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How to stop mass shootings, with Jillian Peterson, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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Interviewing Mass Shooters

The goal of this project is to prevent mass shootings in the future. I just wrote a letter to every living perpetrator I could find who was incarcerated for life. Most of them die in the act like we talked about most of them either kill themselves or killed so we identified I want to say 32 maybe who are living. And from those seven I was able to talk to five now that's not a huge sample group. When you compare it to there's only 30 something living it's a little better and of course the ones who talked to me are not necessarily representative of all perpetrators these are perpetrators who are invested in kind of telling their story I guess. Who have a lot of shame and regret

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