What would it take to get YOU to do that?
It can be simpler than all that brainwashed insanity. I suppose there's an argument this is a distinction without a difference, though I'd argue the difference is the implication that someone intentionally programmed some Manchurian candidate versus the cold indifference of a world full of pre-teen bullies who never grow up. Sufficiently advanced PTSD* seems a straightforward path to exactly this behavior. For a pop media example think
First Blood.
As a society we like to tell ourselves otherwise, but suicide is rarely impulsive. It almost always falls at the end of a series cries for help: changes in behavior, often self destructive, followed by shutting off and growing distant. I think it's reasonable to think of many of these events, which often end with some version of Suicide-by-Cop as protracted murder-suicides.
How do I get there?
Take someone who is hurting. Pound on him, continually. Crank it up throughout his formative years until he's asking himself every minute of every day "which would hurt more: stepping in front of a bus, or continuing to wake up?" Refuse to see or hear when he actually does ask for help; or just fill him with drugs in hopes he shuts up. Tell him to grow up, to get over it.
Then, when he snaps, we'll tell ourselves we never saw it coming;
it's not our fault. He was always such a good kid; a quiet boy.
That kid? Of course he goes to the school, for the same reason adults shoot up their workplace - he sees himself as striking back against the same community that hurt him, starting in the place he spends most of his time, with the folks who were the worst. Tweaked just the right way, looking at news stories about spree killers, he learns the way to show everyone how much pain they caused him is to give them a maximal dose of the fear they get every time it's in the news.
In the beginning, he finds minor release making dark jokes to himself. Eventually, that's not enough, and turns towards ideation - he learns about past events, patterns it against his own world, and role plays it in his head. Over time, the fear of trying it out goes away because he's gone through it in his head so frequently that he can see the path. It's not until he's decided to actually go through with it that things actually happen quickly.
* for lack of a simpler term, though a trained psych might say I'm really thinking of something nearer to "
Complex PTSD."
Demasculating men will without a doubt make them more prone to outbursts of violence. A scared or insecure male is a violent and unpredictable one. That's a core psychology concept. The left is hell bent on pretending that male aggression is bad, etc.
I think you're right-on here. Compassion is probably the best route to fix some of this. Actually responding to the bullies at school, rather than looking the other way. Telling him he's allowed to admit it hurts when some shitheel picks on him, and to remind him that this says more about them than it ever could about him. But that's hard. It takes work. It means administrators being prepared to tell parents that they're raising monsters.
It would be great if the media would agree to a similar level of restraint as they have WRT adolescent suicide - another "hard" thing to do. And yes, we should have people in the school who are both willing and able to provide the necessary violence of action when the above isn't enough.
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Imagine some crusty old WW Deuce guy in his 90's who is still solid with a garand. That would be awesome. That ping when he dumps the mag just like he did against the slants on Okinawa. No hesitation, no remorse. Grandpa drilling some soy-punk who thought he was in a gun free zone.
