Mass murders are a wish to die, not kill

"The act of shooting a large number of people and generally terrorizing everyone is the last great act of revenge and defiance. It's the ultimate power trip, where you hold the decision of life and death over people, and you're choosing death with a big smile on your face. Most of these people are angry at the world over the way they have been treated, or at least the way they perceive they have been treated. This is payback." This supports my claim that the main reason, rather than being suicidal, is the desire to kill. The act itself, being murder, would not have been enacted by a person with a suicidal state alone. This perception of social responsibility for the perpetrators suicidal state Does Not Apply to Every Individual. "The nightmare scenario for this person is to be on TV being led out of a building in handcuffs, powerless and subjugated to the will of The Man. They've felt powerless their entire lives, and they know at some level that capture means many years of being under someone's thumb, never, ever being free. They go into this situation with the full intent of killing themselves to deny the world its opportunity for retribution." This fear of subjugation is only in relation to the murderous plot, in which the desire to kill formulates this plot, where suicide may be resorted from this fear that may not apply to every individual; and there are several incidents where suicide doesn't take place that follows a mass murder. Explain that. Suicide is the endpoint part of the particular murderous plot, rather than serving as the main purpose as to its execution. "Suicides rarely make the news headlines unless they involve someone famous. The suicide of the beloved but troubled comedian Robin Williams, for example, received massive media attention and it shocked the public consciousness." You presume and generalize by adding fame to be contributive to the main purpose of mass murders, when there is no proof of what fueled the perpetrators to cause an act of violence; besides the tacit intent of the desire to harm others. Instead, there is only the objective fact that an act of murder would not be committed without the desire to kill. Your conclusion has no factual basis, and though suicide may be a factor involved in the plot, or though the media broadcasts these events excessively, it in no way concludes that the desire to die, or for fame, surpasses the fact that murder is mainly caused by the intent and desire to kill. "Mass murder is a form of suicide in that the perpetrator of such atrocities is often an enraged and fatalistic individual who intends to die at the scene of the massacre. From this perspective, the increase in mass shootings over the last ten years is very consistent with the increase in suicide. The legendary nineteenth century social scientist Emile Durkheim argued that suicide is a social fact rather than an individual pathology. Using a vast amount of data from official records on suicides in different parts of Europe, Durkheim documented significant variations between countries in their rates of suicide which he found were correlated or linked to environmental conditions. This evidence, Durkheim argued back in 1897, shows that "each society has a definite aptitude for suicide" which is a social fact that is external to the individual members of a given society. Such revolutionary and original thinking in the nineteenth century has given Emile Durkheim widespread recognition as the founding father of sociology. I have spent considerable time analyzing recent suicide patterns in the U.S. I have concluded that, consistent with the work of Emile Durkheim, suicide is a social fact that is, a predictable pattern based on social forces. I contend that there are powerful factors in contemporary society that help to explain the sharply rising suicide rate." You're digressing from the main point and you also used often, rather than stating definitively in your first sentence, to further refute your claim that mass murders are caused by a desire to die. Besides, although there is a definite aptitude for suicide for each society, caused by the environmental conditions, the willingness is dependent on each individual in which a society consists of as the environment for each individual changes. I agree that suicide is caused by environmental factors, and the ideological derivatives, and have already stated this, before you, in argument #1. The main point that you're arguing being "Mass murders are caused by a wish to die rather than kill" is ridiculous. There's no need to define suicide for me. While suicide, the act of suicide, may be involved in an incident or plot of mass murder, it's presumptive to conclude that all mass murders are caused by the desire to die. The act of murder unquestionably is derived from the desire to kill unless accidental. Any theories of yours are irrelevant as this is not only a social fact, but also obvious. By the way, you're refuted by the mere fact that, provided by historical evidence, not all mass murderers commit suicide. Honestly, I'm tired of the close relationship between suicide and murder that our culture has established with no flexibility to individual experiences or circumstances. Please know what the word 'murder' means before you allege false reasoning behind a homicidal incident. I'll leave you with this but consider that your argument is presumptive and wrong: "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness." Your statement, and generalization, of mass murders being caused by a desire to die actually resembles a major problem of misinformation pervading throughout the world today. These citations and verbose elaborations, potentially convincing with the misusage of your knowledge of vocabulary and terminology, contributes to the falsely established information within our culture. To refute your generalization even further, consider any war that has existed throughout our history, and then incorporate your falsely definitive statement of these cases of mass murder being caused by a wish to die instead of the desire to kill for any multitude of reasons behind that desire.