In the United States, this phenomenon is called a campus shooting - "campus shooting". There are much more such incidents than in other countries. However, in recent years, this phenomenon has begun to occupy Russia confidently. The shooting at Izhevsk No. 88 School on September 26 is one of the largest murders of its kind. Naked Science tries to understand the nature of the campus shooting.
Some experts said that the main reason for the "campus shooting" is the existence of a large number of legal weapons at hand. In the United States, the number of civilian suitcases per capita is the largest number of in the world. Admittedly, there are many countries, too – and there are almost no “school shooting” at the same time, so it’s very likely that this reason is not the main reason at all.
1999, the most eye-catching mass execution of students occurred at Columbine School in the United States. The attackers were high school students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who then killed 12 students and a teacher, injured 23 others, and then shot themselves. Campus shooting has long been a phenomenon unique to the United States. The first campus shooting in modern Russia occurred in Moscow in 2014, followed by another shooting in the city of Ivandevka in the Moscow region in 2017, and began in 2018. In January of that year alone, two similar cases were recorded in just one week: at Perm School and Ulan Ude .
htmlTwo more school massacres occurred in April and October (the last one was the largest in the history of Russian campus shootings—Kerch Institute of Technology, killing 21 people and injuring more than 60 people), followed by several similar incidents in the following years. A few days ago, one of the largest executions occurred in the 88th school in Izhevsk.
Izhevsk Columbine
9-26, 34-year-old Artem Kazantsev entered the school he once graduated, killed two guards, and began walking from class to class, shooting everyone who was killed. Blocked his way. One of them is a 10th grade student.
"A man in black came in, wearing a mask with hollow. He walked in silently and I heard a bang. Thinking it was an explosion or fireworks. Then I saw the gun. I was 20 meters away from him. He immediately started shooting without shouting, without asking. When he killed the guard, he shot me. The bullet hit the right side of my chest. Fortunately, she passed directly," the boy later said that despite the wound, he went to the director's office and sounded the alarm.
After the "passerby" ended, the man began to break into the classroom and shoot at the students and teachers. Many people heard the gunshots and began to jump out of the window, lock the classroom with keys, and hide behind the cabinet. That's what saved them. After entering one of the lessons, Kazantev eventually committed suicide, which had previously claimed 17 lives, including 11 children. Another 23 people were injured, and many were still in intensive care.
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At the same time, the man did not shoot all the bullets. After he committed suicide, there were still dozens of shots left in the pistol store. Everyone wrote in red paint: "Hate!" According to the information obtained later, the murderer was registered at the local neuropsychiatric pharmacy (PND) and was diagnosed with "slow schizophrenia." Kazantev was known to have sympathized with the Nazis – he wore a T-shirt with a Nazi logo. By the way, it was the connection with the nationalist who might have helped him get the weapon (it was impossible to carry it legally due to registration in PND). It is these groups that often convert signal, aerodynamic and traumatic weapons into combat weapons.
shy killer
As the murderer's neighbor said, Kazantev suffered from schizophrenia , did not work anywhere, was introverted, and lived with his mother and grandmother. Enclosure and psychopathology are often the difference between school shooters.Here is what my former classmates commented on Artem: "He is quiet and even patient. Computer nerd. Playing soccer and often going to slot machines. The nickname is the hedgehog.
" The psychological characteristics of criminals are the same in almost all cases. Their distinctive characteristics are: isolation, small social circles, disgusting human feelings, and observing antisocial (hate of others). At the same time, according to our observations, the particularity of these adolescents is that they suffer from certain psychological dysfunctions, especially , inferiority , frustration and the feeling of being underestimated by society,” he wrote in 2018, “Columbine Cult: The Main Determinant of School Holocaust”, published in “The Gazette of Kazan Law School of Russia’s Ministry of Interior” V. O. Karpov.
However, according to Karpov, the main factor that distinguishes these people in 100% is the lack of satisfaction. It is precisely because of the lack of socialization and self-development that campus shootings are mostly conducted by teenagers, yesterday and even future graduates – who have not had time to realize themselves. In this sense, Artem Kazantsev stands out from the crowd – he this year 34 Aged . This “developmental delay” is likely to be related to his diagnosis, and he may have been brewing plans to kill school children for years. Lack of work only adds fuel to the fire.
According to Karpov, another factor that forms future campus shooting games is the subculture of society. Teens deal with cultural values and socialization by creating their own values - subcultures. Therefore, “campus gunmen” tend to worship some kind of criminal or Holocaust. Especially often - this is Columbine’s “example”.
