The concept of school shootings alarms just about everybody, even those who are not immediately affected. They spark national and global news as well as debate. They make parents reluctant to send their kids off to class. In any case, they additionally prompt speculations about the individuals who perpetrate these horrendous and saddening crimes. Causing generalizations and myths about the causes for such terrible acts. Most suppositions about the culprits aren 't correct and a number of the warning signs go unnoticed.
The events of school shooters has vastly expanded in scope and size from Langman 's earlier book, Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters. In this new book School Shooters: Understanding High school, College, and
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First by the relation that the shooter has to the school. They are broken up into secondary school shooters (individuals who are currently attending the school), college shooters (current or recent students or employees who attack a college or university), and aberrant adult shooters (those who have no connection to the school where they commit murder).
Second he lists them by three different psychological types; psychopathic shooters (lacking in empathy towards others), psychotic shooters (schizophrenia, etc.), and traumatized shooters (PTSD, home abuse, at school abuse etc). Langman also goes on to talk about other factors that influenced shooters decision to commit these acts, such as encouragement by peers, events leading up to the attacks, and perceived wrongs.
The book also includes “cheat sheets” for each shooter mentioned, listing the name of the shooter, their age, locations, date of shooting, and a quote from the shooter (if available) number of deaths and individuals wounded, and lastly the outcome; whether the shooter committed suicide after the shooting, was killed by police, or is currently in jail. The overall theme of the book is that shooters are as varied as human beings with loose classifications allowing for scholarly study of the
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But this stereotype dangerously ignores many other types of shooters to the point that if we only see this imagined person as a possible shooter we ignore real warning signs of an impending attack. There are facilities that i have heard of that are changing the way we deal with such attacks and shifts the focus from EMS in the aftermath to prevention, mostly unfortunately to fightback in the case for a shooter rather than recognizing that anyone can be a shooter and to be able to recognize specific behaviors, or actions and being able to treat those who may become shooters before it gets to that point. However currently while we may have treatment options for traumatized and psychotic shooters, only preliminary work has been done to even research on psychopaths in general. Works like without conscious: the disturbing world of the psychopaths among us talk about the biological component to the lack of empathy we have no means of giving a psychopath that ability back. Leaving a question of what do you do with someone who biologically cannot care about