See the post directly above yours. **** the shooter and **** his desire for notoriety. If we quit obsessing over the killers at the expense of the victims, maybe this could stop happening so frequently. Watch this plea to do the same: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PezlFNTGWv4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Im not obsessed, it's more about finding a solution to this problem. To me it lies with bad parenting.
It can be a number of things. But, for every one of these assholes who sees constant news coverage of the shooters dressed in body armor and posing with their weapons (Virginia Tech, Charleston, Aurora) that is attracted to the obsession with attention given to shooters' "motives" and psyches, it could trigger something inside of them that things they can transform from socially-rejected weakling into a notorious figure.
People always paint these situations as black & white but its much more complex than that. Its always either Blame the guns or Blame the person. Why can't we blame both? And it should not stop at throwing blame. Because all I see are folks blaming the other side, but offer so plans or procedures on how we can improve the situation. It just stops at the blame and then we move on until the next gun incident. We literally saw a live streaming murder not too long ago but it almost like it never even happened. It came and went. I don't know how we fix this problem. But I do know its not as simple as just saying "its just a mental illness issue" or "lets just ban guns".
This country isn't a secure. I know it and I prepare as if bad **** can happen to me or my loved ones at any time. A first world country with 3rd world violence potential at any time. I take that responsibility and just give up on solutions.
Please, spare me. America is a country with 300+ million people. Bad parenting is a guaranteed problem you will never eliminate. Next.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Here's your hero! Chris Mintz, Army vet used to live in Tacoma. He rushed the gunman and survived being shot 7 times <a href="http://t.co/0lj8JF67or" title="http://twitter.com/KnicelyKIRO7/status/649943284207493120/photo/1">pic.twitter.com/0lj8JF67or</a></p>— John R. Knicely (@KnicelyKIRO7) <a href="https://twitter.com/KnicelyKIRO7/status/649943284207493120" data-datetime="2015-10-02T13:45:28+00:00">October 2, 2015</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
America prides itself on its military and defending from outside threats when it has completely failed at defending its own people from each other. Sickening hypocrisy.
Amen to that. Literally 100s of billions of dollars spent defending against external threats that cause less than 1/1000th of the casualties we have here at home. But you dare not lift a finger against the local armories supplying the neighborhood loon.
Those are some of the dumbest, most obvious observations one could make and are not interesting. I can only assume this guy had a serious shortage of intelligence to begin with. Only idiots want to be known for killing people.
A true hero! And how the hell did he get shot 7 times and survive! So happy for him and his son and family that he did though. RIP to those who didn't make it
With the benefit of more information about the shooter's background this morning, I am not sure that this was a case of "bad parenting" but rather a case of a single mother who was taking care of her disturbed son alone and was overwhelmed with the task. The parallels to the Adam Lanza situation are striking - both were isolated individuals who had problems connecting with other people and both suffered from some form of mental illness. Chris Mercer identified himself as a "conservative Republican" and Neo-Nazi who idolized the Irish Republican Army. He lived with his mother who told others that she was caring for her son who was disturbed. He also had a fetish about guns and I'll be most curious to see just how was able to obtain them. I wonder how that Sheriff feels about gun control now? His letter after Sandy Hook is all over the Internet this morning and highlights the crux of the problem behind these mass shootings - that such events are the cost of doing business as far as the 2nd Amendment is concerned and that nothing cannot be done about this sad state of events without abridging our "constitutional rights".
Check the exact comparison: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/02/us/oregon-shooting-terrorism-gun-violence/index.html It's even more overwhelmingly ridiculous than I had imagined. We are just a cauldron of self-harming fear.
