Profiling institutions
April 25, 2007
From Mark Ames at AlterNet, an interesting thought: since the Secret Service has pretty much said there isn’t any way to profile mass shooters, how about profiling the institutions where they strike?
I don’t think it’s blaming the victims, but rather putting the institution (that the victims share in common with the killer) under a microscope. I doubt it will become a complete explanation; by itself it would be too simplistic. More like one more component in the “perfect storm” concept, of multiple factors lining up like the pins in a lock tumbler, to release such attacks. Hmm…
Categories: observations
It’s an interesting idea, but how large a subset of schools will such profiling yield?