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MeatiestMeatus posted...

adjl was speaking to a potential motive for the shooter being having possibly been abused by people at the school. The school represents a place where substantial trauma occurred for them (allegedly, motive is still unclear and may never be known). The children, and possibly the adults, were innocent bystanders, which is something adjl spoke to if you were paying any attention

Soooo... Shooter targeting the school where they were abused, child targeting their abusive parents... Not hard to suss out the comparison

I was more just raising a scenario in which it's very easy to defend blaming the victim, leading in to the conclusion that victim blaming is sometimes appropriate with a few truckloads of caveats (most notably, trying to avoid "they deserved this" and instead focusing on "this is what people in similar situations can do to prevent similar outcomes"), but that's also relevant. They targeted the school as an institution, irrationally lashing out over some perceived harm (real or otherwise, though as I insinuated, a trans student at a Christian private school in Tennessee probably did suffer some real harm). Most or all of the individual victims were most likely just bystanders in that attack. The blame I'm considering is to the school as an institution (and transphobic culture in a broader sense), not for any of the individual victims.