1. To generalize a bit here, but in a way that I think is helpful in understanding how mass shootings (& similar mass attacks) are similar but different, there tend to be 3 types of these attacks.
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7. This is hard stuff for law enforcement, a kind of gray area between political radicalization & mental illness, but with a predictable relationship with neither. It's mad-at-the-world & publicity-seeking, but the absence of political goals or personal beefs is devilish.
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8. The Islamists remain a larger, longer-running global threat, with more resources & capabilities. But at least there's enough method to their madness to give investigators a place to start looking.
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9. The political vector of white supremacists, we can track. But a fair number of the homegrown guys are only tangentially connected to any particular source of radicalization, much less organization. They have no remotely coherent program to obtain power.
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10. The single biggest thing we can do to stop this, third type of shooting is the hardest thing for our media & culture to do: stop bathing in the publicity of these outrages, which are imitated. The publicity is the only real goal these guys have.
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11. Basically, yes. The good news is that the third type feels like a fad that will burn itself out in time. The bad news is, history is full of fads with horrendous body counts. And the more nihilistic types are less likely than the first two to leave a lot of advance clues.https://twitter.com/TheAmishDude/status/1158442858237583362 …
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Very interesting. Mother Jones has the open source downloadable data base for those inclined to sift and sort. Would Aurora theater shooter be an illustrative example of group 3?
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I think so.
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