Kentucky school shooting update

[Gman]

Kentucky school shooting suspect did not target victims-local prosecutor

The teenaged boy who opened fire in a Kentucky high school this week, killing two students and wounding many others, appeared not to have targeted his victims and shot at random, a local prosecutor said on Friday.

Three security cameras captured the Tuesday morning incident in Marshall County High School's common area, Commonwealth's Attorney Mark Blankenship told Reuters in an email on Friday.

"The video clearly shows what happened," Blankenship said. "We have no information to indicate that he had any particular target in mind."

[Justin]

The "bullying as trigger for school shooting" trope is widespread, but in every case that I can think of, completely wrong.

Probably just another entitled, psychotic narcissist who couldn't deal with the world failing to recognize his "brilliance."

[Ridge]

The "bullying as trigger for school shooting" trope is widespread, but in every case that I can think of, completely wrong.

Probably just another entitled, psychotic narcissist who couldn't deal with the world failing to recognize his "brilliance."

That's your opinion. I can totally understand how bullying would drive someone to this sort of action. Especially the way schools won't do anything about bullying until the time comes to punish both the bully and the victim.

[Justin]

That's your opinion. I can totally understand how bullying would drive someone to this sort of action. Especially the way schools won't do anything about bullying until the time comes to punish both the bully and the victim.

It's my opinion based on having spent a lot of time looking at the background of various mass shooters. I'm hard pressed to think of a single example where the underlying cause actually was bullying. That was a myth that started with Columbine, and has steadfastly refused to go away ever since.

Like I said, I'd be willing to bet money that this kid wasn't bullied, and has probably exhibited Cluster-B/Dark Triad-type behavior for years. His mother being a reporter would certainly seem to be at least a reasonable indicator that narcissism runs in the family (at least based on my experience having done time working in media...)

[Gman]

We have no idea of the motive. Let's see how the facts of this case come out during the investigation.

[Justin]

No, we don't. But in having spent more time looking at these events than is really healthy, I'd be willing to bet money that he was an entitled narcissistic asshole. The Dark Triad shows up in pretty much every one of these events.

[Irving]

I thought it was interesting that the article suggested that she was rushing to the scene for coverage. It's not like she didn't know which school her kid attended. However, I suppose if she piled out of a van with a camera running behind her, then that story tells itself.

In the part of my brain that has thoughts that shouldn't be said out loud, I wonder if she was doing the shitty reporter thing like at Columbine where reporters run around asking terrified parents things like, "Your own child could be laying inside the school right now, how does that make you feel?" when she found out.

[DOC]

Can't we just blame the gun?

[wctriumph]

Can't we just blame the gun?

Some will. Fricken evil guns, always making people do bad things. There ought to be a law.

[Gman]

In the article I linked above it mentioned;

The parents of the suspect as well as the parents of the two victims who were fatally shot attended a closed detention hearing on Wednesday, said Blankenship, who observed the proceeding.

"They seemed to be suffering as bad as the parents of the victims," Blankenship said. The judge ordered participants not to discuss details of the hearing, Blankenship added.

Everybody loses in these types of events. As I stated in the other thread, I won't be at all shocked if there were warning signs that went unheeded. Our society prefers to avoid stigmatizing individuals instead of taking rational action to protect the society.