Gunmen and the media

Another young guy went on a crazy shooting spree. Then, way too many news outlets plastered the killer’s name and face on TV.

When will the morons running our media learn that immortalizing these guys’ names encourages future behavior in like-minded people? We don’t need to learn about the killer’s sad poems or video games habits. I don’t care that he never got laid.

Yes, there are lessons to learn from these shootings. But making a man famous, who could never get noticed without a gun, teaches a pretty solid lesson to future shooters. Treating these killers like nameless, faceless assholes is a necessity.