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Originally Posted by Mutt
So many factors at play, the elephant in the room is the Internet where sites like 4Chan flourish that provide a perverse sympathetic support and encouragement group for social outcasts that makes mass murder seem a rational and even a heroic option. You spend enough time on websites like 4Chan and even GFY at times, anti-social speech and behavior begins to seem 'normal'. 
Guns are an issue but the root causes are far more complicated and nobody wants to deal with those so the easy thing is to just blame guns.
The US is a large country, if only 1/10th of 1 percent of its young population is affected by violent video games/movies, psych medications, vile social media/networking sites, etc it adds up to a pool of thousands of young male ticking time bombs.
I'm beginning to think that gun ownership should be restricted to people over 30, we don't let 13 year olds drive cars even though they are physically capable - almost all these mass murderers are teens and 20-somethings. |
I've said before and I still believe that these shootings are a symptom of our modern society. Gun control laws won't stop them. Everyone carrying a gun won't stop them. Obama is not to blame. The reality is that these people are fucked in the head and they desperately want some kind of attention or at the very least they want to be recognized and /or validated. 30 years ago they likely would have just killed themselves or maybe a family member or someone that they blamed for their situation. Now they see the attention these things kind of get and it becomes their way of crying out and finally getting what they want.
If we are going to live in a world where everyone shares and posts their every thought and action of their daily life online with the world, we can't be shocked when people decide to go out in blaze of media glory when they decide they want to die.