logbook entries 11th-12.3.2009
amok (Malay, meng-amok in blind rage attack and kill) is an extreme emotional situation which is characterized by irresponsibility and absolute violence.
Originally amok was not a private single act, but the exact opposite. It was in the Indonesian culture to a military action in trying to contact a few warriors a battle in that they no regard to risk the enemy attacked blindly (this pattern is also found in the Slayer).
At the beginning of the 20th Century it was believed that only madmen commit their crimes in a drunken stupor. In the renowned Encyclopedia of Meyer from 1888 states:
quote from Meyer: "Amucklaufen (. Amok, from Javan amoak word, kill), a barbaric custom among many Malay tribes, for example, in Java, is that by consumption of opium to intoxicated frenzy, with a plunge Kris (dagger) armed to the streets and everyone they meet, wound or kill until they themselves are killed or still overwhelmed. "
Meanwhile, the amok phenomenon has long since reached the industrialized countries and the sociology leads the massacre did not return to drug use. back
explanations, the shooting on a single cause like (mono-causality), fail to explain the phenomenon. Rather, work conditions of the social environment with conditions in the person of running amok together themselves. While earlier massacre was seen as a direct result of individual psychological disorder, this declaration today refuted. Initiating a school shooting are an advanced psycho-social dislocation of the offender, the loss of professional integration by unemployment, demotion or transfer, more experienced insults and partnership conflicts.
Often before a rampage, several factors play a role. They are not directly located in front of the event, but may already exist a long time. The perpetrators are usually men with aggression and conflict-of inhibited personality. It is typical that it is not about school shootings crimes of passion (relatively spontaneous, uncontrollable acts of perpetrators of strong feelings out) is. The fact is rather a result of gradual development of violent thoughts and fantasies. Only seven percent of the perpetrators in a psychiatric disorder is observed. Revenge motive is mostly (61 percent).
selection of known shootings
01. August 1966: A deranged sniper kills at the University of Texas at Austin 16 people before being shot dead by police.
18th July 1984: In a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, an unemployed security guard shoots around. 21 people die.
4th December 1986: In the Colombian capital of Bogota is a Vietnam veteran amok. He shoots and kills 29 people before it kills the police.
19th August 1987: killing in the English town of Hungerford armed with a Kalashnikov and a pistol Man, 16 people before he himself takes his own life.
16th October 1991: A man resting with his pick-up truck through the front window of a restaurant in Killeen, Texas. He then fired to get there and kill 22 people. The perpetrator directed himself shot through the head.
13th March 1996: The Scottish Dublane gunman opened a fire in the gymnasium of a school. 16 children and their teacher were killed. The offender commits suicide.
28th April 1996: In the Australian city of Port Arthur gunman sets up a massacre, killing 35. Including three hostages, that he had recently entrenched in a house. The man is to life in prison convicted.
20th April 1999: At the Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado in the shooting two black-clad and masked youths twelve classmates and a teacher. Then they commit suicide.
26th April 2002: The 19-year-old Robert Stone houses penetrates the Gutenberg Gymnasium in Erfurt, shoots and kills 16 people eventually own most of the victims are teachers.
21st March 2005: In Red Lake in Minnesota, a teenager in a school depends to a bloodbath and then commits suicide. Nine people died, including five students and a teacher. Earlier, the school his grandfather and his partner killed.
second October 2006: A gunman enters the village school in Nickle Mines in Pennsylvania and killed five girls there, the religious society of the Amish. After the fact, does the 32-year-old life.
16th April 2007: In the far bloodiest rampage at a U.S. university will die of the Virginia Tech in Blacksburg at least 33 people, including the perpetrator.
7th November 2007: An 18-year-old high school student shoots at a high school in the Finnish town of Tuusula eight people before killing himself. His action, he had hours earlier announced on the web.
23rd September 2008: At a vocational school the southwestern Finnish town of Kauhajoki shoot a 23-year-old nine classmates and a teacher before killing themselves.
10th March 2009: In the U.S. southern state of Alabama a gunman shoots at several different crime scenes at least ten people before killing himself.
11th March 2009: In a school shooting in Baden-Württemberg die at least 16 people, including the 17-year-old offenders. The killing spree began in the morning in a secondary school in Winnersh, where the offender three teachers and nine students killed. On the run shoots the 17-year-old then three passers-by, before dying in a shootout with police.
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