It might be good to keep trying to repeat positive stories.
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On no, not another mass shooting. Here come the repetitive media reports and analysis. Here come the platitudes.
I believe it is terrible when one person kills another one on purpose. More than one, more terrible. With personal hatred—awful. With impersonal group hatred—more awful.
I think it is bad when someone takes a peaceful object, like a tooth brush, and converts it into a weapon to kill somebody, like in prison.
I feel real bad when the killing is done with machines made to kill lots of people at once, unless it is for a good cause. The good cause, can only be a political one, approved by someone in the United States government and I don’t mean just anybody, and I don’t agree with all of the causes.
I think it is good when compassionate things are expressed about people who are killed and their loved ones and their geographic and cultural reference groups.
I believe that it is good that vows are made to address whatever underlying problems lead to people killing people.
I believe that people who point out that men kill a whole lot more people than women do are good to do that. People who respond that women kill people too are right. I agree with those who suggest that not all men want to kill people.
I am starting to have some problems with people who sell advertising by reporting on people killing people. I really don’t like it when they broadcast their message in a repetitive way.
I am not sure if this is a problem. Media employees do have bills to pay.
Give me more stories on efforts to support men in celebrating fatherhood and men showing children what responsible utilization of male aggression, assertiveness and mental and physical power looks like.
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Perhaps repeating the same type of negative boring story in the media is the key to less people killing less people. Maybe this problem can be worn down by repetitive media erosion.
I think it might be good to keep trying to repeat positive stories. I think it would be good if there were more of this. Now, this positive story telling should not be an attempt to slow down, or not speed up, sound approaches to cut back on the killing. Repetitive positive story telling could add to the repetitive bad news type of reporting and opining.
Take the recent mass shootings in Orlando. I like stories that celebrate the incredible progress made in a relatively short time for broad based support for variations as to how people express their love physically. This has been absolutely mind blowing.
I like stories that reveal the profit motives of the military industrial complex’s manufacture of stuff made to kill people and how political influence is utilized to further profiteering.
I really like stories on improved identification and treatment of male depression and post traumatic stress disorders, and how this cuts back on killing. Stories on how economic justice helps men not want to kill as much.
Give me more stories on efforts to support men in celebrating fatherhood and men showing children what responsible utilization of male aggression, assertiveness and mental and physical power looks like.
I love stories that reveal how large corporations manipulate the mass media outlets big time, but I have a more difficult time undermining and silencing increasing diverse alternative media outlets.
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