What happened to the assassins who would do it just because “they needed killin”?
The problem is that the cause of that feeling of invisibility is often grounded in mental illness rather than reality.
There are schizophrenics in loving families as well as inattentive families. No one can predict when and to whom this manifests itself. Usually tho it begins in late adolescence in males.
Why does the press call this an assassination?It was Not done for political reasons so it was a murder plus an attempted murder on a political figure.
The media always give more attention and coverage to the perpetrator and always ignores the victim. The perpetrator achieves instant fame and recognition and has the whole world listening to his rantings and ravings.
The media should not show the picture of the perpetrator, not print his “message” to the whole world, and pay more attention to the victim.
“They experienced failure after failure after failure, and decided that rather than being a ‘nobody,’ they wanted to be a ‘somebody,’” Fein says.
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That makes sense, considering this from a recent article about Jared and family.
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“Over the past two years, Loughner “was desperate to hang out with people,” Montanaro said. “He’d just show up at our houses, call us constantly and would even pay for us just to get us to chill with him. It was rather annoying.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/12/AR2011011206630.html?hpid=topnews
I heard this on NPR this morning...yes we listen to it early AM (although it does evoke some talking back to the radio, LOL.)
My take was NPR is trying to “tone down” or backpedal to a more neutral evaluation of the killer (i.e. he was not politically motivated.) Definitely breaking lockstep with other liberal views and outlets.
No one ascribed Reagan’s shooting to “rhetoric”.
Whether it’s the SLA, Zodiac, Son of Sam, Nightstalker, or AlQuaeda.
These psychopaths get off on the notoriety.
The zeal to give these subhumans cutsey names is disgusting and only feeds their need to get off on murdering others.
While the study has similarities, I would profile Loughner as a mass murderer. As one of his friends said: “He wasn’t shooting at people, he was shooting at the world.”
Interesting that the profile of a mass murderer includes rejection/failure in school. A trait Lougher shares with Charles Whitman. VaTech never released academic records of Cho, but he did change majors while he was at VaTech from Information Technology to English. Cho did have behavior problems reported by Professors as did Loughner.