EXPLAINING TRUMP’S WOULD-BE KILLER

A much more fruitful approach would be to consider the psychological profile of Crooks: it matches to a tee the characteristics of other mass shooters. - Bill Donohue

Also worthy of probing is the culture that gives rise to these shootings...

• Crooks was a loner. 
• He was quiet and had few friends; 
• he was known to just stare at his classmates when they sought to engage him. 
• A student who went to the same high school as Crooks, Kendall Spragg, noted that he would sometimes eat lunch by himself. “He really didn’t fit in with everybody else,” he said. 

These attributes are commonplace among mass shooters.

• In 2023, Audrey Hale, a girl who mistakenly thought she was a boy, killed six people at Covenant School. Averianna Patton, who knew her, said she was “very quiet, very shy.”..
• In 2022, Salvador Ramos... (many more listed!)

Being a loner does not cause someone to be a mass shooter, but when it is coupled with other factors, it manifests itself as a leading red flag indicator.
Loners crave the same type of bonds that all of us do. 

When they are unable to achieve them, it creates psychological havoc.

Unfortunately, we are mass producing the kind of social soil that makes it harder to bond with others...