News is coming from the Justice Department that the shooter in this afternoon’s incident at Fort Hood killed himself. As we know from other shooting incidents like this one it is fairly typical for a “spree killer” to take their own lives as soon as they meet any form of resistance, and this case doesn’t seem to be any different. We still don’t know any additional details about the incident, but reports also indicate that there is indeed only one shooter, and at this time there are only eight reported injuries and no additional fatalities. As to why such murderers (or attempted murderers) take their own lives, there’s an article from Wired that tries to explain some of the reasons. . .
Why are some mass shooters more likely to kill themselves? If we go beyond the armchair psychology and diagnostic labels in the coverage of this horrific tragedy, the data from past rampage shootings (see also this paper and this related paper) may partially reveal some motivations.
It’s about self-loathing and perceived injustice. And location matters.
Psychologists have long theorized that there’s a connection between rage against others and rage against the self.
According to my findings, the shooter’s likelihood of committing suicide or suicide by cop appears to be 1.16 times higher (controlling for the attacker’s age and sex) for each additional victim that is killed. This suggests that those who have the most rage toward others – and therefore end up killing the most victims – would also feel the most guilty and ashamed about their crimes. They are therefore more likely to engage in “self-punishment” via suicide or suicide by cop. After the initial explosion of rage causes them to open fire, active shooters who see many dead or dying victims around them may feel a correspondingly higher need for self-punishment than shooters with fewer victims.
Spree killers are cowards who hate themselves. Sounds about right.
Thankfully, the .gov won’t have the opportunity to screw up the shooter’s prosecution.
It’s a very helpless feeling to be a trained solder and told to helplessly shelter in place while disarmed by policy in garrison.
http://www.hood.army.mil/dhr/forms/fhform190-19.pdf
I’m sure the shooter followed all the rules though.
They all do, right?
At least he’s dead.
First reports: 8 wounded, 4 critically…
And they were warned that some jerk was hell-bent on doing this? Embarrassing.
If everyone was armed like they should have been it wouldn’t have happened the first time.
“This suggests that those who have the most rage toward others – and therefore end up killing the most victims – would also feel the most guilty and ashamed about their crimes. They are therefore more likely to engage in “self-punishment” via suicide or suicide by cop.”
REALLY…say it isn’t so. What study figured THAT out. Nothing more than state sanction murder of its citizens.
If he had shot himself first, I would not have a problem with him. In a gun free zone, only the demented criminal (or Muslim jihadist) has a gun. Are we going to be politically correct, and dead?
At least we won’t waste millions of dollars prosecuting the guy and paying for him to sit in a prison on the tax payer’s dime.
Get ready for the anti-gun politicians to start waving the bloody flag of gun control………
Just another “reason” for the government to push their gun control agenda!! This was NOT, repeat NOT, a random act of violence!!
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as “killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders”.
I don’t think that this murderous nut was a spree killer.
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