But this presupposes that ideology is the most important factor driving someone to embark on an act of political violence. Walker and a colleague looked at media coverage of mass shootings and then comparing that to the occurrence of mass shootings. The more media coverage a mass shooting got, the more it predicted future mass shootings in the near future. Should we tone down our coverage of mass shootings? Maybe we could alter the tone of the coverage of political shootings to make Americans aware that we’re not actually on the verge of a civil war.