Posted on 08/09/2015 6:56:48 PM PDT by marktwain
Public shootings have become a familiar American spectacle in recent years, and two more occurred in recent weeks. The details are still unfolding, but so far these episodes seem to fit the general pattern. At Los Angeles International Airport, a young man entered a public area and started firing. Three days later, in the midst of intense media coverage of the first event, another young man did the same at a shopping mall in suburban New Jersey. One penned a note beforehand about his actions, the other a manifesto. Only the L.A. shooter appears to have meant to kill others, but both apparently planned to die in highly publicized blazes of terror.
Someday soon, we are likely to awake to news of yet another rampage shooting, one that perhaps will rival the infamous events at Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora and Newtown. As unknowable as the when and who and where of the next tragedy is the certainty that there will be one, and of what will follow: The tense initial hours as we watch the body count tick higher. The ashen-faced news anchors with pictures of stricken families. Stories and images of the fatal minutes. Reports on the shooter's journals and manifestos. A weary speech from the president. Debates about guns and mental health.
Underlying this grim national ritual, and the pronouncements from all quarters that mass shootings are "senseless," is the disturbing feeling that these acts are beyond our understanding. As the criminologist and forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz writes, we talk about these acts as if they arise from "alien forces." So we focus our efforts on thwarting future mass shooters—catching them through the mental health system, or making it harder for them to get guns, or making it easier for others with guns to stop them.
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As of late, I’d bet some of them are employees of the fedgov anti-gun propaganda unit
This might not be relevent, but I heard from some retired police detective on coast to coast with George Noory that at any given time, there are several thousand serial killers running around amongst the US population. They tend to congretate along well travelled cooridoors (truckers) and often involve prostitution.
We should, first of all, always call them cowards.
“at any given time, there are several thousand serial killers running around amongst the US population.”
Hard to say. I have studied the murder statistics, and it is possible. Successful serial killers are good at disposing of bodies. If the bodies are never found, the murder never registers on the crime reports. Prostitutes, because of the way they operate, are very vulnerable.
There may not even be a “missing person” report.
A successful serial killer will not target victims that draw attention to his actions.
It is not thousands, but possibly 10’s. If there were thousands of serial killers there wouldn’t be anybody left to kill
Spot on - every story on these jerks should include that word, along with “loser”, “pathetic”, “creep”, and the like.
There are probably what 10 mass shootings per year . illegals murder 4000 Americans per year but the media ignores that.
It’s still very few mass shootings. seems like its’ more because of the massive media coverage.
Before columbine there were even less
As the media coverage gets more massive then it increased some . so it’s the media causing it. and they know it
Much less than 20 per year. 40,000 deaths due to car accidents. and 2.5 million home break ins to put it in perspective that the media doesn’t cover. illegals kill 4000 Americans per year but the media doesn’t cover that.
This is a country of 330 million people where trillions of events happen every day. The news media cherry picks events to make those the top news to further the democrat agenda
The appearance of this generation of hyper-criminals was foretold during the ‘90s in discussions about children being brought up by single mothers.
All of these high-profile killers are the result of the mass medical experiment in psych drugs as well. Not one of them hasn’t been in the tender loving care of some non-liable M.D.-sporting drug pusher.
worldwide there are many mass killings not an American phenomenon a human phenomenon
Thanks for bringing that to our attention. Psychoactive drugs had been prescribed in those cases.
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