Mass Shootings and the News Media: Catching Up to the Science of PACEs

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From ACEs Too High: “How do we, as a country, learn about mass shootings and gun violence? The news media. How do we learn about the best approaches to prevent mass shootings and gun violence? The answer should be ‘the news media,’ but itā€™s not. Yet.

People who know about the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs) understand that PACEs are at the root of violence. The news media is getting there. In the last couple of years of mass shootings, more articles examined the childhood of the shooter, but more could be done, as I pointed out in essays I wrote after theĀ Buffalo, New York, andĀ Uvalde, Texas, shootings.

. . . My take on examining shooterā€™s families: I think itā€™s great to report what happened in a shooterā€™s familyā€¦as long as a reporter takes a trauma-informed approach. That means reporting without using words of blame, shame or punishmentā€¦so a headline that says ‘Are the parents to blame?’ would change to ‘What happened in that family?’

Parents pass on ACEs [adverse childhood experiences]ā€”and positive childhood experiences (PCEs), for that matterā€”to their children. So, if they arenā€™t cognizant of their own ACEs, how can they possibly understand their childā€™s ACEs? And where did parents get their ACEs and PCEs? From theirĀ parents and environment. How to break the cycle? Educate families, organizations and communities about PACEs science, and integrate practices and policies based on PACEs science in all organizations in every community.

. . . Over [the] last 25 years, the main development that has changed our understanding of violenceā€”and one that is actually leading to remarkable solutionsā€”is the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, which was published in 1998 and opened the door to our understanding of why humans do what they do. Since then, weā€™ve learned that the roots of violence and being a victim of violence are the same roots that lead to chronic disease, mental illness, and economic problems; they lie in the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences. This knowledge has provided a new mindset on how to change human behaviorā€”criminal, unhealthy or unwanted behavior. This mindset changes a traditional approach of using practices and policies based on blame, shame and punishment to an approach that uses practices and policies grounded in understanding, nurturing and healing.”

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  1. This does not explain the children being taught by a regime like Pol Pot to turn against their ordinary simple rural earthy families.

    This does not explain why the children who became Hitler youth were taught to turn against their families if those were against that regime.

    This does not explain the escalation in boy soldiers being taught to turn against their pastoral farming families.

    Hatred of the family was stoked up almost as a religious fervour, cults can do it to foster the leftovers from the havoc that such undermining of natural authority, the mother and father, does with impunity.

    There is an interesting account of a man who communicated on Earth with visiting humanoid aliens. The aliens may have been us in the future. One of the most relevant themes was how those future parents would destroy ANY person who came near their children. If they were parents from the future, I bet I know the answer why……..

    In my own life I have seen the mass media groom all children to find mass shootings a cartoon pleasure. Toddlers are like little sponges. They absord all sorts of nightmares from the television, I pad, phones. Those are the new hard plastic zoom lens parents. Those gadgets of propaganda.

    THE MERCURY IS RISING !!!!!!

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