What causes mass shooters?

[Anonymous]

Are they born nuts?

[Danzigdawson]

1. Uncontrollable frustration, anger. A feeling of powerlessness. A desire to strike back at those who are "responsible" for the mass shooter's failures in life. Men are almost always the mass shooter because they are taught to suppress most of their feelings from a young age (except anger and frustration). They are taught to tone down their empathy towards themselves and towards others, which, given the right set of circumstances, can easily lead to rage, to hatred, depression, distress. The obvious risk is that all of those unchecked feelings will linger and worsen, because men don't usually talk about what's wrong and they don't usually seek help (especially if they can't afford it).

2. The media will of course cover the story because you just can't ignore something like that. Ensured media coverage gives the mass shooter an opportunity to strike fear into the minds of people who are just like its tormentors. It gives him an opportunity to make the full scale of his anger heard and to say a final "fuck you" to those that he hates.

3. Finally, guns. The vindictive power and loud violence of the gunshot. The ability it gives to kill a lot of people in a few seconds or minutes. The feeling of instant gratification without having to think too much or get too close to your victims. It's fast, it's instantaneous, it's powerful, it's impersonal. It doesn't take special skills: anyone can kill or injure with a gun at close range. It's garanteed death: both for the victims and the mass shooter, when he's done.

Sad but true.

[Sandeeppingping]

Make no mistake about it, no one is born nuts but everyone's born capable of being violent and harmful, damn I said that like a movie line, I'm that good, anyway, what leads to it is truckloads of frustration, do you really think that a hot 10/10 rich ripped dude who sleeps with the hottest girls and always has his way would go and shoot up schools, look at them, white chubby creepy looking kids, or middle aged literally looks like he kills people dude, or some criminal, you see the pattern?

[CalmMind]

This is factually inaccurate. Deficiencies in the development of the frontal lobe lead to much higher rates of aggression. A lot of serial killers had some form of frontal lobe damage whether in utero or during childhood. But this is completely feasible during gestation. Now you know.

[Sandeeppingping]

@CalmMind thank you that's good information, although I still think my movie line was badass, thanks man

[Anonymous]

they are mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually unstable. all of them should be punished with a death sentence. You must be familiar with Nikolas Cruz, the psycho who shot 17 people, he attacked a prison guard! if he was sentenced to death right after the trial that would've been avoided. mass shooters are just plain evil. it sickens me.

[Anonymous]

Mainly mental issues. However movies, game like gta doesn't help either

[SmokinAces2000]

I’ve been playing gta since I was 14 and never had any desire to shoot a a place up

[Opinion Owner]

Hust some people lol

[Opinion Owner]

* just

[WindAtMyBack]

The Internet and sedentary lifestyle in general are big contributors. Humans aren't meant to sit on their ass all day. They don't have an outlet for their energy. They need to get out, get some real exercise, get some fresh air and enjoy the outdoors. Modern lifestyle is very stressful, and sitting in front of a computer all day exacerbates the hell out of it. Why do you think gyms have become so popular with the dawn of the computer age? It's to compensate for an unnatural sedentary lifestyle.

They aren't born nuts in most cases. They just didn't have any way to vent, so it built up until it exploded. If they had been out doing hard manual labor all day, that was far less likely to happen.

[NamerOfStars]

Generally, unaddressed mental issues, upon which a lifetime of frustration builds. You can be born hyper-aggressive, and to a degree we're ALL born unaware of other people's humanity, but no one's born wantonly homicidal. That takes time. It also takes serious social rejection and isolation, and the common (and completely understandable) attitude of "he's a weirdo/loner; stay away from him" makes it sadly self-perpetuating.

[ArtemisSilver]

It's a dark offshoot of the mental health and suicide crisis that is hurting young men, particularly in the west where they are finding themselves sexless and without good life prosepects.

I would say that if we take men's mental health more seriously and try to engage young men in society, fewer of these tragedies will occur.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Mass shooters are obviously irrational to a high degree.

As to what causes their mental illness, it can be various stuff i. e. isolation for long periods of time, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, intense family dysfunction from their early youth.

Those are typically the signs that follow mass shooters.

[Chazmatazz269]

Some of them may be born defective, but environmental influences are certainly a factor for them all.

[driven159]

Yes, thier brains are out of whack but very selfish that they are more important than a human's life if they were totally nuts, they would not plan an escape route or change of clothes to escape from the crime that they preplanned

[exitseven]

I think they are marginalized by society and feel like they have no other way to express themselves than to shoot up a school.

[Nadim171]

Bad family dynamics, mental illness, a feeling of emptiness and just being hopeless. Mass shooters know they'll be killed at the end of it. It's a form of "I'll die and take everyone with me"

[jshm2]

Being born American, is what causes mass shooters.

[Kasabiian]

Guns, obviously. As John Lennon once said (before being shot), "Americans think guns are extensions of their arms".

[Anonymous]

Countries like the US with loose gun laws where virtually anyone can buy a gun have most of the world's mass shootings. countries with strict gun control have virtually no mass shootings. Figure it out.

[EnglishEuropean]

No, most are suffering from unresolved childhood trauma, or being dropped on their head as a baby.

[jasco]

Sometimes its due to poor parenting, bullying, racism, stupidity, honestly their are lot of reasons

[MangoBob]

Lack of parenting, idiotic liberal policies, unarmed teachers and staff.

[SmokinAces2000]

So teachers should just be walking around with guns

[Anonymous]

Well if you believe the Liberal media it’s caused by White supremacy. 🙄

[Snakeyes7]

Some of them are, some of them had the sanity abused out of them.

[purplepoppy]

The 2nd amendment is entirely to blame.

[ArtemisSilver]

It happens in other countries though.

[purplepoppy]

Not to the same extent. Mass shootings are as American as mcdonald's

[ArtemisSilver]

I thought the clown was Scottish judging by the name.

[NorthwestRider]

They are all incels

[Cubus]

Mental problems

[MrTaboo]

No father figures in their lives.

[BeMuse]

Communism.

[toniteeunitee]

Mental illnesss

[Anonymous]

Feminism.

[SmokinAces2000]

Out of curiosity could you elaborate

[Opinion Owner]

Feminism creates depravity within our society. By telling women to disregard what makes them special and to murder their unborn children. As a society values depravity more and more; people become incentivized to act out in their own self interest. Those who are ostracized by society and don't value life see mass shootings as a valid way to get notoriety and attention.

[SmokinAces2000]

Those are two completely unrelated things, seems to me that you are taking two things and trying to correlate them together

[SmokinAces2000]

Mental issues