Who is hiding the many hideous images of 10 victims blown apart by bullets fired by a black-hating gunman at a Buffalo market?

BEST COVERAGE: The best reporting I've seen on the slaughter inside Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y., on May 15 was published in The New York Times, which recounted surviving employees' encounter with the gunman or what he or she did upon hearing gunshots. The photo was supplied by the Associated Press.

News media have been censoring

mass shooting for decades

By VICTOR E. SASSON

EDITOR

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Has censorship slowed permanent reform of gun-control laws as we witness one horrific mass shooting after another stretching back decades?

Have the news media decided to hide the horrific images of gunshot victims in Buffalo, N.Y., and has that censorship allowed many congressional officials to withhold their support for a permanent nationwide ban on military style assault weapons like the one used by the gunman?

Little of the reporting I saw even discussed Buffalo's size and prominence in New York State or its location on one of the great lakes and the Canadian border.

Blood and gore

I recall another supermarket shooting where one of the victims was shown on the floor, but the wounds were obscured by a gauzy quality that was added to dull the impact.

In most shootings, as in the Tops slaughter on May 15, no images have been broadcast or published as far as I know.

The gunman, who live streamed the shooting from a camera attached to his helmet, was arrested and is now being held for indictment and trial.