It’s because something like 2 mass shooting occur EACH DAY in the US. It’s impossible to keep track and that’s why this has faded away.
Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it.
Submitted 8 months ago by brt01010101@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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stoly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
yarr@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Whenever I see posts like this, I wonder about the benchmark being set.
I don’t know what OP wants… a weekly news story: “VEGAS SHOOTING STILL NOT SOLVED, NEWSPAPER EDITORS SEEK ALTERNATE HEADLINES”
DB Cooper was one of the most mysterious hijackers of all time. Still no motive, why don’t we hear about it more often?
Zodiac killer, active for years on the West Coast. No known motive… why don’t we hear about it? Why does no one mention it?
Jack the Ripper, killed women brutally, unsolved, no known motive. Why isn’t he mentioned more often?
This line of thinking drives me crazy. Our current news ecosystem thrives off cheap clickbait and manufactured outrage. Barring some radical new information, they won’t get that out of the Vegas shooting, hence it doesn’t make headlines routinely.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So you are saying that the answer is a serious lack of proper investigative journalism.
yarr@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Clickbait is easy, investigative journalism takes brains, effort and integrity, all of which are lacking in today’s media organizations.
nutsack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
they decided not to talk too much about perpetrators after the 1970s
yesman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why is the motive important? Is there a good reason?
someguy3@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Ever notice it’s terrorism, they hate us, people are saying suspect was maybe possibly trans, but when it’s a white man fucking nothing.
Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Brother what are you talking about. Every white mass shooter in America is an alt right Nazi incel who wants to personally assassinate every lgbtq person on the planet.
Entirely depends on what dogshit news source(s) wants to score political points.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Lots of mass shootings have been driven by certain extremist ideologies that advocate for violence or invent justifications for violence through fictional narratives. So people are naturally curious if these are connected to those ideologies. If so, perhaps they could be reduced by dismantling these toxic ideologies.
ringwraithfish@startrek.website 8 months ago
If someone walks into your house and shoots your family, would you want to know why? Would it be important to you to understand their motives?
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
2017
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 8 months ago
We don’t hear about it because we don’t live in the USA
xc2215x@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There are so many shootings nowadays.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Nowadays? It’s a multigenerational constant of American living. It’s as important to American culture as Apple pie, obesity, and predatory healthcare.
daltotron@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Couple different factors there, but it mostly just comes down to some easily explainable things. A shooter without a motive isn’t a story that sells well, and it isn’t a story that people generally want to read. Your highest profile american crimes tend to be perpetrated by extreme weirdos. I think it’s probably just that this guy was kind of a sad old dude, and probably a pedo to boot, so it doesn’t really make for a nice, harrowing story. It’s just depressing, mostly.
Most readers, I think, want a kind of, narrative, or meta-narrative, around their media consumption. You can see people in this thread, trying to stamp one onto this shooting with the whole bump-stock thing, which I think is mostly just a minor aside, but for the fact that it kind of ties into a larger narrative about gun control, a larger meta-narrative, that serves political ends. Even in that, though, it’s not a very good grafting subject for those stories. The fact that it was passed by a republican president means that it can’t really serve mainstream political party end-goals, and bump stocks aren’t really a significant concern, despite how people might want to make them out to be. Basically their only tactical use case is something like this, otherwise, they’re mostly a toy. They don’t really have the same use-case for gang violence, like you might see with glock switches. So they don’t really present a highly defensible instance of gun control going wrong, and they don’t present a high-priority target in terms of gun control legislation.
It is almost impossible for most places to do reporting in a way where you are ever given the full scope, the full picture. It’s hard to report sobering data which might give you the larger picture, because it’s uncertain, up for contestation, boring, and unrelatable. It’s hard to report on everything in an indiscriminate way, if you’re just reporting everything without any bigger picture questions, then you’re liable to simply serving stories with no external context that would ground the reader, and you lead the reader to only ground themselves. If you do this enough, in combination with the A-B testing that might tell you what to actually report on, you’ll just end up becoming 24 hour nightly news, where you just report on murder and rapes and serve political agendas without any real knowledge of what you’re doing. Things have to inherently be passed through the filter of a meta-narrative in order for them to make any sense, to have any meaning at all. If you can’t really do that, if all you’re left with is meaningless violence, you will probably just see people ignore it.
AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[deleted]paws@cyberpaws.lol 8 months ago
Do not fear, I have deleted it from my personal instance.
someguy3@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I’ve wondered the same thing. It did lead to a ban on bump stocks
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
LOL, that Trump imposed. That and, “Take the guns, due process later!” Imagine if Obama had said or done even half that much.
Oh, and under Trump, my perfectly legal .22 rifle became a felony with the stroke of the ATF pen. Neat!
Montagge@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
How will you ever survive when the squirrels come for you
fustigation769curtain@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Democrats like to save doing things for elections.
Just look at marijuana and gay marriage.
psmgx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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