I am also not the first to denigrate the sheer amount of airplay and exposure the perpetrator gets. It seems obvious to me that he used the murder/suicide spree to get his statement published. And he did. As others have done before Columbine and since.

For the parents, family, and friends of the victims, it makes little difference whether the killer used a car or a gun, their loved one is now gone. It makes little difference whether there were others killed by the same person, their loved one is still gone. But national attention, the limelight of media crews publicizing and politicizing the shooter and ‘why’ .. and trivializes how their son, their daughter, their friend was lost.

I am as angry at certain members of the media, as I am at the shooter.