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....and further publicity to spark the next psychotic with a collection of guns to do the same thing all over again.
No consideration whatsoever was given to tearing down the University of Texas tower after Charles Whitman's mass killing spree there. To this day it is a formidable, productively used building. The overwhelming majority of students on the U.T. campus were born long after Whitman's rampage there in 1966, they have no memories of it. Why the hell should any expensive, well-used, undamaged campus structure be destroyed, when the "monument" created by such an action would be unavoidably memorializing the killer as well as the killed? It's a "feel-good project" that very few people would end up feeling good about---how good do you feel about those holes in the ground in New York City, where the Twin Towers used to be?
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