Why? That one is easy. I can’t turn on the television without watching at least several minutes of coverage about someone demanding gun control, or kids marching in protest, or someone using the subject to try to get into or stay in elected office. Heaven forbid an actual shooting take place that furthers the above-mentioned coverage — that makes it an all day, we-are-holding- your-television-hostage event.
Why? Simple — ratings. Ratings means advertisers and advertising is big money. If you sit like a zombie and watch the same footage, listen to the same commentary, and watch the same jerk shove a microphone in people’s faces that just had bullets flying at them over and over, getting the same answers over and over, then you have officially drunk the Kool-Aid — and helped the mass shooter ratings, and the network’s ad dollars go up.
In my opinion, the major networks are just as responsible for the increase in school shootings as anything. They are making the shooter into an instant celebrity, and their name is heard over and over again. Can you name a single victim from Columbine? I can’t, but I can tell you both of the shooters and describe what they looked like and the weapons they use, and that is sad.
The aftermath is always demands for gun control and demands to abolish the Second Amendment. Suddenly the National Rifle Association (NRA) becomes the target of every gun control rally and website. Guess what, the NRA does not make weapons, does not sell weapons, does not sell ammunition, or even offer gunsmith services. They are an organization that
