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I really cant say. Their could be numerous factors why so many young white men commit mass shootings. For me its probably due to upbringing for one, but also other societial issues at large such as child abuse, bullying in high school, peer pressue or even economic issues. The economy as a whole did not get better except for those who have money or highly educated and this can put someone to kill others due to envy and jeoulsy. Also lots of mass shooting have been growing on our military bases like the one in Texas by a muslim American and another on a naval base near DC by a black man who is an native of Brooklyn NY. Lots of people are discontent with America, these folks are lone wolfs and looking to spread fear against the people. These guys are no different than Timothy Macviegh or those Chechen/Russo American who planted bombs during the Boston Marathon.
Perhaps they've been falsely told for so long that as white men they are to blame for everything, that the weak-minded ones feel compelled to actually do something worthy of blame.
Because more and more of them have been led to expect too much by the media, while growing up (or failing to do so) in single-parent, female-headed households; and because in "progressive" America, they've become sheltered from the responsibilities of young adulthood, and the burdens of adjusting to them, while the thugs and slackers are more adept at finding an easier way to get by, courtesy of Big Brother and Sister, who seem determined to turn us, into a nation of either wolves or sheep, without much in between.
Actually, one of the things they have in common:
Adult men, usually their fathers, got them into guns and violence at a young age.
And that's the truth.
Sandy Hook school massacre of 20 children (Adam Lanza). He lived with both parents up to 5th grade. He was in special ed with mental problems by age 3. By the 5th grade, he was violent. That's when Dad left. Dad cont'd emailing son & spending time with him, including going to shooting ranges. I htink his mom took him to shooting ranges, too. He also spent hours in his room playing violent video games, where he was the shooter. Very intelligent, but cognitive deficiencies. Parents dropped mental health treatment of him, when he was older.
Movie theater massacre in CO (James Holmes). He was raised by both parents. He had mental problems from a young age and attempted suicide at age 11. Hallucinations involving violence and obsessed with murder by the age of 14. It went downhill from there. He also went to shooting ranges. Highly intelligent.
South Carolina Church massacre (Dylann Roof). He was raised by father and stepmother to the age of 14. Divorced. Lives with stepmother, who was by all accounts a loving woman who treated him as her own, and saw his father regularly. Stepmother accused the father of domestic abuse (there were photos at the divorce trial). Got a gun - a GLOCK - for his 21st birthday from his father. He spoke of hate for blacks, posted it on his FB page, said he wanted segregation and a civil war. His family says "we didn't know!" Yeah, right. His friends knew. It was on his FB page. So Dad gets him a Glock. Smart. Rap sheet: Drugs, banned from mall for eery behavior while dressed in all black. He wasn't very intelligent.
And so on and so forth. As you can see, the fathers were very much involved in the sons' lives, and were the ones to introduce them to violence, and in at least 2 of the above cases, knew the son had violent tendencies already. It's probable the Roof's father did, too.
It's safe to assume that if the young men had not learned to shoot, they would not have massacred people with guns.
Perhaps they've been falsely told for so long that as white men they are to blame for everything, that the weak-minded ones feel compelled to actually do something worthy of blame.
Or they've been told that as white men they should be on top of the world, but are losers instead so they blame everyone.
The article said "As Mother Jones reported, "Since 1982, there have been at least 70 mass shootings across the country... Forty four of the killers were white males. Only one of them was a woman." So white men have been responsible for about 63 percent of mass shootings in that span, despite comprising a far smaller portion of the total population."
HUHHH??? so whites are "far fewer than 63%"???? gtfoh that's exactly what whites are in Ameria 63%...so basically whites finally committ the % of crimes that they should based on their % and we use that ONE TIME OPPORTUNITY to blame whites?? lmfaooo
69 out of 70 mass shootings were done by men...44 out of 69 were white males..so 63%..so lets blame whites for finally committing a crime at least the same % of their population % in America smh if you're gonna be racist af against some group at least be SOMEWHAT accurate.
and were gonna use 44 people since 1982 to blame white men too?
You didn't read very carefully. They didn't say whites were far smaller portion of the total population, they said WHITE MEN were. Is every white person a man? Are the ones with breasts really male and they reproduce by budding or something?
White crime is man bites dog. I am sure that more blacks die in black-on-black violence than there are victims of the Adam Lanzas, Jared Lochners, James Holmes' and Dylann Roofs of the world.
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