And evergreen: Media coverage of rampage shootings is part of problem. Can be done better. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html … + http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/the-media-needs-to-stop-inspiring-copycat-murders-heres-how/266439/ …
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Look, internet & media are connected to spread of "self-radicalized" shooters (and US rampage shootings) but... mostly through public side.
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ISIS spends good money on "slick" (awful) videos engineered to go viral. That's important for recruiting the disaffected misfits out there.
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The problem is identifying the very few obviously deranged people (leave six month old baby with grandma!!?!?) who'll do something terrible.
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San Bernardino shooters went on Facebook AFTER shooting started to pledge to ISIS. There you go, even they knew to stay off the internet.
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These self-radicalized ISIS killers really seem to have great overlap with the troubled "shoot your workplace" American rampage shooters.
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We know projections of posthumous publicity & spectacle motivate these people (obviously with suicidal ideation as well as desire to kill.)
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That's why fitting deranged shooters (obviously not unheard of in the USA) into a grand clash of civilizations narrative is not a good idea?
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Now we have morbid fascination with every detail of San Bernardino shooter's lives. It's an illusion of understanding. It won't help much.
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Look, SB shooters left infant with grandma to go mass murder. It's... deranged. Detailed profiles won't provide coherent answers for future.
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(Meaning we can't just look at details of lives of SB shooters and build a model with a reasonable signal/noise ratio to catch individuals).
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New parents are so unlikely to commit mass murder/suicide that *ISIS* imposes birth control on fighter's wives. SB shooters break all molds.
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