Why must it all be about numbers?

I was wondering, are we a world, so stuck on sports, that everything in life comes down to the score? Today, for instance, at Virginia Tech, a campus shooter killed 31 people. All the news can say is,"worst campus shooting in history"' or talk about the death toll and how it is higher than other, less deadly, campus shootings. Charles Whitman, killed 16 people at the University of Texas in 1966, Gang Lu killed five people, when he didn't win the academic award he was hoping for,(Iowa City, 1991) and of course, the thirteen people who were killed in Colorado. It is tragic, when a large amount of people get killed by any idiot but is the penalty worse if you get caught after killing twelve people, versus just one? The media should get a hard punch to the adams apple for making the nightly news a scoreboard for maniacs. If you followed the news this morning, you could see blurbish reports, like, "shooting reported at Virginia Tech, no death toll as of yet,we'll keep you updated if there are further developements, now over to Bob for the weather". No deaths had been reported yet, just a shooting, so no one really had to pay attention to it yet. A half an hour later, the death toll started pouring in and the change in the reporting was palpable. The news reporters looked more concerned, they were sending reporters to the scene, even though we all know that field reporters are just as bad, if not worse, ambulance chasers than lawyers, (two forms of scum that should be stacked up and torched), so you know they were there already, just hadn't seen a body bag yet. Then, just a bit later, the police confirmed that at least 20 were dead, man the news exploded. One or two dead, yeah that is local news, 15 or 16 dead, that is national but, twenty, the highest score in history. That is world news baby, we beat our high score. Suddenly the news vans are out, the helicopters are above and all eyes are on, Virginia Tech. How high is the score? We know that twenty is a record breaker but how far can he go? Is this guy, or girl, the Roger Maras of campus killers? What's the over under in Vegas? It should not be about numbers you media jack asses. If they catch the shooter and he goes to prison does he get a worse sentence then if he just killed one or two people? Is life in prison any different than, two or three life sentences? ( I am refering to a life sentence as the sum of your life, until you die, not the fifteen year, life sentence that many states have). If the state has you executed for a murder, is there a worse form of execution you can recieve for multiple murders? It is about the high score with the media gore mongers but the punishment doesn't fit the crime for the people who give in to the media by trying to one up the last guy. The punishment is actually worse for people who commit one murder, because they are just forgotten and gone from the public memory in days. The mass murderers and serial killers though, they are around forever it would seem, they have a high score, so the media keeps them in the trophy case. The media will also go on and on about how our world is dangerous and how it is worse than it was in the old days, which is more fear mongering that they should get slapped around for. The news has said that this is the worst campus killing in US history, well, if you are gonna fear and gore monger, get your facts straight. A campus is considered, the grounds of a college, university or school. With that in mind, I can now tell you that, on May 18th, 1927, in Bath, Mighigan, school board member Andrew Kehoe, used over 1000 pounds of dynamite to level the north wing of the Bath elementary school. He then, suicide bombed a car full of explosives and schrapnel, into the crowd of towns folk that had gathered outside of the school. Rescue searchers found 500 pounds of unexploded dynamite under the south wing of the school building later that day. Fourty five people were killed and fifty eight were injured during the attack. I geuss it might not count because Mr. Kehoe was not a student but I am pretty sure that this is the high score at least in America, I know we need more practice before we can face the Bosnian team, so let's go media the sky's the limit.