ABSTRACT
The case studies on the politicized events address the political processing of individual rampage shootings, but since multiple shootings sometimes occurred within the same country, the discussion of constant political and socio-cultural factors would create redundancies within some of the case studies. This chapter focuses on the affected country's socio-cultural and political institutions, in order to allow the reader to evaluate the extent to which the conditions outlined in theoretical expectations 8a and 8b are present. It introduces the individual cases descriptively and analyse their political processing by focusing on the other, more case-specific conditions presented in theoretical expectations 5–7. The chapter considers with a comparative assessment and a conclusion on the factors found to be important for policy change and stability after rampage shootings. It discusses empirical focus to continental Europe and start with the country that has experienced the most rampage shootings during investigation.
