While I am mostly for the strict limitation of firearm posession, and I believe firearms owned by civilians don't make society a safer place, I also believe that no matter how safe or civilised a society is, there will be violent incidents and acts of terrorism like these. You cannot control the mental state of every individual, and someone is bound to become aggressive and use the resources he has to harm other people.

Every time there is no clear 'purpose' of what the killer in these incidents might want to accomplish, I always wonder how big the role of the media is. I think milking a story like this one and making the killers of similar incidents into infamous folk figures is just giving possible killers an incentive to do it: fame. I feel like every time the media forget to take responsibility and claim 'they are just observing and reporting', but **** that. I'm a journalism student, but you don't have to be to realise how huge the impact of media, and especially visual media like television, can be.

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