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Yet overall crime went down in the mid 90s all the way until the late 2010s. Any explanation based on mental illness, lack of stable parenting, Ritalin, lack o

Yet overall crime went down in the mid 90s all the way until the late 2010s. Any explanation based on mental illness, lack of stable parenting, Ritalin, lack of community, etc. needs to explain why all these negative impacts only affect shootings in schools, while apparently far more mentally ill, drug addled 18 year olds decided to stop committing crimes outside schools in much greater percentages.

t-3 4y ago
Relentless pressure to conform and be a "team player" + massive levels of doublethink and hypocrisy + lack of parental guidance and care even in two-parent households because everyone has to work and has no time and energy for raising children. Also definitely a big portion of attention-seeking. If you want to be "seen" or "heard", a pretty sure-fire way is to shoot a bunch of people, especially the vulnerable and innocent. Where better than a school? Media has been told over and over again that they create copycats, but their profit motive prohibits reform.
- thaway2839 4y ago
  > Relentless pressure to conform and be a "team player" + massive levels of doublethink and hypocrisy + lack of parental guidance and care even in two-parent households because everyone has to work and has no time and energy for raising children. And why does that only lead to more mass shooting events? Why doesn't it lead to all sorts of other violent crime that went down significantly over this period? Why would overall violent crime drop drastically over this period of time? Attention seeking may be an answer, because it would explain why it leads to all these mental pressure increasing the number of media covered mass shootings, even if overall crime was going down. But the mental illness aspect simply doesn't fit. We should be seeing an increase in overall violence if so many 18 year olds were mentally unwell.
  - t-3 4y ago
    I wouldn't say there's necessarily any aspect of mental illness, just a lot of stress on kids. Breaking under pressure and lashing out against society isn't a mental disease, just teenage angst and nihilism. Attention-seeking probably is symptomatic of mental illness though.

t-3 4y ago

Relentless pressure to conform and be a "team player" + massive levels of doublethink and hypocrisy + lack of parental guidance and care even in two-parent households because everyone has to work and has no time and energy for raising children. Also definitely a big portion of attention-seeking. If you want to be "seen" or "heard", a pretty sure-fire way is to shoot a bunch of people, especially the vulnerable and innocent. Where better than a school? Media has been told over and over again that they create copycats, but their profit motive prohibits reform.

thaway2839 4y ago
> Relentless pressure to conform and be a "team player" + massive levels of doublethink and hypocrisy + lack of parental guidance and care even in two-parent households because everyone has to work and has no time and energy for raising children. And why does that only lead to more mass shooting events? Why doesn't it lead to all sorts of other violent crime that went down significantly over this period? Why would overall violent crime drop drastically over this period of time? Attention seeking may be an answer, because it would explain why it leads to all these mental pressure increasing the number of media covered mass shootings, even if overall crime was going down. But the mental illness aspect simply doesn't fit. We should be seeing an increase in overall violence if so many 18 year olds were mentally unwell.
- t-3 4y ago
  I wouldn't say there's necessarily any aspect of mental illness, just a lot of stress on kids. Breaking under pressure and lashing out against society isn't a mental disease, just teenage angst and nihilism. Attention-seeking probably is symptomatic of mental illness though.