Posted on 05/02/2014 5:54:11 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
John David Ladue, 17, had made several pressure-cooker bombs and bought an assault rifle and several other guns as he prepared to wreak terror on his Waseca classmates, authorities say. The teen was obsessed with other school shooters and kept a 180-page notebook with critiques of those massacres — and plans for his own.
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Right now the Mahdi is the political equivalent of a very bad case of syphilis compounded by boils. If anybody does an Oswald on him, turning him into a “martyr,” he’ll become the political equivalent of terminal cancer. For that reason, any vaguely rational person who looks at the situation will not want to see him suffer any criminal injury.
It is not so much a matter of motivation to do it, as a lack of any reason not to do it.
You are trying to reconcile his actions with your own mind. You think, naturally, that you would need a very strong incentive to overcome your natural revulsion to murder and suicide, not to mention the social, moral and religious condemnation of such things. But a kid can grow up today with none of these reactions.
Our society abjures any mention of God and condemns any objective moral standards. Violent media and video games can annihilate the natural negative reactions to murder and death. The result is a young man who can't think of a single good reason not to go on a murderous rampage that will result in his own death.
Combine that with the lionization these young killers receive after their deaths. In an attention-obsessed society, mass killers gain notoriety and are on TV for days. This is the most desirable thing these young men can think of, other than a month-long romp in the hay with some supermodel. (But what are the chances that is going to happen)
It may not seem like much of a motivation to you or me, but when there are no good reasons not to become a murderous monster, it is enough.
the article overall is lacking in details... definitely does not answer the 5 W's... i assumed the storage locker was on his property, since a neighbor saw him...
But we've been knowing that.
Obviously, the Gun Free Zone sign at the school needs to be larger and amended to include bombs.
At least they used the term ‘assault rifle’ instead of ‘assault weapon’. I’m sure they still got the term wrong since the kid did not buy a machine gun.
It doesn’t help one little bit when you raise a kid in the atmosphere of ‘everyone gets a trophy for just showing up’.
When they are molly-coddled from birth-— never get to face consequences for their actions-—are trained from an early age to turn in their parents if they get punished for their transgressions-—have no respect for anyone else’s property—think anything they do wrong can be hidden behind ‘jackass pranks’——
Then you get this kind of end result.
Those who lat long enough won’t get a ‘trophy’ for just showing up from their employer when they finally get a job. The job won’t last long, either.
They already have hunting photos of him posted.
I will complete 73 orbits around the Sun this summer like you. I am mystified too. I used to ride through town with my .22 rifle on the handlebars of my bicycle. I’m saddened that my Republic has gone.
“He was prepared to be gunned down by a SWAT Team, police said.”
Not much chance of that as SWAT teams typically cower down outside until they are sure it is safe to come in.
Nobody expects a murderous rampage.
Their chief weapon is surprise.
Surprise and guns.
And bombs.
Ok... Their chief weapons are surprise, guns and bombs... and a fanatical obsession with their own navels.
OK, then... Amongst their weaponry is surprise, guns...
All of the above.
And the ‘drugs’ they are on may not be street drugs.
Often, they are prescribed by a doctor, at the request of a parent who doesn’t ant to be bothered with an active kid.
The information drips out slowly, but eventually we discover that at least 80% of these kids are on prescription drugs. All you have to do is google a shooter’s name with the word ‘drug’.
Shootings mentioned in this story:
Columbine (Harris) - on Luvox
Sandy Hook (Lanza) - Had been prescribed Fanapt
Virginia Tech (Cho) - was on ‘prescription medications’
That is a very pithy summary of what I consider to be the true facts at play here.
I’ll try to remember it so I can be as concise when I’m discussing these situations with others. (I tend to go into way over-long diatribes.)
The TV report indicates that it was a storage locker in a rental facility. The “neighbor” probably refers to another renter in the facility. He was in the locker when he was arrested.
Article doesn’t mention where he “bought” his “assault rifle” at and how he managed to do it under legal age.
Oversight or intentional reporting negligence?
First YOU CAN BET your life this kid was on some sort of prescription
anti depressants, this neighbor probably KNEW this was a troubled kid
and THANK GOD was aware and PAID ATTENTION to what was going
on around her!!!!!!!
So his dad bought the gun for him (to go hunting)?
I have no idea.
The NSA must be too busy monitoring FR than watching wannabe’s!
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