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VomMom t1_j6em1y6 wrote

Reply to comment by Crowmetheus57 in 'Leftists go home': Crowd accosts news crew at site of Jerusalem terror attack by MijTinmol

Yup. I’ve never heard the left in the US say anything about the gun issue after a person of color commits a shooting.

Oh wait. Of course they bring it up, because it’s a big issue for the left. Race has nothing to do with it for the left. Repugnicans are the ones obsessed with race

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goliathfasa t1_j6jn6iv wrote

I haven’t heard a lot of talk about gun reform after this recent Monterey Park shooting. Media has been covering it, but none of the usual hysteria and oversaturated, sensationalized commentary. I actually prefer the relative cool-headedness everyone’s been handling it with this particular tragedy.

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Crowmetheus57 t1_j6emopi wrote

There was the one in Colorado a couple of years back with everyone blaming a white dude. It came out that it wasn't a white dude, and then all of a sudden, it wasn't such a big story.

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VomMom t1_j6eusvj wrote

Lol what? It’s a big deal every time it happens. America has cultivated a perfect storm of lack of healthcare and readily available guns to the mentally ill. We practically have the right to commit mass murder.

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Badmime1 t1_j6ghgzm wrote

Bullshit. It was still a lead story for days.

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goliathfasa t1_j6jot2z wrote

Ok I assume the poster above was talking about the Boulder supermarket shooting. I think the point was that the media likes to divide the citizenry at the behest of the ruling class and the easiest way is to do so along ethnic lines. The media loves the narrative of racially-motivated conflict, with endless experts brought on to theorize about all that divides us and all our differences. When it turned out the shooter was an immigrant (and most of the victims were white iirc) the media toned down the coverage. It still lingered in the news cycle like usual, but I distinctly remember the constraints news shows had when discussing it. Completely different from the Charleston church shooting, where news stations ran extensive commentary around the racial motives and implications of the shooting.

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WoodPear t1_j6eot2r wrote

Really? When people bring up Chicago's gun violence, the usual deflection is "Well X (city/small town with a higher white %) is worse, statistic wise!"

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HutSutRawlson t1_j6erf0m wrote

You’re the one reading race into that. Liberal Americans don’t associate “Chicago” with “non white” in the same way conservatives do.

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Lprsti99 t1_j6eruto wrote

No, the usual answer is "No shit, because people just go to places without gun laws to buy guns and bring them into Chicago."

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