Teenage Killers Mod 5.1

This week marked yet another teenage killer on the loose. This one happened in an Omaha mall where a 19 year old boy went into a major department store and killed 8 people. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22131295/ The question, as always, is why? But I don't know if we can even answer that question, ever, for any killing.

Here is the question I have with all of the teenagers that have killed others over the last few years: Is the media making it worse by making these teenage killers famous?

Until the Columbine shootings there were very few teenage killers posted all over the news media, but now, whenever it does happen, it's blasted all over every single media outlet there is in the world. What does that say to teenagers who already have this thought in their head? I think that it says, "Hey kids, want to be famous, just go out and shoot up some people". I know that this may seem callous in the wake of the recent shooting in the Omaha mall, but the truth it sometimes very brutal. Naysayers believe that it's music, video games, books, and movies that put these thoughts in kids heads, but I disagree. These types of killings have been going on for a long time, it's just that now we see it the instant it's happening, instead of weeks or months later.

There has always been violence in adults and kids, we cannot blame this violence on the media and music from the beginning of time, so where did that violence come from? In my opinion, it comes from one of two places, violence in the home or a mental breakdown of the person committing the violence. There are ways in which we can avoid these types of things happening in our teenagers, it's called attention. Had these kids been paid attention to more, been listened to and loved most of this violence would not have happened. I understand that this is not the one and only answer, but no media outlet makes kids or adults commit violence.