Posted April 19, 2019 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Mass shootings are part of the American consciousness. They’re horrific, after all, and they’re something we’re all struggling to make sense of. It’s a catalyst, not just for people to embrace gun control, but also for people to embrace gun ownership and concealed carry. It’s done a number on the gun rights debate, that’s for sure.

But much of what surrounds mass shootings also has something to do with media coverage of those mass shootings (emphasis mine).

As the first anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting approached, a group of students, teachers, and parents addressed reporters at a forum organized by the local school district. Sue Petrone, who lost her 15-year-old son, Danny Rohrbough, in the suburban-Colorado massacre that took the lives of 12 students and a teacher on April 20, 1999, appealed to journalists to focus on the victims and to be sensitive to the wishes and needs of the survivors.

“[I] respectfully request that the media not broadcast any footage from April 20,” Petrone said. “That would be footage showing students running from the school, students on stretchers, and murdered students.” Finally, Petrone and the others asked that the killers’ names be omitted from anniversary coverage.

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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