The Trend is obvious.

The type of mentality that inspires a mass shooting is unique. The difference between killing one's self quitely in a forest and going out of one's way to kill random innocent people during one's suicide is massive. The difference is ego.

Its all about Nature and Nurture. Now, alot of killers that are immortalized by the media were and are natural killers because their victim's deaths are usually gruesome and often people don't expect them to be killers in the first place. This is sensational to a reporter and they take every opportunity to juice it.

THIS IS NOT THE LATTER

These shootings aren't the result of damaged ends of chromosomes or degenerated nuerons in the snyapse of the mind. Nope...the mass shooting mentality seems to be produced by a life of great affluence and negligence. These shooters are a symptom of a cliche' that is very real: The child neglected by their wealthy parents and raised by a biased world . Its not hard to imagine. As a matter of fact, we know it exists and its routinely referenced in movies and cultures world wide. Now causation isn't correlation. Being well off with distracted parents doesn't mean you'll go postal one day.....but its more likely than any other demographic.

Its so clear...your parents have it all...and by translation, you have it all but understanding what "it" even is and why "it" isn't actually important is something your parents should teach you....have to teach you, in fact, because you have so much of it and can become complacent without guidance. Now, to the right, is Baron Trump. I hate unnecessary politics but he would be a perfect example for this if it weren't for Melania's full time job of being his mother. Trump's attention(or lack thereof) to his children is well documented and without Melania, Baron, would probably be left in a lavish penthouse suite with only a humble, ethnic underpayed Nanny to attend to him.

Said Nanny would probably be well payed(in comparison to other nannies)but would never have the inclination to discipline the child properly especially if its at the sake of "making it look good" for the parents. Baron is a baron after all....he gets what he wants. This lack of discipline inevitably creates social and/or academic problems where the child frequently clashes with authority and the parents routinely use their power and influence to "just make it go away".....and it does, temporarily....but always comes back as life's test are repeated until passed. The test here being disciplining your child.

As the child got older, and the erradict, selfish behavior became less tolerated, the parents are now under more pressure to discipline the child but also have the option to medicate the child by getting a psudeodisorder diagnosis from a doctor. The parents are far too busy dealing with X or Y so the child receives a perscription for SSRI's or Adderall or whatever poison the doctor thinks is appropriate and bam!!!! The parents have now created a ticking time bomb.

The pressure of not thinking you are a god in a world where you've been treated like one your whole life is enormous.

And once the child has succumb to this pressure, it now has to live it up to its own irrational expectations which, depending on their upbringing, can be impossible to do. As time goes on, when(not if)those expectations aren't met, and the parents aren't there, and the now young adult hasn't spent anytime developing coping methods for failure(because failure was paid to disappear), things get dark and hit critical mass in the form of a permanent decision to a temporary problem.

And thats it..You have to discipline your children so they don't go on a killing spree. Life sucks and you sugarcoat that fact with money, you're just delaying and, in fact, creating more turmoil by covering it all up with wealth and influence. Perscribing medication just masks symptoms and if you look at the side effects of ANY of the medications, irrational thinking and suicidal tendencies is directly on the bottle...like right there....so medication is not only not helping the issue but most(including myself) believe its a catalyst for a reaction that never has to happen and that probably would'nt have happened without the medication.

These mass shootings have nothing to do with the NRA or gun laws or video games or ANY of that bullshit. Its a direct symptom of bad parenting, monetized health care, and a failed school system and those are direct symptoms of greed and capitalism. Fixing mass shootings would mean fixing America at its core and that just won't happen because its more profitable to have it broken.