I&#x27;m honestly trying to understand your point of view, and coming up empty.<p>Those misguided (or not) fools who think they can become rock stars often ignore the lack of cooperation. Even a few of the successful ones get where they are by ignoring the lack of anointment. It does not seem to be the requirement you make it out of... we live in a world of 7 billion people, after all, and the statistical noise alone is enough to give someone a fanbase of hundreds of thousands if they put in the effort and have a little luck.<p>But, most teenage dumbasses that claim they&#x27;ll be a rock star spend a little too much focus on drugs, and not nearly enough on the effort part.<p>We don&#x27;t believe them (or, at least, I don&#x27;t believe them) not because it&#x27;s impossible, but because they do not put in the work to back up their daydream fantasies.<p>Why would the same not be true of a wannabe shooter?<p>You&#x27;ve super-imposed your beliefs with the thinnest veneer of logic, but it isn&#x27;t very convincing. Many people want to believe that these kids can be identified prior to massacres, because it would be comforting to live in such a world. But there is no way to do that. Jumping to the conclusion that his teenage obsession&#x27;s paraphernalia indicates that he would have done this is silly. There&#x27;s no way to know if there is ever any correlation between the two. Playing with fireworks (and even explosives) as a teenager is hardly unusual... I suspect this describes hundreds of thousands or even millions of them. If that were the case, then it does not correlate at all to future school shootings.