Shooting at Newtown Elementary School [NOT for debates on gun control]

[Dorothy]

People keep doing these things because the media, in it's need for 24 hour news coverage, will pick at and analyse every little part of the disaster. Did video games influence him? Did he listen to heavy metal? Was he the quiet kid? But what these news channels don't understand is that they're looking for attention, and they know the country will be looking at him, acknowledging him due to the disaster. If Fox and MSNBC stopped telling us about for the coming weeks then they'd see that these actions are no longer being reported as much, they won't have other killing sprees to worship, and they won't have gunmen to idolise

News channels typically don't report on criminals that got away in a police chase, or successfully robbed a bank. But they do promote stories where the dopey criminal got easily caught by the police. Less people are committing crimes which they see as being unsuccessful, and if we stopped reporting school shoot ups so thoroughly then maybe there would be less influence on fucked up people to shoot children.

Butquite a few MSNBC stopped saying the name of the shooter on the day of the shooting so that he wasn't remembered by it.

Doesn't help that many were falsely giving his name as that of his brother.

 

[PockyAddict]

People keep doing these things because the media, in it's need for 24 hour news coverage, will pick at and analyse every little part of the disaster. Did video games influence him? Did he listen to heavy metal? Was he the quiet kid? But what these news channels don't understand is that they're looking for attention, and they know the country will be looking at him, acknowledging him due to the disaster. If Fox and MSNBC stopped telling us about for the coming weeks then they'd see that these actions are no longer being reported as much, they won't have other killing sprees to worship, and they won't have gunmen to idolise

News channels typically don't report on criminals that got away in a police chase, or successfully robbed a bank. But they do promote stories where the dopey criminal got easily caught by the police. Less people are committing crimes which they see as being unsuccessful, and if we stopped reporting school shoot ups so thoroughly then maybe there would be less influence on fucked up people to shoot children.

Butquite a few MSNBC stopped saying the name of the shooter on the day of the shooting so that he wasn't remembered by it.

Doesn't help that many were falsely giving his name as that of his brother.

(escuse my french)
They are so damn desperate for first dibs on this story they don't give a damn what they report. Heck it's still happening with this story.

First they said that it was him and then his brother, and now they are saying the mama was'nt a teacher or the mom was a teacher.

 

[dig]

(escuse my french)
They are so damn desperate for first dibs on this story they don't give a damn what they report. Heck it's still happening with this story.

First they said that it was him and then his brother, and now they are saying the mama was'nt a teacher or the mom was a teacher.

That's it. The channels want to be the first to report any new detail, and in that rush they don't even check the facts.

 

[Kouzan]

This is relevant to the discussion. A lot of people believed that Morgan Freeman said this until it was confirmed that he didn't. Morgan Freeman Didn’t Make Newtown Statement, Rep Confirms
Though no matter who did, it's still relevant to this situation:

Spoiler

No matter who said it, I agree with completely. The media tends to focus more on the shooters rather than the victims when things like this happen. Though this could change with this shooting after that quote was posted online. This morning the local Fox New station, Fox2, interrupted their broadcast every so often to acknowledge the victims instead of focusing on the gunman. I'm not sure if it was in response to one of the executives or producers seeing the quotes online of if it was out of sheer sympathy that they did. But either way, it's nice that media is finally acknowledging those whose lives were taken instead of the shooter. People magazine also posted a list on their website which has pictures of the victims along with some details about their lives. So if anyone was wanting to know more about them and what they looked like, this is pretty helpful.
Tragedy: The Connecticut School Shooting : The Newtown Victims : People.com

 

[Angad]

This is relevant to the discussion. A lot of people believed that Morgan Free said this until it was confirmed that he didn't. Morgan Freeman Didn’t Make Newtown Statement, Rep Confirms
Though no matter who did, it's still relevant to this situation:

