Times are tough for white males these days. They just don’t get no respect.
Take serial murders, which unlike sports such as basketball, is totally dominated by white males. Time was that so long as you took two or three people down, you could count on front page headlines and a moment of fame far longer than the standard 15 minutes.
Not any more. Unless you play your cards right, a mass killing that would have been front page news years ago, might not even make it into the national papers and might struggle to garner headlines in local rags that no one even reads.
So congrats to Jason Dalton for beating the odds. Dalton, who is not a terrorist, by the way, seeing that he’s (apparently) not Muslim, made it to the front page of the New York Times. He realized that stories about gunmen killing people in theaters or in a workplace that left them disgruntled are old hat. Sure, you can still make the front page with those kinds of shootings, but it takes extra effort and an extra high body count. Dalton realized that just picking people totally at random was something new, guaranteed to get him his 15 minutes and more, so long as he got a reasonable body count.
Of course, he could never have done it if the victims hadn’t been so cooperative. If they’d all been packing heat, as the NRA-if it feels the need to respond at all- will tell us, they could have defended themselves. What could be easier than shooting first when someone picks you out at random? The streets would be a lot safer if each of us carried a gun and shot first at anyone who might possibly be thinking of causing us harm. “Us” meaning white people of course. There’s no need to get carried away, after all.
UPDATE: Looks like Dalton’s 15 minutes are up.
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