The Making of a Rampage Murderer:

[MrScorpio]

The Making of a Rampage Murderer: What the Brutal Life of Oakland Shooter One L. Goh Says About America

The cruelty, predation and concentration of wealth today has sparked a new type of murder that has more in common with insurgency violence than serial murder.

April 9, 2012 |

I was working on an article about last month’s rampage massacre in Afghanistan that left 17 villagers dead, when news hit of this past Monday’s massacre at an Oakland, California, religious college, leaving seven dead. In both cases, the shooters survived and face a possible death penalty — which is rare: Usually these rampage killings end with self-inflicted bullet in the mouth.

These “going postal” rampage killings like the one that just took place at the Oikos University campus happen so often and with such relentless rhythm, a lot of people might easily assume that these mass-shootings at American schools and workplaces have always been with us.

It’s not true, of course — as I wrote in my book Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion — it’s an exclusively American phenomenon specific to our time. The first post office rampage killing took place in Edmond, Oklahoma, in the mid-1980s, at the height of the Reagan Revolution’s war on the American worker.

Those post office massacres quickly migrated into private workplace massacres by the end of the 1980s, where they’ve become a regular rhythmic staple of our murder culture ever since – and from the adult workplace, the massacres migrated to our schools.

http://www.alternet.org/story/154920/The_Making_of_a_Rampage_Murderer%3A_What_the_Brutal_Life_of_Oakland_Shooter_One_L._Goh_Says_About_America/?page=1

[MineralMan]

1. I'm not at all certain that the basic premise by that author

is correct. Here in the US, we don't really follow what happens in other countries very closely, and that may be coloring the writer's opinion. I can't debunk his idea thoroughly, because I haven't time to do that. Here is one example, though, that makes one wonder:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002569328