A new shooting at Lone Star College in Houston, Texas today is just another in an epidemic of shootings in the nation's campuses. Ironically, Lone Star College is allegedly a "gun-free" campus.
I don't have any scientific proof, but it seems that many of these shootings could be from the over-saturation of news coverage by the mainstream media who are allied with liberals who want to disarm Americans. I wonder if these killers are acting as "copycats" by all the media coverage.
Over twenty years ago, the targets in mass shootings were co-workers and supervisors at U.S. postal facilities (and other workplaces) by irate workers who felt wronged. This is where the term "going postal" came from.
According to Wikipedia:
Going postal, in American English slang, means becoming extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence, and usually in a post office or other workplace environment.
The expression derives from a series of incidents from 1983 onward in which United States Postal Service (USPS) workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public in acts of mass murder. Between 1986 and 1997, more than forty people were gunned down by spree killers in at least twenty incidents of workplace rage.
I've known a number of evil supervisors who, by their underhanded actions, would be prime targets by employees they've screwed over. I remember an instance where one supervisor (at Allianz Insurance Company) was such an asshole that I overheard someone say (referencing the then-recent May 6, 1993 Dearborn, Michigan post office homicides that occurred only hours apart), "Mark had better watch out!" Karma got him anyway: he succumbed to thyroid cancer a few years later.
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