Why Are Schools Targeted So Often By Mass Murderers?
A discussion on the motivations of school shooters
Quite a few of my friends have shared this list today. Here's a discussion on why schools are the favorite target of mass shooters. In military terms, there is no softer target than an elementary school.
Ryan Shih
Schools are where large groups of people who are confined to limited areas congregate.
Ejner Fulsang
Ryan Shih Gotta be more to it than that.
Tommie Jayne Wasserberg
Ejner Fulsang Quite a few of them had issues at the school they shot up. It's thought that this shooter may have been going after the teacher.
Dayle Kenyon
Tommie Jayne Wasserberg Also, little kids cant fight back
Ejner Fulsang
Dayle Kenyon The cowardice/bully factor
Tommie Jayne Wasserberg
I'm pretty sure several of the shooters had been bullied before they flipped out. Quite a few of them have been on psych drugs.
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Ejner Fulsang wrote:
Copied list from Thubten Comerford.
My question is why do these sickos favor schools?
Thurston High School.
Columbine High School.
Heritage High School.
Deming Middle School.
Fort Gibson Middle School.
Buell Elementary School.
Lake Worth Middle School.
University of Arkansas.
Junipero Serra High School.
Santana High School.
Bishop Neumann High School.
Pacific Lutheran University.
Granite Hills High School.
Lew Wallace High School.
Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.
Appalachian School of Law.
Washington High School.
Conception Abbey.
Benjamin Tasker Middle School.
University of Arizona.
Lincoln High School.
John McDonogh High School.
Red Lion Area Junior High School.
Case Western Reserve University.
Rocori High School.
Ballou High School.
Randallstown High School.
Bowen High School.
Red Lake Senior High School.
Harlan Community Academy High School.
Campbell County High School.
Milwee Middle School.
Roseburg High School.
Pine Middle School.
Essex Elementary School.
Duquesne University.
Platte Canyon High School.
Weston High School.
West Nickel Mines School.
Joplin Memorial Middle School.
Henry Foss High School.
Compton Centennial High School.
Virginia Tech.
Success Tech Academy.
Miami Carol City Senior High School.
Hamilton High School.
Louisiana Technical College.
Mitchell High School.
E.O. Green Junior High School.
Northern Illinois University.
Lakota Middle School.
Knoxville Central High School.
Willoughby South High School.
Henry Ford High School.
University of Central Arkansas.
Dillard High School.
Dunbar High School.
Hampton University.
Harvard College.
Larose-Cut Off Middle School.
International Studies Academy.
Skyline College.
Discovery Middle School.
University of Alabama.
DeKalb School.
Deer Creek Middle School.
Ohio State University.
Mumford High School.
University of Texas.
Kelly Elementary School.
Marinette High School.
Aurora Central High School.
Millard South High School.
Martinsville West Middle School.
Worthing High School.
Millard South High School.
Highlands Intermediate School.
Cape Fear High School.
Chardon High School.
Episcopal School of Jacksonville.
Oikos University.
Hamilton High School.
Perry Hall School.
Normal Community High School.
University of South Alabama.
Banner Academy South.
University of Southern California.
Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Apostolic Revival Center Christian School.
Taft Union High School.
Osborn High School.
Stevens Institute of Business and Arts.
Hazard Community and Technical College.
Chicago State University.
Lone Star College-North.
Cesar Chavez High School.
Price Middle School.
University of Central Florida.
New River Community College.
Grambling State University.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School.
Ronald E. McNair Discovery Academy.
North Panola High School.
Carver High School.
Agape Christian Academy.
Sparks Middle School.
North Carolina A&T State University.
Stephenson High School.
Brashear High School.
West Orange High School.
Arapahoe High School.
Edison High School.
Liberty Technology Magnet High School.
Hillhouse High School.
Berrendo Middle School.
Purdue University.
South Carolina State University.
Los Angeles Valley College.
Charles F. Brush High School.
University of Southern California.
Georgia Regents University.
Academy of Knowledge Preschool.
Benjamin Banneker High School.
D. H. Conley High School.
East English Village Preparatory Academy.
Paine College.
Georgia Gwinnett College.
John F. Kennedy High School.
Seattle Pacific University.
Reynolds High School.
Indiana State University.
Albemarle High School.
Fern Creek Traditional High School.
Langston Hughes High School.
Marysville Pilchuck High School.
Florida State University.
Miami Carol City High School.
Rogers State University.
Rosemary Anderson High School.
Wisconsin Lutheran High School.
Frederick High School.
Tenaya Middle School.
Bethune-Cookman University.
Pershing Elementary School.
Wayne Community College.
J.B. Martin Middle School.
Southwestern Classical Academy.
Savannah State University.
Harrisburg High School.
Umpqua Community College.
Northern Arizona University.
Texas Southern University.
Tennessee State University.
Winston-Salem State University.
Mojave High School.
Lawrence Central High School.
Franklin High School.
Muskegon Heights High School.
Independence High School.
Madison High School.
Antigo High School.
University of California-Los Angeles.
Jeremiah Burke High School.
Alpine High School.
Townville Elementary School.
Vigor High School.
Linden McKinley STEM Academy.
June Jordan High School for Equity.
Union Middle School.
Mueller Park Junior High School.
West Liberty-Salem High School.
University of Washington.
King City High School.
North Park Elementary School.
North Lake College.
Freeman High School.
Mattoon High School.
Rancho Tehama Elementary School.
Aztec High School.
Wake Forest University.
Italy High School.
NET Charter High School.
Marshall County High School.
