{"id":35703,"date":"2015-10-02T13:36:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T17:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=35703"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:45:07","slug":"narcissism-often-plays-a-role-in-mass-shootings-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/10\/narcissism-often-plays-a-role-in-mass-shootings-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Narcissism often plays a role in mass shootings; expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Narcissism and a sense of entitlement commonly fuel people who commit mass shootings, says Brock University psychopathy expert Angela Book.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOften what you see with these folks, especially the young ones who do this, will have some kind of record of having said how famous they want to be, how they\u2019re not getting what they deserve out of life; just being offended,\u201d says Book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The attention these individuals get following the shootings also motivates future acts of violence, says Book, adding that this occurs in a pro-gun environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOne of the most important factors in the rise of mass shootings is the gun culture in the United States,\u201d says Book. \u201cThere is an almost religious viewpoint on gun ownership, and a sense that you are safer if you have a gun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details are unfolding on Thursday\u2019s shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, in which at least nine people were reportedly killed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Some media reports indicate shooter Chris Harper Mercer selected his victims on religious grounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe target will often be someone who the shooter has something against, whether based on gender, religion, or cliques, in the case of high school shootings,\u201d says Book. \u201cThat being said, they also usually want the fame. They are very narcissistic and entitled.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Book says people who commit such crimes could also be motivated by earlier experiences of bullying, being disadvantaged in some way, and often suffering from some form of mental illness, such as depression or psychotic symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThey end up in their own world, doing video games, that kind of thing,\u201d says Book. \u201cThey get more and more isolated and they\u2019ll start fanaticizing about it. It sort of spirals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narcissism and a sense of entitlement commonly fuel people who commit mass shootings, says Brock University psychopathy expert Angela Book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":35706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,5],"tags":[3418,2811],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35705,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35703\/revisions\/35705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}