Admirers of school killers exchange views on Internet:
This happens after every recent school shooting. Some media outlet prints a story about how the mutants congregate in their dark slimy corners of the internet.
“I love this day! I love it!” declared one person who had known about Matti Juhani Saari on his YouTube page a few hours after the shootings.
As I’ve been saying for the past 8 years there are groups on the internet that basically worship school shooters. Most of them can be found on LiveJournal, MySpace, and YouTube.
“He was intelligent. He was beautiful”, says one video of Pekka-Eric Auvinen.
These websites are well within their rights to ban these types of groups.
“They all had much courage – if we want our community to change, we need to hear their ideas.”
But they never do.
Already on Tuesday, a website in the United States was selling T-shirts featuring a picture of Matti Saari.
They hide under the guise of free speech.
The same site maintains a list in which school killers are placed in a “ranking order” based on the number of people they have killed.
When it’s really hate speech.
The two shooters at Columbine, Jokela’s Auvinen, and most recently, Matti Saari have an iconic status on certain websites, similar to that of serial killers depicted in horror films.
Then everyone wonders why when it happens again.
Typical features include posing with weapons, shouting at the camera, shouting at the camera, firing into the ground, and television footage broadcast after the massacre.
Parents. teachers, police, and websites need to be made more aware of these groups. For the most part, they’re not groups looking into the whys and hows of what happened and how future shootings can be prevented. They’re mostly a cultlike subsection of society that relishes in these mass murders. Because their lives are unfulfilled they feel the need to live vicariously through the actions of cowardly mass murderers.
It’s not just kids either. In my travels, I have seen adults, who were even adults at the time of Columbine, who worship or sympathize with these scumbag killers.
Freedom isn’t a right, it’s a responsibility. It’s high time we started holding people responsible for this cancer that infests the internet.
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