What causes someone to be a mass shooter? It's a question Pastor Jeff Laster has wrestled with ever since a gunman walked into his Fort Worth church 23 years ago and shot him.
What causes someone to be a mass shooter?
Laster said nearly every time there's another mass shooting, he finds himself thinking about what led these gunmen to act. "While I will always advocate for increase funding for mental illness, the contribution of people with psychiatric illnesses or psychotic illnesses to mass shootings is very small," said Ragy Girgis, MD, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University.
The path to violence, according to The Violence Project, often begins with early childhood trauma. At a young age, 42% of all mass shooters experienced physical abuse, sexual abuse, parental suicide, or were a victim of severe bullying. If unaddressed, Densley said later in life this trauma can feed a perpetrator's rage.
The final stage on the pathway of violence is access to a firearm. According to the National Institute of Justice, 77% of mass shooters got their guns through a legal purchase, often gaining access close to the time of the shooting."We all play that role in mentoring the young men in our lives to try and prevent this from ever happing again," he said.
"There has to be a point of forgiveness," Laster said."For a personal standpoint, I don't want to harbor that anger and bitterness of something that happened to me for the rest of my life." Laster dijo que casi cada vez que hay otro tiroteo masivo, se encuentra pensando en qué llevó a estos hombres armados a actuar.
"Si bien siempre abogaré por aumentar los fondos para enfermedades mentales, la contribución de las personas con enfermedades psiquiátricas o psicóticas a los tiroteos masivos es muy pequeña", dijo Ragy Girgis, MD, profesor de psiquiatría clínica en la Universidad de Columbia. El camino hacia la violencia, según The Violence Project, a menudo comienza con un trauma en la primera infancia. A una edad temprana, el 42% de todos los tiradores masivos experimentaron abuso físico, abuso sexual, suicidio de los padres o fueron víctimas de acoso severo. Si no se aborda, dijo Densley más adelante en la vida, este trauma puede alimentar la ira del perpetrador.
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