Mass Murder by Shooting Spree Thread

I'm going to guess insurance companies have been asked numerous times why they can't give a discount for having a gun inside the home, because that makes things safer.

 

I would think the expenses associated with accidental shootings outweighs the costs of replacing stolen and damaged property.

Unless policies exclude injuries and damages sustained by negligent use of firearms. The intentional use of firearm to commit a crime is already excluded.

 

That isn't stopping the frothing at the mouth by some.

 

The motive for the Las Vegas shooters remains "elusive." Really?

http://lasvegassun.com/news/2014/jun/23/motive-cicis-wal-mart-shootings-remains-elusive-sh/

However, we know why they went to Wal-Mart -- because it had guns. And, perhaps, extra adult diapers.

The two Millers then went to the sporting goods section of the store, where they broke open a display case and grabbed the ammunition it contained.

Gillespie said the two were well armed — including the firearms they had taken from Soldo and Beck — and had armor-piercing ammunition designed to kill. He said Amanda Miller purchased their weapons in Indiana. The Millers moved in January to Las Vegas from Lafayette, Ind.

During the attacks, the Millers wore adult diapers, carried water and MREs, the military's meals ready to eat.

"They knew they weren't going to use restrooms or they knew they were going to be in a standoff," Gillespie replied when asked why suspects would wear diapers.

The Millers' intent, Gillespie said, was to kill police officers.

 

CNN says at least 35 shots fired.

But, since it happened in the ghetto, and not in a white neighborhood, we won't have the usual hand-wringing on SportsJournalists.com, and politicians won't be putting out statements trying to scare soccer moms.

 

The trees of liberty in the ghetto need watering, too.

It's good to know that dead minorities don't trump your constitutional rights, either.

 

It's your (former) industry that doesn't give two shits about dead minorities.

If this was in a good neighborhood, and the victims were white, we'd be seeing wall-to-wall coverage right now.

Don Zaluchi summed up the basic attitude:

In my city, we would keep the traffic in the dark people, the coloreds. They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls.

 

GRRRRR. Media BAD!!!!!

 

Do dead white kids get more attention than dead African-American kids?

Seriously? Defend it if you'd like, but am I wrong?

 

If you'd like to present evidence to support your opinion. go right ahead. That said, you have earned my stock response with your constant attacks on an industry you don't understand nearly as well as you think you do.

 

Funny, but in Chicago local media all the time I hear the roundup of who got shot over the weekend.

What I do know about Chicago (and other cities, but especially Chicago) is that many, many people are more than happy to let shootings happen in bad black people neighborhoods. The city has a long history of trying to fence off its undesirables (or more accurately, use freeways to pen them in). See, the thing is about those shootings is that you can easily blame people for being thugs and all forms of subhuman. That's in part why the Sun-Times shut off its comments sections.

 

LOL. You're a fucking coward.

A simple question, and you dodge it.

And, let's not pretend these kinds of shootings don't get covered because it's a case of "dog bites man".

They don't get covered (as extensively) because they don't advance a political agenda.