My impression after reading it all is that there may be some merit to the riot theory of escalating school shootings, but that LaDue is an outlier that doesn&#x27;t fit into that theory.<p>Gladwell is attempting to draw a parallel between the &quot;hundredth rioter&quot; who would only riot if everyone and their mother was already doing so, and LaDue, who is a mild mannered and non-malevolent hobbyist in mass murder.<p>But an autist who is obsessed with the concept of riots in general and goes about rioting with a clinical and scientific detachment devoid of emotion fits nowhere in the social theory of rioting which Gladwell is trying to bring in.