Unmasking the Rise: Exploring the Motivations of Mass Shooters in the Growing Epidemic of Mass Murders

What Makes Them Tick, and Who, or What, is Winding the Clock?

On January 4th of 2024, a 17-year-old student of Perry High School in Iowa opened fire on the first day back from the holiday break, killing a sixth grader, 11-year-old Ahmir Jolliff, and wounding seven others, one of whom was a staff member of the school. Police reports show that the gunman was armed with a pump-action shotgun and a small caliber pisto…