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Sub7Agent t1_j8jaehn wrote
Reply to comment by Ferris_Wheel_Skippy in Michigan State cancels athletic events for 48 hours after campus shooting by PrincessBananas85
It's the lack of communal bonds and disregard for fellow humans as well as our multicultural background and Marxist agendas pitting different groups of people against each other. Also sexual deprivation/porn and incel ideologies.
losprimera t1_j8kb268 wrote
thats quite a shotgun blast of theories youve got there.
Sub7Agent t1_j8kgxlv wrote
Pretty obvious. The majority of mass shootings are either social outcasts, incels or culturally motivated (excluding gang shootings which are ignored anyway).
losprimera t1_j8mhme1 wrote
correlation is not causation. For example, even if majority of shooters are all the things you claimed, consider their representative significance: if for each loner/incel/whatever there is one shooter, then there is singificant correlation. I doubt anyone has data to support a claim like this. How does one measure and define an incel in a way that is statistically relevant anyway? yea i dont know. cuz if its 1 shooter/10000 loner/incel/whatever, then its a somewhat weak correlation. For example, US national homicide rate is 6.5/100,000 people.
This is also not necessarily causation, e.g. did they become shooters BECAUSE of those mentioned factors? Because if everyone somewhat fits those descriptions (and they do. sexual activity and marriage rates are generally on the decline. The US dept of Health and Human Services do track some of that data.) then there is weak reason to presuppose causation beyond a simple observation that both are on the increase and bears monitoring.
Edit: This is actually a good thread ill be sure to use in classroom instruction.
Sub7Agent t1_j8ng7f1 wrote
It's not rocket science.
How many female school shooters do you know?
losprimera t1_j8qewj2 wrote
It's not rocket science, but claims must still be substantiated by science. And that means using scientific methodologies. Your article brings up interesting points, but ultimately fails cite anything more than conjecture. That is expected of a non-academic piece of writing, but it holds little persuasive power. Obviously there must be hard data pointing towards your claim, but until you and I both know it, claims of any sort are rather pointless. Surely you see the logic here?
Edit: violent crime is predominantly men because males exhibit more violent tendencies at the extreme percentiles than women. That is to say, if one witnesses a violent crime, it's more than likely perpetrated by a man. So if extreme violence tends to be committed by a male, then all the more so for mass shootings. What even is the argument here?
SpankMyButt t1_j8kzltz wrote
Sure, this is dumb as f***
Sub7Agent t1_j8lhohq wrote
The guns aren't shooting people on their own. What do you think is motivating people to kill others?
SpankMyButt t1_j8luycw wrote
People have been killing people in cruel and pointless ways since the dawn of time. But this is American exceptionalism, in no other "western" county is there a similar situation. Why? I don't know but the access to guns is exceptionally easy in the US.
Sub7Agent t1_j8mg657 wrote
Why is being a Western country important if you believe culture is insignificant?
SpankMyButt t1_j8mi92y wrote
I don't remember saying it's insignificant. Please point to where I have written that.
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