Had me at what caused the problem, yeah. However, mass shooters have a deeply significant profile. These are young white dudes with conservative to far right beliefs. This is a demographic whose specific problems are rarely being talked about.
Younger and whiter in general, yes. Conservative, eh, I’m not sure that there’s solid data on that. Certainly some of the mass murders have had “conservative” motivations (trying to start a race war, targeting/murdering LGBTQ+ people, inceldom/extreme misogyny, etc.), but that’s def. not all of them, and I’m not sure that it’s even half. Nicholas Cruz, for instance, or the Aurora, CO murderer. Columbine. Newtown, CT. Shit, Mandelay Bay in 2017; I don’t think that those had any traditional conservative motives, aside from, “I want to hurt/kill people because I’m feeling hurt”.
Had me at what caused the problem, yeah. However, mass shooters have a deeply significant profile. These are young white dudes with conservative to far right beliefs. This is a demographic whose specific problems are rarely being talked about.
Younger and whiter in general, yes. Conservative, eh, I’m not sure that there’s solid data on that. Certainly some of the mass murders have had “conservative” motivations (trying to start a race war, targeting/murdering LGBTQ+ people, inceldom/extreme misogyny, etc.), but that’s def. not all of them, and I’m not sure that it’s even half. Nicholas Cruz, for instance, or the Aurora, CO murderer. Columbine. Newtown, CT. Shit, Mandelay Bay in 2017; I don’t think that those had any traditional conservative motives, aside from, “I want to hurt/kill people because I’m feeling hurt”.