Timeline for Do mass shooters tend to have been bullied as kids?
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| Jun 24, 2020 at 11:07 | comment | added | anon | To rephrase my question in more explicit terms: "Are mass shooters (or mass killers in general) more likely than the general population to have been bullied as kids and, if so, is that correlation also a causation?" | |
| Jun 23, 2020 at 20:28 | comment | added | Lio Elbammalf | You're asking whether or not children who go into school and shoot at their peers are more or less likely to have had a big reason to dislike those peers? | |
| Jun 23, 2020 at 16:45 | comment | added | Mayo | @DevSolar - you're making a mistake of extrapolating from the general to the particular. In a predominately white school white kids can be ferociously bullied just as easily as in a predominately black school black kids can be ferociously bullied. "Systemic" is not something that applies here. If you want to go down that road then you have to compare bullying in mixed schools - and, if you chose, to look around you would see lots of white kids are bullied by black kids and vice versa. I would love to see a report on that. | |
| Jun 22, 2020 at 20:57 | comment | added | user11643 | @DevSolar I understand that point, and I agree with it (your original comment seems to be about something else). I certainly see the definition of bullying as a problem here, and certainly would not be surprised if used definitions was a lot like "watching TV". I would hope a good answer would resolve that issue, however. I don't quite see that onus being fully on the question. | |
| Jun 22, 2020 at 20:54 | comment | added | DevSolar | @fredsbend Nothing near as "systematic". I found the question to be very unspecific. If going from the title only, "do they tend to have been bullied as a kid", I could conceivably wave my hand at some statistic showing that over X% of kids have been bullied at some point and answer "yes, probably". But I doubt that is what the OP is asking about, which is why I asked to narrow down the Q. | |
| Jun 22, 2020 at 19:57 | comment | added | user11643 | @DevSolar You seem to have a specific idea of what bullying is (and that appears conflated with so called "systemic racism"). If you did have an issue with this question, it should be "What is 'bullying' here?" Maybe psych disciplines have a specific definition, since it is often noted in patient history for any kind of "anti-socialism". I think those are things a good answer should address. | |
| Jun 22, 2020 at 16:39 | comment | added | anon | @DevSolar I don’t get it. My question is explicit enough I don’t see what I have to clarify here. Obviously when I say "bullying" that goes beyond the occasional mean comment. | |
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| Jun 22, 2020 at 7:37 | comment | added | DevSolar | What, exactly, is the claim here? 1) Who is not bullied at school? I am sure mass shooters have also been playing computer games, watched TV, and drank soda at some point of their life. 2) Quoting the CNN article, "in the United States, mass killers tend to be white males who perpetrate these acts in relatively well-to-do areas..." -- those are definitely not the group getting the shortest end of the stick when it comes to bullying. So, please, clarify what the exact claim is and how you are skeptical about it. | |
| Jun 22, 2020 at 5:25 | answer | added | user56293 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 21, 2020 at 11:51 | comment | added | Robert Columbia | Good question. I remember this was distinctly a thing in the media right after Columbine, which was in 1999. | |
| Jun 21, 2020 at 7:50 | history | asked | anon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |