Target - good thoughts

I read about an American shooter's hobby being target shooting.
If target shooting is one of your many interests, and you have other pursuits before and after, maybe the negative thoughts are balanced or eclipsed by other activities. But this kid had blacked out windows. He did not see anyone or anything else. He was lacking a group of cheerful friends and family to take him on peaceful pursuits and happy celebrations. The target of his day and thoughts was target shooting. For a mentally disturbed boy, this is the one thing which should have been off the menu. Lots of other good things should have been on the menu. Maybe a small affectionate pet, a skill which did not involve attack, an interest in history, where the enemy is another time and place and not anybody he would see in his daily life, maybe building and creating, growing or gardening, if he was obsessive and focused, a repetitive task such as painting by numbers, if he was bright doing competitions or creating crosswords, giving him some feeling of power over the environment, not destroying but creating.