Mass Shooters As “The Canaries In The Coal Mine”

An interesting way to look at this.

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about Chad Doerman, who is not a “mass shooter” in the conventional sense but more a “family annihilator,” in that he killed his three young sons in his front yard.

Chad Doerman, Who Killed His Three Sons: What If It’s Not About “Snapping?”

A “family annihilator,” if you couldn’t tell from context clues, is a specific form of a mass violence event aimed at one’s own family (which in many ways is thus worse than a random attack at a public place):

Can we find a “why” behind family annihilators?

On the Doerman article, I had a Medium user named Tom Gough wrote this as a comment: