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He was just crazy (although that doesn’t make the situation any less tragic). This post makes me think of someone wanting revenge on a wild animal. Why does everyone think these lunatics make rational choices about their fixations? Lots of people are jackasses (sometimes). This, like Newton and Aurora, is the result of a deranged mind.
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Shoot, put me in the right situation and the right frame of mind and I’m capable of many unbelievable things. Not mass murder or even anything close mind you, but some pretty out-there things happen when I get spun up.
The common denominator in these mass murders is, as you rightly point out, a deranged mind. If I can lash out when I’m spun-up with my stable environment and mind, imagine what mentally ill minds in unstable environments are capable of.
Hopefully that is what the FBI is already tracking down: not only those with extremist ties, but those who aren’t firing on all cylinders. That is the really dangerous combination.
