There was a very interesting professor of some thing or other on Radio 4 last night. He was saying that people who go on killing sprees tend to fit one psychological profile and are always nearly men.
He was saying that basically the are quiet, unassuming men who at some point in their past have had their male sexual masculinity repressed, either through abuse, past partners or lack of. Basically over the years they feel more and more inadequate to a stage where they can’t take it any more and some thing for want of a better word makes them flip.
The end result is that they can not carry on with life, but the killing spree is all part of the suicide process in proving their masculinity to themselves before taking their own life.
All very interesting from a psychology point of view, but very sad for every one involved.
People don’t just go around killing people for the sake of it, its unfortunately some deeply seated psychological problem.