Why are mass shootings up? any other theories?

Social media in general. Incredibly unstable and depressed people see that they can go out with a "bang" and decide that's what will help them.

Most of them feel "wronged" in some way and want to take it out on those that they percieve to be causing the issue. Even if the issue isn't actually real or that big.

Racist ass comment. Saying black people commit crimes and shit.

It's not just mass shootings. Fucking nuts are acting out.
Just look at the people getting shoved in front of subway cars, or the guy who drove an SUV into an Apple store in Mass, or the person who drove into 25+ law enforcement cadets.

What do people expect when the media pushes the bleak future narrative of climate change and a nihilistic attitude in general.

I'd like to know how many of these individuals who commit these horrific crimes are on medications like SSRI's and no longer have the ability to feel anything. No remorse, no empathy, nothing. Just emotional numbness.

Think about the time frame...Prozac first hit the American market in January 1988. Over the years the prescriptions increased and so have these incidents.

It's an act of getting the ultimate power over others. America's problem is a very deeply engrained narcissism - everyone acts like they're better than others. It's like someone who has to buy a bigger grill or SUV than their neighbor, but that mindset has evolved into violence. If someone feels like they have been wronged, their first response is violence - whether in a situation of road rage or a mass shooting. If someone THINKS you passed them up on the road, there's a growing amount of people who will literally pull a gun on you for it. School shootings happen because the kid feels like they're nobody, and the only way to feel like they have power is by committing heinous violence. It's all rooted in narcissism, that attitude of "how DARE you think you're better than me".

No, mocking mass shooters or bringing back public hanging would not lessen them. There would still be as much mass shootings as there are now.

I actually do believe this is true for at least half the cases.

Humans have the tendency of snapping through a myriad of circumstances. Holding a shooter on any kind of pedestal is horrendous thinking it will somehow vilify an already horrible crime.

The media is making it worse. As the weaponry we have around now adays is actually less dangerous than the kind of crap you could purchase before the 1970s.

Only thing that changed is how people consume media. Not the weapons that are, in no uncertain terms immovable from american ownership.

Blaming guns is ridiculous when the person in ownership of the weapon was the one at fault.

Theres always been mass shootings they just didnt hype it as much. In the 1800s ppl would be shooting eachothers whole crew at saloons.

i think a mix of false flags and mental health problems.

People's spirit is down plus all these violent computer games where they kill others and then they want to try it in real life.

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If trauma leaves its traces in our genetics and being disadvantaged results in lower IQ.

And why would any black person do that? Because they feel disenfranchised. They have a right to feel that way. Jim Crow and KKK and the assassination of presidents, activists and allies weren't all that long ago. This obviously doesn't make it okay to shoot up schools, but let's not demonize these folks as some faceless, homogeneous mass of evil. People with a violent streak who would otherwise have had no motive to shoot up a school, find a motive in the fact that the world is unfairly unkind to them. There's work to be done by everyone on making peace happen.

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Short version: I think it's a combination of technology, the availability of guns, the political left, and shitty families. Everyone's withdrawing, no one cares about anything, no one believes in anything. At that point, why NOT shoot up a school?

There's no one thing that's raising mass shootings. It's everything. People not seeking help is just another bale of hay in the barn.

That would not stop mass shootings.

Im loving it.

Becoz of the (anti) social media.

Because it's trendy, like serial-killing was in the 70s-80s.

Media attention. It's a way for sinister nuters to become famous overnight.

In my country it's gang criminality and the few times there's a shooting near me (which there never is but lately there has been) it's always about drugs. No clue why they suddenly use guns. In my country guns are illegal so that has never been a thing before.

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