Why Do Mass Shooting Happen

On Wednesday June 18, 2015 nine shot dead at a historical black church in Charleston, South Dakota and only a month later on July 16, 2015 in Chattanooga, Tennessee with five dead leaving citizens devastated. The past year contains more than 350 mass shootings, averaging 1.02 shootings per day and continuous growing number of deaths, multiple mass shootings around the world leaving dozens of victims in its path. There is no exact definition of mass shootings, but most sources believe it is when four or more people are shot in one location. Citizens in America are easily able to obtain a gun and the growing issue is whether this should change and stronger laws in place. Although citizens believe gun control laws take away second amendment and right to protect themselves, mass shootings are increasing yearly and action needs to happen to prevent the next attack.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It was a quiet morning of December 14, 2012 in Newtown, CT, USA during the usual winter weather in New England state, with people preparing for the Christmas holidays. What happened next has triggered consequences of starting the major debate on gun control with the creation of a presidential task force charged with recommending solutions to the problem of gun violence, and more specific, public mass shootings. That is when 20-year old tall and lanky man named Adam Lanza made his way to the Sandy Hook Elementary School and cold-bloodedly murdered 20 children between six and seven years old, as well as six adult staff members. Minutes before, he shot dead his own mother at their Newtown home… It was not neither first nor last of wanton mass killings of strangers/innocent bystanders (children) with deliberate attempt to deprive them of their lives without any tangible gain or explainable reasoning, motives happening in the US.

There are several definitions for what consists of a mass shooting, the best coming from

Supporting Point– There're several types of mass shootings, mass shootings can be anywhere near us. Mass shootings can happen at a school, on the street, or at a concert.