by Sunny Hundal

This was the video I was looking for earlier, made by Charlie Brooker for BBC4 Newswipe, not long after I heard about the shootings.

Isn’t there a danger similar here that excessive coverage might prompt copycat killers? I asked this earlier on Twitter and Mr_Onions replied:

I don’t think so. Our attitude to guns and our tight gun laws says different. Worst since Dunblane, though that was 14 yrs ago

I’m still not convinced. There are far too many studies that confirm this. The Guardian has a timeline of shootings (via SimonNRicketts).