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Two years after the Las Vegas mass shooting, via ABC, the official Las Vegas Police report and the story starts with:
This 2020 Link is to a news website and has a Scribd version of the report:...

This is a one page summary of the work by the Behavioral Analysis Unit, dated March 2018. More of a starting point, even a poster / aide memoir for LE and others:...

From The Soufan Group and more direct than normal. BLUF:
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Link:http://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-national-security-in-a-nation-of-mass-shootings/

Captured via Twitter this 28 page report, mainly from their Behavioural Analysis Unit (BAU) and sub-titled:...

A detailed report from the Miami Herald on the shooting and what went wrong. It is not an easy read and the blame does not rest with the Schools Officer present....

One of the better articles I have read since the latest shooting and the author is Malcolm Gladwell; he does not refer to the latest shooting.

He ends with:...

A good article after this week's shooting in Florida:
Link:http://www.defenseone.com/business/2015/07/why-lone-wolf-attacks-are-so-hard-predict/118279/

Now it does not help when the FBI get a...

There have been mass shootings all to often since the last post in September 2016; some may have appeared on the Terrorism in the USA thread. Just checked there was no Forum post on the Las Vegas...

From The Soufan Group:Link:http://soufangroup.com/tsg-intelbrief-america-in-the-age-of-active-shooters/

Thanks Adam G,

I have copied the two posts to the thread The Management of Savagery:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?t=21675



Sadly the overlap maybe all too accurate. What...

I spotted this article via Twitter and it's application is general to US society, not just these...

Slap and Outlaw09,

Perhaps this short Scientific American article can help: 'The Science of Mass Shooters: What Drives a Person to Kill? (sub-title) There is no template for the path to violence...

I do wonder if the US security sector, both government and others, would prefer that such an attacker be a "lone wolf" with announced jihadist views. Responding to the wider societal issues of...

Peter Bergen has an op-ed in the NYT which starts with:

He ends with:
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/opinion/why-do-terrorists-commit-terrorism.html?

After recent reporting, notably...

John Schindler weighs in:http://observer.com/2016/06/jihad-denial-kills-again/

An article that is topical and the sub-title says:
Link:http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/13/radicalisation-islamophobia-orlando-shooting-florida-muslims-trump?

An American academic writes, with pie charts etc:https://theconversation.com/six-things-americans-should-know-about-mass-shootings-48934?

Via Twitter a news agency report ISIS have claimed responsibility for the attack (below).

Note another SME has tweeted:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkxnU_rWYAA5Y0h.jpg

Is this massacre at a gay night club in Orlando, Florida a "lone wolf" attack or an act of Jihadist-inspired terrorism or yet another mass killing?

The second link refers to

I say another mass...