18 Children Dead From Reports

The idea is not give the impression to future kooks that they can go down in history by being more heinous than the last kook.

 

Not releasing the name of a fame-seeking mass killer does not keep the news itself from being reported. It just prevents the personal notoriety that the perp seeks. Maybe save some children down the road. You got some kind of problem with that?

 

Perhaps, but its a cheap deterrent if it only stops the initial hysterical overreporting and makes the nutjob a footnote to history.

So what can be done to protect schools? We are going to hear a lot of ideas, none of them ideal.

Gun Control -- Not much more we can do here except enforce the laws already on the books and really step up the background checks to help keep guns out of the hands of kooks.

Kook Control -- martin will scream Big Brother, but we have to identify and keep an better eye on our lunatics. Most of them are fine if they are on their meds. It should be impossible for a lunatic to buy or possess a weapon.

Enhanced Security -- People shouldn't be able to just walk into a school with weapons. I hate the oppressive security measures that it would take to do this, our schools would soon look like jails. It diverts much cash away from education, too. But what else can you do?

 

I'm in the news business. I could be down with Red's suggestion, but it would only take one reporter with too much ego to screw it up. The competition to be first with the story and to have something no other source has is too great.