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piratefish08

(3,133 posts) Thu May 16, 2013, 05:46 AM May 2013

Good question - Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'? [View all]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/15/new-orleans-shooting-not-national-news

"So I shouldn't be surprised that the Mother's Day Parade shooting has largely been forgotten. On Sunday, shots were fired into a crowd during a parade in the New Orleans 7th ward. Police said they saw three suspects running from the scene.

This is the largest mass shooting in the United States where the shooters were still at large after the crime was committed. Think about that for a minute. From Columbine to Virginia Tech to Fort Hill to Aurora, all the shooters were either killed or apprehended on site. But the person or people responsible for shooting 19 Americans are still free.

So why am I allowed to go outside? Where's the city quarantine or FBI and Homeland Security presence for this act of "terrorism"?

Because this is an act of domestic terrorism right? Just because the alleged shooter was wearing a white tee and jeans does that suddenly make the shooting a gang-related affair? And we all know how irrelevant gang-related shootings are in America. The Mother's Day shooting is so irrelevant that politicians haven't even bothered to mention it to further their anti-gun agendas. If the shootings aren't even important enough for politicians to spin, then it's truly reached a black hole of irrelevance."

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Good question - Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'? [View all] piratefish08 May 2013 OP

Suspect arrested in New Orleans Mother's Day shooting pintobean May 2013 #1

Nobody died and the victims are black tularetom May 2013 #4

Unfortunately, joshdawg May 2013 #25

I'm glad that a suspect has been identified Cirque du So-What May 2013 #16

It's updating the info in the article quoted in the OP. pintobean May 2013 #20

I've got no problem with that Cirque du So-What May 2013 #27

Then, maybe you shouldn't have jumped my shit pintobean May 2013 #32

Not jumping your shit for posting it Cirque du So-What May 2013 #36

2nd suspect arrested in Mother's Day parade shooting pintobean May 2013 #50

I guess that's what it takes to make this crime 'newsworthy' Cirque du So-What May 2013 #54

all guns are wmd, all bullets wmd and the 2nd should be reinterpreted graham4anything May 2013 #2

More delusional proclamations.. pipoman May 2013 #5

from someone expert at recognizing them because they make em. nt Pholus May 2013 #7

LOL..someone actually agrees with that string of disjointed thinking..rofl pipoman May 2013 #13

No, but I *really* agree with causing foaming mouth responses! ;) Pholus May 2013 #14

When u see one point it out..lol..you guyz.. pipoman May 2013 #17

Try post 5. Pholus May 2013 #18

So then you do agree with the nonsense in #2, eh? pipoman May 2013 #26

When you argue with nonsense, people watching may not be able to tell the difference. Pholus May 2013 #35

Your fourth sentence is cartach May 2013 #42

I feel threatened like Mr. Trayvon Martin did by a vigilante/anarchist who had a gun. graham4anything May 2013 #43

Unicorn bacon! Pelican May 2013 #48

poster4silliness nt Codeine May 2013 #53

1) It's New Orleans... Pelican May 2013 #3

Two reasons: because they're Black and nobody died. ananda May 2013 #6

Bingo! caseymoz May 2013 #12

My thoughts exactly Dorn May 2013 #30

CNN used up its travel budget in boston dembotoz May 2013 #8

Yep, it was all black folks rightsideout May 2013 #9

Same for when the news reports on someone missing or kidnapped Puzzledtraveller May 2013 #10

For those who were saying "because the victims were black", Nye Bevan May 2013 #11

Bullshit. If 19 white people, including kids, were shot morningfog May 2013 #15

So why was Trayvon Martin one of the biggest news stories of the year? Nye Bevan May 2013 #19

Check the accused. WinkyDink May 2013 #21

That is a false analogy. morningfog May 2013 #24

Trayvon Martin WAS a big story... egduj May 2013 #31

because of the "stand your ground law" = legal murder argument..... piratefish08 May 2013 #33

It almost wasn't. It got big because people made a stink that the story got buried. Starry Messenger May 2013 #51

It's almost certainly a combination of reasons el_bryanto May 2013 #22

The news cycle was full alright Cirque du So-What May 2013 #28

Probably because of the interest in the stand your ground law maddezmom May 2013 #29

Race. There was a focus group once... Recursion May 2013 #23

I am seeing over 1 million hits on Google News for "New Orleans Shooting". Nye Bevan May 2013 #34

Not nearly as bad as the explosion in West, Texas, being swept under the rug... ScreamingMeemie May 2013 #37

Yeah, you would think MLB would want to expand into Texas, wouldn't you? (nt) Nye Bevan May 2013 #38

...and there you are. Typically missing the point. n/t ScreamingMeemie May 2013 #39

Just this week, a rightwing extremist with bomb parts was arrested graham4anything May 2013 #44

It's over an hour to drive from West to Arlington, TX. ScreamingMeemie May 2013 #46

The explosion itself was hardly swept under the rug KamaAina May 2013 #49

Why? Because everyone was Black and Gman May 2013 #40

There's no winning this one...... Purplehazed May 2013 #41

"pssst--in case you haven't noticed"--Blazing Saddles librechik May 2013 #45

2 reasons SoCalDem May 2013 #47

Moderates in the RKBA cohort have moved to the Right, so NOLA's just some of that blood for patrice May 2013 #52