Deadly Lessons: Shooting Rampage

A crisis of out-of-control gun culture and male rage, heightened by a glorification of hypermasculinity and violence in the media?
The US Secret Service found in their study of school shootings, the vast majority, 80% of these shooters, are suicidal. There have been over a dozen school shootings in American schools and universities within the past three years, resulting in the deaths of more than 50 students and countless injuries.
The lone male "outsider shooter" is a common denominator, as well as most of the victims being females. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (1999 Columbine High School shooting rampage) spent "more and more time with their computers, to the point that they may have been unable to distinguish the boundaries between their virtual lives and their real lives," says Oregon Health & Science University psychiatrist Jerald Block, M.D.
"Then, as they got into trouble with school authorities, limits were put on their use of the computer. This made them react with homicidal rage and suicidal depression."
The motivations for rampage shootings are to attain power or to exact revenge on the community or large groups within the community. Also, there exists a clear and concentrated repeating pattern of Wednesdays and/or Thursdays.
Homicide, as Freud said, is suicide turned outward, and that's exactly the model that is being followed. Suicide is also homicide turned inward.
School shootings tend to be carried by former/current employees or students who feel the need to avenge perceived wrongs and they use the school as a public stage for their rage. Disturbing trends surrounding the shootings are easy access to guns and the increasingly fragile mental health of the shooters.
Most contemporary school shootings tend to occur primarily during two periods of the school year - at the beginning (late Aug through October) and near the the end of the academic year (March-April). While the problem of school-related shootings occurred across history, it was the intense media coverage of the famous incidents, including West Paducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Littleton, that created the public perception of school shootings as an emergent and increasing social problem. Thus, the school shooting problem as broadly recognized had more to do with the media coverage of recent incidents than actual changes in levels of violence in schools.

The latest school shooting in a high school in southern Finland, resulted in the deaths of seven students and the headmistress of a Jokela high school. The shooter shot himself and later died in hospital. The last major attack in Finland occurred in 2002 when a man killed himself and six others in a bomb blast at a shopping mall in Helsinki. In 1989 a 14-year-old pupil shot dead two middle-school children in Rauma, western Finland.
The latest massacre was prefigured by a series of chilling internet postings by Auvinen, including a YouTube video announcing the precise time and venue for the killings.
More recently at Northern Illinois University a shooting took place during which a gunman shot several people on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois; five of his victims were killed, eighteen were wounded.

Charles Carl Roberts IV Amish school shooting
Jeff Weise Red Lake massacre
Charles Whitman University of Texas Massacre
Luke Woodham Pearl High School
Michael Carneal Heath High School Shooting
Seung-Hui Cho Virginia Tech massacre
Laurie Dann Hubbard Woods Elementary School shooting
Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson Jonesboro massacre
Thomas Hamilton Dunblane massacre
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold Columbine massacre
Kip Kinkel Thurston High School shooting
SuccessTech Academy shooting
Steven Kazmierczak Northern Illinois University shooting

Expect more school shootings, unfortunately.

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[pencilwriter]

Really??? You all blame them, guns and metal music? You can do all the finger pointing, but remember, three are pointing back at you! Have any of you know what it's like to be in their shoes? Being bullied because you were different than everyone else? Because you had different interest in mythology, history, or science. Sure let's not blame "Johnny and his friends" why they have important football game. I mean a football scholarship is WAY more important than any thing in world.

[38aliencarvera2868]

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[drkleipzing]

I agree with pencilwriter...stop picking on people and they won't do such things. I know a guy who very nearly was going to do something like this because he was constantly picked on. It shouldnt happen to anyone...so dont bully others and life will go on...

[billywms]

Most victims of school shootings AND all other crimes are MALE--FACT!

[Gmancrap]

Well, I think of it like this. Until they learn we need school shooting to remind them that bullying is not acceptable.

[riflezon]

I agree with pencilwriter, who the fuck are you to call them crazy! how bout i call u a faggot, and throw shit at you and egg your house, and when you try to call for help none will and then when you've put up with t for about 5 years and go and kill them , oh, youre a lunatic and so on. How bout we end bullying, the rest will follow on.

[ThePeteAwesome]

@pencilwriter i know what its like, I didnt nor would i ever go homicidal, but i know how it feels. I've gone past that, if anybody has a problem with me i give them the finger and walk away. Only one year till high school and i know it gets worst. but im okay with that.

[Allrelated]

Well you all need to change your view of life. Life is sacred from the people to animal and trees...it is all life.

make a choice do you want to build and cherish or do you want to destroy? Do you want love or hate, pain or joy? If you teach love and act kind to anyone then you build the world you wish you had....it begins with you or each one of us.

An eye for an eye makes everyone blind..Gandhi

[bklynguy27]

it was better with the "lonely boy" song. This song sucks.

[Killsquad9009]

Dreammask700........ ur fucked up, why kill inocent people because you're bieng bullied or whatever, just go cut yourself

[Dreammask700]

I find these guys inspirational because I'm motivated to do the same....