The establishment (right wing) media is at it again. I turned on the Sunday News shows this morning and people are talking about the Buffalo shootings. Who are they blaming, Hate sites on the Internet and back to the old scapegoat warhorse, THE INTERNET. Let me be as factual as I can. Many, many countries have Internet connectivity. Hate sites are available to them. Many countries have much better and wider Internet connectivity than the US (yes we are behind). These types of mass shooting do not occur in any of those other countries. They only happen here. We are also one of the few countries that makes assault style weapons available (to eighteen year olds!!!). That is the reason we have mass shootings here. To not discuss this and blame the shootings on the Internet is disinformation. News channels have completely stopped talking about gun control as a solution, which is the only solution. Democrats have completely stopped talking about gun control. Very few people want these assault weapons on the street. Our news media has been completely co-opted by right wing narratives.
Nota Bene: The only reason we were able to know this was a hate crime, and the only reason we might have been able to stop it, was because of the Internet. If not for this guy’s manifesto the Republicans would have been running around claiming this was done because of a Woke agenda and the news media would have been directly reporting this using the excuse of both sides.