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, a pseudocommando is a mass murderer who commits premeditated

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s driven by revenge fantasies, typically involving the stockpiling of weapons followed by a heavily armed

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-style attack. They typically see their actions through a

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lens as being morally justified in revenge against their unfair treatment by an uncaring world, and wish to "go out in a blaze of glory". Some observers have divided mass killers into three categories: pseudocommandos, family annihilators, and hit-and-run killers.

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