SOME THOUGHTS ON LAS VEGAS MASS SHOOTING NO.1 :
1. Sensationalizing the event with a dramatic, over the top headline shows once again that the media, including NPR (commercial-public radio), had a field day improving it's ratings by covering every detail of the tragedy and giving inspiration and a complete "How-to" for the NEXT WORST shooting.
2. This is where the First Amendment will need to be amended to help bring mass gun violence to an end. The FCC or similar agency needs to DICTATE TO THE MEDIA exactly what it can call all future and past mass shootings SO NOT TO SENSATIONALIZE AND PROMOTE IMITATORS! From now on ALL "MASS SHOOTINGS" should be assigned SERIAL NUMBERS and the media outlets FINED for reporting anything else to identify a shooting incident!!
3. The name of the suspected shooter should be omitted or abbreviated as often as possible in reporting of the incident or simply referred to as The shooter in incident No. 302NV for example using the federally assigned Serial Number.
4, The media should also be fined for publicizing details of an incident which can instruct a future shooter on how to arm and organize attacks.
5. As things stand now, without common sense restrictions on gun sales and ownership, media coverage, mental health funding etc. the only way mass shootings in America will cease is probably the same way they did in the Vietnam war. When one side or the other "wins" control of the government and or when the entire American population becomes collectively "war weary" the way the British public did during 'The Troubles' period of frequent IRA bombings and mass shootings when their nation learned to accept more restrictions on their civil liberties in order to mitigate domestic terrorism.
6. If you are going to propagate the title: "Worst shooting in history" than it follows to add the words "So far" or "to date" since we all know that is what the media is hoping will happen to give them more "business" later on.
7. Speaking of the Vietnam war do any investigators seeking a "motive" question whether Paddock served during Vietnam and did he have any mental trauma after that which he was concealing?
Also since the new PBS documentary film of that conflict has been showing on a virtual 'loop tape' on broadcast television since mid September could Paddock have been "inspired" or provoked by that film to 're-enact' a firefight type experience (such as shooting into paddy fields or jungle from helicopters with machine guns or blowing up tanks with grenades) ?
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