Editor's Note: This security-focused assessment was originally published on Stratfor Threat Lens in July 2018; we republish it to share our views on the subject of identifying attackers in light of the two mass shootings in the United States the weekend of Aug. 3-4. It is one of many such analyses found at Stratfor Threat Lens, a unique protective intelligence product designed with corporate security leaders in mind. Threat Lens enables industry professionals and organizations to anticipate, identify, measure and mitigate emerging threats to people, assets, and intellectual property the world over. Threat Lens is the only unified solution that analyzes and forecasts security risk from a holistic perspective, bringing all the most relevant global insights into a single, interactive threat dashboard. In 2007, a 14-year-old boy in Pennsylvania was arrested because he had asked a friend to help him attack a local school.