Almost all the school attackers have behaved like this. Planned carefully in advance.
It’s the ultimate narcissistic behavior.
Foremost is that incidents of targeted violence at school are rarely sudden, impulsive acts, the experts say.
“Students who engaged in school-based attacks typically did not ‘just snap’ and then engage in impulsive or random acts of targeted school violence,” the Secret Service researchers wrote. “Instead, the attacks examined under the Safe School Initiative appeared to be the end result of a comprehensible process of thinking and behavior: behavior that typically began with an idea, progressed to the development of a plan, moved on to securing the means to carry out the plan and culminated in an attack. This is a process that potentially may be knowable or discernible from the attacker’s behaviors and communications.”
Other key findings of the Secret Service study:
* Prior to most incidents, other people knew about the attacker’s idea and/or plan to attack.
* There is no accurate or useful “profile” of students who engaged in targeted school violence.
* Most attackers had difficulty coping with significant losses or personal failures. Moreover, many had considered or attempted suicide.
* Many attackers felt bullied, persecuted or injured by others prior to the attack.
* Most attackers had access to and had used weapons prior to the attack.
* In many cases, other students were involved in some capacity.
* Despite prompt law enforcement responses, most shooting incidents were stopped by means other than law enforcement intervention. The end came through suicide in about one-eighth of the shootings.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18175525/page/2/
Thank you!
It’s the ultimate way to say, I’m miserable, and you made me that way, I don’t have to take any responsibility to be happy, and I’m going to make you miserable in revenge.