Patton Oswalt breaks summer Twitter silence after Lafayette shooting

Comedian urges respect and love for victims and heroes, not attention for the murderer's sick views

Published July 24, 2015 10:34PM (EDT)

 patton_oswalt (AP/Chris Pizzello)
patton_oswalt (AP/Chris Pizzello)

Patton Oswalt -- who takes a break from Twitter most every summer -- returned for the first time in almost two months on Friday to post about the media and the Lafayette movie theater shooting.

His post was a plea to the media to focus on the victims and all the heroes related to the "Trainwreck" shooting, and to avoid talking about the "insect" behind the killings.

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The comic returned a few hours later to retweet this smart observation from fellow comedian Jim Norton.

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