Ultimatehero
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Now this New Mexico kid was 15 and killed his family, then wanted to go to Wal-Mart to kill others and hoped he would die in a shootout.
I seriously hate that these things get on the news. STOP MAKING SHOOTERS INTO CELEBRITIES! Think back to school shootings - we know the shooters, do you know any of the names of the victims? Just one? Has the news ever focused on the story of a victim or a hero? And if it has, hasn't it always been over shadowed by the story of the killer? All news is telling people right now is "shoot somebody, you'll be famous." Psychopaths don't need that message.
"The media can be a powerful ally."
"Oh yeah? Guess again."
Just everything that's been going on and all of this news coverage really brought that film to mind.
To me the main thing to blame here is how the news portrays these events. Most killers now are just pathetic people craving for attention any way they know how and they know that the news will give that to them ten-fold. And the news gives that because that's what people are constantly going after. You want to take away their lingering presence - you have to take away the response they get. Focus on the victim, a survivor, or the cop. Don't create copy-cats.
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