usmarine0352_2005
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With this recent shooting in Virginia of 2 journalists that was the first of it's kind, being on-air and taped by the killer and then quickly put on social media. Some say he may have used a Gopro camera attached to his head via headband. I think this will be the start of a new era for mass killers. Taping the killing has happened before but never put on social media to gloat over. Sadly I think this is just the start of this horrible type of crime.
People are saying that this has to do with guns and mental health. Obviously, you can't blame the gun as it is merely a tool. On the same day a man stabbed 3 women with a kitchen knife, killing one, and then killed a police officer who responded with his own duty weapon, and that officer happened to be his own cousin. Without the gun that killer managed to attack 3 people and kill 1 without a gun.
Both are cases where mental illness could be part of it but they could also not be the problem. It could simply be 2 angry people. One who most likely has a history of domestic abuse and the other a man who was the eternal victim, always believing that he was being wronged by people and racism obviously played a role in his case as he stated so in his manifesto that he sent to the news station after the killing.
I'm not sure that either of these killers were schizophrenic, bi-polar, multiple personality disorder or anything else. They may have simply been 2 men with anger issues.
If the VA killer had planned all of this and been a KKK member people would have said, "This isn't a mental disorder, this is just a racist SOB."
If the VA killer had planned all of this and been a Radical Islamic Terrorist or Al Qaeda member people wouldn't have immediately said he had mental health problems, they would have said he was a radical idealist who was carrying out his plot.
We don't talk about the 9/11 attacks as being carried out by 19 men with mental health disorders, we say it was 19 men with radical religious ideals.
The Nazis killed millions of innocent people and the Nazis aren't considered thousands of men and women with mental illnesses.
People say that Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter was a radical religious idealist while the military labeled it workplace violence. No one says he had mental health issues.
Perhaps you can say that someone willing to kill many people for whatever reason have a mental illness. Whether this is correct or not, I don't know.
So, as much as I'm tired of hearing that guns are the problem I'm also tired of people immediately saying that it has to do with mental illness when it may not do that. It may just sadly just be a very angry person.
I think some people want catharsis in being able to say it was a crazy person or what not but that doesn't mean it's true.
Being an angry person isn't illegal. And being an angry person doesn't make you fail a gun background check. So don't be surprised when people with no criminal or mental history get guns and commit crimes, they may simply be very angry people.
People are saying that this has to do with guns and mental health. Obviously, you can't blame the gun as it is merely a tool. On the same day a man stabbed 3 women with a kitchen knife, killing one, and then killed a police officer who responded with his own duty weapon, and that officer happened to be his own cousin. Without the gun that killer managed to attack 3 people and kill 1 without a gun.
Both are cases where mental illness could be part of it but they could also not be the problem. It could simply be 2 angry people. One who most likely has a history of domestic abuse and the other a man who was the eternal victim, always believing that he was being wronged by people and racism obviously played a role in his case as he stated so in his manifesto that he sent to the news station after the killing.
I'm not sure that either of these killers were schizophrenic, bi-polar, multiple personality disorder or anything else. They may have simply been 2 men with anger issues.
If the VA killer had planned all of this and been a KKK member people would have said, "This isn't a mental disorder, this is just a racist SOB."
If the VA killer had planned all of this and been a Radical Islamic Terrorist or Al Qaeda member people wouldn't have immediately said he had mental health problems, they would have said he was a radical idealist who was carrying out his plot.
We don't talk about the 9/11 attacks as being carried out by 19 men with mental health disorders, we say it was 19 men with radical religious ideals.
The Nazis killed millions of innocent people and the Nazis aren't considered thousands of men and women with mental illnesses.
People say that Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter was a radical religious idealist while the military labeled it workplace violence. No one says he had mental health issues.
Perhaps you can say that someone willing to kill many people for whatever reason have a mental illness. Whether this is correct or not, I don't know.
So, as much as I'm tired of hearing that guns are the problem I'm also tired of people immediately saying that it has to do with mental illness when it may not do that. It may just sadly just be a very angry person.
I think some people want catharsis in being able to say it was a crazy person or what not but that doesn't mean it's true.
Being an angry person isn't illegal. And being an angry person doesn't make you fail a gun background check. So don't be surprised when people with no criminal or mental history get guns and commit crimes, they may simply be very angry people.
