re: Common thread in mass shooters

I don’t disagree and the kid in Uvalde is 100% to blame… but when you combine the reaction to covid with vulnerable members of society, shite like this will happen. He lived with his damn grandma. I guarantee he had no love or support at home. I’m not making excuses for him, he’s to blame, but our government made his already shitty life probably 100x worse with covid bs

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Ok well if you aren’t actually going to address anything I said, then I’m done here

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Bless your heart...

Or they follow Islam.

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Bless your heart...

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He quite literally ignored every single thing that was said just to make a quip about me leaving

If his point isn’t that mass shootings aren’t a problem, then he has none.

Mass shootings being less of an issue than other things is not and never will be a valid reason to write off discussion of solutions

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As you did when I asked you for examples of shooters that refute the OPs assertions...

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Probably because you didn’t pay attention to the fact that I was never replying to you. And never said anything to agree or disagree with what you said about examples of shooters… because that isn’t what I was talking about

It is not really "mass shooters" but mass killers and I think the distinction is important. We have not been able to solve the issue of mass killing because our media and some politicians tend to address this problem as a single-issue deal, and believe that guns alone are the problem. Others (like me) believe that mental health is the main problem and that we have failed to come up with a way to identify people who are crazy enough to want to just shoot a bunch of innocent people - with children being the most innocent and so their best target.

Anyway, I think that crazy people will just look for another way to satisfy their sick compulsions if we take away their guns. I admit that taking away the easy means for them to kill will likely stop some of them, but the nut cases will still be out there. But we do a terrible job of identifying those people before they can act and taking even small steps to deter them. This is where we need to focus. It won't be easy. But difficult problems are rarely solved with an easy fix.

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Except that's not always the case

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I can’t think of an example where after the fact people said “nah, he was a really cool guy. Good at sports and popular. This is a total shock.”

I’m open to being wrong.

One of the most heartbreaking things I remember about Majorie Douglas shooting was the shaved head girl saying “yeah of course we bullied him. He was terrible and he deserved it.”

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It most certainly was what you were talking about and I was talking to you...

You chose to ignore that and move onto something else... Either way you still look the idiot, so bless your heart...

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Dude read my reply

The guy said they don’t happen often. I replied that he was uninformed. You or your opinions were in no way involved in what I said in any way

Learn to read

James Holmes (Colorado theater shooter) from wiki:

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Holmes attended the University of California, Riverside (UCR). In 2010, he received his undergraduate B.S. degree in neuroscience with highest honors. He was a member of several honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key

In June 2011, Holmes enrolled as a Ph.D. student in neuroscience at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.[55] He received a $21,600 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

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It goes on to say that one professor called him "socially inept." Holmes did have a GF while at Colorado who later left him after he talked about killing people.

So, yeah, while Holmes was considered weird, he wasn't really a "loser" in the sense of having nothing going on. Honor student in a PhD program in neuroscience.

Yep that’s pretty much it and what I’ve been saying for years young men need a job and to get laid… if you just do good at work they go hand in hand… women like confidence and a man that is good at his job is confident.