Criminal Christmas ideas

I was just thinking it would be funny to get criminals personalized ski masks with their names embroidered on them.

Why do we make them famous?

I woke up this morning to the news of a terrible tragedy of a mass shooting at a mall in Omaha, Nebraska. At least 8 people were killed, more injured. After shooting up a bunch of innocent people, to finish up his cowardly acts, the shooter then turned the gun on himself and took his own life.

This news hit me rather hard as I know just last night my mom was in a mall doing Christmas shopping as well. This could have happened anywhere, to anybody. So, while I am thankful that my family is safe, my heart goes out to those families now having to suffer through this senseless tragedy, which would be difficult to handle at anytime, but seems especially hard so close to Christmas. More than being sad, I am angry. I feel an anger not only toward the cowardly murderer, but also toward the media.

One expert of some form or another was being interviewed, and she was asked what the motive for this could have been. Apparently the shooter had been kicked out of his home, dumped by his girlfriend and recently fired from McDonald’s for stealing $17. This is a rather weak excuse for mass murder. They also mentioned that one of the shooter’s desires was to become famous, and the expert then said, “Which he now is.” And this is what made me angry. Every media site is showing his picture, repeating his name, MAKING him famous. The media set the blue print with the Columbine shooters. They have said it: if you want to be famous, kill a number of people, then kill yourself. It worked in Columbine, Virginia Tech, and now in Omaha, Nebraska.

You’ll notice I have not mentioned any of the coward’s names, because to name them is to give them what they wanted. But they do not deserve that. The only people who deserve to be famous are the ones who were killed. Perhaps if the media did not make such cowards into icons, the people who would perform such acts would just stay in their basements and kill themselves without involving innocent people.

If you are going to take the coward’s way out of this life, be a little bit more of a man and do it alone.