"You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why.

It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman
theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are
household names, but do you know the name of a single victim of Columbine? Disturbed people who
would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because
he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting
behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post
a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings
were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or
news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet.
Because they don't sell. So congratulations­, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone
to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one
victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem."

~Morgan Freeman (on the Newtown Connecticut shooting)