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Be kind, very first diary, and its a just diary, not a news article. Which means its not meant to be perfect editorial, or perfect grammar. I am doing this diary because I am seeing a trend here and elsewhere. That trend is hysteria, fear mongering and loss of critical thinking. Which is controlling how people act and what they say, And their actions is becoming far more dangerous than all of the shootings combined. And quite frankly this hysteria is turning me off in regards to DK reputation. If it is turning a progressive like me off, I wonder what it is doing to the general readers that just pass through……..
This following reference is not meant to be an insult, it is meant to get people to see how their actions relate to past events that became a very dark period in our past. The hysteria and actions are on par of the German people who “Followed Hitler” Hitler and the Nazi party whipped the people into a hysteria and lead them with half truths and misleading information, Then the German people started repeating the same Mantra as Hitler and the Nazi party. As a result no matter what direction the German people turned, they were bombarded by the same half truth and misleading information, so they started to believe because the facts were drowned out by the echo chamber of the people parroting the leaders. Before you know it, most of the Germans believed and as a result they went along as accomplices in Stripping others of their human rights. Like stripping the Jews of their firearms, among many other horrendous things. And the sad thing about it is they let the hysteria and the misinformation override their critical thinking which allowed Hitler and the Nazi’s do what otherwise never would of happened.. On to the main part.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/no-there-were-not-355-mass-shootings-this-year
I am not much of a motherjones fan being it is too far left for my liking. But it brought up valid points that what is being broadcasted and repeated all over the place, about mass shooting are on the rise may not be entirely true or at minimum entirely misleading.. It is all in how you interpret the data. Which requires critical thinking to process.
This motherjones article is addressing the “mass shooting everyday claim” and the everyday shooting is flat out false. The purpose of making these false claims is to stir up mass hysteria, and mislead the public about the “facts” in order to push unconstitutional and unpopular policies.
And to create an echo chamber of false data, to en-mass a false reality of what is really going on. So everywhere one looks they can not help but be bombarded by the bad data on a constant basis. After a while these people start to believe the misinformation because after time having the same data pounded into them from all sided while in a state of hysteria, causes these people to form new FALSE memories(belief that mass shooting are on the rise for example) . This been proven when you search regarding police interrogations and getting confessions from an innocent person for a crime they never committed. I will provide one example as follows.
https://www.darkmoon.me/2015/planting-false-memories-fairly-easy-psychologists-find/
Crime research.org made valid points about how at a statistical level there is no real/significant rise in mass shootings. And that what is being broadcasted as an epidemic is false.
Quote from crimeresearch.org :”Congressional Research Service claims that Mass Public Shootings have been increasing, but it fails to provide evidence that this increase is statistically significant ”
http://crimeresearch.org/2015/08/congressional-research-service-claims-that-mass-public-shootings-have-been-increasing-but-it-fails-to-provide-evidence-that-this-increase-is-statistically-significant/
One of the biggest misleading Fear mongering part of this so called gun violence epidemic is the inflation of gun violence number by including suicide. which is at minimum ½ of all shootings.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/03/hillary-clintons-gun-control-ad-swells-gun-violence-number-66-percent-including-suicides/
Suicide is its own issue How we deal with suicides can not be handled in the same way as gun violence. Taking guns away from someone who is suspected as being suicidal is most likely only going to encourage them to try that much harder to go forward. By one simple reason. ‘How dare you take my right to choose for myself, away from me.” Taking the guns against their will, will most likely be interpreted as a dare. Trust is vital in most cases when dealing with suicidal people, taking their guns away is not going to build trust with them. I know first hand. I did something similar to the (take a choice of action away) a girl my age who then tried suicide by taking an entire bulk aspirin bottle.
Then there is the gang related shootings, These are a large chunk of what remains. And good luck taking guns away from the gangs. That is another can of worms that requires action that does not involve more gun regulation, but policies dealing with gang behavior, out reach, and punishment.
Which means that gun violence that directly affects you and I is so small, that its almost a non-issue, despite how tragic it is when it occurs. Your 2450% more likely to be killed by your doctor than you are by the inflated gun violence numbers Hilary is using. 31,940 inflated(12,174 accurate ) vs 783,936 accurate.
little perspective http://www.naturalnews.com/038889_doctors_guns_statistics.html
Point of all of this is that the hysteria needs to stop, Throwing FUD needs to stop, Fear mongering needs to stop , hysteria needs to stop. False flag common sense gun policies need to stop.
Anyone even consider requiring gun safety training in our public schools?? No working guns are necessary for this class. I took one and the only part of a real gun that was there, where the barrels of guns that misfire and blew-up. To drive home just how dangerous they really are.
