Active shooter in NZ

[Yonadav]

I also object on calling him "mentally ill".

This is a terrorist, fair and square. His ass should be executed in public.

It is possible to be disturbed and a terrorist too. Far too often the word "mental illness" gets defined as cartoon crazy. NO, you can  be quite lucid and sane and still be disturbed enough to do sick shit like he did. I m not downplaying it.  You have to be disturbed to do something like that, regardless of motive. He was a terrorist yes.


I suffer from mental illness. I am quite sane though. I am not desperate or disturbed or indoctrinated. That asshole was. 

That asshole was a terrorist, but he was still disturbed and indoctrinated.

I don't know, dude. I'm with Atlas on this. No professional has done a psychoanalysis on this guy yet. He is not necessarily disturbed or indoctrinated. He might be just a guy who really believes that a war needs to be waged against Islamic immigrants. He can consider himself to be a soldier toward that end without being disturbed. He would be no more disturbed than a Native American in the 18th century who attacked white settlements because he believed that the spread of the white settlers had to be stopped.

He attacked with no exit plan, and we should probably be grateful for that, at least. We're really in trouble if these guys start adopting guerrilla hit and run tactics. The guy is a terrorist, but he seems to not be a member of a group that is organized for tactics and strategy.  I don't know a thing about his state of mind and neither do you. Calling him disturbed and indoctrinated is jumping the gun, and is sort of providing him with an excuse (like that used by the ISIS women who are now claiming that they were just dumb brainwashed girls).