The California mass killing at a dance hall that left ten dead has followed the by now rather predictable narrative:
1. First, the claim is made before the facts are out that it was a race-based attack and blame is placed on white supremacy or "hate".
2, When the facts then show it was an Asian man attacking other Asians, the narrative shifts immediately, without missing a beat, to "gun violence".
The shift from blaming the attacker to blaming a tool is as rapid as it is predictable.
The New York Times: Good morning. Once again, America is confronting the aftermath of a gun massacre.
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The gunman, whom the authorities identified as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran, is believed to have then gone to a dance hall in the neighboring city of Alhambra. But he fled, according to the authorities. Officers later found him in a parked van after he reportedly shot himself to death.
The gunman used “a magazine-fed semiautomatic assault pistol” that is probably not legal in California, Luna said. His motives remain under investigation.
“Gun violence needs to stop,” Luna said. “There’s too much of it.”
This kind of mass shooting has become tragically common in the U.S.; what would be a rare horror in any other developed country is typical here. Yet the cause is no mystery. America has an enormous amount of guns, making it easier for someone to carry out a deadly shooting.
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If anything, the chart, which uses data from 2017 and 2018, understates America’s problem. The U.S. rate of gun homicides has increased in recent years, according to the Small Arms Survey.
And just like that, right on cue, the narrative jumped from the bugbear of a race-based attack (and one should note that in the US, the vast majority of attacks on Asians from non-Asians are committed by African-Americans, not whites) to "gun violence".
Funny how the NYT notes gun violence has "increased in recent years" but doesn't look at all into the reasons for that like the Ferguson effect, the Defund the Police Movement, the End Cash Bail Movement, and the fact that the majority of violence is confined to a small but active criminal subset of the population that gets the revolving door treatment from the justice system.
4 comments:
Hey Aaron;
No they ain't gonna mention all that other stuff, the cancel culture will turn their "Eye of Sauron" on them and they don't want that. They want to keep their job and mentioning all that other stuff will get them wacked. As soon as I heard of the shooting, I mentioned to the wife, "Betcha they mention white dude" before the description comes through and my wife rolled her eyes and sure enough they did then the description came out and "Da narrative" changed from "Hate Crime" to "Gun Violence". They ain't gonna mention that it might be gang on gang, although a senior citizen doing that with a Mac 11 knock off is unusual, it denotes either crime of passion or triad.
Aaron, I saw this on Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, and the response there. I quit posting there for the most part, since I tend to be totally in opposition to the majority of people who congregate there. I will look there on occasion and even more rarely will respond to their post.
I don't try and anger people who disagree with me, but sometimes, I feel the need to interject a different opinion on a topic, trying to remain respectful.
I stopped even looking at Roberta X blog, since she banned me from posting there. Again, I would likely want to point out some issue that I have. Plus, she accused me of lying, something that I am extremely sensitive about and have always stressed to my kids how bad it is. I know people who are willing to lie when the truth would serve them better. I have always tried to make sure to tell the truth, no matter the consequences to myself.
Have a great week, and stay safe.
This will disappear in a couple of days, doesn't FIT the narrative...
MrGarabaldi:
pigpen51: Yep, I generally don;t post there much but she kinda went over the top on that one and missed reality by quite a bit. funny isn't it how they obfuscate the actual problem and most prominent and actual majority source of violence against the Asian community now isn't it?
Old NFO: Yes and no, It'll drop off the bad white people narrative (though amazingly, some new sources are still pushing that for now) but still be used to bang the drum and dance in the blood for gun control.
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