https://www.insideedition.com/13-shot-2-dead-in-mass-shooting-at-kroger-grocery-store-in-tennessee-70101
It's pretty amazing how numb people have become to mass shootings in the US. One happened in my country over a year ago and people are still talking about it, but one happens in the US and it's gone in a day because you've got a week max till the next one. I feel bad for anyone affected by these because it must (rightfully) feel like everyone else doesn't care.
What blows my mind is the Las Vegas shooting. Directly or indirectly - he killed or injured nearly 1,000 people. And besides being a mass murderer - he was a sick fuck: Sheriff: Person of interest part of Strip shooting probe; Paddock had child porn.
If his name was Basheer - the coverage would have been endless. But he was white guy with no ties to anything like extremist groups so the media and the public lost interest. It's just a given that sometimes white guys with guns go postal and commit mass murder.
Date: October 1, 2017
Deaths: 61 (including the perpetrator and two victims who died in 2019 and 2020)
Injured: 867 (411 by gunfire)
As you can see - the
thirdfourth anniversary will be in a week. I wonder if the US will be in default then.Edit: Additionally - you can see - I can't do basic arithmetic.
Stephen Paddock, the GOAT. Yeah, race plays a role in this, but there's also no clear motive to play into any narrative the media can produce. Like, there have been white mass shooters, but they've mostly been ideological to a degree. You state that if he could be viewed as a muslim then he'd be more remembered, but to be fair ISIL claimed responsibility for his attack, but no one believed them and that didn't do jack to hype up the news.
I feel like most people would remember Dylan Roof or the El Paso Walmart shooter because they were clearly racist fuckups who the media could excoriate and write jeremiads about. In regards to Paddock, there's actually nothing really to grasp onto in terms of characterization of the shooter. He was a rich middle aged guy with a foreign girlfriend and no manifesto, not really much of an identity there to build a story around. You can't even paint him as a racist really, because he shot up a country concert, right? Even then, I've heard that he may have wanted to shoot up another concert and merely settled on a country show.
Stephen Paddock, the GOAT.
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to em
You state that if he could be viewed as a muslim
That was just one example. If the right-wingers viewed him in any way as an other - they'd be angry at his dead corpse not just for weeks, months or years but for decades. 1,000 injured and killed Americans in one go is nothing to sneeze at.
[Edit - I shortened things.]
2,000 people are dying of covid every day and no one gives a shit. the profit machine grinds forever on.
Americans will be like "shooter didn't even kill 10 people" and then show way more frustration about the price of frozen slop going up 30 cents.
People use movie logic when thinking about the injured. Like you go to the hospital once and you're set.
They completely disregard people who receive permanently debilitating injuries because 'at least they didn't die.'
It's the same thinking behind dismissing long-term COVID side effects.
Dead on. Its insane. Living with disabilities after a mass shooting seems horrific. Also, America regards the disabled as non-persons so you are pretty much dead to our society if you become disabled. Fuck this bullshit country :amerikkka:
I think something broke in me when I heard an older lady complain about the price of bananas at my store a while ago. It stuck with me because I had just recently learned about the United Fruit Company. This lady was whining because the bananas were like $0.66 lb and I was blown away standing there just thinking "Bitch do you know what they did just to get these bananas this cheap and it's still not enough for you? How many more people have to die so you can save $0.15 once a week on your shopping trip"?
bit idea: gun control, but only for chuds who scream that mass shootings will be used to justify gun control
Yeah I straight up don't give a shit about mass shooitngs anymore. It's not humanly possible to keep up the energy required to feel bad about all of the horrible shit that happens in this horrible country
You shouldn't give a shit about mass shootings for the same reason that you shouldn't give a shit about "gang" shootings: they're (most often) in another city and don't affect you at all, but the media wants you to feel some kinda way about it.
Here this isn’t even legally considered a mass shooting. Those are only when 3+ die.
This country is a psychotic heap of shit in so many ways that I keep forgetting and re-realizing them
I feel bad for anyone affected by these because it must (rightfully) feel like everyone else doesn’t care.
dude that's like...everything in this country
you guys outside the US underestimate how fucking insanely sociopathic this society is, there's currently a pandemic straight up slaughtering people by the thousands every day and pretty much everyone just acts like it's totally normal. No one cares at all anymore.
one happens in the US and it’s gone in a day
It doesn't even take a day.
Just wait a couple months until the wheel lands somewhere close to you that you go a fair amount, that gives the feelings syringe and extra pump
That was the Boston marathon bombing for me, I lived a few blocks away at the time
Yeah that one was pretty painful for me too, I use a pressure cooker for a lot of recipes
just the cold seeping horror of knowing that this will keep happening ig
Meta anger/outrage/grief where we feel vaguely sad about how we don't feel anything when this happens
Inside Edition is wild
Racist maniac kills two black people because... racism: https://www.insideedition.com/2-black-people-killed-in-massachusetts-shooting-by-gunman-who-has-made-white-supremacist-rhetoric
Racist maniac fails to shoot up a Walmart and incite a race war: https://www.insideedition.com/texas-man-arrested-after-his-alleged-plans-for-a-mass-shooting-at-walmart-get-foiled-authorities
Incel maniac fails at femicide: https://www.insideedition.com/self-proclaimed-incel-allegedly-plotted-mass-shooting-targeting-sorority-members-at-ohio-college
Could you fucking imagine if these ideological acts were carried out by black people, or by leftists? Society would see fucking red, would demand the "black community" to apologize, and so on and so on
But when it's just a white fascist, society goes "eh... that's how it is"
Could you fucking imagine if these ideological acts were carried out by black people, or by leftists?
It would probably initiate the "race war" or whatever the fuck all these disgusting right-wingers are hoping for
Lone wolf... Troubled individual... What can you do?
I guess the people who were shot should have probably been better at running for cover or something.
:shrug-outta-hecks:
Holy shit this is the second mass shooting AT A FUCKING KROGER. There was one in Ky a couple years ago.
Third. They brand as King Soopers in Colorado. The Boulder shooting last year happened in one.
We are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death.
God bless America, land that I love
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above
From the mountains to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America, my home sweet home
God bless America, land that I love
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above
From the mountains to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America, my home sweet home
From the mountains to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America, my home sweet home
God bless America, my home sweet home
Sounds like most days this year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2021#List
