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Correlation Between Social Rejection And School Shooters

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A. The problem being addressed through the literature is that there is no viable connection between social rejection and school shooters; although there is some correlation between school shooters and bullying and other forms of ostracism.
B. A research goal or hypothesis is to determine whether rejection correlates with school shootings. How detrimental is bullying and ostracism to the psyche of a child? Do risk factors foreshadow a school shooter? Do various psychological problems and the mental imbalance of an individual predict future violent behavior?
C. There are 15 case studies of school shooters, gathered from university studies on the individual shooters. National news media such as Newsweek, Time, and US News and World Report along
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