Dear KMAG: 20190805 Open Topic

I have a hard time with mass shootings and usually disconnect for a few days until the hysteria passes. We don’t make good decisions, or legislation, based on emotion.
1. The facts are unknown. Speculation is rampant and often incorrect.
2. Very few care about the victims, the fallen, and the immediate media push becomes politically motivated. Beto O’Rourke led a “vigil for the victims”, and took the opportunity to push for gun control.
I find pushing a personal agenda or the agenda for political ideology, over the bodies of dead Americans, particularly reprehensible.
3. For every one of these incidents, we’re left with lingering questions and suspicion —– years later. Yet rationally, we know we will never know “everything”, thus never satisfied.
Rinse and repeat.
4. America has a process for fact finding and adjudication in such incidents. Although no system is perfect, the American system is superior. It would be incredibly arrogant for me to presume “I know better”, when I am so far removed from the specifics of the case.
5. With #4 in mind, I also know, when it comes to some issues, I am far more of an “expert” than most news anchors…… just as a 30yr veteran teacher would be more knowledgeable about classroom/education issues than a news anchor who reads a teleprompter for a living.
Both the teacher and I understand our wheelhouse, our own subset of expertise. We’re also willing to admit what we don’t know.
News anchors who emote, for effect, are fake/disingenuous.
Politicians who emote, for personal attention, or campaign funds, are disgusting.
Even the “experts”, who are brought in to expound on their knowledge for a news panel, have no specific details about the shooting, can only speak in general terms, adding little value.
It’s fairly clear, the political push in this case is the typical Dem push for gun control. They use incorrect statistics, bad logic and false empathy, hoping to capitalize on public emotion and fear. Of course, we don’t see our “leaders” calling Congress to return to the Capitol to pass mental health legislation.
This time, it appears the left has an additional goal, to take down the Chan boards. The logic is so tortured it’s absurd. If 10 people kill another person with a car, we don’t ban automobiles. If 5 people die because of physician error, we don’t outlaw all doctors. More people die at home in their bathrooms = ban bathrooms?
The NZ shooter blamed Michael Jackson, China, and Macron of France, yet he admired Communist China – I read his Manifesto. The media, on the other hand, blames Trump and guns, which is exactly what the NZ shooter hoped would happen.
The ElPaso shooter, second to last paragraph noted that his views were formed long before Trump, and particularly noted the media would ignore this fact. They did. I read his Manifesto as well.
The Ohio shooter seemed to like Bernie and Warren, but we don’t blame them.
Does Steve Scalise blame the incendiary rhetoric of Bernie Sanders for his pain?
Yet, it would be extremely beneficial for the hard left to get rid of 8 Chan.
We all remember Jen Palmieri’s frustration with “memes” and the unrelenting push from the autists during 2016. The autists beat Hillary and the media’s billion dollar campaign.
Would it be far more beneficial to the left for all social media to funnel through Google/Youtube/FB/Twitter, platforms which are “controlled”? You bet it would.
Does anyone else think it is strange…… ? I mean, if Google controls 90% of the searches in the USA, why would an obscure Chan Board, or The_Donald, be considered such a threat to their politics? Gotta admit, the overwhelming push, to not allow a single voice of opposition, is fairly obvious.