THE ANATOMY
of a
MASS MURDER
From left to right
(1) James E. Holmes
Appearing in Arapahoe County District Court on Monday, July 23, in Centennial, Colorado. Holmes is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, and could also face additional counts of aggravated assault and weapons violations stemming from the mass shooting in a movie theater in Aurora that killed 12 and injured dozens of others.
( RJ Sangosti/Denver Post)
(1) James E. Holmes
Appearing in Arapahoe County District Court on Monday, July 23, in Centennial, Colorado. Holmes is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, and could also face additional counts of aggravated assault and weapons violations stemming from the mass shooting in a movie theater in Aurora that killed 12 and injured dozens of others.
( RJ Sangosti/Denver Post)
(2)
Adam Lanza
The Sandy Hook Elementary
School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut when 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot
20 children and 6 adult staff members. Prior to driving to the school, Lanza shot and
killed his mother at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived at the scene, Lanza
committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. (wikipedia.com)
(3) Elliot Rodgers
A killing spree occurred on May 23, 2014, in Isla Vista, California, near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. Seven people died, including the perpetrator, Elliot Rodger, 22. Thirteen people sustained non-fatal wounds and injuries. The spree began when Rodger stabbed to death three men in his apartment. Leaving the scene in his car, he drove to a sorority house, where he shot four people outside, fatally wounding two female students. He drove to a nearby delicatessen and shot to death a male student who was inside. He then sped through Isla Vista shooting at bystanders and struck four people with his car. Rodger exchanged gunfire with police twice during the killing spree The rampage ended when his car crashed into a parked vehicle and came to a stop. Police found him dead in the car, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. (wikipedia.com)
A killing spree occurred on May 23, 2014, in Isla Vista, California, near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. Seven people died, including the perpetrator, Elliot Rodger, 22. Thirteen people sustained non-fatal wounds and injuries. The spree began when Rodger stabbed to death three men in his apartment. Leaving the scene in his car, he drove to a sorority house, where he shot four people outside, fatally wounding two female students. He drove to a nearby delicatessen and shot to death a male student who was inside. He then sped through Isla Vista shooting at bystanders and struck four people with his car. Rodger exchanged gunfire with police twice during the killing spree The rampage ended when his car crashed into a parked vehicle and came to a stop. Police found him dead in the car, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. (wikipedia.com)
* Special thanks to "Google Images", "wikipedia.com", Psychology Today",
BLOG POST
by
Felicity Blaze Noodleman
Los
Angeles, CA
6.13.14
Each of the three young men in the
photos above seem and look normal enough but they are monsters who will go down
in history with other famous mass murders: a long list of others who have
made a killing spree their last act as free men and in some cases the last of
their lives. All three of these young men had a disconnect with reality
and were acting as some sort of lone vigilantes who were acting as Judge, Jury
and Executioner. Holmes was under treatment for mental problems, Rodgers
had been interviewed by law enforcement officials for postings on
"YouTube" and Lanza What could have triggered these radical actions
from the three young rampage shooters? Could the tragedy's have been
stopped?
People
gather outside the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, at the scene
of the mass shooting. (Karl Gehring/Associated Press)
After news of the shooting in Santa
Barbara, CA by Elliot Rodgers we again saw another tragic and spine chilling
example of an insane mass murder by a highly unstable youth in the United States.
We began to wonder if there might be some clue to help us in identifying such
shooters in the future and possibly putting an end to this sort of
heartbreaking incident in the future. We've selected two similar cases
from the recent past and feel there are some actions to be taken by Government
which could keep us all much safer in the future!
First; we should define these three cases and begin to look at the similarities from each one and then taylor a course of action in preventing another violent disaster from ever happening again. To begin we should look at the statistics for shootings in the United States and establish what a problem gun violence is these days. The CDC (Center for Disease Control) is the most reliable agency for tracking such statistics. Their "National Vital Statistics Report", which is compiled from Hospital Emergency Rooms from across the nations the most accurate method for obtaining such information. This data has been reported from several sources such as "PolitiFact.com" sponsored by the "Tampa Bay Times" and oddly enough by "facebook" .
