Hypothesis
I'll bet a thousand dollars that none of the "ideological" mass shooters are smokers.
In personality as in
weather, smoke and soot
help to control sudden outbursts and panics. This is not mysterious. Cult leaders who WANT to generate sudden outbursts and panics always forbid smoke. Environmental agencies who WANT to generate cloudbursts and droughts always forbid smoke.
Smoke-free zones and gun-free zones are equally destructive.
(For clarity: Affection and respect would be even more effective, but those are totally unavailable to low-status males. Legalizing prostitution would also help, but that will never happen. In a collapsed chaotic savage feral omnicidal anticivilization, tobacco is the most realistic refuge.)
Labels: immodest and imperative proposal