A good book about the social, cultural and psychological stresses that provoke mass shootings:

[tblue37]

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https://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Rebellion-Workplaces-Columbine/dp/1932360824/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518732032&sr=8-1&keywords=going+postal+mark+ames

Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond

[Egnever]

1. The one thing I am glad of in this

He did not kill himself. We will have a chance to delve into his motivations. When they kill themselves all we can do is guess.

[tblue37]

2. Self kick. nt

[leftstreet]

3. I tried reading that. Thought it sucked, didn't finish

Your experience may be different

I saw early on the author's premise that the mass shootings embodied a sort of working class 'rebellion' against the elites - but it didn't go the distance.

These scumbag killers don't target corporations, political offices, rich people, etc. They blow members of their own class away.

Argument moot

[tblue37]

4. Yes, but their stress comes from the economic pressures of extreme inequality and from

being overworked or unable to find work, as well as from cultural conditions.

The oligarchs use cultural wedge issues to divide us and promote rage and hatred, so when someone explodes, the rate is directed not at the exploiters but at the other victims of exploitation.