Is it time to reflect on who we are as a society?

A 20-year-old shooter’s records show as a registered Republican, a young middle-class male in suburbia America. What does this say to us about our culture and our society when so many shooters are young men? Just look at all the past shootings, the ages, their education, and their upbringing in our society.

The shooter is from what we call middle-class White America. Good schools, middle-class incomes, 97.10% White, 1.02% African American.  So Why do Young White Men commit so Many Mass Shootings? Is this an identity issue with our culture?

According to FBI arrest data, the peak age for violent crime is 16–24. “This is a period of substantial transition in an individual’s life when they’re less likely to have significant attachments in their life that deter them from criminal violence,” Pete Simi, professor of criminology at the University of Nebraska 

What does this say about our society and how we establish sexual identity roles? What is the emphasis we place on those roles, and how do we attempt to legislate those roles? Ask any teacher what they see in their classrooms with students between 16 -24,

Teachers will tell you there is something to personality and brain development between those ages that we should focus on as a society. Instead, we are creating legislation to define who we are and are not and what we should and should not be. Will that solve the core problem?

Go back to Pete Simi, professor of criminology, and his statement and use the See-Discern-Act method to think this through.

A final note: Many in middle-class America pridefully reference their European heritage. We hear it in political speeches and often see it in legislation. So why not look at Europe? Do we see the same problem to the same extent? Italy has a Gun Culture but No Mass Shootings or “Event Shootings.” Why not?  Lessons learned.