How Grievance Turns to Violence in a Mass Shooter’s Mind

On an otherwise ordinary Thursday, a 14-year-old entered a middle school in the southern city of Kahramanmaras, opening fire on two classrooms, killing eight students and a teacher.

The shocking attack followed another school shooting two days earlier in Siverek in Turkey’s Sanliurfa province, in which the gunman wounded 16 people before killing himself in a showdown with police.

While it often seems that such attacks come out of the blue, they are rarely spontaneous. Instead, mass shootings generally follow a narrative that regularly includes escalating grievances and missed opportunities to intervene.

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