Chris Watts is a more horrific killer than a school shooter because his murders were more personal, he consciously made the decision to go through with it, and he did it for a more egotistical reason. I intend to prove this by comparing Chris Watts's motive vs. most school shooters' motive, their relationships with the victims, and how mental illness is at play. The first way to prove this is by comparing the average school shooter’s motive and Chris Watt’s motive. Research from alfred.edu shows that the top 2 reasons why school shooters commit mass killings are because they want to get back at those who have hurt them and because other kids pick on them, make fun of them, or bully them. This suggests that school shooters feel as if they have been
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The second way to show that Chris Watts is a more horrific killer than a school shooter is by comparing their relationships to their victims. Feeding off of the last paragraph, school shooters commit mass killings because they have been, more or less, harassed by multiple individuals at school. So this means, school shooters are normally aiming for their bullies and the people that have harmed them. Conversely, Chris Watts ended the two young lives that he created along with his pregnant wife. Chris had a much more emotional connection with his victims, as he was the father to his daughters and the husband to his wife. He murdered them by strangling his wife and suffocating his children. Strangulation usually takes about 4 to 6 minutes before the person is dead, and while suffocating his children in their blanket, Chris said his daughters were crying out, “Daddy, No!” That means Chris spent time during the killing, and he was up close and personal while harming the people he was meant to
The second way to show that Chris Watts is a more horrific killer than a school shooter is by comparing their relationships to their victims. Feeding off of the last paragraph, school shooters commit mass killings because they have been, more or less, harassed by multiple individuals at school. So this means, school shooters are normally aiming for their bullies and the people that have harmed them. Conversely, Chris Watts ended the two young lives that he created along with his pregnant wife. Chris had a much more emotional connection with his victims, as he was the father to his daughters and the husband to his wife. He murdered them by strangling his wife and suffocating his children. Strangulation usually takes about 4 to 6 minutes before the person is dead, and while suffocating his children in their blanket, Chris said his daughters were crying out, “Daddy, No!” That means Chris spent time during the killing, and he was up close and personal while harming the people he was meant to