What do YOU think is the cause of 74 school/college shootings since Sandy Hook?

Question

America becoming less religious? Video games? Gun culture? Something else entirely?

This is a map of incidents (prepared by Mark Gongloff of the Huffington Post) only since Sandy Hook, which wasn't that long ago.

What do you think is the cause?

Answer 1

Some of them are old-fashioned shootings for the usual reasons, and just happen to be on school grounds. Others are by narcissistic and suicidal fools who actually study previous shootings and emulate them, because being infamous is becoming culturally desirable.

By the way, the supposed mollusk (I'd suggest it's actually two other parts of his anatomy that are unusually connected) has no point: English murder rates are stable for over a century, since before they had their gun laws, while US muder rates, though much higher, are dropping, and drop more in areas where people more easily go armed. Israel, where you can simply drop in the nearest police arsenal and borrow an Uzi; and Switzerland, where fully automatic assault rifles are ubiquitous, also have very low murder rates.

Answer 2

Guns.



That's all.



(I am intrigued, though, that it even crossed you MIND that "video games" might be responsible! That's a bold theory indeed, given that the first video game ("Pong") was invented in 1972 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong ), and School shootings have been happening on a fairly regular basis in North America since 1764 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shootings_in_the_United_States )...

Answer 3

Harvey Weinstein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixtCjzeqXmE&feature=kp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahON9ckvBpc

Answer 4

Notice how No conservative thinks "hey that is really out of sync with population centers."

Answer 5

Americans just love killing: Look at all the wars they start!



(This is what happens when a weapons manufacturer takes control of your government.)

Answer 6

" ...to bring about the kind of change America needs."

More people forced into poverty, out of work, miserable jobs, etc.

Total despair!

Isn't that the change that Obama supporters wanted?

Answer 7

the increase of the "ME" generation, and all that it entails.

A culture where the guardrails have been taken down in the name of Value relativism and diversity of opinion. .

Every one is encouraged to become the center of the their own universe. and they are not prepared when other don't play along,



Narcissism is THE word of the day, and when people who have grown up not hearing "NO" enough don't get their way, they act out on anyone and anything within reach,

Answer 8

Am talk radio has to be a contributing factor.



Some of their ratings-challenged hosts (according to the ratings service Arbitron, 88% of radio listening is to FM radio, and an ever-increasing percentage is going to satellite), in order to try to build an audience that will create a buzz for them by asking people if they heard what he said, will say things that will instigate and incite people, and those on the outer fringes will take their form of action.



Not the total cause, but a factor.

Answer 9

The majority of those shootings occurred in liberal leaning states. That should tell you something.

Answer 10

Pampered young people with access to guns (and other weaponry)

Answer 11

No respect for human life.

Answer 12

Religion has nothing to do with it.



360 million guns DOES have something to do with it.



Religion observance in the UK is 10%, a gun homicide rate 1/40th of the USA. Norway, Sweden Germany and France ALL have less to do with a fat man in the sky, and we all have far lower homicide rates.



Easy success to weapons



Edit

Lol, all those thumbs down without a single thought or even an argument.



Does the USA have lupus??

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/lupus/

Answer 13

Oh really? Well let's take a look at those "mass school shootings" that lefty gun-grabbing Bloomberg's Everyman campaign claims now shall we?



Another fake shooting listed by Everytown gun map (a Bloomberg gun control group) was drug related, not on campus.

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/22648057/suspect-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-near-morehouse-college

and ANOTHER fake school shootimg…A gunman ran onto campus, was chased by police, shot student ACCIDENTALLY.

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2013/feb/07/shooting-reported-indian-river-state-college/

and ANOTHER fake school shooting… 19-year-old shot in elementary parking lot over dice game at 9 PM:

http://abc7news.com/archive/8992648/

and ANOTHER fake school shooting…Gang-involved student accidentally shot herself in thigh:

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/student-wounded-at-grady-high/nWbhG/

and ANOTHER fake school shooting…UCF college student committed suicide in public:

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-05-31/features/os-ucf-shooting-incident-investigation-new-20130531_1_james-oliver-seevakumaran-ucf-police-department-former-ucf-student

and ANOTHER fake school shooting…Teen committed suicide:

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/21755974/davidson-middle-school-closes-following-8th-grade-students-suicide

and ANOTHER fake school shooting…Off campus, gang-related shooting in NC:

http://www.wvec.com/news/escu-221819011.html

And I could go on and on and on with Bloomberg’s misleading “74 school shootings” campaign.



And never mind that gun violence has been steadily DECREASING over the past 20 years:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/us/study-gun-homicide/