Just last March, two shootings occurred in Southern California within a three-week period. The media are not only a tool that can be used to direct attention, but they also affect the way teens think. A 1988 study by Madelyn Gould, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, examined media coverage of suicide. I believe that news coverage of school shootings and suicide contributes to the reasoning going through the mind of the suicidal or neurotic individual. An example of this deductive reasoning is the logical reasoning that some hippies are atheists.
Some atheists are anarchists.
Therefore some hippies may be anarchists. To conclude that hippies are anarchists would of course be an error in logic. I will bring a gun to school and kill people. Therefore, I will become famous. In Los Angeles County alone, six students killed themselves within six weeks of the Columbine high school shootings.