<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taborj</author><text>If you want to make a significant dent in the mass shooting problem (by the way, the FBI&amp;#x27;s crime stats page [0] is illuminating on many subjects, not the least of which is that violent crime rates are way down from earlier in the 2000s [1]), you need to start looking at why someone feels shooting up a bunch of innocent people is a valid response to whatever stressor they&amp;#x27;re feeling.  Maybe there is an income inequality, and that can cause someone to feel angry.  But there&amp;#x27;s a leap that needs to be made from &amp;quot;angry&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;mass murderer&amp;quot;, and it&amp;#x27;d be helpful to understand why that is.  I suspect it&amp;#x27;s mental.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ucr.fbi.gov&amp;#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s.-2018&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ucr.fbi.gov&amp;#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s.-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ucr.fbi.gov&amp;#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s.-2018&amp;#x2F;topic-pages&amp;#x2F;tables&amp;#x2F;table-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ucr.fbi.gov&amp;#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s.-...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>ngngngng</author><text>I was reading the other day that typically mass shootings happen during a recession, and right now is a confusing time because the economy is supposedly doing fantastic, yet we keep having mass shootings.&lt;p&gt;Could this have to do with the mounting inequality? It seems the standard indicators for the health of the economy are breaking because wealth just keeps pooling near the top. So what this study could be saying is, &amp;quot;make changes so that more people get the benefits of the booming economy.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, research suggests</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/08/794568118/raising-the-minimum-wage-by-1-may-prevent-thousands-of-suicides-study-shows</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lsiebert</author><text>The market is great, and a lot of money from the trump tax cuts has been used for buybacks that kept prices rising, but wages have stagnated as expenses such as health care, child care, education, etc have all increased rapidly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ngngngng</author><text>I was reading the other day that typically mass shootings happen during a recession, and right now is a confusing time because the economy is supposedly doing fantastic, yet we keep having mass shootings.&lt;p&gt;Could this have to do with the mounting inequality? It seems the standard indicators for the health of the economy are breaking because wealth just keeps pooling near the top. So what this study could be saying is, &amp;quot;make changes so that more people get the benefits of the booming economy.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, research suggests</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/08/794568118/raising-the-minimum-wage-by-1-may-prevent-thousands-of-suicides-study-shows</url></story>