4/Fringe groups like the Proud Boys are openly paying homage to Japanese assassins, showing that I'm not the only one who sees a parallel:http://bedfordandbowery.com/2018/10/inside-the-proud-boy-event-that-sparked-violence-outside-of-uptown-gop-club/ …
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5/Assassinations, of course, are in addition to politically flavored mass shooting incidents. Since 2015 we've had: Dylann Roof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting … Omar Mateen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting … Micah Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers … Farook and Malik: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack …
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6/The Portland Train Attack of 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Portland_train_attack …
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7/Lane Maurice Davis:https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-trumpkin-and-former-milo-intern-kills-his-own-dad-for-calling-him-a-nazi …
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8/William Atchison:http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/aztec-school-shooter-had-swastika-marking-on-his-leg/article_bc357e74-805f-505f-ada0-be4d808a71e0.html …
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10/Of course, it's hard to tell how many of these incidents are actually politically motivated, and how many are just nutjobs who use politics as an excuse to kill people. If you're going to shoot up a nightclub and kill yourself, why not say it's for ISIS? Etc.
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11/But on the other hand, there's the possibility that nationwide political hysteria and unrest actually stirs up the passions of nutjobs, making them more likely to kill. Mass shooting deaths are up!https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-matter-how-you-measure-them-mass-shooting-deaths-are-up/ …
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12/Does a national mood of stress and fear and bad feelings and apocalyptic rhetoric contribute to stuff like the Las Vegas shooting that injured nearly a thousand people? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting …
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Replying to @Noahpinion
FWIW, stress definitely increased between 2016 and 2017. But based on Gallup microdata the proportion of people experiencing stress rose by less than 2 percentage pointspic.twitter.com/fFLZJqG4a5
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Big jump from 2012 to 2013. Whoa. Why?
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It seems fairly flat between 2011 and 2016, no?
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