Shooter is the story of a shooter-massacre stopped before it can happen. When Jim sees a teenage boy with two shotguns beneath his trench coat nearing the entrance of the local high school, Jim pulls his own firearm and stops a potential massacre. Jim is a hero. But as more details on the incident are uncovered, what really happened becomes a lot less clear.
Shooter focuses on the fallout among three friends, each of whom may have contributed in some way to a thwarted high school mass killing. In an era rife with massacres carried out almost exclusively by men, Shooter explores the relationship between gun violence and the male identity.
