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i think, in the US, it's deeper than that Crouwel. The culture and the mythology behind the gun is so pervasive.
Look at his postures in his pictures, his dress, and tell me that isn't taken straight out of hollywood, Taxi Drive, the Matrix etc..
It is true psychologically maladjusted people will always commit violent acts.
But i'm addressing the specific phenomena of the school shootup. Why send pictures and footage to a television news channel? This boy was creating his own hollywood epic, his final shootout scene where he's the hero that goes out in a blaze of glory.
He only needs to tap into an all pervasive gun culture to feel significant in his actions.
FrdmOfSpch
(Apr 19 07, 05:06)very good point!
here in NL it is no different.
you know we have had several "waves" of family massacres here. dads killing his children and/or wife and it is always during a certain period that these events occur in a short timespan.
that has lead to questions from psychologists and other people towards the government and the media that the huge attention to and sometimes graphic displays of these tragedies are an incentive to other highly instable fathers to see no other way out than killing his family.