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Originally Posted by Mutt
So many factors at play, the elephant in the room is the Internet where sites like 4Chan flourish that provide a perverse sympathetic support and encouragement group for social outcasts that makes mass murder seem a rational and even a heroic option. You spend enough time on websites like 4Chan and even GFY at times, anti-social speech and behavior begins to seem 'normal'. 
Guns are an issue but the root causes are far more complicated and nobody wants to deal with those so the easy thing is to just blame guns.
The US is a large country, if only 1/10th of 1 percent of its young population is affected by violent video games/movies, psych medications, vile social media/networking sites, etc it adds up to a pool of thousands of young male ticking time bombs.
I'm beginning to think that gun ownership should be restricted to people over 30, we don't let 13 year olds drive cars even though they are physically capable - almost all these mass murderers are teens and 20-somethings. |
^^^This
Read the 4chan thread, it's a bunch of beta's that encourage each other to be beta and act like the damn world doesn't get them. Then when the make the threat to do something they are encouraged by thousands of people to follow through. We all have probably spent a lot of time on message boards and online, despite not even knowing anyone you begin to feel as though your online reputation means something and I guess these tards follow through on their stupidity.
It also doesn't help that we talk so much about these events that they almost feel like they are a nobody in the world and now will be famous and people will know who they were. It's a sick attention grab that is encouraged by trolls across the world.