Saturday, October 13, 2007

Dillon Cossey

Another Columbine could’ve happened. Fourteen-year-old Dillon Cossey admitted he planned a shootout for Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School in Pennsylvania. Not only did he plan an act of violence, but his mother bought him the guns.

The whole situation is undoubtedly disturbing, but what surprised me most was Cossey’s possession of a video of the Columbine shooting.

This teen learned how to attack a school based from media coverage of an event. If people are learning violence from the news, maybe we should tone it down in the media.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Look back what happened in a silent town of Jokela, Finland two days ago. A 18-year-old senior shot 8 (including the head of the school also) and finally himself also. The Police is investigating the link between Cossey and this guy, named Pekka Eric Auvinen.

And these things really rarely happen in Finland. Even there are guns available in Finland. There also also extremely strict regulations about guns. And barely no one has a gun for self-protection. The Finns hunt a lot.
But this happened in Finland.