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It's been a couple weeks or so since the Aurora Illinois mass shooting and another incident where a Coast Guard member was allegedly caught before he had an opportunity to carry out another one that they claim might have been even worse, and a year since the Parkland shooting; but, if you search for a lower profile mass shooting on any given day it's pretty much guaranteed you'll find a new one. Vox has recently reported that mass shootings, which they define as a shooting where four or more people are shot, whether they're killed or not happens almost once every day, on average.

Yet there's little or no effort, at least in the mass media or political debate, to find out what's causing all these shootings or why it's so much more common in this country than in many other developed countries, especially some of the European countries that do a better job providing child care, education and ban corporal punishment both in schools and at home, and have murder rates less than 1 per 100,000 while our national rate is usually over 5; it dipped down bellow five from 2010 to 2015, before climbing back up to 5.4 in 2016 and 5.3 in 2017, which means that after hitting a historical low rate the total number of murder rose back up by about 3,000. Yet there's no public debate about why, except obsessive discussion about gun control almost as if that's the only potential contributing factor.

As I've said in previous articles, reasonable gun control is almost certainly a part of the solution but there's little or no chance that it's the only part; and it's highly unlikely that it's the most important part of the solution, based on an enormous amount of research that the media simply declines to report on.

We do have plenty of research available to show what many of the leading causes of violence, including mass shootings, are; however the media practically never mentions this research, nor do political candidates discuss it or base policy decision on it. One of the most important contributing factor, if not the most important one is early child abuse, including corporal punishment leading to escalating violence later in life, which I went into more in Research On Preventing Violence Absent From National Media. The evidence showing this is a major contributing factor is overwhelming, with murder rates in states that still allow corporal punishment in schools being 22% to 31% higher than those no longer allowing it for the last ten to eleven years, and at least 2.26% higher going back twenty seven years, with it getting much closer a few years after about a dozen states banned corporal punishment, but before it had much chance to have a long term impact.

Between 1988 and 1994 nineteen states banned corporal punishment in schools, and it has been dropping steadily in the home since Benjamin Spock and several other good child rearing experts began recommending alternative methods, shortly after World War II. During the nineties the murder rates around the country plummeted almost in half, before dropping at a slower rate for another thirteen or fourteen years before reaching it's all time low in 2013-4.

Additional major contributing factors which were also listed in the same article with links to additional sources include poverty, income inequality, lack of education, gambling, insurance which also contributes to poverty since it's often based on misleading sales pitches, and military hazing to teach cadets to blindly obey orders, in wars based on lies. There should be no doubt that epidemic levels of corporate fraud is a major contributing cause, since it contributes, either directly or indirectly, to most if not all of these factors.

There should also be no doubt that refusing to address the social needs of the majority of the public while catering to the interests of of campaign donors making a massive amount of money off of epidemic levels of fraud. However, even if some people do doubt this there's even more evidence to support it, but the media doesn't cover that, any more than it covers any of the other contributing factors of violence.

Ignoring these problems is a major part of the reason why we have more mass shootings than other developed countries; and fighting wars based on lies, while shipping jobs overseas to pressures wages and other corporate scams adds to it making them more likely. And when there are legitimate protests to try to address these problems they're often suppressed, while the media misrepresents them only leading =to more poverty and desperation including some that strike out violently, usually in the wrong direction.

The vast majority of mass shooters probably have emotional problems and may not be able to express legitimate concerns rationally; however there are some exceptions, although they respond to them the wrong way.


By outsourcing thousands if not millions of jobs over decades they've been driving down wages for the vast majority of the public so they can increase profits for a small percentage; and there's no doubt that this has driven a lot of people into desperate situations, including Gary Martin who recently went on a shooting spree in Aurora. I have no doubt that he had additional violent tendencies, but some of these are also caused partly by declining to education the public about how early abuse or lack of educational and economic opportunities leads to escalating violence.

As I pointed out in Cause and Effect of Hatred early child abuse is also a major factor in promoting racism or shootings like Christopher Paul Hasson allegedly planned, yet this isn't discussed as a potential contributing cause by the mass media even though there are plenty of good scholars available providing research to show it's a major factor.

Additional research also shows that union busting is a major contributing factor of workplace violence as I pointed out in Union Busting adds to corrupt bureaucracy and incites crime, citing Marty Jay Levitt, a former union busting consultant who wrote a book about the tactics he previously used and how they often contributed to violence, including in the coal mining industry; and it also cites major problems at Walmart where many of their employees have also gone on shooting sprees, often partly because of a hostile work environment, partly resulting from their union busting practices.

