Blogger Predicts VA Tech Shooting In March?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Blogging, Guns and Ammo, HistoryLoren Coleman wrote the following on March 28…
Here is my prediction of what to expect in the next two months: There will be new school shootings with increased violent outcomes by “outsiders.” Plots will be discovered, and students, especially girls and women, will be targets, victimized by adults using the vulnerable landscape of schools to work out their bloody and brutal homicidal-suicidal plans in a greater mirror of the scenarios of last fall.During the spring of 2007, school professionals and paraprofessionals, law enforcement officials, and mental health personnel should be aware we are entering the most active “School Shooting Season” since 9/11. From the end of March through the end of May, this window of time could be very deadly. I sincerely hope I am wrong.
As impressive as the above is, Coleman is no neophyte to this particular area. His bio reads as such…
Loren Coleman has dealt with the Copycat Effect through his federal government funded research work, books, and media consultations for almost three decades. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of over 25 books, one of which is the acclaimed Suicide Clusters (Faber and Faber, 1987).
Cho could very well be seen as an outsider to the culture at VA Tech. If you’ve seen his videotape, you know what I mean. He wanted to punish everybody around him (and ultimately himself) because he couldn’t fit in.
If nothing else, the above serves as a prophetic footnote to this tragic story.
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April 19th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
NBC could not have been more irresponsible or greedy.
President of NBC Steve Campus said, “We tried to be sensitive to the families involved and to the investigation,” Capus said in an interview. While it is “possible” that some relatives of the 32 students shot to death Monday may say that the network is giving the killer the platform he wanted, “they also may say, ‘We want to know why. We need to know what was in his head, what drove him to do this.’ This is a portrait of a killer.” See Washington Post.
It is not a “portrait.â€Â? It is SHOW: written, directed, and starred-in by the killer. Why confuse reality with the Cho Show? Why give him that respect? Thousands of sad, disgruntled kids make weird, morbid poems about how life sucks – what do they have to do to get attention – go on a killing spree? Thanks NBC, thanks a lot. How does his sophomoric and banal “media manifestoâ€Â? help anything? We all know what a car wreck looks like! IT ADDS NOTHING! The Cho Show didn’t add the slightest margin of useful information. All it did was encourage copycats. Thanks again.
One Word for NBC: Greed. There was no duty to the public here. If the message had some meaningful connection, then maybe – but airing this was pornographic. It adds nothing to our understanding, to our lives, to our safety. It merely gives attention to the evil that is seeking attention. And it increases the grief of the families and friends of the victims.
Of course, everyone is going to watch it, except the most disciplined. I did, and just like porno, I wish I didn’t afterwards. It made me feel sick and used. Human instinct will demand a one-time viewing. Freak shows appeal to some base human instinct, but not a good one. We all have a little morbid fascination – seen any good car accidents lately? That is why it was all too easy for NBC to air this garbage. It was a guaranteed easy ratings spike – for a channel that needs all the ratings-spikes it can get.
I should just pick on NBC, although they could have stopped it. All of these cable channels are running this and everybody is watching it. Make no mistake about who is responsible for the next one – we all are.
April 20th, 2007 at 8:24 am
I’ve not watched even one minute of TV coverage of this event, and every day I hear something else that makes me glad I haven’t.
If we would stop watching, they would stop airing.