Don't be sucked in to the media coverage of the chaos that was created by one person with severe mental problems. News reporters just love stories like this one and will milk every poisonous drop with round-the-clock coverage to increase their ratings and thus get more money from more advertisers. In fact, they are just getting started; over the coming weeks we will be bombarded with pictures of the dead children, maudlin interviews with the grieving parents and lots of tales about the shooter, all presented to us as valuable information we need to go about our productive lives.
It isn't.
Don't spread the disease. Instead, look away. Do something fun today. Go to a yoga class. Send someone flowers. Bake a pie and take it to a neighbor. Get a puppy. Buy a new car, or at least pretend to; test drives are free. Most important, if you own guns, hide them from your kids. If you have kids, take them to the zoo instead of to school. If there's no zoo where you live, write to your congressman and complain. Better yet, start one yourself.
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