The CDC data for deaths by guns is included in an annual
report about deaths of all types in their annual report during calendar year 2009. The
numbers for gun deaths is broken down into several categories: Suicide - 18,735 deaths, Homicide - 11,593 deaths, Legal Intervention 333 deaths, Undetermined and Unintentional deaths 786. This report may be found at the following sites:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/facebook-posts/
To begin our study we would like to post an article from "Psychology Today" which addresses the shootings of Elliot Rodgers.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/facebook-posts/
To begin our study we would like to post an article from "Psychology Today" which addresses the shootings of Elliot Rodgers.
"Psychology Today"
Evil Deeds
A forensic psychologist on anger, madness and destructive
behavior.
by Stephen Diamond , Ph.D.
Sex, Madness and Mass Murder in Southern California
Did sexual frustration lead to the Santa Barbara killing
spree?
Published on May 26, 2014 by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D. in Evil Deeds
Published on May 26, 2014 by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D. in Evil Deeds
The alleged perpetrator of Friday evenings vicious shooting
spree in upscale Isla Vista, close to the beautiful campus of UC Santa Barbara,
has been officially identified as Elliot Rodger, a 22-year-old Eurasian male,
now deceased. According to police reports, Rodger murdered six victims, mostly
UCSB students, stabbing three male roommates to death before shooting and
killing three others, wielding his black BMW as a deadly weapon against
pedestrians and bicyclists, twice exchanging gunfire with deputies, and finally
shooting himself in the head when cornered. Some thirteen additional victims
were reportedly wounded or injured in the rampage. The massacre was apparently
planned on for more than a year. According to his own "manifesto,"
Friday was Rodger's long-anticipated "Day of Retribution," his
"attempt to do everything in my power, to destroy everything I cannot
have."
Like so many other mass murderers, it seems Rodger sought
retribution and revenge for what he
perceived as personal slights, injustice, and life's unfairness. He was
apparently motivated mainly by frustration, anger, rage, resentment,
hatred and the furious desire to get even. To dish out to others the suffering
he had endured since puberty. For Rodger, a
primary source of this suffering was frustration regarding his failure with
women. He claimed to have never had a girlfriend, had never kissed a woman nor
even held hands, despite his perception of himself as a sophisticated, polite
and worldly "gentleman" when compared to the kinds of crass young
American men the blonde, California girls he desperately craved, typically
cavorted with. Rodger had money, class, style and reasonably good looks. So
what was wrong with this picture?
In this respect, some of Rodger's motivations appear to closely
resemble those of at least one previous shooter, 48-year-old George Sodini.
Several years ago, Sodini strolled into an all female aerobics class at LA
Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA, shot three young women to death, wounded nine, and
then committed suicide. (See my prior post.)
Sodini was a deeply frustrated, bitter man, who hated women. Ultimately, his anger,
resentment and rage finally exploded into the premeditated madness of
violence. What was Sodini so angry about? It appears, based on his own
self-published blog entries beginning nine months prior to the shootings, that,
like Rodger, Sodini was frustrated about his sexual difficulties with women. He
complained of an inability to find a girlfriend since he was twenty-three, not
having sex for almost two decades and failure to
find a date during the past twelve months prior to his misogynistic rampage.
Elliot Rodger, in his own autobiographical
"manifesto," reports similar frustration with the opposite sex. He apparently believed that females
viewed him as being inferior to other men, and felt undesirable to women. Yet,
like Sodini, he couldn't figure out why. Rodger came from a wealthy family,
drove a high-status car, wore expensive clothes, and, like Sodini, tried hard
to make himself attractive to the opposite sex. Though it is not at all clear
how much effort Rodger made to actually date women and establish some intimate
relationship with one, he deeply resented women who he felt rejected him and
whom he believed he could never have sexually.
And he equally resented men, his peers and sexual
competitors, who could and did have these women, exclaiming, "I will kill
them all and make them suffer, just as they have made me suffer. . . . It is
only fair." After brutally slaughtering his Asian male roommates, Rodger
proceeded, as planned, armed to the teeth with handguns and over 400 rounds of
ammo, to a nearby "hot" UCSB sorority house, specifically targeting
women, killing two and wounding several others. As Rodger himself states in his
"manifesto," his motivation to kill
attractive young women was, as in so many erotically-driven murders, the classic
"If I can't have them, nobody will."
