7 dead, 7 wounded in Santa Barbara shooting rampage

In this spate of recent shootings, is there a single instance in which the shooter wasn't heavily invested in video games and/or on psychotropics/in therapy?

And, yes, the media needs to look in the mirror as well.

If we only give wall to wall coverage of sick white kids who shoot up public places, then maybe we only encourage sick white kids to shoot up public places.

More gun homicides in Chicago this weekend than in Santa Barbara, but one story got national attention.

 

Major news coverage of Chicago gun homicides must be why they keep happening. That, and video games, movies and psychotropics. Right?

 

Meanwhile, outside the Indy 500:

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2014/05/25/robbery-leads-nd-coke-lot-shooting-near-indianapolis-motor-speedway/9565375/

http://www.wthr.com/story/25603549/2014/05/24/man-shot-in-ims-coke-lot

Must be the video games and psychotropics.

 

"But: As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights." -- Joe the Plumber

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joe-the-plumber-wurzelbacher-ucsb-shooting-dead-kids

 

No. Not at all.

The gang related shootings in Chicago, and the shootings committed by mentally ill, video game obsessed, want-to-be-famous, young males have different origins.

But, what do you think would happen if we ignored the sick white (and occasionally Asian) kids, and made celebrities out of the young African-American killers?

 

I wonder what this dipshit thinks about taking his shoes off to get through airport security.

Or, is the Fourth Amendment the Tito Jackson of the Bill of Rights?

 

Yeah, because if even the vast majority of shootings have nothing to do with video games an psychotropics, then clearly no shootings are related to video games and psychotropics.

 

There is one thing all shootings have in common, but amazingly that's the one thing we can't talk about.

 

I'm not saying that wearing clothing is definitely a cause. But let's bring it into the conversation. The perpetrator wore clothing almost his entire life. That's a data point of correlation, so it needs to be in the conversation.

 

Is there a proposed law that would have prevented either the Sandy Hook or Santa Barbara shooters from acquiring their guns?

 

"But any criminal can get a gun no matter what!!!"

Except that he can't in any country except the USA, it seems.

Of course, if guns aren't the problem (humor me for a minute), then the reality, by definition, has to be something much more difficult to deal with:

We are collectively a lower class of human beings than the people in almost every other country.

If there is an Option No. 3, I'm all ears.

 

It isn't math and treating it as if it is simply displays more of the ignorance you have been spilling all over this thread.