It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and
watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall
shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household
names, but do you know the name of a single victim of Columbine?
Disturbed
people who would
otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want
to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way.
Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a
horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.
CNN's article says
that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second
deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make
one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of
third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the
shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on
all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus
on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen
yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media,
you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day
care center or a maternity ward next.
You can help by
forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at
least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research
instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by
turning off the news."
Well said whoever you are, I would like to shake your hand"
people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.
CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.
You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news."
Well said whoever you are, I would like to shake your hand"
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