Tributes pour in from newsrooms all over the country and around the world.
Tributes or shameless self promotion?
Who is the presenter who the cut back to at the time - she deserves credit for how she handled a most unexpected and difficult situation, keeping calm and not jumping to any immediate conclusions despite it being seemingly obvious what had just happened.
Tributes pour in from newsrooms all over the country and around the world.
Who is the presenter who the cut back to at the time - she deserves credit for how she handled a most unexpected and difficult situation, keeping calm and not jumping to any immediate conclusions despite it being seemingly obvious what had just happened.
Personally, what I find most sickening about this truly tragic situation is that
there are people trying to debunk the event and find holes in the two videos showcasing the shooting
.
Who
on Earth
do they think that are to claim that the shooting could not have happened? These conspiracy theorists are currently proposing that the shooting is fake and an attempt at anti-gun propaganda.
These people are
sub-human.
A truly dark and heartbreaking situation; the weather presenter's composure this morning was particularly tearjerking.
The even worse thing is that if you search for the video on YouTube, the first result is usually these because of how the YouTube algorithm works, but to them its "but muh oppression"
Tributes pour in from newsrooms all over the country and around the world.
Who is the presenter who the cut back to at the time - she deserves credit for how she handled a most unexpected and difficult situation, keeping calm and not jumping to any immediate conclusions despite it being seemingly obvious what had just happened.
And it's action, not hashtags, which are the definition of humanity and the vast majority of news articles I'm seeing out of America this evening are the same old stories looking to blame anything but the easy availability of guns in the country for people being shot by guns. However the murder of 20 innocent children did nothing, the countless other school, college and mass shootings did nothing, so neither will this.
It's easier to post a picture of yourself with a hashtag on Twitter now than it is to actually do anything.
Changing a few 0s to 1s on a website isn't really going to stop Joseph Kony, or ISIS, or bring back the Nigerian kidnapped girls, or support a French satirical magazine, or indeed control guns in the US.
But you get your face on TV and get a few thousand retweets, so that's OK.
It's easier to post a picture of yourself with a hashtag on Twitter now than it is to actually do anything.
Changing a few 0s to 1s on a website isn't really going to stop Joseph Kony, or ISIS, or bring back the Nigerian kidnapped girls, or support a French satirical magazine, or indeed control guns in the US.
But you get your face on TV and get a few thousand retweets, so that's OK.
Like there is actually anything else anybody could do in response...
The only people who can realistically do anything to tackle gun control are the US government but due to their power sharing system you can't get anything past the currently Republican House of Representatives who are funded by the NRA and there is also a much smaller gun lobby in the Democrats. Still you then have to amend the constitution which says "the right to bear arms" and that requires a supermajority - so good luck with that. In Britain we decided to bring in much tighter gun control after one school shooting, since Columbine the US has had over 150 school shootings and numerous shootouts outside a school. It's not just online 'action' that does nothing, politics (particularly America) is one cesspool of vested interests. You can have a movement of 1/4 of the US population against guns but the people with the money (also in this case the guns) are the ones with the power so no it won't change. If it does change it'll be in the next 15 months - in 15 months there's a new President and new Presidents rarely do anything objectionable in their first term especially with the ever looming second election but the US federal government moves very slowly so it probably won't happen anyway. Ah well, that's democracy.
It's easier to post a picture of yourself with a hashtag on Twitter now than it is to actually do anything.
Changing a few 0s to 1s on a website isn't really going to stop Joseph Kony, or ISIS, or bring back the Nigerian kidnapped girls, or support a French satirical magazine, or indeed control guns in the US.