Does the Media Cause Mass Shootings?

frontpagemag.com ^ | Feb 1, 2013 | Daniel Greenfield

[Bigg Red]

Never understood what people get out of placing teddy bears at a death shrine.

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I was thinking about this phenomenon recently. So stupid when I see coverage of some blubbering woman who had never even heard of the child show up with a stuffed animal.

My conclusion is that they are just hoping to be a part of the celebrity/notoriety of the whole event. It is a disgusting facet of our media culture.

[TurboZamboni]

fine them for every uttered or print version of a mass murderer’s name.

I’m sure they’d have no problem with ‘reasonable regulations’ placed on the 1st amendment.

[MasterGunner01]

This is too easy: Of course it does! Media coverage describes in detail how the perp did the deed and encourages copycats.

When other attacks happen, the Media acts shocked. innocent, and pure as wind driven snow.

[Girlene]

Never understood what people get out of placing teddy bears at a death shrine.

Me either. Was this happening prior to the Princess Diana death/funeral? The only time I understood it was after 911; the whole nation WAS grieving.

[Hardastarboard]

Ideas are more powerful than weapons. Weapons can kill a man, but ideas can cause a man to kill.

Number of people murdered in the cause of Communism (the very same intellectual thread that drives liberals) - 100 million in less than 100 years.

Number of people killed with rifles of any kind in 2011 - less than 400. Times a hypothetical 100 years is 40,000.

There's no comparison.

[marktwain]

The MSM is far more the cause of these shootings than any rifle manufacturer.

The 24/7 coverage of mass shootings, in the hope of ramping up more gun control, is the equivalent of shouting Fire! in a crowded school.

[GOPJ]

Stephen King, who recently jumped into the fray with his own gun control screed, was credited with inspiring one of the first clusters of school shootings in the United States. To his credit, King has wrestled with the question, withdrawing “Rage” from sale and conceding that it had an incendiary effect on troubled minds. To his discredit, King has used that action to argue that gun owners, manufacturers and civil rights groups should agree to a ban on the mythical assault rifle.

Thank you Daniel Greenfield ... Thanks for calling him out.