Just look at the photo accompanying this news story. Who do you see?
Now, just think of the last time you saw a national news telecast on urban crime and violence? What about a network or cable news story about violence in urban high schools? How about a network or cable news story about gang-related gun violence?
Do you recall the skin pigmentation of all of the "inner-city" Americans who were subject of the news reports?
Did those people look like the gents in the photo accompanying this news item?
Do you think that National Rifle Association vice-president-for-life Wayne La Pierre or the national and cable television news networks feel any sense of responsibility for casting one segment of American society, a minority, as potentially violent criminals while vast majority are portrayed as helpless victims?
It's a cinch neither La Pierre or the producers and top shareholders of the national network and cable news outlets have a sense of shame.
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