Of course, it is easy to come to the simplistic conclusion
that in these two cases, and so many others, chronic sexual frustration caused
or at least contributed to these violent outbursts or rage. Certainly, sex is a
primal human need and motivation, and its chronic frustration can be painful
and infuriating, especially for males. (See my prior post.)
But there are many other basic human needs that, when frustrated, can also lead
to anger, rage and, in some cases, violent behavior. Sexuality is but one of
several basic human needs which, when denied or chronically frustrated, evokes
anger, rage, hostility and, all-too-often today, murderous violence. There is,
for example, the need for relationship, for human contact, and for love. When
human beings are deprived of love or companionship, be it in childhood, adolescence or
adulthood, there is a natural reaction of anger, which, if never acknowledged
and addressed, can ultimately be expressed in oppositional, destructive or
violent behavior, a negative way of relating to others.
Existential loneliness can lead to
violence against self and/or others when chronic and unremitting, and Rodger
described himself as an excruciatingly lonely individual. (See my prior post on
loneliness.) There is the need for feeling significant, important, to
be recognized by parents, teachers, peers
and by society. The chronic frustration of this existential need can result in
what I have called a "wicked rage for recognition." (See my prior post.)
This neurotic craving for attention, celebrity or fame takes the form of
negative, self-defeating, oppositional and frequently destructive or even
violent acts. There is also the primal need for power and self-assertion to
consider. Powerlessness is related to feelings of helplessness, hopelessness,
impotence and victimization, and violence in many cases is engaged in to feel
more powerful, something directly alluded to in the Rodger
"manifesto." In such cases, the disempowered victim turns the tables
and furiously becomes the powerful victimizer. And, finally, there is, as
existential analyst Viktor Frankl proposed, the innate need for meaning and
purpose in life.
When this existential "will to meaning" is
severely frustrated over time, anger, rage and violence can ensue.
In point of fact, frustrated sexual longings were apparently
not the sole motivation for Elliot Rodger's atrocious assault. He also cites in
his "manifesto," sent to his parents, therapists and others just
before the massacre, having been "devastated" by his parents' divorce when he was seven,
missing and possibly feeling abandoned or rejected by his birth mother,
resenting and intensely disliking his step-mother, and the considerable
difficulties he experienced navigating the painful passage from childhood to
adolescence, especially around the issue of sexuality. Indeed, he seems to have
preferred the protected innocence of childhood, and felt traumatized by the
typically turbulent transition into adulthood. It could be speculated that he
was having trouble becoming a grown man in general. Rodger was no "alpha
male," and he knew it; but his final act was designed to show women and
the world that he could be one, in the most negative possible way.
In these and certain other regards, Elliot Rodger seems also
to have suffered from issues similar to and in some ways reminiscent of Adam
Lanza (see my prior post).
In either case, and in so many others, we must ask ourselves: What motivates an
apparently highly intelligent but troubled, socially withdrawn, inhibited, introverted (see my prior
post on mass shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Seung-Hui
Cho, Anders Breivik, Jared Lee
Loughner and James Holmes here)
young man to turn against the world so violently? (See also my post on previous
California shootings here.)
What, for example, led Adam Lanza in Newtown, Connecticut, also from an
affluent family, to brutally slaughter 20 school children and 7 adults at Sandy
Hook Elementary School in 2012, including his own mother? And then to kill
himself? (See my prior
posts on school shootings.)
This is a vitally important question. Because we are in the
rapidly accelerating throes of a pernicious epidemic of pathological anger,
rage and embitterment, both here in this country and elsewhere. In just the
past two months, there have been numerous acts and nearly averted incidents of
mass killing (on astounding average, about one per week), including the (second)
mass shooting at Fort Hood (see my prior post
re: the first incident). According to still unconfirmed media reports, Adam
Lanza was, leading up to his evil deeds, exhibiting
behavioral symptoms severe enough for his mother to seek psychiatric treatment for
him, possibly even some kind of involuntary institutionalization or
conservatorship. And he was supposedly angry with her about this. Very angry.
