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Another school shooting - when does it stop?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 36194" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>It's a tragedy. I heard about this at school today. Shook everyone up. :frown:</p><p></p><p>I worry we're seeing this becoming common place because the media grabs these sorts of stories and drowns the news casts with them for weeks, sometimes months. in my opinion they take it far beyond news reporting into sensationalism geared to milk the highest ratings out of the event. This gives the shooter/shooters an unintended celebrity statis that can be appealing to a mentally unstable person who has homicidal ideation. Or can be viewed as an "acceptable" means of venting your rage against society. I mean to an unstable mind it's not so difficult to rationalize such behavior if you want to bad enough. </p><p></p><p>Has anyone realized that a new phrase for venting is called "Going Postal" ? And people laugh and joke about it. I've even overheard kids say their gonna go "Calumbine". These are rapidly becoming accepted sayings in ordinary conversation.</p><p></p><p>I don't think the media are the sole cause by far. But they exacerbate the situation by the way they choose to cover this sort of thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 36194, member: 84"] It's a tragedy. I heard about this at school today. Shook everyone up. [img]:frown:[/img] I worry we're seeing this becoming common place because the media grabs these sorts of stories and drowns the news casts with them for weeks, sometimes months. in my opinion they take it far beyond news reporting into sensationalism geared to milk the highest ratings out of the event. This gives the shooter/shooters an unintended celebrity statis that can be appealing to a mentally unstable person who has homicidal ideation. Or can be viewed as an "acceptable" means of venting your rage against society. I mean to an unstable mind it's not so difficult to rationalize such behavior if you want to bad enough. Has anyone realized that a new phrase for venting is called "Going Postal" ? And people laugh and joke about it. I've even overheard kids say their gonna go "Calumbine". These are rapidly becoming accepted sayings in ordinary conversation. I don't think the media are the sole cause by far. But they exacerbate the situation by the way they choose to cover this sort of thing. [/QUOTE]
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