NRA's Dana Loesch says 'media' is creating mass shooters
Source: The Hill
BY MAX GREENWOOD - 05/19/18 12:29 PM EDT
National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch accused the media of "creating" mass shooters by extensively covering perpetrators' identities.
"The media has got to stop creating more of these monsters by oversaturation," Loesch said on NRATV]. "I'm not saying don't responsibly report on things as they happen."
"Look, I understand it. But constantly showing the image of the murderer, constantly saying their name is completely unnecessary."
Loesch's comments came a day after a gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School, near Houston, Texas, killing at least 10 people and injuring another 10.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/388459-nras-dana-loesch-says-media-is-creating-mass-shooters
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NRaleighLiberal
(60,009 posts)Back to the swamp with all of them - lock them up!
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)that just happens to be enabled by the product she loves and promotes? Is that the solution, Dana, you disgusting POS?
RainCaster
(10,842 posts)They have no one to blame but themselves.
bucolic_frolic
(43,064 posts)not reporting it won't make it go away
muntrv
(14,505 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)the most famous vampire in history after Vlad the Impaler. But while Vlad wasnt really a blood-sucking vampiremerely the inspiration for oneElizabeth Bathory may have actually fed on and bathed in blood. She was a Romanian Countess in the 16th century who found joy in torturing peasants.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,824 posts)Leith
(7,808 posts)The US has by far more guns per capita than any other country in the world at more than one gun for every person. The second highest is Serbia at 58.21 guns per person.
Link to Wikipedia page where the numbers come from. Even if the numbers aren't the same as other sources, the conclusion certainly is.
The reason there are so many murders and mass shootings in the US is because of gun worshipers like Loesch.
jmowreader
(50,533 posts)Fifty-eight guns per person is a whole lotta guns.
Leith
(7,808 posts)Yeah, it's per capita.
I won't change the original. I kinda like my mistakes. I once typed "Hoover Damn" and we all had a good laugh.
GETPLANING
(846 posts)"How do we arm the other 42?"
bearsfootball516
(6,373 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Remember, Loesch, Live by it, die by it.
MurrayDelph
(5,292 posts)said something about this back when Asimov was trying to tie all of his universes together.
His point was that these were anonymous loser nobodies who were trying to get infamy. Seldon's suggestion was that if they were given generic names and numbers that would deny them the attention they craved, it might cut down on the activity.
So, the question is: would Dimitrios Pagourtzis have still tried to go out in a blaze of glory if he knew he would only be known as "Joe Dipshit* number 4"?
*my name, based on Seldon's theory
SansACause
(520 posts)Like the ones who shill for guns or beets.
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/736E/superbeets-a-boost-featuring-dana-loesch
Stargazer99
(2,576 posts)Stargazer99
(2,576 posts)Maybe it is time for an intense to heal this nation from stupidity (no not all bullied resort to violence) but a healthier attitude toward others would go a long ways....but 0f course we can't have tha
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Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Initech
(100,043 posts)Nitram
(22,768 posts)goes wrong. LET'S TRY TO REMEMBER THAT WITHOUT THE MEDIA WE WOULD KNOW ZILCH, NOTHING, NADA.
3Hotdogs
(12,333 posts)turbinetree
(24,685 posts)when you went to grade school or even high school, did you wake up every fucking day and hope that some fucker wouldn't come in your school and pull the fire alarm and then start popping off rounds.........................have you ever fucking answered that fucking question......nope............because now children are getting up every fucking morning and just fucking wondering if it is going to be them. And you have some asshole Lt. Governor saying from Texas that there should only be one way into a school and one way out............................and that asshole did not and will not address the issue, he thinks that will solve the problem.....................he deliberately talks out of his right wing terrorist supporting NRA fucking mouth, just like you, saturation my ass, on average 19 students are shot in the United States and on average 3 are killed from a report from the Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/20/19-children-are-shot-every-day-in-the-united-states/?utm_term=.0abec2130836
Your a has been .................................that community and others in this country live with these assholes that get a gun and start popping off rounds because your spineless network of Bull shit has no principles..................none.
Do you fucking realize how much it costs the taxpayers in this country from gun deaths and in health costs, this does not include the deaths that have happened since Mother Jones reported on this fact...................and then you have the audacity to say saturation............................
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/true-cost-of-gun-violence-in-america/
I remember from 57 years ago Loesh a student killing my principle and wounding my math teacher and a student, and that shock of seeing them laying on the ground still fucking effects me to this day............................there are not enough words to describe how I feel about your terrorists organization, and living with that senseless image from 57 years ago............it never goes away....................and that's what you fuckers miss in the entire jargon of your bull shit, that image of death of seeing it has a ten year old......................
SO come and tell me and thousands of others on how to get rid of that fucked up image of death ..................................you can't your a hypocrite..................
DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)Wabbajack_
(1,300 posts)But dangerous weapons of death should still be banned.
TimeSnowDemos
(476 posts)I love in Europe. School shootings are covered extensively on all 24 News channels - except NHK. AND YET no school shootings.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Even when they put on Smart Lady glasses.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)you quit creating gun worshippers by talking about them 24/7 on your stupid NRA Channel.
TimeSnowDemos
(476 posts)There's no media in the rest of the world. So only America has to deal.with school shootings.