Buffalo Roam:
It seems that most people here don't get it, the guy was a loser, and your trying to understand him as a rational person, that is your mistake, the guy wasn't rational, he was irrational, and didn't care that he was, he didn't seek any help for his problems, he just took his piss off out on the nearest people that he had in his reach, you are trying to understand this as a rational act and it was any thing but rational...
He made a rational choice to start shooting people. He obviously planned this in advance. He wrote about it. He made videos.
This wasn't a spur-of-the-moment impulse.
...banning guns won't stop this from happening, placing a police officer on every corner won't stop this from happening, making schools a gun free zone won't stop this from happening, all it will do is make it safe for the walking pieces of self centered shit to kill easier, The government doesn't have to protect you, the police don't have to protect you, that is case law in ever country that I can find the information on, it is up to you to protect your self, that means start making a plan think it out, look for what your going to do if this situation happens to you, and you are required to do the thinking before hand, either plan to defend your self, and make the choice to skirt the law by being armed, or get a CCW permit, plan a escape route from every place that you frequent, but do some planning before the situation ever happens, that means you have to be aware of your situation, ,you have to know were the escape route are, and you have to make you decisions as to what your going to do as it happens.
Typically American paranoia.
First, you "other" this guy by assuming he is very different from you. But in the next breath you're advocating precisely the same kind of violence he advocated.
You have a weird kind of double-think. You divide everybody into "good people" and "bad people", and ignore the fact that people are people. Things are not black and white. Nobody is born bad. Nobody is bad all the time. People choose to commit evil acts, or not. And they make rational choices.
Easily available legal weapons of course mean that the consequences of such choices can be much more dire than they otherwise would be.
He was different, he killed 32 people for his own personnel failings, a normal person wouldn't do this, would you? all this psychobabble is for the birds, this idea of yours, is making him out not to be the one at fault, well sorry it was him, and him alone that chose the path that he embarked on, he is the one who went down this road of personnel failure...
Compare the bold statement here with your earlier statement.
You're contradicting yourself. First, you claim he was irrational, crazy, not in control of himself - probably mentally ill. But next you claim he made a rational choice to follow a certain path.
So which is it? Rational or irrational?
I think you just can't face the fact that many people in the same circumstances might have had an urge to act in a similar way. You can't simply write the guy off as a nutty individual uninfluenced by the society in which he lives, the people he interacts with and so on.
I know why you
want to, of course. It's so you don't have to bear any of the blame.
invert_nexus:
More American disconnection and "other"ing.
Anyway.
Anyone else bored with this shit yet?
Or am I just being a jaded American?
What breeds this lack of empathy in Americans? Why is it all about you, and never about anybody else?
33 people have died. And your only reaction is that you are "bored with this shit".
What does this say about you?
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Really, you people make an interesting study. The insight into the "average" American psyche is breathtaking.
