I don’t know why the media always reward these psychopaths by giving them the fame they covet; that is, by plastering their pathetic mugs all over television and reporting pop psychology about why and how they did their dastardly deeds.
You’d think that – given the record of these psychotic and vainglorious episodes since Columbine – we would have figured out by now that the best way to discourage them is by focusing our attention on the victims and limiting what we say about the shooter to: May God have mercy on your soul as you burn in Hell!
(“Massacre in Omaha,” The iPINIONS Journal, December 7, 2007)
Given the above, the only thing noteworthy about the stabbing rampage at a Pennsylvania high school on Wednesday is that it wasn’t a shooting rampage. After all, just imagine the casualties if this unhinged 16-year-old kid was firing two pistols instead of wielding two knives. Better still, imagine a country where “stabbing rampage” replaced “shooting rampage” in public consciousness.
That he wounded 21, but killed nobody, demonstrates how any legislation that limits access to firearms with high-capacity magazines would save lives.
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