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I just happened...friends that live 1/2 block from where it started
on Prospect...still don't know.
And I'm not telling them...they don't watch the news...so be it.
Others right there had no idea why the streets were blocked...they wouldn't
have known 12 hrs later if I hadn't brought it up!
That whole area is my hood! I'm sick, heart sick...my God...sitting on their porch!
On a beautiful morning! Riding a bike on a sleepy, narrow street!
I think the problem is they are starting to feel too routine to even be that newsworthy anymore. The next shooter will have to take out 50 people to get attention.
I was reading two stories this morning about people who were accidentally shot yesterday when a CCW dropped her gun (in both stories it was women), in one case it was a supermarket, in the other, the women was fumbling for paperwork in her purse at her doctor's office, gun fell out and shot another patient in the hip...
I was going to post them, than in another breath, I realized they are just two more stories to so many identical stories posted here, what is even the point? It would get the same arguments on both sides and nothing would change, no minds would be changed...so I think this is the same, we're all just getting cynical about what is actually news and what's just another day in Paradise.
I just happened...friends that live 1/2 block from where it started
on Prospect...still don't know.
And I'm not telling them...they don't watch the news...so be it.
Others right there had no idea why the streets were blocked...they wouldn't
have known 12 hrs later if I hadn't brought it up!
That whole area is my hood! I'm sick, heart sick...my God...sitting on their porch!
On a beautiful morning! Riding a bike on a sleepy, narrow street!
It's north of downtown...but not by much.
She didn't hear all the gunshots? It is so odd how with some shootings like this the press is out there with constant updates and details and some have virtually no details.
I think the problem is they are starting to feel too routine to even be that newsworthy anymore. The next shooter will have to take out 50 people to get attention.
See this is a misguided view. Reality is pre 24 hour news media these things happened at the same rate (mass shootings, less for overall homicide) but they did not warrant the excessive media attention they do today. Homicide as a whole is way down, tho you would not know that by watching the media.
Mass shootings are pretty much flat, they just get a whole lot more attention, tho by the FBI standards I dont think this one meets the category of mass shooting.
I think the problem is they are starting to feel too routine to even be that newsworthy anymore. The next shooter will have to take out 50 people to get attention.
I was reading two stories this morning about people who were accidentally shot yesterday when a CCW dropped her gun (in both stories it was women), in one case it was a supermarket, in the other, the women was fumbling for paperwork in her purse at her doctor's office, gun fell out and shot another patient in the hip...
I was going to post them, than in another breath, I realized they are just two more stories to so many identical stories posted here, what is even the point? It would get the same arguments on both sides and nothing would change, no minds would be changed...so I think this is the same, we're all just getting cynical about what is actually news and what's just another day in Paradise.
The doctor's office story was posted when it happened a few weeks ago.
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