The public has a right to know his identity.
It's one thing to say their name, but it's ridiculous how much they microanalyze every little detail of their life. It's like an attention whore's dream. We hear about their relationships, their political beliefs, their religion or lack thereof, their insane ramblings throughout the Internet, how they argued with their mom on April 8, 2003 about drinking too much soda...
Only release the name if it’s Jim Bob. If it’s Mohammed or Abdul, no!
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We have to know their names so we don’t make a Star Wars movie with the hero called John Wayne Gacy instead of Luke Skywalker.
Apparently, Lott doesn’t know of this thing called “The Internet”. The name will get out and the longer it takes, the more scrubbing and adjustments will occur by the time the public finds out who the shooter is. People have a right to know who and why.
Of course, their dead naked body should also be put on public display with encouragements to ridicule him too. If they survive the shooting, they should be quickly executed by firing squad and that should be public as well. The same is true for tough guy gang-bangers. Let the copycats see how their heroes wound up—a dead and humiliated hunk of limp meat on a slab.
Why not? Naming them shows that they are liberals.
I think the media is just trying to hide the fact that the shooters are liberals.
No, no, a thousand times no. Setting up “secrecy of the press” is just setting us up for something like the recent affair in England, where someone was hustled away by the police for the non-existent “crime” of filming a Muslim gang being walked into the court...and the members of the press not only were told they could not report it, but those who had already done so had to remove their reports from on-line versions of their publications.
Suppressing their identification is the worst thing we could do. It’s the first step to suppressing freedom of the press. It’s also the first step towards shutting down FR and all independent information exchanges.
Media immortality.
Any loser who can shoot up a school or church resulting in a mass casualty even can get their 15 minutes of fame.
Its the first and only time in their life someone noticed them and they became famous overnight.
Even the bad guys get publicity.
Well they do refrain from mentioning any (D) in a story but put up an (R) right at the beginning of any story about a Republican.
Yeah that’s what we need, pointless failed censorship. People will find out, it’s how things work. Might as well report it, since that is kind of their job.
The potential abuses from a practice of concealing the identities of perpetrators of heinous crimes are too numerous to name. Justice demands identification.
Or, do the opposite.
Name them, make them open to public abuse, shaming and humiliation.
There’s a reason public pillories were used in the past.
Rather than living in their own fantasy world, shut off from the public and served by Federal corrections officials, people like Dylan Cruz would think many times before committing their acts if they knew public humiliation awaited them.
They should treat it as child porn.
Its the 24/7 microanalyzing by the ratings only creeps. The crazy people see that and they try to do the same evil deed...cuz they are mentally ill. Stop feeding the mentally ill with ideas. Mind control works with constant repetition of ads...why not with 24/7 reporting of horrific crimes.
The right to know is fine. But the right to be plastered all over the news for two weeks is something we can give up. The media is not doing this for the right to know. They are selling soap while playing up every detail of the event. And of course teaching the next crazy how to get attention.
Do not name them and the headline will be:
NRA Life Member and Registered Republican/Trump Supporter Was Shooter...….sources say.
The media knows so many people lust after salacious news.
To just name the shooter of a mass shooting - O.K. the shooter is identified - might be enough “news”, but instead we get 24/7 coverage of the shooting & the shooter & all the politics claiming one thing or another surrounding the event, for weeks on end; and voila the shooter is mass famous.
Give name one time. No picture. No interviews with neighbors who say “he was such a nice, quiet boy.” No publication of manifesto. No publication of Facebook postings.
I’ve seen that video breathlessly hyped a couple times on local news shows. Meanwhile I’m yelling at the TV “WHY ARE YOU MORONS GIVING A FUTURE KILLER ENCOURAGEMENT!?!?”