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Letfreedomring

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SiGArmed

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I'm not going to advance any conspiracy theories, but why does this seem to happen when an election cycle is getting close?

Always think about this now, it seems (to me) once we start getting close to a election cycle they all the sudden either ramp up, or the media gives them more coverage.
 

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Terrible! Really sucks that he was a patriot/gun guy type too. Just what the media needs to make folks like us look dangerous..

Thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families! I hope they get the SOB ASAP
They don’t need anything or anyone to make us look dangerous. They hate our guts, and we are their enemies. They want us disarmed, and destroyed. Period.
 

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Always think about this now, it seems (to me) once we start getting close to a election cycle they all the sudden either ramp up, or the media gives them more coverage.
I think it is the latter. Crazy people are gonna be crazy and occasionally do horrible things, regardless of what is going on in our nation or the world. What changes is that occasionally somebody needs a flashy headline on a slow news day, or was told they have an agenda to push.
 

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I think it is the latter. Crazy people are gonna be crazy and occasionally do horrible things, regardless of what is going on in our nation or the world. What changes is that occasionally somebody needs a flashy headline on a slow news day, or was told they have an agenda to push.
This is a heck of a lot more than a flashy headline. :rolleyes2
 

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This is a heck of a lot more than a flashy headline. :rolleyes2
"if it bleeds, it leads"

The phrase has an interesting, and OLD, history:
https://ic4ml.org/blogs/if-it-bleeds-it-leads-crime-reporting/
In news broadcasting, there is the saying, “if it bleeds it leads. The phrase dates back to the end of the 1890s. William Randolph Hearst coined the phrase after seeing that the stories involving horrific incidents were the ones that caught the public’s attention.

As it turns out these stories are easy to produce. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s reporter Layla A. Jones commented on crime reporting in an article titled, “Lights. Camera. Crime.”

“Crime was cheap to cover. It was easy to cover,” says Jones. “[The assignment desk] said to the cameraman ‘You shoot the scene, you shoot the blood, you shoot the victims, whatever they got, and you can do it in 20 seconds.”
 

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