Wounded Congressmen MORE Important Than 3 Dead UPS Workers

[SoCalMusicLover]

The mainstream media is too busy with wall to wall coverage of the VA incident, not a word mentioned about the GUN VIOLENCE in San Francisco.

[Kber]

1. Yes. You got it.

[MineralMan]

2. More newsworthy, perhaps.

There has been news of the UPS shooting, however. It is not the top of the news, though, but it is still news. Every major news outlet is covering it. However, a Congressman being critically injured in a mass shooting is, quite naturally, a bigger story. It's a question of scale, really. The UPS shooting is not being ignored, as you can see from a Google News search.

[Squinch]

4. Still not a peep on the front page of the Times that has about half of its acreage dedicated to DC.

And last I saw it was FOUR dead in San Francisco.

I'm thinking of the song lyrics "Four dead in Ohio." Remember when shooting deaths of four people was such a big deal there were ballads written about it? Now it happens three times of a morning.

[MineralMan]

6. Yes. See this link, please:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/us/ups-shooting-san-francisco.html

As I said, a Congressman shot in a mass shooting will ALWAYS get more coverage. Still, the NYT has covered the UPS shooting, as well.

On DU, the Congressman got many more threads as well. It's the nature of things, really. The other shooting incident is not being ignored, though.

[smirkymonkey]

3. It kind of makes me sick.

Those 3 dead UPS workers were just as important to the people who loved them as the congressman was to his family. The media attention this incident is getting is overkill. Nobody was killed. The shooter is dead. Enough already.

[iluvtennis]

12. + Agree. Many in M$M just exploiting the VA shooting of politician for r*a*t*i*n*g*s...

...a life is a life - congress person is not more important than UPS workers. Time to rip NRA of its power and put more gun controls in process. I'm not naive enough to believe the additional controls are a panacea for fixing the explosion of guns on our streets, but every little bit helps.

[calimary]

5. I noticed that.

No one died at the baseball practice. And that's very good news.
But three people died in the San Francisco shooting! And there's been no coverage beyond a breaking news update.

I've had TV on in the background while I've been working. Haven't heard another word about it since the first (and, so far, only) breaking news update.

[SoCalMusicLover]

7. Just Another Gun Massacre....Nothing To See....

Like was said previously, DC is more newsworthy since it involves a Congressman.

San Fran was just your ordinary, everyday in America shooting. No need to really report or talk about it, because tomorrow will be another one, and it's certainly not going to have an impact on Guns in America.

[mrJJ]

8. Congress Critters are just another Stat... not included till EOD

Not including today...154 mass shootings in the US since January

Total Number of Incidents 27,843

Number of Deaths1 6,890
Number of Injuries1 13,513
Number of Children (age 0-11)
Killed or Injured1 300
Number of Teens (age 12-17)
Killed or Injured1 1,442
Mass Shooting2 154
Officer Involved Incident
Officer Shot or Killed2 133
Officer Involved Incident
Subject-Suspect Shot or Killed2 957
Home Invasion2 1,134
Defensive Use2 941
Unintentional Shooting2 916
Gun violence and crime incidents are collected/validated from 2,000 sources daily – incidents and their source data are found at the gunviolencearchive.org website.

1: Actual number of deaths and injuries
2: Number of INCIDENTS reported and verified

22,000 Annual Suicides not included on Daily Summary Ledger

Numbers on this table reflect a subset of all information
collected and will not add to 100% of incidents.

www.gunviolencearchive.org
Data Validated: June 14, 2017
Gun Violence Archive

Congress Critters still don't care...

[cornball 24]

9. Regarding the priorities of the MSM, three murdered UPS workers-real people-do not equate

to one politician who was shot in the arse.

[SoCalMusicLover]

10. Clearly This Means Knives, Cars & Swimming Pools Must Be Banned

Isn't that one of the arguments Gun Humpers love to use?

[yuiyoshida]

11. San Francisco is a Liberal town, the Main Stream Media seem like they would just ignore

"Liberals" being killed, despite the fact, we don't even know how they felt about politics. I bet FOX NEWS didn't cover it, unless to Cheer on the Killer.

[Abq_Sarah]

13. It's newsworthy because the shooting was politcally motivated

A politically motivate shooting has larger implications.