They arrested a 14 year old today in this high school in our county because he wrote a letter saying that he could kill double the people as the VT guy.....He was he wanted to kill 100 people.. do you think that it is a good idea for media to provide this much coverage that other nut cases who want to be glorified in death start actually proving them selfs?
p.s I think that kid 9th grader was probably just talking big but some other nutters might be thinking the same thing.
2007-04-19 07:55:02 · 15 answers · asked by Love Exists? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The media is making a fortune from these disasters.
They show images of people in pain, the killer ranting and talk non stop about contraversial issues surrounding the event. All the while they get more advertising dollars from companies promoting products during the commercials.
It is sick and discusting, and the people who call themselves journalists today, should be ashamed. I have stopped watching, for this very reason.
The kids that died needlessly should be given respect, and the media seems intent on exploiting their family members and giving this tragedy and the killer a platform.
Shameful.
2007-04-19 08:01:39 · answer #1 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Regardless of whether he was being serious or not, it needed to be taken serious. He needs to be locked up!!
I think it has gone to everyones head though...There have been bomb threats in 13 states since the VT shooting. People are sick! There are people out there just like Cho. and the sad thing is, its people on this earth that treat them bad and drive them to this. I dont think that is a way to solve anything but thaty thinks so.
America is the cause of this. We treat some people bad(not me specifically and maybe not who ever is reading this) but we dont think about what that does to those people! We need to wake up and learn that we could be the next person someone shoots because we were mean to them...
Thats not right, but they didn't deserve to feel the way they felt either. I dont agree with what Cho did and I am not making up excuses for him. However, if you want to prevent this from happenedint to you, then think about how you treat people and if you treat them bad then change that. You never know whos life you might save...maybe your own! That is how I am looking at things now. I want to be here as long as i can! However, at the rate this earth is going. I have no idea. I just pray for all the individual that were hurt by this and I prayer for the ones that are doing the bomb threats and saying such things like the 14yo did.
May God Bless You!
2007-04-20 06:42:56 · answer #2 · answered by justme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I think that this is what the police are concerned about the impact such an action will have on other vunerable youngsters.
We can only hope that it will not be glorified as you mentioned but the realisation that it was a brutal and vile crime against fellow humans.
But do we hold life deaR these days? No I fear the life has been cheapened and it will take a long time for it to be respected once more. So I think we can expect further killings though I do hope I'm proved wrong...yes very wrong.
2007-04-19 08:04:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the killers should not be glorified.
But hopefully this V Tech incident will go to peoples heads, right up there to their brain and start this society thinking about how we are failing our young people.
The decline of our society started when the family unit began to get broken up by mothers giving up their roles as nurturers and deciding that their roles as money providers was more important.
I do think it is ok for women to work and for them to get equal pay, but if a woman decides to have children I definitely think that she should make her family the priority over a career.
Our children need us. It does take a village to raise a child.
2007-04-19 08:10:51 · answer #4 · answered by Buff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Statistically, that's how it happens.
One dysfunctional kid gets the idea to get his or her 15 minutes of fame after all the media hype of a shooting.
So they tend to come in spurts. Over the next few weeks we will undoubtably have another shooting.
Just this morning at my office I had a call from a man who "identified" with the "oppressed" shooter. He'd entirely twisted what the media has said about this poor boy. To suit his own ideas.
2007-04-19 08:00:41 · answer #5 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the ranking of the killing as the biggest ever and the dwelling on it is not beneficial. I do think that the reporting of the causes and what the young man could have done to receive help is good though. It may help other people who are struggling with depression, and others may see the warning signs of violence.
2007-04-19 07:59:15 · answer #6 · answered by moonman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is realy terrifying that our media doesn't have a plan as such announcements may take us to the same results that we suffer now. American films and politics mass media have a lot to do with terrorists Specially young ones
2007-04-19 08:14:40 · answer #7 · answered by ELBASHA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-16 10:21:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do think the media are over covering the event. As someone said in here earlier, 3,000 + kids dead in Iraq and we don't hear more than 30 seconds.
2007-04-19 07:58:56 · answer #9 · answered by Linda R 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The media as usual has went too far. . .it will stop as soon as the next "big thing" happens and then sadly VT will too soon be forgotten.
2007-04-19 08:00:34 · answer #10 · answered by sparkles9 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