One trend I have noticed is that a lot of the killers are the ones who got picked on in school.
I do think violent video games puts ideas into underdeveloped minds and then you stir in a broken family unit ( father and mother divorced and father remarried in this case ) and a working mother, who isn't home when the child is, and needs her, and you add peer pressure at school and a mentally unbalanced child who needs more than they have access to, and the resulting feelings of anger and isolation sets in, and and often, there is an explosion----revenge on those who need others to share their pain.
SNIP from an article about this latest shooter:
He carried a black briefcase to his 10th-grade honors English class, and sat near the door so he could readily slip in and out. When called upon, he was intelligent, but nervous and fidgety, spitting his words out, as if having to speak up were painful.
SNIP:
Several said in separate interviews that it was their understanding that he had a developmental disorder. They said they had been told that the disorder was Asperger’s syndrome, which is considered a high functioning form of autism.
“It’s not like people picked on him for it,” Mr. Baier said. “From what I saw, people just let him be, and that was that.”
Pale, tall and scrawny, Adam Lanza walked through high school in Newtown, Conn., with his hands glued to his sides, the pens in the pocket of his short-sleeve, button-down shirts among the few things that his classmates recalled about him.
He did all he could to avoid attention, it seemed.
Until Friday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/n...-now-identified-as-a-mass-killer.html?hp&_r=0
