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Maine's mass shooter found dead
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What makes you believe this?
I’m very interested in abnormal psychology and have read many studies, watched tons of hours of police interviews, read loads of psychiatric notes and court transcripts, prisoners’ diaries, etc – it’s all out there and freely available if you’re interested.
This issue is decades old. There’s a ridiculous amount of information available. I developed morbid curiosity after Columbine, and have seen and read things I probably shouldn’t have for my own mental health, but I feel it’s important to know things like this.
It’s not my belief – just look at the raw data and what psychologists say. We don’t know everything, obviously, but we know quite enough.
e: I’m not talking about what psychologists can learn, I’m talking about us, the public.
What psychologists say that we know enough? I've never heard this claimed by a professional in the field before.
It's not up to the public to learn the intricacies of psychopathy. You and I aren't the ones who need or can make use of that data.
It looks like I worded my comment poorly.
I meant we, as in regular people, not psychologists or the FBI, or other professionals.
We already know more than enough to enact laws and policies to fix this shit. We don’t need more data. These aren’t lone wolves, and they haven’t been for ages. They have very similar beliefs. We know the who, what, and why they do these things, and we have for a long time.
We don’t need to ponder these things anymore.
And yet, warning signs are still ignored by most people, and travesties like this continue to occur almost daily in this country.
I'd argue that we don't know as much as we'd like to think we do.