The BS BuzzSaw

 

                Another day, another social media friend goes bye-bye. This time it was over This Fresh Conspiracy that the tragic, fatal shooting of a reporter Alison Parker and her cameraman Adam Ward in Virginia on the morning of Wednesday, August 26 was actually a ‘false flag’ hoax meant to give the government an excuse to ‘take our guns’. The theory is that this was a staged event, and the author goes on to explain the events that ‘prove’ it must be a hoax.... because what actually happened can only be construed according to his presuppositions. The author engages in a ‘black and white’ logical fallacy, stating that ‘because we didn’t see x, then y must be a lie.

See if you can spot the BS yourselves, then I’ll have at it: (Again, GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                Okay, did you catch that?

So apparently, according to the author of this piece, the following things MUST be true:

1) That everyone who is ever shot immediately drops to the ground dead or dying.

The truth: People are shot all the time and in many, many cases not only remain on their feet, but their adrenalin kicks them into action and they either run or fight. Ask any cop what their training has told them, and they will agree that shooting someone is no guarantee that they will drop dead. If that were the case, hunters would never have to learn to track game they shot.

2) That in the one second between the first shot and when the reporter runs out of view, we were supposed to see bullet holes and founts of blood.... even though her blouse was black.

The truth: Clearly people watch too many movies. But not ALL movie watchers are so naïve that they think bullet holes are supposed to be big obvious explosions issuing from a person’s chest. For one, we only see the shooting in the video for about a second. Two, the video is not high quality. Also, the reporter is wearing a loose black blouse, and she starts moving right away. Under those circumstances, actually seeing bullet holes less than a centimeter in diameter would be virtually impossible.
As for the blood, anyone who’s shot any living thing knows that blood does not always gush forth from a gunshot wound in less than one second from the time of entry. In most cases, the blood takes a few seconds to ‘well up’ and start pouring from the wound. The only time we see major blood spray is when a major vein or artery is hit. Thank Hollywood for unrealistic expectations.

3) That all shooters have to make some exclamation before opening fire.

The truth: I don’t even have to, that one’s just plain stupid right on it’s face.  Not having a catch phrase before a shooting rampage does not mean that the shooter didn’t kill anyone.

4) That because the reporter, interviewee, and cameraman didn’t notice the threat for 20 seconds ‘proves’ they were in on it.

The truth: Even in the video, we can clearly see that the full attention of the reporter, interviewee, and (of course) the cameraman are on the interview taking place. At no point in the video do any of them look in the direction of the perpetrator. So the, “Why didn’t they do something sooner?” question is plainly ignorant of the actual circumstances.

5) That because the hand holding the gun in the video appears to be white, and the shooter is reported to be black, then it MUST be staged.

The truth: Here’s the gunman:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not only is the gunman VERY pale for a black man, but he appears to have a condition called “Vitiligo”. Vitiligo causes pigment cells to die off and occurs most often in ethnic Africans. Given those two points, it’s easy to conclude that of course the hand in the video could pass as a white man’s hand.

There are more silly points, including what appears to be a mistaken time stamp on a news release.... for which there are any number of rational explanations. The above  five examples are more than enough to prove that the author is relying on people’s ignorance, media conditioning, and willingness to believe that something nefarious is happening in order to fool people.

But WHY?!?

Interesting side note: Every time one of these shooting related false-flag conspiracies circulates among paranoid gun nuts, gun and ammo sales skyrocket.

So perhaps there is a conspiracy here. Not to “Tek ar gunz!”, but to use a tragedy to peddle a cocked-up conspiracy and get all the gun nuts (sane gun owners don’t fall for this crap) to go out and get fleeced so that the gun industry to turn a nice profit. Maybe we need to look into the guy who created this conspiracy rather than suspect the very tragic victims of another senseless shooting.

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