Are the school shootings in USA a result of the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1971??, page-5

Here is another two articles I think are interesting in the sense some information can be extracted from the data.

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/public-mass-shootings-database-amasses-details-half-century-us-mass-shootings

Trends that I thought was notable in the article they mention.

A Troubling Upward Trend

The research examined an era of marked increase in the number and deadly effect of mass shootings in the United States. To summarize that trend:

• The project spanned mass shootings over more than 50 years, yet 20% of the 167 mass shootings in that period occurred in the last five years of the study period.
• More than half occurred after 2000, of which 33% occurred after 2010.
• The years with the highest number of mass shootings were 2018, with nine, and 1999 and 2017, each with seven.
• Sixteen of the 20 deadliest mass shootings in modern history (i.e., from 1966 through 2019), occurred between 1999 and 2019, and eight of those sixteen occurred between 2014 and 2019.
• The death toll has risen sharply, particularly in the last decade. In the 1970s, mass shootings claimed an average of eight lives per year. From 2010 to 2019, the end of the study period, the average was up to 51 deaths per year.

The data indicate, however, that nearly all persons who engage in mass shootings were in state of crisis in the days or weeks preceding the shooting.

Motivation Over Time

Since the 1970s, the only statistically significant change in motivations for mass shootings is the decrease in shootings motivated by employment issues.

This last point is relevant in a financialised world where are job is less relevant in a low interest rate environment. The value of work has been lowered due to lower interest rates thus people living in cars despite work in USA. Certainly mass shootings over work are less relevant when bigger social issues are at hand like asset inflation affecting the cost of living

It would be interesting to marry mass shootings with actual( not published)inflation data over the years

and this one

https://theconversation.com/typical-mass-shooters-are-in-their-20s-and-30s-suspects-in-californias-latest-killings-are-far-from-that-average-198486

I thought these parts of the article was interesting amongst others

Prior to the January 2023 Californian shootings, mass shooters were also getting younger overall. From 1980 to 1989, the median age of mass shooters was 39. Over the next two decades, it was 33. And from 2010 to 2019, it was 29.

Since 2020, the median age of mass shooters has come down to just 22 years old — mostly young men and boys who were born into or came of age in an increasingly divided America and carried out their attacks amid the disruption of a global pandemic.





Our research shows that mass shootings – defined here as events in which four or more people are killed in a public place with no underlying criminal activity – have become more frequent, and deadly, over time.

To me this suggests something deeper and the element of situational distress then and before has been understated and is getting worse. Has the end of Bretton Woods indirectly caused this by creating such extremes these days with less checks and balances??