Eric Schlosser provided additional research showing that the hostile environment in the fast food industry is a contributing factor when it comes to violent robberies, often by former disgruntled employees who are more likely to rob their employers, or former employers, after being treated badly, even leading to armed robberies and murders. At the time he wrote his book in 2001 he claimed there were about four or five fast food employees murdered on the job every month, often by other employees; more recent studies indicate that the death rate is much higher, although most of them are for other reasons, with murder possibly going down since then. However as indicated in the following excerpt, when fast food industries were faced with regulations designed to protect their employees they lobbied heavily to prevent them, refusing to consider that their oppressive working conditions might be a contributing factor:

Eric Schlosser "Fast Food Nation" 2001 p.83-5

The same demographic groups widely employed at fast food restaurants — the young and the poor — are also responsible for much of the nation's violent crime. According to industry studies, about two-thirds of the robberies at fast food restaurants involve current or former employees. The combination of low pay, high turnover, and ample cash in the restaurant often leads to crime. A 1999 survey by the National Food Service Security Council, a group funded by the large chains, found that about half of all restaurant workers engaged in some form of cash or property theft — not including the theft of food. The typical employee stole about $218 a year; new employees stole almost $100 more. Studies conducted by Jerald Greenberg, a professor of management at the University of Ohio and an expert on workplace crime, have found that when people are treated with dignity and respect, they’re less likely to steal from their employer. “It may be common sense,” Greenberg says, “but it’s obviously not common practice.” The same anger that causes most petty theft, the same desire to strike back at an employer perceived as unfair, can escalate to armed robbery. Restaurant managers are usually, but not always, the victims of fast food crimes. Not long ago, the day manager of a McDonald’s in Moorpark, California, recognized the masked gunman emptying the safe. It was the night manager.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) attempted in the mid-1990s to issue guidelines for preventing violence at restaurants and stores that do business at night. OSHA was prompted, among other things, by the fact that homicide had become the leading cause of workplace fatalities among women. The proposed guidelines were entirely voluntary and seemed innocuous. OSHA recommended, for example, that late-night retailers improve visibility within their stores and make sure their parking lots were well lit. The National Restaurant Association, along with other industry groups, responded by enlisting more than one hundred congressmen to oppose any OSHA guidelines on retail violence. An investigation by the Los Angeles Times found that many of the congressmen had recently accepted donations from the NRA and the National Association of Convenience Stores. “Who would oppose putting out guidelines on saving women’s lives in the workplace?” Joseph Dear, a former head of OSHA, said to a Times reporter. “The companies that employ those women.”

The restaurant industry has continued to fight not only guidelines on workplace violence, but any enforcement of OSHA regulations. At a 1997 restaurant industry “summit” on violence, executives representing the major chains argued that OSHA guidelines could be used by plaintiffs in lawsuits stemming from a crime, that guidelines were completely unnecessary, and that there was no need to supply the government with “potentially damaging” robbery statistics. The group concluded that OSHA should become just an information clearing house without any authority to impose fines or compel security measures. Complete article


As I said most of these disgruntled employees almost certainly don't express their grievances very well, and even if they do killing former co-workers, even if some of them are management they may have previously had legitimate complaints against, clearly isn't the best way to address the issues; however when the vast majority of people do a far better job expressing legitimate grievances, management routinely dismisses them and police or politicians rarely ever help much either. Police routinely arrest protesters for many reasons, including workers rights protesters as well as environmentalists, antiwar protesters, and many other protesters, even though they often have legitimate concerns which politicians don't address and the media doesn't report on adequately.

While most mass murderers require in depth research into their background before almost always, if not always as Dorothy Otnow Lewis claims, finding early abuse that taught long term violent behavior and caused emotional problems, a few of them managed to write out some legitimate grievances, even if the media declined to cover them adequately including Joseph Andrew Stack (who only killed on person besides himself), Christopher Jordan Dorner, and Gavin Eugene Long, who all left behind what were described as manifestos, which has a negative stereotype after demonizing the Communist Manifesto for generations without reviewing it honestly.

When the media does mention these at all they often refer to them as "insane" or "rambling" or some other negative term without trying to figure out whether or not there was a legitimate concern; however they're often made public, and in some cases people that are being oppressed by a corrupt economic system see right through this, and in at least a few cases they've influenced additional mass murderers, including Gavin Eugene Long who adopted a few phrases from Christopher Dorner's manifesto in his own.

A lot of these complaints are legitimate complaints, even if the manifestos sometimes include rambling that might be expected from people that aren't trained writers, which would include me, and if they went to extremes that aren't justified, even with legitimate grievances.

