I would not call this a rampage shooting, it would be more accurately classed as an attack on authority.
I remember reading one book looking at what school shootings had in common. The three main things were age and gender of the gunmen (between 16-24), History of mental illness (generally schizophrenia and suicidal depression), focus on violence as proof of manhood.
These attacks have much in common with workplace violence in that they are attacks on the immediate symbol of authority in the shooters life.
Well, this may be excessive splitting of hairs. The reason, as perceived by the loon, for the rampage doesn’t mean the loon did not rampage.
At any explanation, normal societal conventions failed. So more drastic measures are needed.
Don't know where I heard/read this but I understand that males around 20 years old present schizophrenia, if they are going to present schizophrenia.
Something about young men in late teens/early 20's goes terribly wrong.
This horror, visited with evil, and a lot of other reasons, may take a long, long time to understand.
Maybe never but we have to try.
Guns themselves are not the problem. It takes someone to pull the triggers.
Why....