Help us discourage mainstream news outlets from displaying a mass shooter's information! Help us stop mass shootings!

After every mass shooting, the media is first to report on the tragedy. News outlets, in an effort to obtain profits, excessively recount these stories and output information detailing the shooter’s personal life. The concept that is overlooked in this scenario is that which involves shooters’ desire for attention and spotlight. Mass media, which many people fail to realize, feeds into this want and provides a widespread platform for these criminals to be displayed on. As recent studies have shown, this has had a direct correlation with the sudden increase in mass shootings witnessed across the nation, most evident in the past decade. Help discourage mainstream news outlets from displaying any information pertinent to these shooters and thus prevent them from feeding into the wants of these psychopaths by signing the petition!