Steve Blizzard. Ronald Jeffers. Scott and Shirley Leavitt. All were killed by a random man suffering from mental issues in Hampton, GA,
You probably have not heard about them.
As the nation turns its attention to the three victims tragically killed in Jacksonville, FL, just consider those four names.
Unlike the situation in Jacksonville, FL, those four individuals were white, and the shooter was black. It did not make the national press.
It reminds me of the dozens shot and six killed at a birthday party in Alabama. The shooters were black, and the victims were black. No AR-15 was used. The same weekend, a white girl was shot and killed turned around in a man’s driveway in New York. The press and President, though, focused on a black boy shot by a senior citizen in Missouri. The boy, thankfully, survived.
It was all about the narrative. The dead were either black victims killed by black shooters without AR-15’s, or a white victim killed by a white shooter. They could not be used to amplify racial divisions and tensions. But the boy who survived the senior citizen trying to kill him through a door could fit the narrative and, unlike the people in East Palestine, OH, after the train derailment, the boy and his family got lots of presidential attention. I’m glad for the family and happy the boy survived, but let’s not pretend there was no narrative setting attempt in that.
Now, we turn to Jacksonville. A mentally deranged white guy with a manifesto killed three black victims at a Dollar General. The shooter had swastikas on his gun. We still don’t have the manifesto of the transgender shooter in Nashville, but we have this one.
It is a tragedy. It is senseless. It is part of the ongoing national spiritual collapse. But it is also deeply relevant to note which stories get the coverage and which manifestos get rapidly revealed.
It is also why fewer and fewer people are willing to believe what they hear, and so many prefer conspiracies to truth. After all, so many of what were presumed to be conspiracy theories seem to come true these days. Wuhan lab leak, anyone?
Waiting for the predictable, and tiresome, demands delivered in their shrill, high-pitched voices by the usual hand-wringing, lip-quivering people (who think all plastic gets “recycled”) for “gun control.” Eventually, they’ll undoubtedly come up with a “gun law,” that no one else ever has thought of before, that’ll solve it for good, yes? Makes one wonder that if “guns kill people” how does anyone ever make it out of a gun show alive?
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