Dennis Praeger asks a few questions which have often occurred to me upon reading press reports of these kinds of incidents.
Question 1: Why are murderers always counted in the victims tally?
The day after the mass murder of students at Northern Illinois University (NIU), the headline in the closest major newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, was: “6 Dead in NIU Shooting.”
“6 dead” included the murderer. Why wasn’t the headline “5 killed at NIU”?
It is nothing less than moronic that the media routinely lump murderers and their victims in the same tally.
This is something entirely new. Until the morally confused took over the universities and the news media, murderers were never counted along with their victims. To give a military analogy, can one imagine a headline like this in an American newspaper after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor: “2,464 Dead in Pearl Harbor Attack”? After all, 55 Japanese airmen and nine Japanese crewmen also died in the attack. …
Question 3: Why are “shooter” and “gunman” used instead of “killer” or “murderer”?
If a murderer used a knife to murder five students, no news headlines would read, “Knifeman Kills Five.” So why always “shooter” and “gunman”?
The most obvious explanation is that by focusing on the weapon used by the murderer, the media can further their anti-gun agenda.
Dennis Carr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck
Murder is not about the gun! Murder is from the heart of the most evil people we have.
“Richard Franklin Speck (December 6, 1941–December 5, 1991) was a mass murderer who systematically killed eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital, Chicago, Illinois on July 14, 1966.”
And the protection by the Chicago Police does not surprise me. They had him cold and did not do a damn thing.
If it wasn’t for an alert doctor, he would have gotten away with it.
“Two days after the murders, Speck was identified by a drifter named Claude Lunsford. Speck, Lunsford and another man had been drinking the evening of July 15 on the fire escape of the Starr Hotel at 617 W. Madison. On July 16, Lunsford recognized a sketch of the murderer in the evening paper and phoned the police at 9:30 PM after finding Speck in his (Lunsford’s) room at the Starr Hotel. The police, however, did not respond to the call although their records showed it had been made. Speck then attempted suicide, and the Starr Hotel desk clerk phoned in the emergency around midnight. Speck, who was not recognized by the police, was taken to Cook County Hospital at 12:30 AM on July 17. At the hospital, Speck was recognized by Dr. LeRoy Smith, a 25-year-old surgical resident physician, who had read about the “Born To Raise Hell” tattoo in a newspaper story. The police were called, and Speck was arrested.”
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