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In reply to the discussion: Transcript from my show, how to move the needle on Gun Control [View all]OneTenthofOnePercent
(6,268 posts)You could very well just end up driving more people to feel the need to seek protection (get their own gun). People don't act rationally when acting out of fear. Plastering every shooting and killing all over social media will just give people a sense of being unsafe.
That's how we got to this mess to begin with. The media playing violent headlines over and over... if it bleeds it leads, so to speak. Fact is that despite people feeling more unsafe than ever, they've never been more safe in recent history. Violent crime is at 40+ year lows with a decade of downward trends... our modern media just has WAY more coverage of these events than it ever has shown. IMO, the media & public disconnect with reality is big enough to question whether there is a motive involved involved here somewhere
I don't think fear will lead to meaningful reform... people need to be logical reasoned with to achieve meaningful reform.
Interesting article on the need for a paradigm shift in crime reporting: http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/06/new-and-better-models-for-crime-reporting/
Similar blurb article from 2008: http://www.utexas.edu/features/2008/crime/