What makes a gunman tick ?

Question

It's all just guessing but if you have any thoughts to share ... referring to the Virginia Tech tragedy.

Answer 1

Usually a person that is a loner with a persecution complex. I am a big guy and I have worked in some big city Emergency Rooms and have seen some people angry like that and they are half my size but give me the chills. luckily if they are deemed during their psych evaluation a threat to themselves or society they can be involuntarily committed but some outsmart the doctors while being evaluated.

Answer 2

Living in a constant angry rage.
Have you ran across people who just want
to hurt everyone around them.
Its like they are full of guilt and it seems the only thing that makes them feel better is hurting animals or people to cover the inner guilt that never seems to leave them.
To them this kind of life is the norm.
And the more guilt that is bottled up the
bigger the outcome.
A full blown serial killer is at a very high
level of rage inside and when he kills, the
reality sets in, immediately releaving himself
of this rage temporarily.
When it builds again this time with more guilt
from the last victim making the death more violent for the next victim.
In the Virgina killing this killer definetly had
bottled up emotions.
This kind of killing is definetly premeditated,
he thinks in his mind what would make this rage go away, so he brings a gun, not wanting to use it but maybe just scaring
some people involved that made him mad or jealous.
After the first person gets shot, human nature tells him to shoot them all its a form of relieving rage.
Ever witnessed a fight.
The angry one thats started the fight if hes winning wont hit just once he will most of the time keep going well after the opponent cried uncle.
Same thing with a gun after the first shot
more will come from rage.

Answer 3

A low self-esteem placed somewhere in utter loneliness, a troubled childhood and adolescence that creates a truncated adulthood, a reduced socio-emotional ability to connect to others and, above everything else,a dark and weird imagination that lacks the light and sweetness of love.

Answer 4

Probably loneliness, jealousy, bitterness, a very low self-esteem. Its all pretty obvious when you think about it. You wouldn't be a gunman if you were happy with life.

Answer 5

I thought people were over that by now...guess not...I'm not a gunman. I haven't the faintest idea what makes them tick.

Answer 6

The spur of the moment knee jerk reaction, of an unstable and troubled mind

Answer 7

People who are that messed up usually have something wrong with how their brain functions, so their reality is not the same as ours. We can't really understand, it is like someone who can't see trying to understand color.

Answer 8

he finished his hated mind in the form of mind disaster , a kind of natural disaster

Answer 9

don't worry about the ticking, worry about the kaboom!

Answer 10

Rage, hopelessness...... and access to guns.