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submitted 10 months ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 10 months ago

Copycats are motivated by the same thing as the originals, I guess, and just see someone who did it "successfully". (My source is I made it the fuck up)

I've heard it convincingly argued mass shooters are people that a few decades ago would have become serial killers. This is just a new, easier way to kill a bunch of people and feel powerful.

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Don't know if it's true but I saw this docu arguing that serial killers can have or typically have multiple personality disorder. It's like they have their innocent self which is unaware of the crazy one that protects them but it also acts out what they experienced growing up.

Or maybe they are just dicks but this is something that I can at least understand.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

The existence of that one is controversial, even.

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