We need to ban Intelligence and Shyness.
"When I was a kid, going to camp was so tough that we had a mass murderer for a camp counselor."
He must have had a psychotic break at some point. And there had to be indications of this - he needed hospitalization and meds and because he did not receive them, there was a massacre. But when he was working as a camp counselor, he really may not have been dangerous at that point.
I find it utterly shocking that some people who have normal experiences sometimes grow up and do bad things. There ought to be a law.
My drill sergeant was in the same Basic Training Unit as Jeffrey Dahmer.
I believe that Democrat James Holmes (D-Aurora) had a psychotic break after seeing President Obama flounder in the polls.
The Unabomber enjoyed Algore’s book.
We are going to find out about any connection to a church 5 years ago... how about what he was connected to in the last 2 or three years?
Next step community organizer.
Uncle Joe, the hero of the 11930s, 1940s and 50s progressives, was once a divinity student!
I don’t understand what is so shocking about him being a counselor.
What is shocking is that he went off the rails in college.
He seemed to have wanted to hurry up everything and get to college and then the disillusionment of his dream set in.
It was no magic bullet to get him a nice job away from the parents and on his own.
He was still awkward, geeky and didn’t have friends or a girlfriend and now he was losing his one thing—being known as a brainiac. Nope, he was failing in Colorado.
He failed and today’s ‘everybody gets a trophy’ world, he didn’t know how to cope. So he made everybody pay. He won’t be going back home to live with mom and dad and now he is famous.
Now he has achieved something....
When his mother was called, she immediately said that it no doubt was her son. It begs the question how many of his friends, teachers, fellow students and neighbors knew that this lunatic was dangerous and did nothing. A simple visit by the police may have changed history.
Why is this shocking? I am as shocked to find this out as I am that Sanduski founded a home for wayward boys.
Never going to hear the end of this douchebag, are we?
Glendale ping.
Loner is definitely a risk category for people who eventually snap and slaughter others out of anger, loneliness, and jealousy.
I’m still waiting to hear if he was ADHD and given Ritalin or other psychotropic anti-depressant.
I don’t think we will ever clearly understand what caused this guy to go postal. I’m not sure that most of us can understand what is not rational.
What I find scary is that there really is no way to prevent someone from going over the edge like this. Were it not firearms, he would have found other means....he did have numerous explosives prepared.
Also, now we will go through another ridiculous period like we do after one of these senseless events where everyone becomes hyper paranoid. Perfectly harmless persons will be harrassed by employers as “potential killers” because they are a little strange or “passionate” about and issue (notice I said passionate not violent - too many don’t understand the difference).
I’m guessing the kid was a genius who crossed the line into madness. It’s not unheard of. Pythagoras, Nietzche, Tesla, Howard Hughes, etc.
It’s crucial to keep in mind that there are untold millions of camp counselors and university assistant football coaches who are neither mass killers nor pedophiles!
There are pictures showing hem being arrested at an OWS location.