• polonius-rex@kbin.run
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    4 months ago

    the media:

    we’ll stop naming school shooters due to copycat killers

    also the media:

    his name was thomas matthew and here’s a 90 minute special about his preferred breakfast cereal

    👀 👀 👀

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      If this encourages these psychos to stop shooting children and shoot politicians instead, I’ll take that trade.

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        you know what, fuck yeah. People can only afford so many bullets these days, so just like Halloween warnings avout drugs and the reality of who the fuck would waste their hard earned drug money on random kids, why should anyone waste bullet money on them either. shoot a politician, save a child.

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      I guess they made the call that releasing this information is the lesser of two evils, the other one being to withhold it and to let speculation run wild in a heated political climate, in which one side is not shy about threats of violence.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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      Noticed this too. They just plaster his face and have analysis and stories all over youtube and news. I thought US are already over this yet here we are.