(August 16, 2012 at 9:16 am)Epimethean Wrote: Clive, do you want to talk about the gunman, his sanity, or his actions, and, based on which of those should we discuss ideology?
People are generally motivated by beliefs--unless this guy really just randomly decided to shoot up this place and then randomly decided to say it was because of what the organization stood for.
Figuring out what beliefs motivated this guy could be important--helpful in predicting if/when it could happen again, identifying potential targets in order to better protect them, looking for "red flags" that could help identify similar offenders in the future, etc.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
