Today's provocative sub-headline in The Denver Post goes all the way across the first page: Post-Columbine mass murders have occurred with alarming - and to some, accepted - frequency. The actual story only mentions one person, a 20-year-old woman from Colorado Springs, who states that violence is accepted as a daily part of life by her peers. The key word here is "accepted." The headline writer implies that some accept violence as a part of every-day life. The article implies that is more commonly "accepted" by young people, because in their lifetimes they have seen media coverage of many random massacres, whereas us older folks rarely heard of such things. However, we had the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, and the attempted assassinations of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.
Does "accepted" mean condoned? I think the headline implies that.
Here is the on-line version, with a changed headline: http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21188378
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