Mass shooting instances are not rising, but they’re probably not going away
James Alan Fox: I started studying mass murder in the early 1980s (along with Northeastern University colleague Jack Levin) to see if there were any common traits and characteristics to the crimes or the perpetrators. There had been a pervasive sense back then that mass murderers were crazed lunatics who suddenly snapped, went berserk, and killed indiscriminately. By studying 42 cases that had occurred in recent years (recent back then, anyway), we found that many common assumption were quite off the mark…
Most mass killers kill people they know, with a clear-cut motive. They typically plan their crimes in advance, often weeks or months in advance. They are calm, deliberate and determined to get justice for what they perceive to be unfair treatment.
The idea that they suddenly snap actually makes little sense. They snap and just so happen to have 2 AK-47′s and 2000 rounds of ammunition around for just such an occasion? Hardly. …
Most of the time, the motive is to get even with those they hold responsible for their misfortunes. Usually people at work or at home, or sometimes a class of people (women, Jews, immigrants, whites, blacks, etc) . . . so the victims are chosen randomly, but not the type of victim, or the place to find them.
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Stop quoting facts. The libs have enough to ignore already.
RoadRunner on February 2, 2013 at 9:57 AM
This makes sense to me.
There’s a site, rampageshootings.org, that quantifies rampage shootings in OECD countries. The main point is that they happen everywhere occasionally, but they are statistically so rare that trends can’t really be discerned.
juliesa on February 2, 2013 at 11:28 AM
blah blah blah- i wouldn’t line my cats’ litter box with the opinions of “expert” ( on self promotion) james fox. after restating what everyone outside of the media and liberals already knows about mass killers, he still finds a way to shill for gun control. he even fudges about guns and mass murder -but he’s the expert or something so gets to slide( the top 2 for body count of such incidents still do not involve firearms of any sort.) .
and for all his pearl clutching over the media’s obsession with serial and mass murderers he himself has managed to make a dime or 2 as the go to academetron on ghouls- and his own pulp crime book offerings have lurid blood splashed covers- he needs to STFU, the hypocrite.
we will always have sociopaths and narcissistic losers who blame everyone else for their own problems. this will never change no matter what unicorn is in oval office with a pen and an executive order to sign. we will always have murder. and sadly we will always have experts who spend most of their time blaming the victims and society instead of the perpetrators.
http://crimevictimsmediareport.com/?p=4030
mittens on February 2, 2013 at 12:07 PM