Why Do Mass Shooting Happen

When one hears the words “mass shooter,” one tends to think of a young, white man. If not white, people definitely think of a man. Indeed, men are far more likely to be involved in any type of violent crime, especially mass shootings. However, there have been a few instances of a female carrying out a mass shooting. In addition to Tashfeen Malik, the woman in the duo that carried out the San Bernardino shooting, there have been two other instances of women carrying out a mass shooting: Jennifer San Marco and Cherie Lash Rhoades.

Psychologists who specialize in Biological, Physiological, and Neuroscientific perspective focus on the brain and nervous system. These Psychologists prioritise the many relationships between evolution, hormones, heredity, and mental process. So, when asked with the question “why do mass shooting happen?”, these scientist answer in a biological way. They might state that the mass shooting happened because of psychological disorders or criminal behavior; however, on the other side, scientists might blame it on the environmental issues this person has gone through. A question that they might ask is how certain brain wave patterns affect the nervous system, or what environment issues helped to influence this act? Finally, some scientists might

Although, there has been other mass shootings, such as the University of Texas massacre in 1966, or how about the first known mass school shooting in the United States, April 9, 1891, at St. Mary's Parochial School, Newburgh, New York. Although, society has experience mass school shootings for well over a hundred years, it was the Columbine High School massacre, that shocked America. Furthermore, ever since the Columbine massacre there has been numerous shootings at our educational facilities, throughout the country. Although, I have mentioned the school massacres, there have been far more violent incidents at the workplace, along with numerous mass shootings at malls, movie theaters, churches, and even grocery stores. Therefore, it is clearly understandable why society feels less safe in this

Mass shootings in the United States is a huge problem that has seemed to become a norm, faced rarely by other developed country. On October 1st, 2017 the most deadliest mass shooting in US history took place, suppressing the Orlando nightclub shooting just over one year earlier. This just like every other mass shooting has gun owners and opposers scrambling on what we should do next to fix this terrible problem.

Mass shootings happen a lot more frequently in the world than most of us probably know. However, every mass shooting that has been documented and investigated have the same main question behind it; Why did the attacker choose to do this? Many times, our assumptions are all we have. Investigation analyses the entire situation as much as it can to make sure our assumptions, if needed, are as accurate as possible. However, there are a lot of theories and social situations that pertain to mass shootings as well.

Media today plays a big part in the mass shootings believe it or not. “Media contagion” is largely responsible for the increase in these often deadly outbursts”(Media Contagion). By showing the number of casualties on media this can give ideas to the next shooter. The next possible shooter could get an idea of trying to outdo the previous shooter by attempting to kill more people and to do more damage. There was a scenario where a TV reporter posted a video of himself gunning down two ex colleagues and posted the video all over Twitter and Facebook, the next day after this all occurred the shots of him gunning down innocent people from the shooters perspective were plastered all over the newspaper. “The Daily News said that it published the images “to convey the true scale” of the attack “at a time when it is so easy for the public to become inured to such senseless violence”(Follman, Mark). This shows how it can influence other mentally ill people to shoot to kill and shoot to kill a mass number of people. This all has been researched and could be somewhat prevented by not so much giving out the details of an incident like this and giving titles out like “greatest mass shooting” to influence other people.

Mass shootings have become one of the most fearful events that could happen in elementary schools, high schools, and College campuses. These violent actions committed by a number of individuals have happened for many years and will continue happening unless prevented. Individuals like James Holmes opened fire in a Colorado movie theater, killing twelve individuals and injuring twenty, John Sawahri shot five students dead in Santa Monica College also injuring four individuals. However Eric Harris and Dylan Kleibold executed the most horrific act of school violence in United States History. These two individuals managed to take the lives of twelve students, a teacher and managed to take their own life in the process. This act of crime has spread through America, leaving no one safe.

