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Four killed in Kentucky mass shooting before suspect turned gun on himself
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2024
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3am...gang or drug violence...not a mass shooting.
A mass shooting, as the public understands, is one that is a random act of violence in a public place.
Not a drug den at 3am.
I know one of the victims. Not a drug den; a 21st birthday party at one of the parents houses. Don't make stuff up.
Unless you have proof and a source, you're literally telling me to not make something up... while making something up.
My dude, I'm putting together slides for the funeral. I really don't care what you believe, I just implore you to not speculate and make stuff up based on the time that the shooting happened. You probably don't know what it's like to wake up to this news, and I hope you never do.
Edit: Here is more information for you. The killer was recently broken up with and saw his gf at the party with other guys.
Since you're actually legit, that sucks man.
Also dude was a pedophile felon? The fuck was he out of jail for?
Thank you :( From what I hear, his mom bailed him out for $50k after he served some time. He should have never got out.
Yea but how the fuck did that let him out? That link, his fucking rap sheet is a mile long. Like WTF is with our justice system.
You're right it seems. They should've said "mass killing"
Still weird that we talk about semantics though.
Semantics matter greatly. The general public hears mass shooting and thinks, random act of violence. They don't hear "3am crack house was shot up by rival gang".
It's done purposefully, mostly just because scaring you into clicking by making you think "this could have been me" gets them more clicks and therefore more ad revenue and perpetuates the idea that active shooter incidents as most people perceive them are way more common than they are, which ups the fear and the clicks and ends up being a really fucked up manipulative cycle, basically the news is abusing us. Harder to scare you if they tell it in a less sensationalist manner, because you won't connect to those people as deeply or in the same way unless you also happen to hang out in crack houses at 3am and most people do not do that.
There are some groups that perpetuate the same for political reasons as well, like Everytown, MDA, and the Brady campaign, but mostly it's just plain ol' "if it bleeds it leads give us attention/money."