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- 10:54pm — August 18, 2022
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There's satire, and then there's satire. The Onion, a website that attempts to elicit equal parts tearful laughter and painful wincing, cooked up a look at the motivations of school shooters Wednesday - timed for the anniversary of the day a mentally ill college dropout gunned down six and wounded 13 in Tucson. "Classmates Admit School Shooter Showed Them, Showed Them All" laid out an all-too-familiar scenario of a disturbed young man gaining attention through mass murder.... Read more»
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1 comment on this story
It is no worse than what many others did…
The media, this outlet included, milked the tragedy for all it was worth. For months and months and months they would…not…let…it…go. I got sick to death of reading how many times Gabby went to the bathroom in a particular day. Oh, BTW, I still have yet to read any story about the shooting that doesn’t include the phrase “...including former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords”, as if she’s more important than any of the other victims that day or something.
Where most see tragedy, Mark Kelly has seen nothing but dollar signs. He has disgustingly grabbed on to his wife’s rising star in a despicable effort to make as much money and gain as much notoriety as he can from the shooting. Almost no one knew who he was before the shooting. Now, his creepy looking face is right next to hers at each and every photo-op she goes to. TV show tours, book deals…when is the movie coming out? Every time some says “Gabby” Kelly just hears the “ch-ching” sound. But, few have the balls to call him out on it because he’s Gabby’s husband and we’re “not allowed” to say anything bad about Queen Gabby now.
What about the court system? The made more of a mockery out of this than anyone. Rather than give a fitting punishment to the crime, they dragged it out for over two years, drugging the attention whore into submission and giving him a grossly insufficient sentence for his heinous crime. That was disrespectful to the victims, their families, and this community.
How many other politicians latched on to the shooting to further their idiotic causes and agendas? How overused were the terms “incivility” and “vitriol”? How many media outlets tried to squeeze every mouse click or ratings point they could out of the tragedy? How many dying newspapers would have went under by now were it not for this tragedy to sustain it for just a couple years more?
Hey, all the Onion did is what they usually do. The tastefulness of the parody is open to debate. But, at least they’re honest about what they’re doing. They’re not saying they’re doing one thing while having a completely different self-serving motive. I can’t say that about Mark Kelly or dozens of others who tried to gain from this tragedy.