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If you haven't noticed, a large percentage of these young mass shooters are on the Autism spectrum and seem to have a comorbidity of antisocial personality disorder. Another common denominator seems to be that their parents ignored or minimized their condition.
I think many of these things get missed by the parents. Both parents working, kids being raised in latchkey, on their cell phones, or playing video games with no real parental interaction to notice the red flags of these conditions at an early age.
Totally agree! Growing up, all the boys had guns and knives from a fairly young age. Nobody shot us up, nobody even ever threatened to do that. Not the boy who was dumped by his girlfriend, not the kid whose parents divorced, not the kid who didn’t make the sports team, not the kid who didn’t sit with the “cool” crowd.
Mental illness in our younger population is simply tragic, and- they manage to get firearms.
I'm not so sure about that. Kids definitely shot each other or their parents or teachers. I knew one "school shooter" personally. It wasn't on the national news, and there was no Internet to turn it into a meme. You didn't see mass casualties probably because, for a lot of reasons, it wasn't as easy for a high school kid to get their hands on a weapon that can kill 20 people in less than a minute.
A agree that inattentive parenting, the Internet and mental illness also play a role. Not sure why so many want to attribute it to a single factor rather the perfect storm we are living in now.
Coming soon, revelations that suspect has social media postings ranting about society, and posing with guns. Classmates claiming student was 'off' but did nothing about it. Later, rinse, and repeat.
With the mass media coverage, that only will 'inspire' more narcissists seeking their 15 minutes.
I haven’t read the entire thread, yet. Anyone offer Thoughts N’ Prayers?
I did! It's natural to offer condolences in a time of tragedy. Nobody thinks offering them will solve any problems, but that's not the purpose of saying it. You can get all bent out of shape over it or you can just take it for what it was, an expression of sympathy.
Strangely...America has become more and more and more and more progressive in the last 20 years as well.
How ironic.
Moral decay, decadence, kicked God out of schools and public arenas, no "genders", liberal policies and on and on. People wonder why 90 percent of children are bat**** crazy.
So you think that these problems didn't exist years ago? How do you explain school shootings in the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's?
And I don't think that a great majority of these school shooters are mentally ill.
there are mass shooting all over the world. more in the US because there are many more guns. but this type of thing did not happen to the extent that it is happening now before the internet and the need for 2 parents to work to make ends meet. in many ways we have gone backward - not forward, and technology is hurting not helping.
"The gunman who killed at least nine people at a Texas high school Friday made a “bloody mess” with an AR-15-style rifle, a pistol, a shotgun and pipe bombs, according to a new report. “Officers inside encountered a bloody mess in the school,” a senior law enforcement official told the Houston Chronicle. “Evidently this guy threw pipe bombs all in there. We don’t know if any of them went off.”https://nypost.com/2018/05/18/texas-...nd-pipe-bombs/
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