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Without gun control, youngsters can quite easily become killers. What makes them get to this point?
White Rage is the story of Lauri, and through him the story of other victims of both school bullying and a separate childhood traumata: victims full of white rage, which may lead to school shootings and other extreme acts of violence.
Lauri became an academic researcher and respected scientist specializing in human aggression and violence. Yet when he was growing up he experienced extreme bullying. At two points – as a teen and again as a university student – he began to develop serious fantasies about committing mass murder. White Rage documents Lauri's life journey; how he became a carrier of white rage and how he survived this heavy burden by recognizing it and taking to action.
We live in a society without sufficient understanding or desire to address the emergence of school violence. Lauri has studied profiles of the mass murders both in Finland and abroad. He noticed that many of them were motivated by and acted under the influence of white rage, with the mass destruction planned over a long period of time. Lauri believes that when school bullying is combined with a separate trauma experienced in childhood, this can create a vulnerability that will develop into white rage.
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