Posted on 03/13/2014 11:28:39 AM PDT by marktwain
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Police Chief William J. McMahon said that the Maryland shooter who killed two innocent people in a mall skateboard shop was fascinated with the Columbine shooting from 1999. A foxnews.com report quotes McMahon as saying that the shooter knew he had mental problems:
Media focus on mass shooting events has been known to spawn copycats for years. Clayton Cramer wrote a paper about the ethical problems of intense media coverage of these events in 1993, and won an award for it."He knows he's sick. He knows he has problems that need to be addressed. He writes it in his journal. He writes in his journal he's not comfortable talking to his mother about it," McMahon said, adding that there was no indication he ever spoke with anyone about his concerns.
"We're not going to help him have that notoriety," McMahon said in explaining why police did not release that photo Wednesday.Restraint of the mass media feeding frenzy of coverage of these events seem unlikely, given that they are viewed as a means of achieving the political results that the old media finds desirable.
Police did release a different picture Aguilar took of himself holding the shotgun he used in the shooting, a picture believed to have been taken in his bedroom.
Confirmation of the Columbine connection is reported in the New York Times:
"A high-profile gun violence incident temporarily draws more people into the conversation about gun violence," added the talking points. "We should rely on emotionally powerful language, feelings and images to bring home the terrible impact of gun violence," said the guide, which also urged advocates use images of scary looking guns and shooting scenes to make their point.
... had apparently waited to open fire at 11:14 a.m. the beginning of the Columbine shooting, during which two Colorado high school students killed 12 classmates as well as a teacher and wounded others before killing themselves.
Like I said a thousand times, when the media glorifies mass killers they encourage imitators.
They splash the picture all over the news. They give the first, middle and last name. They obsess over it. This gives the POS fame and recognition.
This inspires other mentally deranged POS to do the same, imagining that they will be famous.
The media will never do the responsible thing - too much money to be made.
The media will never do the responsible thing - too much money to be made.
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And an opportunity to push their anti-gun agenda.
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