'Shots fired' in Munich shopping centre

[ignoramus]

Tell me more please. What sort of pattern? What's your opinion on what's been happening these last few years... Are we becoming more violent? More cray cray?

[Alex K]

So Abaris. Do you see any connection between the crazies going solo and the ISIS jobs? Co-incidence? copycat? Lots of depressed people around?

Religion-wise and ethnically, a connection between ISIS and a half-Persian seems less likely, no?

[The Viking]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36874497

The gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings and had an obvious link to Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, German police say.

Police who searched the 18-year-old's room say they found written material on attacks.

The gunman, who later killed himself, had a 9mm Glock pistol and 300 bullets.

Police are investigating whether he may have lured his victims through a Facebook invitation to a restaurant.

He is suspected of using a fake account under a girl's name to invite people to the McDonald's restaurant where he launched his attack.

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Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae said there was an "obvious" link between the new attack and Friday's fifth anniversary of Breivik's attacks in Norway, when he murdered 77 people.

A spokesman for the Munich prosecutor, Thomas Steinkraus-Koch, said the killer might have been receiving psychiatric care.

"We are assuming that he may have suffered from depression," he said. "As far as we know he has no criminal record. In 2012 and 2010 he was a victim of an attack - on one occasion he was beaten by three young offenders."

[ignoramus]

Not with this Iranian German national, no. But in general. Do we know what kind of shit is going on in their heads?
Do we know that they haven't been personally inspired by ISIS? Or is "mental" the only official PC response that people need to know ...
"Nothing to see here folks ...move along ...it was just a non affiliated garden variety crazy man ..."

[abaris]

Tell me more please. What sort of pattern? What's your opinion on what's been happening these last few years... Are we becoming more violent? More cray cray?

There's nothing more to tell, since I don't want to talk out of my ass. Mass shooters or any guy running amok, are usually playing an end game without hoping or striving to get out of it alive.

[ignoramus]

So most aren't trying to make a political statement? Nice driver, the last 2 German incidences?
If so, there's a bloody lot of wackos coming out of the woodwork all of a sudden.

[The Viking]

So most aren't trying to make a political statement? Nice driver, the last 2 German incidences?
If so, there's a bloody lot of wackos coming out of the woodwork all of a sudden.

Strikingly, I think this may be true.

Whilst political motivation is predominantly the main motivator in many of these instances, it's also terrifying to consider that another motivation - increasingly - is the need to "be famous" or rather, infamous, in the age of social media/instant news.

We live in a world so utterly disconnected emotionally, that many of these people - sick/mentally challenged/in need of support/disenfranchised/alienated - find these events to be the only way to be 'heard' in whatever way they think justifies their means.

It's ultimately sad and sickening in equal measure.

[paulpablo]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nHYC4ekzg6...rch=always

I just read a newspaper article saying was this shooter made to feel like a misfit, is the countries chauvinism to blame, reminded me of this video.

[ignoramus]

Vik, fair enough, and by what Alex suggested, what is wrong with society these days which has manifested itself to this extent?
Is humanity failing itself? No fix in sight? What is the root cause? Kids not eating their vegetables?

[RobertE]

Tell me more please. What sort of pattern? What's your opinion on what's been happening these last few years... Are we becoming more violent? More cray cray?

We are no more violent now than we were over a hundred years ago.