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Manitoba, Canada | I have felt like responding to quite a few threads like this but have always decided to keep quiet because some won’t like what I say. To heck with it.
Every time something like this happens people call the perpetrator a whack job, psycho, nut job, etc, etc. I am sure that looking down on people like that from a perch is easy. These problems are not caused by guns, bombs, vehicles, etc. These problems are caused by psychological issues. Period. Blaming anything else is pointless and will not solve the problem.
Sometimes it may be PTSD. Sometimes it’s abuse. Sometimes it’s drugs, whether illegal or legal. At any rate, the perpetrator was a human being who was an innocent child once, someone’s neighbor, someone’s friend, an army buddy, maybe a husband, etc, etc. Something set him down this path. Don’t get me wrong. It was a terrible action. Horrible for the victims and their families. Don’t bother thinking I don’t respect the victims or would feel different if it happened to my family or that I’m an uncaring jerk. I feel deep sympathy for the affected families.
My point is that psychological damage, whatever the cause, is real. Just because it’s not visible doesn’t mean it’s not real. The brain adapts to situations and learns by strengthening neural pathways. Some situation these people went through in their lives caused these actions to be their final solution. Something caused their brain to become wired this way. Some people deal with pain others never will know. Something causes their brain to think this way. In many cases it is an external source and the perpetrator finally gets to the point that they know of no other way to deal with the pain and conflict in their minds.
As much as I feel sympathy for the victims, I also feel sorry for the people who went through something in their life that they could not cope with and society couldn’t offer the help they needed. I can’t imagine the pain someone might have suffered through to bring them to that point. Now society only sees their final act. They write them off as losers, whack jobs, etc,etc. They don’t bother to realize that it was probably a long process that destroyed a person to the point that they felt no hope. That person was once a friend, a lover, husband, an innocent child, etc, etc. It was someone who might have done a lot of positive things in their life. The list of victims might be one longer than most are willing to acknowledge.
Rant over. Flame away.
Edited by havin'funfarming 11/6/2017 13:55
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The best summary of the church shooting I've read.
