Letters Attempt to deglamorize Behind the endless daily burlesques of so-called breaking news, network stations do battle to outshriek and outshock viewers with the latest in their constant search for the horror of the day. Public school violence now seems quite chic for these media shock troops. These contemptible felons constitute an obnoxious group of dirty, rotten little cowards, products of pseudoparenting. President Bush is the only president in memory to manifest a perception of cowardice in these savages.
Age is neither an excuse nor a mitigator.
These murderers can reasonably expect to walk as free men after that magic age of 18 or 21 years is attained. This abhorrent fact alone may well be the most important element in encouraging the next sick coward to shoot his way into the insatiable 6 o'clock news. Such crimes beg punishment. The media's obsession with unraveling mysteries of the killers' minds, first and foremost, obscures the tragedy and identities of innocent victims. Such a warped perspective cheapens all our lives, especially in the eyes of copycat freaks.