A few random shootings can terrorize an entire community
Evidence
Crimes victimize people in three major ways. The crime itself victimizes them. It also impairs the quality of life in the community at large. A few random shootings can strike fear in an entire community. Fear for their own safety permeates people’s lives. Many people are arming themselves. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1149
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Mass shootings produce only brief, recurring bursts of support for gun reform (similarity 0.85)
- Three features make rare violent crimes generate disproportionate public fear (similarity 0.84)
- A few violent incidents spread widespread fear through unpredictability, severity, and uncontrollability (similarity 0.84)
- Mass shooting support for gun control spikes briefly then decays until the next massacre (similarity 0.83)
- Randomized attacks double as surveillance instruments on crowds (similarity 0.80)
- Unpredictability, scale, and uncontrollability make rare attacks terrorize whole publics (similarity 0.80)
- Terrorism incites outsized public fear through unpredictability, lethality, and uncontrollability (similarity 0.79)
- Murder’s social costs reach far beyond the immediate victim (similarity 0.79)
- Mass shootings activate a system-level moral disengagement collision over gun rights (similarity 0.79)
- Criminalized communities, not individual acts, determine who ends up imprisoned (similarity 0.79)
- Risky products like guns create public fear and harm not caused by fashion. (similarity 0.79)
- Mismanaged anger plus gun access, not death penalty threat, drives most homicides (similarity 0.79)
- Rare events like mass shootings resist prediction because their causes interact uniquely (similarity 0.79)