V-Tech

Can't get away from it today...every news channel has a special. Phil called it right away - before anyone knew about the shooter at all - just the news that 30+ people had been shot at V-Tech, Phil said, "Some guy couldn't get chicks."

Well, it turns out he was right. The guy was stalking two girls at different times. Obviously, this wasn't the only problem (99.9% of dudes would turn homocidal at one point or another if it was), but getting laid probably would have stopped the guy - or at least moreso than stricter gun control laws or less strict gun control laws (other students packing heat).

I am being an asshole or does it appear like the news folks really get off on reporting this kind of shit? I saw this one guy with a big booming voice actually talk to the camera as if it were the Cho character and said something to the effect, "You thought you were killing rich, spoiled, trust fund kids, well you weren't. You were killing sons and daughters and brothers and sisters...." I changed the channel. But thanks, tough guy, I needed the news guy to make me feel morally righteous in anger over the event.

One interesting thing about his multimedia packet he provided to NBC (why NBC I wonder...was he a 30 Rock fan?), is that he makes reference to Dylan and Eric, the two Columbine shooters. I guess he felt some sort of camraderie. What ever happened to good ole fashioned serial killers who went out and killed one or two at a time and tried to hide from the cops? These guys seem to have a different pattern - going out in a blaze of glory and then kill themselves. Why not just kill yourself? Why take everyone out? Or why not just kill a bunch of people and then go into hiding to see the results?

Anyways, I actually don't find all this shit that interesting, more just annoying. And yet I can't escape it...