STOP and THINK about the things you share on your social media stream! More specifically about the recent Las Vegas shooting at Mandalay Bay! The amount of conspiracy theories floating around in less than 12 hours since the act of cowardice that killed 58 people and wounded 500+ is unfathomable. Have we regressed so far that we can't mourn or pay respects to victims without having to put our 2 cents in, in hopes of getting attention from our peers in "like" form?
First off, I get it, this was a shocking blow to many around the country (even more so than you could imagine had you actually been there in the chaos and fear at Mandalay Bay). I worried for my friends that live in Vegas as many posted to see if friends and family were okay.
Yes it made me sick to think that once again there was another mass shooting but rather than start jumping on the #GunControlNow, #PrayForLasVegas #LasVegasShooting etc... hashtag nonsense I like the majority of people waited to hear what THE NEWS had to report. You know credible information that has been gathered by people with knowledge on how to examine and correlate facts from fiction?
Yes there is FAKE NEWS proponents that can't wrap their minds around actual journalism and would rather bathe their egos in what ever narrative closely relates to their views so they can tune everyone out like the stubborn donkey on family guy but come on now? I was following things on twitter as well but rather than sharing the first thing that fit my narrative I read, thought about it, read some more thought about that, read even more and thought about what I've read and here's the kicker didn't post shit because I didn't have enough information yet to form an well thought out opinion!
I log into Facebook later on in the morning and see the concerned posts, the shocked posts, the prayer posts. Then my friends with the far right view points start posting their moronic pro gun rhetoric followed by my far left friends posting their moronic content finally my conspiracy theorist friends who I guess are a mix of the two, possibly anarchists start posting incredibly far reaching articles about the shooter couldn't of done this alone and how so and so did this and there had to have been more than one shooter because fill in the blank excuse with no credible source to back it up reason.
Now this video from Completely Offensive popped up on my news feed where this man speculates as to how this act of cowardice is a cover up for something more sinister and also gun control won't work because criminals don't obey laws and black people in Chicago kill way more than the mass shooter in Vegas. Seriously?! This is just once of many examples floating around the social media stream. At the moment that video has been shared 748 times, gaining momentum, popping up in other rationale minded peoples newsfeed because we all have that one friend that thinks 9/11 was an inside job.
So when I see those type of videos I normally go to the source and see the comment section because that's a great way to gauge the intelligence of people and mostly because someone like Brian Morrow comes along and totally nails it! Hopefully more people do this and research claims that sound far fetched and cherry picked (you may call it SJW or keyboard warriors) so unsuspecting people will at least get a little bit of knowledge in the comment section of a viral BS post.
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