@JLeslie I see no facts to support that “fear” of any kind incites mass killings. The only commonality is that they are all men and usually mad.
The articles I’m posting include some interesting insights. Or we can lock all the crazy men up haha!
“But my experience suggests that the outsize attention paid to the shooter’s particular beliefs obscures the real connections between mass shooters. What binds them together and elevates their likelihood of killing in this particular fashion is a history of antisocial, sometimes violent conduct, not any particular belief set…...before shooters actually kill, they usually assault, abuse or threaten people close to them, such as spouses or co-workers. They are often profoundly alienated from society…..Despite the fact that mass shooters often fit a clear profile, our background-check system is ill-equipped to stop people like this from buying guns.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/14/what-do-most-mass-shooters-have-in-common-hint-it-isnt-politics-video-games-or-religion/?utm_term=.a891e02599dc
Though the federal background check system’s (NICS) second largest body of records on people barred from buying guns is comprised of the mentally ill, none of this summer’s headline-making shooters met its standards for being judged mentally unfit for gun ownership — not even Houser, despite being well known to various local jurisdictions for his unsettling behavior. That’s not because they weren’t dangerous, as is now brutally clear. It’s because no judge or legal body adjudicated any of them mentally ill, the only way NICS blocks a potential purchaser on psychiatric grounds. To include people like Flanagan, Houser, Abdulazeez, or Roof in the database would require a substantial expansion of the criteria for qualifying as mentally unfit.
https://www.thetrace.org/2015/09/gop-mental-health-republican-trump/
Dr. Michael Stone, a New York forensic psychiatrist, found that about half of the 200 mass murderers he had studied had no clear evidence of mental illness before the attacks. About a quarter displayed signs of depression and psychopathy.
“What’s become clear over the past 30 years of research is that there’s virtually always a personal grievance that will start a person on a pathway to mass murder,” Dr. J. Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist who consults on threat assessment for universities and corporations, said in 2015.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/us/mass-murderers.html
*As a final comment, as a white christian, I’m not afraid of any secularism, other races, taking guns away or anything else. I think rather than being motivated by fear, the statistics show that it’s people who get angry and don’t find productive ways to try change things, which could be applied to many mindsets, many political.