Spoiler

No matter who said it, I agree with completely. The media tends to focus more on the shooters rather than the victims when things like this happen. Though this could change with this shooting after that quote was posted online. This morning the local Fox New station, Fox2, interrupted their broadcast every so often to acknowledge the victims instead of focusing on the gunman. I'm not sure if it was in response to one of the executives or producers seeing the quotes online of if it was out of sheer sympathy that they did. But either way, it's nice that media is finally acknowledging those whose lives were taken instead of the shooter. People magazine also posted a list on their website which has pictures of the victims along with some details about their lives. So if anyone was wanting to know more about them and what they looked like, this is pretty helpful.
Tragedy: The Connecticut School Shooting : The Newtown Victims : People.com

They've been doing it for a while. Pretend Morgan Freeman does not have that much influence. He was only God in a movie.

 

[Titanium]

I'm from Danbury and this happened in my neighboring town.. so this hit me hard. Would never believe anything this horrible would happen in Newtown. Even common murders are rare there.

Actually seeing the children's faces was heartbreaking. I can't believe someone could possibly stare at any of those children and harm them, let alone think about doing so.

My heart goes out to all the families affected by this. Such a sad time for this to happen as well, so close to the holidays. Sick world we live in. I was so touched by Obama coming and showing his respects as well.

Oh wow, I just realized that the principle who also died, used to be the assistant principle of the high school I attended till the year that I started there. This is extremely depressing.. can't even think of the words.

 

[Peachy]

Yeah, seeing the faces made it so much harder. This has all been really rough on my mom. She used to teach Kindergarden and is still in education, every time it comes on TV or someone mentions it she starts crying.

 

[Almonds]

Those poor children ;_; it must have been quite a shock for them...

 

[Lugion]

Yeah, seeing the faces made it so much harder. This has all been really rough on my mom. She used to teach Kindergarden and is still in education, every time it comes on TV or someone mentions it she starts crying.

My mom used to teach Kindergarten, too. She's a reading specialist now, but I could hardly imagine losing her in something like this. Same goes for my younger brothers, who are 7 and 11.

 

[Silverwynde]

This is relevant to the discussion. A lot of people believed that Morgan Free said this until it was confirmed that he didn't. Morgan Freeman Didn’t Make Newtown Statement, Rep Confirms
Though no matter who did, it's still relevant to this situation:

Spoiler

No matter who said it, I agree with completely. The media tends to focus more on the shooters rather than the victims when things like this happen. Though this could change with this shooting after that quote was posted online. This morning the local Fox New station, Fox2, interrupted their broadcast every so often to acknowledge the victims instead of focusing on the gunman. I'm not sure if it was in response to one of the executives or producers seeing the quotes online of if it was out of sheer sympathy that they did. But either way, it's nice that media is finally acknowledging those whose lives were taken instead of the shooter. People magazine also posted a list on their website which has pictures of the victims along with some details about their lives. So if anyone was wanting to know more about them and what they looked like, this is pretty helpful.
Tragedy: The Connecticut School Shooting : The Newtown Victims : People.com

This, this, this a thousand times this.

I have made it a point to forget that this guy even existed. As I have told many of my co-workers: the victims I will never forget. The shooter I will never remember.

 

[Peachy]

This is relevant to the discussion. A lot of people believed that Morgan Free said this until it was confirmed that he didn't. Morgan Freeman Didn’t Make Newtown Statement, Rep Confirms
Though no matter who did, it's still relevant to this situation:

Spoiler

No matter who said it, I agree with completely. The media tends to focus more on the shooters rather than the victims when things like this happen. Though this could change with this shooting after that quote was posted online. This morning the local Fox New station, Fox2, interrupted their broadcast every so often to acknowledge the victims instead of focusing on the gunman. I'm not sure if it was in response to one of the executives or producers seeing the quotes online of if it was out of sheer sympathy that they did. But either way, it's nice that media is finally acknowledging those whose lives were taken instead of the shooter. People magazine also posted a list on their website which has pictures of the victims along with some details about their lives. So if anyone was wanting to know more about them and what they looked like, this is pretty helpful.
Tragedy: The Connecticut School Shooting : The Newtown Victims : People.com

This, this, this a thousand times this.