The idea of violence is instilled in everyone’s head in some way or another. From the time we are born we are equipped with the idea that we must react when we are upset. When someone affects us in a negative way, there is an idea in our minds that urges us to fight back or cause harm to that person. This idea of causing harm stays with us from childhood until we take our last breath. Since 2013, there have been 242 school shootings within America. Even worse, there have been over a thousand mass shootings in the country resulting in mass casualties. Most recently, one single man murdered fifty-eight people at a concert in Las Vegas, Nevada and injured over 240 others. Although the motive may have been different between these shootings, one thing remains the same for all of them, the act of violence.

The United States has had over 350 mass shootings in 2015 alone. There is no specific criteria for mass shootings besides that there are multiple victims and it seems to be at random. There have been a number of mass shootings that have made the news worldwide like; the mass shooting at a black church in S.C and the mass shooting in Texas that left over 20 individuals dead or injured. There are several reasons why a mass shooting may occur. The most recent mass shooting happened this month in California and it happened at a home for the mentally ill. On December 2, 2015 Syed Rizwan Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik opened fire on at a holiday party in the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. Fourteen died and 21 were

In the last two decades, mass shootings have become seemed to be dominating news headlines in North America. These local acts of violence have devastated families, communities and countries and have since shone a light on debates surrounding gun violence and the laws that govern it, the negative affects of social media, bullying, and the wide and deep breadth of mental health issues. A mass shooting is largely defined as a shooting perpetrated by one or more persons, where four or more people are killed. Since 1966, in the United States alone, there have been twenty mass shootings yielding eleven or more victims. All of these atrocities were carried out with the use of semi-automatic rifles, all of these massacres continue to garner more and

A recurring complication throughout the United States and different countries are mass shootings. Mass shootings are a dilemma that has been occurring for a tremendous amount of years. Shootings in the U.S. cause terror in peoples everyday lives and cause people to question the government. Shootings have been happening since before anyone can remember. As time passes through, these mass shootings continue to worsen. Mass shootings have been an effect for an enduring amount of time.

The increase of mass shootings in the recent years has been raising a lot of concerns for many US citizens. Many people debate whether it's a mental-illness issue, lack of gun control law, a culture issue, or maybe a combination of it all. Whatever it is, we can all agree that within the last 4-5 years, these mass shootings have been increasing rapidly and something needs to be done to stop it. But what exactly are causing these mass shootings? And how can we prevent them from happening?

Mass shootings are defined as an incident during which an active shooter shoots three or more people in a single event (Bridges and Leigh). Sadly, these incidents have been on a steady rise in America and little is being done. In the first 164 days of 2016, there was 136 mass killings (Willingham). The main political argument has been dealing with gun control in the United States, but with both sides in disagreement, little has been done. All the victims of mass shooting, like Sandy Hook, Orlando nightclub, or the Colorado movie theater incident did not plan to lose their life; even though mass shootings are a rare act of violence, they have become common in the U.S. Mass shootings are an issue in American society because the disregarding

Mass shootings have been a growing epidemic in the past years in the United States. According to CNN between the years 1966 and 2017 there have been 90 Mass Shootings in the United States; with the shootings more likely to occur at the workplace or at schools(1). But why is this happening? Why are unlikely citizens rising up and performing such vulgar actions? What truly has people baffled is what is causing people to commit such a horrific act of violence? We are baffled because we don’t understand what is the cause that the some of the people committing these shootings are thought to be normal, well raised, and stable-mind people. There are many theories as to why people commit these mass shootings. One is that it is that a people's thresholds for the act and they are joining in. Another is that is is testosterone and natural dominance causing those viewed as outcasts to commit the shooting. But I believe it is both of those but that there is a stronger one that explains the reason why good people are committing horrific shootings. My theory is the psychological act of splitting.

There is no widely used or definite definition of mass shootings. People use broad definitions of mass shootings to reinforce their stance on gun control. Mass killings are usually done with handguns. Most of mass shootings happen in workplaces or schools . The saying “ going postal” comes from a mass shooting done in a postal office . “The General Social Survey has been asking Americans about whether they have a gun in their home for decades, and last year essential tied the record low level of gun ownership reached in 2010. As you can see the chart below, 31 percent of adults reporting having a firearm in their household in 2014.”(List). Although gun sales in households have declined, active shooter events have become more recent in the past few years. There have been 160 incidents between 2000-2013.