You've probably heard about the 19-year old kid who killed eight people at a Nebraska mall on Wednesday when he shot a rifle from the third floor into a Von Maur store on a lower level.

Since the shootings, every media outlet has been digging into this kid's past. This may come as a shock, but it turns out he was troubled. MSNBC says:

Robert Hawkins had been kicked out of his family's house, fired from McDonald's and had broken up with his girlfriend.

Hawkins left a suicide note Wednesday at the home where he had been living. It said that he wouldn't be a burden on his family anymore and that "now I'll be famous."

That's all you got, kid? Most 19 year olds live on their own, and people break up all the time. And since when is getting fired from McDonald's a cause for shooting up a mall? It's a blessing! Who loses a job at McDonald's and says to themselves, "How can I go on without my job working the deep-fryer?!?! How, dammit, how?!?!?!!! I must seek my vengeance on the society that scorned me!!!!"

What about the "now I'll be famous" part? Shooting people doesn't make you famous. If you want to be famous, you have to do something special, like bang Britney Spears or appear on reality TV. Shooting people will get you in the news for three days max, and that's on a slow news week. You shoot people during the baseball playoffs or the day before a big snowstorm is coming through the Northeast, and you might not even make the front page. Hell, I already forgot this kid's name, and I'm not even done writing this story about him yet. These shootings used to be big news, but now that shit is totally played out. You might as well just go around quoting Austin Powers or doing the Macarena.

This might all sound callous, and it is, but the reason we're talking about it is because some people have been calling the kid emo and suggesting that his emo-ness might be responsible for the incident. Here is his yearbook picture...

He has long hair and a hooded sweatshirt. Big deal. It gets cold in Nebraska. Can we all please stop blaming music or TV whenever a horrible tragedy happens? The kid was a psycho, end of story.