Surprise, another old white guy
Investigators learned that several children were playing hide and seek in the Starks community and were hiding on the neighbor’s property.
Doyle told detectives that he got his gun when he saw shadows outside his home and shot at people he saw running away, unknowingly hitting the girl, officials said.
https://apnews.com/article/hide-seek-shooting-louisiana-girl-neighbor-b59a1232f3fd309e1afd02174026fad7
Injuries not considered life threatening
Folks, it’s time to talk to our kids about staying away from old white people, especially their houses. Not even kidding.
Honestly, I somewhat wonder if we need to start holding capitalist media accountable for hysteria and fear-mongering about petty crime. Boomers all get their news from TV and Newspapers that scream at them about youth crime and make it seem like they're going to be attacked by thieves at any moment. This makes them paranoid and trigger happy.
No disagreement on anything here. I'm also wondering how much undiagnosed neurological damage has happened in older people now society has decided to just let COVID rip. We know that COVID can have serious neurological effects, especially in older age groups. And that's not even getting into how poisoned the boomers were by a lifetime of lead exposure, another proven source of neurological damage.
Oh yes, they are culpable
Just the other day, some of our Chilean comrades here were saying a big reason for the electoral swing rightward there is the bourgeois media portraying Venezuelan immigrants as creating a massive crime wave in the country.
In the US, scaring the old white people is so effective because it plays into their notions of white supremacy. By being afraid of minorities, their feelings of racial superiority are actually increased.
"That is emotional arguing. The Materialist(tm) argument is that outcomes in Chile would be exactly the same with or without that media propaganda because the only thing that matters is material conditions. I am very immune to propaganda and so is everyone else." :very-intelligent:
Propaganda and who owns the means of propaganda are material conditions so that argument wouldn’t even stand on its own two feet
I wonder how much capitalist media might use some version of the sophistic "people would have been exactly as :frothingfash: with or without absorbing propaganda from their entertainment" defensive claim that is still pretty popular around these parts. :cap-think: