Can we please stop blaming media for the acts of single people? It isn’t video games or rap music that causes these individuals to snap.
We’ve had abhorrent violence in our cultural heritages for ages. See Titus Andronicus, or Medea(play) and countless others.
You may be able to blame media if you think that the disconnected and dis-enfranchised want to do something to get themselves noticed, but I don’t really believe it comes down to that.Not any more than it ever has.
It’s just that we have instant media now and hear about events immediately. But there have always been the people outside of the moral boundaries committing atrocious acts.
The same day of the Newton School shooting, a Chinese man stabbed 22 schoolchildren.
It isn’t guns and it isn’t games. It’s destructive individuals.
I don’t mean to belittle the heartache of the families of victims. I truly don’t.