Respectfully, I did A LOT of reading on the psychological profile of mass
shooters following the shootings at VT.
It is absolutely about power, not revenge. These are people who have been bullied, left out, passed over, and dismissed by whoever it is they wish they fit in with. They have no voice, no control over their own life, and feel like others control them and they have no control over others.
Sure, there may be a few specific individuals that made their lives a living hell and they want to murder. But we are talking about mass shooters, not mass murderers.
If revenge and mass murder were the motivation, they would be surgically removing their tormentors from their life. But the mass shooter is showing up at their place of torment to prove to the world they deserve to be feared. The kill isn't the motivator here, it is the people cowering before them and having complete control of life and death at the tip of their finger.
On the extremely specific topic of school shootings, I still say the students have it in their power to stop them right now. And it isn't by protesting until new gun regulations are passed. All they have to do is stop being so damned mean to each other. If high school weren't a living hell for all the unpopular kids, this wouldn't happen. Ever notice how Johnny Football with the Homecoming Queen on one arm isn't the person who shoots up a school? It is the outcasts, the freaks and weirdos, and the one all the popular kids avoid (and pick on).
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Posted: 02/23/2018 at 12:00AM