While I agree that the news coverage of these horrors doesn’t really help to prevent other twisted people from being inspired to copycat...
It’s still a reactive fix.
I want a more proactive fix:
Arm more good guys.
At least arm the principal. There should be stun guns available too. Actually maybe all schools should have one or two paid armed guards. If that shooter was breaking into the school, the armed guards would have shot him before he hurt anyone else.
As I retired teacher, I think a stun gun locked in a file cabinet might have kept the shooter away from my students. Gun control only disarms the law abiding people. How about banning violent video games. Children imitate what they see.
The more criminals who are immediately killed the less copy cats will arise. All the publicity is just priming the next crazy killer for his day of fame. I blame the news media for this too.