Active shooter at Columbia, MD, mall

I think pretty low on the reasons people do this stuff is, some other guy did it, my turn!

 

Still, far too many of these. Sometimes I wonder if it will happen at a mall where I'm at. Seems totally random, so maybe it could happen in your neighborhood, too.

 

There's real, tangible, scientific evidence that the media voluntarily reducing the coverage of suicides brings down the suicide rate. There's no reason to think that mass shootings don't work the same way, and a lot of reason to think they would.

 

So, no need to take aways guns, just take away coverage of gun-related crime?

Brilliant.

 

It's hard to be *that* wrong that many times in such a short post.

1) That's a false choice fallacy.
2) Nobody said anything about "taking away" media coverage. I specifically said "voluntary" reductions in coverage.

 

Rick's evidence in a prior thread that speculated about the effect of reducing media coverage was what convinced me that it may be part of the solution.

 

Suicide rate rose between 2000-2010. Is that when the media started writing about suicide again?

 

The experiments with media voluntarily reducing coverage weren't in America.

 

What I am reading (Werther effect) says that writing about the means of suicide or sensationalizing it brings on a copycat effect, not just reporting about suicides.

 

But, I mean, what would the CDC know? They're probably just pro-gun advocates out to get the media.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00031539.htm

 

Sure.

 

Right.