Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Hawkmoon on May 19, 2019, 07:59:58 PM
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I think this belongs in Polyticks, because GUNZ! always seem to be a political topic. Here's a headline I stumbled across that led me to expect an article about breaking up a gun-running operation, with hundreds or thousands of "assault weapons" being seized.
Wrong.
https://www.nhregister.com/news/crime/article/50-arrested-guns-and-drugs-seized-in-Waterbury-13856138.php
In fact, they aw-thaw-rih-tays arrested 42 people, seized eitht ounces of raw heroin, several thousand bags of heroin packaged for sale, more than $15,000 in cash, and ...
TWO handguns and ONE rifle. There were also two cars seized, so why didn't the article read, "50 arrested, cars, drugs and guns seized in Waterbury bust"? Two cars are almost certainly worth more than two handguns and a rifle.
It's all in the spin. Guns are eeeeeevil, so never overlook an opportunity to mention them in a negative light.
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Its all propaganda and narrative.
There is no such thing as objective news.
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If you want to see some narrative at work go google Ball State Shooting.
They are trying sooooo hard to make this an educational (school) related shooting.
bob
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If you want to see some narrative at work go google Ball State Shooting.
They are trying sooooo hard to make this an educational (school) related shooting.
You gotta be kiddin' me.
I was alive then ...
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You gotta be kiddin' me.
I was alive then ...
You were alive two days ago?
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You were alive two days ago?
He may have been born yesterday.
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He may have been born yesterday.
Last night??? ;)
bob
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You were alive two days ago?
My bad. I was thinking Kent State -- one of my hooch mates in Vietnam went to Ball State, so that name of the school is somewhat associated with the Vietnam era in what passes for a brain in my cranial cavity.
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The first headline I saw was Ball State Shooting, then it went on to explain the shooting was off campus. They even went as far as to say it was only a 3 minute drive away from the campus, as though that would make it closer, why almost across the street.
Even now the fact it was off campus is buried in the articles but they still mention Ball State in the headlines in order to give the impression it was on campus.
bob