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How Does A Young Man Become So Violent?
While the gap between mass shooting events seems to get a little wider, we still have a lot of them — and each case and story is somewhat different, but they all kind of come from a similar place of detachment and disengagement with broader society. At the most basic level, why would you want to kill people in a public place if you thought things were, per SE, going “well” around you?
In the case of Georgia shooter Colt Gray, much of it will be laid at the feet of his family:
His mother seems to be a long-term, habitual addict who once fell out of her car while driving. A neighbor of the Grays said Colt regularly didn’t go to school and “walked around the woods or looked inside new developments.” The mother locked him and his siblings out of the house a few times. (And of course this family had three kids, because two fix-it babies are often the norm in these deals.)
The dad eventually initiated divorce on the mom because a landlord came to see him, after multiple times that Child Services had…
