Does anything real happen in your world?
I asked him this precise question earlier, but to everyone's great surprise he seems to have missed that post, so for everyone's , I'll ask again:
OneTime, you say shooting sprees don't happen because "humans don't have a motive for carrying out such acts". Below I've put together a scale of sorts of misdeeds, from the innocouous (spelling?) to the most horrific evils of human history.
Where on this scale do you draw the line?
┌ leaving the toilet seat up
├ trolling message boards
├ stealing roommate's food from refridgerator
├ cheating on an exam
├ lifting candy from a shop every time you go there
├ kicking a cat
├ punching a child
├ cheating on your true love
├ calling in a bomb threat to an elementary school
├ driving drunk
├ bullying a classmate for years
├ savagely beating someone to the point where they require hospitalization
├ subjecting a partner to domestic abuse over a significant time period
├ raping someone
├ shooting and killing an innocent person
├ going on a shooting spree
├ starting a revolution and installing a brutal dictatorship
├ starting a war of imperialism that kills hundreds of thousands
├ taking over a country by force and selling its populace to slavers on different continents
└ attempting genocide (Rwanda, the Holocaust, etc.).
Please tell me where on this scale things start to get too unrealistic for you.
Do bank robberies happen? What about WWII? The European empires? The Holocaust? Mao's Great Leap Forward?
Funny thing is, you seem to have no problem believing in corrupt politicians and businesses and huge conspiracies involving hundreds of thousands to millions of people, but a shooting at a theatre? Nah, too horrible. Only happens in action films.