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You cannot stop all gun violence - GMDino - 05-11-2018 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/05/11/australia-mass-shooting-family-7-dead-including-4-children/601181002/ Quote:CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A family of seven including four children was found dead with gunshot wounds Friday at a rural property in southwest Australia in what could be the country's worst mass shooting in 22 years, police and news media said. It is interesting that the only two "mass shootings" were both murder/suicides (based on the assumption this one is). Hard to imagine the number of lives saved by their laws though. RE: You cannot stop all gun violence - fredtoast - 05-11-2018 Mass shooting are a cultural phenomenon in the US. Mass shooting (not family related murder/suicide) have more to do with our society's obsession with fame than gun ownership. A higher percentage of US citizens owned guns in 1970 than now, but back then mass shooting were almost unheard of. And I am sure we had just as many crazy people. RE: You cannot stop all gun violence - TheLeonardLeap - 05-11-2018 (05-11-2018, 12:25 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Mass shooting are a cultural phenomenon in the US. Mass shooting (not family related murder/suicide) have more to do with our society's obsession with fame than gun ownership. Pretty much this. Anytime there's a shooting, it gets plastered over the entirety of the internet and national TV now. There's a reason why it seems like all these people have extensively researched and obsessed over past shooters. That youtube shooter is a great example. She was a big 'ol nobody that was trying to be famous online and floundering. She goes and shoots some people, and suddenly for a week or two, everyone in the country knows her name and her material gets more attention than it ever did prior. That's a problem with 24-hr news/internet news/social media. Everyone is looking for something to fill all of that time with, so criminals are being enshrined in national and sometimes even global attention more than ever. I checked a news feed on my phone earlier today and saw there was some school shooting that happened today in California. 1 person was injured, and it's on CNN, CBS, ABC, the LA Times. I live in Ohio. In the past I would have never heard of that happening. One person got injured and it's national news now. RE: You cannot stop all gun violence - Dill - 05-11-2018 (05-11-2018, 03:04 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Pretty much this. Anytime there's a shooting, it gets plastered over the entirety of the internet and national TV now. There's a reason why it seems like all these people have extensively researched and obsessed over past shooters. Except that she doesn't get to know how famous she is. She is dead. I don't think she was one of the ones who obsessed over shootings, was she? She was just angry Youtube was messing with her outreach. |