Low Mental Health Is One Of The Main Reason For Shootings, Not Any Media

I'm not going to respond to arguments this round but strictly focus on the resolution and what I must do to win. The resolution is this "Low Mental Health Is One Of The Main Reason For Shootings, Not Any Media" The resolution roughly translates to this " Mental health is one of the main reason for shootings, while media plays no roll in shootings at all" By saying not any media my adversary is categorizing mental health as the only reason shootings occur. So to win this I must only show that Media can be an issue in shootings or at least act as a catalyst and invoke the mental health issues my adversary brings up. I'm not going to contest or debate against anything my adversary said. He is debating that mental health is an issue in shootings and I concur and agree. He is not debating the resolution. For him to win he must show that media has no impact at all in shootings, not just that mental health is a major issue. So during the next paragraph or so I'm going to show that media does affect and can be an issue with shootings and then pass it back over to him. All I must do is show that media can cause shootings to negate his "no media" resolution 1) Media can be a reason for shootings This is a simple enough case to make and one that I wont spend a great deal of time on it. Researches have found from what should be common knowledge, that shootings are inspired by events [1]. Take the Charleston Church shooting for example, the killer decided to kill because he was racist. Also not just because he was racist, because of how much *damage* blacks were causing to society. This is obviously not a belief he has seen personally, but one that is burned into his brain at distorted facts presented by the media [2]. Believe it or not the mental health of killers is surprisingly rare, a great deal of shooters suffer from antisocial disorders but as far as being severely mentally ill, it actually does not happen that much [3]. Even in laboratory experiments and studies its found that video games can trigger violent responses in children[4] . Not even that recent studies have shown that when a famous celebrity dies, suicide rates can increase (primarily from people that liked them). That shows there is a *correlation* between the media and how people act that watch it, and also the results of them watching it. When you add some forms of mental illness into the equation, while it may to be prevalent, it is a justification for some mass shootings. You could see the Church shooter was raised racist, that racism grew as he saw news stories and other things on tv, then he finally had enough. The correlation to suicide rates and celebrities death study is enough to win the debate alone, because it shows a positive correlation to media and how people interact when they see it. If someone is willing to commit suicide themselves because of media, it's not far fetched to think or assume that shooters use the same negative pattern to commit shootings. Take another example, the chapel hill shooting. The shooter literally posted this "on Facebook he posted comments and images that condemned all religions, religious belief, and religious violence, and his profile read "Atheists for Equality"] He was critical of Christian opponents of the Park51 project, stating: "Seems an overwhelming majority of Christians in this country feel that the Muslims are using the Ground Zero mosque plans to 'mark their conquest " [6] Again which is a negative image the media gave religion and Muslims. While mental illness could be a primary cause which i don't buy due to multiple studies those suffering from it also use the media as a catalyst in order to invoke anger and hate. Many shooters as i've shown, and many more will watch the media, gain an intolerance for the negative stories, and then turn that into anger and killing. It's happened over and over again While it may not be the main cause, it's without a doubt a factor in shootings. Thus negating the resolution. [1] http://www.newsweek.com... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org... [3] 3. McGee & DeBernardo (1999) The classroom avenger. The Forensic Examiner 8, 1-16. [4] Anderson & Dill (2000) Video games and aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behavior in the laboratory and in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 78, 772-790. [5] Stack (2003) Media coverage as a risk factor in suicide. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 57, 238-240. - [6] https://en.wikipedia.org...