The front page story headlined “Surprise: U.S. sees major decline in gun violence” (Herald, Dec. 4) sent me to the typewriter. The male-dominated mass shootings, blanketing our brains on all of the news stations, convince me this decline won’t last long. Actual bloody visuals on TV, once unheard of, are the new norm collecting higher ratings and lots of money from the sponsors. All the copycats, brain-washed ISIS sympathizers, lost souls and those with a hidden agenda, are thinking about even more terrifying acts.
Now, a dead Pakistani mother has the stage (as of this writing no photo?) in the most recent San Bernardino attack. An attorney for her family says she did not do this act. Is this a “wag of the dog” or what? The two shooters wore masks at the San Bernardino massacre. I am a mother and can’t imagine any woman leaving a 6-month-old behind. Females instinctively, from the animal kingdom to humans, don’t do outrageous stunts after having a newborn.
My father married into a highly influential newspaper family, with a current circulation all over the country, and he told me more than once to not believe everything in the news and set-ups were not unheard of, usually by the elite few, that “pull it off” leaving the masses, law enforcement included, duped.
Thankfully, I don’t participate in social media where some are viscous towards people like me. God bless the fact in the U.S., we still have freedom of speech.
Sally Florence
Durango
