Here's a link to a website that posted pictures of the victims.
From that same site:
"You want to know why. 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." Morgan Freeman
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