From what I understand this shooter followed the Columbine playbook. Was it impulsive? Or, had he been studying it for a long time?
I can't to begin to understand the Columbine hero worship. How it turns a young mind into a death machine. Is wanting to be a part of some kind of "revolution" part of it?
I think of the rapid descent of the charleston church shooter. How quickly that piece of "revolution" hooked into his mind somehow primed for hatred.
People talk about bullying a lot. It seems so pervasive. Sometimes I wonder if otherwise intelligent children are just not challenged in education. And I do think it is deep because each and every shooter is making a huge statement with life and death altering impact.
The young mind withers to its child mode after the rocket of emotion, or lack thereof has launched and death and consequences becomes the reality.
Whatever the psychology, if parents of teenagers don't secure their weapons, yesterday's good kid can go to today's mass shooter, because that's how impulsive a child's mind can be.