Yes, denying the horror their experience because it doesn'y match the narrative the corporate M$M wants to craft, seems really mean--like pouring salt in their wounds.
Here's the thing. I do not think anyone is unequivocally denying the voices of victims. What people are saying is that it can be extremely difficult and daunting, even
impossible to verify the veracity of information (video, posts, identity, etc) posted on social media, you tube, blogs etc.
The veracity of a source is important. Citing reliable and acceptable sources is very important when stating information as "fact". Like it or not, MSM will vet their sources, and if an error in reporting is made, reliable journalism and MSM will retract and correct any misinformation reported. Due to the ensuing chaos during an event like this even MSM gets it wrong at times. The difference is that due to ethics they will retract. This does not happen on random corners of the internet and SM. People do and say whatever they want on SM. There is no way to verify the veracity. Sadly, the information age is full of consumption of misinformation due to this. I think it is our responsibility as consumers to vet our sources logically.
Videos on youtube or SM can be edited to reflect untruths. Further, videos can also be interpreted by the public incorrectly, whether innocently , or because a person wants to believe a certain narrative or conspiracy regardless of the truth.
A point on somehow dismissing victim narratives consumed on SM or on the internet:
1) Maybe the person posting is an actual victim and maybe not. Please see the rash of scam go fund me accounts that have been created in the wake of this tragedy and others. Please see the presence of attention seekers like Brianna who spread false information in the wake of the tragedy. (Hispanic woman "warned us) . Please see how even MSM has gotten it wrong in past shootings due to chaos and how they retracted misinformation when internet sites and SM never did.
2) If the people posting these recollections are actually survivors of this horrifically traumatic event, I do not believe anyone on this forum seeks to dismiss a survivor or a victim's experience. It is important to understand the dissociative symptoms that occur
during the experience of such horrific trauma due to your psyche being overwhelmed. It is important to understand how perception can be clouded during terror and mass chaos. (Ie no one knew where the shots were coming from, victim after victim testified to that) It's a normal reaction to an abnormal situation and is well documented, understood, and researched. Traumatic memories and recollections are different than everyday normative experience memories and recollections.
In light of all of that, I do not believe that saying survivors may have been confused and absolutely terrified during the event which may have effected their recollections of
specific detail (how many shooters, where shots were coming from) that no-one could have understood during that time is dismissive. It is just realistic.
It also does not mean that their sensory experiences of the traumatic event are not authentic. They are authentic. That is how they experienced the sounds while they were flooded with terror and in the midst of a life and death situation.
We know, definitively , through LE 's repeated assertion, with all of the evidence and resources that they have at their disposal and not our own, that there was
only one shooter.