So stories like this get me thinking.
Is it a chicken/egg thing? Like if law enforcement would just arrest them, charge them, prosecute them, and the media didn't make it this huge story (since it's not really a huge story, nothing happened), would this stuff kind of fade away and be rare events?
Like are these stories giving other unimaginative extremists ideas? The whole idea behind the attack was an agenda, media feeds right into that agenda. So is that coverage feeding the growth of the event regularity?
Same goes with the mass shootings? Many of these folks are trying to make a statement. So don't give them the forum to make that statement. Report it and move on. We give it so much air time, name the person over and over. Heck we remember the shooters names way more than we remember the victims names, because that's what gets plastered all over our TVs.
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