Apparently, his mom had volunteered at the Sandy Hook school in the past,
making Adam feel resentful and jealous. (Interestingly,
Rodger too describes himself in his "manifesto" as being an extremely
"jealous" person.) While this may have precipitated what tragically
happened, I suspect Lanza, like Rodger, had been a frustrated, lonely and angry
young man for some time, perhaps partly due to his parents divorce in 2009. Like
Rodger, Lanza was likely bullied at school, and socially inept. He was
reportedly prone to temper tantrums, and may have been engaging in self-mutilation, such as
burning his skin with a cigarette lighter just prior to his horrific homicidal
outburst.
This raises the issue of Asperger's syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder),
which, by definition, is a "qualitative impairment in social
interaction," including " failure to develop peer relationships
appropriate to developmental level" and " lack of social or emotional
reciprocity."
This diagnosis, like ADHD, is overused today,
and believed to be neurobiologically based. But it was originally meant to be
more of a behavioral description than explanation of moderate to severe social
dysfunction, and should be distinguished from Reactive Attachment Disorder, which
consists of "markedly disturbed and developmentally inappropriate social
relatedness in most contexts." Like Lanza, Rodger, the son of a successful
Hollywood director, though relatively high-functioning, had reportedly been diagnosed
with Asperger's Disorder, and appears to have suffered from low self-esteem, partly due to
his short and slight stature, which he may have compensated for with some
compensatory narcissistic or Napoleonic grandiosity.
However, he clearly felt unattractive to women. Like Lanza,
he too was reportedly in psychiatric treatment of
some kind, including counseling with "multiple therapists" while
attending community college in Santa Barbara, and had been since childhood.
There are some reports floating around that, in addition to Asperger's, Rodger had
been experiencing psychotic symptoms such as paranoid ideation and auditory
hallucinations, though this cannot be confirmed and is, so far, unsupported by
the available evidence. Other slightly more credible reports suggest that he
had been prescribed psychiatric medications but refused to take them.
Commonly indicative of declining mental health or
decompensation, he dropped out of school after his grades started to slide,
hoping, despite his family's wealth, to hit the lottery in order to at last
become more attractive to women. Rodger was, according to his own
"manifesto," still a virgin at the time of his death, and evidently
lived in despair of this situation ever changing. And in a constant state of
rage. So much so, that, in his written "manifesto," he purportedly
seriously considers in his elaborate plans for retribution the possible murder
of his step-mother, brother and father.
It has already been suggested by some (see, for example,
fellow PT blogger Laurie Essig, Ph.D.'s post)
that Rodger was just a typical "angry male," a narcissist who felt
entitled to sex, and, therefore, frustrated by its absence. The implication is
that his frustration is emblematic of the masculine attitude toward women and
sexuality in general. As noted above, there likely were some narcissistic
defense mechanisms at play, as is commonly the case with mass murderers.
Consider, for example, Anders Breivik in Norway. (See my prior post.)
Or Ted (the Unabomber) Kaczynski. (See my prior post.)
Or Charles Manson. (See my prior post.) But it seems to me that Rodger had a
problem with women that went way beyond any narcissistic expectations he
harbored. His primary problem was not that he expected women to love, be
attracted to him and provide him with sex, but rather, his irrational
conviction that they wouldn't. (In some cases, this belief can become
delusional, making matters much worse.) So it was what underlies most
compensatory narcissistic defenses, a deep insecurity and pervasive inferiority
feelings, that were perhaps his real demons. Rodger had likely convinced
himself that he was inherently unlovable by and undesirable to women, and his
self-imposed social isolation served to perpetuate this self-fulfilling
prophesy. Perhaps he unconsciously feared being abandoned or rejected by women,
and, therefore, avoided close contact with them. He mayfear of and disdain for
the opposite sex. (See my prior post.)
Was Elliot Rodger "mentally ill"? If by
"mentally ill" we mean suffering from a major mental disorder such as
schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, we will
need to wait for that information to be released. I cannot formally diagnose
someone I never professionally evaluated. We tend to want to dismiss such
atrocious acts of violence, such evil deeds, as the isolated and aberrant
behavior of a "madman." The reality is that violent perpetrators like
Rodger or Lanza or Breivik are literally "mad," meaning pathologically
enraged, yet not necessarily psychotic or legally insane. Rather, these are
extraordinarily frustrated and angry individuals who experience themselves as
powerless, helpless victims in life. They feel like "losers," unloved
and unlovable.
