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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
Really? Pretty sure that same take is found in this thread and others before Morgan opened up his yapper - Did Morgan read Calgary Puck to come up with that?
IF so than that is brillant
So by blaming the media - you are actually really blaming everyone - cause the media only delivers what is in demand and that demand comes from us.
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It's a significant news story. It should be reported and it should be the lede story. Too bad Morgan.
I'm glad Morgan Freeman didn't suggest censorship.
However, he is preaching self-censorship, which is fine.
After Princess Di was killed, I got pretty annoyed with the preachiness of People Magazine, which appears in our house every week courtesy of Mrs. Cowperson. Their copy wasn't too much different from Freeman's message, complaining about how her death was being exploited . . . . except they were using the opportunity to deliver that message so they could feature Princess Di on their cover every other week.
So, like Morgan Freeman, I vowed to not read inside a People Magazine. And, amazingly, in spite of it turning up in my house every week, I stuck to that pledge for a year before finally relenting.
But the odds of 300+ million Americans preaching self-censorship and sticking to it is zero. We all slow down for a car wreck.
The media delivers what we ask for, nay, demand. And this is a legitimate, front-page story in any event.
Nor is there any proof it would make a difference anyway. The worst massacre in a USA school took place in the 1920's.
As I said earlier, 32% of American households have at least one gun, down from 50% in the 1970's. That means 68% of American households right now do not have a gun.
The households that do have a gun in the USA, like the one the shooter lived in, have a lot of them and are gathering more. That particular household had six guns.
22% of Canadian households have at least one gun. That means 78% do not.
I would find it hard to believe there is a way to eliminate these incidents. That's unrealistic. The first goal the USA should have is lowering the per capita incidence level to a more comparable number relative to other western, first world democracies.
Cowperson