people make funeral arrangements everyday, thats not gonna change. but misconception of the media is unacceptable . if they cant even listen to people trying to correct them or research the things they talk about to correctly state things how can i trust anything else from them. gun crimes have been going on for a long time, so how come now we're so focused on it and not on other violence. i think its safe to say that the media turning these things into bigger deals than needed and putting so many peoples attention on these incidents that maybe its causing more people to do these horrible things because the media is in a way glorifying how bad they are. if they spend a week discussing one incident, involving a certain type of gun that gets more attention than any other (talking about rifles compared to pistols) if we keep putting these crimes and people in the spot light for an instance, dont you think that would make an already mental crazy person more inclined to go through with such a terrible thing since they now know how much attention will be on them and what they did? and i wasnt really arguing the definition of an assault rifle at all, just stating that what these people are using for the most part, are just modern sporting rifles, not some fancy full auto military rifle. i do understand assault rifles have been used and other weapons of such but someone who is going to illegally buy a powerful weapon to kill people is going to get his way either with an assault rifle he bought illegally or a pistol he bought at walmart. yes the weapons that have been used to kill people will kill more people that a baseball bat in those scenarios but my point is, taking away a less lethal weapon isnt going to stop a killer from killing, it will just stop him from killing as many people, but at the same time taking away good people ability to defend themselves in their home, at work, or out playing with the kids at the park.
