parents thought it was fine for us to watch films with cowboys and "Indians" killing one another savagely, but thought it unseemly for us to see so much as a bare female breast on the screen.
More sophisticated Europeans kept their kids away from violent movies, but the moms went topless when the family was at the beach.
It may not be quite as bad now, at least on the two coasts, but we definitely have culture problems in this country.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
christiefan915 (04-17-2021)
I think it's weird, the panic and outrage over a nip slip, for example, over gratuitous violence. And the double standards, as in the Janet Jackson-Justin Timberlake fiasco. He planned that episode, suffered no repercussions from it, but JJ had her songs banned from the radio along with other career damage. </feminist rant>
This country still has a lot of growing up to do regarding what's normal and natural with the human body.
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
PoliTalker (04-17-2021)
I did say not completely. But as it is, many sources both Right and Left are skewed to the Right by about one square and skewed up and down respectively by the same. As one glaring example of this, Fox News is rated more extreme and unfair / biased than the The Young Turks Network. The later is just short of radical Leftist propaganda and little more than opinion. Or the positioning of CNN. There is no way in hell CNN is "neutral" in their reporting. They even admit as much themselves.
One way to tell this is generally correct is to look at polling of persons on the Left v. Right and their opinions and positions believed the side holds. The Left is generally badly wrong about what the Right thinks, while the Right is generally correct in their views of the Left.
https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt...conservatives/
https://fee.org/articles/why-conserv...nd-vice-versa/
https://quillette.com/2018/03/10/psy...ive-hostility/
Whoever made that chart has some serious bias of their own to deal with.
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