The article I read was on the possible motives for Adam Lanza, the shooter who killed 26 people, with most of them being children. The main motive that has been discovered is that Adam Lanza's mother wanted to put him in a psychiatric facility. This angered Adam who then killed his mother before going to an elementary school and opening fire on the teachers and students. A trend in mass killings is they are committed by people who are described as crazy, but still are intelligent enough to plan and execute a mass killing.
This was useful to me because it had expert insight on killers and what goes on in their minds. In this case it was a non student who displaced his rage upon the elementary school, not a student who attended the school. This made me think about whether I should focus on school shootings when the shooter is a student or when it is another person such as an adult. I am mostly interested in the mind of the shooters, why did they do this? What did they wish to accomplish by doing this?
This was useful to me because it had expert insight on killers and what goes on in their minds. In this case it was a non student who displaced his rage upon the elementary school, not a student who attended the school. This made me think about whether I should focus on school shootings when the shooter is a student or when it is another person such as an adult. I am mostly interested in the mind of the shooters, why did they do this? What did they wish to accomplish by doing this?
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