Why does this have to keep happening to fucking schools of all things???
Don't answer me like this isn't rhetorical please
Because the proliferation of such events through social media outlets has allowed for it to become the most visible form of violence to the public. You don't get remembered for shooting up a bunch of gang bangers, you do get remembered for shooting a bunch of helpless students. It always garners national media attention, the kind of attention many of the committers of such acts wish to achieve.
I barely even click on these anymore :c
I wish it was still shocking. It's disturbing that it isn't.
Easy targets, loads of social media attention, it's pretty much any sociopaths wet dream.
Gag the media about these kinds of events and I guarantee you'd see a big drop in occurrence after one or two more.
Just because you gag the media doesn't mean it wouldn't spread like wildfire on places like Reddit,4chan,etc,etc.
No more than:
-Where
-How many casualties
-at large/captured/dead
We don't need 20,000 play-by-plays about the perpetrator's every thought and action during the event. We don't need meticulous examination and deconstruction of his entire online activities leading up to the event. We don't need swarms of cameras digging through his former living space. We don't need to have slimeballs reciting his manifesto quasi-verbatim on air. We don't need his face, name, or anything.
The media is complicit.
No shit, but you're trying to make it harder.
The US consume 24/7 news channel more than elsewhere in the world. But its a start.
America. I think that's about it.
There's a huge difference between being TV famous and being internet famous.
Not to mention that Colorado specifically has more school shootings than other states (IIRC, I might be wrong) because all the fucking pathetic losers who idolised Columbine get the sick idea in their pathetic, worthless mind that they should try and be like their idols.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/08/us/sixth-grader-grabs-baseball-bat-stem-highlands-ranch/index.html
"It was really chaotic," the 12-year-old said. "Most of the kids didn't know what to do."
Nate said he froze as gunshots shattered a window. A siren rang and someone in his classroom cracked a joke. His teacher shushed the student and moved them behind a desk and then to the closet.
"I had my hand on a metal baseball bat just in case," Nate told CNN's Brooke Baldwin. "'Cause I was gonna go down fighting if I was gonna go down."
