Shooting in Colorado leaves 12 dead, 58 wounded.

[Tiberius]

Eh, nitpicking. Either way the sight of his face sends a wave of indescribable loathing down my spine.

No, not nitpicking. You described this man as "not a human being" and a "deranged, sick, sociopath", all from the fact that you thought he was smirking on his mugshot. The fact is, we have no idea why this man did what he did, whether he was in full control of his mind or not. We shouldn't make such judgements without all the facts.

[KichigaiNeko]

True that. That "Mug-shot" was from his college years (?) So I was to understand.

But the "Dressing up as some 'Cape crusader' bent on murder" is something else again

[Tempus]

Eh, nitpicking. Either way the sight of his face sends a wave of indescribable loathing down my spine.

No, not nitpicking. You described this man as "not a human being" and a "deranged, sick, sociopath", all from the fact that you thought he was smirking on his mugshot. The fact is, we have no idea why this man did what he did, whether he was in full control of his mind or not. We shouldn't make such judgements without all the facts.

Agreed. I've already said my piece in the other thread in the Off Topic forum.

[zebo-the-fat]

As I have said in another thread on this subject, the correct thing to do this this idiot is use him as a forced organ doner... get some use out him before feeding him to worms!

[frankiej]

At least they caught this super villain, but as any Batman fan will know they will escape.

[Manowar]

If he is crazy should he be put to death? Don't let emotions cloud your thinking here. It's only normal to want to kill this guy but he just might be out of his mind.

Manowar

[Tiberius]

Quoting Dr Park Dietz, Forensic Psychologist for truth:

"We've had 20 years of mass murders, throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media: if you do not want to propagate more mass murders, don't start the story with sirens blaring, don't have photographs of the killer, don't make this 24/7 coverage, do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story, not to make the killer some kind of anti-hero. Do localize this story to the affected community and make it as boring as possible in every other market, because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week."

[Minimalist]

Dr. Dietz is undoubtedly correct, Tibs. Unfortunately he is at odds with what the "news" media sees as its job.

Schizophrenia usually occurs in young adulthood and this guy was a walking poster boy for the predictors. Young, male, highly intelligent.

We live in a society which chooses ( yes, chooses) to allow these people to arm themselves to the teeth and then we sit here like dolts and say "why does this keep happening?"

[Manowar]

Dr. Dietz is undoubtedly correct, Tibs. Unfortunately he is at odds with what the "news" media sees as its job.

Schizophrenia usually occurs in young adulthood and this guy was a walking poster boy for the predictors. Young, male, highly intelligent.

We live in a society which chooses ( yes, chooses) to allow these people to arm themselves to the teeth and then we sit here like dolts and say "why does this keep happening?"

it's the world we live in and there is no way to fix it Thsi will keep happening

Manowar

[jackman]

He committed an act of terrorism - take him to guantanamo to await a possible future trial. That IS where we take "terrorists" go, I hear.