As much as people say the FBI grooms shooters (which they have, as the Draw Muhammad shooter illustrated), the media definitely has a giant fucking role in it.

Roger Ebert in 2003 did a review on a movie about Columbine (Elephant) and he straight up told a journalist that "The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn't have messed with me. I'll go out in a blaze of glory."

That's also what the Columbine shooters, Tarrant, and the V-Tech guy who mailed a box of photos to a news station wanted. The basement tapes featured the shooters bragging about how they'd be Hollywood famous and talked about which Hollywood director should make a high-budget biopic of their life. Different things from being taken alive to livestreaming the event are done to fuel the media coverage as well.

Ironically the only time the media will localize coverage of a mass murder event is if they're trying to memory hole it.

@PhenomX6 Mister Metokur was right about how to deal with them (assuming they're not feds) which is to mock and ridicule them. Use Randy Stair, Elliot Rodger, and the recent Buffalo shooter (with his fetish for Martha Speaks) as prime examples. Nobody wants to be like those weirdos. Make them the primary examples of mass shooters.

@xianc78 Don't forget: there weren't any Tarrant copycats for a while after the one retard in Germany livestreaming it only killed 2 random people instead of his target, had his guns jam, got locked out of the building he wanted to shoot up, and essentially reminded people that the average mass shooter is a genetic failure.
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@PhenomX6 I think he used 3D printed firearms.

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@xianc78 He probably used the old shit-tier ones that were fully plastic and couldn't get off a shot or two before melting.

This is also what fudds think all 3d printed guns are.
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