Topic: Shootings and other violent acts:
Karen et al:
Maybe OPA, and APA might be willing to take an unusual stand on these shootings and as was done in New Zealand. I would suggest that OPA and APA publicly recommend that the press not print the picture of the shooter in the newspapers as well as show his picture on TV and on social media. If you noticed, the shooter received much more press/pictures from the N Carolina shooting than the hero. The picture of the shooter was physically bigger and shown everywhere as was the person who was going to build bombs in California which was thwarted by the FBI. All this does is glorify the perpetrator and act like a magnet for every other would be shooter/bomber. We have research on suicide in this area and it is called, The Werther Effect. As with the deaths by suicide by such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Robin Williams, and Kurt Cobain the suicide rates clearly went way up following their deaths and publicity in the press. I realize that this might irritate people who feel that this has to do with freedom of the press but we are obviously willing to comment publicly about various types of guns and bump stocks.
Respectfully Submitted,
Carl Tishler, Ph.D., ABPP
Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry
The Ohio State University
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