Shooting conspiracies---theories?

[HI express]

Is it just me or does there seem to be an inordinate amount of shootings going on around this country?

We have three guys beat the stuffing out of a family in Beverly Hills and it seemed like there was a shootout too, then we have the group of people at church that were shot in Wisconsin (?) by the lone gunman, then in Los Angeles, there is a major shootout between gangs. Then the two guys that tried suicide by cop in Los Angeles by getting into a shootout with LAPD. Then there is that one guy in court in Georgia (?) who shot and killed four people in and around the court.

Either there are a lot of kukes that like the month of March to go crazy or what? Anybody like to offer a theory on all of these seemingly unrelated shootouts? Or is the full moon out?

 

[whm1974]

No just the news media reporting more shootings

-Bill

 

[stevelyn]

Beware the Ides of March!

 

[Standing Wolf]

Anybody like to offer a theory on all of these seemingly unrelated shootouts? Or is the full moon out?

They're seemingly unrelated because they're unrelated.

That doesn't mean the leftist extremists aren't having a grand time cranking out press releases calling for more so-called "gun control."

On second thought, they may not be completely unrelated. Qute a few years ago, I spent eleven successive winters in Minnesnowta. If you've ever had cabin fever, you know what I mean: it's enough to drive solid granite a bit flaky around the edges.

 

[RobW]

It's a virus, spread by the so called "Educators". The name of the virus is "youarenotresponsibleforwhatyouaredoing" with the early symptom of "youcanblameanythingelse". :banghead:

 

[sturmruger]

I was just thinking the same thing the other day. Seems like a lot of people have been getting shot in very public places.

 

[spartacus2002]

Maybe HI Express is behind all these shootings....

Hey, first one who smelt it, dealt it.

 

[Coltdriver]

I guess there have been about 2000 deaths this month from auto accidents but they never get national press like shootings do.

 

[jlwatts3]

RobW, you can't blame all these shootings on teachers. That is a knee jerk conservative response.
You have to look at them case by case. I bet the causes of each are completely unique.

 

[Rico567]

Several points: In a country of almost 300 million people, what are the chances that somebody is going to be doing ??? (Fill in your own blank.) A friend of mine with a more scientific and mathematical turn of mind said this to me once, and the more I thought about it, the more sense it made. Especially after you factor in the second thing, which is the media. Our mass media can make anything happen right in your living room, whether or not it is of any particular importance to us personally. Then, if you take the media's general ignorance of guns themselves coupled with their left-wing program to demonize weapons and make everyone into a victim, you have the present scenario.
The fact is that the courthouse shootings in Atlanta, the church shootings in Wisconsin, and the stuff in California would never have even been known nationally an hundred years ago. Then, there is the equally deplorable and destructive tencency to see whatever is happening RIGHT NOW as the only important events that have ever been, or ever will be. After the high school shootings at Columbine in Colorado a number of years ago, a news reporter announced that this was "by far the worst attack on a school in U.S. history." No, it wasn't. A "deranged school board member" (now there's a redundancy....) bombed an elementary school in Bath, Michigan in 1927, killing three times as many people as Columbine, and wounding 61.

http://www.michiganhistorymagazine.com/date/may03/05_18_1927.html

 

[Kramer Krazy]

I always blame the media....through all the coverage they give certain stories, you WILL get copy-cats....

After Columbine, look at the copy-cat school shootings......with all the beheadings in Iraq, look at the beheadings that were done soon afterwards.....after that woman was killed and her fetus cut out of her, there were a few incidences of similar stories afterwards.....If you get one story that floods the media, there is almost always copy-cats.......I wish the media was more responsibile for the crap that they influence, but there is almost no way to measure, quantitatively, how the media actually influences what goes on in our society.

 

[Bear Gulch]

If it bleeds, it leads is the old tv news saying. NOvelty alos gets airtime. Judges and churchgoers rarely get shot, so when they do, the newsies are all over it.

 

[thrifty7]

These things tend to happen in clumps or clusters....some are copycats, and as mentioned, some are just due to the tyranny of large numbers...out of 300 million people, at any given moment, hundreds of thousands of people feel, some rightly and some wrongly, that they have been screwed by someone. It is a tribute to the civility of our culture that the number who "go ballistic" is not larger. That's how it looks to me.

 

[heisler]

I've heard that murder rates go up as the temperature rises. I haven't seen any evidence of it, though. It might just be a myth.