@BillRM,
Quote:The 24 news channels and them covering every small details of such killings with special note if it involved firearms are producing copycats in my opinion.
But if we had tighter controls and restrictions on firearms, those would-be copycats couldn't so easily obtain their weapons.
If Mrs Lanza had tighter controls in her own home, those weapons wouldn't have been available to her son. Similarly, if the government had tighter controls over gun availability, similar weapons might not wind up in the hands of the next mass murderer. At the moment, our national control and regulation of guns is every bit as bad as it was in the Lanza house.
Quote:By the way I do not off hand remember this kind of coverage when the Oklahoma bombing occur or coverages of the funerals of the many children or others killed
I remember similar coverage of Oklahoma City--with emphasis on the children, in the day care center of that federal building, who were killed in that bombing. I will never forget the photo of a fireman holding a dead child in his arms, or the sadness of the memorial service for all the victims.
You seem to actively resent the news coverage that's been focused on the victims of this latest massacre, including their families--and that's where cable news has focused it's coverage, on the victims. What's the matter, does the coverage of all that grief and heart-ache, caused by gun violence, interfere with your telling us that freely available guns make us safer?
This latest massacre was a national tragedy, and it has been recognized as such, whether you personally feel that way or not. Our societal problem with gun violence is a national tragedy as well, whether you personally feel that way or not.
Everyone who loves a child can empathize with the heavy burden of grief the parents of those 20 children are going through, and that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. They, and not just their children, are the victims of gun violence. And they deserve to be heard, and their children deserve to be remembered. I don't mind cable news affording them the opportunity to do that. Perhaps cable news should also cover more about the daily, but less newsworthy, gun violence that saturates our entire country--it's so unfortunately routine that it's usually ignored.
Sorry, these victims are what this shooting, and this thread, are really about--it's not about how many other means can be used to kill people beside guns, or whether the government might turn into a dictatorship, or whether we need to re-vamp our mental health care system--it's about the real people, most of them young children, who were killed last week--by
gun violence. And we should mourn their loss.
If you don't like cable news paying so much attention to them, just change the channel.
Stop talking about guns, and their various features, long enough to really look at these faces, and to think about the tragedy of their loss.
