The Shooting Game: The Making of School Shooters

by Lieberman, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781931643832
• ISBN10: 1931643830
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Seven Locks Pr

Summary

Maybe we thought the horror called school shooting had been laid to rest, but in fact, it never really went away. Since the terrifying incident at Columbine in 1999, senseless shootings at schools have claimed over four hundred student and faculty lives worldwide. In March and April of 2006 alone, sixteen deadly Columbine-style plots were hatched by over twenty-five students arrested across the U.S. from the heartland up to North Pole, Alaska. In September, another deadly shooting in Montreal. The violence and plans for mayhem have continued unabated. Until this book, no one has effectively answered the question, "Why do they do it?"

Author Biography

Joseph Lieberman is an award-winning journalist, university educator and six times published author. Lieberman currently teaches at the University of Oregon.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction	xvii
It Begins with the Home	1	(8)
``Stay Away from School''	9	(9)
The Smell of Satan	18	(11)
``Mr. Self-Destruction''	29	(9)
A Minor Sentence	38	(10)
``An Ideal American Family''	48	(15)
Chain of Events	63	(10)
Copy Cats	73	(12)
The Politics of Blame	85	(14)
Love Hurts	99	(7)
Stealth and Lies	106	(5)
A Question of Pride	111	(15)
``The End of the World''	126	(11)
``Voices in my Head''	137	(19)
An Explosive Mind-Field	156	(18)
Hit List	174	(14)
Who Knew?	188	(8)
Acceptable Murder	196	(15)
Face Value	211	(9)
Fame and Immortality	220	(11)
``The Female of the Species''	231	(7)
Love in All the Wrong Places	238	(6)
Damaging Relations	244	(9)
Parents' Rights, Parents Wronged	253	(7)
The Other End of the Gun	260	(16)
The One Safe Place	276	(13)
The Cutting Edge	289	(9)
Why the School?	298	(11)
Conclusions	309	(12)
Epilogue: Sins of Compassion	321	(8)
Further Research and Assistance	329