I was doing research this weekend into the recent shooting at UC Santa Barbara and came across this CBS News article that was written after the 2012 movie theater shooting in Aurora. The premise of the article is that we shouldn’t use the name of the shooter to describe the event but describe the incident instead. The reason is that using a shooter’s name allows them to leave their legacy, be remembered, and continue to instill fear in people even after their death or incarceration. Instead of remembering the shooters, it should be the victims who are at the forefront of the conversation. In the passage below, Julia Dahl, who wrote the article for CBS news, really drove this point home for me.
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Stop Using Names – Use the Incident
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I was doing research this weekend into the recent shooting at UC Santa Barbara and came across this CBS News article that was written after the 2012 movie theater shooting in Aurora. The premise of the article is that we shouldn’t use the name of the shooter to describe the event but describe the incident instead. The reason is that using a shooter’s name allows them to leave their legacy, be remembered, and continue to instill fear in people even after their death or incarceration. Instead of remembering the shooters, it should be the victims who are at the forefront of the conversation. In the passage below, Julia Dahl, who wrote the article for CBS news, really drove this point home for me.