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Wow, they're working really hard to spin this one. The problem isn't that a former cop was carrying a gun, lost his shit, and killed somebody. Nope, the real problem was that the victim was in a "rage" -- rage, I tell you -- because he was operating a fucking cell phone.
Ablow on Tuesday said a smartphone caused a retired police officer to experience data rage toward a man who was texting in a Florida theater and fatally shoot him.
After Curtis Reeves was ordered held without bond on Tuesday, Fox News hosts Bill Hemmer and Alisyn Camerota asked the television psychiatrist what might have caused the 71-year-old ex-Tampa officer pull out his .380 pistol and shoot 43-year-old Chad Oulson while he was texting his 3-year-old daughter.
I think we may have to look at something Ill call data rage, Ablow opined. Just like road rage. We know that when people interact with machines that sometimes they feel emboldened to do things that they never would, that it can be tremendously frustrating and that people who could be vulnerable by the way, they may be impulsive to begin with or explosive add in technology or a machine and things can go over the top.
But Dr. Ablow, Camerota interrupted. It sounds like youre blaming the victim. Its the victim who was allegedly texting and the suspected shooter was ticked off that maybe his movie viewing was interrupted and then they had this exchange of verbal altercation, and then the victim allegedly tossed some popcorn.
Weve got to blame the shooter here, Ablow insisted. But in understanding it, weve got to say, Wow, thats interesting, there was a machine involved. Now, we also know in road rage there is a car involved. People seem to be dehumanized by the presence of this car and the fact that they cant then connect to the individual.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/14/fox-psychiatrist-invents-data-rage-after-theater-shooting-to-blame-phones-instead-of-guns/
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)so Barack Obama is taking it out on America:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/keith-ablow-psychoanalyzes-obama-feels-victimized-by-family-taking-it-out-on-america/
arcane1
(38,613 posts)He's absolutely 100% correct, except for one thing: the "machine" in this case was the gun, and the emboldened person was the shooter.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)this doesn't pass the smell test
1) the movie had not even STARTED
2) looks like the cop made NO EFFORT to move away from the cell phone offender
3) projectile popcorn is NOT considered life-threatening
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)It does seem odd that he had the pistol in his front pocket, assuming that part is true.
shenmue
(38,501 posts)Good gravy.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)Fox toadies are paid well to advance conservative narratives, and undermine liberal narratives. I'm sure they view any story that looks bad for gun owners as requiring Immediate Damage Control.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)KT2000
(20,544 posts)Daily they agitate hatred and anger in their listeners - now primarily older folks.
The shooter's face looks just like the faces on the angry elderly men I see around town. They try to start arguments when they are waiting in line and often come up with the fox talking points.
Their propaganda is affecting the way our society conducts itself.
Wonder if the shooter listened to the RW hate machine.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Like the Faux Machine? Makes them emboldened to lie into a machine called a camera.
Suich
(10,642 posts)I KNEW it was Ablow! What a quack! A couple of weeks ago, he said texting was as addictive as heroin!!!
Initech
(99,912 posts)I mean really how can a psychiatrist be that big of an asshole and not have a lick of empathy towards anything?
txwhitedove
(3,922 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)A gun makes you feel you can do things you might not usually do.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,459 posts)... the asshole shot the PERSON using the phone. Silly me.
I can't wrap my mind around this one. I'm not a handheld junkie, but I would probably text my kids or the baby sitter during the previews at a movie. I might even pop off - politely, maybe - at some jackass sushing me for it. I probably wouldn't throw popcorn at him (I wouldn't want to waste the popcorn, truthfully), but I suppose I might if he acted like enough of an assclown.
Now I have to start worrying that someone might pull out a gun and go all Zimmerman on me because his assholish, psychopathic rage has been summoned by the techno-demon????? W.... T....F????????????
The next thing you know, someone's going to pull and brandish a gun at a fast food drive-thru because its taking just too damn long....
http://www.gadailynews.com/news/augusta/200321-ex-cop-pulls-gun-at-fast-food-drive-thru.html
Or some vigilantes will shoot a teenager who happens to be on the other end of their "warning shot" because some other teenagers she's with are vandalizing a remote hunting camp of its precious and valuable... uhhh,... stuff....
http://abcnews.go.com/US/alleged-teen-burglars-charged-death-accomplice-shot-owner/story?id=17845852
Or someone will shoot and kill an elderly Alzheimer's patient who wonders into their yard and rings their doorbell at 4:00 in the morning, because, you know, who does that except deadly home invaders and Alzheimer's patients...
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/12/lost_cold_alzheimers_patient_7.html
Or some psycho will shoot a student on a SF train, and we'll blame the other passengers for not looking up from their cell phones...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/san-francisco-train-shooting_n_4066930.html
Or another asshole will shoot an unarmed teenager because his music is just, you know, too damn loud...
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/17/justice/florida-music-shooting/
Man, I hope that kind of shit doesn't start happening....
I'm not even an anti-gun guy, but what the Hell is wrong with us???
Blue_Adept
(6,384 posts)The woman with a gun must be imprisoned however as she's dangerous and unstable.
Laxman
(2,419 posts)is such an egregious offense that it is therefore permissible to dispense with all social norms of conflict resolution, skip over any notions of decency, remove all due process from the interaction and proceed directly to summary execution. The fact that the guy is an ex-cop-the one segment of our society prone to summary executions-never really enters into this debate, does it?