This particular bit of awful news out of Fresno, California broke on Sunday evening and at first, it caused quite a stir in the media. A mass shooting had taken place in the back yard of a family home where a group of people had gathered to watch football. Multiple gunmen entered the yard through a side gate and without saying a word began firing into the crowd. When they fled there were four dead and six more injured. People were justifiably horrified. (Associated Press)
A close-knit Hmong community was in shock after gunmen burst into a California backyard gathering and shot 10 men, killing four.
“We are right now just trying to figure out what to do, what are the next steps. How do we heal, how do we know what’s going on,” said Bobby Bliatout, a community leader…
“Our community is in mourning, and we still don’t know what’s going on, or who are the suspects,” said Pao Yang, CEO of the Fresno Center, a Hmong community group.
This shooting qualified for multiple Breaking News announcements on cable news and announcements arriving in people’s email inboxes. And then a strange thing seemed to happen. By Monday morning there was almost no additional coverage. I think I saw it mentioned briefly twice on CNN, and then it was back to the impeachment hearings pretty much non-stop.
With ten people shot and four killed, this obviously meets the media’s current definition of a mass shooting. So where was the outrage? Where were the calls for new gun control laws? How did this tragedy turn into a non-story?
First of all, the victims were all adult males from the Hmong community. And while police said they didn’t find any ties to gang activity among the victims, they were looking into a recent “disturbance” between some of them and members of one of the local Hmong gangs. (Fresno has had problems with gang violence, including Hmong groups, for quite a while now.)
Another factor is the fact that police reported the assailants using semiautomatic handguns. The event was reportedly over pretty quickly, so they probably weren’t using collections of extended magazines.
In other words, this mass shooting is uninteresting to much of the media because it fails all the normal tests and doesn’t fit in with the narrative. Had the men at least been using “assault rifles” they might have merited a bit more coverage. But those events are vanishingly rare because most gang members are well aware that it’s tough to hide a long gun when walking down the street to attack someone or while fleeing the scene afterward.
Further, if initial reports prove accurate, this was an incident of adult Asian people shooting other adult Asian people. And most of the press has about as much interest in that story as one where black gang members are shooting other black people. In short… basically none. It’s reminiscent of the Bunny Friend Park shooting in New Orleans back in 2015. It was the second-largest mass shooting of the year in the United States.
Seventeen people were shot in the middle of a public festival but if you didn’t live in New Orleans or subscribe to the Times-Picayune, you probably never heard about it.
Simply another example proving the left doesn’t care about public safety, they care about disarming citizens.
Same with all the Chicago )black-on-black) shootings.
If it doesn’t help their “narrative” it doesn’t matter.
Chicago has had 50 shootings in the last 30 days according to the https://www.chicagotribune.com/data/ct-shooting-victims-map-charts-htmlstory.html
Again, like when Cambodian gangs kill other Campobians, like in Fresno, it doesn’t help the Left’s narrative, so forget about it.
Fact is all these shootings actually hurt the Left’s narrative.
So, they get buried.
Remember Border Agent Brian Terry whose death occurred BECAUSE Obama/Biden/Holder sent guns to Mexican drug cartels, illegally.
He death got buried as best they could bury it, too.
@Nan G: As well as when illegal immigrants kill Americans. If it doesn’t serve the Democrat agenda, they and their media allies bury it.
so where are all the children in cages, illegal aliens crossing the border, cnn staged footage, drug crisis noting on the fake news? George Orwell’s novel “1984,” which the author said was “designed to diminish the range of thought ” is the key element of the american communist party. why does one continue to call them demorats or socialist, they are the american communist party.