Explain to me why people are blaming a movie for the shooting spree

[tawadi]

The shooter hadn't even seen the movie yet.

[randome]

1. Can't be explained. Just an overly emotional response to a national tragedy.

[tawadi]

2. Emotions are all we have sometimes I guess

when something makes no sense.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

3. It's easier for fascists to blame the 1st amendment than the 2nd one. nt

[WillowTree]

4. For the same reason...

.....that some are blaming the guns and others are blaming RW talk radio and others are coming up with their own entities to blame.

Because when something this horrifying happens, people need to find something.......anything.......to blame in an attempt to get it all to make sense somehow. "There has to be a reason, and I have to know what it is". Somehow, if we can find something or someone to make responsible, it becomes less scary.

Yet, most really know that we don't know at all what was behind this tragic thing. It's just too soon.

[HooptieWagon]

11. And people somehow blame something they have an agenda against.

[Iggo]

5. Because it happened at the movies.

And people like to be seen as expert guessers.

I guess.

[tawadi]

10. Not much of a stretch for a guess, I guess

[sadbear]

6. No shit!

He chose the premier night of the biggest movie of the year for his planned massacre. Doesn't take a Ph.D student to figure that one out.

[Bluerthanblue]

7. because if they can find

something to blame, they think they can find a way to not have it happen again. When the reality is we cannot stop this kind of thing with laws or bans or censorship.

That is a terrible and terrifying truth. And it's too uncomfortable for most people to accept. So we look for a scape goat, or something that we can blame or change which gives us the illusion of safety and control.

[tawadi]

8. Good post

Thanks.

[backscatter712]

9. Moral panic.

People are flailing for a solution, and coming up with a huge pile of shitty, liberty-destroying non-solutions.