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Media Bias and Mislabeling: The Truth Behind Two July 7th Attacks

 This episode of The 10th Man examines the misleading narratives surrounding two tragic events that occurred on the same date: the London bombings on July 7, 2005, and the Detroit block party shooting on July 7, 2024. The discussion highlights how media and government labeling can distort public perception, focusing on the differences in how these incidents were portrayed and the implications for gun control policy. It critically analyzes the motivations behind such narratives and questions why some forms of violence, like bombings, are relegated to the background while shootings are spotlighted to push a disarmament agenda.

 

00:00 Introduction: Mislabeling Tragedies

01:50 The London Bombings of July 7, 2005

02:53 Media Manipulation and Gun Control

04:11 The Detroit Block Party Shooting of July 7, 2024

06:16 Comparing Reactions: Terrorism vs. Gun Violence

07:11 Global Perspective on Mass Violence

10:40 Conclusion: The Real Agenda Behind the Headlines

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Episode Transcript

The Tenth Man (00:00):
It is July the seventh and the anniversary of
two mass shootings that werenot, how the government and the
press deliberately mislabeledtragedy today on the 10th man.

(00:21):
Today on the 10th man, we'retalking about two attacks with
the same date.
July 7th, 2005, 20 years ago,bombs ripped through the London
underground.
The subway with 52 killed, over700 injured, and July 7th, 2024
gunfire erupts at a so-calledblock party in Detroit.

(00:43):
Two dead 19 injured.
But only one of these eventsgets labeled a mass shooting,
and it's not the one thatleveled a bus.
So let's dissect how headlineslie and how fake statistics
mislead.
Looking at two events, bothtragic, but only one has been
weaponized by the media tojustify disarming you.

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Every time there's a shooting inthe US Democrats, the un
European elites and the medialine up to lecture Americans
about their gun rights.
But here's the irony.
The greatest danger to theaverage citizen in the west
hasn't been rogue rifle owners.
It's been radical Islamic terrorand the most devastating mass

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attacks.
They weren't shootings we'retold that Detroit's 2:00 AM gang
chaos is a mass shooting onethat demands international
concern.
But when coordinated bombers,murder commuters in London, that
doesn't count because they'renot actually trying to stop
violence.
They're trying to stop you fromhaving your rights.

(01:50):
July 7th, 2005.
Morning rush hour in London.
Four.
British-born Jihadists carryhomemade bombs in backpacks.
They've got hydrogen peroxide,pepper, a timer, and hate all
the ingredients for mass murder.
They board three undergroundtrains and one red double decker
bus at 8:45 AM the explosions.

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Begin first at Alders Gate.
Seven dead.
170 injured just seconds later.
Edgeware Road six dead 160.
Injured at eight 50 RussellSquare, 26 dead.
340 injured.
And at 9 47 at TVIs Stock Squarebus 13 dead 100 injured.

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52 people were killed.
Over 700 people were injured.
Most of them victims who werejust trying to go to work, the
attackers used everydaymaterials to create their
weapons.
There were no semi-automatics,no high capacity magazines, no
ghost guns, and no American gunculture to blame, and yet the

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attack has been forgotten aftera mass shooting at a school in
GR, Austria in June, 2025.
The Washington Post ran a widelyshared chart on global mass
shootings to show how dangerousall the guns in America are.
Of course, only two massshootings were listed for the UK
on this chart of all the massshootings since the year 2000,

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and it wasn't seven sevenbecause the seven seven attacks
weren't a shooting.
And shootings are all that countto fake news outlets like the
Washington Post.
And since it wasn't a gun,Britain didn't respond by
attacking the tools.
They didn't go after beautysupplies and chemical
fertilizers.

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They responded with moreintelligence, sharing more
resources from MI five andtraining the public to report
danger.
They went after the terroristnetworks, not the tools they use
and not citizens.
Which raises the real question,why don't our politicians and
media all over the world treatterrorism as a greater threat?

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Because now, jump forward 19years.
Same date, July 7th, 2024,Detroit, Michigan.
A so-called block party, butthis wasn't families grilling
burgers on the sidewalk.
It wasn't couples strollingthrough the neighborhood,
meeting new friends and greetingold ones.
It was a Snapchat flash mob.

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300 strangers swarmed aresidential neighborhood, and it
was the middle of the afternoon.
No, it was the middle of thenight.
No one from the block hosted it.
On the contrary, streets wereblocked and locals were trapped
in their homes at 2:25 AM andremember, 2:25 PM would be a
good time for a block party, butthis was am and gunfire suddenly

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erupted.
There were multiple shooters, atleast one illegal block switch
homemade.
One and more than a hundredrounds were fired.
Nearly a dozen handguns wererecovered.
Two people died in 19 more werewounded.
They tell us that armed citizensshould be disarmed and that, and

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that we should rely on thepolice.
But in Detroit, a year ago, justa month prior, when the police
came, they started shooting andtwo people were hit.
One of them died at anotherso-called block party, and this
became the headline End of theday.
It entered the gun violencearchive as a mass shooting.

