Reading Huffpo, one would get the impression that seven people were "victims of a gun rampage" in the "Santa Barbara Shootings". In fairness, Huffpo admits to is that one of the "victims" was the perp, so actually six victims (hence the six stories).GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — A gunman went on a rampage Friday night near the University of California, Santa Barbara, that left seven people dead
The first three were roomates of the perp and were knifed in the apartment before perp went out and killed other people, so a more accurate reporting might be a knife wielding killer murdered six people. Now we are down to "three victims of Santa Barbara shootings".
If someone would elect me [strike]Dictator[/strike] President, I would make an executive order that any wacko who commits a mass murder is under media lockdown. No mention of his name. No pictures of him. Nothing about his family. Nothing about whatever wacko manifesto he might have written. His you-tube videos, facebook postings and blogs are scrubbed.
The media is free to write whatever they want about the victims and their stories, but the perp and his memory are dead forever - kind of like the old Pharoahs erasing any mention of their predecessor.
I'll be willing to bet that a few years after this "executive order" goes into effect, the number of mass shootings, stabbings, bombings, etc. will be down by a factor of 3.