did you not know this before? it's fascinating - he was 100% the result of the "MKULTRA" stuff. Like, I'm not a conspiracy person but the government broke his brain, totally. We have a big chapter of no-nos in social experiments basically due to this, the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment, and the Stanford prison experiment. We are still learning from the research that overzealous nuts conducted tho, so go figure. There's a few documentaries I can recommend on Unabomber if you want, due to the locale of his bombings I've done a lot of armchair detective work about him (and he checked out a book from my school library!)
Unabomber was a weird outlier, btw - way closer to how serial killers operate rather than a typical mass murderer, due to the time between attacks, and his bombs were usually meant for one individual. I don't think we should use him as a correlational example between him and school shooters and their methods. Columbine was an outlier because of the two shooters teaming up together. However, Eric and Dylan had been visited by the cops many, many times before they carried out their plot. There was plenty of warning and no one listened or knew what to do.
Las Vegas guy is an easier case to follow. he had a ton of guns, he was involved in previous illegal activity, and he recently lost a ton of money. His trajectory makes sense. We don't know how long he was planning it tho.
In many of these cases (both with school and mass shooters,) the cops were aware of the shooter's violent inclinations. They were usually not people who had no interaction with the law, they usually were known to law enforcement.
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