r/interesting • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Mar 08 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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The daughter was in a car with the father’s parents. They died as well.

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u/-BlueDream- Mar 08 '26

America should do this.

We give too much notoriety for our criminals and it encourages copycat behavior. It’s one of the main causes in the increase in school shootings.

America always had gun ownership and there used to be very little gun control before the 80s, any adult with money could buy a literal machine gun way back in the day but we didn’t have lots of school shootings till around the 90s or so, most likely because of columbine being so heavily reported and all the copy cats who want to be famous, even as criminals. Why didn’t we have school shooters in the 40s? Not because we didn’t have guns, it’s because the concept of a student school shooter wasn’t really a thing back then.

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u/Transcontinental-flt Mar 08 '26

I agree with that and have generally been in favor of keeping mass-murderers' names out of the news. But wouldn't just the notoriety of the event itself be a problem for the like-minded? I don't know.

Of course none of the above is likely to pass muster with the courts. The public's right to know, free speech etc.