(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I respect Morgan Freeman for speaking out:

"This may sound cynical, but here's why.

It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single *victim* of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.

CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.

You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news."

Do you agree with his view toward this?

Some good points in this. But then again people are like this, people want to know everything about this monsters and they will find out.
Everyone that i know (including myself) are only interested about the suspect. Where was he from, how was his life with parents-friends-school, what did turn him to do such a horrible thing etc. etc. Why are we like this i don't know. Media just gives us what are we interested to finding out.
From the history of the world we all mostly know about bad figures couse that is most interesting. It's sad, but thatch the world we live in.

That guy is a gangsta

I love Morgan Freeman the guy is amazing. I sometimes don't agree with him on many issues however I agree with him about the recent string of shootings. Banning guns isn't going to solve the underlying cause of the shootings. It's the mental health of the shooters etc. I'd love to see him go on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News and express his opinion because it carries a lot of weight.