{"id":84791,"date":"2023-03-28T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84791"},"modified":"2023-03-28T08:08:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T13:08:18","slug":"bergs-18th-law-is-still-in-full-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84791","title":{"rendered":"Berg&#8217;s 18th Law Is Still In Full Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ll do my due diligence and make my usual reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70856\">my self-coined but completely accurate dictum<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Berg\u2019s Eighteenth Law of Media Latency<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing<strong> <\/strong>the media writes\/says about any<strong> <\/strong>emotionally charged event \u2013<strong> <\/strong>a mass shooting, a police shooting, anything \u2013 should be taken seriously for 48 hours after the original incident. &nbsp;It will largely be<strong> <\/strong>rubbish, as media outlets vie to \u201cscoop\u201d each other even on incorrect facts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I will continue to observe this law.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But to speculate just a bit?  I&#8217;m going to go out on a short sturdy limb and guess mass shooting at the Covenant School disappears down the memory hole.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shooter, y&#8217;see, is a former student who, while being almost universally &#8220;deadnamed&#8221; in the media by her original, female identity, seemed to be pretty actively presenting her&#8230;er, him&#8230;er, xheirself as (what biologists used to call) male:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">*Unconfirmed* reports identify the Nashville shooter as \u201cAudrey Hale\u201d, a biological female that identifies as \u201cHe\/Him\u201d on their LinkedIn<br><br>Authorities believe the transgender shooter previously attended the Christian school<br><br>Instagram account \u201ccreative.aiden\u201d has been deleted <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ybdQVQsZ6H\">pic.twitter.com\/ybdQVQsZ6H<\/a><\/p>&mdash; DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DC_Draino\/status\/1640445241508372490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s two spree killings in one. year carried out by gender-dysmorphic people. The avalanche of mental illness <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/david-strom\/2023\/03\/27\/child-abuse-skyrocketed-during-lockdowns-n539760\">spurred on by the lockdowns<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/david-strom\/2023\/03\/27\/america-is-dying-spiritually-n539704\">America&#8217;s general spiritual and emotional decline<\/a> is paying dividends for those who benefit from both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darn that NRA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m sure various cultural cues, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.struggle-la-lucha.org\/2023\/03\/16\/trans-day-of-vengeance-fight-back-against-far-right-attacks\/\">this<\/a> and this&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84704\" width=\"275\" height=\"461\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;were <em>utterly <\/em>unrelated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way &#8211; like most spree killers, the murderer chose the target because there was less chance of resistance.  The school was a &#8220;gun free zone&#8221;, and had other vulnerabilities that beckoned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"952\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9b1b4efb-971c-4504-9b51-ad6b510a2719-59293-0000197cfb391265_file-952x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84790\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9b1b4efb-971c-4504-9b51-ad6b510a2719-59293-0000197cfb391265_file-952x1024.jpg 952w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9b1b4efb-971c-4504-9b51-ad6b510a2719-59293-0000197cfb391265_file-279x300.jpg 279w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9b1b4efb-971c-4504-9b51-ad6b510a2719-59293-0000197cfb391265_file-768x826.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9b1b4efb-971c-4504-9b51-ad6b510a2719-59293-0000197cfb391265_file.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 952px) 100vw, 952px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>[Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake]&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayTravis\/status\/1640466572375625728\" target=\"_blank\">answered<\/a>, \u201cYes,\u201d  [that Covenant was the only school targeted] but noted there was another location the suspect considered striking as well. However, he said the suspect <strong>did \u201ca threat assessment\u201d of the other location and decided there was \u201ctoo much security.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Draw your conclusions.  I certainly am . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike the Uvalde shooting, initial reports indicated the police response was fast, violent and decisive &#8211; something that the Feds long ago determined was a key factor for dealing with spree killers, and that this blog has noted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82871\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"82871\">time<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/12\/30\/us\/texas-shooting-hero-jack-wilson\/index.html\">again<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2022\/06\/22\/olde-town-arvada-shooting-johnny-hurley\/?fbclid=IwAR0UiuE1pUkPllAScfbteKjSxvqyyBKgCqrPpnN9pKw1X7_O2lR5-TYZlks\">again<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71032\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"71032\">again<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65398\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"65398\">again<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53881\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"53881\">again<\/a> is of paramount importance in containing and ending these shootings.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll do my due diligence and make my usual reference to my self-coined but completely accurate dictum: Berg\u2019s Eighteenth Law of Media Latency Nothing the media writes\/says about any emotionally charged event \u2013 a mass shooting, a police shooting, anything \u2013 should be taken seriously for 48 hours after the original incident. &nbsp;It will largely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,7,22],"tags":[361],"class_list":["post-84791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-fragility","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament","tag-spree-killings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84791"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84800,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84791\/revisions\/84800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}