Quarryville horror

What a really sad story this is - a milk truck driver walks into a Pennsylvania school and shoots 11 pre-teen schoolchildren, killing five little girls and leaving four others in critical condition. So many children's lives brutally cut short, so many families shattered forever.

Did you ever wonder what role the news media plays in things like this, and even in the proliferation of global terrorism? The way terrorist bombings and shootings like these get sensationalised, it seems to encourage even greater crimes. The Quarryville murderer might have watched coverage of the other school shootings last week and realized how easy it would be to make an evil fantasy come true. And so he went ahead to forge the latest link in this particular chain of violence. And the media got another sensational story on which to feed.

Short, interesting op. ed. about gun violence in the US here.