Liberals Redefine The Term Mass Shooting...

[GunLawyer001]

Some Pacific islanders have numbering systems that are unsophisticated (as befits a culture where no planning is required, because food falls off the tree all year round). Their numbers are "0, 1, 2, 3, many". There's no difference between 10 and 1,000, both are "many".

A similarly simple and juvenile culture dominates in the American Left, which is unable to distinguish between the words "multiple" and "mass". If Billy Bob snaps and shoots his mother-in-law, her husband, and her 2 friends, that's a "multiple shooting". If he shoots dozens of people at the mall, that's a "mass shooting", but barely.

A hand grenade is not a "weapon of mass destruction". Nor is a flamethrower. For that, you need a nuke, or at least a tank of nerve gas. Something capable of killing hundreds of people. That's what "mass" refers to, large groups who are simultaneously attacked with an area weapon. Not one guy with a knife or machete or a firearm that strikes on person at a time.

"Mass media" means TV and radio and newspapers, things that send the message to hundreds or thousands or millions of folks at once, without picking individual recipients. When you target specific people, that's "targeted" communication. If I write out individual emails and sent them to 4 people, that's not "mass communication".

Words mean things, or at least they used to, before the Progressives started using Orwell as their blueprint. Now, they feign outrage if you refer to aliens here illegally as "illegal aliens", and they demand that we refer to little 5 year old Mexican national Pablo as an "undocumented worker", to same-sex couples as "married", to Bruce Jenner as "a woman", to printing worthless cash as "quantitative easement", to a woman who failed at every job she's held as "the most successful woman ever", to people convicted of minor offenses or who were subjected to a brief involuntary mental evaluation as "felons prevented from buying guns", and to auto-loading firearms using technology from 1911 or so as "high-tech weapons of mass destruction".

The plan is right there in "1984". If you control the language, you control the argument, and you control thought. They re-define Islamic violence at every instance and they win the argument over Muslim terrorism. They re-define ordinary crimes into "an epidemic of mass shootings", as though I included spanking children as "domestic assault" and said that Lizzie Borden was just one incident of domestic assault among millions per day.

"Multiple" is not "mass". Fight back against the dumbing-down of America.

[Cyclops]

Some Pacific islanders have numbering systems that are unsophisticated (as befits a culture where no planning is required, because food falls off the tree all year round). Their numbers are "0, 1, 2, 3, many". There's no difference between 10 and 1,000, both are "many".

A similarly simple and juvenile culture dominates in the American Left, which is unable to distinguish between the words "multiple" and "mass". If Billy Bob snaps and shoots his mother-in-law, her husband, and her 2 friends, that's a "multiple shooting". If he shoots dozens of people at the mall, that's a "mass shooting", but barely.

A hand grenade is not a "weapon of mass destruction". Nor is a flamethrower. For that, you need a nuke, or at least a tank of nerve gas. Something capable of killing hundreds of people. That's what "mass" refers to, large groups who are simultaneously attacked with an area weapon. Not one guy with a knife or machete or a firearm that strikes on person at a time.

"Mass media" means TV and radio and newspapers, things that send the message to hundreds or thousands or millions of folks at once, without picking individual recipients. When you target specific people, that's "targeted" communication. If I write out individual emails and sent them to 4 people, that's not "mass communication".

Words mean things, or at least they used to, before the Progressives started using Orwell as their blueprint. Now, they feign outrage if you refer to aliens here illegally as "illegal aliens", and they demand that we refer to little 5 year old Mexican national Pablo as an "undocumented worker", to same-sex couples as "married", to Bruce Jenner as "a woman", to printing worthless cash as "quantitative easement", to a woman who failed at every job she's held as "the most successful woman ever", to people convicted of minor offenses or who were subjected to a brief involuntary mental evaluation as "felons prevented from buying guns", and to auto-loading firearms using technology from 1911 or so as "high-tech weapons of mass destruction".

The plan is right there in "1984". If you control the language, you control the argument, and you control thought. They re-define Islamic violence at every instance and they win the argument over Muslim terrorism. They re-define ordinary crimes into "an epidemic of mass shootings", as though I included spanking children as "domestic assault" and said that Lizzie Borden was just one incident of domestic assault among millions per day.

"Multiple" is not "mass". Fight back against the dumbing-down of America.

Good points and written, Phil. Redefining words to suit one's purposes is all too common, and I think that it is not only the Left that does it. It is a shame that so few Americans have a good knowledge of the true meaning of words and especially of adjectives. The word "mass" did not enter my mind when ISIS brought down the Russian plane with 214 aboard let alone San Bernardino where there were under 30 victims. The propaganda never ceases.

[donm]

Leave it to the liberals to try and redefine a term . . .

Like "gun control" -> "gun safety." After all, only a sociopath could be against "safety."

[ungawa]

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A similarly simple and juvenile culture dominates in the American Left, which is unable to distinguish between the words "multiple" and "mass". If Billy Bob snaps and shoots his mother-in-law, her husband, and her 2 friends, that's a "multiple shooting". If he shoots dozens of people at the mall, that's a "mass shooting", but barely.

