Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that

increased

some times its acyclic thing up for ten yrs then down for ten then sometimes its a spike.--

The liberal media will report every single instance of violence with a firearm that they can. In an election year its news and give the Democratic candidates something to talk about if they've got the cajones to do so.

If they choose not to the media and the antis can get in their case about not taking a stand. And that's news too.

The days when the media only reported events have long past. Now they intend to influence events - they'll deny that but that doesn't make it any less true.

No, I think the incidents are up. It's kinda disturbing, but then our times are disturbing. The criminals and crazies are acting it out.

Social pressures are up with the economy down. If a company is having trouble the "borderline" folks (who are often the underperformers) are usually the first to get "downsized" and that could very well be the last straw for some.

Plus the managed media is more stressed than ever to try and grab eyeballs (and advertising dollars) so they'll take anything and hype the hell out of it to milk some $$$.

It's been a bloody year thus far, for sure. But something is different this time. Something has changed in people. Instead of everyone screaming for more gun control and blaming us and the manufacturers for the violence, folks are starting to ask "What can I do to protect me and mine". The answer has largely been CCW. We've seen countless reports on CCW in the wake of these tragedies, and most such reports have been quite fair, if not even a bit encouraging. Despite the spin some folks tried to put on the New Life incident and Jeannie Assam, many folks did see that one citizen with a firearm CAN make a difference.

So while the brady bunch and the usual suspects in Congress are up to their old tricks, America in general seems to have a new attitude about this age-old problem. Finally, it's one that makes sense.

Honestly, I don't think crime rates have anything to do with it, it's the media hype.

with the Dimms hopeful to have the whitehouse again, the liberal media is using more scare tactics to make it eaiser for them to ban more guns.

but that's just the blantaly obvious answer.

of course, the best part is that it is backfiring in their face, people are now screaming to get rid of Gun-Control, understanding that it doesn't work.

I have noticed that the widely publicized shootings have been up compared to what i remember from the past. It seems to be eliciting some of the right reactions, but still lots of the old bad ones. Schools getting locked down for a Glock Pen, people panicking when a legal CCW'er carries a gun and is accidentally made. You're right that some of the media seems to be putting less spin on their reporting, and reporting a few more pro-gun stories (thanks John Stossel) but its not that much better from where i stand.

Its an election year...happens every time.

The days when the media only reported events have long past. Now they intend to influence events -

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True dat.

they'll deny that but that doesn't make it any less true.

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That is no longer so. The NYTimes just ran an unsigned editorial about how influential it's readers were, compared to a paper from podunk. They said this (IIRC) in response to claims that since it was losing readers, it was losing influence.

I've noted an interesting side-effect of all the sensational reporting, which I feel has absolutely become more common and more sensational. The media is failing to note the unintended consequence of desensitization. People talked about columbine around the water cooler for weeks. The latest shooting wasn't even on the social radar. The media bombardment is desensitizing John Q Public.

Perhaps the number of these incidents is up, since uniform nationwide statistics are not exactly accurate and usually unavailable for months or even
years the evidence must be viewed as anecdotal. What is not in question is
the media doing whatever they can to sensationalize violence to match their
stated agenda of a "kinder, gentler and especially a disarmed America".

I do know that the robberies in Winston Salem NC is up 37% over last year for the first two months of this year. Don't know if this is a local thing or there is a growing trend across the nation.

I am printing off copies of the latest shootings for my elected officials.

Will send to them and strongly request that CEZs be eliminated and here is why-the copies. Better yet I will find when the rep schedules 'town visits' and hand them to him/them.

US Senator will get info about nat park rules being changed. Am blessed with 2 (D)s for US senator and they are opposing and NP rule hanges.

Might point out that "92 law enforcement voices" have stated to SCOTUS

"more guns, less crime...." They will get copy of that, also.

I always wonder about this.

Yes, I've noticed the same trend before. Every election year, everytime any 'gun control' legislation appears on the floor anywhere, more shootings.

It's almost like they're planned. The timing is so - so - convenient.

But that can't be. Naw...

We have seen a fair number of "crazed gunmen kill indiscriminately/many" type shootings in the last year.

Of the ones I can recollect from the last ~year or so, we've got:

• VA Tech (glock, walther p22)
• the Amish school shooting (iirc 1911)
• the Muslim Bosnian who shot up the mall with a shotgun (iirc in Arizona or NM)
• the Emo boy who shot a bunch of girls at the mall with a high-cap SKS
• this recent one at Wendy's

... and I'm sure a couple others my tired brain can't recollect.

So why are they happening? That's what I want to know. As near as I can tell, this kind of thing is a high in count.

Reasons I've heard as partial cause:
- Islamic motivations
- Endemic to and encouraged by the cultural depredation in our society (ie, "feelings")
- Personal grudges
- Media-encouraged spotlight, kinda like how focus, bolemia, cutting and anorexia seems to cause an increase in those things (or at least attention to them)

It's definitely a backlash against something, kinda like the way serial murders of women skyrocketed right about the time the Women's Movement got rolling.

Question is, what are these people lashing back against? At first glance, it seems like their motivations are as varied as they are.