No Fame For Shooters
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Over the last week or so, I have been hearing a lot of outcry that guns need to be banned. Whether that would make us safer or not is something we could debate about forever, but in the end, taking away guns will be just taking away one option from these psychopaths. I think we need to go to the root cause of why mass murders continually happen in our country.
The people who commit mass murder, such as the Sandy Hook shooting, or the “Batman” movie shooting, these people have something in common. They want attention. They feel they are losers, whom no one knows, and no one cares about. They hear about a man who went and shot some kids, and suddenly he is a household name. In the aftermath of both these shootings, I have heard report after report about the person committing these horrible acts. Yet I barely hear anything about the victims. We are giving these murderers exactly what they want. Fame. They want to be known. They want to be recognized. They don’t think anyone cares about their lives, and neither do they. They are OK with being a monster, as long as they are known for it.
I say it’s time we fight the problem, not the tools. What these men do is cause panic and terror around our nation. They are terrorists, plain and simple. So I say, that’s how we should treat them. I propose a law, forbidding the release of the identity of any mass murderer for a minimum of two months after the act itself. Let’s face it, by then, we have usually forgotten, or stopped caring. We are an entertainment culture, and after not long, we will have returned to our TV shows, and though the murders may still haunt us in our beds at night, we are quick to drown them out with sports and “CSI.” If we withhold these people’s identity, they will quickly pass, barely gracing the halls of history. The people like them, who want nothing more than fame, and are willing to go to any lengths to get it, will see that this no longer works. They will stop killing for no reason. This is a solution to the true problem.
In the end, banning guns will only lead to more creative, and simply more effective ways of murdering innocents. We need to combat the true threat. Take away the appeal of becoming a mass murderer. Take away the fame, the recognition. Make the perpetrators of these acts just another forgettable name. Treat them as the terrorists they are. If we find two months of anonymity aren’t enough, then let us forget their names forever, make them unknown, never release their names, their history, their reasons. Let us grieve for those we have lost, and not give those who took them what they wanted in the first place.
Owen Stech
New Paris, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
Over the last week or so, I have been hearing a lot of outcry that guns need to be banned. Whether that would make us safer or not is something we could debate about forever, but in the end, taking away guns will be just taking away one option from these psychopaths. I think we need to go to the root cause of why mass murders continually happen in our country.
The people who commit mass murder, such as the Sandy Hook shooting, or the “Batman” movie shooting, these people have something in common. They want attention. They feel they are losers, whom no one knows, and no one cares about. They hear about a man who went and shot some kids, and suddenly he is a household name. In the aftermath of both these shootings, I have heard report after report about the person committing these horrible acts. Yet I barely hear anything about the victims. We are giving these murderers exactly what they want. Fame. They want to be known. They want to be recognized. They don’t think anyone cares about their lives, and neither do they. They are OK with being a monster, as long as they are known for it.
I say it’s time we fight the problem, not the tools. What these men do is cause panic and terror around our nation. They are terrorists, plain and simple. So I say, that’s how we should treat them. I propose a law, forbidding the release of the identity of any mass murderer for a minimum of two months after the act itself. Let’s face it, by then, we have usually forgotten, or stopped caring. We are an entertainment culture, and after not long, we will have returned to our TV shows, and though the murders may still haunt us in our beds at night, we are quick to drown them out with sports and “CSI.” If we withhold these people’s identity, they will quickly pass, barely gracing the halls of history. The people like them, who want nothing more than fame, and are willing to go to any lengths to get it, will see that this no longer works. They will stop killing for no reason. This is a solution to the true problem.
In the end, banning guns will only lead to more creative, and simply more effective ways of murdering innocents. We need to combat the true threat. Take away the appeal of becoming a mass murderer. Take away the fame, the recognition. Make the perpetrators of these acts just another forgettable name. Treat them as the terrorists they are. If we find two months of anonymity aren’t enough, then let us forget their names forever, make them unknown, never release their names, their history, their reasons. Let us grieve for those we have lost, and not give those who took them what they wanted in the first place.
Owen Stech
New Paris, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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