Why number of US mass shootings has risen sharply

[ancianita]

10. Both have a common denominator -- chronic elevation of negative emotions due to exposure

to the toxic online environment, whether it's mainstream media or favorite FUD sites, reinforced randomly in social settings, even in healthy arenas like sports; chronic elevation of adrenaline addiction & cortisone elevation at the physical levels, across live and media environments.

Thinking becomes incapacitated and continually validated by others' incapacitated communications. It's unsustainable. The only choice seems to be to desperately end it, inflicting death either on those nearest, 'foreign' others, or one's self.

Mix guns and conflict driven news environments with no other ways and means to sort things out, a murder/suicide solution becomes front and center as the only way through it all.

Studies have shown that red flag laws help save lives. But the breakdown across red flag and non-red flag states needs more public exposure, even if gun owners in non-red flag states seem too far gone.

It would be more helpful to everyone if studies were done on the common biochemical cause(s) between the 25% and 75%. Then make direct recommendations to state institutions, lawmakers, & public. I'd bet is such studies they'd prove that gun deaths, for either reason, are now a national public health crisis. That should be outside the purview of the Dickey amendment. With media coverage of such pronouncements, money that's been cut off for medicaid and institutional help in red states might re-appear.

Just my lurker opinion.