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NNguyenMD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 11:17 PM
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About the shooting in Lancaster, Pa today
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Edited on Mon Oct-02-06 11:20 PM by NNguyenMD
I've been trying to make sense of it all, Colorado, Wisconsin, and this enormous tragedy that hit this once peaceful community earlier today. And this is what I have concluded...

The American people need to give up their obsessive fascination with devastating morally incomprehensible murder/suicide tragedies.

The next week the media with milk this for all the ratings they can get, and try to painfully drawout whatever childhood trauma that caused this psycho to justify committing such a henious act. He'll get so much attention in death, it'll inspire the other warped, morally f-cked up armed men out there to think that they'll make a bigger mark on this world murdering others than living.

This sort of media attention attracts the kind of lonely emotionally screwed up psychopaths to commit copy-cat murders.

America worships the cult of celebrity, and as goddamn depressing as it is, yes even nutso killers can be celebrities too.

What I think you need to do is to get all the news vans, reporters, and helicopter the hell out of Lancaster Pa. Let the law enforcement continue with their investigation without interruption, let the traumatized people of this good community heal, and everyone else turn off their TVs for a change and say a prayer for these little girls.
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