The Guardian interviewed my Stepdad about his new book on lone-mass killers www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

We have to deny them celebrity and refuse to name them. We have to deny them their blaze of glory. The men who committed the Australian massacres were locked away. In prison stripes they lose their “evil celebrity” status, and can be as the fearful and confused young men they really are.

Here in Australia, gun control has stopped the copycat shootings but not all mass killings with knives or vehicles. Paul has long argued that gun control is vital but by itself can’t end the cycle of copycat violence which sad, pathetic, isolated young men obsessed with guns follow.

My Stepdad, Paul Mullen, is a psychiatrist, he profiled the lone gunmen behind the Monash Uni, Hoddle Street and Port Arthur mass killings. His book ‘Running Amok: Inside the mind of a lone mass killer’ comes out in a week of almost daily US mass killings. extraordinarybooks.co.uk/book/running...

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