Three new sniper-style shootings in west virginia

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Sad to hear people are copying horrific crimes like the shootings in the Washington area. Even sadder to hear that people are rooting for criminals to get killed, quite a barbaric scociety  

But I have a question, is there any possibility that strong media coverage can influence people with pshycological dysfunctions to mimic acts of violence? The strong media coverage acting as a match, and the dysfunction(s) acting as the extremly flammable material.

Why is this barbaric when the criminals have murdered so many innocents?

For one it gives the goverment the power to kill how is it right to kill someone because he has killed? I might be a dug-in Swede wich never has had any loved one be a victim of a violent crime.  But I don't belive that killing people is the solution to stopping criminals, no matter how deprived/psychotic the person in question is.

Now back on-topic

Sorry i dis-agree when a person knows of what the consequences of his actions will later be on him he will not 'dare' to do it again , or in other peoples cases , it will amke them think twice before trying to emulate such a act.

Putting a person in prison for the rest of his life is even worse then killing him.

It is not about the punishment at all. If it was then I'd say to hell with it and kill the bastard. As that is how I feel sometimes when I hear about these things in the news. And again, killing the man will only make it easy on him. And when he gets killed off by scociety how the heck is he supposed to kill people again. So using the death penalty as a "scare" is only a very sad ploy. I mean if you kill twelve fellow humans how high can you truly value your own life?

Again, the thing isn't about dealing out harsh punishments. It is about the morality of scociety killing off people (even if they have done horrible acts) It is like training a dog to bite then killing it because it bit someone.And the death penalty is not suitable for use by a modern and civilised country in my opinion.

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Sad to hear people are copying horrific crimes like the shootings in the Washington area. Even sadder to hear that people are rooting for criminals to get killed, quite a barbaric scociety  

But I have a question, is there any possibility that strong media coverage can influence people with pshycological dysfunctions to mimic acts of violence? The strong media coverage acting as a match, and the dysfunction(s) acting as the extremly flammable material.

Why is this barbaric when the criminals have murdered so many innocents?

For one it gives the goverment the power to kill how is it right to kill someone because he has killed? I might be a dug-in Swede wich never has had any loved one be a victim of a violent crime.  But I don't belive that killing people is the solution to stopping criminals, no matter how deprived/psychotic the person in question is.

Now back on-topic

Sorry i dis-agree when a person knows of what the consequences of his actions will later be on him he will not 'dare' to do it again , or in other peoples cases , it will amke them think twice before trying to emulate such a act.

Putting a person in prison for the rest of his life is even worse then killing him.

Do you honestly think that the serial killer does not know what will happen to him if he is caught? He knows. It is not stopping him from killing now, is it?