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You're comparing a neighborhood of Boston to one of the largest cities in the US.
A more apt comparison would be the West University Place suburb of Houston that has roughly the same population density and similar size as JP. It's an older Houston suburb.
A "dense" suburban area would be something Jamaica in Queens, NYC. That has something like 6 times the density of JP.
>It is dense
It's absolutely not dense, probably less dense than newer suburbs with smaller lots.
>walkable, and extremely beautiful.
I'll give you that, it definitely looks beautiful.
No he didn't. He had just defended himself against two assailants, while trying to flee. He was never, at any point in time, an "active shooter".
An "active shooter" is "an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area; in most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims."[0]
He had a pattern of selection. Kyle shot and neutralized those who were trying to kill him (or cause grievious bodily harm). That is, by definition, self-defense, not an "active shooter" event.
[0] https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/active_shooter_booklet.p...
QED.
Luckily that wasn't the case here so your comment is immaterial, a straw man.
No, there are objective studies of bias.
>Isn’t it simply relative to one’s own bias?
No, there are left, center, and right sides of the political spectrum.
>A consequence of how one measures it?
No. You can objectively measure these things regardless of where you personally lie on the political spectrum.
There's literally a science behind this: political science [0]
A publicly funded media arm having an ideological bias is scary.
Some have never even heard of it, or seen it in the wild.