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Shooting in Colorado leaves 12 dead, 58 wounded.

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Shooting in Colorado leaves 12 dead, 58 wounded.
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RE: Shooting in Colorado leaves 12 dead, 58 wounded.
July 23, 2012 at 9:20 pm
I am curious as to how he obtained his materials, how he figured it out and how long he was at it.

I'd also like to see what the results of a court ordered psychiatric evaluation have to state. If only...
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RE: Shooting in Colorado leaves 12 dead, 58 wounded.
July 23, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Quote:This man is not a human being. He is a subhuman slime. A deranged, sick, sociopath.


Sociopath? Possibly, but very human,fitting easily within broad parameters of human behavior.

It has been my observation that we sanctify/hero worship or demonise those we perceive as 'special' IE especially good/talented/ successful or especially bad,nasty,violent,.murderous etc.


In my opinion we do that to distance ourselves from such people saying "I'm not like THAT". We then don't have to bother trying to be better than we are, and convince ourselves we could we ever do the same horrible things as X Y or Z/. Of course we could,it's only a matter of circumstance.

In her book 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' Hanna Arendt coined the term 'the banality of evil' to describe the utter ordinariness of some of the worst Nazi criminals. Evil people rarely see themselves as evil.
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RE: Shooting in Colorado leaves 12 dead, 58 wounded.
August 14, 2012 at 11:41 am (This post was last modified: August 14, 2012 at 2:51 pm by Cinjin.)
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RE: Shooting in Colorado leaves 12 dead, 58 wounded.
August 14, 2012 at 12:18 pm
So long as this guy ends up in a position where he is unable to repeat the act, I say job well done.
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RE: Shooting in Colorado leaves 12 dead, 58 wounded.
August 14, 2012 at 7:25 pm
(August 14, 2012 at 12:18 pm)Rhythm Wrote: So long as this guy ends up in a position where he is unable to repeat the act, I say job well done.


Yup, first remove his head--------I understand there is a zero recidivist rate among deceased miscreants.. Thinking
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