A Book in Review – Berserk!

Book Count: 10

Berserk! : Terrifying True Stories of Notorious Mass Murders and the Deranged Killers Who Committed Them, By: Graham Chester
Non-fiction: true crime, physiology 252 pages 1993

As this is an older book we will not review it, but instead let you know how to tell if you or someone you know is more likely to become a mass murder based on things that most ones have in common.

1. Being male: (according to the FBI over 90% of people who kill 4 or more people or men. Women killers tend to kill either only family members, for money, for ideology or while helping a male loved one who is a killer.)

2. Being white/ being in the historic majority ethnic group and/or group that runs the majority of the country.

3. Being an only child or first born with an unusually close relationship with your mother and a negative or non-existent relationship with your father.

4. Being part of a culture that values guns: Actually it depends on how you value guns, the more American “wild west” type way a group of people see guns the more likely they are to have mass murders.

5. Having an inflated sense of personal sovereignty: see #2 and 3.

6. Being socially isolated: We all know mass murders are almost always described as nice quiet/shy guys.

7. Being lower class or first generation middle class and being obsessed with getting more status.

8. Being obsessed with the military: If in the military one is most likely a private first class or a corporal. Also see #4.

9. Feeling like a failure: A lose of a job, getting kicked out of school or some other failure is often what triggers the attack.

Other traits often connected with mass murderers.

1. Having a dark secret that you are afraid people know about: Especially a sexual secret such as extreme Oedipal complex or soliciting gay sex in back alleys.

2. Having an extremely conservative moral code or sense of patriotism: This is especially true in the case in those with the dark secret that goes against everything else that they believe in, although there are a number of mass murders who we would consider Nazis.

3. Having grown up in an abusive home: They will also show abusive behavior shortly before the murders.

4. Being paranoid or fearful: see #1.

5. Being obsessed with an Armageddon.

6. Watching mainly violent TV shows and movies with a vilagantie, dirty cop, revenge etc. themes.