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?
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.
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.
Most are in desperate situations and are truly hurting. So they see someone do that and they tend to think “that would teach the people I view as hurting me a lesson”. They then commit the act and realize it was absolutely not what they wanted and a stark realization of what they did and what their life will become dawns on them. And so they commit suicide.
This is not a blanket statement, but in general this appears to be what’s going on
