Mass shootings are contagious: US study
Mass killings and school shootings appear to be contagious, according to a new US study which found that such tragedies could inspire similar events in the near future.
Sherry Towers, an Arizona State University research professor, and colleagues were prompted in January 2014 to study whether mass shootings inspire each other.
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They determined that mass killings - events with four or more deaths - and school shootings create a period of contagion that lasts an average of 13 days.
Roughly 20 to 30 per cent of such tragedies appear to arise from contagion, researchers said.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/mass-shootings-are-contagious-us-study-115070300621_1.html
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)whatever it is that makes a person commit mass murder. This metaphor muddies the water.
Mass murders/shooters in the US are almost exclusively carried out by caucasian males in their late teems to early 20s:
Dylan Klebold
Eric Harris
Jared Loughner
James Eagan Holmes
Charles Whitman
Eliot Rodger
Jacob Tyler Roberts
Adam Peter Lanza
Charles Manson
Jeff Weise
Cory Baadsgaard
Kip Kinkel
Luke Woodham
Michael Carneal
97% of school shooters are male.
http://www.politicalresearch.org/2014/06/19/mass-shooters-have-a-gender-and-a-race/#sthash.KlhgSDlR.dpbs
bemildred
(90,061 posts)They are the susceptible ones?
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)flamin lib
(14,559 posts)Or perhaps they are carriers?