I agree - but I don't think that this is helping discover the why - or at least, not diving deeply enough. It isn't to be found in the person committing it as much as the society that encourages it perhaps. It is part of the problem I reckon.
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A friend of mine spent a few years in the US, and said it's very different to Australia, culturally. Wealth and fame are so much more important there.
If people don't know your face or name and you don't look wealthy, you're irrelevant. Background noise.
Seems like the perfect storm for people facing a lifetime of being background noise, to decide there's only one way to become a household name.
Martin Bryant is a household name here; but nobody wants to emulate him; because being a household name isn't really that important.
This is an incredibly salient point. With such an disparity in wealth, it makes it a tinderbox for so many social dysfunctions.