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I don't think there is a great answer if we (the American people) want to keep access to guns.
The next thing I would be interested in trying is...
The NFL stopped fans from running onto the field by stop showing them... the lack of visual and the lack of news about them, significantly reduced the number of times it happens.
Everything time it happens, and it's all over the news, that's just free advertisement of it giving the idea to a whole new group of people...
I wonder what would happen if we stopped accidentally advertising it, and stop the idea from getting into upset people's head, if it would then significantly decrease.
Of course, that's never going to happen, as freedom of the media, and the fact that negative news and sex both do the best selling. So news wants to over cover stories like that.
But I don't know what else to try...
The next thing I would be interested in trying is...
The NFL stopped fans from running onto the field by stop showing them... the lack of visual and the lack of news about them, significantly reduced the number of times it happens.
Everything time it happens, and it's all over the news, that's just free advertisement of it giving the idea to a whole new group of people...
I wonder what would happen if we stopped accidentally advertising it, and stop the idea from getting into upset people's head, if it would then significantly decrease.
Of course, that's never going to happen, as freedom of the media, and the fact that negative news and sex both do the best selling. So news wants to over cover stories like that.
But I don't know what else to try...
@sstronaut Actually... You could be onto something with that.
Most school shooters tend to be some nobody, who wasn't the go to guy at school. He doesn't exactly have his life mapped out before him in terms of work and career.
A mass shooting/suicide bombing could be a great way to make sure that nobody forgets his name because he will be all over the media for a while.
If we were to only name him once, then focus more on the innocent people who died - he doesn't get eternal noteirty and the idea of mass shootings/suicide bombings might be less attractive to these sickos.
They don't deserve to be remembered for what they have done in the same way that the dead people should be remembered because their lives were cut short and this is the best we can do now.
I mean, no one can think about Holly Chapman and Jessica Wells, without also remembering Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr.
Most school shooters tend to be some nobody, who wasn't the go to guy at school. He doesn't exactly have his life mapped out before him in terms of work and career.
A mass shooting/suicide bombing could be a great way to make sure that nobody forgets his name because he will be all over the media for a while.
If we were to only name him once, then focus more on the innocent people who died - he doesn't get eternal noteirty and the idea of mass shootings/suicide bombings might be less attractive to these sickos.
They don't deserve to be remembered for what they have done in the same way that the dead people should be remembered because their lives were cut short and this is the best we can do now.
I mean, no one can think about Holly Chapman and Jessica Wells, without also remembering Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@HootyTheNightOwl It is variable, with no consistency.
The case of James Bulger - killed by two older children - is often named after his surname, which seems rather impersonal and cold.
On the other hand, people still talk of "The Yorkshire Ripper", not using his real name (which I forget) nor that of his victims.
The case of James Bulger - killed by two older children - is often named after his surname, which seems rather impersonal and cold.
On the other hand, people still talk of "The Yorkshire Ripper", not using his real name (which I forget) nor that of his victims.
@ArishMell Yeah, that seriously pisses me off, too. James Bulger was just 2 years old and far too young to have embarked on a life of crime - at least use his full name and his first name, too. His mother has worked tirelessly to make sure that James was never forgotten.
I had hoped that James' mother might have campaigned to change that so that the media has to use his (and everyone else's) first name. I mean, you can't even argue that it's for "space saving reasons" when the name "James" is shorter than the name "Bulger". You are older than me, so you might be able to better remember if the media had no access to James' first name at around the time he was murdered???
I know that there was a blackout of his name at the time of his death... but all we knew about baby Peter for a while is that he was "Baby P", so I'm thinking that they call James Bulger by his last name because that's all they had access to...
Alitt (I refuse to use it's first name, and I know that you will know who I am referring to) is another example of where a crime is known more by the murderer than by the babies that were killed.
I had hoped that James' mother might have campaigned to change that so that the media has to use his (and everyone else's) first name. I mean, you can't even argue that it's for "space saving reasons" when the name "James" is shorter than the name "Bulger". You are older than me, so you might be able to better remember if the media had no access to James' first name at around the time he was murdered???
I know that there was a blackout of his name at the time of his death... but all we knew about baby Peter for a while is that he was "Baby P", so I'm thinking that they call James Bulger by his last name because that's all they had access to...
Alitt (I refuse to use it's first name, and I know that you will know who I am referring to) is another example of where a crime is known more by the murderer than by the babies that were killed.