Summary Of Malcolm Gladwell's Thresholds Of Violence

Malcolm Gladwell wrote Thresholds of Violence in his article the school shooters are mental illness, anxiety, depression, evil psychos, and unstable. Most of the schooled shooter wanted revenge when they kill people in their school. The police call school shooters ‘Really Mentally Ill.’ Gladwell said the school shooters are actors who laid out their script for riot shootings in their schools. Most school shooters are schizophrenia or the psychopath is who suffer from the mental disorder or bipolar disorder. The psychologists are saying that most of the mental disorder is an autism-spectrum disorder known as Asperger syndrome. The Asperger syndrome is where a person who has hard times communicates with other people and people called them the

anti-social, loner and harass by their classmates. In Combine High School massacre was on April 20, 1999. The school shooters had killed at least twelve students, a teacher and injured twenty-three other people. The two students named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting spree at Combine High School campus. The boys reason with shooting at their school because they wanted to have fame and be famous.

It was on television every night, newspapers, and on the Internet. Everyone remembered the Combine High School massacre because they heard the tragedy and saw the news students that got killed by the shooters. People are talking about the Combine High School massacre event with each other. Harris wanted to leave his last impression of the world of his revolution or rebellion in his school. The problem was Harris was a straight A student. The first influence of the media is why more shooting in schools in the US is because of the copycat shooters see in the newspaper, televisions, and the Internet. The second influences are the violence in the video games, violence in movies or television. Harris said that it isn’t the gun, but it is about the television, fame and their revolution almost like the terrorist attack that wants to let people be afraid of them. The terrorists had to use violence and media coverage to advertise the political or religious believe. The school shooters also use violence and media coverage to advertise their resentment and worship from other people to follow their footsteps. Gladwell said that the Sociologist named Mark

Granovetter. Granovetter hypothesis had said for the “threshold level” the meaning was it starts with one riot copycat school shootings riots then another until it is increased from other school shootings that are following their footstep in other states. The threshold is to figure out who wanted to get out of their situation. The Granovetter’s model is that the school shooting was widespread use of slow motion with more riots to do the same thing by other schools shooting massacre because of the television and the media coverage’s on the news. The copycats have a sign of mental symptoms and traumatic in their experience. Gladwell is saying that the copycat school shootings are an infectious disease to spread worldwide in the U.S. The school shootings now are important and aware of because of the media coverage’s. The police officers are now shut down the schools and schools have drills and prepare for the school shooters. There are more restrictions on school; people pay attention most school shooters and their mental health issues and trying to prevent more school shooters happen again at other schools. On the school shooter is John LaDue who was seventeen years old. LaDue told Schroeder, his entire plan according to killed his family and other students at his school because of his own amusement and want to have the power over them.