Edit: you just have to be selective at your victim or do mass shooting.
A shower thought with a long history:
Herostratus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόστρατος) was a 4th-century BC Greek, accused of seeking notoriety as an arsonist by destroying the second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (on the outskirts of present-day Selçuk), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The act prompted his execution and the creation of a damnatio memoriae law forbidding anyone to mention his name, orally or in writing. The law was ultimately ineffective, as evidenced by surviving accounts of his crime. Thus, Herostratus has become an eponym for someone who commits a criminal act in order to become famous.
Shooting up a school is the easiest way to go from nobody to everyone talking about you the next day. Grim but true.
If I were a dictator I’d probably make it illegal to publish the names or any other information about the shooter. Even better if media wouldn’t report on the shooting at all but I feel like prohibiting that would be taking it too far.
Killing someone more important has always been a ticket to, not fame, but infamy.
Comes from latin for “ill famed” or “of evil reputation.”
