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2019-08-07 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by JohnQC 2019-08-07 09:53|| || Front Page|| [10327 views ] Top

#1 According to leftist logic, there should be no such thing as medical malpractice (the scalpel did it!) financial malfeasance (the pen did it!) or a bad outcome at the garage when your car is in for service (the screwdriver did it!)

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-07 10:17|| 2019-08-07 10:17|| Front Page Top

#2 ...the same thing about poverty. Can't blame people who 1) do drugs and alcohol, 2) procreate before they have the means to put a roof over their own head, food on the table and clothes on their backs, 3) blow off education (see - acting white), 4) making the same self destructive and self limiting choices their parents, grand parents, great grand parents did. Fifty years of Great Society and we still have poverty, because they don't hold those accountable for their own actions but rather blame anything and everything else for the consequences.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-07 10:29|| 2019-08-07 10:29|| Front Page Top

#3 By far the most effective way to reduce the steady rise in mass shootings since 1992 would be to reduce copycattism and stop giving media coverage - any coverage at all - to the shooter.

Embargo all media mentions of the shooter's identity, all media discussion of his "cause," and treat this phenom the way we treat hostage taking.

Suspend the First Amendment in these cases.

Starve the copycats of media oxygen. At this point, only media immortality is driving this phenomenon.

We can stop this. But we have to arrest our media madness to do so.

Posted by Lex 2019-08-07 11:23|| 2019-08-07 11:23|| Front Page Top

#4 It is NOT "to late to ask media firms to voluntarily censor chatter about shootings."

These incidents are driven by copycat behavior, so there is a clear and present public interest in suppressing the proximate cause of such behavior.

The First Amendment is not a suicide pact.

Posted by Lex 2019-08-07 11:27|| 2019-08-07 11:27|| Front Page Top

#5 ...but the Left thinks it is and is playing it as such.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-07 12:14|| 2019-08-07 12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 But the left and media want copycat behavior. To drive their agenda

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-08-07 14:01|| 2019-08-07 14:01|| Front Page Top

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