A 16-year-old boy walked into his school in Moscow with a rifle and started shooting. He only had a small-caliber weapon so the number of people he killed is limited to 2. The description of the killer and his history of behavior reads like a translation from an article about the Columbine.
People who keep repeating that kids shooting up schools is a uniquely American phenomenon are idiots. This is something likely to happen anywhere where there are kids with an easy access to guns. The stronger is the tradition of socially approved child abuse in a country, the more likely it is to happen.
What is really funny in this tragic story is that now crowds of people in Russia are vociferating that they need to get armed ASAP to protect themselves from killers.
Sometimes there are cultural differences, but then sometimes there aren’t.
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I do understand that shooting tragedies can and do happen everywhere and that’s it’s not uniquely American. Stil, they happen in the US with far greater frequency than in other countries. The statistics are really depressing. It’s something like 95% of the “lone gunmen” style shooting happened in the United States. I’m not sure why it is. Perhaps it is, as you seem to suggest, related to our high child abuse statistics. But whatever it is, the problem seems particularly acute in the US.
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We need to remember that countries like Russia will never contribute fully and transparently to any international statistics. I have a strong feeling they have a huge number of lone gunman shootings that are not classified as such.
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Angry, disconnected human beings. Is the lone gunman really that much different than the person who straps bombs to themselves and walks into a train station?
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The use of every weapon betrays a completely different pathology. A person who strangles is very different from the one who poisons or the one who shoots. Quantico has been studying these differences for decades.
But they do have in common the fact of having a deep pathology, so in this philosophical sense, you are right.
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I tried to google “Quantico”. Is there a good article explaining the differences? Interesting topic.
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I’ve been trying to remember the title of the book where I read about this but I’m blanking right now. I will try to remember, Ok?
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They are in essence the same. Deep hurt and futility are the hallmarks of these individuals. Most shooters end up shooting themselves and the bombers, well, that is pretty obvious. They are not trying to make their own life better, they are just trying to ensure others are worse.
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I don’t think generalizations are useful. Religious terrorists feel that they are a crucial part of a community and are filled with joyous expectation of a future reward from God.
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