Why do we analize crazed killers?

Question

My heart goes out to the family and friends of the victims at virginia tech. Why must the news go into the life of the idiot who killed so many innocent people. Take the time and tell about the lives of the innocent victims, what they were like and what they did in their lives.
The media really needs to get their priorities straight, when you ask someone "how did you feel when your found out your stepson was one of the victims" how ignorant is that question,
focus on the right things.
The shooter was a physco lets leave it at that and help and support the victims families.

Answer 1

To try to prevent it from happening again.
The mind set and what led to it are significant.

The media does alter the relative importance of facts to it's own end.

Answer 2

Yes. We should give the victims support.

But we need to find out how to PREVENT crime. People like you don't undestand that the only way to do this is to find out WHY he/she did it.

The guy is dead. You can't make a debate about his being protected from punishment because he is being evaluated.

In fact, if he was evaluated in the first place and made to seek real treatment, or if his family had been in tune with his emotions and seen how disturbed he was, this would never have happened.

It is easy to be simplistic and say that you should never pay attention to the killer, but how would people know how to stop them? One major reason why there are fewer serial killers in society than say the late 60s through eary 80s is that we know how the previous ones were raised and how to see certain signs.

And you should know that the media will spin anything, any tragedy, to get ratings.

They would analyze how the sneakers he was wearing caused aggression if they thought it would make ratings magic for them...

Answer 3

Agreed, I think peoples fascination with Serial Killers is morbid, Impulse Serial Killers such as Cho or Klebold and Harris is a way to for them to assuage some liberal guilt about HOW society created such little monsters.
Fact is this these kids were screwed up somehow, someway nothing we do can stop this from happening again, short of viligance, courage and heroism.

This is a wake up call for the sheep, Don't be victims.

Personal security begins with self.

IF we sacrifice freedom for security based on government security we have neither security or freedom

Teaching kids to be heros not victims is the key. Liberals so indoctrinate the victim mentality people see the government as the solution, IT IS NOT. Real people are the solution.
We need kids with backbones. not spineless jelly fish.

Answer 4

I get where you are coming from. It really bugs me how some reporters really get off on this kind of story. But it is helpful to know just what kind of person does something like this. When ppl are educated, they can prevent something like this from happeneing again, maybe by encouragung a friend who has all the signs to get help. If its really botehring you, turn off the tv, and honor the victims in your own way. I personally never watch the news, bc I cant stand all the bad news and how excited it seems to make the media.

Answer 5

The media has their priorities straight alright enough. Play the story for all it’s worth for weeks regardless of the fact that their bubble headed bleach blond blood trail journalism is what is driving school mass murderers to be in vogue in the first place.

Answer 6

I don't believe we "analize" them, as that involves probing.

We analyze psychotics to make sense of what happened. We're reason-based people (for the most part) so we need to sort through the tragedy so we can file it in the "case solved and closed" file. It's closure. We also analyze psychos in the attempt to see what caused the behavior in the hopes it can be prevented in the future.

Oh, and tragedies like this are good for ratings.

Answer 7

the best support to give families is that their children and fathers didn't die in vain
we cannot sort every lunatic ,but we can stop them getting weapons of m,*** destruction , mass slaughter [guns]

you want to help tell them your child died that no more child will be left behind nor shot while in school
schools will be made safe
because of your childs futile death no more child need die in any amerrican school
our leaders finally have the balls to stand up to the loony gun lobby to resist the coluded deluded all power full gun lobby that protects fools right to mass slaughter innocents,and pass real laws to protect all the other kids ,

your child's death will be a land mark that ends this obscene colluded gun rule
that arms lunatics to mass murder ,that the rule of the gun law lobby is ended

Answer 8

Because people try to make sense of the senseless. But I agree, the newscasters do carry it to an extreme. They love the sound of their own voices. And it saves the company money. they keep showing the same photos over and over. old photos are not NEWS, get it, NEW.

Answer 9

We need to know the backgrounds of "crazed" individuals and what life experiences and psychosis sent them to the point of committing horrendous acts of violence. Such "crazed" individuals cannot be left to their own design without intervention. Analysis breeds understanding so this psychotic personality type can be dealt with before it's too late and hopefully heighten our awareness of such.

Answer 10

The criminal gets his 15 minutes of fame and then some...the media encourages the deranged mind into thinking "wait till I (fill in any crime), they will notice me then!!"