Society Senseless Murder

The taking of a human life by another is heavily taboo in our society and on the individual level. For majority of society senseless murder is so alien of a concept that we cannot fully comprehend why an individual commits such a heinous crime. We are able to relate to other humans that commit murder for a purpose; For instance a man murdering a burglar who breaks into his home at the dead of night.
We are able to empathize with the person because we will assume he was scared the intruder meant to harm him or his family. What is foreign to us as human beings is the senseless violence toward those the public at large would deem innocent. The crime of mass killings is so puzzling of a concept to society as a whole that when one occurs it captivates the news cycle and is talked about for weeks after the events occur. The circus act surrounding these events portrayed by modern media about the events that occur further glorify the heinous actions of the perpetrator.
After these events occur society is in a state of shock and awe. In a way society is amazed and entertained by the fact that a member of our on species could commit such an atrocity. The problem with society acting in this way is it inspires other individuals to commit similar acts. The purpose of this paper is to present …show more content…
They plaster the murders face across every platform of media and start to speculate where he got the gun and why he targeted certain individuals and they inflate the notorious reputation of the individual. The reason many people remember the names of the killers because they are constantly being repeated on television the twenty-four hour news cycle reinforces their crimes. Then they move from inflating to worrying how the shooting will affect the national agenda. The relatively unknown person a few days before is now effecting policy and has been placed on every screen in