Quote of the Day
People complain that we shouldn’t need to have armed security everywhere. But we simply need to break the mass shooter fever. Make it undesirable to the nutcases.
If a series of these losers find not infamy, but rather a quick and humiliating end by armed guards or private citizens, they will stop trying and this dark “trend” will end.
Not unlike how serial killing isn’t much of a thing anymore due to improved strategies to counter them.
Kostas Moros @MorosKostas
Posted on X, September 28, 2025
I think there is another component required to “break the mass shooter fever.” If a person intent on committing a mass shooting (or mass murder by any means) is stopped after the first or second victim there isn’t much publicity and almost certainly no national or international reporting of the failed attempt. Hence, the “humiliating end by armed guards or private citizens” does not get the attention required to deter future criminal acts of similar nature.
I’m not sure what the solution to the restricted reporting is. Sure, there is some bias in the reporting. Major media outlets have a strong anti-gun bias and don’t want to “encourage more gun violence” by reporting death or injury by gun in a positive manner.
My guess is that just as big a component is that a story about 10 innocent people being murdered is more of a news event than one innocent murdered and one criminal put down. The first story gets more clicks/attention than the second. And that means more revenue when the first type of story is reported on than when the second type of story is reported on. The successful defensive gun use story has to compete for resources with other stories of wider interest such as “climate crisis”, “orange man bad”, and “defending democracy.”
My best stab at remediating the problem are the following ideas:
- Work at increasing the successful defensive gun use cases so that the total number is decreased. This results in fewer “heroes” for the copycats to emulate.
- Report successful defensive gun use events in social media.
- Encourage media outlets to report on successful defensive gun use. And to use the keywords “mass shooter” appropriately like, “probable mass shooter.” Even if the larger media outlets don’t respond appropriately the placement of the stories on the Internet will show up in search results and enable the copycats to find large numbers of alternate endings for their quests of notoriety.
- Encourage the justice system to treat mass murders in humiliating ways while respecting their rights. I’m thinking of pictures of suspects brought to trial in cuffs, chains, shackled, wearing clothes too big for them, hair messed up, and surrounding by extremely tall, muscular, law officers. This makes the suspect appear small and weak.
Does anyone else have other ideas?
Dean Ing had an interesting notion in his novel “Soft Targets”, about deterring terrorism by mocking the motives and sanity of the perpetrators. In his story it was a concerted effort among media outlets, though — and therein lies the problem for putting this notion into practice.
Easy, and it would cost absolutely nothing! Eliminate ALL the GFDZ’s (Gun Free Death Zones).
EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
Yes, including (and especially) SCHOOLS!
Just the possibility someone could be armed eliminates such places as “soft targets.” Question: with all the firearms around, why are there NEVER mass shootings at shooting ranges, gun shops, police stations, or military armories? Answer: Because of all the firearms around.
There are usually no more than one victim of an ND (negligent discharge) which do occur at ranges and police stations.
If the mass shooters murder to give their oxygen-wasting lives some meaning, instead of merely not mentioning their names in news reports, give them a number. Something like 2025-000001, 2025-000002, etc. Will the murderous nutters want to be a mere number? I don’t think so, and the anonymity would be even greater.
The numbers would also alert the voting public about the number of murders each year.
I’m OK with the perp of an atrocity being given a randomly generated two word code name, adjective and noun, by the FBI, provided those words are unpleasant. A condition of an FCC license, to operate in the public interest, would be to only use the code name for the perp.
Look forward to being known to history as “Oozing Worm” or “Inadequate Sponge” or “Flaccid Plank”, dirtbags.
Suggested reading:
First 30 Seconds: The Active Shooter Problem
https://www.amazon.com/First-30-Seconds-Shooter-Problem-ebook/dp/B0FG1L2VFQ
$4 on Amazon’s kindle
This quote should at least influence one to check out the link,
“Ed Monk is today’s leading expert on thwarting mass murderers. His recommended strategy is by far the most effective, as proven in cases where the defenders did what Monk suggested.” — Massad Ayoob
In a word? Drugs.
90% percent of almost every social problem we have today is related to drug use. From alcohol through SSRI’s to fentanyl.
Both big pharma and cartel actions are driving most all of the “mass shootings” of today.
Black on black shootings? Drug routes, territory, drug money, retaliations.
School shootings? Straight out of big pharma.
Domestic disputes? Alcohol and drugs.
Are drugs the only thing? No.
But removing them and the desire to escape the reality of the world you have to deal with, would drop so called “gun violence” to almost nothing.
And then deport those that show themselves as having a natural tendency toward low impulse control.
Mass shootings would almost disappear.
It wasn’t that many years ago they were almost never heard of. So rare that the NFA was a reaction to an almost singular event.
The Saint Valentine’s day massacre. Which once again was over the drug of choice for it’s day. Alcohol.
We lose a 100,000 people a year to OD alone.
Not counting car accidents.
Mass shooting don’t even come close to the crime drugs have afflicted on our society.
Looking to deter crime? Start with drugs.