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Originally Posted by dyna mo
I've often thought about this as a solution and tend to agree with you. While I haven't been able to find any facts supporting it, and it's not directly intuitive, it seems to me that this would make a big difference.
I would rather try to reign in the freedom of press via legislation than take away some of my personal rights due to a few dipshits.
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The shooter in Seattle told the police he was fascinated with school shootings
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/06/justic...mpus-shooting/
Seems to be at least some evidence of cause-and-effect right there.
And while I agree with you about not getting my rights taken away because of aberrant behavior from a few individuals I disagree with the idea of restricting freedom of the press.
Like the Second Amendment it's also part of the "Checks And Balances" built into our Constitution. Allowing Government to restrict the media would be a dangerous road to go down.
If enough correlation can be shown to exist between the number of shootings and the amount of publicity they get then the families of victims should be allowed to sue the media, the obsessive reporting on the these tragedies would vanish overnight.