He brought a bat to a gunfight and lost - media buried story

[gunsmith]

this story was on the very last page!
http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051026/NEWS01/510260361/1004/NEWS
Man shoots 1 of 2 people police say tried to rob him
-- Staff Report
Posted: 10/26/2005
Man shoots 1 of 2 people police say tried to rob him

A 38-year-old man with a permit to carry a concealed firearm shot one of two men accused of trying to rob him at a car wash late Monday, Reno police said.

Luis Alfredo Aguirre, 18, of Reno was booked into the Washoe County Jail on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.

His cousin, Jorge Aguilar, 21, of Reno, was treated Tuesday at Washoe Medical Center for a bullet wound in his liver, Reno police said. Sgt. Doug Evans said Aguilar would be arrested on suspicion of attempted armed robbery when he leaves the hospital.

Police said the the cousins are known gang members and withheld the identity of the shooter.

About 11 p.m. Monday, a man with a souvenir wooden bat approached a man washing his Mini Cooper at a car wash at 690 Booth St. and demanded his money and keys, police said. Another man appeared at the other side of the car wash, yelling and holding his hands up.

Police said the second man began to charge at the owner of the Cooper, who pulled out a small-caliber semiautomatic pistol and shot him. The suspects ran to a waiting car and drove to Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center. The same day an unarmed women with a restraining order gets stabbed by her ex

 

[GunGoBoom]

Nice.

Guy in a Mini eh? He was probably packin one of these then:

http://members.aol.com/wsp45/

 

[Missashot]

I just love a story with a happy ending.
The only problem is that the guy who got shot probably doesn't have insurance and the tax payers will have to pay his hospital bill.

 

[Biker]

Reminds of a some lyrics in a Rodney Harrington song:

"Just my luck,
I brought wood and he brought lead,
I think I'm dead..."

Biker

 

[boofus]

One more of Brady's 'children' injured by gunfire.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Once again, another misleading title, but at least in the tradition of misnomers.

The would be robber did not take a bat to a gunfight. He took a bat and a partner to an attempted robbery. There was NO gunfight. More correctly stated was that the would be robber took a bat and partner to a would be robbery that resulted in a shooting. The would be robber simple thought he was going to a robbery. He had no idea he was going to a shooting.

If there is only one gun being discharged, it is a shooting, not a gunfight.

From www.freesearch.com - gunfight - a fight using guns between two or more people. It may be a semantic difference, but it is a semantic difference like distinghishing between a burglary and a robbery, a clip and a magazine.

As for the story supposedly being buried by the media, that implies that the media intentionally took action to see that this story was not wide spread becaues of some intentional bias on their part, usually considered to be a result of some sort of political biases. I don't think this is the case. Stories where the good guy wins don't sell as many papers as stories where the good guys are chopped into cube steak. Such stories strike fear in the hearts of the good guys and they then spend more time with the news (paper, station) trying to learn more so that maybe they won't become victims themselves. Stories about bad guys getting killed may strike fear in the hearts of bad guys, if they bother to read the paper or watch the news. Besides, the appeal market to bad guys is much less than to good guys. As a news agency, are you going to fill your paper with costly print that caters to a small market share of interested people or to a large market share of interested people?

 

[Aguila Blanca]

As for the story supposedly being buried by the media, that implies that the media intentionally took action to see that this story was not wide spread becaues of some intentional bias on their part, usually considered to be a result of some sort of political biases. I don't think this is the case. Stories where the good guy wins don't sell as many papers as stories where the good guys are chopped into cube steak. Such stories strike fear in the hearts of the good guys and they then spend more time with the news (paper, station) trying to learn more so that maybe they won't become victims themselves. Stories about bad guys getting killed may strike fear in the hearts of bad guys, if they bother to read the paper or watch the news. Besides, the appeal market to bad guys is much less than to good guys. As a news agency, are you going to fill your paper with costly print that caters to a small market share of interested people or to a large market share of interested people?

A good friend used to be an editor at the local "newspaper," and he confirmed to me years ago that the operative philosophy is that "body count sells newspapers."

But doesn't that prove the point? Isn't consciously choosing to print the bad news while ignoring the good news the same as "burying" the good news?

 

[SJG26]

"A good friend used to be an editor at the local "newspaper," and he confirmed to me years ago that the operative philosophy is that "body count sells newspapers." "

Someone tries to rob me and I guarantee a rise in newspaper sales!!

 

[Darth Ruger]

...who pulled out a small-caliber semiautomatic pistol and shot him.

Can you get any details on the pistol and caliber? Just curious...



Maybe it was a .380 Kel-Tec.

 

[gunsmith]

more info?

I only know what I read in the papers!

I don't know who I would ask...

Anyway despite double naughts never ending struggle to prove me wrong even when we agree

according to it bleeds it leads a "shooting" should make the front section not the very last page, as was the case.

the story was buried ....I don't care what double naught says!

 

[Standing Wolf]

Police said the the cousins are known gang members...

Gangsters and illegal aliens both, I'd guess.