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There have recently been more than one such shooting incident. Do you think we should reserve judgement on the young woman in NY state who was shot dead by an old nutter sitting on his porch (with his gun) when they drove into the wrong driveway? No race angle to the story so ignored by the national media. How about the 6 year old kid shot along with (her?) parents when they went to retrieve a basketball from the neighboring yard? Wrong races (victim white, shooter black) so ignored by the national media.

It is understandable that we become bitterly cynical after living through the Trayvon and Michael Brown stories and watching the unforgivable sins of the media. But let us remain human.

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I think we should reserve judgment on all such incidents, irrespective or race, until all the facts come out. Our media are notoriously unreliable reporters of facts and getting worse and lazier by the day. Remember how they swallowed the Smollett hoax so effortlessly? (as did the imbecile in chief). So not sure what your point is. Maybe you really should just stop digging?

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Note that I agree the media is corrupt and pushing to cram a fresh story right into their Narrative line (or memory hole it for the same reason). But that doesn't mean these things aren't happening or that plenty of people in this country are not borderline mentally ill or well over the line, pumped up on paranoia from click bait partisan media, and sitting on their porches armed to the teeth waiting for the insurgents to roll up the driveway.

Occam's Razor is real. Perhaps there is a 0.1% chance of some as yet unknown extenuating circumstance in the case of the dude that blew away a 20 year old girl, roughly the age of my own daughter, for the crime of turning into the wrong driveway. But I am comfortable, in this case, rushing to judgement.

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Your reply was in response to Scott's comment "someone going to the wrong house by accident is immediately shot because media has manipulated people into being too fearful to leave their homes so that they'll stay inside and consume more media." My interpretation of your reply was you were saying there may not be any such phenomenon, since we can't trust the corrupt media, the rush to judgement and the need to cram everything into The Narrative.

So my point was to give other examples of the same phenomenon without the specific angles that created your suspicion of the one story.

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