Point of the above suggestion is guns are here to stay, Pandora’s box has already been opened, we have the technology to make our own firearms, just look up homemade firearms on youtube.
here are a few examples not youtube
http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/06/19259-10-badass-homemade-guns/5/
https://homemadeguns.wordpress.com/
look how well gun banning worked for Australia by the way its 10% not 10 guns
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/06/16/australian-police-10-firearms-seized-homemade/
One other thing that has been bothering me is the medias role in this, whether it is intentional or not, I do not know.(or maybe because its ratings, tragedy creates massive ratings) But they are constantly bombarding the airways regarding shootings. I believe mainstream media is still the primary source of information the people absorb. The problem is they keep airing the same few Shooting stories over and over, day in and out, stretching it out till the next shooting. Thus keeping the shootings in the forefront of most people minds. Because people are constantly bombarded day in and out they start to believe that its happening, much more frequently, especially when we have Anti-gun components taking advantage of the focused attention and saying, “SEE, SEE, gun violence is sky rocketing and the sky is falling.” (but note there are no facts in the comment). Which then in tern the mainstream public think, it must be true, because we see it on the news everyday, forgetting that its the same few shootings being excessively broadcast over and over till the next shooting occurs.
We must take the time to background check these stories. I know the Waseca, Minnesota Story thwarted mass shooting, had some holes, when it ran in the local paper here. They listed the model of firearm this teen had and called it an “Automatic weapon”. But when you do a google on the model you know right away there is no possible way to convert it to full “Auto”. It used a metal strip that holds the round by the blasting cap the rounds are completely exposed and easily knocked off the strip clip. I called the local paper editor. Guess what he told me, when I insisted he correct the mistake and tell the public its actually semi-auto. He told me it was a guest writer and that he had no intention of correcting the story despite the fact that the story had false data and despite being the editor of the paper, he was responsible for in making sure the information was accurate.
WOOP found the PB story I was talking about.
Quote ”John David LaDue, 17, allegedly detailed his plans in a 180-page notebook, police say. He'd been amassing a stockpile of handguns, automatic weapons and bomb-making equipment in his bedroom and in a storage unit, the charges claim.”
OK I am mad, the online version of this story, they removed the model type of the claimed ‘Automatic weapon”.
Here is quote from police
‘"Police say LaDue told them the plot was written down in a notebook and kept in a locked guitar case in his room. LaDue also said he had an assault rifle, a number of handguns and 400 rounds of ammunition in a gun safe that was also in his room. Search warrants were issued, and police recovered seven firearms, ammunition, and three functional bombs from LaDue's home, along with black clothing and a ski mask.”
I bolded with the bold to point out the FUD fear mongering example.
see the discrepancy in the above two quotes? The PB has it wrong. Police refer to assault rifle as meaning semi automatic rifle that has cosmetic similarity to military weapons.
I do not remember the model but it was a Russian made Strip fed semi-automatic long gun
PB article:
http://www.postbulletin.com/news/crime/teen-charged-in-plot-to-kill-family-bomb-school/article_3da14658-089e-5607-af89-e3bf5f97dc76.html
Police quote pulled from here
http://perezhilton.com/perezitos/2014-05-02-police-stop-teen-boys-plans-kill-family-bomb-schools
If I was one of the hysterical fear mongering type running am-muck around here, I would of grabbed that PB article and waved it here on daily kos as proof that the sky was falling. When there was a MAJOR piece of information being touted as fact, was in realty totally incorrect, and is an outright lie. PB changed the digital version of the article and removed the model of the Semi-automatic and left intact the “Automatic weapon” error.
This is why critical thinking is so vital, Its time to let cooler heads prevail. We must step back and stop contributing to the echo chamber of fear mongering and hysteria.
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I wrote this diary as a means to get fellow DK to try and engage in critical thinking for a change. Rather than the fear mongering and spreading of FUD. I personally will be affected by the outcome of this hysteria and actions that goes with it, if it is not stopped. I have done nothing wrong, I am not a criminal and I am just your average person with disabilities. I have mainly stayed in the comments of others diaries till now. It took some major courage, to write this diary. But I will admit once I press publish, I have no intention of following the comments. Because I know from recent forays into DK, members like to attack writing style, or grammar, etc, as a means to discredit the diarists message. I have enough stress in my life dealing with my disabilities. I don’t need more on my plate. And I am trying to get you all to realize I am NOT your enemy, I am just the innocent by-standard being grabbed by the lynch mob on its way to the witch trials.
I am begging you turn back. Stop trying to skewer me and many others for something we have never done. Stop Making us pay for the sins of the less than 1%. Please realize your fear is irrational. Please take the time to really think through these so called common sense laws. they are not so common sense when you apply them to reality.
My idea of common sense policy, is like the gun safety training as part of public schools. Its in the public interest, let the public pay for it, and let the public reap the benefits of a well informed and educated society.