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give them no attention.
I gotta say, he’s got a good point.
yeah. i think a majority of these shootings are caused by:
untreated mental illness and intensely disturbed people.
the promise from the media implicit in these obsessive news reports after any mass shooting that you’ll be famous if you go out and shoot some people! people will pay attention to you!
these non ideological or hate crime motivated mass shooters all have a profile of being profoundly disturbed people that exhibited bizarre and boundary disrespecting behavior and usually ended up being referred to disciplinary departments of whatever organization they’re a part of/in/enrolled in, got referred to the police/fbi/other law enforcement, who either couldn’t or just plain didn’t do anything that could’ve prevented anything, had an involuntary psych committal from threatening someone else or themselves or some mixture of these factors.
and another thing about many of these kinds of shooters are in many cases, they shouldn’t even have guns legally.
this latest shooter was 17 years old, and legally unable to own guns (he apparently stole at least one from his dad)
the texas church shooter from a good while back was dishonorably discharged from the air force after being convicted in a court marshal for domestic abuse against his wife. but he managed to get a gun because the air force, in horrifying incompetence, just forgot to put him in the database for people that should not be able to own guns
that one waffle house shooter had his guns taken away from him because he got arrested for trespassing at the white house and refusing to leave after the secret service told him he was in a restricted area, so they gave his guns to his dad, who gave them back to his son
dylann roof was able to buy a gun despite having been arrested for drugs because the paperwork was filed with the wrong arresting agency on it and slipping through the cracks
what we need in all honesty is several things
we need the media to back off this whole mass shooter thing and stop inadvertently encouraging these borderline people to go and commit these horrifying violent acts
we need THE EXISTING GUN LAWS to be enforced far better and far more consistently
and we need better, more compassionate healthcare for mental illnesses because america is pretty abysmal about this