Why exclude mass shootings from a study on political violence?
Does anybody really support mass murder as political action?
Consider these mass killing events:
San Bernardino mass shooting
Waukesha parade vehicle killings
Boulder supermarket mass shooting
Connor Betts self identified 'Leftist' Ohio mass shooting
Pulse nightclub mass shooting
Dylan Roof church mass shooting
El Paso WalMart mass shooting
Tree of Life Synagogue mass shooting
Buffalo supermarket mass shooting
Thousand oaks bar shooting on college night
One could make arguments that the five on top can be tied to the cultural left- and the five on the bottom tied to the cultural right.
But what do we do with Stephen Paddock who on October 1, 2017 who killed 61 people at a country music concert in Las Vegas?
Or the Batman Joker guy James Holmes who killed 12 and injured 70 others? The Tallahassee Yoga studio shooter, the Atlanta Asian owned massage shootings?
The simplest classification is that all 10 shootings and those that follow, are carried out by deranged men.
But politically, the killer in each case, does not differentiate Liberal or Conservative in his victims,
nor are the mundane locations of any political significance.
You could argue the latter 5 "right wing" killings are linked by a subculture of grievance, ie. white disenfranchisement that also expresses itself in the mainstream right...
But then you could argue the 5 "left wing" killings are linked by a subculture of grievance ie. in victim culture that also expresses itself in the mainstream left.
The argument of Public Report is the killings are all universally condemned, and not supported by even the militant right or militant left.
Only fringe trolls would praise a mass murderer, and you would be hard pressed to find a soul that would use their own name to do so.
Methodology
Why exclude mass shootings from a study on political violence?
I am seeing a weaponizing of mass killings that are so fringe, they fit better into a classification unto themselves:
Consider these mass killing events
San Bernardino mass shooting
Waukesha parade vehicle killings
Boulder supermarket mass shooting
Connor Betts self identified 'Leftist' Ohio mass shooting
Pulse nightclub mass shooting
Dylan Roof church mass shooting
El Paso WalMart Mass shooting
Tree of Life mass shooting
Buffalo supermarket mass shooting
Thousand oaks bar shooting on college night
One could make arguments that the five on top can be tied to the cultural left- and the five on the bottom tied to the cultural right.
But what do we do with Stephen Paddock who on October 1, 2017 who killed 61 people at a country music concert in Las Vegas?
Or the Batman Joker guy James Holmes who killed 12 and injured 70 others? The Tallahassee Yoga studio shooter, the Atlanta Asian owned massage shootings?
The simplest classification is that all 10 shootings are carried out by deranged men.
But politically, the killer in each case, does not differentiate Liberal or Conservative in his victims,
nor are the mundane locations of any political significance.
You could argue the latter 5 "right wing" killings are linked by a subculture of grievance, ie. white disenfranchisement that also expresses itself in the mainstream right...
But then you could argue the 5 "left wing" killings are linked by a subculture of grievance ie. in leftist victimism that also expresses itself in the mainstream left.
My argument is they ARE all universally condemned and not supported by the militant right and left.
Only fringe trolls would praise a mass murderer and certainly not using their own names to do so I'm guessing.
(Correct me if I'm wrong ?)
Michael Reinhoel and Aaron Jay Danielson's deaths are different.
They are claimed as symbols by their rival political factions.
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