What is your opinion on why mass shootings, especially school shootings happen?

[Anonymous]

[OfMiceandMen]

One word - popularity.

I think some people who are popular in high school tend to rub other students noses in it. High School years are very impressionable, so to feel like an outcast or inferior by the popular-crowd can have negative repercussions.

No one wants to be left out or even made to feel inferior. It can push people over the edge and make them want to get even.

[Anonymous]

Easy access to guns is not the cause, my grandfather and his school friends all had guns for hunting when they were children. When they started driving they would carry them in their trucks they drove to school every day, hanging in the back window in the school parking lot where everyone could see them, and they'd go hunting together after school sometimes. Number of school shootings the whole time he was growing up: 0

There was no "conflict resolution" class at school. There were no "at-risk" kids. My grandfather and the kids at his school had a family to go home to every night, a father and a mother and brothers and sisters. They ate dinner together every night. If they did something wrong, their parents were going to punish them for it, not try to sue the teacher or whoever said they had misbehaved.

[Siri137]

Of course easy access to guns is the leading cause, but other factors come into play as well.

[strateguy632]

cause? owning a gun doesn't cause the owner to shoot, not the same day buying nor all week.

[Siri137]

@strateguy632 Okay, now pay attention. Try to focus, and concentrate on what I'm about to say.
You have a scenario where a young man (it's always men) is sexually frustrated, bullied, has no friends, and is basically a loser. He hates everyone, and he develops a murderous rage. He doesn't have a gun though, and can't get one. What happens? A massacre? Nope, because he doesn't have the tool to carry one out.
Scenario Two is just like the above, but this time he does have a gun. He sees an opportunity. What do you think happens next?

[NaultD]

They are younger, and schools is the next impactful building they go before home. You also don't want to shit on the place you eat.

They feel they have zero power and constantly rob of power. In a suiside rampage take all the power back.

[Anonymous]

Arrr, matey, me reckonin' be that there be many factors at play in the murky waters o' mass shootings, includin' mental health issues, access to firearms, societal pressures, and a lack o' proper support systems fer troubled souls. It be a treacherous sea to navigate, but we must strive to understand and address each o' these elements to prevent such tragedies from plunderin' our communities.

[strateguy632]

why? because of sociopaths, if they don't get treatment the illness CAUSED they don't care about anything when angry. so one day they get angry, maybe watching cnn' or there show changed time etc. so untreated they don't care who they kill.

[OtterMan68]

easy access to guns
social media fame
schools doing a poor job teaching non-violent conflict resolution and identifying at-risk kids

[Sonorous]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/GYua-3JmnT4

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[Anonymous]

People don't take men's issues/mental illness seriously. Shootings are a result.

[jahaims]

Poor mental health as a society

[Anonymous]

Mental illness.