Mass shooting at Thousand Oaks

[Tomjas]

Are thoughts & prayers still the way to go?

[Pechorin]

Pray for the victims, and their families.

[Mr.365]

thoughts & prayers for the victims and family members

[Robbie Barrett]

Them prayers won't be stopping bullets.

[siablo14]

Twelve people, including a police officer, were killed after a gunman forced his way into the Borderline Bar & Grill and opened fire on Wednesday night, Sheriff Geoff Dean told reporters moments ago. The suspected gunman was also found dead at the scene. Up to 12 other people are injured.

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Are thoughts & prayers still the way to go?

Shooting deaths have fallen by half since the 90s. You say "still" as if they're a growing problem.

[Tomjas]

Shooting deaths have fallen by half since the 90s. You say "still" as if they're a growing problem.

*Yawn*

Mass shootings in the US are so passé

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*Yawn*

Mass shootings in the US are so passé

As long as dumb people own televisions, even if a problem is at historic lows, you can whip them into an uneducated frenzy about it.

Selective breeding for IQ is the ONLY longterm political solution. Until then the "television-idiot complex" is preeminent.

[siablo14]

Shooting deaths have fallen by half since the 90s. You say "still" as if they're a growing problem.

Mass shootings have been rising though, right?

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Mass shootings have been rising though, right?

I think so but not enough to move the overall shooting rate since "mass" shootings are one of the rarest homicide types. They tend to occur in batches following heavy media coverage of a particularly notable event that causes a wave of copycats.

On some level I understand the instinctive human fascination with one guy going berserk and killing 10 people versus 1,000 guys going berserk and killing 1,000 people, and I understand most people just react to what's on the TV, they don't scroll through annual tabular homicide data.

On the other hand the sole reason most people feign exaggerated interest in these stories is because they're gun control fanatics and it seems obligatory to debunk the false correlation they've created. Mass shootings have trended in tight correlation to media coverage while gun homicide in general has been cut in half and higher private firearm ownership remains correlated to lower murder rates globally (likely via being indicative of an influential middle class).

I actively study the idiot mind a great deal & "it's time to do something" behavior. This is where the idiot delegates a dramatic solution onto a central authority after that central authority fabricated a problem via selective coverage specifically to evoke those very "demands" from the idiot, and the idiot believes that they are adopting some sort of bold initiative. This newfound sense of purpose also renders them quite resistant to new information that marginalizes the original fabricated problem.