Mass murders
Whether it's killing people in church, or James Holmes shooting up folks in a Colorado movie theater, or a sniper from a Las Vegas hotel window, or a Colorado high school mass shooting, or a gang shooting in a Chicago hood, the killers are all people who are losers. They have no self worth, no morals and don't care a whit for the sanctity of life. Obeying the laws of civilization, including those related to gun ownership or against wife and child beating, mean no more to them than traffic violations. And without exception, they always blame others for their own failures. They know they will never be famous, but also they see that mass murder will make them infamous, and remembered, if they take killing to the next level. In their twisted minds, it's their only shot at their "15 minutes of fame". Gun laws won't change them any more than making alcohol illegal changed people in prohibition. There are only two ways to change such twisted minds, with the first being impossible and the second being highly improbable. The first would require a total censorship prohibiting all reporting of these senseless acts, and the second would be a change in society that returns us to a level of morality not known since the 1950's and prior to anything goes liberalism.
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If they can control the question, though, it's more important than the answers. "What are we going to do about mass shootings?" "What does anyone need with a...?"
I question how effective a ban on reporting mass shootings would be. It depends on how many of the shooters are motivated by being nationally famous rather. It would probably stop a percentage of them. It's hard to say because mass shootings are so rare.
It's obvious to me that pushing people to an earlier decade of morality makes things worse. Violence has decreased since the 1950s. Spousal abuse, violent fights among kids, abusive discipline of kids, and violence in policing were all worse. There were having violent protests for racial integration and equal rights, with the scared authorities often brutally oppressing people. The answer is to go forward along the trend of decreasing violence.