The Contagion Of Mass Shootings

By Greg Camp

Opinion

Fayetteville, AR -(AmmoLand.com)- Are mass shootings contagious? Which is to say, does one mass shooting produce another in the manner of a pathogen being transmitted from one infected person to new hosts?

According to New York Police Department Deputy Commissioner John Miller, interviewed on CBS This Morning, the answer is yes, though things are more complicated than a simple transmission of an idea by itself.

In the same way that epidemics require factors beyond the mere presence of a pathogenic microorganism—in many cases, weather conditions, malnutrition, movement of peoples, and the like—Miller points to the influences that the political atmosphere, the celebration—and I use that word deliberately—of mass killers on television, and various triggering stressors such as a job loss have on someone who is at risk of becoming a killer. This sounds a lot like what happens in domestic violence, and in many cases, mass shooters have a record of abusing people in their immediate lives first. I don’t find this surprising since regardless of whatever motivates mass shooters to act, they feel entitled to murder innocent people to achieve their purposes.

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