Why don't they go shoot up Beverly hills/Wall Street/police stations/court room/federal agencies etc.? Rich and powerful people rarely get hurt.
Why don't they go shoot up Beverly hills/Wall Street/police stations/court room/federal agencies etc.? Rich and powerful people rarely get hurt.
Hardly suicidal; most of these mass shooters get arrested and have people speaking up in their defense. The cops will gladly shoot a black person without seeing a weapon, but with a white supremacist mass shooter they'll be very careful not to shoot the guy. Most mass shooters who get shot aren't shot by the cops, but by bystanders.
All of those things are true, but I'm talking about why these young men turn to violence in the first place.
I say suicide because Fascism's death cult promotes self-negating martyrdom. It drives the person into a social death before throwing them into actual carnage. The shootings themselves are incidental; they cement the break with their old social self and a baptism into their new martyred self precisely because they see their old self as unworthy. Both offer ideological1 respite from further action and self-hatred.
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