Respectfully, I have to disagree with Peace, Rapaire and others who feel the media are to blame. School shootings are not an everyday occurance. I just read a report on the MSNBC website that said shool violence and attacks have dropped by half in the past decade. (Perhaps crimes are not being reported?)

Charles Whitman was not reacting to the media when he climbed the tower in Texas in 1966. The song "I Don't Like Mondays" was based on a school shooting in 1979. There have been school shootings over the decades, but we did not have 24 hour newschannels to report them.

I think issues of alienation and persecution are more likely to cause these shootings rather than a video. Most of these people are described as having suffered from ridicule - such as last weekends story about the 20 year old police officer opening fire at a party.

It's easy to blame the messenger, but harder to fix the real problems.