am I allowed to call a mass shooting a "ritual" if it's pretty obvious I'm not pro-mass-shooting, asking for a friend
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Hmm. Actually mass shootings seem anti-ritual to me when it's not by an org... a kind of reaction to anomie.
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I mean in terms of being a public performance that is copied and spreads
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Also unclear how much the tactical details of attacks are similar, let alone ritually similar. Maybe a subset like snipers
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Certainly, the way the media and public react to shootings qualifies as ritualistic
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