Unaccepted and unacceptable social misfits. They have not
been able to find their place or purpose in life. It can be conjectured that
both Rodger and Lanza were clinically depressed. This seems obvious. In the
most extremely disturbed individuals, this frustration, anger, rage, chronic depression,
and feelings of powerlessness or insignificance can cause psychotic symptoms.
But whether clinically psychotic or not, these individuals suffer from profound
feelings of inferiority, insignificance, powerlessness, despair, helplessness
and nihilistic meaninglessness. They are lost souls. Finally, in desperation,
the sole purpose they seize upon is that of the avenger, the righter of wrongs,
the redeemer of evils, the punisher of those perceived to have abandoned,
abused, rejected or insulted them. Identification with this wrathful, powerful,
god-like punitive role, perverted and destructive though it may be, provides
some missing sense of purpose in life. Now, at long last, they have, in their
own minds, come up with a substantial goal in life, a destiny, and the
opportunity to fulfill that destiny, no matter what it takes. To make their mark
in the world. To stand up and be counted. To exact retaliation and revenge. And
to gain the world's recognition. But, alas, its fulfillment, by definition,
inevitably leads to death by cop or suicide, or life in
prison.
Such tragic cases call into question the efficacy of mental
health services today. Rodger was evidently known to both the police and mental
health system. There were reportedly danger signs over the years, including
talk of suicide, but to predict such a violent outcome is near impossible. (See
fellow PT blogger Katherine Ramsland, Ph.D.'s post.)
What kind of treatment was Rodger receiving? Why was he seeing
"multiple" therapists or counselors? Has the contemporary approach to
therapy in our age of
specialization adopted a philosophy of "the
more the merrier"? Is this superior to working closely and exclusively
with one psychotherapist, with whom one can cultivate a close, trusting and
corrective relationship? Or is it symptomatic of the patient's (or therapist's)
resistance to doing so? And, maybe most importantly, how was this young man's
immense rage being addressed and dealt with by his psychiatrists,
psychologists, social workers and counselors? What was it really about? What
were its roots?
Was it being verbally acknowledged, validated and redirected
into constructive activity? (See fellow PT blogger Mark Goulston, MD's post.)
Or suppressed pharmaceutically, sociologically and psychologically? The latter negative
attitude toward anger or rage in treatment tends ultimately to be iatrogenic
and exremely dangerous. Of course, it can be argued, and rightfully so, that
there is realistically no panacea for such profoundly disturbed people, and
that treatment has its limitations, especially in such extreme cases. However,
this truism can easily be used as an excuse to dismiss the woeful inadequacy of
contemporary mental health treatment in dealing constructively with such angry
individuals, and the critical need to improve it. (See
my book Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic.)
When repressed anger or rage festers over time, it turns
iinto resentment, which turns into embitterment, which turns into hatred. This
is a slow and insidious process, but the ultimate outcome, if left unchecked,
is destructiveness toward self and/or others. Not every frustrated, angry or
embittered person turns physically violent. But there is no doubt that their
anger and embitterment negatively affect their own lives and the lives of those
around them. (See, for example, my prior
posts on psychopathy,
embitterment,
and pathological narcissism.)
If we want to better understand and be able to prevent at
least some of the terrible explosions of violent rage we, as a society, have
been witnessing in recent decades, we would do well to analyze and study the
psychology of these cases exceedingly carefully. What we observe in such
extreme cases is the once carefully camouflaged face of frustration, fury,
indignation and self-assertion, gone mad. Mental illness is typically not the
primary cause, but rather, at least partly, the psychological consequence. We
see the desperate struggle and utter failure of these deeply frustrated,
embittered and defeated individuals to constructively claim and defend their
fundamental right to be themselves, to productively assert their will in the
world, to creatively or constructively find and fulfill their destiny, and our
own failure as a society-- and as mental health professionals--to help them do
so.
Instead, deeply discouraged and enraged, these individuals eventually just give up trying to solve their problem productively. They settle instead for facile infamy. And for the anxiously anticipated, transitory yet terminal, momentary satisfaction of sweet revenge.
Instead, deeply discouraged and enraged, these individuals eventually just give up trying to solve their problem productively. They settle instead for facile infamy. And for the anxiously anticipated, transitory yet terminal, momentary satisfaction of sweet revenge.
