Pic Of The Moment: It's Just Another Day In America

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[newfie11]

1. And it continues over & over

But the paranoia of banning guns in America ( like has successfully been done in Australia) continues on.

Reminds me of watching a herd of zebras watching while one of them was killed and eaten by a lion.
Then Business as usual.
Zebras back to grazing.

NRA back to politics as usual. News media back to ignore carnage after a week or 2.

I guess money does rule this country. We the people are screwed!

The corporations and on the oligarchs rule.

[sanatanadharma]

2. Starting the Christmas shopping season with mass murder endorsement for gun purchases

Considering how many guns were sold on black Friday this year and last, I am beginning to suspect that some basement conspiracy droolers are correct about their theories of the black-ops nature of the Sandy Hook.

However it wasn't a government operation, it is one more example of the ongoing black-ops named NRATERRORISM.

The gun makers and their paid lobbyists may have found a tried and true way to boost Christmas sales.

[Fast Walker 52]

10. if there is a conpsiracy, it's one between the NRA, the media and gun manufacturers

who all benefit from these events.

[jalan48]

3. What people do remember is the fear. It stays with with us whether we are aware of it or not.

[lark]

4. K&R for importance of issue

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. The powers that be look at how this affects tourism dollars.

[Helen Borg]

6. So sad and true...

This also has the effect that the next nut who wants to be famous by shooting people up will have to outdo the current numbers or else nobody will notice. No?

[tclambert]

11. Well, you don't have to set a new record every time. But you have to kill at least three.

I think three is the current threshold of newsworthiness. One or two--that's just regular everyday crime. Three or more and they'll break into the soap operas with a "special" report. That's when I started seeing news reports on San Bernardino, anyway, when they were reporting three known dead "and possibly more." "Possibly more" is sort of a wild card. If there's a chance for more the news vultures get really excited.

I wonder if the news organizations actually have a scorecard to determine when a deadly crime warrants: 1) breaking into regularly scheduled programming, 2) getting news choppers in the area, 3) sending a Big Name newscaster to the locale, and 4) when to give the incident its own theme music.

[Conch]

17. Yes,

and I will become a fan of the first major media group that decides they won't send a camera to cover this sort of thing. American media turns these sort of things into reality TV...

I don't click the links I don't watch the sort of story on TV... perhaps over time less viewership less coverage.

[Buzz Clik]

7. More guns, please.

It's the answer.

[yuiyoshida]

20. American culture...

[PatrynXX]

8. there also was a shooting in Denver

as this was actually happening yeah war in america is becoming common place

[valerief]

9. This one?

http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2015/12/02/denver-officer-involved-shooting-25th-lowell/76691424/

But that's not a mass shooting. That's a run-of-the-mill shooting. Kind of like a little zit as compared to a big zit. But no one wants pimples. America's love affair with guns needs a good scrubbing.

[tclambert]

12. I don't think for one dead and one wounded a news channel will scramble its rapid response team.

Mass shootings are getting so frequent, I bet some of the major news channels do have some kind of rapid response team ready to go when the call comes in.

Of course, it may get to the point that when the Chief of the News division hits the big red button and yells, "Scramble the Mass Shooting Response Team! Get them to Denver as fast as possible!"

Then an assistant says, "Boss, they're already on the way to San Bernardino."

"All right, scramble the Mass Shooting Response Team B! And tell Team C they're on deck."

[Dont call me Shirley]

13. Love People Love...

Try to love one another right now.

[packman]

14. A horrific example of relevance

A scale of insanity

[NJCher]

15. Pretty soon

We will all just stay in our houses and never go anywhere. We will have our food delivered by Peapod. All our daily supplies, too. The FedEx and UPS guys will drive tanks because they will be the only ones left on the road except for truckers. By driving a tank, they will be safer from the snipers than they would be if they just drove their vans.

Education will take place via online classes. Those who are religious will go to online church services in their own home.

You don't like this scenario? OK, I have another solution: the government needs to perfect cloaking technology. Then we can all do what we need to do, but be invisible and no one can shoot us.

Both of the above solutions are much more likely to happen than our government actually writing laws that will protect their constituents.


Cher

[TexasTowelie]

16. ...or the two people killed outside a women's health clinic in Houston.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/107829950

American Exceptionalism!

[pansypoo53219]

18. i bet this gives wayne la fucking pierre hummer.

[d_legendary1]

19. Firing guns is the American thing to do!

If people die in the process well...they should have been packing too!

[jonno99]

21. Help me understand this: 99.9% of gun owners (ostensibly) do not cause any trouble.

So why is it that we malign those who are responsible and lump them in with the violent miscreants? Have you heard a single person celebrate the killings that occurred yesterday?

We don't tolerate painting all Muslims as extremists because of the actions of a relative few.

If we are to be intellectually honest we must treat ALL peace-loving people the same - with respect.

And yet we don't - why?