July 28, Gilroy. August 3, El Paso. August 4, Dayton. Yet I have heard not one mention of Gilroy...

[Hekate]

...in this past week. It's like people can't hold more than two pieces of information in their heads, so Gilroy was just disappeared.

Hells bells, I once had a Sheltie who could count to 3, and he was not all that bright.

What a country.

[Demonaut]

1. no, it's the nature of our culture, we a haven't forgot, we've just moved on

[TwilightZone]

2. I think it's a matter of scale.

Sadly, we've become desensitized to the point that it takes something pretty significant to cut through the noise. That's probably part of what's happening here. Of course, there's also the short-attention-span problem that we have as a culture.

I did see that CNN and other outlets had an update today regarding the shooter and the warrant searches. Perhaps there hasn't been much to report since the initial few days, though the others clearly pushed it off the radar.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/us/gilroy-garlic-festival-suspect-car/index.html

[RockRaven]

3. One of the things that pisses me off about Gilroy falling off the news map

is the out-of-state gun purchase angle. This asshole killed 3 people and maimed many more by taking advantage of the grossly irresponsible federal and NV laws (or lack thereof). This should be part of the discussion -- as inadequate as gun control laws are EVERYWHERE even CA, even the places like CA which make the effort are undermined by the federal government and their ass-hat neighbors.

The only recourse available to CA is a) passing even more stringent laws, thereby risking a DC-vs-Heller-on-steroids decision from Gorsuch, Boofer, et al which leads to further gun-humping-enabling or b) virtually shutting down the OR, NV, and AZ borders by inspecting every incoming vehicle for illegal firearms, which would be economically devastating for all parties.

[hunter]

4. That's a problem in all states that have strict gun control laws compared to their neighbors.

[triron]

5. We want instant gratification. We are becoming less patient; portends

lost of respect and disinclination for deliberation. Not healthy.

[KT2000]

6. It is just happening too fast

and too many. We are also waiting for the next one now. What a country is right.

[Hekate]

7. I feel that too. I can't keep up. nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. El Paso and Dayton will surely have the same fate eventually.

The shocks become normalized after awhile to many people.

Movie clip from "Oedipus Wrecks", of "New York Stories" (1989).

TV anchor at the end of the clip:
"It has been two weeks now since Mrs Sadie Millstein has been in her strange predicament and, typically, New Yorkers have come to accept it as just another fact of life in the city."

[RockCreek]

9. It hasn't been forgotten near Gilroy

But it sure seems to have been everywhere else.
I was visiting near Gilroy last week, back on the East Coast via the midwest now.