And many students will now go out and get Ismail-Ax tatoos.
If I was in charge of a network, I’d tell the news division they can only run photos like Cho’s if they had a caption like “Yes: the shooter had a small penis”, “probable virgin” or “loser” plastered over them. THAT might help discourage copycats.
I don’t think you can narrow this to NBC. All the networks were showing this creep. I wish you we could do a massive search of the FArchives and replaces his images with those of the murdered Israeli Proffesor.
I don’t think we gained anything by listening to this speech by a psychotic.
I hope they find him soon. Schools may not even be his target.
If he would have sent his package to O’Reilly or Geraldo at Fox News the pictures and video would have never been broadcast. /sarcasm
I hope they find him soon. Schools may not even be his target.
NBC was the first to air, but certainly not the only.
For the record, I did watch allot of the NBC coverage. Perhaps I shouldn’t have but based on the ratings, I wasn’t alone.
But to be fair, the videos are everywhere, google, youtube, etc and has gotten millions of viewers.
NBC or not, Cho’s video would have been very well traveled by now.
There were copycat threats before NBC aired the footage and there would’ve continued to be some even if they didn’t air it.
From what I’ve heard on the radio here the guy is a well known meth-head. Claims to have an ak-47, IEDs, poison and wants to commit suicide by cop.
Putting blame on NBC is like blaming the VTech police.
I blame the crazy people, myself.
My son is a detective for a college police department. He said they are getting numerous calls and threats.
When they catch the transient they’ll probably find he was just asking for some change.
But seriously, they need to make an example of this guy, but in Kalifornia they’ll probably just give him a good talking to and send him on his way.
I seriously doubt that the video is what caused this guy to act. It’s not like he was fine until yesterday evening right after he watched the 6 o’clock news.
Rush took NBC, it’s cable network PMSNBC and the Drive-by media to task today. I have never heard him so angry and upset. NBC is to blame for the copycat BS.
students hardly do any work at school anymore anyways, maybe it's not such a bad thing to lock down schools regardless. I'd rather them lock down schools than our weapons.
-—I suspect we can pretty well write off students learning anything the rest of the school year nation-wide—
I lived in North Hollywood and went to Bellarmine-Jefferson High School in the early 60’s. I think that school is still there. We used to play sports at Burbank high since we didn’t have a field. We’ve since moved to Boise, Idaho.
for many years it was our custom to pour clothes washing soap into the fountain of the burbank city hall. Well we did it twice... so wasn’t much of a custom. anyways, have a great day.
Gary
Nothing to worry about. I have been told over and over on this board that drugs only hurt the user himself. < /s >
Expect to see a ton of scares and a ton of false alarms in the next few weeks. Idiots will be trying to take advantage of this to scare people and authorities will be on a hair trigger.