There are several pathways we observe : antisocial individuals who are part of a gang, depressed and despondent persons who are highly distressed over a grievance and believe they have no future, and a small group of persons with severe mental illness that includes delusional thinking, in a workplace shooting, you want to look at the latter two as most likely.

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Research shows that basically males commit more homicides than females, regardless of the subtype of homicide.

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This method would result in a near-total omission of relevant news stories outside of the English-speaking part of the world.

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It's harder to quantify it, but I've been struck by research that shows that being famous is one of this generation's most important goals, it seems like Americans are growing in their desire for fame, and there is no doubt that that there is an association between media coverage that these offenders get and the likelihood that they will act.

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Our homicide rate is higher than comparable European nations. If anything, though, it is these kinds of attacks that make us stand out so negatively from the rest of the world and give us this violent reputation as a country, frankly, if we want to give the world a message from what we've learned from all of this, is to say that, 'It is possible, these things do happen, so be prepared and learn from it before you have a tragedy of your own.'.

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People have been a little surprised by these statistics. by Adam Lankford

People have been a little surprised by these statistics.

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Police were slower to respond in other countries and were more likely to be ill-prepared when they did respond.

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(Access to) firearms (is) a significant predictor of these incide... by Adam Lankford

(Access to) firearms (is) a significant predictor of these incidents.

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