You would think the simple solution would be to address legitimate concerns when we have peaceful protests or allow a rational debate at discussion forums where all views are welcome; however this isn't done; instead the oligarchies control over ninety percent of the media and they hire an army of pundits to spin incredibly bad excuses why we can't address legitimate concerns while the media only covers candidates pretending to bring "Hope" and "Change" during the campaign before selling out to the same Wall Street interests after being elected.

Joseph Stack was right about the health care system being rigged for the wealthy and the government bailing out the rich after they caused the economic crisis of 2008. Barack Obama, who promised to put on a "pair of comfortable shoes" and march with protesters as president hired plenty of lobbyist breaking another promise he made instead and bailed out the banks allowing them to give massive bonuses to the people causing the crash, while refusing to instruct his attorney general, Eric Holder to prosecute the banks for their robo-signing fraud, or many other scams carried out by financial institutions, before Holder resigned going back to the same law firm representing these people he didn't prosecute for their fraud, and much more!

Christopher Jordan Dorner, Micah Xavier Johnson, and Gavin Eugene Long, were all trained by the government to allegedly protect us; however the wars we constantly fight are almost always based on lies, including Iraq where there were no weapons of mass destruction, and even Afghanistan, which if you accept the official version of 9/11 it was retaliation for fighting past wars based on lies and arming the mujaheddin which later became Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Christopher Dorner seemed to believe the rhetoric about "Honor" and "Integrity" they teach in the military during their indoctrination process that's enforced with intimidation tactics and hazing, yet when he joined the police force he encountered plenty of corruption which he spoke out about and was presumably fired for doing so. This of course, puts police propagandists in an awkward position; since, if he was as irrational and deceptive as they claim he was, why wouldn't they have seen it before hiring him? There's no doubt that there's an enormous amount of evidence of much more police corruption and cover-ups, making it reasonable for many people protesting police killings to assume that he was exposing some of the corruption he saw, even if he did go to extremes.

Even though Micah Xavier Johnson, and Gavin Eugene Long were never in the police force they were trained to fight warts which they must have concluded were based on lies only to come home to find that the police weren't protecting their own communities, before going on their killing sprees. Gavin Long's manifesto even acknowledged that he felt it was necessary to kill some good cops, which could be interpreted as collateral damage in military terms which he was trained in, and he made a point of saluting police that were trying to reform the system; however those entrenched in power continue to stone wall almost all reform.

In all fairness the most important reform is almost certainly not police reform, although that has to be part of it if we're going to solve this problem, but other reforms including economic fraud and cuts to education or child care that will prevent violence from escalating and making these confrontations with police necessary in the first place.

It may be easy to get angry about these people for going on shooting rampages, and assume that they're evil for the sake of evil dismissing their manifestos; but if people want to understand why it's happening and how to prevent it that's not the way to go.

This emotional hatred even leads many to demand that we don't even say their names, on the assumption that they're seeking fame, which might be a small part of it but clearly it isn't the most important issue which is why did they become so emotional unstable in the first place. This leads to perceived justification for censoring the manifestos; but this will only prevent us from understanding why it happened, and prevent us from seeing there are sometimes partial mitigating circumstances, even if it's not full justification. This only guarantees we can't solve the problem.

Even if you do accept the argument that we should ignore grievances in their manifestos, does this mean that we should also continue ignoring the same grievances when people with legitimate complaints express them the right way? Of course not, yet that's what the government has been doing for decades, which is clearly a major contributing factor.

While reviewing murder statistics, it became clear that the highest murder rates are where there's the least amount of educational or economic opportunities and they have the lowest medium income. These ghettos also have the lowest voting rates and even if they did participate in the democratic process more, without adequate education they would be less able to see through the political scams that are routine by politicians that study how to manipulate voters more than they seek to understand their best interests and try to look out for them.

there's much more research on the leading contributing causes of violence in alternative media, good non-fiction books, or academic research papers; however it's almost completely ignored by the mainstream media and in political debates. Instead we have people in wealthy communities making decisions on the economy then arranging to push them through regardless of what the majority of the public wants. Since they don't cover sincere political candidates they can't win so little or nothing is done to solve this problem and the people in the poorest areas routinely pay the highest price. One class of people does all the work; another class of people takes all the money and it's not hard to recognize this.

This is an intentional recipe for disaster!

We have research to show how to prevent these mass shootings but pundits and politicians refuse to cover it!



