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brettdale

(12,382 posts) Thu Sep 13, 2018, 03:50 AM Sep 2018

Mass shooting in bakersfield

So we are at the stage where someone can kill 5 people and it barely
registers with new organizations.

Im guessing if he was a immigrant though...

It will be,Fuck the hurricane, we are covering this 24/7.

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Mass shooting in bakersfield (Original Post) brettdale Sep 2018 OP

Just saw it on M$NBComcast malaise Sep 2018 #1

It doesn't fit the definition of mass shooting Merlot Sep 2018 #2

You're right about the immigrant aspect True Dough Sep 2018 #3

malaise

(269,056 posts)

1. Just saw it on M$NBComcast

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Thu Sep 13, 2018, 05:17 AM

Sep 2018

Damn!

Merlot

(9,696 posts)

2. It doesn't fit the definition of mass shooting

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Thu Sep 13, 2018, 05:39 AM

Sep 2018

In a mass shooting someone takes a gun and shoots at "the masses" indiscriminately. They don't know the people they shoot.

The person in Bakersfield shot his wife, an associate, and then traveled to shoot other people he probably knew. This is domestic violence which is routinely ignored in the media.

Check out the statistics on how many women are killed each year by the men they know. No one ever talks about that in the media.

True Dough

(17,306 posts)

3. You're right about the immigrant aspect

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Thu Sep 13, 2018, 05:40 AM

Sep 2018

Certain news organizations jump all over that, every time an immigrant is connected to a death.

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