A hand grenade is not a "weapon of mass destruction". Nor is a flamethrower. For that, you need a nuke, or at least a tank of nerve gas. Something capable of killing hundreds of people. That's what "mass" refers to, large groups who are simultaneously attacked with an area weapon. Not one guy with a knife or machete or a firearm that strikes on person at a time. .

Some bullets have a name on them. But every hand grenade is addressed, "To Whom it May Concern"

[Jhaydeno]

As fast as the yellow journalists at WaPo and Huffpo used the 355 mass shootings number, truth in media flushed them out. Apparently they included kids using BB guns where no one was even hurt. I've already had to slap down a H'S acquaintance who quoted the 355 mass murders per year number....

http://truthinmedia.com/fact-check-3...ings-far-2015/

[Wilderness 1864]

The media is going full tilt. Nothing, no lie, no deception is off limits to the mainstream media. The facts seldom, if ever, fit their narrative but they will change language, definitions, lie and distort to sell the anti-gun narrative. They are also adopting the propaganda technique of the Left -- isolate and demonize the opposition. The NRA is now a terrorist organization in the mediasphere. The heated rhetoric and insults against gun owners are coming faster than can be counted. The demonization has also become decidedly personal. It is not enough to demonize the NRA and gun owners generally, but the Daily News has on at least two occasions gone after Wayne LaPierre, calling him a terrorist and most recently picturing him alongside other killers and terrorists on the front page. The propaganda technique is pretty standard. Tell enough lies, focus the hatred on a handful of people that can be identified and more easily hated in order to achieve the desired political result. I begin to wonder if the horrible insults are actually intended to provoke some NRA member to violence so that the media and the President can say "see what we have been telling you"! Just read the reporters, editors and the blogs, with every killing they are hoping and commenting while the blood is flowing that the perp will be a white male Christian and a member of the NRA. I credit the NRA, its leadership and other law-abiding gun owners for not rising to this sad bait. To snap back would be as useless as trying to out-tantrum a child having a tantrum. The funny thing is that despite the firestorm of lies, gun ownership is increasing. Quietly out there, more and more Americans are not falling for the propaganda.

[GunLawyer001]

The media is going full tilt. Nothing, no lie, no deception is off limits to the mainstream media. The facts seldom, if ever, fit their narrative but they will change language, definitions, lie and distort to sell the anti-gun narrative. They are also adopting the propaganda technique of the Left -- isolate and demonize the opposition. The NRA is now a terrorist organization in the mediasphere. The heated rhetoric and insults against gun owners are coming faster than can be counted. The demonization has also become decidedly personal. It is not enough to demonize the NRA and gun owners generally, but the Daily News has on at least two occasions gone after Wayne LaPierre, calling him a terrorist and most recently picturing him alongside other killers and terrorists on the front page. The propaganda technique is pretty standard. Tell enough lies, focus the hatred on a handful of people that can be identified and more easily hated in order to achieve the desired political result. I begin to wonder if the horrible insults are actually intended to provoke some NRA member to violence so that the media and the President can say "see what we have been telling you"! Just read the reporters, editors and the blogs, with every killing they are hoping and commenting while the blood is flowing that the perp will be a white male Christian and a member of the NRA. I credit the NRA, its leadership and other law-abiding gun owners for not rising to this sad bait. To snap back would be as useless as trying to out-tantrum a child having a tantrum. The funny thing is that despite the firestorm of lies, gun ownership is increasing. Quietly out there, more and more Americans are not falling for the propaganda.

The strategy against the NRA is similar to the strategy against Israel: Excuse those attacking, while condemning those who defend themselves.

Israel pushes back against daily rocket attacks and infiltrators, and the media condemn them.

The NRA defends itself and all gun owners from coordinated attacks by Obama and Schumer and the NYT and the Usual Progressive Suspects, and the media have been claiming that the NRA is "politicizing" these shooting sprees. No, it's "never let a crisis go to waste" Obama who is politicizing these tragedies.

It's Orwellian, and we have to push back, ALL of us, in our conversations with friends and family, on Facebook, in letters to the editor. If only one side is heard in polite company, the other side loses. It's long past time to end the presumption that it's polite to say that our civil rights should be curtailed, but it's rude to say they should not be curtailed. The same applies to global warming, to "white cops are racist murderers", to "health care services are a basic human right", and other myths that need to be challenged.

[JenniferG]

Still only 5 million NRA members How about some help here from you non members or is it you don't like the NRA because they once insulted your sister's panty holster.

[Royinmontco]

I am now classifying it as a Farook Assault.

Loved that song he did, "seether".......

[bigandy1966]

they don't realize they're feeding the fire of panic. Gun sales are up, again. People are thinking "What will MORE laws do when seconds count and cops are MINUTES (if not hours) away?" and nobodies buying their line of logic anymore except the braindead sheeple bleating "Gunz r BAAAAD"
I hope this gets historically epic faildom for the democrat shit for brains.