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris
By the way, one of the Columbine killers, Dylan Clebold, also has a quiet, shy, and even somewhat oppressed personality. All friends and acquaintances describe him in only positive words: a quiet lonely man with a good sense of humor. However, neither Clebold nor Harris were particularly favored in school and were often bullied. This is another factor in cultivating future campus shooters—Archom Kazantev, who we remember, was also a victim of bullying by classmates.
from Tampere ( Finland ) and Oslo (Norway) University researchers also showed the link between campus bullying and campus shootings, which they had in 2017 A paper on the subject was published in August in the journal Abnormal Behavior. The study is based on interviews with people from 12 countries. Scientists have found that the topic of bullying is always associated with campus shootings.
From the suicide note (which can be found online, although it is not officially published), Kazantev, like many school criminals, is a fan of Columbine Killer. "In our opinion, Columbine has long become a worship and subculture of destructive teenagers who want to do glorious behaviors like campus shootings in their lives. The information received was introduced into the unstable, dissatisfied life psychology of the minor and prompted him to commit crimes,” Karpov continued. Is the
game evil?
Another notable fact is also interesting. Kazantsev said in his suicide note that he "didn't play DOTA 2", but "the greatest desire to kill me to play Allods online (please ban it)". So, obviously, Russian Federation Minister of Education Sergei Kravzov said after the tragedy of Izhevsk , "We need to solve the problem through computer games. ” By the way, Columbine’s killers also “get in” these kinds of games—teenagers not only play computer “shooters,” for example, Harris even created homemade levels (later known as Harris levels) and Duke of Destruction 3D for the Doom game.
Doom Screenshot
“For a long time, Western criminologists, psychologists and journalists have been discussing the impact of computer games (including games with cruel elements) on the development of children’s psychological types,” Karpov wrote.- In fact, as practice shows, most school shooting games like this, and some students spend most of their free time on such hobbies. As we all know, games can leave a certain mark on children's psychological consciousness. Games can lay the foundation for leaving a mark of aggressive behavior on children. However, we notice that over a million children around the world enjoy similar games, none of whom became mass murderers and campus gunmen. ”
So, it is not necessary to argue that radical “Scigarettes” are the cause of all the trouble. By the way, Christopher J. Ferguson, a researcher at Texas International University (USA), published his work in the journal Investigation Psychology and Portraits of Criminals in December 2008, and he expressed the same idea. Through a meta-analysis of of previous research and literature, the scientist concluded that enthusiasm for computer video games has nothing to do with serious aggression and violence.
“I am a god”
Strangely, but that’s what many school Sagittarius describe themselves. The first of them is Dylan, the aforementioned Klebold. Judging from his biography, this young man had problems with the girl. However, at one time he was still able to walk home—a student in German html class 2 named Tiffany Typewriter. Admittedly, things didn’t go beyond their only date—the next time the girl cautiously refused to go with him. Dylan’s reaction was impressive: he pretended to commit suicide, sprinkling fake blood around him. Later, in her yearbook, he wrote in German: Ich bin Gott ("I am God").
021 On May 11, 2021, Irnaz Galiaviev, a 19-year-old resident in Kazan, killed 7 children and 2 children at the gymnasium 175. Famous teacher. The guy didn’t have time to commit suicide, although like most school shooters, he planned it, which he had previously announced on his Telegram channel. During the first interrogation, Galiaviev said that on April 1 last year, he realized that he was a god and that “he could do anything with anyone”. Since then, he began preparing for his massacre. He did this with admirable perseverance and had already obtained a license to buy smoothbore gun on April 14, and he bought a gun two days later.
Ilnaz Galyaviev
Awareness of one's own exclusivity and the "right" to do things that others do not allow is one of the hallucinations of narcissism. Arrogance can be used as a defense to prevent the realization of a sense of valuelessness and shame. Among other things, this psychopathology is characterized by a very low tendency to empathy (empathy for others), cruelty and manipulation. Meanwhile, narcissists can appear before others in various "disguises"—from the grand and successful heroes of some "doll" Paratov to the seemingly trivial alcoholic, "intergirl" Tanya Zaitseva The father of
Psychologists from Ben Gurion University in the Negev ( Israel ) and the State University Medical Center in New York (USA) want to know how much narcissism the campus gunmen are. They analyzed articles written by six of them at once, comparing them with 6056 articles written by a group of male subjects. Researchers in 2015 6 Monthly, the results of their research were presented at National Library of Medicine . The conclusion is clear – school shooters score significantly higher in personality narcissism, on the “humiliation” and “revenge” scales (in fact, this definitely corresponds to narcissism).
Nevertheless, the exact portrait of the school killer has not been determined. After all, thousands of young people may have a sense of isolation, self-doubt, vengeance, dissatisfaction, oppression, obsessed with computer games and narcissism. However, they did not commit murder. It seems that such portraits only indicate that this or that person is in danger. But that is not enough, so establishing better psychological assistance in schools and training teachers not only obsessively monitor students’ dresses and why they don’t come to school in uniform, but also paying attention to what is happening in my mind.Before this happens, strict guards and railings on windows may not save the school.
