I thought that since the guy was going into classrooms and killing people, it was more about the university shooting than mass shooting. But yeah, he apparently hated rich kids and named people that he believed were out to get him, so I'd say paranoid, maybe.
He actually was told to get help and sent for counselling by a teacher, but apparently didn't go. He also had a history of stalking girls, and was banned from some of his classes. So it's not that he was going completely unnoticed or uncared for. People did pick up on the oddities of his behavior, did try to get him to help, and it didn't work anyway.
As for psycho freak, meh. I wasn't really serious about wanting people who go on killing sprees to not have any of the same interests as me, but I do think it's insane to just kill at random. If he'd shot only the girl who rejected him and her friend, then yes, I'd think that was still an awful thing to do, but it would make more sense to me.
Opening fire on a classroom full of people, then going away, coming back and shooting them again, then going away a second time and returning to shoot through the door when he realized that the students were leaning against to keep him out of the room -- I seriously do think that's psychotic. There's just such a level of malice there; he's so determined to kill them all and keeps coming back.
Plus, it was premeditated. He sent all that stuff to NBC, the videotapes and manifesto and photographs, so it isn't like he had a sudden snap. He'd been planning this. And to sit down, plan to randomly kill fellow human beings that you don't even know and can't have a grudge against... Psychopath. I'm sorry, but psychopath. Schizophrenic or paranoid, maybe, but my immediate impression towards that sort of indiscriminate slaughter is to think that the guy is absolutely insane.
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He actually was told to get help and sent for counselling by a teacher, but apparently didn't go. He also had a history of stalking girls, and was banned from some of his classes. So it's not that he was going completely unnoticed or uncared for. People did pick up on the oddities of his behavior, did try to get him to help, and it didn't work anyway.
As for psycho freak, meh. I wasn't really serious about wanting people who go on killing sprees to not have any of the same interests as me, but I do think it's insane to just kill at random. If he'd shot only the girl who rejected him and her friend, then yes, I'd think that was still an awful thing to do, but it would make more sense to me.
Opening fire on a classroom full of people, then going away, coming back and shooting them again, then going away a second time and returning to shoot through the door when he realized that the students were leaning against to keep him out of the room -- I seriously do think that's psychotic. There's just such a level of malice there; he's so determined to kill them all and keeps coming back.
Plus, it was premeditated. He sent all that stuff to NBC, the videotapes and manifesto and photographs, so it isn't like he had a sudden snap. He'd been planning this. And to sit down, plan to randomly kill fellow human beings that you don't even know and can't have a grudge against... Psychopath. I'm sorry, but psychopath. Schizophrenic or paranoid, maybe, but my immediate impression towards that sort of indiscriminate slaughter is to think that the guy is absolutely insane.