I feel long in the past before social media romantizing criminals was just as big a thing, Bonnie & Clyde, ....
Yes, it's always been a thing. But with social media all of these crazies have found each other. It's like how flat earthers started out as a jokey meme but then it became a real conspiracy that people started to believe in after it gained popularity online.
Yeah, I feel TikTok is especially bad at connection really weird people
Someone online said the USA would have to Annex Ontario (Canada) to get a jury that didn’t hate healthcare insurance companies.
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He's also 26, which puts him just a bit past the point where many mental health problems (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, etc.) begin to manifest.
This was my first thought.
When I took World Regional Geography, I had to write a paper predicting the course of terrorism in the US for the next 10 years, and what I found in the research said that this would be the course of terrorism in US for the foreseeable future--lone wolf shooters. There were a number of reasons why this was considered likely more likely here than elsewhere, although it was thought that all developed countries were at fairly high risk.
Definitely not ruling it out. I brought it up in the first place because I thought it might be relevant. Or it might not.
A combination of wanting to make sense of things and wanting to assure ourselves that we are still safe even though random people are going around executing people and guns are everywhere. (That's my take on it.)
He's definitely upside down (mentally).
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I have a percentage of young female students who are obsessed with serial killers. From what I have read, there is a strong correlation between certain types of emotional trauma in young people and that sort of fixation on criminals.
Probably, but that is just further proof that we are an illogical species. Making sense of random things just means understanding that they are random; it doesn't make us safer.
It happens in Canada too of course. I am not one of those people. It’s very weird.
One of my favourite genres used to be serial killer novels which had to have more than one dead body. Patricia Cornwell, Michael Connelly, James Paterson, Jonathan Kellerman, etc. And Silence of the Lambs is a fantastic read. And then non-fiction books about serial killers too.
I'm not talking about novels. I'm talking about being absolutely fixated on actual serial killers.
According to the Redditors, that statement was uploaded after he was detained so they think it’s fake. I have not seen any other references to it. NYT, ABC etc did report on some Reddit posts by the shooter that he was in debilitating pain for a year and a half, but the surgery was so successful that he was off pain killers 7 days after the surgery and was now pain free. He also posted on Reddit that he had brain fog during school and BCBS paid for all his testing associated with it.
Yes I think the point was to get caught so he has a platform (trial) to get his message out there re: healthcare insurance and try to force change within the industry.
The conspiracy theorists are taking a different tack, which is questioning why someone so smart and methodical would still have the gun and other stuff on him, so they think he's being framed.
Jordan Peterson is completely crazy.
He could have been on the move to kill another victim.
What’s the thinking on this?
Quarter life crisis?