Sal Castro Middle School.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Great Mills High School
Central Michigan University
Huffman High School
Frederick Douglass High School
Forest High School
Highland High School
Dixon High School
Santa Fe High School
Noblesville West Middle School
University of North Carolina Charlotte
STEM School Highlands Ranch
Edgewood High School
Palm Beach Central High School
Providence Career & Technical Academy
Fairley High School (school bus)
Canyon Springs High School
Dennis Intermediate School
Florida International University
Central Elementary School
Cascade Middle School
Davidson High School
Prairie View A & M University
Altascocita High School
Central Academy of Excellence
Cleveland High School
Robert E. Lee High School
Cheyenne South High School
Grambling State University
Blountsville Elementary School
Holmes County, Mississippi (school bus)
Prescott High School
College of the Mainland
Wynbrooke Elementary School
UNC Charlotte
Riverview Florida (school bus)
Second Chance High School
Carman-Ainsworth High School
Williwaw Elementary School
Monroe Clark Middle School
Central Catholic High School
Jeanette High School
Eastern Hills High School
DeAnza High School
Ridgway High School
Reginald F. Lewis High School
Saugus High School
Pleasantville High School
Waukesha South High School
Oshkosh High School
Catholic Academy of New Haven
Bellaire High School
North Crowley High School
McAuliffe Elementary School
South Oak Cliff High School
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Sonora High School
Western Illinois University
Oxford High School
Robb Elementary School
This is abhorrent.
We have to fix this.
Demand change.
Those AR-15 rounds shredded the children so badly, DNA tests had to be run on the parents to identify them. There is no excuse for us to allow people to walk into a gun store and buy combat grade weapons with no background check or tests of their competence in handling the weapon.
We don't need to ban them completely, but we do need to regulate them tightly. 95% of Americans want stronger gun regulations and that includes responsible AR-15 owners. A ban would be an infringement on their rights. Reasonable regulations are not.
Students say revenge is clearly the major reason for school shootings. For all groups of students, getting back at those who hurt them; having other kids pick on them, make fun or them or bully them; not valuing life; and being a victim of abuse were consistently among the top five reasons, regardless of what variables were used to analyze the data. Consistently ranked at the bottom among the reasons were being bored; being afraid for their own safety; and being encouraged by others to shoot.
If we look at the means of responses students offered for each of 16 reasons, we get a similar picture. The top four reasons were:
Other kids pick on them, make fun of them or bully them.
They want to get back at people who have hurt them.
They don't value life.
They have been a victim pf physical abuse at home.
Reasons for school shootings: why are they so frequent?
US school shootings
A school shooting is a type of mass mass shooting that deliberately targets an education institution such as a daycare centre, primary school, highshool, or university. School shootings have become increasingly common, in particular in America. Recent school shootings (and other mass shootings) have contributed to an rise public concern over gun violence and socialization of children and young adults. School shooting statistics show a growing trend in this problem. However, this is not a new phenomenon. The Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre in 1764, is the first recorded case of school shooting in the US. Three men entered a schoolhouse in, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster and ten children. During the nineteenth century at least 36 school shootings took place in the US. The worst of them took the lives of 5 people in Charles Town in West Virginia in 1898. The problem of school shootings in the US grew during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries:
1900s: 12 school shootings, 11 deaths
1910s: 17 school shootings, 12 deaths
1920s: 9 school shootings, 5 deaths
1930s: 6 school shootings, 6 deaths
1940s: 6 school shootings, 4 deaths
1950s: 16 school shootings, 12 deaths
1960s: 16 school shootings, 39 deaths
1970s: 20 school shootings, 26 deaths
1980s: 23 school shootings, 28 deaths
1990s: 40 school shootings, 76 deaths
2000s: 49 school shootings, 91 deaths
2010-2015: 100 school shootings, 101 deaths
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Christine Guerrera BurnhamThank you for sharing the research. Based on no research at all, just a gut feeling, I also suspect that if you’re pissed off at the world and want to make the ultimate, “I’ll show you..” statement, there is nothing more shocking than shooting up children. Just a guess though. Your sources are more legit.
Tommie Jayne WasserbergThat's a huge compliment coming from you, Christine. Thank you. It's what I was trained to do and I enjoy doing it for my friends, especially the ones facing off with the willfully stupid. Caitlin Johnson of CBS felt there was an element of one upmanship among the mass shooters in her commentary on the Virginia Tech shooting.
Why Do School Shootings Happen?
BY CAITLIN JOHNSON APRIL 19, 2007 / 6:46 PM / After a week full of shock and horror as more information has emerged about the Virginia Tech shooting that left 33 people dead, it is now time for the funerals and memorial services for the part of this nightmare where the families of victims can finally take their pain private.
The nation has begun to turn away — massacre fatigue has now set in. Six days and counting since Seung-Hui Cho, the author we discover of twisted student screenplays, did exactly what he set out to do.Cho became a star; he won on reality TV in a category of his own choosing."
That seems to be the model: become the Heisman Trophy winner of serial murder; try to become the heavyweight champion by exacting the largest body count in history," Northeastern University professor Jack Levin, who has been studying mass murder for more than 20 years, told Sunday Morning correspondent Martha Teichner.
"We set a standard for would-be killers when we talk about 'the worst — the largest in American history — around the country.' It's a game of one-upsmanship."
Except for the location and the body count, the script is the same, every time, as if the killers and the commentators both have copies. Virginia Tech might as well have been Columbine in 1999: Same month, same week. Cho considered Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold his heroes.
Certainly the same script plays in the aftermath at all of these, with multiple law enforcement agencies scrambling to connect victims and survivors to their families, those families waiting for hours for news of whether their children are alive or dead. We can do better America, but not so long as we’re governed by corporations profiting from warfare.
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