Stephen Diamond, Ph.D., is a clinical and forensic psychologist in LA and the author of Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity.
"Psychology Today"
We began to look for similarities between each of our three shooters, Holmes, Lanza and Rodgers and were able to draw some basic conclusions. All were young men ranging from between 20 to 26 years of age, all these shootings occurred between 2012 and 2014, all were white males, all used automatic rifles and two of the three should have been identified as high risk of being a danger to themselves and others.
The Sandy Hook shooting report is more than disturbing — all 48 pages of it.
Along with step-by-step actions of the
shooter on Dec. 14, 2012 when he first shot his mother then, for some unknown
reason made his way to Sandy Hook Elementary School and murdered 20 little
children and 6 adults.
http://orangectlive.com/tag/sandy-hook-elementary-school-shooting/
Actually the frequency of mass murders is more common than you might think. They seem to occur about every two weeks but are less spectacular than the three rampage shooters we are covering in this article. These mass murders go unreported by the media but happen none the less. After reviewing several lists found on "Google" we found one list which drew a link between mass murders and Psychiatric Pharmaceuticals which could account for their deadly actions.
http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/q12013/list-of-45-mass-murders-and-pharma-drugs-they-were-on/
In
considering a solution for the prevention of such tragic events in the future
it is not unreasonable to speak out on the violence in entertainment. Two
studies, one by the Annenberg Public Policy Center and Ohio State
University on the rising violent content in motion pictures and
the other is a study from Iowa State University Psychologists on the rising
violent content in Video Games. Both studies draw a correlation on
violence and guns. Clearly we as a society and Government have a lot of
work to do on all fronts if the United States is to curb and eliminate mass
murder.
So
are you thinking the solution to problem of these killings to ban automatic
assault rifles? Some Democrats in Congress and those in the Media have
called for amending the "Constitution" and removing the second
amendment which guarantees those in the United States the right to "keep
and bare arms"? The founder of our Democracy felt strongly of the
subject! The had the conviction of their beliefs and made guns one of the
bed rocks of the United States for some very good reasons.
Gun Control Works (for mass
murderers) Gun
control works (to disarm citizens and leave them vulnerable to crazy
governments who want to murder them).
http://www.youcancarry.com/gun-control-works-for-mass-murderers/
Actions
which could be taken in addressing the problems of gun control not in place
today would be not only to require permits for fire arms but also
licensing them as well. A very strict program in which applicants would
be required to under go physical and psychological testing to obtain a gun
license and permit which would be renewed on a short turn around insuring
applicants are testing at frequent intervals. It is not unreasonable to
think such a process would be in the range of $500 to $1,000 plus expenses per
applicant. This would be a real good place to start controlling automatic
rifles and guns!
Another
solution which could be applied is so simple that it almost escapes our
attention! Are the prices of automatic rifles to cheep? As with
hand guns in the past, cheaply obtained "Saturday Night Specials" or
"Junk Guns" were a big problem which led to the "Gun Control Act
of 1968" and often used by shooters. A big push was made by
law enforcement in getting these cheep weapons off the street. As in the
case of Elliot Rodgers, we must also note the excessively large number of
rounds in ammunition he was carrying, 400 rounds were found. Gun stores
should charge more for these bullets and be required to limit sales for large
purchases.
For
automatic assault rifles legislation similar to the "Gun Control
Act of 1968" foreign made rifles would be banned from sale in
the United States and significantly reduce the availability of such weapons for
civilian use. AK-47's and other foreign imported automatic weapons would
be taken of the market and streets.
It
is unclear what triggers killing sprees like these. Even if guns were not
available history clearly shows us that mass murders would continue.
Psychologist and mental health specials have much to learn about unlocking the
secrets which create such a deviant personality. Perhaps in the future it
might be possible to identify such people who are at risk of crossing over to
this dark side of behavior. until then we will have to keep looking for
answers.
Next week we will look at the mass
murders and serial murders who kill with out guns. These killers carry
out their murderous passions time and time again to satisfy their blood lust.
As we enter their dark world we discover their motives and disorders.
Their deeds are truly shocking. Until next week, happy Friday the
thirteenth! I'm Felicity for the "Noodleman Group".
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