From columnist frankshyong: How do you tell a story about a mass shooting when research tells you that storytelling itself is part of the problem?
in places like Tumblr, Facebook, DeviantArt and YouTube. In these forums, devotees of mass murderers discuss strategies, share articles and debateThese spaces incubate future shooters. And repeated media exposure to violent acts breaks down the taboo of killing in the mind of a potential mass shooter, said Peter Langman, an expert on the psychology of mass killers.
We rank the shootings in order of magnitude to give readers a sense of their historical significance and scale. But research says those rankings, by number of dead and wounded, are treated like video game scoreboards by potential shooters, who then kill more so they can rank more highly. I still tell myself these things, but I don’t know if I believe them anymore. I’ve lost count of the mass shootings that have occurred since the first one I covered in 2013. I can’t wrap my head around all of the violence and the pain, and I’m exhausted by the circular and rapidly polarized discourse that roars into being moments after the news breaks. I think we all are.
Mourners attend the funeral service for Isaac Amanios, a victim of the San Bernardino shooting, at St. Menas Orthodox Church in Colton. It was a huge, coordinated national effort, with slow but significant impacts. Though there are still plenty of mistakes, news organizations now typically avoid reporting on suicide unless in special cases.
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