I have made it a point to forget that this guy even existed. As I have told many of my co-workers: the victims I will never forget. The shooter I will never remember.

But don't forget the shooter's family. Forgive me for saying this but I believe they are going through so much more. He ruined all of they're lives and they aren't getting any candlelight vigils, no they are getting death threats. And they lost someone that day too.

 

[Titanium]

But don't forget the shooter's family. Forgive me for saying this but I believe they are going through so much more. He ruined all of they're lives and they aren't getting any candlelight vigils, no they are getting death threats. And they lost someone that day too.

This.

The ONLY one who nobody should be talking about is the shooter. But the family of the shooter deserves the same sympathy the families of the children and adults who were victims.
I can't stand watching the news and they mention all the victim's names, and leaves out the mother of the shooter.. and everyone blames her for her ADULT son's actions. Sure she knew her son had problems and still had guns, but no mother, NO parent wants to imagine or think of their own child being capable of committing such a horrible crime. Her son wasn't a child, he was an adult who has all responsibility for his actions. His mother did the best she can to take care of him. She was a single mother.

She doesn't deserve all this bullshit she's getting. It was a bad choice on her to keep guns with a screwed up child, but I repeat.. no parent wants to believe their child would murder.

 

[Kouzan]

This is relevant to the discussion. A lot of people believed that Morgan Freeman said this until it was confirmed that he didn't. Morgan Freeman Didn’t Make Newtown Statement, Rep Confirms
Though no matter who did, it's still relevant to this situation:

Spoiler

No matter who said it, I agree with completely. The media tends to focus more on the shooters rather than the victims when things like this happen. Though this could change with this shooting after that quote was posted online. This morning the local Fox New station, Fox2, interrupted their broadcast every so often to acknowledge the victims instead of focusing on the gunman. I'm not sure if it was in response to one of the executives or producers seeing the quotes online of if it was out of sheer sympathy that they did. But either way, it's nice that media is finally acknowledging those whose lives were taken instead of the shooter. People magazine also posted a list on their website which has pictures of the victims along with some details about their lives. So if anyone was wanting to know more about them and what they looked like, this is pretty helpful.
Tragedy: The Connecticut School Shooting : The Newtown Victims : People.com

This, this, this a thousand times this. With all the pain they're going through with their loss, they deserve the same respect as the victims themselves.

I have made it a point to forget that this guy even existed. As I have told many of my co-workers: the victims I will never forget. The shooter I will never remember.

But don't forget the shooter's family. Forgive me for saying this but I believe they are going through so much more. He ruined all of they're lives and they aren't getting any candlelight vigils, no they are getting death threats. And they lost someone that day too.

I agree with that completely. And considering one of the victims was the shooter's mother too. She was the first one killed and it's sad that she may be the only one from his family or any of the other victim's family to get recognition and a candlelight vigil.

 

[Pokemaster97]

I also agree with this. While the shooter's actions were unacceptable and horrible, the fact that people are actually sending the shooter's families death threats is disgusting. The mother was a victim and you hardly hear about her. The favoritism shown by some media in cases like this are disturbing.

Also, I don't think it's fair to criticize the media for getting information's fault for getting false information from trying to be the first to report. When situations happen, people want the news quick and fast, so the media was doing it's job to deliver that information in a timely manner. During 9/11 they got facts incorrect, but they provided news and info almost immediately. At the end of the day, media is forced to choose between, quick, but possibly inaccurate, or slow but fact checked

 

[Niji]

It's an awful thing. Dealing out pain among strangers is something only a twisted idiot would do. No matter how much rage you feel, you're only destroying the lives of innocent people. It's horrible that those children had to die, when they could have had an amazing life ahead, amazing experiences, and done amazing things. It's just as bad that those teachers lost their lives, and those other people had to suffer. It's a tragedy that things like this happen as often as they do.

 

[Pride]

This was really heartbreaking to hear, in all honesty. Especially hearing that there was so many kids that were dead. I hope all of them are in a better place and are resting in peace. God, people these days.