When there is first-hand information available, I don’t like getting second-hand reports on what it is, especially with something this important. I figure that there are a lot of other people like me, too.
Of course, anyone who doesn’t want to view it, doesn’t need to ... no one would blame them or force them. But there are plenty out there who do want to know the information and the facts for themselves. There is an order of magnitude better information that one can see from seeing it themselves.
For example, in my reading about it, I didn’t see where anyone mentioned that the shooter almost got taken down in the first mosque, with a guy that had a hand on his gun and almost got it away.
Another thing that I didn’t see in the news reports is how he made one round through the mosque and then did a second round going back and shooting those who were down from the first time around.
And then there was that woman who was outside, on the curb, where his car was and she wasn’t moving, but just groaning. He didn’t pass her by, but shot her again, two more times in the head.
Those kinds of things tell you a lot more about what happened and what kind of guy he was, than what you get from the news reports.
I also have his ‘manifesto’ ... not because I think I’ll gain some valuable ‘life lessons’ from him, but because I can explain to others from what I read, what he is about. Already there are ‘false narratives’ going around concerning what he was about.
You should always put it through this filter:
If your child was killed in a video, would you want people sharing it on social media?