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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About 10%. Violent criminal record is a much better indicator.pic.twitter.com/pYfzVg8p4E
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I think common sense legislation on criminal control is in order...
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high school ROTC and working at lockheed isnt even remotely close to a military background. if you count those as military background you might as well count things like "played call of duty", "went to laser tag once", "enjoys action movies"
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Or a long association with the FBI
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Wasn’t Adam Lanza on medications? That seems to be another common denominator.
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There’s also a decent likelihood of the high-casualty mass shooter owning a gun
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Nothing like extreme generalizations to make a point.
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I think a lot of them are involved in hunting as well. Sadly, It’s getting to the point where there is a large enough sample size that people might be able to make some statistical inferences from shooters
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Excellent.
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Not new news. Military and police training allows us to compartmentalize our brains and let muscle memory and training techniques kick in. This is a feature put in after WW1. Read up on it.
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Yeah kind of like captain Nidal Hassan, except for the pesky fact that he was shouting allahu akbar at the time.
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A bit of unverified nonsense here. I recommend tracking the daily Chicago Sun shooting roundup. A majority of mass shootings are gang-drug related in the ghetto.
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How sad that a Chicago daily news outlet tracks the days shootings because of the sheer volume of activity.
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So give us a breakdown of the stats for mass shooters. Otherwise I cannot agree with you here.
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What does "always a decent likelihood" mean to you??
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