The One-Minute Meeting

Newly released videos show the shooter who killed six people in a Nashville church school roaming the corridors with two AR-15 assault rifles searching for somebody to kill. News organizations worldwide posted the video online. I will argue today that there is no justification to show that video except to generate pageviews. Nashville police released lightly edited body camera video from the heroic police officers who faced the killer and stopped the bloodshed. There is value in showing the bravery of these officers while not sharing the moment they killed the shooter.

I am not pressing for sanitized coverage of mass murders. In fact, I will point you today to The Washington Post’s thoughtful and yet hard-to-watch animation that shows why AR-15 rifle rounds are so deadly. You will see how the Post justifies the use of the imagery, what the journalists did to verify the content’s accuracy and contextualizations of the findings. The reporters make the point that perhaps not showing this imagery in the past has contributed to the public’s lack of understanding about why the AR-15 is so lethal.

We will take a glance at why realtors in Los Angeles are franticly trying to sell mansions this week. The city kicks in a new mansion tax April 1 that sellers of $5 million-plus homes must pay. If you are in the market for a big ol’ LA crib this would be the time to pony up.

I will also take a nostalgic motorized trip through the history of the Camero now that Chevrolet says it will stop production of the muscle car in January. Some electric vehicle buyers are installing apps that link to their motors to make their EVs sound like the gas-hog sports cars of days gone by. It sounds a bit like buying generic peanut butter and passing it off as Skippy. Give me the real thing or don’t bother.