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White american males are conditioned into thinking they are just going to cruise into a million dollar job and be adored by women and have lots of friends simply because they exist. The most popular media representation of a white american male in TV or movies is a bumbling boob with no particular talents who has a smoking hot wife, nice house and easy lifestyle. A big fat UPS driver like on "King of Queens?" In reality that guy lives in a 2BR condo from the 1970s and his wife looks like Melissa McCarthy, not Leah Remini... and she left him for the FedEx guy anyway.
When they find out life doesn't work out that way, some dudes snap and turn into psycho killer types. I'd guess there is often some sort of humiliating sexual rejection involved. I can't imagine a guy getting laid regularly would go postal. This Dylan guy probably had a girl he had his eyes on get scooped up by a handsome black man.
This made me laugh out loud! Those shows with ugly fat slob husbands and pretty, fit wives have been a staple of American pop culture for decades.
Think "The Honey Mooners". If that was the best life Ralph could provide Alice - and she was slender and pretty - why didn't she just leave?
Many white men have entitlement issues. When the world doesn't go that way, they lash out.
There are many unhappy blue collar white men who just hate Pres. Obama because he's the president of the US, a Harvard grad and an attorney.
Some of them become serial killers. Or mass murderers. Not all, but some.
The Gifford shooting incident did occur in the presence of armed citizens, and because of its location that would have been well known to the shooter. I believe there were people even open-carrying on the scene.
That was true as well in the Aurora CO shooting incident, although the shooter might not have been consciously aware of it. OTOH, he was wearing protective equipment, so he had prepared himself for that possibility.
In both cases, the armed citizens decided for reasons of their own not to engage the shooters.
There were no armed citizens within distance of Giffords' shooting at the time of the shooting. One person who was in the local store did run out and was armed but by that time he was subdued. The Giffords shooting is the only recent publicized mass shooting in the past 5 or so years to occur outside of a GFZ.
Aurora had no protective equipment, just a cheap "tactical vest". He was not wearing soft armor or plates.
Cinemark Theare in Aurora also had this sign:
Meanwhile, two other theatres (one of which I believe is closer and larger) were skipped.
It would seem you should just write 'men'. The article has a reasonable answer as to how it seems most white men - simple demographics based on population.
I know it says serial killers. But a mass shooting is a serial killing commited by the same psychopath, just in rapid succession. Males dominate the world of violence. Just like in the US 24% of men and 2% of women are veterans.
Women just dont naturally gravitate to being violent, as their role instinctually is to be a nurturer, while men are the natural hunters and protectors.
There are exceptions however.
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The most interesting thing I found in these articles is how these events usually - not always - center around schools and workplaces, or the alleged reason for them happening does.
Is the environment too stressful? Too competitive? Are people back-stabbing each other so much that someone finally cracks?
This made me laugh out loud! Those shows with ugly fat slob husbands and pretty, fit wives have been a staple of American pop culture for decades.
Think "The Honey Mooners". If that was the best life Ralph could provide Alice - and she was slender and pretty - why didn't she just leave?
Many white men have entitlement issues. When the world doesn't go that way, they lash out.
There are many unhappy blue collar white men who just hate Pres. Obama because he's the president of the US, a Harvard grad and an attorney.
Some of them become serial killers. Or mass murderers. Not all, but some.
Is this post for real or are you just delusional? Equating TV shows with average white men? LOL. Don't let your bigoted views of the white man cloud your mind.
The answer: there's NOT. white males do mass shootings at the same rate of their population in america...some other races do it much higher. And blacks also do random 3 on 1,2 on 1, etc. kinda shootings of random innocent victims may more often than whites too.
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While you are looking for the answer, perhaps you can also figure out why the leading cause of death of black males between the age of 18 and 35 is first degree murder by another black male.
Statistically, blacks represent 13% of the American population yet are responsible for 70% of the murders. Sorry for that inconvenient truth.
So then take away the white privilege, the majority rule, the system and put whites in the roles of inner city blacks and you'd have the same white on white crime fighting over scraps in places with little opportunity, low wages, poor schools, drugs and very little upward mobility.
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So then take away the white privilege, the majority rule, the system and put whites in the roles of inner city blacks and you'd have the same white on white crime fighting over scraps in places with little opportunity, low wages, poor schools, drugs and very little upward mobility.
What makes you think whites arent worse off than inner city blacks? At least in theory, inner city blacks have running water and toilets in their homes. Many poor whites around the country dont even have that.
Most of the psychopaths are middle to low income, regardless of color.
In single shooter events, many of them are crazy, but share a common bond. The use of psychotropic drugs during or immediately prior to the event.
Was the kid that shot up the church in SC being treated for something when he desided to go to the prayer meeting and kill those people?
Its the one thing all modern crazies have in common, and how many kids in schools these days are being treated for something? From my older perspective, it seems like a lot.
It never happened back when I was a kid. Maybe you heard of 1 kid out hundreds attempting suicide back then - and, maybe you never knew any ever that tried to kill anyone - not themselves, and not someone else.
What makes you think whites arent worse off than inner city blacks? At least in theory, inner city blacks have running water and toilets in their homes. Many poor whites around the country dont even have that.
Most of the psychopaths are middle to low income, regardless of color.
In single shooter events, many of them are crazy, but share a common bond. The use of psychotropic drugs during or immediately prior to the event.
Was the kid that shot up the church in SC being treated for something when he desided to go to the prayer meeting and kill those people?
Its the one thing all modern crazies have in common, and how many kids in schools these days are being treated for something? From my older perspective, it seems like a lot.
It never happened back when I was a kid. Maybe you heard of 1 kid out hundreds attempting suicide back then - and, maybe you never knew any ever that tried to kill anyone - not themselves, and not someone else.
Why are there so many more today that do try?
And a lot of black inner city kids don't have that. Google strawberry Mansions, Philly(North side) one of the worst schools in the country, and some of these kids are so poor they don't even have ovens to make food to eat.
Poverty in general does not see a "color". The problem is that urban poverty often does. It's almost always black and brown. And it most always impacts the type of education the kids receive, the environment--violent gangs, drugs, rape, sex at early age, OOW babies, etc. The schools in these environments are often so bad that teachers have needed to get counseling THEMSELVES because of all the emotional trauma that kids bring into the schools from what they see at home. They have every reason to be angry at the world--because they were dealt unfortunate hands. Most of them end up being products of their environment, which means they don't end up being "much". It's sad all away around.
And probably is awful in rural poor white parts, but with different circumstances and different results.
The thing is like you said it isn't the kids that legitimately have a bone to pick, and have had hard lives that are shooting up schools and churches. It's middle class white boys. And perhaps it does boil down to medication, or perhaps it's something else. Who know's--but it is interesting.
What makes you think whites arent worse off than inner city blacks? At least in theory, inner city blacks have running water and toilets in their homes. Many poor whites around the country dont even have that.
What Faith said, and to add to it, I think most of those whites you are talking about tend to live in the low density rural areas. When you don't have the element of high density inner city life, there is less pressure and less desire to have something that someone else has. Less fighting and killing over stupid stuff like shoes or pick up games on basketball courts. You also don't typically have an oppressive and apathetic police force governed by a race different from theirs. In short poor whites still have more freedoms than poor blacks, perceived or otherwise - same difference.
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