Mass Hysteria

     Well folks this might be my last post on my oh so sad blog, but what a better way to end the world with one last blog about the mass hysteria that the world has been consumed in.  First off I am not a believer in the end of the world happening on December 21st 2012 and here are some reasons.  December 21st happens at different times all around the world so while I am writing this post the world should have ended and when it is the 21st for people it will be the 22nd for others.  Also could it be that the Mayans just ran out of space on their giant stone slab.  But enough of that, in the United States we have become obsessed with what the mass media says.
     The media controls every aspect of what happens in the world, people see/hear what the news has to offer and they re-post it to various social websites.  When posted on the social sites many people get the bare bones of the news.  So when the shooting in Connecticut happened, my condolences to the family who lost loved ones in the shooting, everyone got up in arms about safety of schools because the media asked the question "How safe are our schools?" everyone assumes because there are no armed guards that schools are not safe.  I went to school with a bunch of drunk rednecks, thugs, and preppy kids and not once did we have a shooting.  School shootings are a rare occurrence, hell mass shootings are a rare occurrence, our schools and other public locations are safe so media quit scaring people.  Quit blaming guns while you are at it guns do not kill people they are used by people to kill people.
    Going off the shooting in CT the kid was messed up in the head, his parents knew that but they did not do anything to help him.  He got the guns from his mom, they were not even his guns, so if we want to blame someone lets blame the mother for not noticing her child was messed up and for not locking up her guns.  It is one of the first things we are taught in gun safety keep the guns locked up and away from kids and people who are at risk of using them for harm.  It is not the guns fault that they were not locked up properly and a disturbed kid used them to shoot a bunch of kids its the owners fault for not locking up the guns.  So the media should not scare people by saying how unsafe the schools are, the schools are safe because parents watch out for their children.
     Media takes things way out of proportion, they do so to get viewers, the media is no longer about news but about viewers and ratings.  I can think about one huge example besides the shooting the recent presidential election.  Fox news was the major offender, as the polls were still open fox was saying President Obama had won.  They said this for one reason to get viewers, if people thought fox had an inside with the election they would choose to watch the news on fox versus other stations.  We need to take the media back what happened to people who actually took the news serious? We need more people who take news serious and care about the news.  This is my challenge for anyone who reads this. I want someone who takes news serious and delivers it the proper way with facts.
     Next time you hear something on the news think twice before you flip out about it, read from several sources and make your own opinion.