"Since Sandy Hook, there has been nearly one school shooting a week"

[kane_magus]

And just think, this is apparently only about school shootings, and doesn't even include the mall shootings and movie theater shootings and other such shootings in public places.

*weary fucking sigh*

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

I think the real sad thing is that your news agencies don't seem to make a big deal out of a school shooting unless a "significant" number of casualties build up. If they did, I doubt we'd be surprised by this revelation of an average 1 shooting/week.

If they did, it'd probably put more pressure on the government to actually -do- something.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

And, hell, even when a big shooting with multiple deaths does occur, and even if it does make the news, it doesn't take long at all anymore for something else that is "more interesting" to come along and bump it off the radar.

For example, just refer back to my previous rant about the shootings at the church in South Carolina (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/783986.html) (which, not being a school shooting, doesn't even appear on the above map), since the narrative in the news about that became not about the shootings themselves, but all about that stupid fucking goddamn flag. And if it hadn't been the flag thing (which, at the very least, was still ostensibly connected to the shooting news, even if in the most tangential of ways), it would have been something else even less or not at all related to the shootings that would have came along and knocked it out of the picture.

Just give it a few more days, maybe a week or two at the very most, and the news about this most recent shooting in Oregon will disappear in pretty much the exact same way, if it hasn't already done so. And then the next big multideath shooting will happen, and the banal cycle will spin 'round once more. Obama and Democrats and other such liberals will mumblemutter something about gun control or whatever, and NRA shitbags and Republicans and other such cavemen will bellow something about second amendment or whatever, and then absolutely nothing of value whatsoever will get accomplished, same as always. I don't expect this cycle to be broken for at least another century or more, if it's ever broken at all.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Yeesh, looks like they may be spot on with that 1-per-week stat given there's already something new. -_- Luckily this one falls into that "0 fatalities" bracket, but I guess that it wouldn't actually be counted given they didn't even have weapons obtained yet. (Caught in the planning stage.)

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

If only all of these fucking shootings could be stopped at that stage...

(And then, I made the mistake once again of looking down at the comments... the top most was an unfunny attempt at a joke, and the second was a "I don't come to slashdot to read shit like this" fail of a comment. And that was where I stopped reading the comments. It's that sort of thing that caused me to stop reading slashdot altogether in the first place, outside of the occasional link such as this.)