What is wrong with people today?

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Almost everyday you hear on the news about a mass shooting or a terrorist attack. There was just a mass shooting today at a church in Texas, there was a shooting at a Colorado Walmart the other day, there was a terrorist attack in NYC that killed 8 people, and there was the Las Vegas shooting over a month ago that killed 58. What is happening with this world? It seems that over the last 10 years or so we have seen a spike in mass shootings. This is not shocking anymore because it seems to be happening so frequently. I'm sure that there is someone right now planning the next mass shooting. It is only a matter of when and where it will take place. My life isn't all that great. I get depressed, frustrated, annoyed, and anxious at times. That doesn't mean that I want to go out and kill people. If I were to ever kill anyone I would kill myself before I would ever kill another human being. Mental illness is a very serious thing and we need to do more to treat the mentally ill instead of ignoring them. We need to open up mental hospitals and psych wards to keep potentially dangerous people off the streets. We all know that there is going to be more mass shootings somewhere in the near future.

Because people no longer believe pacifism is the way forwards.

Maybe it is not that there are more shootings.

Maybe it is just that the shootings that there are, get more publicity

the united states isn’t the world... anyway, one undeniable trend, is that while women are equally capable of such heinous acts, the vast majority in the states appear perpetrated by men.

speculate it could have to do with some men reaching their wits end that they’ve got to become a genuinely good spirited individual to win and maintain the affection of a modern american woman.

want to move to alaska. seems a beautiful place, and almost never mentioned in news of murder unless a moose kills someone doing something stupid.

we don't have any standard or precedent to compare our behavior to. this is all we will ever know.

I have a feeling if they were going to start pulling "dangerous" people off the street, autistics would be first in the firing line.

I think it's because the world is very overpopulated & people are getting on each other's nerves

Raleigh

Exactly

There is a myth of the autistic shooter

James Holmes, Christopher Harper Mercer, Adam Lanza , and numerous other defendants fit the profile

Autistics often get bullied, lack empathy, have no friends, no job, lazy hygiene, and act in ways that neurotypicals misunderstood

Especially undiagnosed autistics

Autistics tend to be unemployed more often than neurotypicals. Making it harder to afford expensive defense attorneys

Furthermore, I would be paranoid if I got subpoenaed to court, as a suspect. Because the judge and jury might misconstrue weird nonverbal communication, insufficient eye contact, anxiety.

It is simply not possible to correctly predict everyone that is "potentially dangerous" and nobody else

One an autistic rightfully or wrongfully gets sent to jail, maybe the autistic is at more risk of getting physically and sexually assaulted. Autistics have a hard time making friends and etcetera

Things do not look good for autistics

Autistics might not have enough character witnesses in court



Besides some of the symptoms of autism overlap with schizophrenia

This kind of thing is still uncommon in Canada. Countries that have fewer guns have fewer gun-related deaths for some bizarre and inexplicable reason.

And the thing that's wrong with people today, and every day before, is that they're human. It would be great to not have to *be* one.