When even reporters start going on racially-motivated shooting sprees, you know that things are getting crazy in this country.
On Wednesday, most Americans were absolutely stunned to learn that a former WDBJ-TV reporter shot and killed a 24-year-old female reporter named Alison Parker and a 27-year-old male cameraman named Adam Ward right as they were in the middle of shooting a live news segment at 6:45 in the morning. As a reporter, the shooter was known as “Bryce Williams”, but his legal name was Vester Lee Flanagan II. He fled the scene, but was later tracked down by police. Before they could take him into custody he shot himself, and he later died at a hospital in northern Virginia. So what would cause a talented young man to do such a thing?
In the United States, we tend to put journalists up on a pedestal. We consider them to be role models for the rest of us, and most Americans implicitly trust whatever they have to say.