Mass Murderers Fit Profile, as Do Many Others Who Dont Kill
How Mentally Ill?
Can you kill in this way and be sane?
From his research, Dr. Fox believes that in the universe of mass murderers, including the domestic killers, the robbers and the burglars, mental illness was not a significant factor. Most involved in the family massacres are not seriously mentally ill, but vengeful, he said.
But when it comes to seemingly indiscriminate killings like those in Oregon, that is another matter. For the purely random attackers, thats where you find psychotic thinking, The more indiscriminate, the more likely there is serious mental illness.
Dr. Duwe, among his 160 cases of mass public killers, concluded that 61 percent had a serious mental health disorder, or at least had some symptoms indicating that they did have one. Paranoid schizophrenia was the most common ailment, he said, followed by depression.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/...-profile-as-do-many-others-who-dont-kill.html
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I found the profiles in this article when looked at together offers some common clues.
The one word that sticks out to me regarding the Texas murderer is vengeance. Breaking that down, elements of isolation, outcast, rejection, powerlessness, self loathing, hatred & blame? And a trail of little consequence. A tragedy in the making.
How impossible it really is to understand the psychology of the level of a manifestation such as mass murder. It is totally outside the box of the thoughts, experience, moral code, and mental illness of the majority of civilization.
There is an unfortunate tendency in this country right now to write off as 'mentally ill' or broad brushstroke terrorism & hate for political purposes. What separates 911 is it was a clear act of war. What the lone wolf uses might be part of a disordered vehicle? What are the external and internal forces that make this kind of domestic, religious, and/or political acts of violence, mass murder, and terrorism a vehicle?
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