Explain the Unexplainable to Me
What particular evil enters a person's soul to enable him to go into a school, assault and kill children?
In each of these cases, the individual ends up killing himself, or commits suicide-by-SWAT team.
If that was to be his ultimate act of anger, why couldn't he have just have ended his own life initially, and not damaged the children?
He obliterated himself after committing his act of revenge. To what end? Was there enough satisfaction in those last few hours of life to justify the eternal damnation he surely earned?
posted by mireille at 7:13 PM
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Isn't it fascinating that this was the third such act? First the Colorado shootings, then Wisconsin and now this.
It's a couple days later but I'm still reeling from these acts.
And I wonder, would the writ of Habeas Corpus be suspended for these shooters if they were alive?
11:10 AM
We in Europe truly cannot understand how you allow private citizens to carry guns. We just can't.
I'm currently translating a documentary about a man who went berserk at a funny competition in Texas last year and broke into the nearest K-Mart, grabbed a gun and shot himself after threatening a few people. Had he run into a Tesco or some such supermarket here he wouldn't have been able to get the means to shoot himself, at least.
This latest incident - in a long series of such incidents, not just three - is appalling.
5:47 PM
I have no idea. Better to run for congress.
3:14 PM
I'm sure it doesn't, audible, but it sure seems more frequent in the US. If you allow people to have guns they will use them.
The fact that men who want to commit suicide also want to kill innocent people - usually women or children - before they do it is really interesting psychologically - and depressing.
9:01 AM
You may be right about the reporting of incidents. However, if one is to believe what Michael Moore revealed in Bowling for Columbine, there is huge discrepancy between the number of crimes in, say, Michigan, and that in Canada just across the lake: similar environment, same affluent society, similar human beings, very different behaviour.
Has Japan changed so much or do those people only attack members of their own family? A friend of mine worked as a teacher in Japan after college; she said that Japan was one of the safest places on earth, especially for women; that there was very little street crime, very few muggings, etc. That was 20 years ago. If that is so, it's very sad.
7:04 AM
Thank you very much for taking the time to tell me all this. A lot seems to have happened indeed, and not for the better (does it ever?). :-(
5:23 AM
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