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Originally Posted by MK Ultra
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. |
Didn't you state that if these stories were not splashed across the media these sorts of events wouldn't happen? How do you suggest we don't splash them in the media without regulation?
Also, without delving into googling, isn't there quite a bit of media regulation already? For instance, television media has limits on what video it can air, no murders,etc.
Nevetheless, it was an either or, I would rather see the media be regulated re: spree shooters than my rights.
+ and this is a big +, especially with how poorly government is working currently. I have zero reason to think they would be able to craft legislation that would stop spree killers like this and not fuck that up entirely.