Reply #86: Too simplistic. [View All]

[Hansel]

This is why we never get to the answers of how to prevent this.

Yes, it is the people on the slab who are the victims. And maybe there would be a hell of a lot less of them if everyone would abandon the simplistic BS about not making the shooter into a victim. There is an attempt here to understand why he did it. That does not make him into a victim in order to justify his actions, it just acknowledges that maybe he was a victim. Very few people are simply monsters.

Everyone is different. They have different life experiences and different coping mechanisms. Two people can go through very similar traumatic experiences and have completely different ways of responding to them depending upon how they were brought up and family support, their life experiences and their mental capacity to cope.

The goal here needs to be to try to figure out why one does this and another doesn't so that we don't have more innocent people on slabs than need be. If there is any chance this could have been prevented, then changes need to be put in place to try to prevent someone else from becoming this screwed up.

If the guy was being harassed and was traumatized by listening to the war stories, then these are things that can and need to be addressed. Not for his sake, but for the sake of the victims on the slabs.