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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This won’t stop gun violence but it’s a step in the right direction.  When police in mid-sized city Texas are adopting this stance, things have changed.

Odessa police chief Michael Gerke declined to name the shooter. “I refuse to. I am not going to give him any notoriety.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/01/texass-second-mass-shooting-august-kills-least/[/quote]

I think that's BS, frankly. This person committed a crime against society. We understandably want to know who he is try to make sense of this crime. Try to understand what factors DO lead to this sort of crime. I think we have a right to know his name.[/quote]

How does knowing his name help you understand? We can learn how he came to commit the crime without it.

And really the HOW DID HIS HAPPEN is simply because guns are RAMPANT in our society, encouraged even. [/quote]

because we can look at his social media history and see if he was a white nationalist, or see his arrest history - and all sorts of things. don’t you want to know who *does* this? obviously we need better gun laws but understanding who is doing the killing helps us understand what sorts of better gun laws we need. also i just want to know and i don’t appreciate the patronizing take that only some people are able to know the name of the killer when it’s a salient derail

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Not saying the shooters name publicly (which is now public) doesn’t mean the police won’t investigate. It’s means the shooter won’t get notoriety. 
Combing through is SM is not your job citizen detective.[/quote]

Look, I am telling you I think this "let's not give him notoriety" thing is BS. I think it's ridiculous to think that for this one type of crime, the risk of the perpetrator becoming well known is so high that we can't be trusted to know his name. Are you going to hide the names of drunk drivers too so they don't become notorious? How about bank robbers? What's so special about this type of criminal?

Don't you feel as if you understand this crime - and the criminal - more, now that you know he was fired and recently had the police called on him? Wouldn't you want to know if he'd threatened one of the people he ended up shooting and the police didn't do anything about it? We are pattern seekers and I want to understand the pattern.[/quote]

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