Easy access to powerful weapons make it easy...
Movies and games give it a theme to mimic...
... but,.. it's a mental health problem...
There were mass murders before movies, games. or even guns...
Millions of people watch movies... play video games... and own guns...
It's a mental nut, that puts them together to kill innocent people...
From Wiki...
Quote:Unlike serial killers, there is rarely a sexual motive to individual mass-murderers, with the possible exception of Sylvestre Matuschka, an Austrian man who apparently derived sexual pleasure from blowing up trains with dynamite, ideally with people in them. His lethal sexual fetish claimed 22 lives before he was caught in 1931.
Quote:July 22, 2011, Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, killed 77 people in two separate attacks in Oslo, Norway. The first attack was a car bomb attack on the national government quarters in Oslo, killing 8 people. Behring Breivik then drove some 40 km to the island of Utoya where a political youth camp was in progress. Dressed as a policeman, he gathered the attendants and then opened fire, leading to the massacre of 69 people over the span of roughly 90 minutes.
I'm a gun owner,.. I own more than a couple...
... but, I don't understand the need to own assault weapons like the ar-15 or ak-47... or gas bombs, mortars, bulletproof vests, armored helmets... etc...
These things don't cause killings,.. anymore than a movie or game... but, they do make them more effective...
Just a little common sense legislation.... wouldn't eliminate these things, but would reduce the devastation...
But, mostly,.. better mental health services...
Above all else... no matter what society chooses to restrict or ban,... there will always be mentally disturbed people with such penchants, and they will find a way...