Another School Shooting

[Millhouse]

(05-18-2018, 05:59 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I think it is a product of the new idea that "Fame" is more important than any "substance".  It used to be that people strove to achieve something so that they could be famous.  Now people just want to be "famous" for no reason or even a bad reason.

A person who feels weak and oppressed thinks he can become the most famous person in the country. That makes them feel powerful because fame is so important now it doesn't matter what you are famous for.

A higher percentage of the population owned guns in 1970, and I assume we had just as much mental illness as today.  yet back then mass shooting (other than family massacres) were unheard of.

(05-18-2018, 06:07 PM)bfine32 Wrote: If I had to suggest one thing it would be social media. Everybody wants to be famous; some just try to obtain that fame through infamy. 

I wont argue any of this. It could be fame mixed with the rise of the internet and social media sites, which of course also could influence copycat like acts of murder.

But in a way to me that suggests that with the rise of smartphones (the main social media medium), internet, movies getting more graphic aka John Wick (which I like tbh), etc., that something is being lost somehow for the ones committing these acts. At least with radical religious nuts, they have a reason as twisted as it is. Or with gang violence there is a reason that makes some sort of sense. But many of these school shootings just dont have a 'understandable' reason behind it like most other acts of murder.

Anyways just thinking out loud here.