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10 minutes ago, Berggy9598 said:

Children had their face shot off in a classroom because politicians chose blood money over pushing through any legislation that might have prevented it. 

 

That's not genocide, and that's not even all our politicians, let alone our head of state.  It's not the same thing, please do not give China that.

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30 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

 

That's not genocide, and that's not even all our politicians, let alone our head of state.  It's not the same thing, please do not give China that.

Its a single NGL with the power to bend the government to its will. Spin it how you want it’s some 3rd world crap going on in this country. 

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How did this thread even get bumped off the first page? Per CNN, 5:24pm today

 

Three people were killed in a shooting at Columbia Machine in Smithsburg and a state trooper was shot in the shoulder, according to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. The governor said he did not know the status of the shooter.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/us/maryland-shooting-columbia-machine/index.html

 

 

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Rep. Pat Fallon Blames Mass Shootings On 'Dang Smartphones'

 

Although guns are, by definition, a part of every single mass shooting, many Republican politicians twist themselves into knots trying to blame them on something, anything other than firearms.

 

On Wednesday, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) came up with yet another cause of gun violence that doesn’t actually involve guns.

 

If you’re reading this on your phone, you might want to sit down — because he’s blaming smartphones.

 

During a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday, Fallon rejected a call for new gun regulations by suggesting guns were around long before the relatively recent rash of mass shootings began.

 

“Guns have always been readily available in this country but mass shootings and particularly mass shootings of schools were nonexistent or extremely rare until they became a grisly recent phenomenon,” Fallon told the committee.

 

“So what’s changed in the last 50 years?” he asked, before offering his own theory.

 

“There’s been a noticeable breakdown of the family, there’s been an erosion of faith and there’s been a seismic drop in social interaction in large measure due to the overuse of these dang smartphones and the proliferation of social media, which is probably better described as anti-social media,” he said while holding up his own device as a visual aid.

 

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5 minutes ago, China said:

Rep. Pat Fallon Blames Mass Shootings On 'Dang Smartphones'

 

Although guns are, by definition, a part of every single mass shooting, many Republican politicians twist themselves into knots trying to blame them on something, anything other than firearms.

 

On Wednesday, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) came up with yet another cause of gun violence that doesn’t actually involve guns.

 

If you’re reading this on your phone, you might want to sit down — because he’s blaming smartphones.

 

During a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday, Fallon rejected a call for new gun regulations by suggesting guns were around long before the relatively recent rash of mass shootings began.

 

“Guns have always been readily available in this country but mass shootings and particularly mass shootings of schools were nonexistent or extremely rare until they became a grisly recent phenomenon,” Fallon told the committee.

 

“So what’s changed in the last 50 years?” he asked, before offering his own theory.

 

“There’s been a noticeable breakdown of the family, there’s been an erosion of faith and there’s been a seismic drop in social interaction in large measure due to the overuse of these dang smartphones and the proliferation of social media, which is probably better described as anti-social media,” he said while holding up his own device as a visual aid.

 

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Wow. It's a good thing you can't get smartphones in other countries. Then they'd have mass shootings too.

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There are 2 ways the media covers mass shootings. Here's why the difference matters

 

What is the role of journalists when covering America's mass shooting crisis, and how can they responsibly report on tragedies like the recent shootings in Uvalde, Buffalo and Tulsa?

 

Those are complicated but crucial questions to answer, says Dannagal Young, a University of Delaware professor who studies the impact that news stories have on the public.

 

In particular, her research looks at whether the media has a bias in favor of covering specific events and individual people, instead of looking more broadly at what leads to tragedies such as mass shootings.

 

This difference is called episodically framed stories versus thematically framed stories.

 

Young unpacks why this matters, how the media should cover mass shootings, and the one question she says journalists should ask themselves.

 

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Uvalde Hires Private Law Firm to Argue It Doesn’t Have to Release School Shooting Public Records

 

Some of the records relating to the Robb Elementary School shooting could be “highly embarrassing,” involve “emotional/mental distress,” and are “not of legitimate concern to the public,” the lawyers argued.

 

The City of Uvalde and its police department are working with a private law firm to prevent the release of nearly any record related to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in which 19 children and two teachers died, according to a letter obtained by Motherboard in response to a series of public information requests we made. The public records Uvalde is trying to suppress include body camera footage, photos, 911 calls, emails, text messages, criminal records, and more.

 

“The City has not voluntarily released any information to a member of the public,” the city’s lawyer, Cynthia Trevino, who works for the private law firm Denton Navarro Rocha Bernal & Zech, wrote in a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The city wrote the letter asking Paxton for a determination about what information it is required to release to the public, which is standard practice in Texas. Paxton's office will eventually rule which of the city's arguments have merit and will determine which, if any, public records it is required to release.

 

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