You know, this whole incident has gotten one thought into my mind. The media is fast. Too fast. Very soon after it had happened, when little was known about the incident, it was reported. When little is known, people tend to fill in with a 'worst case scenario', which can and likely will affect any statements made once people start flooding in and witnesses become fearful that if they speak against the popular thought, then they will be attacked, making them convince themselves that they saw something different than what actually happened.
"Who are we protecting? The citizens of Ferguson."
From what I have found out, the rioters are out of town opportunists, some of whom are possibly trying to aggravate it to worse levels. When those are in the crowd, local residents and the people there for a peaceful protest are caught in the crossfire.
"Yeah we're walking right into their homes and shooting them."
Personally, this sounded a bit like sarcasm to me.
Doesn't matter if he strongarmed a shop owner or not. At the time of the incident, he was unarmed and surrendering. Seems like typical Fox Noose to bring up a victim's past as an attempt to justify whatever happened to them.
Potentially. I'm not entirely convinced
anyone knew what happened, and those that potentially know either convinced themselves to different opinions, or were completely drowned out.
Murrican po need guns ....
They'd need less of them if the country had saner gun laws in general.
If you are referring to removing guns from the hands of people, at this point, there are so many guns in the hands of gangs and criminals, that it would make people less safe. The common criminal doesn't want to die or get shot. Without deterrence, they would be more likely to go after more people, since while more law-abiding citizens would modify to fit the laws, criminals would keep the same weapons they have. Only good way to get them out of their hands would be police, and with public opinion how it is on them...
If you are referring on making the process to get a gun more difficult, with the people needing to go through background checks, psyche evaluation, gun safety courses, etc., I agree that that should be done to make those who would go on mass sprees have a harder time to get the weapons they would need.
The media tends to be based in or around New York City, so you mostly hear opinions from about 10% of the nation. Some things apply to everyone *cough* NSA *cough*, but there are other things that no one even thinks about if they live outside of that one small area.
There's a couple in St. Louis, which are the ones I tend to use since the city is only an hour away. Due to proximity, I'm keeping an eye on the situation to make sure it doesn't go outside Ferguson.
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