shooting, media, guns, and blame
The reactionary chain-of-events that follows a school shooting is easily foreseeable. First comes outrage, second comes the need to direct that outrage at someone or something, and third comes the outraged finger-pointing between groups and organizations. Note that the following are all actual examples of this: theists blaming school boards for removing the mandatory part of bible/prayer study ("taking god out of school"), politicians such as Hillary Clinton blaming the evil influences of violent video-games (she said this a few years ago, but the point still stands). Does anyone actually blame, I don't know, the actual shooter? Shouldn't that be the first thought that comes to mind? Is it so outlandish an idea for someone to murder another of their own free will? These days, I just don't understand mainstream media.
Note also that I haven't commented on gun control itself (yet). Rather, the widespread reactions to such an event as the shooting.
Guns don't make people violent and neither do video-games and the school shooting at Newtown Connecticut the guy had a mental problem so why did he have the guns in the first place the condition of the people mentally matters not video games taking the blame.
ReplyDeleteWhy do people always need a common enemy. For example when you stub your toe it may be completely your fault or nothings fault yet you still real like you need to blame something.
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