2013 Boston Marathon Bombings

[Coyote Starrk]

Boston Bombing, the truth is revealed.
http://imgur.com/a/Nx8EU

[Atomica]

holy crap, is that true.  I don't know what to believe anymore o.o

^ maybe this one is just bad reporting?

[Coyote Starrk]

holy crap, is that true.  I don't know what to believe anymore o.o

^ maybe this one is just bad reporting?

No, the news does that quite often here. Our news is poop in murika :<

[zoroarkrules25]

Was that a joke...? Half of that website seemed fake and making fun of the incident. If those were his wounds he should have died.

[Atomica]

Was that a joke...? Half of that website seemed fake and making fun of the incident. If those were his wounds he should have died.

I think that was the dead guy iirc

[Magoo]

Was that a joke...? Half of that website seemed fake and making fun of the incident. If those were his wounds he should have died.

It's an image hosting website.
Pictures are most likely from a thread on 4chan.
Which means it may be true.
And come on. The proofs are all there.

[Steel]

Was that a joke...? Half of that website seemed fake and making fun of the incident. If those were his wounds he should have died.

Mags right, most of that is 4chan/Reddit.
Imgur is no. #1 in image hosting because of 4chan and Reddit.

The majority of the internet doesn't ever take national tradegies serious.
Boston Bombing is baby food compared to what happens in the Middle East daily, also people on the internet don't have to be their IRL selves, they dont have to have human emotions because they think there are no repercussions for their actions.

What you read was extremely standard fare for imgur and reddit theories.

[zoroarkrules25]

That's sick, people on those sites need to grow up.

[Magoo]

That's sick, people on those sites need to grow up.

You need to understand that the facts are there.
It's not the people on these sites that are sick.
It's the people with power. Those ruling over our nations.

Also read this: http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/21/boston-marathon-bombs-us-gun-law
What do you think?
We are just pawns you know.

[Coyote Starrk]

Mags right, most of that is 4chan/Reddit.
Imgur is no. #1 in image hosting because of 4chan and Reddit.

The majority of the internet doesn't ever take national tradegies serious.
Boston Bombing is baby food compared to what happens in the Middle East daily, also people on the internet don't have to be their IRL selves, they dont have to have human emotions because they think there are no repercussions for their actions.

What you read was extremely standard fare for imgur and reddit theories.

It's because on the internet, you dont have to pretend to care like you do IRL, no one labels you an unemotional freak if you arent crying over some people you never met, just like when you hear about all those chillens in afrika dying all day err day, you dont care inside because you have zero emotional attachment to them, so they are just a number in your mind. The internet lets you not care and no one will really get buttflustered over it.

You need to understand that the facts are there.
It's not the people on these sites that are sick.
It's the people with power. Those ruling over our nations.

Also read this: http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/21/boston-marathon-bombs-us-gun-law
What do you think?
We are just pawns you know.

The simple truth is that gun crime doesn't affect the vast majority of law-abiding citizens. Therefore, the vast majority of law-abiding citizens push it to the back of their mind and think,

"It's not my problem, it's their problem."

Some facts that might explain why Americans care as little about everyday murders as they do:
54% of murder victims personally know the offender. 24% are killed by family members.[1]
About 12% of murders are done by people who are strangers to the victim.[2]
As much as 63% of homicides in American cities are gang-related.[3]
Rifles are only used in 3% of murders. Shotguns another 3%. Only 67% of murders are committed with any kind of firearms, at all.[4]
There are almost 3x as many suicides as homicides in America, and of those there are twice as many firearm-related deaths from suicide than by homicide. When you hear "50000 gun deaths in America", only 25% of those are homicides.[5]
Crime in America has been dropping sharply since the 1990's. America is actually more safe than many European countries.[6]
If we only consider the 12% of murders in the United States that are done by strangers[2] (ignoring that even a large percent of those are still gang-related), that is a homicide rate of about 0.4 per 100,000 people. That is a level similar to Japan.[7]

I hope you can understand why homicide isn't on the radar of most Americans in our daily lives.

tl;dr gun crime doesnt affect most law abiding citizens, while terrorism can and does

[Magoo]

It's because on the internet, you dont have to pretend to care like you do IRL, no one labels you an unemotional freak if you arent crying over some people you never met, just like when you hear about all those chillens in afrika dying all day err day, you dont care inside because you have zero emotional attachment to them, so they are just a number in your mind. The internet lets you not care and no one will really get buttflustered over it.
The simple truth is that gun crime doesn't affect the vast majority of law-abiding citizens. Therefore, the vast majority of law-abiding citizens push it to the back of their mind and think,

"It's not my problem, it's their problem."

Some facts that might explain why Americans care as little about everyday murders as they do:
54% of murder victims personally know the offender. 24% are killed by family members.[1]
About 12% of murders are done by people who are strangers to the victim.[2]
As much as 63% of homicides in American cities are gang-related.[3]
Rifles are only used in 3% of murders. Shotguns another 3%. Only 67% of murders are committed with any kind of firearms, at all.[4]
There are almost 3x as many suicides as homicides in America, and of those there are twice as many firearm-related deaths from suicide than by homicide. When you hear "50000 gun deaths in America", only 25% of those are homicides.[5]
Crime in America has been dropping sharply since the 1990's. America is actually more safe than many European countries.[6]
If we only consider the 12% of murders in the United States that are done by strangers[2] (ignoring that even a large percent of those are still gang-related), that is a homicide rate of about 0.4 per 100,000 people. That is a level similar to Japan.[7]

I hope you can understand why homicide isn't on the radar of most Americans in our daily lives.

tl;dr gun crime doesnt affect most law abiding citizens, while terrorism can and does

"People are strange"

[Steel]

That's sick, people on those sites need to grow up.

Kinda what Starrk said. People on the internet can express themselves and their true opinions better because there isn't that many negative drawbacks.

I could say that I don't care about the Boston Bombings much because it isn't anything big, compared to what happens in Syria everyday. And I don't have any social drawbacks, because I let my opinion go wild.

That's the beauty of the internet.

I had something way longer and more precise and in-depth about it, but it got removed for whatever reason, so heres a TL:DR version^