Bad the media keeping scorecard on shootings.

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Wife noticed how the MSM is keeping a scorecard on any mass shooting as the number dead and wounded and how it compares to other mass shootings.

It’s bad enough that people don’t get help they need to prevent these shootings, but it makes it worse when they rank the shootings. This may give the next mentally deranged guy incentives to try and out score the last one.

Anybody ever notice all the mass shooters are men?
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Copycat, contagion... warnings have been brought up for years. Most in the media won't listen. I understand folks like Anderson Cooper try to control some of it. But it's not enough.

During the LVN shooting it was reported...

""Now, for experts who study these horrifying events, there is concern about what happens next.

There have been studies suggesting that contagion plays a crucial role in mass shootings — that one shooting leads to another. Will other shooters go for automatic firepower? Will tall buildings become coveted shooting perches?

Fox is concerned about those issues, but he’s most troubled by news organizations repeating that Paddock’s attack is the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Mass shooters typically revere their predecessors and often leave writings or other evidence (charts, lists, etc.) that show attempts to set new killing records.

“Why do we keep such records?” Fox said. “That’s more of an enticement to follow in his footsteps than anything else.”"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a- ... 2fe25bba44

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TrueTexan wrote:Wife noticed how the MSM is keeping a scorecard on any mass shooting as the number dead and wounded and how it compares to other mass shootings.

It’s bad enough that people don’t get help they need to prevent these shootings, but it makes it worse when they rank the shootings. This may give the next mentally deranged guy incentives to try and out score the last one.

Anybody ever notice all the mass shooters are men?
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/01/us/h ... plant.html. Not all almost all


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RE: copycat and the media coverage...

a note about copycat suicides after Robert Williams' death: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-42958387

"In the weeks after Williams's death, there was a "drastic" increase in references to suicide and death in news media reports, as well as more posts on an internet suicide forum researchers monitored, the study found.

David Fink, one of the study's authors, from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, said research had previously shown that suicide rates increased following a high-profile celebrity suicide, but this was a first time such a study had been done within the era of the 24-hour news cycle."

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