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What is the psychology of people who idiolize mass shooters, sees them as heroes and replicate their acts? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Im not fully grasping how the mind of those "copycats" works. People who are obsessed with Columbine for example, and want to do a mass shooting. That is their thought process? Is there some study I can read exploring what's on their minds?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

So they see someone do that and they tend to think “that would teach the people I view as hurting me a lesson”.

I'd bet that works because it seems to be is a culture of solving problems with people you don't like by shooting said people.

Damn, that could perfectly be a short description of the US foreign policy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Only the foreign policy?...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Well, I'm not from the US, I can only attest what I see and suffer myself.