A Dangerous Injustice Collector in Moneta, Virginia: August 26, 2015

German mass murderers and their proximal warning behaviors.

“…In addition to their fixation on perceived injustices, they displayed deadly revenge fantasies. The aspect of injustice collection is common within adolescent and adult mass murderers (Gill et al, 2017; Mullen, 2004; O’Toole, 2000, 2014, 2015). This study validates former research of mass shootings regarding the importance of injustice collection, perceived as actual events—albeit often magnified if not delusional—and incubated in the mind of the perpetrator.…”

“…A retaliatory mentality is not new: For example, the Biblical admonition of “sow the wind, reap the whirlwind” (Hosea, 8:7), and the primitive impulse of lex talionis, the law of talion, an eye for an eye. However, O’Toole described dangerous injustice collectors as follows: [they] “have at least one incident in their past when they reacted to a real or perceived injustice in a manner that was (1) disproportionate to the original event and (2) aggressive” (O’Toole, 2015, p. 98).…”