The following are some additional sources on this article, including excerpts from a couple manifestos:

Aurora mass shooting: Gunman, Gary Martin, opened fire after being told he was losing job, police say 02/17/2019

Arrested Coast Guard Officer, Christopher Paul Hasson, Allegedly Planned Attack 'On A Scale Rarely Seen' 02/20/2019

A Brief History of Cops Convicted of Murder



Joe Stack's 2010 Manifesto / Suicide Note 2010

The Insane Manifesto Of Austin Texas Crash Pilot Joseph Andrew Stack 02/18/2010

Joe Stack's 2010 Manifesto / Suicide Note 02/18/2010

If you're reading this, you're no doubt asking yourself, "Why did this have to happen?" The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. .....

Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it's time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country's leaders don't see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political "representatives" (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the "terrible health care problem". It's clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don't get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.

And justice? You've got to be kidding!

How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly "holds accountable" its victims, claiming that they're responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law "requires" a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that's not "duress" than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is. The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. ......

..... However, this is where I learned that there are two "interpretations" for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country. ......

I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn't so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along. ......

The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

Joe Stack (1956-2010) Complete article




Read suicide note left by Gavin Eugene Long, gunman in deadly Baton Rouge officer shooting in July 2016 06/30/2017



Gavin Long’s Alleged Manifesto Calls Baton Rouge Shootings A “Necessary Evil” 07/20/2016

PEACE FAMILY,

I know most of you who personally know me are in disbelief to hear from media reports that I am suspected of committing such horrendous acts of violence. You are thinking to yourself that this is completely out of character of the MAN you knew who was always positive, encouraging, & wore a smile wherever he was seen. Yes this does seem to be out of character but I ask that you finish reading before you make that decision.

I know I will be vilified by the media & police, unfortunately, I see my action’s as a necessary evil that I do not wish to partake in, nor do I enjoy partaking in, but must partake in, in order to create substantial change within America’s police forces and Judicial system.

Right now their is a unseen & concealed war within America’s police force between Good cops & Bad cops. And the way the current system is set up, it protects all cops whether good or bad, right or wrong, instead of punishing bad cops & holding them accountable for their actions.

And when good cops do try and stand up, speak out, & point out the wrong’s & criminal acts of a bad cops they get reprimanded, harassed, blackballed or blacklisted or all of these and more. Thus creating a perpetual systematic fertile ground for bad cops to flourish, excell, & go unpunished in.

Therefore I must bring the same destruction that bad cops continue to inflict upon my people, upon bad cops as well as good cops in hopes that the good cops (which are the majority) will be able to stand together to enact justice and punishment against bad cops b/c right now the police force & current judicial system is not doing so. .....

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And special salute $ thank you to the brave cops that have already identified & spoke up against bad cops and racist unjust practices.

The list of good cops include but are not limited to: Officer Edwin Raymond & to the approximate 10 other officers who are coming forward against illegal practices of the NYPD targeting my people unethically.

Salute to Officer Nakia Jones Officer Joe Crystal Fellow Marine & EX-Cop MIchael Wood. Retired Captain Ray Lewis. Former Police Chief Norm Stamper.

Officer Billy Ray Fields. & Officer Frank Serpico.

And every other officer who stands up & protects & serves, and upholds their oath, even if it’s protecting the people from one of their fellow officers.

Sincerely, Love Cosmo

A sacrifice for my people, & a sacrifice for the people.

- “LOOK UP, GET UP, & DONT EVER GIVE UP”! Complete article


Christopher Jordan Dorner Manifesto 2013

Inside a cramped Bucks County apartment, 5 family members dead in murder-suicide pact, survivors say 02/26/2019

In the year after Parkland, there was nearly one mass shooting a day 02/14/2019

Prosecutors say accused would-be Kentucky mass shooter had more than 30 guns, 1500+ rounds of ammo 02/28/2019

10 Manifestos Of Killers You Can Actually Read Online Right Now

Inside the minds of American mass shooters 11/10/2017

Reporters shouldn’t profile mass shooters, say experts 08/31/2018 These "experts" seem to have a background in media without much if any knowledge about criminology, child psychology, sociology, or other more important fields of research that do better job explaining why child abuse escalates to more violence later in life. Refusing to report on their background would only prevent people from understanding why they go on shooting sprees and how to prevent it.

What do many mass shooters have in common? A history of domestic violence. 01/15/2017

The Woman Who Plotted a Valentine's Mass Murder Shares How the Internet Radicalized Her 02/21/2019

Foodservice workplace deaths soar, study finds 12/20/2017

Food workers face higher injury, death rates: study 07/07/2015

An estimated 28,000 teens in fast food jobs are rushed to the ER each year with job-related injuries 01/01/2019

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