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Carolleisa Sep 24, 2023

@w7voa It’s the guns.

Shoq 🌿Sep 24, 2023

@w7voa Translation: It’s a Sunday in America.

@w7voa Always interesting how local crime becomes national news when it fits a political narrative 🙄

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_United_States_by_state

@LouisIngenthron @w7voa There are about 57 gun homicides in the United States every single day, and that number doubles if you include suicide. They literally can't all become national news, but it would be irresponsible to pretend it isn't happening. Meanwhile, self-defense with a gun is also reported as national news. Attempted self-defense with a gun, however, is usually just reported as a gun homicide because guns don't make you bulletproof. If that fact is so inconvenient to your politics that you have to complain about reality being reported, maybe reevaluate your politics?

Firearm death rates in the United States by state - Wikipedia

@FlippingBinary Not making something national news is hardly equivalent to "pretending it isn't happening."

National news needs to be far less sensational. Less reporting on local crimes and sports and celebrity deaths. Those all have their own dedicated news sources.

As for your final rhetorical flourish, let's say, hypothetically, the news reported every single abortion performed. Would you still stand by your question: "If that fact is so inconvenient to your politics that you have to complain about reality being reported, maybe reevaluate your politics?"

@LouisIngenthron it also wouldn't be possible for the national news to report on every medical procedure performed in the United States every time it happens.

However, if you remember from biology that a fetus is not a baby and an abortion occurs only when a fetus is draining the life out of an actual living, breathing human who either does not wish to be used or would die without the procedure, you might think of it more like removing a tumor or evicting a murderous guest. You are okay with stand your ground laws, I presume?

@FlippingBinary 🤦‍♂️ Good job missing the point.

And you shouldn't assume so much. I'm a pro-gun-control pro-choice card-carrying democrat.

@LouisIngenthron you're complaining about local news becoming national news by writing a comment on a post about a local shooting in DC written by a local news reporter on a local news website.

Yeah, I guess I did miss your point.

@FlippingBinary ...shared on social media by a national news reporter.

You really did.

@LouisIngenthron ahh, you're right. My mistake. I thought he was based out of DC. However, DC is the nation's capital, gun violence is an issue that affects the entire nation, and several people were shot. It qualifies as national news just as much as any of his other posts, if not more, and this is a platform where he can post as many articles as he wants. It's not like posting it means he couldn't post something else.

Perhaps there are better ways to spend your time as a pro-gun-control person than discouraging the reporting of facts that support your belief? People might think you're actually pro-gun and only pretending to be pro-gun-control so your criticism of the level of reporting doesn't seem as much like an effort to silence the truth.