What Is Malcolm Gladwell's Threshold Of Violence?

Throughout the years, school shooters have been categorized into a stereotype. Additional incidents have rather proven that any person occupying a seat in a classroom could one day carry out a plot to devastate a society according to the student’s “threshold”. However, that argument made by Malcolm Gladwell is his recent article, “Thresholds of Violence” is absolutely absurd. That is equivalent in saying that under certain circumstances, every student will eventually shoot up the school they attend if these tragedies occur more often because they will inevitably fall into the “riot” that is occurring. Not all people are ticking time bombs! Regardless of background, most people act humanely and deal with personal issues reasonably, without feeling the need to take out their endeavors on innocent students. Although, violent acts on schools are more common, it still takes a certain, twisted mind to think of terrorising a school with or without a high “threshold.” …show more content…
That has nothing to do with what causes a school shooting. After reading this excerpt, that came off as a huge “what if.” The way Gladwell perceives Granovetter’s riot to the phenomena of school shootings is mindboggling. In his writings, Granovetter himself was using his theory which can not be proven to explain what time people leave a party. That model could not demonstrate how all the different personalities of school shooters all fall into a certain group while also being used to reveal the time a social gathering ends. The connections made by Granovetter in his threshold hypothesis are not fitting with explaining what perpetrates a school