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Columbine
We live in an interesting time, gentlemen. The annual Columbine has become almost a national tradition. It is a pity that we are adopting from the West not only good-natured and positive manifestations of culture. But as it is. Here is a sign with armed attacks on schools.
And, it is worth noting that the table does not include a number of known cases, such as the attacks in Kerch and what happened yesterday. In total, almost 20 cases since 2014. 2 school attacks per year. These statistics are hard to ignore. Most interestingly, a school terrorist attack is a separate phenomenon. It cannot be attributed to any of the categories. There is no religious motive, strategy, or clear ideological grouping. There is also no goal of causing certain moral damage to society. This is a one-time action with one constant task - to kill a certain number of people in the educational institution. Very often there is also an important obligatory subparagraph - it will self-cut before the arrest. But then how lucky. This Columbianism is based on 2 whales - psychology and modern culture. Now we will try to analyze these both factors in more detail.
Psychological picture
So, what do you think should be the psychological profile of a student capable of mass murder? Most likely it will be a clear sociopath, raised by a single parent or grandmother. Such a child is most likely bullied at school and has clear mental health problems. Perhaps the genes are bad, or perhaps the attic went under the influence of external factors. You will be surprised, but all the schoolchildren who committed such a terrorist attack were sane. Only 6% of all terrorists were declared insane and only 20% of children had previously gone to psychiatrists. In addition, almost all of the attackers came from wealthy families, studied well and were considered quite sociable. How, then, do you identify a potential psychopath?
Do the young terrorists have any common characteristics? There is. For example, more than half of repeat offenders had nerve problems. About 60% suffered from clinical depression and most of them had suicidal thoughts. Interestingly, most were representatives of national minorities, which makes the picture even more logical. Nevertheless, the transformation of an ordinary schoolboy into a murderer does not happen at the snap of a finger. This is an ongoing process. All the attackers are representatives of an emotionally unstable age - 13-19. Just at this period, an acute conflict with society and a frequent personality disorder, which we talked about in one of the past posts, is being formed. The teenager feels like a stranger, an outcast, and because of this, he has a strong desire to prove to everyone that they are wrong. The catalyst can be both bullying at school, and problems with the second half and conflicts with parents. Under constant social pressure and newly emerging degression, the teenager begins to play an unhealthy movie in his head. You need to prove that he is a man. How to prove? Be violent. In my opinion, a weapon is an excellent tool for manifesting masculine strength. So the guys thought the same. And then the factor of culture comes into play.
Heritage
By their act, the guys from Columbine broke much more firewood than originally planned. They showed a whole bunch of oppressed schoolchildren that their sick fantasies are quite realizable. With each such case covered in the media, certain unstable individuals are more and more convinced that they are right, and fantasies about their imaginable coolness go further and further. The Columbine case cannot be overemphasized. He became cult. Children who have decided to kill are wearing the same black cloaks and trying to get the same weapon in order to repeat the same legendary "feat". The starting point was beyond given back then, in 1999.
What to do?
By and large, nothing can be done about this phenomenon. Prohibit weapons and install metal detectors in every outhouse - the psychopath will either cut the teacher's throat with a kitchen knife, or stick a pen in the eye of a classmate. The problem needs to be cut at the root, namely, to calculate potentially dangerous adolescents in time. Fortunately, we have any criteria. Now we know that such cases are not isolated, they can happen in almost every school. And over time, the number of such attacks can only grow. So try not to poison your weak classmates, otherwise one day they will come and shoot you. Better provide moral support.
We live in an interesting time, gentlemen. The annual Columbine has become almost a national tradition. It is a pity that we are adopting from the West not only good-natured and positive manifestations of culture. But as it is. Here is a sign with armed attacks on schools.
And, it is worth noting that the table does not include a number of known cases, such as the attacks in Kerch and what happened yesterday. In total, almost 20 cases since 2014. 2 school attacks per year. These statistics are hard to ignore. Most interestingly, a school terrorist attack is a separate phenomenon. It cannot be attributed to any of the categories. There is no religious motive, strategy, or clear ideological grouping. There is also no goal of causing certain moral damage to society. This is a one-time action with one constant task - to kill a certain number of people in the educational institution. Very often there is also an important obligatory subparagraph - it will self-cut before the arrest. But then how lucky. This Columbianism is based on 2 whales - psychology and modern culture. Now we will try to analyze these both factors in more detail.
Psychological picture
So, what do you think should be the psychological profile of a student capable of mass murder? Most likely it will be a clear sociopath, raised by a single parent or grandmother. Such a child is most likely bullied at school and has clear mental health problems. Perhaps the genes are bad, or perhaps the attic went under the influence of external factors. You will be surprised, but all the schoolchildren who committed such a terrorist attack were sane. Only 6% of all terrorists were declared insane and only 20% of children had previously gone to psychiatrists. In addition, almost all of the attackers came from wealthy families, studied well and were considered quite sociable. How, then, do you identify a potential psychopath?
Do the young terrorists have any common characteristics? There is. For example, more than half of repeat offenders had nerve problems. About 60% suffered from clinical depression and most of them had suicidal thoughts. Interestingly, most were representatives of national minorities, which makes the picture even more logical. Nevertheless, the transformation of an ordinary schoolboy into a murderer does not happen at the snap of a finger. This is an ongoing process. All the attackers are representatives of an emotionally unstable age - 13-19. Just at this period, an acute conflict with society and a frequent personality disorder, which we talked about in one of the past posts, is being formed. The teenager feels like a stranger, an outcast, and because of this, he has a strong desire to prove to everyone that they are wrong. The catalyst can be both bullying at school, and problems with the second half and conflicts with parents. Under constant social pressure and newly emerging degression, the teenager begins to play an unhealthy movie in his head. You need to prove that he is a man. How to prove? Be violent. In my opinion, a weapon is an excellent tool for manifesting masculine strength. So the guys thought the same. And then the factor of culture comes into play.
Heritage
By their act, the guys from Columbine broke much more firewood than originally planned. They showed a whole bunch of oppressed schoolchildren that their sick fantasies are quite realizable. With each such case covered in the media, certain unstable individuals are more and more convinced that they are right, and fantasies about their imaginable coolness go further and further. The Columbine case cannot be overemphasized. He became cult. Children who have decided to kill are wearing the same black cloaks and trying to get the same weapon in order to repeat the same legendary "feat". The starting point was beyond given back then, in 1999.
What to do?
By and large, nothing can be done about this phenomenon. Prohibit weapons and install metal detectors in every outhouse - the psychopath will either cut the teacher's throat with a kitchen knife, or stick a pen in the eye of a classmate. The problem needs to be cut at the root, namely, to calculate potentially dangerous adolescents in time. Fortunately, we have any criteria. Now we know that such cases are not isolated, they can happen in almost every school. And over time, the number of such attacks can only grow. So try not to poison your weak classmates, otherwise one day they will come and shoot you. Better provide moral support.
