The Blue Board

Can u norththern nuts pls quit

I'm honestly at the point that I think the media is more to blame than the things they are trying to pin it on. I don't have a solution, but you can't tell me that all the attention that these fvcking nutjobs get from pulling stunts like this doesn't give another suicidal maniac the thought of "well why not go out with a bang" mentality.

After John Lennon was shot, McCartney and Yoko Ono always used to request that people not use the name of the killer when talking about the incident. I think that would be a good way to take moral leadership: allow the police to release the name of the killer, but otherwise, don't report his name or publish his photo.

I can agree with the premise, but I'd rather use the phrase "the media contributes to the mentality," rather than saying they're "more to blame." If indeed, that's the mentality that these shooters have. The killers still need to take responsibility for their actions.

Agreed. Without the media making them famous all of these psychos would probably just off themselves quietly in their mothers basement.

Ok. Sorry, I misunderstood. When you said "things they are trying to pin it on" I thought that meant guns.

And how many have we had in the last week? All by separate individuals with no connection to one another. I think we are up to four in the past seven days.

Edit: Also I get that you don't like guns and all. You have still not given one logical explanation on how to stop this from happening with gun control. If your solution is to get rid of all the guns in the country, I hope that you have an extensive collection of Rosetta Stone tapes. We would be overrun in about a week. Maybe we would get lucky and a country with good food would conquer us.

I still think there needs to be research done on the medication all these killers have taken, somebody pointed out that all these guys had been on some form of medication for mental issues, ADHD etc.

And the sad thing is that it will never happen. Deep down our sick society wants, and in many cases, needs to put a face to these atrocities. The news outlets are more worried about giving their viewers what they want, to make sure they don't lose eyeballs on their stations, than they are the consequences of the fame they give these psychopaths.

It's much easier for them to blame it on kids playing Grand Theft Auto.

I was agreeing with you, don't make me take it back.

When I was in Berlin during the '06 World Cup, some teenager ran through the new train station on opening night and stabbed 16 people. They wouldn't release his name and blurred out his face whenever he was shown on camera being transported to different places by police.

I always liked that better than the almost celebratization of our criminals, covering their story like they're famous or something. It seemed like it kept focus on the victims instead of everyone trying to blame something.

There's always a classic question in the communications business, which is does the media dictate what the people talk and think about or do they simply give the people what they want? I've had to go both angles in my job (I work in advertising).