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As far as preventing, this is the roadmap. It's telling that the media never covers this kind of information -- https://www.amazon.com/Rampage-Social-Roots-School-Shootings/dp/0465051049
It's actually pretty well-documented and studied.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20305080
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14789949.2015.1054858?journalCode=rjfp20&
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465051049
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895032902
Again, nobody gets away with a mass shooting. They're always either caught, killed by police, or kill themselves. They also tend to study other mass shooters, and you only have to spent a few minutes studying to realize how your rampage is going to end.
There is a great book about this that has not received enough attention.
Among other things, it talks about how school personnel and community members have a tendency to overlook boy’s signs of distress. A young woman in distress is more apt to be taken care of.
https://www.amazon.com/Rampage-Social-Roots-School-Shootings/dp/0465051049
It’s very well researched and academic as opposed to entertaining but it will answer your question better than I can.
I took a class where we talked about that very issue for a session. I think this book "Rampage" touches on it, but I never read it. I think it was just mentioned.
I completely agree that it is not a good sign that kids want to shoot up schools.
During the class, it was mentioned that some school shooters just go to the school when it's empty and shoot it up. Even when they do shoot people, they just shoot at random, and don't usually seem to be looking for anyone specfic, since it's about the entire institution. I wish I knew where that report was, but hopefully that book has most of it. There were some other characteristics in there like... it's usually males, it's usually males that don't play sports, some may feel obvious, but others were more interesting, but they all seem to point to a gap in the educational system.
I think America in particular needs to diversify the way it can teach kids, and allow them to still feel part of the community. Not very easy, especially since we don't value teaching that highly, hence the phrase, "if you can't work, then teach."
Then again, maybe we just want drones.
Since the Parkland shooting, I’ve read quite a bit about school shootings in general. I’m more of a book reader than an article reader; notes below.
Article Library
If you want a good general overview, I’d recommend reading Why Kids Kill linked below first. I’m far from an academic—never even attended a traditional college—but it’s really readable. Even if you don’t want to read the whole thing, you can pick up the ebook and just check out the references/footnotes. They link to tons of articles.
Once I finish School Shooters (also linked below) I plan to start working on this library of resources for more detailed info. That’s Langman’s site.
General Books
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I’ve also read these books which cover specific incidents. (I read a lot of true crime in general, so this list goes back years, not just since Parkland.)
Specific Incidents
All the answers to your question, and solutions to the problem, are in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Rampage-Social-Roots-School-Shootings/dp/0465051049
I'm not writing a dissertation here. I'm just mentioning one easy marker for future problems if it's detected.
White males shooting up schools has a fairly straightforward social fix, as well -- would love to see some actions taken on it: https://www.amazon.com/Rampage-Social-Roots-School-Shootings/dp/0465051049