In forensic psychiatry, a pseudocommando is a mass murderer who commits premeditated murder–suicide mass killings driven by revenge fantasies, typically involving the stockpiling of weapons followed by a heavily armed commando-style attack.
They typically see their actions through a narcissistic lens as being morally justified in revenge against their unfair treatment by an uncaring world, and wish to "go out in a blaze of glory".
Some observers have divided mass killers into three categories: pseudocommandos, family annihilators, and hit-and-run killers.
Pseudocommandos will have the tendency to possibly kill themselves after committing the crime and will plan the crime ahead of time ensuring a higher death toll, planning may include ways on how to obtain a weapon and a basic idea of where the majority of people will be.
See also
- Active shooter
- Anders Behring Breivik
- Columbine High School Massacre
- 2014 Isla Vista killings
- Tsuyama massacre
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