A growing movement is urging news organisations to avoid naming the gunmen responsible for mass shootings. It showed the two gunmen who had carried out one of the deadliest school shootings in US history. Adam Lankford, a criminologist at the University of Alabama, who has studied the influence of media coverage on shooters, said it's vitally important to avoid focusing excessive attention on gunmen. ROBERT KITCHIN/STUFF Thousands of people gathered in the Basin Reserve in Wellington for the Christchurch shooting vigil. James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University who has studied mass shootings, said naming shooters is not the problem.

Source: Stuff March 17, 2019 14:29 UTC