(07-24-2015, 11:51 AM)Fire Wrote: What in the actual fuck is wrong with people these days. I cannot even explain how badly this pisses me off and upsets me.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/24/us/louisia...index.html
This reminds me of the 2012 shooting for the dark night rises.
I believe in gun rights but honestly new gun laws need to be put into place seriously.
Because its a copycat?
People are mentally ill, and a lot feel ignored. They see someone else who's apparently mentally ill on the news for WEEKS and MONTHS of coverage on what they did for maybe an hour. That attention that the media gives them is what drives these people, because honestly, they are absolute attention whores.
Case in point, Aurora shooter, told people and tried to get people to pay attention to him and said to people "I'm gonna kill people". People ignored it, so he moved on to what he thought would get him attention.
The less glorified coverage of every fucking miniscule detail these "news outlets" have for months at a time, the better.
It does not benefit any victims by doing so, does not benefit your watchers/readers/etc, does not benefit law enforcement, and sometimes actually impedes them from continuing a sensitive investigation, and only serves to make an example.
If you go and waste your life and murder people, we'll put you on every headline like a god damn celebrity for as long as we can.