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I'm not saying he's not lying dead of a gunshot wound in the suite among guns. I'm saying that's not proof that HE shot HIMSELF.
And now LV police are changing their story. Turns out the guard was shot six minutes before the "rampage" began -- a guard investigating an alarm that was pulled near the suspect's room. Who pulled THAT, I wonder?
This will make you think. These mass shootings are making people buy even more guns and making gun control even less popular. Maybe if the shootings stopped, people would stop buying guns.
Hey you deep state morons, think about that.
Well then, the "media" (quotes used on purpose) is directly involved in that angle as well, then, since they are the engine making these "mass shootings" go up.
Coincidence that the most infamous "mass shooting" a lot of us recall was Columbine, and from 1999 to now almost every home in America has Internet? Maybe the media should stop giving these nutjobs the fame they seek???
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"Media Contagion" Is Factor in Mass Shootings, Study Says
Psychologist calls on media to withhold shooters’ names
DENVER — People who commit mass shootings in America tend to share three traits: rampant depression, social isolation and pathological narcissism, according to a paper presented at the American Psychological Association’s annual convention that calls on the media to deny such shooters the fame they seek.
“Mass shootings are on the rise and so is media coverage of them,” said Jennifer B. Johnston, PhD, of Western New Mexico University. “At this point, can we determine which came first? Is the relationship merely unidirectional: More shootings lead to more coverage? Or is it possible that more coverage leads to more shootings?”
Johnston and her coauthor, Andrew Joy, BS, also of Western New Mexico University, reviewed data on mass shootings amassed by media outlets, the FBI and advocacy organizations, as well as scholarly articles, to conclude that “media contagion” is largely responsible for the increase in these often deadly outbursts. They defined mass shootings as either attempts to kill multiple people who are not relatives or those resulting in injuries or fatalities in public places.
The prevalence of these crimes has risen in relation to the mass media coverage of them and the proliferation of social media sites that tend to glorify the shooters and downplay the victims, Johnston said. “We suggest that the media cry to cling to ‘the public’s right to know’ covers up a greedier agenda to keep eyeballs glued to screens, since they know that frightening homicides are their No. 1 ratings and advertising boosters,” she said.
The demographic profile of mass shooters is fairly consistent, she said. Most are white, ostensibly heterosexual males, largely between the ages of 20 and 50. They tend to see themselves as “victims of injustice,” and share a belief that they have been cheated out of their rightful dominant place as white, middle-class males.
“Unfortunately, we find that a cross-cutting trait among many profiles of mass shooters is desire for fame,” she said. This quest for fame among mass shooters skyrocketed since the mid-1990s “in correspondence to the emergence of widespread 24-hour news coverage on cable news programs, and the rise of the internet during the same period.”
She cited several media contagion models, most notably one proposed by Towers et al. (2015), which found the rate of mass shootings has escalated to an average of one every 12.5 days, and one school shooting on average every 31.6 days, compared to a pre-2000 level of about three events per year. “A possibility is that news of shooting is spread through social media in addition to mass media,” she said.
“If the mass media and social media enthusiasts make a pact to no longer share, reproduce or retweet the names, faces, detailed histories or long-winded statements of killers, we could see a dramatic reduction in mass shootings in one to two years,” she said.
“Even conservatively, if the calculations of contagion modelers are correct, we should see at least a one-third reduction in shootings if the contagion is removed.”
She said this approach could be adopted in much the same way as the media stopped reporting celebrity suicides in the mid-1990s after it was corroborated that suicide was contagious. Johnston noted that there was “a clear decline” in suicide by 1997, a couple of years after the Centers for Disease Control convened a working group of suicidologists, researchers and the media, and then made recommendations to the media. “The media has come together before to work for good, to incite social change,” she said. “They have done, and they can do it. It is time. It is enough.”
And since the MSM is OVERWHELMINGLY LIBERAL, we shall see if they put their money where their mouths are...or if they'd rather keep giving these people the fame they seek and in turn producing more of the same in America - continuing to profit off of the blood money they have been making, or not.
Well, whoever the POS was that carried out or engineered that cowardly attack, they have to realize one thing. Americans came under fire and they responded with heroism and compassion and defiance. They took care of each other and responded to the threat as one. And whatever it was intended to do, its failed. We're resolute. We won't be intimidated or cowed into begging for protection. We'll stand up to our enemies, whoever they are. That's why they fear US.
Actually they do not fear anyone as that is why they will say there are still too many guns out there except for theirs.
The collective madness is starting to go beyond disconcerting to a serious concern.
I'm officially starting to think the internet was a horrible invention.
It is a great tool but it tends to get in the wrong hands.
I put Mr. Onion on ignore. Somebody already spent 30 minutes on a youtube video that is complete B.S..
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