when one of the victim's brothers was so eloquent about keeping the focus on his sister as was the dad of Emilie today. They insist and note that we haven't been subjected to that hideous Aurora killer very much -- I see small improvements but we have far to go to heal the society that's for sure.

What turned ME off tonight was hearing Brian Williams on MSNBC say, "The answer? Just get through it." That's what's happened before, and again and again, getting through it and not learning and taking meaningful action to prevent it. There's at least a 2-prong attack necessary: Identifying and treating the mentally ill, and keeping guns away from them; and getting rid of assault rifles once and for all. Just for starters.

Even talking policy...solutions.

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He is a nothing more than a pretty face who can read and emote if necessary.

Oh they mentioned the named of the shooter exactly zero.

"Don't look at the 38,234,652 ton gorilla in the room - guns - instead, lets talk about mental illness."

The only mental illness they have to address right away is the one where you think you need a gun.

I have to wonder if their knowledge of how much attention these tragedies will garner them, even after death, drives many of the perpetrators of these horrific acts, and if they would be any less likely to carry them out if they knew they wouldn't get much widespread attention.

If someone "just snaps", wouldn't it be more likely that he or she would just kill whoever was closest to them and perhaps a few bystanders, or at worst a slightly larger group of people who had perhaps been tormenting them?

In this case, the guy killed his mother, then drove some distance away to take the lives of large numbers of the most innocent and defenseless among us, a school full of children. That seems deliberate and calculated to create the maximum horror and disgust.

I would consider deleting it for now

Yes, Rachel Scott, Daniel Rohrbough, Dave Sanders, Cassie Bernall, Isaiah Shoels, Lauren Townsend... that's just off the top of my head, if I looked it up, other names would be familiar. The media actually did a pretty good job at Columbine on their coverage of the victims. We learned quite a bit about all of them.

I agree that folks should turn off the news if they are feeling upset or overwhelmed by the coverage but I don't blame the media for covering this. It's news. Should they just ignore it? I don't want the media to pick and choose what they think we should hear. I'm not saying the coverage is great but when they find out the actual facts, names of victims and shooter, for example, they should report it.