Doing anything stresses them out. Stress is the best excuse for the common anger that rocks the world. At almost any American intersection, the driver who pulls up to the light in the lane next to you gives you the finger or a hateful glance. The strangest progression, however, is that symptoms of those horrific war diseases are now showing up in everyday American behavior. We are not engaged in a civil war, but we seem to be moving from stress to rage.
Stress is now the accepted explanation for mass shootings.
The shooter du jour may be more extremely disturbed than you or your neighbor, but every time you turn on the news you expect to hear about somebody whose stress level exploded. There is never a reprieve. The difference between the shooter and you is only a matter of degree. You can feel the seeds of violence every day. New Yorkers have been raving about stress for years.