ABSTRACT
Since the Sandy Hook shootings in 2012, there have been over 300 school shootings in the USA, at an average rate of one per week. Next, it is important to think of the act of school shooting not as “a lone wolf act of terror,” but as a passage to the act that aims at inscribing the subject in the social order. Adam Lanza’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook School was a way for him to exit the constant barrage of noise in his head and “make a name” for himself, to become “someone” separated from the infinity that accompanied him. In many of the texts on school shooting, a researcher wants to understand “who” these shooters are and what drives “them” to “kill.” The aim seems commonsensical enough; the shooter is studied as a species apart.
