More media crap

For once I’m going to defend them.

NBC made the very difficult decision to air the rantings of the lunatic that shot up Va. Tech on Monday, and of course, everyone is screaming for blood.

I applaud this decision by NBC, but maybe not for the reason they did it.

Everyone needs to see this.  Everyone needs to see what and who this guy is.  Maybe not to make his “manifesto” public,  (everyone has a manifesto, hell even I have one sometimes) but because it’s the only way we’re going to get better at identifying people who may be on the brink of this kind of meltdown sooner, before they have the chance to hurt anyone.

I understand the feelings of the families, and I’m sorry to have to respectfully disagree, but answer me this.

Wouldn’t your children have been better served had he been identified months ago when the first symptoms surfaced?  Wouldn’t your children have been better served had he actually been committed the first time it was attempted?  WOULDN’T YOUR CHILDREN STILL BE ALIVE TODAY if the college had been free to dismiss him at the first signs of untreated mental illness?

Thought so.