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Boy, 6, boasted about shooting Virginia teacher Abigail Zwerner (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1253328

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Real question... Why is this kind of thing posted to World News? It's a horrifying story, but it's also one incident in one location. Me knowing about it doesn't help me or anyone else in any way. I guess you could hope that it inspires some gun owners to better secure their firearms, but that's about it.

This kinda one-off incidents were all over Reddit. It just exists to stoke people's anger most of the time, but it's also super easy to push a specific agenda by posting these horrible, local stories.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago*

    Mostly it's a result of me cross-posting from my own community which is less strict about what I consider news and the publisher in this case BBC labeling it as world news. I get all my news from RSS.

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