Every time
Every single time
Every time, when the media posts pictures and names of murderers, they help create more copy cats.
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I feel like this was an exception to the rule, since he was still at large for a while and it was imperative to the public safety that people knew who he was and what he looked like.
That said, yes, the media does need to pull back on publishing details about the killers in these situations.
At the time, maybe, but he's dead, no reason to keep parading the name and picture around anymore.
Fair
🤔 uhh ... Should I remove his name from the title of the post?
That's ok, I read it as Report Card anyway
What they need to do is start showing the bodies. Graphic photos. Everywhere we look we should see them.
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Quit naming them in the titles! Just let their legacy evaporate.
There's definitely a lot of truth to what you're saying, but it seems like this overall effort is an attempt to shift attention away from gun control and focus on individual culpability.
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And nothing of value was lost.
I mean, sure would have been nice to have a living suspect for the criminologists or psychologists.
I bet we can figure out his motives and mental state through good ol' fashioned detective work. I'll take the first step for them, and tell them to look at his social media history. Freud would shit himself if he were alive today and could scroll a facebook feed.
He was an America-First conservative, what else do you need to know?
We’ve learnt all we can from these psychopaths, to be honest.
I’m just angry he got off so easy. He should have had to face what he did.
I disagree. More data points are useful to show the future how batshit insane our policy choices are.
What policy choices? He should have had his weapons confiscated after his recent issues under Maine's yellow flag laws, but the police did nothing once again.
You answered it yourself. Police policy.
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Don’t we already have ample data to support that? Like, what could we learn that would make a difference? I’m not being facetious, I’m honestly asking.
in an ideal world, what would move the needle?
Data is data. A guy being interviewed about how he came to his plan, the setbacks he had, what his goals were, etc.
Like, are the victims just dumb luck because he originally intended a different plan that could have had higher casualties?
A deader body is also easier to sweep under the rug, can’t happen again cause we caught him, etc etc. No worries about further court dates, or him talking about his love for guns…
Sure, I get that. My career was like 80% data.
You also have to know when to stop wasting time collecting data and start spending that energy on solutions, because the data becomes redundant.
We’ve got soooooo much data on what motivates people; we’ve got excruciatingly intricate data on exactly how and why they do these things. We know which solutions are likely to work and which definitely don’t.
We need to stop endlessly analysing and start fixing this shit. We know what’s broken, so let’s stop talking about what and why and how, and start implementing solutions, like now.
The problem is there’s little public will to fix things – little ability to see these as preventable tragedies – and too much looking and hoping and denying.
Don’t worry though – there are another couple of hundred people waking up today who will be dead next month and over whose corpses we can continue this debate. I really hope nobody reading this comment will be one of them.
(Sorry for the snark; I’m beyond exhausted with this.)
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We’ve learnt all we can from these psychopaths, to be honest.
What makes you believe this?
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It really disappoints me to see people say this when the dude clearly had mental issues, potentiated by the Army. It clearly says that the dude was hearing voices and wanted to shoot up a military base and everyone was like " 🤷♂️ let's throw him in a psych ward for two weeks, that will fix the issue".
Dude didn't get the help he needed, that was someone's child too....
He got all the help anyone could give him. We simply can't cure "I'm hearing voices and want to kill people" in a couple of weeks.
What we can do is ensure that it's not cheaper, faster and easier to go on a killing spree instead of recovering.
But that might impact the profits of the gun lobby, so they insist we instead cure every single person of every single mental health problem before they kill people with their legal guns.
It's possible for both things to be valid. I'm not American so the whole owning guns thing is weird to me anyway but surely the bare minimum is banning weapons that are expressly made for killing humans, like hand guns and assault weapons.
But alongside that, it's a fact that this guy did not get the help he needed, certainly not all the help anyone could give him. Two weeks on a ward is nowhere near enough time to treat someone in acute psychosis.
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These maga-cult psychos should kill themselves first and go on the killing spree second. Ban guns.
glad to hear that he's not at large - but it's unfortunate he wont be forced to stand trial and brought to justice for his crimes.
I'm fine with taxpayers not having to pay to jail him for decades.
I’m all for archive links and all, but what the fuck is this:
Where is the article
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What a coward... I regret not being able to give him his day in court and hold him in a concrete box for the rest of his long life.
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