Posted on 05/26/2014 8:45:17 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
GOLETA, Calif. (AP) - Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes. Sandy Hook school attacker Adam Lanza. And now Elliot Rodger.
All were young loners with no criminal history who went on shooting sprees, leaving devastated families in their wake.
Mass murderers tend to have a history of pent-up frustration and failures, are socially isolated and vengeful, blaming others for their unhappiness, experts say.
"They all display deluded thinking and a lot of rage about feeling so marginalized," James Garbarino, a professor of psychology at Loyola University Chicago, said in an email.
Since mass killings are rare, scholars say there's no way to predict who has deadly intentions, let alone who will reach a breaking point and take action.
(Excerpt) Read more at wbay.com ...
“Mental illness is one area where govt can help... well, at least on the local level.”..
Years ago there were places called “insane asylums” but the gubmint did away with them. Remember the statement, “I’m from the gubmint and here to help”? Guess that didn’t work out too well.
“Mental illness is one area where govt can help... well, at least on the local level.”..
Years ago there were places called “insane asylums” but the gubmint did away with them. Remember the statement, “I’m from the gubmint and here to help”? Guess that didn’t work out too well.
“It’s not that hard really...they’re either democraps or liberals.”
Here you go:
In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a member of the Democrat Party which supported the continuation of slavery, shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, the leftwing Serb national assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, touching off WWI.
On Sept. 14, 1901 President McKinley (R) was murdered by a Leftist. He was Anarcho-communist lunatic named Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, NY.
In November 22, 1963 a radical left wing communist, Lee Harvey Oswald, shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.
In September 22, 1975, a left wing radical Democrat, Sara Jane Moore, fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States in an act of mental illness.
On March 30, 1981, a registered Democrat John Warnock Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded Ronald Reagan.
On July 18, 1984, James Huberty a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 22 people in a McDonald’s restaurant.
In 1986 Patrick Sherril a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office.
In 1990 James Pough a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office.
In 1991 George Hennard a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 23 people in a Lubys cafeteria.
In 1995 James Daniel Simpson a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 5 coworkers in a Texas laboratory.
In 1999 Larry Asbrook a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 8 people at a church service.
In 2001 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the US.
In 2003 Douglas Williams, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed Martin plant.
In 2007, a registered Democrat named Seung - Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people in Virginia Tech.
On June 10, 2009, James Wenneker von Brunn, A registered Democrat from Maryland and a Holocaust Denier, shot and killed security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns at, ironically, the Holocaust Museum.
On March 4, 2010, John Patrick Bedell two security guards at a Pentagon-area Metro station in D.C. As Patterico reports, he hated Bush and littered the Internet with 9/11 Truther rants.
February 15, 2010 Amy Bishop, deranged Harvard trained biologist, murdered three colleagues and possibly her own brother. She was described by family members as ‘a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed” with President Obama to the point of being off-putting.
In 2011 a mentally ill named Jared Lee Loughner shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The pot smoking Loughner killed 6 and wounded 18 in another liberal shooting tragedy.
In July 2012 a registered Democrat and former member of the “Black Bloc” faction of the Occupy movement, named James Holmes went into a Colorado movie theater and shot and killed 12 people. 70 others were wounded.
In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis.
On August 15, 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins, a former volunteer with gay advocacy group “The DC Center for the LGBT Community,” tried to kill a security guard at the Washington headquarters of a Christian conservative organization the Family Research Council.
On 9/16/2013, another mentally ill liberal, Aaron Alexis, killed 12 innocents at the Navy Yard in Washington DC.
12/14/2013 Karl Pierson entered Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Co. armed with a shotgun with intent to kill one of his teachers. He shot Claire Davis, a senior, @Arapahoe High in the head. Yes, Pierson is/was another mentally ill liberal punk. He killed himself when an armed school officer ran towards him.
There has never been a right-wing assassination attempt on a president or a member of Congress.
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Unabomber (sic) had Algore's book (manifesto!) in his lair.
The Korean wackjob kid as well.
Mass murder and mass murderers are not hard to predict, they are impossible to predict. If a prediction is made and a murder “prevented,” how do we really know there would have been a murder without the “prevention?”
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