Mass Shooting

Student name

Submitted to

Assignment

Date

Why Mass Shooting and How to Resolve

Mass shooting is a killing a number of individuals without any reason and it is unstoppable killing. Hundreds of people killed in mass shooting during past decades. There is a difference between shooting and mass shooting. According to FBI report more than 250 individuals shooting in mass shooting incidents in 2016-201 (Starbird 2). Most Americans have no problem talking about the shooting as entertainment. Despite the fact that every year a firearm in the States perished by 30,000 people (Starbird2). Almost every day there is a mass shootout, i.e. to a shootout where at least four people are killed, with most weapons used in such shootings being acquired legally. There can be many reasons behind mass shooting including mental illness, gun law, envy or revenge, drugs and impact of violent movies/games.

With the recent debate on mental health and mass shots, people have not appropriately distinguished what psychological condition a mass murderer has. There is a general tendency to simplify it as a common "mental illness" and many anti-weapon activists quickly use this as an excuse to divert attention from the weapon problem (Knoll87). Unfortunately, desperate mental health activists are also happy to use this confused attention to overcome the ill-needed means for community causes of mental health, although ultimately it is a self-paced tactic. It is easy to blame "mental illness," because people of course are terrified of the impulse to shoot random people.

The solution for mental illness can only be screening as suspected individual and making it easy for everyone to share their issues and problem with some community member of psychologist/ counsellor. If anyone has any mental illness it must be treated and observed the behavior of that individual, so others may be stay safe from any harm produce by that individual.

There are about 320 million people in the United States. Almost as many weapons are in private hands. (Metzl, Jonathan and Kenneth, MacLeish241). Buying a weapon is easier than taking a dog from an animal shelter. Individual below the age of 18 have no right to buy firearms and those sentenced to imprisonment for over a year, mentally ill, convicted of domestic violence, illegal residents - also. Some types of weapons, such as automatic, are also forbidden. Strict rules from government and complete check as a society is required to control free arm trade. There must be some rules and restrictions in buying and selling arms. it should not be free and easily accessible.

Another reason behind mass shooting can be envy or revenge but this is least common reason. Hate, racism or jealously may also lead to anger and negativity that can be a direct cause of mass shooting. This kind of anger shown due to religion or racial differences.one example of this kind of mass shooting is the incident of New Zealand. There must be some state level and other community level program to eliminate any hate or racism by participating different get together and community cultural events so understanding of other culture may develop and acceptance may increase.

It is hard to understand that in 2018 there will be a debate about whether violent video games will cause violent use. (Thompson, Stephen, and Ken Kyle419). It is, of course, easier to simplify complex things by finding somebody an easy scapegoat instead of thinking about how mental health services could be better and more widely available, so that nausea would not be erupted. Before video games became the current mainstream, the cause of the evil was everything from role-playing to hobby music: these made the churches murderers and Satan worshipers. (Lowe, Sarah R., and Sandro 44). Later it was discovered that the violent music about violence causes violence. The harsh bottom of these thoughts is based on the fact that a single thing like music makes people seize weapons.

For example, in the aftermath of the Columbine massacre that occurred in the United States in 1999, it was found that shooters held Marilyn Manson's music. The conclusion was that Manson's music makes young killers, although there is no causal link to these things. Video games have now been found to replace music. There must be some control or some law needed to check the kind of violence projected through video games. Some code of ethics is required to deal with games or any other material that publish electronically.

Concludingly, mass shooting is devasting it not only kill many innocent people but also effect families of those killed in that. Education, knowledge and some control like of free arm buying and selling, or violence in video games can be controlled to prevent these kinds of events in future.

Work cited

Lowe, Sarah R., and Sandro Galea. "The mental health consequences of mass shootings."

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 18.1 (2017): 62-82.

Metzl, Jonathan M., and Kenneth T. MacLeish. "Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics

of American firearms." American journal of public health 105.2 (2015): 240-249.

Knoll, James L. "The “pseudocommando” mass murderer: Part I, the psychology of revenge and

obliteration." Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online 38.1 (2010): 87-94.

Starbird, Kate. "Examining the alternative media ecosystem through the production of alternative

narratives of mass shooting events on Twitter." Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 2017.2

Thompson, Stephen, and Ken Kyle. "Understanding mass school shootings: Links between

personhood and power in the competitive school environment." Journal of Primary Prevention 26.5 (2005): 419-438.