Enough with the NBC bashing.
Look, I can hate on the mainstream drive-by media with the best of them. But I’m sick to death of people beating up NBC for showing the now-deceased Cho Seung-Hui video.
People worried that there will be copycats, worried that other would-be mass murderers will try to do the same thing. Why? If you’re going to start worrying about what’s going to set off a psycho, you may as well get rid of static too.
Look. It’s really simple. There wasn’t a video released of Klebold and Harris that set Cho off. He just went nuts. Crazy people are going to do crazy shit, and there’s no way to predict or prevent it. I see no reason to hold the nominally sane population hostage to the fear that something on TV might make another psycho flip out and start shooting. Since you can’t stop it from happening, the best you can hope for is that there’s somebody sane nearby to put him down when he does flip out.
I am tired of having to alter my life to keep the shallow end of the gene pool well-stocked.