The home of Donald Trump supporters and gun nuts:
“We’ve seen it time and again,” NBC analyst Beth Fouhy offered. “Congressman Cuellar seems to be saying, primarily Republican politicians and people who live in rural areas, and of course, this community is one. They cherish their right to have the a gun and will never, ever give that up. If that means the occasional or frequent mass shooting, accidental shooting of children, shooting of the elderly — they accept that as the price for the freedom to have a gun.”
Which doesn't explain why local news reports (v. national ones) keep mentioning people who said they moved to Sutherland Springs (it's not that far from San Antonio, by Texas standards) to get away from the gun violence of the big city (I spent time in San Antonio; 10 p.m. TV news always lead with the knifings and shootings in and outside bars that evening).
And even the resident who shot at the murderer wasn't wielding a semi-automatic with a clip, as he only got two shots off.
It's never as simple as we say it is, in other words.
"Flyover country" is a stereotype that is ubiquitous in the mass media because the mass media is chock full of lazy, ignorant, conceited city dwellers and those who moved there and wanted to be taken as city dwellers and who, so, adopted the prevailing bigotries of the owners and producers and editors and previous scribblers and babblers who said the same things. It's a safe thing to say, especially if it coincides with a line of Republican-fascist babble that has been used to discourage thought among those who are victims who have had their minds and souls damaged by too much media.
ReplyDeleteHaving New York City and Hollywood-LA dominate the media has been pretty bad, expanding that to Atlanta with CNN didn't do a single thing to improve things.
I'm too angry after that last shooting - unless one has happened since Sunday that hasn't been reported by the "reporters" of "news". A lot of the blame for what is happening is directly assignable to the "free press" and entertainment media. I want to know what these people consumed as media more than I want to know if they wet their beds.