re: #37 Killgore Trout

Maybe but if anything I think the increased press coverage on the issue (and these incidents) may inspire some copycats. I don’t know if there’s been much of an uptick in shootings or just the press coverage. If you google “shooting” at random times you’ll notice that most of the shootings (mostly in urban, poor areas) still continue regularly with virtually no media coverage but even a minor shooting in a rich area, a college, or a red state gets lots of hype.
Even the gunshow accidents this past weekend happen fairly regularly (about one or two a month) but the increased press coverage lately is different.

Call me crazy, but arguing that there’s “too little” coverage of everyday shootings and “too much” of random shootings both converge to make the argument that there’s a very real problem with gun violence in this nation and calls to the media to look away from the problem are avoidance rather than solutions.