Part of me wishes that he had killed himself before he was caught so that we don't have to witness the imminent popularization of the shooter by the media.
The press will not publicize drunks running onto a football/baseball field because they know it will only encourage copycats.
The press will not publicize Golden Gate Bridge jumpers because they know it will only encourage copycats.
Yet the press engages in pornographic coverage of the worst offenders in the nation each opportunity they get. Some of these guys have pre-recorded messages and statements in case they don't make it out alive to give the interviews themselves.
So we have a press that knows what they are doing by putting out this overexposure, and we have the perpetrators who know that they will receive the overexposure.
Nobody expects/wants politicians to pass laws restricting free speech so it is up to the public to demand better of our free press.
