Un véritable travail d'investigation qui ne verse absolument pas dans le voyeurisme. le sujet est dur. A travers la lecture de cet ouvrage, on accompagne l'auteur dans la recherche d'une explication capable de nous convenir. Comment un ado ou jeune adulte peut en venir à se rendre coupable de massacre et se suicider. Qui est le coupable, les parents ? la NRA, la violence dans les films ou jeux vidéos ? sans doute un peu de chaque ! sans oublier les dysfonctionnements psychologiques chez l'enfant que l'on ne parvient pas à détecter suffisamment tôt. Bref un ouvrage intéressant et bien élaboré.
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Shooting season, they began to call it. The perpetrator was always a white boy, always a teenager, in a placid town few had ever heard of. Most of the shooters acted alone. Each attack erupted unexpectedly and ended quickly, so TV never caught the turmoil. The nation watched the aftermaths: endless scenes of schools surrounded by ambulances, overrun by cops, hemorrhaging terrified children.
In 1885, the term psychopath was introduced to describe vicious human predators who were not deranged, delusional, or depressed. They just enjoyed being bad. Psychopaths are distinguished by two characteristics. The first is a ruthless disregard for others: they will defraud, maim, or kill for the most trivial personal gain. The second is an astonishing gift for disguising the first. It’s the deception that makes them so dangerous. You never see him coming. (It’s usually a him—more than 80 percent are male.) Don’t look for the oddball creeping you out. Psychopaths don’t act like Hannibal Lecter or Norman Bates. They come off like Hugh Grant, in his most adorable role.
Eric had a preposterously grand supériorité complexe, a revulsion for authority, and an excruciating need for control. 'I feel like God", Eric announced. " I am higher than almost anyone in the fucking World in terms if Universal intelligence".
In the ten years after Colombine, more than eighty school shooting took place in the United States.