Why do mass shooters kill? It’s about more than having a grievance

An acutely troubling aspect of life in contemporary America is the <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/mass-shootings-increasing-harvard-research/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">growing proliferation of mass shootings</a> that <a href="http://www.fitgny.com/uploads/7/5/7/0/75709513/congressional_research_paper_mass_shootings.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">claim thousands of innocent lives</a> year after painful year and make everyone feel unsafe. The year 2023 is still young, and already there have been at least <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">146 mass shooting events</a> in the U.S. on record, including <a href="https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/louisville-kentucky-shooting-04-10-23/index.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">the killing of five people</a> in a Louisville, Kentucky, bank that the shooter livestreamed. There were 647 mass shootings in 2022 and 693 in 2021, resulting in 859 and 920 deaths, respectively, with no respite in sight from this ghastly epidemic. Since 2015, over 19,000 people have been <a href="https://everytownresearch.org/mass-shootings-in-america/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">shot and wounded or killed</a> in mass shootings. In the wake of most shootings, the news media and the public reflexively ask: What was the killer’s motive? As <a href="https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=Trd2BdsAAAAJ&hl=en" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a psychologist who studies</a> violence and extremism, I understand that the question immediately pops to mind because of the bizarre nature of the attacks, the “out-of-the-blue” shock that they produce, and people’s need to comprehend and reach closure on what initially appears to be completely senseless and irrational. But what would constitute a satisfactory answer to the public’s question? <a href="https://medium.com/the-conversation/why-do-mass-shooters-kill-its-about-more-than-having-a-grievance-d4e9899d4c5a">Click Here</a>