People who commit mass shootings tend to suffer from rampant depression, social isolation and pathological narcissism according to a paper presented at the American Psychological Association’s annual convention that calls on the media to deny such shooters the fame they seek.
Jennifer Johnston and her coauthor, Andrew Joy of Western New Mexico University concluded mass shootings have risen in relation to the news coverage and the proliferation of social media sites that tend to glorify the shooters and downplay the victims.
She claims if the mass media and social media enthusiasts no longer share, reproduce or retweet the names, faces, detailed histories or long-winded statements of killers, there could be a dramatic reduction in mass shootings in one to two years time.
