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Why so many mass shootings lately?

Melensdad

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Simple question but why?

NY= mass shooting by an immigrant who killed 13 at a social center.
Penn= gun nut goes crazy, shoots cops, claims he was worried about gun confiscation
IL= pastor of church shot during sermon, tackled by members before more could be shot
CA= parolee shoots, kills 4 cops
IN= today! man shoots his own 5 children

There are several more that have occurred in the last 10 to 14 days. Seems like we are entering a very violent time, but all these things are very different. Still they are pretty horrific and a common thread in most of the recent shootings (with the possible exception of the Oakland CA shooting by the parolee) seem to be people with a high level of personal despair and frustration?
 

BoneheadNW

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This is a more complete list:
A string of shootings in the U.S. in the past month alone has claimed the lives of 53 people:

- MARCH 10, SAMSON, Ala. - A gunman kills 10 people and commits suicide in a rampage that spanned two dozen miles across the southern Alabama countryside. Police say Michael McLendon had struggled to keep a job and left behind lists of employers and co-workers he believed had wronged him.

- MARCH 22, OAKLAND, Calif. - A man pulled over in a routine traffic stop fatally shoots two officers and then kills two more in a gunfight in which the suspect was also killed. Relatives say Lovelle Mixon, 26, had been frustrated about not finding work and feared returning to jail.

- MARCH 29, SANTA CLARA, Calif. - A man shoots and kills his two children and three other relatives, then kills himself at a family housewarming party in an upscale neighborhood. Investigators don't yet know the motive of Devan Kalathat, a 42-year-old engineer at Yahoo.

- MARCH 29, CARTHAGE, N.C. - A man opens fire in a nursing home and kills seven elderly residents and a nurse who cared for them. Investigators say Robert Stewart, 45, apparently had targeted an estranged wife, a nurse's assistant who escaped by hiding in a bathroom.

- APRIL 3, BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - A gunman bursts into an immigrant center and kills 13 people before killing himself. Police say Jiverly Wong, a 41-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, was apparently upset about losing his job and about people picking on him for his limited English.

- APRIL 4, PITTSBURGH - A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opens fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbance call, killing three of them. Police say Richard Poplawski, 23, had been upset about losing his job and feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.

- APRIL 4, GRAHAM, Wash. - A man fatally shoots his five children in their mobile home and then takes his own life in his car miles away. Relatives identified the father as James Harrison. A motive was not yet known.
Very depressing.
Bonehead
 

Melensdad

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Amit Chowdhry | Tuesday March 3, 2009

A Brazilian man wanted to collect his debt from a woman so he broke into her house and pulled a gun on her.

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...It turns out that the gun was a toy gun Light Phaser made for SEGA video games.

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The man broke into a 60 year old woman’s house in Brazil’s Federal District. He then held her hostage for 10 hours. Eventually, he let her go unharmed after negotiating with the police. Kids, don’t get any ideas.
 

thcri

Gone But Not Forgotten
So we can expect more of this due to the growing job losses :sad:


If the media in fact is true in how they post the story yes :whistling:


But I am not so sure. If a guy loses his job why not just jump off a bridge or a tall building? Why take the lives of so many other innocent people?
 
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