Quote Originally Posted by Veho Nex View Post
You never hear about the shootings that were stopped by a law abiding citizen with a concealed or open carry firearm. My favorite reading material on the terlit at my dads house is his NRA magazines that do articles about so and so in such and such area who only fired one or two shots before someone took them down. Yeah NRA mags probably not the best source of unbiased information regarding firearms and those who use them buuut. The fact that those kind of stories exist and we never see them beyond local news points more towards our mainstream media being the huge push factor for mass shootings.
Yeah I dont really buy into the idea that more guns would solve anything. Fact is, if you look into most of the instances where a "law abiding citizen" took down a shooter, Im seeing a lot of cases where the citizen is also an off-duty police officer/security guard, or has a military background.

Like Risai said earlier, far more people die every year due to gang violence in our major cities than have died from all mass shootings in the last hundred and 20 years. Why isn't the sensationalist media jumping on Chicago's increase in murders this year? I think I've seen 4 separate articles since Jan each claiming the most violent(homicidal) week (or weekend) in city history.

Why are the thousands killed per year ignored for the (relative) handful killed in a tragic situation?
Gang violence is just as tragic, but also not anywhere near as much of an anomaly. As been said before, the media wont go nuts over one or two people being killed in a gang shootout. Its about the anomaly. Granted, mass shootings seem to be less of an anomaly nowadays but still an anomaly. Just like single fatality car crashes will barely make the local news anymore but if there is a multiple fatality or otherwise large car crash then the local papers are all over it.