| super_etecoon said: Not to make this thread all serious or anything, but I am wondering if any of you have personally known someone (not a gamer) who you think had the potential to do something like this in them, whether they discussed it or you noticed something. I'd imagine that for all the numbers of individuals that actually follow through with this madness there are many, many others who have entertained the idea. I grew up in school pre-Columbine so it wasn't really something we ever discussed or concerned ourselves with. I don't think in my school years that anyone had considered it, but you never know the minds of people. |
Not a mass shooter, but there was a kid in the year below me in school, years later he was involved with helping a man who shot 3 people. He got a 40 year sentence. At the age of 12 or so he spent his time attacking other kids, stealing, throwing bricks at busses and cars etc I didn't have much to do with him or his friends (for obvious reasons), I'd moved away and didn't know anything about him until the news named him an accomplice. Both me and my brother were more surprised he hadn't been involved in something like this earlier.
I have no idea if he played games, he probably did occasionally. I think he might've liked violent films. I know he was a body builder at the time of his arrest. I had a minor run in with him and his brother once where they threatened me and tried to start a fight for absolutely no reason.
He didn't carry out the shooting but he was involved with supplying the weapon, planning the attack, was present at the shooting and helped the shooter on the run for days afterwards.
