With Sandy Hook Anniversary Near, How Can We Stop the Next Shooting?

Ten years after Sandy Hook – and just months after Uvalde – people continue to ask what motivates these school shooters and what can be done to stop the next massacre.

Institute of Living Psychiatrist-In-Chief Emeritus Hank Schwartz, MD, has been trying to get inside the minds of these killers for the better part of a decade, meticulously combing through public records and whatever facts he can get his hands on.

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Sandy Hook anniversary

With the anniversary of Sandy Hook approaching on Dec. 14, Schwartz has compiled his findings in a presentation, “The Mind of the Mass School Shooter: ‘By the Power of My AR You Will Know Who I Am.’”

Schwartz, who served on the Governor’s Sandy Hook Advisory Commission and was part of the Child Advocate’s investigation and is generally considered one of the foremost experts on the psychology behind mass shootings, is giving his presentation across the country, from Grands Rounds at the University of Texas, Austin, Medical School to the Hartford Hospital Annual Corporators Meeting.

Read more about the profile of a mass shooter and steps to take to try to prevent the next tragedy here.