A natural subject for the UK's bestselling true-crime author: a study
of people who randomly kill large numbers of others (spree killers), or
who set out to do so in specific places or situations (mass killers).
Because of the ease of obtaining firearms in the USA, many of these,
inevitably, are American, but there have been other recent examples in
New Zealand and Norway, while three major mass shootings took place in
the UK at Hungerford in 1987 (17 dead, including the killer), Dunblane
in 1996 (18, including the killer), and in Cumbria in 2010 (13,
including the killer).
As such killings become more frequent, it is easy to blame them on the
ready availability of firearms and weak or non-existent background
checks, even though many countries, including the UK, have extremely
robust firearms legislation. What is more difficult to establish,
however, is the motivation behind such killings: some are occasioned by
grievance, real or imagined, while others have their origins in a sense
of failure or feelings of inadequacy. Other killers, however, seem to
be driven by a desire for power over their fellow humans, often coupled
with an overriding contempt for the lives of others. In search of
answers to the questions raised, Christopher Berry-Dee offers case
studies in some of the most infamous mass killings of the past fifty
years, from school massacres to workplace killings, hate crimes to
familicides. In doing so he demonstrates, chillingly, that such murders
are almost impossible to predict, and therefore almost impossible to
prevent.
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