Editing School shooting (section)

===Notoriety===
Shooting massacres in English-speaking countries often occur close together in time.<ref name="YukichTowers2015">{{cite journal|last1=Yukich|first1=Joshua|last2=Towers|first2=Sherry|last3=Gomez-Lievano|first3=Andres|last4=Khan|first4=Maryam|last5=Mubayi|first5=Anuj|last6=Castillo-Chavez|first6=Carlos|title=Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=10|issue=7|year=2015|pages=e0117259|issn=1932-6203|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0117259|pmid=26135941|pmc=4489652|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1017259T|doi-access=free}}</ref> In the summer of 1966, two major stories broke: [[Richard Speck]] murdered eight women on a single night in Chicago, and [[Charles Whitman]] [[University of Texas tower shooting|shot and killed 15 people from a clock tower]] at the [[University of Texas]] in Austin. Neither was seeking fame, but with the new television news climate, they received it anyway.{{Citation needed|reason=How is this known?|date=May 2022}} Seeing this, 18-year-old Robert Benjamin Smith bought a gun, and on November 12, 1966, he [[1966 Rose-Mar College of Beauty shooting|killed four women and a toddler]] inside the Rose-Mar College of Beauty in Mesa, Arizona. "I wanted to get known, just wanted to get myself a name," explained Smith. He had hoped to kill nearly ten times as many people but had arrived at the beauty college campus too early. Upon his arrest, he was without remorse, saying simply, "I wanted people to know who I was."<ref name="The story of the first copycat mass shooter">{{cite web|url=https://timeline.com/first-copycat-mass-shooter-8c0f08080307|title=The story of the first copycat mass shooter|date=November 7, 2016|access-date=November 21, 2018|archive-date=April 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180425050555/https://timeline.com/first-copycat-mass-shooter-8c0f08080307|url-status=dead}}</ref> Towers, et al. (2015), found a small, but significant temporary increase in the probability of a second school shooting within 2 weeks after a known school shooting, which was only slightly smaller than the probability of repeats after mass killings involving firearms. {{Citation needed|reason=Who is Towers, where did they say this?|date=May 2022}}

However, much more work is needed with greater scope on investigations, to understand whether this is a real phenomenon or not. Some attribute this to [[Copycat crime|copycat]] behavior,<ref>Mullen, Paul quoted in Hannon K 1997, "Copycats to Blame for Massacres Says Expert", Courier Mail, March 4, 1997.</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Cantor | last2 = Mullen | last3 = Alpers | year = 2000 | title = Mass homicide: the civil massacre | journal = J Am Acad Psychiatry Law | volume = 28 | issue = 1| pages = 55–63 | pmid = 10774842}}</ref> which can be correlated with the level of media exposure.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Phillips | first1 = D. P. | year = 1980 | title = Airplane accidents, murder, and the mass media: Towards a theory of imitation and suggestion | journal = Social Forces | volume = 58 | issue = 4| pages = 1001–1024 | doi=10.1093/sf/58.4.1001}}</ref><ref>Cialdini, Robert 2001. ''Influence: Science and Practice'' 4th Ed. Allyn and Bacon, pp. 121–130.</ref> In these copycat shootings, oftentimes the perpetrators see a past school shooter as an idol, so they want to carry out an even more destructive, murderous shooting in hopes of gaining recognition or respect.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Robertz|first1=Frank|title=Deadly Dreams: What Motivates School Shootings?|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deadly-dreams/|website=Scientificamerican.com|publisher=Scientific American|date=2007|doi=10.1038/scientificamericanmind0807-52|volume=18|pages=52–59}}</ref> Some mass murderers study media reports of previous killers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.claytoncramer.com/JMME2.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807130151/http://www.claytoncramer.com/JMME2.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 7, 2007|title=Term Paper Proposal|date=1993|publisher=Journal of Mass Media Ethics}}</ref>

Recent premeditative writings were presented according to court documents and showed [[Kamiak High School#Joshua O'Connor|Joshua O'Connor]] wrote that he wanted the "death count to be as high as possible so that the shooting would be infamous". O'Connor was arrested before he was able to carry out his plan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Student Suspected in Washington State School Shooting Plot |date=February 14, 2018 |publisher=Associated Press |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/2018-02-14/everett-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-school-shooting-plan}}</ref> Infamy and notoriety, "a desire to be remembered" has been reported as the leading reason for planned shootings by most perpetrators who were taken alive either pre or post shooting.{{Citation needed|reason=Reported by who?|date=May 2022}}