What do you think of the failed terror attack in London underground?

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Giving the terrorists the media attention they want is certainly not helping the situation. It's a similar situation to the copycat killer problem the U.S. has been plagued by, but worse because it's more coordinated.

SW-User

@UndeadPrivateer What copycat killer?

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@SW-User It's not just one, there's been a plague of them for a couple decades now with a gradually escalating rate of occurrence. School shootings, workplace shootings, domestic terrorist actions, etc.

There's a statistical link between the amount of news coverage killings get and the rate of similar killings thereafter. There was a study on it I read a couple years ago that plotted it as being roughly 0.75 copycats for every 1 national news story of a killing. The cascading effect of this being what has lead to the problem with school shootings and mass murders in particular.

SW-User

@UndeadPrivateer Oh yeah. Their 'sacrifice' would be meaningless if they did not get attention.

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@SW-User Precisely.