Active Shooter or Passive Spectacle?
Channel: Sam Vaknin's Musings
Date: 2022-07-16

The typical mass shooter is white, male, and young

The shooting spree is a spectacle, showmanship, movie intended to make sense of life and render them meaningful by imbuing it with purpose and a mission

Grandiosity is compensatory and connected to a general rise in narcissism and relative positioning (social media)

It is about immortality, not suicidality, about a legacy

It is a form of exerting control, empowerment, and anxiolysis

Shooters have no social skills: feel rejected, bullied, persecuted, humiliated, and a failure – real or perceived/imagined

The acting out follows a collapse and transition to a factor 2 psychopathic self-state

The role of echo chambers and confirmation bias

Aggression and the path to violence

Negative affectivity (hatred, envy)

Intimate grievances and strangers
 
Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3