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Originally Posted by Nirvana
I agree with you Rhianne its the old mentality of who can piss higher on the tree, my gun is bigger than yours> penis envy
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Hmm, penis envy. You may be on to something, the Newtown
shooter murderer, used guns that belonged to his mother who was an enthusiast. Maybe she was envious.
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Originally Posted by ZenGum
The media's fascination with these events is another factor. For the mentally ill, the saturation coverage of events like these soaks in and makes it seem like a normal or reasonable act. I wish I had saved it to share here, but I recently saw an infographic of the shooters of the last dozen or so mass shootings. Each shooter had a little box with name, date, types and legality of weapons and number of victims. They looked like baseball cards. The shooters were listed, not by name or date, but by number of kills.
What better to motivate some insignificant-feeling psycho to try to top the list?
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The press has a lot to do with it. It’s been proven mass shootings will get lots of coverage. And school shootings work especially well, remember the Beslan school siege? That was one of the few stories from Eastern Europe that made headlines around the world.
The media will make you a star, man, everybody will know your name, know your face, you’ll be remembered forever, like Jesse James and Black Bart. woot! woot!
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And yes, culture. Think of all the wild west folklore, the western movies, where one or a few "good guys" with guns defy and defeat a bunch of crooked land barons/ rustlers / outlaws / corrupt officials etc. There are so many cases where this happens. After a few hundred such movies, the idea is unconsciously absorbed that, if you're repressed and downtrodden and the system won't help or is in fact the problem itself, armed defiance is the correct response.
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That period in our history being depicted (inaccurately) in hundreds of movies, only lasted about 25 years, too. But it still makes money.
tw, using inaccurate terms to elicit an emotional response is shameful. tsk tsk
Not "assault rifle", large magazine rifle.