Shooting Reported on Purdue University Campus.

[elleng]

Police have a person in custody following a reported shooting at Purdue University in western Indiana.

A Twitter post from the university says the shooting happened Tuesday at the Electrical Engineering Building on the school's campus in West Lafayette. Further posts say police have a person in custody, though no details have been released.

The university says it told people to take shelter and have cleared the building as the area is searched.

Television footage from the scene shows a fire truck and several law enforcement vehicles around the building.
A university spokesman couldn't immediately be reached for details, including whether anyone was wounded.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/01/21/us/ap-us-purdue-shooting.html?hp


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Anyone think it would be a good idea for media to STOP reporting these?

[Paladin]

1. Why in the hell should these incidents not be reported?

Back in 1966, I was in Austin when Charles Whitman did his shooting spree from the UT Tower; I had friends who lost family members that day. It made the covers of "Time" and "Life" magazines, and there was all manner of soul-searching on the TV networks, investigations all over the place. We're at a point now where shooting incidents barely make the news anymore, because they are so damned common. And you're advocating the discontinuance of reporting on shootings, altogether? As a substitute for doing something about the easy availability of guns and the difficulty in obtaining effective mental health care? No way.

[elleng]

2. I'm concerned that too many unstable people seek the notoriety

provided by media coverage, resulting in aggravating an already sick (in many ways) society

[Paladin]

5. "Hey, Ralph. Did you hear about the shooting at the neighborhood elementary school?"

"No, Don, I didn't see or hear anything about it in the news."

"Well, that stands to reason. They don't talk about that sort of thing anymore. Anyway, it happened this morning. 10 kids dead, shooter's still at large with an AR-15 and a few hundred rounds of ammo. You might pass the word to anybody you happen to meet."

"Will do."

[HereSince1628]

4. 'Suicide plus ultra' does have an association with mental illness...but not all shootings do

And the connection between the suicide-plus shootings is roughly only 50%

I'm all for getting persons who need it effective mental health care. Thanks to the ACA that's more possible now than it was just a few years ago.

I have no problem acknowledging that mental illness plays a role in these events.

And while you may have information, insight or clairvoyance that enables you to get this case right, it's important to remember that presumption of mental illness as a problem in a shooting is pre-judging, a euphemism for prejudice

The fear of prejudice and acts of shunning and discrimination remain a barrier to willingness of the mentally ill, and their family to seek and remain in treatment. A major source of that fear stems from unwarranted beliefs...that all mentally ill are alone or in some combination...unpredictably dangerous or incompetent.

If we both want people who need help to seek it out we've got to get beyond the prejudice and discrimination.

[Paladin]

6. I'm going to cut you some slack for the snarky response, because of my clairvoyance. (nt)

[HereSince1628]

7. Lol. It wasn't meant to be snarky...rather to cover a broad range of possibilities

But, then you may not mean the part of my reply about clairvoyance.

[cali]

3. that's a simply terrible idea. it's news. it damned well should be reported.

[ChangeUp106]

8. One person has died

according to Purdue press conference

Watch here: http://www.theindychannel.com/live-video

[B Calm]

9. Oh wow, my daughter-in-law works at Purdue.

[BainsBane]

10. anything but deal with the guns

Censor the media, lock up the depressed, anything but deal with the issue---gun proliferation.

[MineralMan]

11. Why on Earth would the media not report such crimes?

Locally, it's news that everyone needs to be aware of. Nationally, it's news that affects people all over the country, since people know people near Purdue or know someone studying there.

There will be no news blackouts of such significant events. Nor should there be.

[B Calm]

12. Mitch Daniels (ex R Indiana Governor) is the Purdue University President