(June 18, 2015 at 7:09 am)Brian37 Wrote: I am not ready to call this a racist act. I'd have to know if this murderer said anything while shooting. But it could be simply a mentally disturbed individual just like the Newton shooter. If it was racist you could certainly say outside influences lead that sick fuck to that target, but I'd say mental illness regardless is going to come into play.
Even with that theater shooter, I don't like the legal standard of not guilty by reason of mental defect. I think outside a courtroom in psychology, you can know right from wrong, and be mentally ill at the same time. I think you can be guilty and mentally ill at the same time.
I think even with cases of religious violence, you are still talking about delusion and disenfranchisement combined to create acts of desperation.
Last report is that the shooter posted a picture of himself wearing a pro-apartheid jacket. Pretty sure this is going to prove to be at least partly a racist act. That it was also an act of an insane person is a given.
