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(08-06-2012 12:08 AM)basilransom Wrote:  

(08-05-2012 11:54 PM)P Dog Wrote:  

(08-05-2012 11:35 PM)Sourcecode Wrote:  

News report.
Brown People died today
No one cares
Has nothing to do with Dark Knight or Chick Fil A

In other news.
Justin Bieber has new single

Lol, no. This is making waves, my entire school stopped when they played the news report on it on the TV's in our buildings. Every time these shootings happen everybody else in the developed world, even dumbass Justin Bieber fan 17 year old girls stop and ask why American's haven't gotten rid of their guns yet. Gun control = shooter wouldn't have been able to do it in the first place, let alone go in and get gunned down by a carrier inside.

If a thousand Indians in India had died in some violence, it'd have been a footnote on the news. This shooting gets more attention because it happened stateside, because it doesn't feel so remote. That's human nature. Despite what some anti-American yuppies will tell you, most people care most about the people closest to them.

I agree with you, but what I said still stands because I was SourceCode was talking about a racial angle not a country angle and that's what I was jumping on. The race of the victims doesn't make a difference on the coverage but the country where it happens obviously does. Kinda interesting that when I said "everytime these shootings happen" my brain was only thinking about crazed gunman on civilian type attacks in the west.