you know sometimes shooters are looking at previous attackers and as in the case with jessie osborne very aware of how many fatalities there were and sometimes they want to exceed that number other shooters though have no particular connection to previous shooters they're just acting out their own anguish or rage and it's not related to other attackers there's no role modeling or imitation going on so i think we have to be careful about putting all school shooters into the same category not all of them are following in the footsteps of a previous shooter not all of them are doing it just to become famous or to have a higher number of fatalities what is the main reason behind why what do you think moderates them or is there something that they all have in common i mean besides the fact that they're probably mentally disturbed well there's you know three different types of school shooters that i've identified in my research one type is the psychopathic personality who's very narcissistic lacks empathy and is very intitled second type is the psychotic school shooter and these are the pe