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"IT’S LIKE WE WERE SOLD A FALSE NARRATIVE BY A MEDIA EAGER TO ENABLE DEMOCRATS’ ELECTION-YEAR RACE-BAITING OR SOMETHING" --Glenn Reynolds. 

Well, yeah, but it's not just for the whole race thing.  When there is a shooting it's even money if the story hits big that it will be used to push a false narrative of SOME flavor, no matter the truth behind it all.  Luckily the truth gets out easier, kyboshing their narrative. 

Often this narrative is gun control related instead of race, or other, related.

Imagine how much slipped past the truth seekers in the day before the democratization of the news media?  Back then the only outlet would have been marginal pubs that don't reach a big diversity of eyeballs.  Like only seeing actual self-defense stories in American Rifleman months after.  Now the same stories that just would get there get out into more mainstream situations.