Im not fully grasping how the mind of those “copycats” works. People who are obsessed with Columbine for example, and want to do a mass shooting. That is their thought process? Is there some study I can read exploring what’s on their minds?

  • Vilian@lemmy.ca
    43·
    6 months ago

    almost all mass shooters are bullies, so the question can be why they are assholes like that?

    • mysoulishome@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      I don’t know that I agree with this take…plenty of them are bullied, feel like outcasts, suffer from mental illness, and I think often have some latent sociopathy (lack of remorse) and this all combines to them feeling like they want “revenge” on society. I’m thinking about the columbine shooters from when I was a kid but many fit that profile.

      So others feeling this way might feel gratified that these other shooters got revenge, the people picking on them got what they deserved…etc.

      I think it’s also a different reaction to feeling suicidal. Instead of wanting to hurt yourself…you want to hurt “the world” but for the same reasons

    • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one
      4·
      6 months ago

      Well, in a nation where bullying is glorified as a necessary rite of passage, why should it be surprising that so many bullied people end bullying others?