Originally Posted by kane

I've said before and I still believe that these shootings are a symptom of our modern society. Gun control laws won't stop them. Everyone carrying a gun won't stop them. Obama is not to blame. The reality is that these people are fucked in the head and they desperately want some kind of attention or at the very least they want to be recognized and /or validated. 30 years ago they likely would have just killed themselves or maybe a family member or someone that they blamed for their situation. Now they see the attention these things kind of get and it becomes their way of crying out and finally getting what they want.

If we are going to live in a world where everyone shares and posts their every thought and action of their daily life online with the world, we can't be shocked when people decide to go out in blaze of media glory when they decide they want to die.