Through the different platforms, we get information from multiple competing narratives about the issue of gun control and gun violence. There is a gap between what is actual reality and misinformation. Depending on what media form one is exposed to determines their perception of topic despite the tragedies that occur in reality. The media glorifies shooting in a way that adds to this ongoing issue. At the same time, the media has given a platform to give voice to activism on gun control. With this constant output of misinformation, shared ideologies cannot be obtained across demographics.
There is a significant ongoing debate which has been guided by different platforms of media addressing the issue of gun control in several different perspectives. One of the catastrophic events to draw attention toward, and spark the intense conversation challenging the issue of gun control is the tragic shooting that occurred in the diverse community Parkland, Florida. This is an ongoing upsetting topic that will continue to progress until the real issues causing it are uncovered and resolved. This is an issue that, after the multiple recent cataclysmic events that have occurred in this country, will never be the same again.
The media has single-handedly formatted the way in which we perceive this issue, along with many others. The controversy of gun control is one that has been exposed, but in a way, has digressed due to the way that the media strategically structures the argument, regardless of its various standpoints, to direct you towards one belief. Ultimately, deterring us from the real dispute at hand. Misinformation provided by media, split opinions causing divisions in people and constant opposing arguments, along with the issue of gun control are of the utmost importance when it comes to concerns that need to be illuminated.
#NeverAgain, #EnoughIsEnough, #ParklandShooting, #ParklandStudentsSpeak, #ParklandStrong, and #ParklandStudents just to name a few, are some of the other hashtags created that are relevant to this school shooting. All of these trending hashtags on Twitter are so prevalent to this conversation and analysis of information, for they say so much with such few words. With twitter, all the different topics of the subject matter are brought up, views are vocalized, and interpretations vary.
Each one of which gives perspective and another lens to this matter. The movement #MarchForOurLives is one that is just getting started, displaying how amazing kids are and how, with the tools of modern social media, they have the ability to show so much more authority and initiate versus the adults’ politics.
Overall, this movement is torn between many issues but the movement students are creating is allowing us to get to the core of this problem. Seeing the victims and the people affected by these catastrophic, depressing events is poignant to people and causing them to stand up and make a difference. Media distracts us from the actual problem due to the fabricated, messy conundrums set up around the circumstance to make the policy of gun control complicated when it could feasibly be very simple.
These various forms of news have many opposing views making a unified change a nearly impossible to happen, while this problem continues to get worse. Certain forms of media magnify this problem but it is no secret that social media and the news makes it so that opposing arguments can happen while no set solution is obtained.
Due to shootings being publicized the media makes it look somewhat accepted that these sorts of things happen in our society, which should never be the case. They attention brought towards the shooters instead of the victims can also be an inspiration for the potential threat of the next school shooter. Media focusing on victims instead of the shooters would create a different sense of how the issue was perceived.
Also, social media platforms are another hub for these trouble minds to gather. The shooter made these blatantly obvious statements of his plans, which should have stopped this from occurring, which is familiar re-occurrence in all these instances. The media is all the blame whether it is television, online, or through and smart device for constant misinformation across all platforms, the defiant split between the common people on all important topics, and for this gross neglect of the issue of gun control.