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The Detroit police actuallyhandled the aftermath while
arresting shooters and crackingdown on future gatherings.
There wasn't any knee jerk guncontrol.
They left that to the statelegislature.
Detroit treated the actualbehavior, but the media didn't
tell that story.
They called it Michigan'sbiggest mass shooting ever.
And they invoked Parkland andUvalde and Columbine, except

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that this wasn't a school orsome other public gathering
place.
It wasn't daytime, it wasn'trandom, and it wasn't even a
block party.
And still it was used to indictthe Second Amendment.
What do you think of when theysay there's been a mass murder,
and which one of these twoevents fits the London bombing?

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Targeted people on their way towork?
The Detroit shooting involvespeople breaking the law at 2:00
AM.
London, a terrorist cell withcommuters as victims.
Detroit a Flash Mob, bystanders,victims and shooters were all
active participants in thechaos.
But only one gets labeled a massshooting.
Only one is used to push policy.

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Only one makes it into politicalspeeches because only one fits
the agenda.
Gun rights have to be attacked,so violence must be redefined.
Tragedies are ranked not byseverity, but by usefulness.
So the 2:00 AM block party andonly the 2:00 AM block party and
double murder earns the title ofmass shooting according to the

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media.
Even in America, our biggestdanger is not shootings, but
bombings.
The Oklahoma City attack in 1995on the Murra Federal Building
was a bombing.
Our biggest school attack, bath,Michigan in 1927 was a bombing
nine 11 involved four giantflying bombs.

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And remember, even the Columbineshooting was not a lone shooter,
but two conspirators and whatwas meant to be a bombing.
And since 19 79, 60 6,000Islamic terror attacks globally.
Most were bombings, some werestabbings, a few used cars and
trucks, and without the SecondAmendment to protect them, what

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were Europe's worst masskillings.
They were not AR fifteens.
Nice France, 20 16 86 peoplekilled by a truck.
Manchester Arena in the uk.
20 17, 22 people killed and over1000 injured by a bomb at a
concert.

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Paris twenty fifteen, a hundredthirty, killed by bombs and
machine guns, terrorists sprayedgunfire on people who could not
shoot back.
So tell us what good it does toban AR fifteens in high capacity
magazines in civilian hands.
And why don't these incidentsmake the Washington Post chart?

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Because they're not gun violenceand gun violence is the
narrative.
The July 17th, 2024 block partymass shooting was the star entry
in the database of the gunviolence archive for that day.
The gun violence archive is thefavorite source of the anti-gun
media because they'll count anyincident with four people shot,

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even if they're only scratched.
And it doesn't matter who.
It doesn't matter why.
It doesn't matter where.
The US does not have a gunproblem.
It has an urban crime problem.
But the government and themainstream media are not
interested in attacking crimebecause it's easier to attack
guns.
So the gun violence archivenumbers get plastered across the

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headlines reported by CNN andcited by members of government
and worse.
They're used by foreign mediaand global institutions to argue
that America is uniquely violentand irresponsible when it's
actually the safest place onearth.
Meanwhile, a coordinated bombingof public transport with 52

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dead, not a mass shooting,therefore not relevant.
The media, the government, andinternational bodies like the un
ignore bombings because bombingsdon't justify banning your guns.
Human rights are dangerous.
That's what makes them sacred.
You can misuse free speech, youcan abuse due process, you can

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misuse firearms, but none ofthat means your rights
disappear.
And still, every time there's anurban shootout in America,
foreign politicians wag theirfingers.
The un condemns the EU lectures,Democrats quote Europe as the
model, but Europe has terror,knife attacks, asset attacks,

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mass stabbings, truck rampages.
They disarmed their citizens,and now those citizens get
bombed.
Instead, we kept our guns and weget blamed for their problems.
Two events, same day of theyear.
Different reactions.
The London bombing RealTerrorism, random Victims, A

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potential threat to everyone whojust wants to live a normal
life.
The Detroit shooting a criminalgathering, preventable,
localized, and exaggerated.
But only Detroit becamepolitical ammunition.
Only Detroit was added to thefake numbers.
Only Detroit triggered new criesfor control of the people
because the people in chargearen't trying to stop danger.

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They're trying to stop you.
If bombs don't count, but pop-upparties do.
You are being lied to.