Prayers and thoughts to the victims and their families.
It is surreal but I am waiting for my family to mark themselves as safe. A former co worker just did but waiting for my cousins to do so. They live in the area too.
Prayers to all.
this is awful.
... i think if some one is off, then he/she will find a cause. This guy did not select a group of women, he ran down everyone who was on the street. People from his school and neighbors saying he always had issues..
As I was watching the news tonight, witnesses reported that he seemed to spare men and target women. So far the police has reported that most victims were women, but they are cautious and won't give any detail yet about the motives.
In the past few days, as it's time to discuss the sentence to come for the author of last year's attack at a mosque in Quebec City, it was said that the criminal had been bullied growing up. Again, bullying doesn't does not make someone do something like that. However, I can see how serious social difficulties could possibly be one of many factors that lead someone to a path like this. Both could play a part into social exclusion, which in turn could lead someone to frequent online communities that also broadcast extreme ideas and ideals. As much as I roll my eyes when some people seem to believe that bullying, autism or something along those lines explains all there is to explain, or make them less responsible for what they did, I also think that it would be a mistake to discard these completely if we're looking for explanations. I see it like a plane crash: there is never one single cause.
