Gun violence on television is not a cause yet a catalyst and the difference is important. We are a role modelling species. We learn most effectively via mirror neurones. We evolved to find it easier to repeat what we have seen rather than do things we have not seen yet only thought about. This is how society is moulded, that along with storytelling and linguistics. Thus gun violence on television, violence in the media, matters because it reduces the energy required in our neurology to act in the same way. This is how the brain works and how societies are made. The catalysts need to lower the activation energy required for kind and loving acts, that's function, that's how we make a better human society and begin to save our planet.
As with chemical reactions, a "catalyst" speeds up reactions by lowering the activation energy required. Pornography does this in the brain. Once the ideas are experienced, especially without any possible objections by the one who is the object of the sexual lust, it requires less mental energy to regenerate these ideas and less mental energy to move toward acting them out in society. Thus pornography is a societal problem for everyone, it is a catalyst that speeds up the rate of social harm. This social harm is long lasting and challenging to reverse.
Role modelling is the key way activation energy for behavioural pathways is reduced, similar to a small gulley being dug for water to begin flowing within. This is the pathway of least resistance for the water and so it flows here. Thus in a society that is given violent and unstable role modelling in fiction and in leadership, that has access to the means to create the same violence that has been role modelled, will become progressively unstable. Catalysts for the increase in rate of instability will be that which increases the use of the primitive brain (thus removing the oversight and more highly evolved features of the prefrontal cortex). In short, the activation energy for pathways to violent action is given via role models, the access to the same kind of weaponry is increased, the triggers toward more primitive brain functions is increased, thus society is destabilised. To reverse the process alter the lore, decrease weaponry access, shift brain biochemistry in favour of lower stress to reactivate the prefrontal cortex. Currently, for example, America has increasing role modelling via the media coverage of mass shootings and this lowers the activation energy in stressed individuals to do the same, thus creating "runaway violence escalation." Conversely, in countries with limited firearms and weapons, in times of high social pressure the lack of access acts as a limiting factor.
Given that when a word is said all versions of that word are "pinged" in the brain before the correct one is selected, we must be careful with words that have powerful double definitions. As such, "Getting the shot," as in a vaccine, is almost indistinguishable to the brain as, Getting shot." In violent countries, especially those with high gun crime, this is a very problematic word choice. The word choice itself does not govern behaviour, yet acts a catalyst for certain behavioural responses by triggering different parts of the brain. Thus "shot" and "jab" would be better replaced by "protection" or "medicine."
Our neuro-lingual chaos theory can be summarised thus. To restore order to the world it is essential to stablise lore via the reemergence of love, truth, logic and self control via role modelling. Here the activation energies required to rebuild the prefrontal cortex are lowered and those required for negative acts that boost the primitive centres are raised. Thus the lore of society is similar to an enzyme in biological systems, it is a catalyst for change in either direction. Free will still exists as it did before, the change is that people are boosted in their ability to make good loving choices that enhance positive chaos - in this way we neutralise negative chaos to bring a robust kind of order that is flexible, lasting and enhances human creativity and intelligence. The study of chaos theory and lore offers an exciting future for humanity, one that will eventually lead to a reduced need for law and the kind of rigid approach that ignites negative chaos pathways. People evolved to prefer making choices with a sense of freedom and choosing chiefs they believe in as wise people and this must be respected otherwise the energies will again lead toward negative chaos.
For the restabilisation of society the ideas that are based in love and truth offer a real sense of safety. Be careful with amygdala jacking, use it as salt on a dish as needed. Those in the grip of negative chaos are as worried sheep and often times a careful bark at the right moment can get them "home" safe and sound. Keep in your thoughts the effects of role modelling on lowering activation energies for actions, word connections and the triggering of brain chemistry/subunits (including all their puns and subunit phonetic cousins). This is the unity of all subjects of human study, this area of social evolution requires them all. Practitioners must be well schooled in philosophy too, to be able to see concepts beneath words and endure that the supreme first principle at play is always love.