Tuesday, January 11, 2011
MASS SHOOTINGS IN TUCSON, ARIZONA
Last week, twenty people were shot in a shooting spreee on a parking lot in Arizona. Six died. A true tragedy.
The 22-year old man who had shot them was an obvious deranged, ‘nut case’. The story should have ended there, but it certainly didn’t.
From the day of the shooting and on, ‘talking heads’ analyzed, dissected, spoke and wrote about every possible angle that could have played into creating this catastrophe.
What triggered the shooter to do such a crime?
The fighting words of politicians, a lack of gun control, the ease to purchase a semi-automatic rifle, a lack of background checks, safety nets for aggressive children, kid's 'toy guns', overly-hot talk shows, a society of violence and decay, the US ‘Tea Party’, flaky Sarah Pallin, the lack of reporting ‘early signs’ of violence in individuals, etc. The list was virtually endless.
For sure, each, every and all ‘placings of blame’ rose to the surface and were used.
I had even heard one ‘talking head’ yapping about the possibilities that genetics, as in ‘chromosomes’, had created such a monster.
Whoa. Whoa.
Could it be that the 22 year old was nothing, more or less, than ‘a simple, deranged, nut case’ who had gone over-the-edge for reasons that only he would know?
I recognize that that is not what you want to hear if you are filling air-time or selling newspapers, but that is what had happened, ‘triggers’ or ‘no triggers’.
A NOTE TO MEDIA: Please stop the near-insane barrage of ‘placing blame’ on everything except the insanity of the shooter.
The 22-year old man who had shot them was an obvious deranged, ‘nut case’. The story should have ended there, but it certainly didn’t.
From the day of the shooting and on, ‘talking heads’ analyzed, dissected, spoke and wrote about every possible angle that could have played into creating this catastrophe.
What triggered the shooter to do such a crime?
The fighting words of politicians, a lack of gun control, the ease to purchase a semi-automatic rifle, a lack of background checks, safety nets for aggressive children, kid's 'toy guns', overly-hot talk shows, a society of violence and decay, the US ‘Tea Party’, flaky Sarah Pallin, the lack of reporting ‘early signs’ of violence in individuals, etc. The list was virtually endless.
For sure, each, every and all ‘placings of blame’ rose to the surface and were used.
I had even heard one ‘talking head’ yapping about the possibilities that genetics, as in ‘chromosomes’, had created such a monster.
Whoa. Whoa.
Could it be that the 22 year old was nothing, more or less, than ‘a simple, deranged, nut case’ who had gone over-the-edge for reasons that only he would know?
I recognize that that is not what you want to hear if you are filling air-time or selling newspapers, but that is what had happened, ‘triggers’ or ‘no triggers’.
A NOTE TO MEDIA: Please stop the near-insane barrage of ‘placing blame’ on everything except the insanity of the shooter.
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