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In reply to the discussion: Why are folks more concerned about guns than the loss of lives! [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)12. Why did the pentagon have a no photos allowed then?
I think the evidence s clear. Of course, we also had a draft, but historians most,y agree, having the war on TV and papers, without mostly military censors, had a real effect. Inconvenient fact, most of the real gory WWIi and Korea photos, except of the enemy of course, took 40 years to be declassified. There is a reason fr that
Nam was the first, and last, American war where media pretty much ran this in real time.
IMO, we need to go back to it. IMO we need to run gory photos from shooting scenes too.
The Boston marathon, and gory photos, were really a major exception.
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But voting for it and passing it into law means they have to provide infrastructure for it.
geckosfeet
Apr 2013
#32
I agree about the background checks. But Newtown has NOTHING to do with that.
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#33
If you "do not get it," it may be because you are offering a false choice and disregarding the
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#34