Posted on 11/15/2018 7:08:51 AM PST by marktwain
U.S.A. -(Ammoland.com)- A paper presented to the American Psychological Association found the number of mass killings, rampage killings or “mass shootings”, may be doubled by irresponsible media aggrandizement of mass killers. The desire for fame was found to be one of the main motivators of these rampage killers. From apa.org:
“Unfortunately, we find that a cross-cutting trait among many profiles of mass shooters is desire for fame,” she said. This quest for fame among mass shooters skyrocketed since the mid-1990s “in correspondence to the emergence of widespread 24-hour news coverage on cable news programs, and the rise of the internet during the same period.”
She cited several media contagion models, most notably one proposed by Towers et al. (2015), which found the rate of mass shootings has escalated to an average of one every 12.5 days, and one school shooting on average every 31.6 days, compared to a pre-2000 level of about three events per year. “A possibility is that news of shooting is spread through social media in addition to mass media,” she said.
“If the mass media and social media enthusiasts make a pact to no longer share, reproduce or retweet the names, faces, detailed histories or long-winded statements of killers, we could see a dramatic reduction in mass shootings in one to two years,” she said.
I believe this... I think it is creating those who want to be Martyrs for the cause and have their name entered into the history books forever.
I have thought this for years. The Synagogue shooting here in Pittsburgh has been on the front page everyday since Oct 27. There is not news everyday, they just cover everything that is tangential to it. What trinkets have been left at the mementos is the latest over the past few days. It is nuts.
Also my theory for years. First realization for me : UNIBOMBER instead of COWARDLY MURDERER
We need sensible media control laws!
The First Amendment was only intended to cover manual printing presses that were in existence in the 1700s. It was never intended to cover modern weapons of mass publication!
I agree. Nobody needs a assault offset press with an extended ink magazine to go pamphleting.
+1
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