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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SSRI component?
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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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Roe v Wade has taught that to generations.
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