Maybe because I'm older. Maybe because I'm not yet a mother, or don't live in Connecticut. Maybe just because I hate seeing in on every damn newspaper, every facebook page, and every news channel.
But this whole hype about this shooting pisses me off.
Sure, it was alot of innocent people. But innocent people are killed every day, most we don't hear about. What makes these 24 any different from those unnamed? The amount of people killed? The fact that it happened at a school(also more common than you know)? If you won't acknowledge all the lives lost in the world due to murder, why dedicate so much time for these people on a national and international broadcast?
Even more unbelievable, they're starting to play the 'blame game' on why the murderer, who is also dead, did what he did. So his mother(dead) taught him how to shoot a gun. So he has a disease. Who cares? They're dead. It happened. It will happen again someday whether we like it or not. No amount of blaming and releasing irrelevant/unnecessary facts will change that. No talk about whether or not to ban guns will change that.
You can't change anything by letting a world know about a murder. If anything you ignite more murderers. I'd get into this, but I'd rather not at the moment.
I know I'm not the only one with these opinions, yet I also know anyone who shares these opinions are looked at as heartless. Same with the incident that I loosely touched on back in my senior year- a freshman died from flipping out of his quad and hitting his head on a mailbox. He was drunk, and thus it was his own fault. I had no sympathy what-so-ever because he was underage drinking and it was his stupid mistake, which to me proves he wasn't smart enough to even deserve to live. After expressing this opinion I've been called a heartless bitch to my face by several people, most of which haven't spoken to me since.
Maybe I am heartless. I don't have sympathy for those who succumb to stupidity or, in the Connecticut Case, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But this is fate. As time goes on there will be more chaos, more murder, and we can't stop it. No gun laws will prevent it, no locking up potential criminals or making murders public announcements. It will happen.
So just let it happen and shut up about it.
What annoys me most about the hype over this whole shooting thing, other than it blatantly telling potential shooters "Look! Do this and you'll be famous!", is that they got so much of the information wrong. When Fox first aired the story, they had a name and a picture of what they thought was the suspect. They had the wrong guy completely (it was actually the brother of someone with the same name). So now, this guy's life is totally ruined, because there are dozens of Facebook groups out there now calling for his blood, all because the news didn't do their one freakin' job. It's really sickening how this shit goes.
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