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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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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Actually the most predictive trait is domestic violence.
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Approximately 22 Million living veterans in the USA. Not to mention padding your list with a security guard who was a terrorist and a defense contractor.
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You could also include Micah Xavier Johnson and Gavin Eugene Long.
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Perhaps these are people who suffered deep trauma during their enlistment or during police work.We have a cookie cutter approach to who gets exposed to serious trauma, and not enough ways to deal with it. Both these groups see things on a daily basis that would traumatize anyone.
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"Obviously not everyone who serves in the military or law enforcement is prone to committing indiscriminate mass murder" Not obvious at all
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Instead is insinuating...do some research. It’s an empirical claim
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I think the fact we're awash in a sea of guns and there's no future for anyone not born into the 1 percent are much more salient factors in the bloodbath of American life.
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A guy who worked for Lockheed? Lol
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Right wing nut jobs will focus on the shooters race if the shooter isn’t white
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Tim McVeigh and Lee Harvey Oswald should be on that military-gone wacky list as well. plus the doc at Fort Bragg??
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Hi Michael. Fact check this but some soldiers returning from ww2 were intentionally not accepted for law enforcement.
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Cart and horse. You offer no evidence that service in military or LE lead one to unstable violence when the sheer numbers argue it is far more likely that those already predisposed to unstable violence are simply attracted to military and LE.
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It's likely a self selecting group of the highest aggression men going into these professions - and not into say, florists. Then of course they get the familiarity with weapons etc.
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Add to that the stress and the PTSD garnered on the job...
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I think it's pretty simple that people trained to kill other people will be more effective at it than an untrained one
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