How much are we to blame for the increase in mass shootings in America?

[usmbguest5318]

We're horrified, yet fascinated.

The problem is that the GOP and its members aren't horrified enough and that they're too fascinated with guns and killing.

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[aaronleland]

It's easy to blame copycat shooters on the media's 24 hour coverage of the shooting and gunman, but then aren't we the ones to blame? The media is only selling us what we want to see. We're horrified, yet fascinated. When we first hear about a mass shooting we can consume most of the information the media has available in less than five minutes, but we aren't happy with that. We'll keep the channel on for hours waiting for an update. We could easily turn the TV off for the day, and pickup any updates the next day, but we want a constant stream of the horrific details. We want every detail about the shooter, from his family life to whether or not he played violent video games. Yet, what are we even doing with this information?

That's all true, but it goes beyond that. We've created and nurtured a culture of violence from music to TV to movies to video games. Then we isolate people - many of them badly damaged - on the internet. And after that we break ourselves into little tribes and refuse to hold our own tribe accountable for ANYTHING they say or do. All that does in enable more bad behavior.

It's a freakin' miracle it's not worse.

So yeah, we're all complicit. That's what makes it a cultural issue.
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I'd argue we live in the least violent period of our history. While of course the occasional mass murder is a tragedy, humanity has come a long way from lopping a prisoner's head off and rolling it down a pyramid.

 

[TNHarley]

We're horrified, yet fascinated.

The problem is that the GOP and its members aren't horrified enough.

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Dipshit

 

[Missourian]

The increased stats only go back to the 1980's, and none are far off from each other in number. What has changed much other than the coverage of them?

One thing, before the 1970s, only the bad guys in movies were reckless with guns. The 70s gave us the violent anti-hero movies likeTaxi Driver, Dirty Harry and Death Wish among others. Also it was the beginning of the unrealistic depiction of the physics of a gunshots.

Google "violent movies 60s" then Google "violent movies 70s".

Not saying this is the only contribution...but I think it is a contribution.

 

[Moonglow]

The increased stats only go back to the 1980's, and none are far off from each other in number. What has changed much other than the coverage of them?

One thing, before the 1970s, only the bad guys in movies were reckless with guns. The 70s gave us the violent anti-hero movies likeTaxi Driver, Dirty Harry and Death Wish among others. Also it was the beginning of the unrealistic depiction of the physics of a gunshots.

Google "violent movies 60s" then Google "violent movies 70s".

Not saying this is the only contribution...but I think it is a contribution

And it was frontal nudity..

 

[aaronleland]

Who is ‘we’?

You know what I mean. Of course all of us aren't glued to 24 hour news after a mass shooting. Hell, I haven't even had cable in over 10 years. But many are.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Who is ‘we’?

You know what I mean. Of course all of us aren't glued to 24 hour news after a mass shooting. Hell, I haven't even had cable in over 10 years. But many are.

I don’t know what you mean. I live surrounded by left wing sheep so we is way different from me.