Book Takes a Look Inside Mass Killer’s Mind

Mass murderers do much to damage us as a society. This includes the people they kill, injure, and terrorize; the police officers and emergency medical workers who must bear witness to the horror they leave behind; the citizens left to live with the emotional scars and lack of trust that results from knowing such monsters live among us; and often, hastily-passed laws to further restrict the freedoms of those who had nothing at all do to with the crime.

A new book, “A Voice out of Nowhere: Inside the mind of a mass murderer,” explores a mass murder in Canada, in which a young man named Bruce Blackman killed six of his relatives. Blackman was found not guilty by reason of insanity and later released, having been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Like so many others, this killer had exhibited warning signs before he finally committed his crimes. As usual, these signs were ignored.

The author, Janice Holly Booth, says, “It’s time to change our attitudes about mental illness and to fix a very broken mental health care system. That’s the only way we’ll have a hope at reducing the high-profile violence committed by people with severe, untreated mental illness and in the process save thousands of lives.”

Hmmmm.

This book is a number one Amazon best-seller, so she must have done something right. It’s available as an e-book or paperback.

Russ Chastain

Editor & Contributing Writer Russ Chastain is a lifelong hunter and shooter who has spent his life learning about hunting, shooting, guns, ammunition, gunsmithing, reloading, and bullet casting. He started toting his own gun in the woods at age nine and he's pursued deer with rifles since 1982, so his hunting knowledge has been growing for more than three and a half decades. His desire and ability to share this knowledge with others has also grown, and Russ has been professionally writing and editing original hunting & shooting content since 1998. Russ Chastain has a passion for sharing accurate, honest, interesting hunting & shooting knowledge and stories with people of all skill levels.