Not to say that you&#x27;re wrong and Gladwell is right, but you&#x27;re ignoring most of his argument!  The core, to me, is that a lot of these young men are just highly obsessive kids on the autism spectrum.  They develop a fascination with the lore of school shootings (not hard to understand - I&#x27;ve read about too many of these kids myself) and are just missing a few emotional checks and balances that would stop a neurotypical person from obsessing over the methods of past shooters and planning an attack of their own.<p>Then there&#x27;s the &quot;threshold effect&quot;, which suggests that each shooter may require less emotional disturbance&#x2F;aggression than the last - for just the right obsessive mind missing a few internal checks and balances,  planning and executing an attack seems more and more perversely &quot;normal&quot;.