There is crime, and there is violent crime. And within violent crime, there is unpreventable violent crime, and there is preventable violent crime. The epidemic of mass-shootings in this country that began with the Austin Texas shooting and has accelerated alongside the rise of easily-obtained, high-capacity, magazine-fed semi-automatic …
There is crime, and there is violent crime. And within violent crime, there is unpreventable violent crime, and there is preventable violent crime. The epidemic of mass-shootings in this country that began with the Austin Texas shooting and has accelerated alongside the rise of easily-obtained, high-capacity, magazine-fed semi-automatic firearms leaves a lot of people feeling unsafe outside of their homes, regardless of what the odds of being in a mass-shooting in your lifetime looks like. Add a certain tolerance of political violence and violence against law enforcement into the mix and it gets worse. Then add the smart phone everyone carries in their pocket that tells them every time there is a horrifically violent crime taking place anywhere in the country--often accompanied by images and/or video--and you end up with a populace that is hyper-sensitive to lower levels of violent crime that are over-reported because the media knows our psychology and what will move the ad clicks at this point. "If it bleeds, it leads" still dominates not just TV media, but now social media as well, and Americans are MUCH more connected to their social medias than the TV news.
As always, this comes back to "it's a voter/consumer/viewer problem." We're constantly victims of our own stupidity. Society's weakest links will always hold back progress because that's what easily-manipulated stupidity does: it holds back progress. The GOP is FILLED with easily-manipulated and stupid voters who do not know how to parse good data sources from back ones. They are people who you can fuck in the ass for as long as you want so long as you whisper into their ears it's actually just a liberal and/or an immigrant fucking them in the ass, not someone from their own tribe. They will actively let you grift them so long as you lie to them and reaffirm their most insane conspiracies out loud. These are very VERY simple people.
There is crime, and there is violent crime. And within violent crime, there is unpreventable violent crime, and there is preventable violent crime. The epidemic of mass-shootings in this country that began with the Austin Texas shooting and has accelerated alongside the rise of easily-obtained, high-capacity, magazine-fed semi-automatic firearms leaves a lot of people feeling unsafe outside of their homes, regardless of what the odds of being in a mass-shooting in your lifetime looks like. Add a certain tolerance of political violence and violence against law enforcement into the mix and it gets worse. Then add the smart phone everyone carries in their pocket that tells them every time there is a horrifically violent crime taking place anywhere in the country--often accompanied by images and/or video--and you end up with a populace that is hyper-sensitive to lower levels of violent crime that are over-reported because the media knows our psychology and what will move the ad clicks at this point. "If it bleeds, it leads" still dominates not just TV media, but now social media as well, and Americans are MUCH more connected to their social medias than the TV news.
As always, this comes back to "it's a voter/consumer/viewer problem." We're constantly victims of our own stupidity. Society's weakest links will always hold back progress because that's what easily-manipulated stupidity does: it holds back progress. The GOP is FILLED with easily-manipulated and stupid voters who do not know how to parse good data sources from back ones. They are people who you can fuck in the ass for as long as you want so long as you whisper into their ears it's actually just a liberal and/or an immigrant fucking them in the ass, not someone from their own tribe. They will actively let you grift them so long as you lie to them and reaffirm their most insane conspiracies out loud. These are very VERY simple people.
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons."
Gotta love a Mel Brooks quote