Originally published at: Most mass shooters driven by personal grievance, and about one quarter by conspiracy theories and hate | Boing Boing
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One quarter of too many is still too many.
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What the American ones all have in common is easy access to high-powered firearms. Entitled but insecure men, domestic abusers, and right-wing conspiracists would be more prone than most to want to own them as masculinity totems, security blankets, and props in their fantasies.
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And the Australian ones? What is their excuse? Oh…wait…
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I was wondering if the word, “White” was missing from this profile.
The typical attacker was a 34-year-old man motivated by personal grievances
… or Cops, as they are commonly known.
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Since there is no way to even begin to talk about gun control, and this is mostly about personal grievances, what is going to happen?
Anyone for a Purge?
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Absolutely. Men.
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No, thanks. I’m trying to quit.
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I’d guess that conspiracy theories and hateful ideologies are driven by personal grievance too.
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Would be more useful to separate out workplace shootings from terroristic attacks. I rather suspect the motivations in these two groups are pretty dramatically divergent, and the demographic identifiers would likely diverge as well.
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I would think there’s some garden-variety crime that reaches the level of mass-shooting, too. I mean, Breaking Bad season 3 alone would add up to half of these…
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White people being the majority (~60%) means they make up the majority of criminals (murders/rapists/thieves, etc.) Stereotyping minorities as criminals is just inaccurate racist rhetoric. (And men make up the vast majority of violent crime. We’re terrible.)
Alas, the flags of a mass shooter, such as spousal abuse and sudden unemployment,
Domestic violence is a huge indicator of future violence. It needs to be treated way more seriously than it is.
Absolutely. The causes are much different and effective solutions will be different as well.
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I do not see how these are mutually exclusive, though. For example, men who go to their ex’s workplace to shoot it up, they’re operating from a very ‘hateful ideology’ that they’ve been taught. Most people aren’t happy when they break up, but they don’t believe it’s an insult to their manhood that must be avenged.
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mass shooters are a very small subset of the general population, which breaks down as follows
The statistics don’t support your arrow.
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I assume @anon33932455 was being a little facetious there. Your point about mass shooters as a whole being a very small (but obviously very impactful) subset of the population goes more toward de-bunking the implication made by @badger911 here.
Presumably by a HS student who hasn’t yet taken a course in basic statistics. I’m assuming @Mindysan33, @jerwin and @anon33932455 all did. You, I’m not so sure (per @chenille below you’re not so great on HS math either).
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