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Background Information
Emotionally powerful to connect the news event to a charged political issue: campus police officers carrying guns. This is propaganda because it links a current event to a policy issue using emotion. Beneficial.
Technique Used
Activate Emotion
This is propaganda because
On my Facebook: A New York Times reporter is offering his opinion about the police shooting of a mentally-ill student at Georgia Tech. This is a plea for increased regulation of guns.

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    Eric
    Wed, 09/20/2017 - 03:25
    Eric
    I believe that this is harmful because it fails to recognize the situation that the officer was put in. Obviously I believe a better ending to this story would have been to try and use non lethals like pepper spray or a taser but in the moment when it is a man with a knives versus you I believe you would defend yourself. This officer doesn't know this persons intent and all he knows in the moment is that he is a threat and needs to be treated as a threat. I wish it turned out with everybody walking away unharmed but sometimes these issues are not as black and white as they seem.
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    Megan
    Sun, 11/12/2017 - 00:15
    Megan
    I'm not sure how I see this as totally beneficial. Yes, there needs to be some form of training for campus police. Although I'm not sure that this is the way to promote that fact.
    I was in the majority percentage of the ratings which was nice to see. This definitely bodes well for the increase and activation of emotion.
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    Joshua
    Tue, 03/20/2018 - 22:51
    Joshua
    I do not think this person realizes that this man is at a bad place. "The knife this student was carrying was a threat to nobody but himself" does not make sense. He is acting eradic and unpredictble so to ensure the saftey of the cop and other students he did was was necassary. It would have been a lot better if no one were to die but the cop made the right move.
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    Applepie
    Thu, 03/29/2018 - 21:58
    Applepie
    People kill people not guns

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