Today a gunman killed 3 in addition to himself, and wounded one other person. No names or motives yet, and in cases like this, you should always wait at least 24 hours to make sure the story is straight before coming to any conclusions. I was about to head to that train station just as the news started to spread about the shooting. That enabled me to change plans and take a different train line to get home without too much time lost on the start of my weekend. About 10 minutes after the initial reports, rumors circled that the gunman had escaped, but I see now that he was killed in the office where the shootings occured.
There have been lots of stories where something tragic happens, the initial stories have important flaws in them, yet the media and media-figures jump on the bandwagon of condemnation. Then the corrections come in, they aren't trumpeted as loud as the initial outrage, and those who made foolish judgements simply walk away. Tragic stories are used to advance an agenda or to prove a preconceived notion. When the story doesn't pan out that way, instead of correcting the record and learning to be prudent, the loudmouths waltz away and hope no one holds them responsible for things they said in the heat of the moment.
That doesn't appear to have happened in this case, but it happens all too frequently.
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