The Mental State Of A Mass Shooter — Who Is Responsible?
Yes mass shootings in the USA are very distressing. Yes, our hearts ache for little defenseless kids and their grieving parents. Yes, most of us would like a solution. No, the government is doing nothing to provide a solution. Even though us voters seem to have little influence on the matter, I am all for gun control. Even though I am not a parent I wonder what goes on in a mass shooter’s head and how he got there. Is their psychology always off the spectrum? Are there emotions built up over time? Have there been any female mass shooters?
While I hate the NRA and think the 50 republican senators holding up the vote on this are hypocrites, I do wonder what it takes for a society to manifest the mentality of a mass shooter quite as often as we are witnessing.
Are they motivated by blood lust and wanting to see others die? By hatred for those who maligned them in some way? By the power of wielding a gun and causing damage? By racial or some other difference based bias? Such things cannot possibly be genetic. So where did the mentality originate? And how did any of that build to enough of a fever pitch in them for them to act on it? Were there no preventative…
