commonality among these shooters but the united states offers so many shootings to study, patterns begin oemerge. the study by a university of alabama researcher, even though the u.s. only accounts for 5% of the world's population we somehow account for 31% of the mass shoot that is take place. the study identifies three major themes. a hunger for attention and glory. the crushing effects of personal disappointment. and access to guns. the study points out an indigenous american condition that it calls exceptionalism, the idea that you can be great and famous here. it talks about the crushing disappointment that can come from that. it points out for instance a study that showed that 81% of high school students believed they were about to have a great paying job by the age of 25. 59% of them felt they were going to have a better life than their parents did. 29% believed they would soon become fame os you. the crushing disappointment of that study is often common to rampage shooters. perhaps in response to that disappointment, the study finds in rampage shooters a twisted hope for fame through kil