re: #321 ObserverArt

We live in FOX news and Conservatopia where anything that happens in one part of this country is made out to sound as if it happened next door and the criminals are standing just outside yours.

Especially if the criminals have dark skin tones and believe in non-Evangelical Christian forms of religion. Then you need to double up on guns and ammo.

So, the only senseless thing to do is grab your guns and start shooting.

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It isn’t the national news-networks that should be blamed for people’s preceptions of crime, not mostly. Fox News has done its share of bad work on this score (as witness their infamous “knock-out game” coverage), but most people get their crime news from local media sources. And local network affiliates and newspapers tend to cover sensational crimes at a much great rate than that at which they occur.