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Media coverup nationally?

Started by Jay, January 06, 2013, 10:48:28 AM

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Jay

 The unpopular stories to the national antigun rage hitting this country the media doesn't expand on.


The San Antonio Theater Shooting the National Media Ignored
Wednesday, 02 January 2013 08:00                        Written by  Bob Adelmann 

At approximately 9:25 p.m. on Sunday night, December 16, just two days after the horrific shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Jesus Manuel Garcia, age 19, entered the China Garden restaurant across the mall from the Santikos Mayan Palace 14 theater complex in San Antonio, Texas, looking for his ex-girlfriend. Angered that she had just broken up with him, he sent her a text message saying that he planned to go to the restaurant where she worked and "shoot somebody."

Before she could warn patrons at the restaurant Garcia entered and started shooting. One bullet slightly wounded one patron while others scattered out the exit doors and headed for the safety of the theater lobby across the mall. Garcia chased them and continued shooting.

This got the attention of an armed off-duty law-enforcement officer who was working at the theater, Bexar County sheriff's Sgt. Lisa Castellano, who chased Garcia to the back of the theater where he ducked into the men's room. When he emerged, Castellano shot him four times which immediately and effectively ended the threat. Garcia was handcuffed with the help of another off-duty officer and taken to the hospital where he was listed in stable condition. He was charged with attempted capital murder of a police officer and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and his bail was set at $1 million.

In reporting the incident, local news recalled the Aurora, Colorado, theater attack last July. Hollie O'Connor, who covered the story for mysanantonio.com, said: "The shooting immediately sparked fears of a mass slaying like the one in July that killed 12 people and injured 58 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado." She included a quote from one Cassandra Castillo, the mother of the theater's projectionist, who was worried about her son's safety in the incident. Said Castillo, "It brings back memories of the other theater shooting and the elementary school shooting. You think only the worst."

But the national media ignored this story, even though the shooting occurred just two days after the Newtown shooting. It wasn't just a case that (thankfully) no one was killed in the San Antonio incident. Very likely, no one was killed because of the timely intervention of the armed off-duty officer. If the media were honestly looking for solutions to gun violence, they should have jumped on the San Antonio to show the difference a good person with a gun can make. But they didn't, apparently because it does not fit the narrative that the mainstream media promote — that is, that guns cause violence rather than prevent it.

In their coverage of the Aurora theater tragedy, the media made much of the weaponry used by James Holmes and his ability to purchase his weapons and his body armor and ammunition online without difficulty. The coverage pointed to the horrors of Holmes' "assault" weapons as the cause of the tragedy while ignoring that the theater was a "gun-free zone." No suggestion was ever made that the gun-free zone mandated by the theater made it an attractive target for Holmes because he knew he would meet no resistance.

Though they gave the Aurora theater shooting mega-publicity and spun it in a way that meshed with their anti-gun agenda, the major media almost completely ignored another Aurora shooting that occurred last April. In the little-reported shooting, 29-year-old Kiarron Parker, after killing his first victim outside an Aurora church, immediately encountered armed resistance from a churchgoer who killed him before he could take any more innocent lives.

The San Antonio theater shooting was neutralized by armed resistance before anyone was killed. The off-duty officer recognized the threat and was trained to meet it and she did — so successfully in fact that the city gave her a medal for her actions.

When Wayne LaPierre, executive director of the National Rifle Association, suggested that potential threats be met with armed resistance in schools so that future massacres can be avoided, the media just scoffed, quoting various gun-control advocates that the last thing needed in schools is more guns. It widely disseminated President Obama's comment that he is "skeptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools ... that that somehow is going to solve our problem."

The April Aurora church shooting and the recent San Antonio theater shooting should be more than enough to persuade all but the most hardened and determined enemies of the Second Amendment that the best thing is for more people to be armed and enabled to resist threats like these, rather than fewer. But the media aren't listening. Those incidents don't fit the narrative.

Hognutz

A story like that doesn't fit well with a media that is dead set against guns and a person's ability to protect him/herself. They want the story, alright, but only if it suits there specific need. Anything else is nothing or back page, at best.. A guy shoots up a theater, it is news for a month. A cop stops that from happening and they ignore it!! Shameful, absolutely, shamefull!!
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lmbhngr

The media in this country is the root of the problem. They tell you exactly how a crime was committed step by step; then say how they hope they`re won`t be any copycats. Media thrives on bad news! I stopped watching the news in NY. When`s the last time they reported a wounded soldier being saved by another soldier? NEVER! All they report is how many soldiers or civilians are being killed everyday   Another good example: This is how stupid they are: They show a picture of what hospital Hillary Clinton was in for her blood clot. Really?? I don`t understand why they get the info. they get. Icould go on but they`re wouldn`t be enough space! Half the time when the president goes somewhere they just about give you his itinerary.

Old Gobbler

The media will report the mass shootings , then go and run all the cr%p they show to our kids in their morally dangerous programming , sex , drugs , violence....... all the little kiddies want to be a "gangsta" these days , turn the radio on , more of the same , watch reality shows nothing but drunken fighting and moral depravity  , video games ..... shooting up the place 


I wish I cold figure out how to block MTV off my cable box
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GSLAM95

Could not agree more with everything you guys have posted to date.


Apologizing:  does not always mean you are wrong and the other person is right. 
It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.