Mark Follman

What you just said right there is really key. From an evaluation perspective, I had tons of friends. The people who do these attacks have no social connections or very poor social connections. That social isolation is really important too in a lot of these cases because aberrant juvenile behavior, obviously very common. There are cases where it can be very complicated to untangle that.

What you just said right there is really key. From an evaluation perspective, I had tons of friends. The people who do these attacks have no social connections or very poor social connections. That social isolation is really important too in a lot of these cases because aberrant juvenile behavior, obviously very common. There are cases where it can be very complicated to untangle that.

What you just said right there is really key. From an evaluation perspective, I had tons of friends. The people who do these attacks have no social connections or very poor social connections. That social isolation is really important too in a lot of these cases because aberrant juvenile behavior, obviously very common. There are cases where it can be very complicated to untangle that.

There's a case I wrote about quite a bit in the book from 1998, a high school shooting in Oregon the year before Columbine. horrific attack in Springfield, Oregon. And the kid who did that shot a bunch of his classmates in the school and killed a couple of kids.

There's a case I wrote about quite a bit in the book from 1998, a high school shooting in Oregon the year before Columbine. horrific attack in Springfield, Oregon. And the kid who did that shot a bunch of his classmates in the school and killed a couple of kids.

There's a case I wrote about quite a bit in the book from 1998, a high school shooting in Oregon the year before Columbine. horrific attack in Springfield, Oregon. And the kid who did that shot a bunch of his classmates in the school and killed a couple of kids.

He was behaving in ways that I think were perceived at the time as not normal, but aberrant juvenile behavior that's common, throwing rocks off an overpass at cars, things like that, that are dangerous and bad and need to be mitigated or dealt with But that doesn't predict someone going and committing a school shooting. And so it can be hard to untangle that.

He was behaving in ways that I think were perceived at the time as not normal, but aberrant juvenile behavior that's common, throwing rocks off an overpass at cars, things like that, that are dangerous and bad and need to be mitigated or dealt with But that doesn't predict someone going and committing a school shooting. And so it can be hard to untangle that.

He was behaving in ways that I think were perceived at the time as not normal, but aberrant juvenile behavior that's common, throwing rocks off an overpass at cars, things like that, that are dangerous and bad and need to be mitigated or dealt with But that doesn't predict someone going and committing a school shooting. And so it can be hard to untangle that.

But a person who's doing that, the question then is, do they have other things around them that are normal or healthy or what this approach calls positive inhibitors? What things in their life are positive that are supporting them that what we were talking about earlier, like the social barriers that prevent people from committing violence?

But a person who's doing that, the question then is, do they have other things around them that are normal or healthy or what this approach calls positive inhibitors? What things in their life are positive that are supporting them that what we were talking about earlier, like the social barriers that prevent people from committing violence?

But a person who's doing that, the question then is, do they have other things around them that are normal or healthy or what this approach calls positive inhibitors? What things in their life are positive that are supporting them that what we were talking about earlier, like the social barriers that prevent people from committing violence?

I've got a bunch of friends or I've got a good family that loves me. I've got a job or I'm doing okay in school. In those situations, you're not going to be as concerned that someone's going to go commit a school shooting.

I've got a bunch of friends or I've got a good family that loves me. I've got a job or I'm doing okay in school. In those situations, you're not going to be as concerned that someone's going to go commit a school shooting.

I've got a bunch of friends or I've got a good family that loves me. I've got a job or I'm doing okay in school. In those situations, you're not going to be as concerned that someone's going to go commit a school shooting.

That's another one of the eight categories or areas that I talk about in the book in terms of warning signs, what I call triggering events. So these are also known in the field as life stressors. Things that happen that are significant, that are negative for a person that really could set them on a bad path. Loss of a girlfriend or boyfriend or intimate relationship, right?

That's another one of the eight categories or areas that I talk about in the book in terms of warning signs, what I call triggering events. So these are also known in the field as life stressors. Things that happen that are significant, that are negative for a person that really could set them on a bad path. Loss of a girlfriend or boyfriend or intimate relationship, right?

That's another one of the eight categories or areas that I talk about in the book in terms of warning signs, what I call triggering events. So these are also known in the field as life stressors. Things that happen that are significant, that are negative for a person that really could set them on a bad path. Loss of a girlfriend or boyfriend or intimate relationship, right?

Getting kicked out of school, getting fired from a job, a parent dying. There's some cases, recent school shooting cases like that where perpetrators lost their mother How are they dealing with that major life stressor? Do they show any resilience or are they fragile, brittle, isolating, showing more signs of depression?

Getting kicked out of school, getting fired from a job, a parent dying. There's some cases, recent school shooting cases like that where perpetrators lost their mother How are they dealing with that major life stressor? Do they show any resilience or are they fragile, brittle, isolating, showing more signs of depression?