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No More Fame for Mass Murder (nomorefameformassmurder.com)
14 points by cmb320 3914 days ago
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Yeah, because people who go on mass murders are looking for fame and power.

Yeah. It's not that they're mentally ill, need help, or are lashing back out on their community for the pain they've incurred from it. It's because they're looking for fame.

What a joke.

Not that much a joke actually.

According to University of Alabama criminologist Adam Lankford[1] the causes include fame:

    factors include a chronic and widespread gap between 
    Americans' expectations for themselves and their actual 
    achievement, Americans' adulation of fame, and the 
    extent of gun ownership in the United States.
[1] http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-united-s...
A mass shooting occurred today by an unknown person. Don't worry, authorities are rounding up people with similar profiles for extra surveillance/interrogation.
> Petition the United States Congress to enact a law prohibiting the publication or revelation of either name or identity of mass murderers.

I agree with the principle of not encouraging fame-seekers to mass-murder, by making making such murders a sure path to fame, but this is a blatant violation of the First Amendment and the principle of free speech.

We need to figure out how to instill a sense of decency in the mass media.

I notice there's no actually penalty being advocated for the words they'd be banning.
While a noble idea, this seems quite incompatible with the first amendment.