Official Mass Shooter Thread

[Rev. Rye]

Consider - the motherfucker in question in this case killed 8 people in cold blood. 6 were Asian 2 were not.
So are we going to debate what percentage of his hatred is directed at Asian people?

Who gives a shit? Overall his discrimination against Asians is peanuts compared to the fact that he killed 8 human beings.

Remember Elliot Rodger? On 22 May 2014, he killed seven people (including himself). 5 men and 2 women (including himself). You’d think that he would have more hatred towards men than women. Unfortunately, he left a wealth of information where he outright explains why he got to this point. Including this video (made in between phases of his killing spree):



And this 141-page manifesto/autobiography/outline of his future crimes. And if you’re interested in gleaning ANY insight into why he did what he did (something I doubt Biker actually is), his motives become painfully obvious: misogyny. Specifically, sexual frustration that happened because he was too shy to talk to girls and socially unaware enough that he never figured out that he was the one supposed to take the initiative. The one time he tried, it seems he just said “hi” to her at such a low volume that she probably didn’t even register that anything happened and he cried for an hour because it failed.

So, how did he end up killing more men than women? Well, Elliot outlined his plans for the Day of Retribution on pages 132 and 133 of his manifesto, and each phase he described fell short of his grandiose plans. Here’s a little rundown I made a while back of his plans vs. what actually ended up happening, with explanation for why they all failed, because, frankly, the reasons are obvious.

(Note: I changed the wording in places, but it’s all for readability; no real information is lost or gained.)

1. He was to kill his stepmother Soumaya, who he describes as abusive, and his half-brother Jazz, who he feared would grow up to be a bigger success than him (allegedly, Soumaya fed these fears, even claiming he’d lose his virginity at a young age. Of course, we only have Elliot’s words for this.) Afterward, he would steal his father’s Mercedes SUV (more on this later). In reality, this entire phase was to be canceled because, contrary to his expectations, his father was still in town. Because he didn’t want to hesitate in killing his father (and leaving him alive would likely throw a wrench in the whole deal), nothing happened.
   
2. He planned to turn his dorm room into a torture chamber where he would lure women and torture them to death, severing their heads in the process. Since he had two roommates, he would have to kill them. In reality, he not only killed both roommates, but one of their guests. However, he never got around to luring women there, because, A) he stabbed one of them 94 times, and the cleanup necessary after all that carnage was intense, and B) well, I refer you to the passages on how simply approaching a woman was a bridge too far for Elliot to master.
   
3. He decided he would break into a sorority house on campus, specifically the Alpha Phi sorority, which was apparently the hottest sorority on campus. He planned to break into the house and kill as many women as possible with guns and knives before burning the building down. In reality, this plan was foiled because the door had a newfangled invention on it called a Lock. Instead of trying to break a window, like any normal psychopath bent on slaughtering sorority girls, he simply tried to knock on it. They didn’t hear, but two other girls noticed it, and he killed them. 
   
4. After this, he’d rush into his father’s SUV and drive down Del Playa street, ramming as many people as he can and shooting the rest. At some point, he’d dump a bag of the severed heads of the girls he tortured in Phase 2 onto the street and proclaiming how he made them all suffer. He’d keep this up until the cops arrive, at which point, he’d find a secluded place for him to take some Xanax, Vicodin, and alcohol, and give himself a little lead poisoning for good measure. In reality, because he only had his BMW coupe, the only people he killed were some random kid trying to buy a pack of potato chips, and himself (in much the same manner as planned, except he had the misfortune of crashing into a parked vehicle, “forcing” him to kill himself there.)
   

Maybe the two white people the shooter in Georgia killed were mistakes or just collateral damage (sometimes you miss shots or maybe you shoot something you didn’t plan on shooting), but, while even the shooter denied race was a motive in this case, what’s harder to deny is that he did this at a time when Anti-Asian sentiment has been booming. Trump’s “Chinese Virus” rhetoric has been linked to increased anti-Asian views being expressed online. And in the real world, even as hate crimes have overall dropped in the past year, crimes against Asian-Americans have skyrocketed.. It might not be as clear cut a motive as misogyny was in Elliot Rodger’s case, but given the social climate, it’s still relevant.