Response To Elliot Rodger's Attack On Terrorism

A study by the FBI confirmed that most of these shooters don’t just one day “snap”. Elliot Rodger planned out his attack for a whole year before he committed it and he had a 137 page manifesto left behind for the world to see. This behavior isn’t his alone, it’s mirrored in other shooters. Most of these people know they are going to die, and so they plan out every part of it like a presentation. Their main goal isn’t the killings, but the message it sends and the aftermath displayed on TV. It’s calculated to generate fear and gain attention, attention which is then used to look into the individual or the issues that plagued them while they were alive. They have the attention of the nation and we willingly give it to them. Eric Harris knew this
When you take this connection into account our reactions towards school shootings look absolutely ridiculous. If someone stated that ISIS or Al Qaeda did what they did due to video games or heavy metal music they wouldn’t be taken seriously at all. It would be seen as complete nonsense. Now the interesting thing here is that although they seem to exist in totally separate worlds, we respond to these school shootings in the same way we respond to terrorism. We provide the big screen footage, we provide the news coverage and constant attention, we provide as mass showing of caught up in it we all are and how much fear it produces. Terrorism works because it produces a response of fear and panic, warfare through psychological reaction and by reacting we show that we have given away our power. Since school shootings work the same way it should be no surprise then that as the school shooting hysteria continues the number of shootings themselves will continue to rise. Not only are we playing into the hand of school shooters, but we are showing them that we will continuously give them what they