Shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland, school confirms

[JohnnyEgo]

Some studies have shown that these shootings occur when the media hype from the last one fades. The shooters are looking for recognition in the various news media. I wish the media would quit publishing their names. I also wish these people would get mental health help before they lash out and innocents are hurt.

Very true, and perhaps under-appreciated as it applies to mass shootings. Suicide clustering is a well-documented phenomenon, particularly among teens. I've started to wonder if many of these school mass shooters are a subset of the same group at risk of suicide in the first place; young people who are unable to cope with external factors and challenges, and looking to 'solutions' based on application of under-developed judgment and decision making in response to social and cultural inputs. Whatever one thinks of armed guards or teachers, where are the calls to put more mental or behavioral health counselors in schools?

[Skip]

Very true, and perhaps under-appreciated as it applies to mass shootings. Suicide clustering is a well-documented phenomenon, particularly among teens. I've started to wonder if many of these school mass shooters are a subset of the same group at risk of suicide in the first place; young people who are unable to cope with external factors and challenges, and looking to 'solutions' based on application of under-developed judgment and decision making in response to social and cultural inputs. Whatever one thinks of armed guards or teachers, where are the calls to put more mental or behavioral health counselors in schools?

As I've said, the media pimps school shooting with black rifles. They regularly message if you have a grievance and want validation to grab an AR and murder as many people as you can.

As a reward they put the monster's name in lights and picture on the front page for two weeks as they reinforce their existing anti-gun narratives and test new ones. The disturbed kid who offs himself doesn't even make the news. The kid who shoots up his school is remembered every time there is an anti-gun story/statistics/"do something" opinion piece.

The Little Monsters get relevance and the media gets talking points. It's a symbiotic relationship and it's sick.