That's like telling Congress there's no god. Or Easter bunny. Or self-serving billionaire with a bucket full of bribe money.

They decided to focus on the people most likely to commit mass murder.

He was biracial and lived with his black mother.

Something is not adding up imo.

Just speculation.

his neighbors said that he was very very bothered by routine neighborly noises and smells and had his mom complain often on his behalf.

and he sounded Irish although there was a link saying the father was English

He's English with a Cockney accent

that is often how it works. it could be a lot to do with fucked up brain chemistry, his parents marriage and breakup bringing out complicated feelings.
sad his mom took him to the shooting range, knowing he had both emotional problems and huge social ones. she is lucky to be alive.

He may well have decided that he was white.

super common. Siding with whoever "comes out on top" - which would more often be the white person, would also happen.

Not saying his Dad was abusive, just saying it's really not as simple as look at him and WE decide how he should "identify" or why, really- if that makes sense.

and moved to Oregon.

As to the rest — I don't know.

and that he apparently had some interest in nazi Germany. I haven't found any information at all on the question of whether his mother considers herself "black" but I really can't see how it would matter

Whether or not he called himself "mixed race," whether or not his mother called herself "black," whether or not his skin hue closely resembled mine -- none of that really has much bearing on the possibility that he had some crazy hateful ideas that he put into action

he was a hater. And more than likely he listened to the hate media - especially if he was interested in Nazi Germany.

My family has a multitude of different racial backgrounds and children can have difficulty with racial identity as they grow up. Especially if a parent pushes them to "be like me".
When our little ones were little I talked to them about it and told them to learn and take the best things out of the ideas of both parents. Freedom of choice is really important in building your own self concept.

Poisoned by hate

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My own take is that if you ever have daydreams about killing people with a gun, even imaginary "bad" guys in self defense, you probably shouldn't have a gun. Maybe you should just stick with video games.

U.S. gun culture is marvelously accepting and supportive of angry young men and sociopathic idiots, sometimes even after they've killed people. Just look at most any shot-by-the-cops-story. Or worse, fuckwits like George Zimmerman.

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If I accept that dogs can eat animal protein, I'm in no position to complain about hunting.

Hunting with respect for both one's prey and the natural environment are much more ethical than "factory farm" meat and dairy products.

I don't believe "self defense" is a valid reason to own a gun. I don't think most cops are actually qualified to carry guns, let alone civilians.

And I'm about as anti-gun as it's possible to get.

These are also a tiny proportion of all guns, so my contention that almost nobody should have a gun stands.

You can't legislate it away, you can't confiscate it away, you can't wish it away. Some people are born to be bad. You can't change that.

The answer is to address mental illness. You'll notice, in almost all cases, friends and family said something "was wrong", but they took no action to short circuit the action that resulted in lives lost.

The problem is, addressing mental illness opens a whole new can of worms.

I put the blame on whoever decided to close all of those mental hospitals back in the day.

Let's hunt down and lock up anyone with "mental illness". That way we can prevent mass shootings without infringing on personal liberties.

besides I didn't? I said family and friends notice something is wrong and take no action.

Maybe I'm too Christian, in a Jimmy Carter sort of way. Lusting after your neighbor's wife is just about as bad as sleeping with her. Imagining yourself shooting someone is just about as bad as actually shooting them. Either way you get a big red "Fail" in the great big permanent record of your life they keep at the gates of heaven.

The other day, there were reports that he gave one of the spared students a flash drive to give to police. No word on content. Now reports of a note. No word on content.

I'd like a few answers, personally.

It's not like there's gonna be a trial or anything...

Because knowing the name and motivations of one mass shooter apparently is the key factor behind future mass shootings. Not lax gun laws, but that.

Yeah.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]

white supremacist?