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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 1
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    DeWayne Craddock, the Virginia Beach mass shooter, enlisted in the Virginia National Guard in April 1996 and served for 17 years. Increasingly seems the most predictive trait for mass shooters is not race or religion, but a military/law enforcement background. (And gender: male)

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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 1
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        Don't believe me? Ian David Long (2018): Marine, Afghanistan war vet Nikolas Cruz (2018): High school Army ROTC Devin Patrick Kelley (2017): Air Force Stephen Paddock (2017): Worked for Defense Dept., Lockheed Martin Omar Mateen (2016): Private security guard, wanted to be a cop

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 1
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        Aaron Alexis (2013): Navy I could go on. Obviously not everyone who serves in the military or law enforcement is prone to committing indiscriminate mass murder. But if you think the prominence of this in American cultural life is not a salient factor, you're deluding yourself

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      4. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 1
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        And obviously you can name exceptions. Adam Lanza maybe being the most prominent example. But when a high-casualty mass shooting occurs, there's always a decent likelihood that the perpetrator will end up having had some kind of military or law enforcement background

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      2. Maxfli Billy‏ @mason1582 Jun 1
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        The fact that his guard service stopped at 17 years screams for more detail. 3 more years and he gets the pension at 65. Something forced him out. Nobody stops at 17.

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        Bingo!

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      1. Котомкин-Портянский‏ @DDERSS Jun 1
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        The military thing is tied to the level of default aggressiveness of a person, so yes, the probability that mass murders are related to military is naturally higher.

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      1. Dirk Fallows‏ @FallowsDirk Jun 1
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        You may be misleading this a bit. If you follow this path you need to explore other information, such as what percentage of men have military backgrounds, and whether that background is correlated to mass shootings, or "successful" mass shootings.

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      1. David Pittelli‏ @DavidPittelli1 Jun 1
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        I would expect that even if military background didn't correlate with mass-murder attempts, their training would correlate with "success" at murdering 4+ people, and thus being "mass shooters".

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        I prescribe more juice and less typing for you today.

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        This.

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      2. Sam Hawkins‏ @Samuel_Hawkins1 Jun 1
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        I don't claim to know all the underlying factors, but this is the kind of generalization that is typically frowned upon, certainly in any sort of serious research effort.

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        Yeah, because society is politically correct. Reality is not.

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      1. Certs‏ @CertsVA Jun 1
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        would guess a common factor of most backgrounds is an environment that fosters condoning, justifying, or even encouraging violent aggression against others. or, at least, seems to be a lot of that in our current culture, especially regarding the government, police, and military.

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        My understanding is that the most common predictive trait in mass shooters is a history of violence towards women

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      2. Griddle Actual‏ @JimmyGriddle Jun 1
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        There is also a strong correlation with mass killings and the use of modern SSRI antidepressants. None of it proves causation, but the correlation is certainly there.https://www.cchrflorida.org/antidepressants-are-a-prescription-for-mass-shootings/ …

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      3. Lunch‏ @What2have4lunch Jun 1
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        Right but journalist cant cover this. Tracey makes a good catch about the military/LE thread but he ignores that those drugs are so prevalent in those cultures. What is the prescribed treatment for PTSD? Corben's very entertaining doc hits on this.

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      1. Bobby Platz‏ @BobbyPlatz Jun 2
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        SSRI component?

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      2. oldjohn‏ @oldjohn Jun 1
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        Like sociology , discovery of the obvious. Teach people how to kill and they remember it. USMC 1966-68

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      3. OldStudent‏ @OldStudentnow Jun 1
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        Roe v Wade has taught that to generations.

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